Brad Abrams is currently the Group Program Manager for the UI Framework and Services team at Microsoft which is responsible for delivering the developer platform that spans both client and web based applications, as well as the common services that are available to all applications. Specific technologies owned by this team include ASP.NET, Atlas and Windows Forms. He was a founding member of both the Common Language Runtime, and .NET Framework teams.

Brad has been designing parts of the .NET Framework since 1998 when he started his framework design career building the BCL (Base Class Library) that ships as a core part of the .NET Framework. He was also the lead editor on the Common Language Specification (CLS), the .NET Framework Design Guidelines, the libraries in the ECMA\ISO CLI Standard, and has been deeply involved with the WinFX and Windows Vista efforts from their beginning.

He co-authored Programming in the .NET Environment, and was editor on .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference Vol 1 and Vol 2 and the Framework Design Guidelines.

Christopher Allen is one of the leaders of the iPhone developer community. He is the host of iPhoneWebDev.com, which is the largest independent community of iPhone-based web developers, and manages its mailing list. He is also one of the founders of iPhoneDevCamp and oversees its Hackathon, and is co-author of iPhone in Action:Introduction to Web and SDK Development . Christopher is a longtime technologist, and is also a leader in social software and was one of the authors of TLS, the next-generation SSL protocol.

Zoran Avramov has been a Software Engineer for seven years working on projects like UI Capture SDK - a web development kit composed of a Java tag library of configurable Web-based UI widgets, Java framework supporting application-server state, branding, history, internationalization, and content transfer; and toolbar to capture and annotate browser-based content.

Jeff Barr is an evangelist at Amazon on its Web Services team, where his job is to tell developers all about the Amazon Web Services with the goal of having them build useful, cool, and interesting applications.

Robert Boedigheimer works for Schwans Shared Services, LLC providing business solutions with web technologies and leads Robert Boedigheimer Consulting, LLC. Robert has been designing and developing web sites for the past 13 years including the early days of ASP and ASP.NET. He is a columnist for aspalliance.com, an ASP.NET MVP, an "Early Achiever" MCSD for .NET with C#, an MCPD: Web with C#, and a 2nd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do. Robert has spoken at industry conferences including the Heartland Developers Conference, Twin Cities Code Camp, Tulsa Tech Fest, TechEd, AJAXWorld, and numerous national and international VSLive! events.

David Boloker is a distinguished engineer and chief technical officer for emerging Internet technologies in the IBM Software Group. Previously, he held the position of chief technical officer for Java Technologies in Software Group. He is recognized in and outside IBM as a technical leader in the Internet software space guiding IBM's investments as well as internal product development in the Internet space.

Bob Buffone is Chief Architect at Nexaweb Technologies. He is responsible for platform and tool technology and of the Nexaweb Platform for enabling enterprise class Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). He is also a committer on the Apache XAP Project which provides an extensible framework for declaratively creating AJAX applications. Before Nexaweb, Bob was with Trakus, a technology company focused on tracking sports in real time. A leading expert in User Interface design, he is a regular speaker at industry events and has published multiple articles on tool and application development.

Max Carlson is Lead Runtime Architect of OpenLaszlo and Co-Founder at Laszlo Systems. Before Laszlo, he worked for a series of startups and at Excite@Home where he pioneered the use of dynamic Flash content for the broadband portal and worked on DHTML and Flash applications for broadband customers.

Dave Carroll is Principal Platform Evangelist at SalesForce.com. His focus is on growing the developer community and inspiring developers to think creatively about using various Web 2.0 technologies with the company’s Force.com on-demand platform and AppExchange marketplace.

William Cava is CTO of Ektron. He is responsible for guiding the company's technology direction, including product strategy, new product development and engineering practices. With over a decade of experience, he brings his passion for Internet technology, software architecture, and user-centric interface design to Ektron. Prior to joining Ektron, William served as a team leader and software architect at Lycos, one of the Internet's first search engines. There he led numerous high profile projects, including a large-scale distributed advertising content management system still used across well known sites such as Wired, Lycos, and Tripod.

Roberto Chinnici is a senior staff engineer at Sun Microsystems. He currently serves as the specification lead for the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 6. Roberto is a long-standing advocate of scripting and dynamic languages and the creator of Phobos.

Jeremy Chone is CTO at Nexaweb, where he is responsible for overseeing the company's technology and product portfolio. He has more than 10 years of technical and business experience in major software companies such as Netscape, Oracle and, most recently, Adobe, where he was director of product management for Adobe Flex.

Douglas Crockford, an architect at Yahoo!, is an AJAXWorld regular. A technologist of parts, he has developed office automation systems, done research in games and music at Atari, and been both Director of Technology at Lucasfilm and Director of New Media at Paramount. He was the founder and CEO of Electric Communities/Communities.com and the founder and CTO of State Software, where he discovered JSON. He is interested in Blissymbolics, a graphical, symbolic language, and is developing a secure programming language.

