Keynote

Tuesday October 18, 2022

Dr. Jalal Kiswani

Software Development:

the Past, Present, and Future

Abstract: In the field of software development, the processes, technologies, and practices have matured over the time to achieve a higher level of delivery and quality. However, the development phase, which is an essential part of the software development life cycle (SDLC), is still consuming a significant cost (time and resources) in both approaches, waterfall and agile. The reason behind that, current technologies and approaches of software development are somehow following the same rules and practices theyhave for decades, and have not evolved with the proper velocity over the time. In this talk, and based on real-life case studies, we will discuss how the utilization of components reusability (API's and frameworks), Metadata-driven development, Code Generation, and Artificial Intelligence can make the software development more efficient by creating a holistic approach to creating software systems.

Bio: An academic, entrepreneur, advisor, and software architect, with more than two decades of experience in industry and academia. He received his PhD Degree from University of Nevada, Reno in Computer science and Engineering, Nevada, USA; his Master's Degree in Enterprise Systems Engineering from Princess Sumaya University and German-Jordanian University, Amman, Jordan; and his Bachelor degree in Computer Science from Mu'tah University, Karak, Jordan. He is the founder of Smart-API.com platform that provides low-code no-code and code generation tools, API's, and frameworks. In addition, he is the founder of Final Solutions for IT outsourcing and consulting, and the founder of Solid-Soft for information technology solutions. He is a certified expert by Oracle and Sun microsystems in Java technology; in particular, he is a Certified Java Programmer, Java Developer, Web Components Developer, Business Components Developer, and Java Server Faces developer. Currently, he is the CEO of Smart-API and Final-Solutions, and Technical Advisor at Arab Bank.