• FOSDEM 2019
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• Dirk Craeynest

Dirk Craeynest has been involved with the Ada programming language and related technology for more than 3 decades. After obtaining degrees in mathematics and computer science, he was involved in research and teaching at the Computer Science Department of the Leuven university. Since 1995, he works mainly on large Ada-related software projects in industry.

Dirk is co-founder and President of the Ada-Belgium Organization, Vice-President of Ada-Europe (the federation of national Ada organizations as well as direct members), Editorial Board member of the quarterly Ada User Journal, member of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG9 (the working group managing the Ada programming language standard), and elected officer in the Executive Committee of ACM SIGAda (ACM's Special Interest Group in Ada). He is involved in the organization of several annual international events, such as Ada-Europe's Conferences on Reliable Software Technologies, ACM SIGAda's Conferences and Workshops on High-Integrity Language Technology, and the Ada Developer Rooms at FOSDEM.

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