Jnan Dash is the Chief Strategy Officer at Curl Inc. He spent ten years at Oracle Corporation and was the Group Vice President, Systems Architecture and Technology till 2002. He was responsible for setting Oracle's core database and application server product directions and interacted with customers worldwide in translating future needs to product plans.

Andy Denmark is VP of Engineering at TripIt, where his job is to keep the site running as smoothly as a perfect vacation. He came to TripIt with more than 13 years of software development and operations experience. Prior to joining TripIt, Andy was director of Suites Engineering at Opsware, Inc. (formerly Loudcloud) and was responsible for the engineering strategy for product suite integration. Before Opsware, he was CTO for the real estate portal CityRealty.com and founder and chief engineer for the Internet consulting firm Mediabridge Infosystems.

As Vice President of Product Management at AdMob, Ali is responsible for the company’s product strategy, roadmap and business operations. Prior to joining AdMob, Ali co-founded and launched Ripple TV, the World's first geo-targeted and Web-enabled out-of-home TV network. Previously, Ali held senior and executive management positions at Microsoft, where he developed and launched services including MSN Messenger and MSN Mobile, and at Yahoo!, where he lead teams behind services including Yahoo! Web Search, Yahoo! Mobile Search, Yahoo! Local Search and Yahoo! Maps. At Yahoo!, Ali was instrumental to the successful completion of several strategic company initiatives, including the Yahoo! Developer Network, the Yahoo! Geo-Tagging Service, the Yahoo! Location Targeting Service and the Yahoo! Search API. Ali was formerly Founder and CEO of BuildPoint.com, the world's first online marketplace for the building materials and construction industries. Ali is the author of nearly two dozen papers and patents in the data storage and information retrieval fields. Ali received his undergrad degree from Stanford University and an MBA and MPhil from Oxford University.

Jon Doyle has a long history working with mobile and broadband providers in the Internet Communications segment. As vice president of business development at CommuniGate Systems, he currently focuses on developing strategic partnerships and expanding office locations worldwide.

Jim Driscoll has worked at Sun Microsystems for 12 years, working on such projects as the first version of Servlets (in the Java Web Server), and the initial implementation of Java 2, Enterprise Edition. He is currently a Senior Engineer working on the implementation of Java Server Faces, helping to integrate technologies such as AJAX and Comet into the new release

Sean Paul DuLac is a ten-year veteran of Silicon Valley working in IT delivering enterprise applications in the area of CRM. His excellent communication skills matched by his deep technical knowledge of distributed enterprise architectures has benefited many companies. He delivered CRM solutions to some of Silicon Valley's top companies; including Wells Fargo, Sybase, Apple, and Nokia.

DuLac started his career with a BS in MIS and has grown his knowledge since. He lived in Finland, Seattle, Hawaii, and Nevada before moving to Silicon Vally.

Sean was born and raised in Wichita Kansas where he obtained his private pilot license while still in high school.

He is currently in the process of launching his second start up company.

John Fallows, Co-Founder & CTO of Kaazing Corporation, is a pioneer in the field of rich and highly interactive user interfaces. In his role as chief technology officer, John formulates Kaazing's vision of creating the best real-time web framework based on the Java standard. He defines the architecture of the Kaazing product suite and oversees its development.

Eric Farrar graduated from the University in Waterloo in Computer Engineering. He has worked in many industries including Wall Street financial (Morgan Stanley), automated manufacturing technology (Automation Tooling Systems Inc), and information technology (Platform Solutions Inc). He is presently a Product Manager at Sybase iAnywhere.

Jon Ferraiolo is an employee of IBM within its Emerging Internet Technologies group. Jon is devoted exclusively to OpenAjax Alliance, where he manages operations and leads many activities.Before joining IBM in 2006, Jon worked at Adobe for 13 years where he was an architect, engineering manager and product manager.

Jon has been a speaker at every AJAXWorld conference since October 2006, and has spoken at dozens of other industry conferences in the past couple of years. AJAXWorld magazine has published 6 or 7 articles Jon has submitted over the past couple of years.

Chuck Freedman is Director of Ribbit's Developer Platform. In recent years, he has produced some of the most highly visible dynamic Flash content, leading development for the Yahoo! Maps API and application to 20 million users. He has also launched modules for the homepages of eBay, eBay China and Fidelity. Chuck's work reflects precision while remaining ambitious to push the envelope when possible.

John Fronckowiak is the President of IDC Consulting, Inc., providing consulting and technical writing. He is also a Clinical Assistant Professor in Information Systems at the Adult Learning Program of Medaille College and is the author of several books and articles about iPhone development, programming, database design and development and networking. Fronckowiak has previously spoken at the Internet Commerce Expo in Boston, and the Conference on Instructional Technologies. In addition, he has over a decade of experience in the classroom as a college professor and runs dozens of training sessions for application developers.

Michael Galpin is an architect at eBay, specializing in presentation technologies. He has been hacking on the web since the 90s, is a frequent writer for IBM developerWorks, and has a degree in mathematics from Caltech.

