Title: Open J9 - The Next Free Java VM Abstract: For years IBM has developed an independent implementation of the Java Virtual Machine which helped foster rapid improvements in the Java ecosystem. Recently, IBM has open sourced language agnostic components such as IBM's JIT and GC technologies as part of the Eclipse OMR project. IBM is actively working to open source the rest of the J9 Java VM as the Open J9 project. I will discuss the different components of the Open J9 VM at a high level and our plans for creating the open source project. Bio: Charlie Gracie is currently working at IBM as the Garbage Collection Architect on the J9 Java Virtual Machine and as a Project Lead on the Eclipse OMR project. He has more than a decade of JVM development experience where he has mainly been focused on scalability. Recently he has also been looking into CRuby performance, getting back to his Smalltalk roots with SOM++ and working on creating the Open J9 project. Recording me on audio/video is acceptable under a CC-BY-2.0 license. Thanks Charlie Gracie