Bob Buffone, Chief Architect, is responsible for platform and tool technology at Nexaweb Technologies Inc, a provider of the Nexaweb Platform enabling enterprise class rich Internet applications (RIAs). Bob 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.

Nigel Cheshire oversees Enerjy's product strategy and has been driving the company's growth since he founded it in 1996. Since then, he and his management team have led the company to become a worldwide leader in helping software development teams improve their productivity and code quality standards, delivering real value to many of the world's leading companies. Prior to founding Enerjy Software, Cheshire was co-founder and principal of Ives & Company, a leading CRM solutions consultancy. Prior to Ives, he led a software engineering group within the R&D division of Data General Corp. and held positions at several US and European enterprises. He holds a Bachelor of Science in computer science from the University of Teesside, England.

Yakov Fain is a Principal Consultant of Farata Systems. He's responsible for the Enterprise Architecture and emerging technologies. Yakov authored several Java books, dozens of technical articles, and his blog is hugely popular. Sun Microsystems has nominated and awarded Yakov with the title Java Champion. He leads the Princeton Java Users Group. Yakov holds BS and MS in Applied Math. You can reach him at yfain@faratasystems.com. He is Adobe Certified Flex Instructor.

David Intersimone (known to many as “David I”) is responsible for working closely with the developer community, ensuring the requirements of the individual programmer to development teams in larger enterprises are folded into CodeGear’s strategic product plans. He is a long-standing champion of software developers and the importance of their role in the industry. Nearly 21 years ago, David joined Borland to direct its product services group, where he has held a variety of engineering/development positions, created the developer relations group, and became an icon in the developer community. David holds a B.S. in Computer Science from California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo.

Peter Laudati, the "JrzyShr Dev Guy," is a Developer Evangelist with Microsoft, based in the New York/New Jersey area. One of his roles is supporting and educating Microsoft customers working with the .NET development platform. Additionally, Peter supports the community of .NET developers at-large through things like user group activities, helping out at various events such as Code Camps, and his blog! His blog can be found at http://blogs.msdn.com/peterlau/

Andy Miller, vice president of engineering, JBoss, a division of Red Hat. As vice president of engineering, Andy Miller manages JBoss’ expanding number of open source projects and development talent. He brings 20 years of experience and extensive, hands-on technical expertise working with open source and JBoss technologies. Previously, Andy was vice president of technical architecture at Corporate Express, where he led the company’s initiative to move its information systems to open source to drive down costs, including the strategic decision to make JBoss the platform for corporate applications such as e-commerce, logistics and accounts receivable.

Rima Patel Sriganesh is a Staff Engineer presently working in the Technology Outreach group at Sun Microsystems, Inc. She specializes in Java, XML and Integration platforms. Rima represents Sun at various financial services standards. She is a co-author of three books and publishes her take on technology in the form of papers and blogs. She also speaks frequently at various industry conferences. To find out more about her work, google - "Rima Patel Sriganesh".

Michael Pellegrini is a Principal Architect in the Office of the CTO at Active Endpoints, Inc. For the past 15 years, Michael has worked for both leading software vendors and IT organizations in moving technology solutions from early-adoption to mainstream acceptance.

Mark Pollack is a Partner at CodeStreet, LLC, a software and consulting firm in the financial services industry. He has worked extensively as an architect and developer on various front office trading systems that involved a mixture of .NET and Java technologies and emphasized message-based middleware. He obtained a Ph.D. in physics before starting a career in software development. Mark has been involved with the development of the Spring Framework since 2003 and in 2004 founded its .NET counterpart Spring.NET.

Reza Rehman is Chief Architect at Tripod Technologies, an IT solutions company focusing on Java EE in the Baltimore-NYC corridor. He is the co-author of "EJB 3 in Action" from Manning Publishing. Reza has been working with Java EE since its inception in the mid-nineties. He has developed enterprise systems in the publishing, financial, telecommunications and manufacturing industries. Reza has been fortunate to have worked with both EJB and Spring/Hibernate. He coordinates the Philadelphia JBoss User Group.

Norman Richards is a software engineer at Red Hat and a core developer on the JBoss Seam project. He is the author of several popular Java books, including XDoclet in Action and JBoss: A Developer's Notebook and JBoss 4.0: The Official Guide. Norman is the co-host of The Stack Trace, a software development podcast. He also helps run the Austin Java Users Group.

Mike is focused on helping to ensure CodeGear’s developer tools meet the expectations of developers. A key part of his role is discussing and explaining the technical and business aspects of CodeGear products and services to audiences and analysts worldwide. This is his second tenure supporting these developer products - prior to rejoining CodeGear he was with Borland for more than eight years. He has been published many times, and his latest collaboration is “Mastering JBuilder” from John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Rossen Stoyanchev is a senior consultant at Interface21, the company behind the Spring Framework and the Spring family of products. He is an experienced software developer with a diverse background in enterprise application development in the financial and e-commerce industries. Rossen lives in the New York area from where he conducts training and consulting engagements on a regular basis.

Bjorn Townsend has spent the last two years working as an Open Source Engineer at SourceLabs Inc. His focus is on Java web services, networking and IT infrastructure. His has contributed to a number of open source projects, including Apache Axis and Apache Jakarta Taglibs.