Since the late 90s, Evan Gerber has created innovative technology solutions for unique business problems. Currently, Evan is heading up the Experience Design department for the San Francisco office. Since starting at Molecular in 2004, Evan has worked on a variety of interesting technologies and projects, including development of a mobile application for Sprite, redesign of a global company intranet for Gillette’s ps portal pl platform, user centric e-commerce design for Adidas, and content management and globalization for Rentokil Initial, PLC. Evan is a frequent speaker and has published on topics including the usability of content management, Best practices in internationalization and localization, and how to create a meaningful mobile experience.

Prior to joining Molecular, Evan worked at USWeb/CKS and MarchFirst as a producer and Information Architect for major clients including EFTours and Parametric Technology Corporation. Later, he worked as a lead information architect for Bridgeline Software, developing and implementing CM solutions for clients including John Hancock and Inverness Medical. Evan also worked at IBM as a usability analyst, developing applications to test the integrity and consistency of the Lotus Notes Environment for wireless platforms.

Mike Girouard is a front-end web developer living in New York City. As the Sr. Developer at the creative agency Magnani Caruso Dutton, he takes pride in his ability to introduce web standards and beautiful code to industry giants such as Discover and AT&T. In his offtime, Mike goes right back to his editor and codes toward his latest open-source baby, Panda PHP Components. You can read more about him and his other projects on his blog, http://lovemikeg.com/blog.

Dan Gisolfi is a Technology Strategist at IBM. As a proven high-energy technical leader with diverse lab and worldwide field experience, Gisolfi is highly regarded for his ability to match emerging technologies against customer business needs and how to be an intensely productive internal advocate for customers. He is currently focusing his efforts on the incubation of semantic mashups, cooperative web and data intensive distributed applications. In his spare time he is an award wining winemaker and Joomla Webmaster for a number of non-profit organizations.

Ted Goddard is the senior architect of the ICEfaces AJAX framework. Following a Ph.D. in mathematics, he proceeded with postdoctoral research in component and Web-based collaborative technologies. He currently participates in the JavaServer Faces and Servlet expert groups.

Sue Googe is a UI Architect with Edream Solutions. She has had a great passion for web development since 1998, and specializes in creating visually appealing, highly usable yet extensible and maintainable web applications using the latest Microsoft technologies. Sue balances business requirements, user experience, technologies, talent management and cost control in a holistic harmonious way that leads to a successful project. She is a frequent speaker at Code Camps and technical conferences.

Laurie Gray is a Senior User Experience Designer at OneSpring. In the field of User Experience since 1995, she has produced interfaces for a variety of clients/devices in multiple market segments, including handheld/mobile device, medical device, consumer electronics, financial services, and web/e-commerce. Laurie particularly enjoys user research, with specific emphasis on contextual opportunities and web survey techniques.

Jeremy Grelle is a senior software engineer with SpringSource and the technical lead of the Spring Faces project which provides first-class integration between Spring, Spring Web Flow and Java Server Faces. He is a software artisan with extensive experience in combining server-side Java with the latest web browser technologies to deliver a rich and usable experience for the end user on the web. He has worked heavily with JSF since its initial release and is a member of the JSR-314 Expert Group for JSF 2.0.

Mike Grushin is the CTO of Omnigon Communications, LLC (www.omnigon.com), an independent software development agency that specializes in building revenue-generating software products for some of the largest and most demanding companies in the world. Mike brings over 10 years of web application development experience mostly for Fortune 500 companies utilizing Microsoft, JAVA and Adobe technologies. Past projects include delivering UGC-driven sites, enterprise e-Learning software, content management systems and eCommerce sites. Mike stays active in the New York software development scene and is a regular at the NY Tech Meetups.

Arun Gupta is a technology evangelist for Web Services and Web 2.0 Applications at Sun Microsystems. He was the spec lead for JAX-WS, a committer in Project Tango, has represented Sun at W3C, WS-I, SOAP Builders and contributed to the Java EE and SE releases.

Scott Guthrie, who will be keynoting October 20, 2008, was a founding member of the .NET Framework team and today runs the development teams that deliver the CLR, ASP.NET, Silverlight, WPF, IIS7, and the Visual Studio tools for web, WPF and Silverlight development. Previously the General Manager of Microsoft's Developer Division, he was promoted to Corporate Vice President in February '08.

Wesley Hales is currently the lead JBoss Portal UI Engineer at JBoss, a division of Red Hat. He is a member of the Expert Group for theJSR-301 specification and is currently an open source committer on various JBoss and Apache projects.

Wesley is also the project leader for the JBoss Portlet Bridge project, which allows him to constantly stay in touch with the 3 most innovative and new technologies in middleware today: SOA and componentized frameworks (Seam), AJAX (RichFaces), and SSO, personalization, and security (Portal).

Brent Hamby is Principal at NextDB.net. He has been working as a software engineer, architect and entrepreneur for the past 10 years in the San Francisco Bay Area. Brent has worked extensively in location based services for both GPS tracking and geo-spatial software companies as a Java and JavaScript AJAX architect. He has given countless technical presentations at geo-spatial software conferences and is a regular speaker at AJAX-related conferences (AJAXWorld, Mashup Camp). He graduated from UC Berkeley.

