All speakers
All speakers

Martin Odersky
Lead designer of Scala
Inventor of the Scala language, a professor at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, and a founder of Lightbend. ACM fellow, co-designer of Java generics, and original author of the current javac reference Compiler.
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Aleksander Boruch-Gruszecki
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Sébastien Doeraene
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