Stephan Jannsen talks about the new Devoxx 4 Kids that he launched this last weekend in Belgium. 
  
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  Events 
   
    Oct 15-17, JAX London, London, United Kingdom 
    Oct 20, Devoxx 4 Kids Français, Brussels, Belgium 
    Oct 22-23, Freescale Technology Forum - Japan, Tokyo, Japan 
    Oct 23-25, EclipseCon Europe, Ludwigsburg, Germany 
    Oct 30-Nov 1, Arm TechCon, Santa Clara, United States of America 
    Oct 31, JFall, Hart van Holland, Netherlands 
    Nov 2-3, JMaghreb, Rabat, Morocco 
    Nov 5-9, Øredev Developer Conference, Malmö, Sweden 
    Nov 13-17, Devoxx, Antwerp, Belgium 
    Nov 20-22, DOAG 2012, Nuremberg, Germany 
    Dec 3-5, jDays, Göteborg, Sweden 
    Dec 4-6, JavaOne Latin America, Sao Paolo, Brazil 
    
  Feature InterviewStephan
 Janssen is a serial entrepreneur that has founded several successful 
organizations such as the Belgian Java User Group (BeJUG) in 1996, JCS 
Int. in 1998, JavaPolis in 2002 and now Parleys.com in 2006. He has been
 using Java since its early releases in 1995 with experience of 
developing and implementing real world Java solutions in the finance and
 manufacturing industries. Today Stephan is the CTO of the Java 
Competence Center at RealDolmen. He was selected by BEA Systems as the 
first European (independent) BEA Technical Director. He has also been 
recognized by the Server Side as one of the 54 Who is Who in Enterprise 
Java 2004. Sun has recognized in 2005 his efforts for the Java Community
 and has engaged him in the Java Champion project. He has spoken at 
numerous Java and JUG conferences around the world.Devoxx 4 KidsNew to Java Programming Center -- Young Developers 
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