Geoffrey Hendrey is Principal at NextDB.net. He has been working as a software engineer, architect and entrepreneur for the past 10 years in the San Francisco Bay Area and was the founder and CTO of Gravitate, a company focused on mobile-to-mobile location based services. He is an active member of the Java community through JSR 243 Java Data Objects and has implemented several open source object-relational-mapping frameworks. Geoff has given presentations at AJAXWorld and JavaOne.He holds a an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

Mike Ho works at Quasidea Development, an idea incubator. He has over 9 years of software development and IT consulting experience, with a client list that includes NASA, Stanford University, Microsoft and Lockheed Martin. His past work includes working on the original Microsoft ASP.NET Starter Kits, and currently he is the lead developer of the Qcodo Development Framework for PHP.

Kevin Hoffman, editor-in-chief of SYS-CON's iPhone Developer's Journal, is Technical Chair of iPhone Developer Summit. He has been programming since he was 10 and has written everything from DOS shareware to n-tier, enterprise web applications in VB, C++, Delphi, and C. Hoffman is coauthor of Professional .NET Framework (Wrox Press) and co-author with Robert Foster of Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Development Unleashed. He authors The .NET Addict's Blog at .NET Developer's Journal.

Pieter Humphrey has been at Oracle (by way of BEA Systems) for 7+ years, working in development, marketing, sales, and developer relations to advance Java technology in the enterprise. He ran the dev2dev community at BEA and continues to with work with Oracle OTN and Eclipse Foundation communities. His current role is focused on application development tools like Oracle Enterprise Eclipse Pack, Oracle Workshop for WebLogic, JDeveloper, TopLink and the ADF framework, and is a frequent speaker at industry events and workshops.

Kingsley Idehen is Founder & CEO of OpenLink Software.

Jonas Jacobi is co-founder and chief executive officer of Kaazing Corporation. A native of Sweden, Jacobi has worked in the software industry for more than 15 years with a mission to simplify application development. Prior to founding Kaazing, he worked for Oracle for eight years as a Java EE evangelist and product manager responsible for the product management of JavaServer Faces, Oracle ADF Faces, and Oracle ADF Faces Rich Client in the Oracle JDeveloper team. As co-founder and CEO of Kaazing, Jonas sets the company's business and product strategy and oversees all aspects of Kaazing's operations and mission to become the world-wide leader in real-time software. He is co-author of the best-selling book, "Pro JSF and Ajax: Building Rich Internet Components," (Apress).

Christophe Jolif is the Lead Software Architect for ILOG Elixir and the chief contributor to ILOG's Elixir blog . He has worked with ILOG for almost ten years as a software engineer and architect focusing on advanced user interfaces using web-based components for the ILOG Visualization product line.

Dietrich Kappe is a co-founder and the CTO of Pathfinder Development, a firm that combines User Experience Design and Agile to speed software product development. He published one of the first 100 public websites and launched one of the first Java Servlet-based web applications. He has been a software engineer for two decades, a frequent open source contributor, and has developed applications for the Media, Financial Services, Insurance and Healthcare industries.

Yehuda Katz is jQuery core team member, who also works on the Merb Ruby web framework. For the last year, he has been the team lead for a robust, data-driven website that leverages jQuery and Rails. He will begin work at EngineYard, a Ruby leader, in early January. Yehuda has spoken at a packed Birds of a Feather session at RailsConf on using jQuery with Ruby on Rails. He also gave a session on Ruby web frameworks at jQuery Camp '07, and has given a number of talks to local user groups on web technologies. Yehuda is the coauthor of jQuery in Action, which will be released by Manning in January. He is also a contributing author of Ruby in Practice, having written chapters on parsing data structures with Ruby and deploying Ruby applications. He was also the editor of the Visual jQuery Magazine.

Christopher Keene is Chairman and CEO of WaveMaker (formerly ActiveGrid). Chris was the founder, in 1991, of Persistence Software, a San Mateo, CA-based company that created a new approach for managing data in high-transaction banking and communications systems. Persistence Software investors included Cisco, Intel, Reuters and Sun Microsystems. The company went public in 1999 on the NASDAQ exchange and was sold in 2004 to Progress software.

After leaving Persistence Software in 2005, Chris spent a year in France as chairman of Reportive Software, a Paris-based maker of business-intelligence tools, and as an adjunct professor and entrepreneur-in-residence at INSEAD, a leading graduate business school.

Charles Kendrick is CTO and Chief Architect at Isomorphic Software, which he co-founded in 2000 to pursue more powerful and flexible ways of building software via DHTML — today’s AJAX.

Charles is the architect of the SmartClient AJAX platform, technology which powers many of the world’s most sophisticated AJAX RIAs and is relied on in critical, high volume systems throughout the Fortune 500.

Prior to co-founding Isomorphic, Charles worked on a variety of enterprise and consumer applications and platforms in roles at HP, Siemens and several start-ups, where he collected and refined the best practices and patterns now found in SmartClient.

