JAZOON Rookie

JAZOON Rookie Award: Young Developer's Speaker Competition

The JAZOON Rookie Award is aimed to motivate young talents to show their skills to an international audience - and to motivate others to dive in to the fascinating and creative world of software development. At the JAZOON Rookie Call-for-Papers (C4P) young talented developers have a opportunity to submit an abstract and we got once more excellent submission for this year’s competition.

And the winners are

Ivo Neskovic
Autonomic Computing: Vision or Reality

The term autonomic computing, as coined by IBM, is also inspired by the term autonomic nervous system. The purpose of this new computing paradigm is to transfer the definition of technology, from computing to data.
Ivo works at 6pm PLC, Mazedonia

And yes, Ivo is on the picture above, he was already Rookie finalist in 2011.

Congrat to be the Rookie 2012!


Raoul-Gabriel Urma An Empirical Look at Controversial Java Features Programming languages add features over time to aid developers in their day to day programming. For example, Java 7 introduced several features as part of 'Project Coin' to make a Java programmer's life simpler. However, are all new language features desirable or useful? Raoul-Gabriel works at University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Martin Naumann Next generation web development with node.js and meteor Web development is an ever-changing field and there are a lot of different technologies on the market. Among them is the - relatively speaking - newcomer node.js and the yet not widely known meteor.js. Both allow writing web applications with Javascript on client- and server-side away from OOP and imperative to functional and event-driven programming. Martin works in Switzerland

The finalists are invited to attend JAZOON and had presented their submission June 27th starting at 17:10 in Arena 5 to experts at JAZOON and battled for the JAZOON Rookie Award 2012. The winner was chosen by the audience with the legendary JAZOON 'applauseometer'

JAZOON Rookie Award: Procedure and Criterias

Competition procedure

Candidates may submit a brief summary of their chosen topic. The Jazoon Programme Committee will select the best three entries for a Jazoon Rookie presentation and cordially invite the respective candidates to Zurich. The lucky winners will give their presentations to an international audience, battling to be crowned as THE JAZOON ROOKIE 2012.

Participation Criteria