When not working, Charles can be found surfing, making unusual vodka infusions, or cooking with his fiancé. Charles is an alumnus of Stanford University, where he studied symbolic systems.

Howard Kiewe is a Senior Research Analyst at Info-Tech Research Group, which has over 20,000 clients in the SME space. Prior to joining Info-Tech, Howard provided UI development services to leading companies including mobile UI for Ericsson Communications, e-learning design for Johnson & Johnson, and UI development on a remotely controlled undersea video camera for McGill University.

Ed Kiraly is currently a product marketing manager for ILOG's visualization product line. He has 20+ years of experience with the design, implementation, and (lately) marketing of user interfaces.

Roger Kitain is a Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems where he spent the last 11 years working with web technologies. He started working on JavaServer Faces in 2001 as a member of the implementation team and has been co-specification lead for JSF since 1.1. Currently he is leading the JavaServer Faces 2.0 AJAX specification work.

John Krahulec is a founder, executive vice president, and COO of Bizwhazee, a software company focused on Enterprise solutions. He developed the underlying architecture for TURBO, an Enterprise Web 2.0 solution which allows IT developers to easily fuse Web 2.0 technologies with enterprise back-end data to produce Rich Internet Applications (RIA) in an Enterprise environment. With seventeen years of enterprise IT experience, John brings a unique perspective to RIA development, having developed databases for both desktop and web applications.

Senthil Krishnapillai is director of product management at Sybase iAnywhere. Senthil's mobile communications group, part of the Information Anywhere suite, is responsible for the designing and bringing future generation of Mobile collaboration products to the market. Senthil is experienced in managing enterprise products for worldwide markets and has successfully developed and marketed innovative products for the mobility market. He has more than 15 years experience in product management, product marketing and product development for mobile devices and smartphones with Sybase and Extended Systems and was the founder of Rand Software, a synchronization software company. He is a member of various consortiums including OMA-DS and CTIA.

Chris Laffra is RBD Product Architect at IBM. He was born in The Netherlands, obtained a MsC at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam and a PhD at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam. At both IBM T.J. Watson Research Center and Morgan-Stanley, he worked on tools for user interfaces, component infrastructures, and software development environments. Chris led the OTI Amsterdam lab for 3.5 years, working on WebSphere Studio Device Developer. After that, he worked with IBM Rational in Ottawa on Java runtimes and Eclipse, and co-authored the "Eclipse Frequently Asked Questions" book. He delivered many conference presentations and articles, wrote various books on Java and Eclipse, authored articles on AJAX on DeveloperWorks, and holds 6 patents. Currently, he is product architect of Rational Business Developer (RBD) and development team lead for the EGL Rich UI. He is a member of the Enterprise Tooling and Compiler group in IBM Rational.

Peter Laird is the managing architect for the Oracle WebCenter and Oracle Portal products at Oracle. He comes to Oracle via the BEA acquisition, where he served in various engineering roles on WebLogic Portal for 8 years.

Felipe Leme is a Principal Engineer for GoldenGate Software Inc., where he leads the development of an AJAX-based monitoring tool for its flagship product, GoldengGate's Transaction Data Management platform. Prior to joining GoldenGate, he worked for Terraspring Inc., where his team developed a very dynamic web-based Control Center application using just JSP, DHTML, and Javascript - that was back in 2000, before the AJAX term was even defined.

Felipe is also an active member of the Java community. He is a 4-time repeat speaker at JavaOne, has written dozens of Java-related articles, contributed to many open-source projects, became an individual JCP member since 2003, and is one of the authors of the upcoming JUnit in Action 2nd edition book.

Dr Jan Linden is the Vice President of Engineering at Global IP Solutions responsible for all research and development activity within the company. Dr Linden has been conducting research and development in speech processing and communications for more than 15 years. Prior to joining Global IP Solutions he was with the University of California, Santa Barbara and SignalCom, Inc. He has published more than 30 articles in various publications and has filed and been awarded several patents. Dr Linden holds a PhD and a MSc in Electrical Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology.

Kevin Lynch, who will be keynoting on October 21, 2008, helped originally coin the term "Rich Internet Application" in 2002. He has been at the center of innovation in Flash and Adobe AIR since their inception, and currently drives Adobe’s technology platform for designers and developers across desktops and devices. Previously Adobe's Chief Software Architect, he was promoted to CTO in February '08.

Stephen Maryka is CTO at ICEsoft Technologies Inc., and leads the ICEfaces open source project. He has been involved in Java-based AJAX techniques since 2003 - a time before the term "AJAX" was even coined. Prior to joining ICEsoft, Steve was co-founder of AudeSi Technologies where he served as VP of Technology and led Java product development for Internet appliances. After AudeSi was acquired by Wind River Systems in 2000, he served as a principle technologist there until joining ICEsoft.

Dave Meeker is Director of User Experience Strategy at Roundarch. He is responsible for the strategic direction behind client engagements and manages aspects of relationships with both Adobe and Microsoft. He has been leading digital design and development projects for 14 years, and previously served as Managing Partner of EffectiveUI and Director of Custom Applications at Whittmanhart, Inc.

Mark Meeker is an Architect at Orbitz Worldwide. He leads the the UI Engineering team responsible for building the presentation tier of online travel sites Orbitz and CheapTickets in the Americas and ebookers in Europe. His focus is on building rich, interactive and internationalized sites that are standards-based and accessible. Previous to Orbitz, he helped develop Britannica.com and earned a M.S. in Software Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Ryan Moquin is a Senior Software Engineer at BAE Systems and has over 8 years of professional experience within the industry. He holds a BS in Computer Science from The Pennsylvania State University and a MS in Computer Science from New Jersey Institute of Technology. Moquin has been the driving force behind BAE Systems web-based situational awareness solution, incidentOS, which leverages some of the latest capabilities in ICEfaces like Ajax Push, and Portal Integration. He was recently nominated for a BAE Systems Chairman award in Innovation and Technology for his contributions to solutions utilizing geospatial and enterprise technologies.

Greg Murray is an AJAX architect at Aptana working on projects including the open source Jaxer AJAX server and Aptana Cloud. Prior to Aptana, Greg was the AJAX architect for Sun Microsystems advancing AJAX capabilities for NetBeans and Java Enterprise Edition. Greg created and co-leads the jMaki project, an open source client-server framework for developing AJAX mashups and applications using best of breed AJAX libraries and services.

Guy Naor is CTO of Morph Labs, Inc. A veteran of the technology world, building and implementing software solutions since 1981, in his most recent role he served as CTO of Famundo, a Web 2.0 start-up. Prior to that, he led the development of Goldmine software for four years and has served as an advisor and a consulting architect on a variety of Web 2.0 products.

Kevin Nilson is currently a Principal Software Architect for a Large Financial Institue in Silicon Valley. He is the co-lead of the Silicon Valley Web Developer JUG. He is also the co-lead of the Silicon Valley Google Technology User Group. Prior to his current work, Kevin had extensive industry software engineering and consulting experience with companies such as: Pfizer, Northrop Grumman, and AT&T Corporation. He also worked part-time as an adjunct professor at the College of San Mateo. He is a Sun Certified Java Programmer and Sun Certified Web Component Developer. You can learn more about Kevin on his website JavaClimber.com.

Michael Oliver is CTO of Corent Technology. He has 38+ years of experience in the industry - with Sun Microsystems, Sperry Corp, SAIC, OpenText and several Internet Startups and roles from Sales to CTO and almost everything in between. He is an Apache Software Foundation committer, a published author and is active in standards such as WfMC, IETF and others. Currently he is co-authoring on upcoming book from Apress, "The Essential Guide to Flash CS4 with ActionScript 4".

Adam Polansky is Principal Information Architect at Travelocity. He has served for over seven years in lead roles on development teams drawn from resources around the world for the most visible projects at various firms. He also has more than 21 years’ experience in media development, management and design in the web, print and advertising industries.

Matthew Quinlan is vice president of community development at Appcelerator, an open source rich Internet application company. Quinlan has been programming continuously since 1981. He has focused on Web technologies since 1997, when he became chief architect of ValueAmerica.com, one of the first online retailers. As a professional consultant, Quinlan provided guidance on Web development, architecture and content management to Motorola, UPS, Sprint, Vanguard, Intel and dozens of other companies. He has taught courses on Java and J2EE and was a founding member of the JBoss evangelist team, where he spoke about open source software, Java/J2EE and Web application development at industry events and users groups around the country. Quinlan holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Purdue University. He can be reached at mquinlan@appcelerator.com.

Tatiana Nasser Rafique manages software development of the SS&C Technologies Pages application, an enterprise reporting portal supporting the creation of client reports integrating data, rich text, and graphics in multiple presentation formats. Her projects have included developing reusable UI components, standards, and tools to enhance the web user experience.

Juan Camilo Ruiz is a Senior Product Manager for Oracle Development Tools for JDeveloper/ADF, specializing in Rich Internet Applications, ADF and Fusion Middleware stack. He joined Oracle in 2006 and worked as a solutions architect for Oracle Partners and SI in Latin America. Ruiz is frequent presenter at user groups and industry conferences and is graduated from the Universidad Javeriana in Bogota, Colombia.

Ben Rushlo, Director of Web Performance Consulting at Keynote Systems is one of the world's leading Internet performance experts. Ben advises Fortune 500 and Fortune 1000 companies in the Retail, Automotive, and Financial Services industries, helping to transform their global sites into high- performing, highly available Web assets that provide excellent customer experiences every time.

Before joining Keynote, Ben was a Senior Performance and Capacity Planning Engineer at American Express, where he served as a core member of the team that launched American Express on the Web.

With more than 10 years of experience in Internet and intranet technologies, Ben has expertise in Internet performance and performance tuning.

Ben is a frequent speaker at executive summits, industry symposiums in retail and financial services, and test and performance conferences and appeared on CNBC live broadcasts.

Frank Salim is a polyglot programmer with a keen interest in making life easier for his fellow coders. He leads WebSocket development at Kaazing and is the front man for Kaazing's open source project at kaazing.org. Salim is an open source advocate and a committer in several open source projects. He is a regular author and contributor to the online tech magazine Comet Daily.

Chris Schalk is a Tech Lead in the Developer API Evangelism group at Google. He is also one of the original members of the OpenAjax Alliance. Prior to Google, Chris was a Principal Product Manager and Java Evangelist for Oracle's application server and development tools division. While at Oracle, he worked to define the overall web development experience for Oracle JDeveloper and ADF Faces (Trinidad). He is also the co-author of JavaServer Faces: The Complete Reference published through McGraw-Hill Osborne (ISBN: 0072262400) and maintains a popular Blog on J2EE Web development at www.jroller.com/page/cschalk.

David “Lefty” Schlesinger is Director of Open Source Technologies at ACCESS Co., Ltd., and ACCESS’ representative to the LiMo Foundation Architecture Council. He works principally on ACCESS’ open source strategy and community relations, and represents ACCESS in a number of industry and community initiatives.

Lefty's background is in system software programming and networking: before taking on his current position, he was director of the Core Technologies department, where he managed the engineering team responsible for delivery of the kernel, drivers and low-level middleware for the ACCESS Linux Platform. Prior to joining Palm in 2001, Lefty worked for ten years at Apple Computer, where he managed the Mac OS 9 Networking group and was instrumental in the development of technologies such as Open Transport and Bonjour (Apple's standards-based zero-configuration networking technology).

Lefty is a key participant in a number of industry initiatives and consortiums: he is vice-chair of the Architectural Working Group of the Linux Phone Standards Forum, Chair of the Linux Foundation's Mobile Linux Working Group, and a member of the GNOME Foundation's Advisory Board and the GNOME Mobile Initiative. He has also participated in the Linux Desktop Architects' meeting for the past two years, and leads the mobile computing interest group there.

Lefty is well-known in the open source community and is a frequent presenter and panelist at open source-related and industry conferences and events, and has spoken in the past year at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, the GNOME Users & Developers European Conference (GUADEC), the Ottawa Linux Symposium, Open Source in Mobile, Interop, LugRadio Live USA, and AJAXWorld’s iPhone Developers’ Summit.

Lefty is also the author of the blog Open Source to Go.

Andy Schwartz is a software engineer at Oracle, where he has spent the last 15 years designing and developing user interface frameworks. The latest of these is ADF Faces, a JSF-based, AJAX-enabled framework and component set. Andy also serves as Oracle's representative to the JSR-314 (JSF 2.0) expert group.

Bill Scott is the Director of User Interface Engineering at Netflix, the world's largest online movie rental service. At Netflix he is guiding the UI Engineering team's efforts to continue Netflix's excellence in user experience, improve client performance and refactor the presentation tier to use the latest best practices for both the DHTML layer as well as the Java tier layer.

Scott is currently finishing up an O'Reilly book called Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interaction. The book covers 75+ interaction design patterns, several anti-Patterns organized into six design principles for designing rich interfaces.

Previously, he led engineering for Yahoo! Teachers, a Web 2.0 community allowing teachers to gather, organize & share web resources and lesson planning. In addition, as an Ajax Evangelist at Yahoo! he focused on spreading the goodness of "rich and sane" Ajax design & development. Bill is a frequent speaker at conferences and workshops discussing the nuances of good design and the challenges of great engineering. At Yahoo! Bill was also the Design Pattern curator where he launched the public Yahoo! Design Pattern Library. Before Yahoo! Bill led User Experience at Sabre Airline Solutions and co-founded Rico (an open source Ajax framework).

Ian Selby is owner of Gen X Design. He has been developing web sites professionally for over 7 years, and has always tried to stay on the cutting edge of web trends and technologies. He believes that usability and the user experience are the most important thing when writing web applications. He has a passion for all things Web 2.0, loves shiny icons and gradients, and lives in the San Francisco Bay area. He works for Aptana.

A group manager for Oracle JDeveloper and Oracle ADF, Shay Shmeltzer has 18 years of experience in application development. Since 1993, he has applied his expertise at Oracle in the realm of development, consulting, sales, marketing, and product management focusing on Java development tools and development frameworks. Shay is a frequent speaker in industry events and workshops. His blog is at Shay's blog

With 15 years of wide spectrum of experience in the software industry, strengths include Architecture, Analysis, Design and Development of both web based (portals) and non web based applications using Distributed and Object Oriented technologies. Also have experience in GUI development, Network programming, Performance Analysis/Tuning, Project leadership, Software Support and Technical documentation.

Karthik is currently employed at VeriSign Inc as a Principal Engineer. Also teach graduate level courses at Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering on Enterprise Computing and Distributed Computing.

Raghavan "Rags" Srinivas is the CTO of Technology Evangelism at Sun Microsystems looking at new technology directions and trends. His general focus area is in distributed systems, with a specialization in interoperability, mobility and security. He has spoken on a variety of technical topics at conferences around the world and teaches graduate classes in the evening. He publishes a standards column and has represented Sun at a number of standards bodies. He also serves in the organizing committee for several industry-wide technical conferences.

Peter Svensson, Owner of Mashup Station, is a consultant based in Stockholm, Sweden. A contributor to both Dojo and Apache Sling. Peter is an AJAX evangelist and front-end architect at Nethouse AB. He has been a Java programmer since the late 90s, specializing in network programming and encryption. A couple of years ago, he saw the JavaScript light and started blogging as the "Script Uncle" - http://unclescript.blogspot.com/.

Nicholas Thomas is a co-founder of Finicity and serves as the COO. He served as the Company's Chief Technology Officer for over 6 years. Prior to co-founding Finicity, Nicholas managed Bluetooth research and development programs at 3Com's Wireless Group and served on the Management Board of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group representing 3Com and Palm. He received a BS in Electrical Engineering, an MBA from Brigham Young University, and holds six US and International patents in the wireless communications and solution delivery domains.

Rob Tweed is a director and co-founder of M/Gateway Developments Ltd, a UK company specializing in Web, internet and integration technologies since 1996. He has assisted major companies worldwide to develop enterprise-scale Web applications and is the developer of the design-focused Enterprise Web Developer (EWD) AJAX development framework.

Kirstan Vandersluis has been instrumental in the creation and growth of the XAware project. He has experience in software development spanning multiple industries, including DoD, semi-conductor and telecommunications. Previously, Vandersluis was a software development manager and senior architect at MCI.

James Ward is a Technical Evangelist for Flex at Adobe and Adobe’s JCP representative to JSR 286, 299, and 301. Much like his love for climbing mountains, he enjoys programming because it provides endless new discoveries, elegant workarounds, summits and valleys. His adventures in climbing have taken him many places. Likewise, technology has brought him many adventures, including: Pascal and Assembly back in the early 90s; Perl, HTML, and JavaScript in the mid 90s; then Java and many of its frameworks beginning in the late 90s. Today he primarily uses Flex to build beautiful front-ends for Java based back-ends. Prior to Adobe, James built a rich marketing and customer service portal for Pillar Data Systems.

Coach Wei is the developer behind Razor, a set of tools and services for optimizing web 2.0 applications. He is also Chairman of Nexaweb technologies, an Enterprise Web 2.0 software company. Before Nexaweb, Coach architected and designed software for managing storage networks at EMC Corporation. As a champion for open source and open standard, Coach is a member of OpenAjax Alliance steering committee and active participants of various open source initiatives. He is a frequent speaker at industry events and has many publications on various technical journals. Coach obtained his master's degree from MIT, holds six patents and maintains "Direct from Web 2.0" blog at http://www.coachwei.com.

Adrian is the President of Takuan Consulting, an agency that provides support and consulting for real-time RIAs. He is also a founder and board member of OSSLine, a group that helps open source projects manage intellectual property risks, administer development environments, and find integration and partnership opportunities. Adrian is one of the foremost business and technical experts on real-time technologies for web applications. Current interests include scalability, Comet, and deploying web applications using existing backends.

Bill Westerman is a Principal with Create with Context, a strategic design and research firm focused on helping clients invent and reinvigorate digital products. He works with companies ranging from early-stage startups to global brands like Adobe, Panasonic, and Yahoo! to help translate customer needs into compelling products.

Elaine Wherry is co-founder of Meebo. She majored in Symbolic Systems at Stanford and then joined Synaptics and led their Usability team for several years. In 2005, she started Meebo with two friends from Stanford, Seth Sternberg and Sandy Jen. Shortly thereafter, Nielsen/NetRatings named meebo the fastest-growing IM destination in the US – ahead of Google Talk and Skype Messenger. Investors include Sequoia Capital and Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Elaine plays the violin and migrated west to California after growing up on a goat farm.

Kevin Whinnery is a core contributor and Technical Evangelist for Appcelerator, an open source Rich Internet Application framework. Prior to joining Appcelerator, Kevin has been a web developer on both the client and server side for ERP vendor Lawson Software and technical consultancy Perficient, Inc. Kevin is also the author of the upcoming book "Appcelerator In Action" from Manning Publications.

Hon has served as CEO of Symphoniq Corporation since its inception. Prior to joining Symphoniq, Hon co-founded NetIQ, where he served on the board of directors until 2003. Hon has also co-founded and served on the board of several other companies, including Centrify, Ecosystems (acquired by Compuware), Digital Market (acquired by Oracle) and a number of other technology companies. Hon is also a General Partner of Wongfratris Investment Company, a venture investment firm. Hon holds dual BS in electrical engineering and industrial engineering from Northwestern University and a MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dev Worah is Director of Technology for Financial Services, Virtusa Corp, responsible for providing technology direction to our client teams, developing partnerships and providing leadership and vision into technology trends. Worah is a senior technologist with over 13 years of industry experience and a proven track record in enterprise architecture definition, legacy integration, technology strategy and migration, project management and full-lifecycle IT solution delivery. He has been at the forefront of managing implementations employing Agile, SOA, Web 2.0, and Event Driven Architecture best practices for leading enterprises.