Jon, a Cornell Computer Science graduate has been engineering web applications since 1994. He has extensive experience with managing large-scale, high-profile web projects. His previous experience includes Alexa Internet and the Internet Archive. At Dapper, Jon serves as co-founder and CTO, managing US operations and strategic partnerships for the company in San Francisco.

• Focused Session: Practical Semantic Web: Web Plumbing 101
• Focused Session: Case Study: Server-side Mashup Framework

As CTO and co-creator of Lightstreamer, Alessandro has been working on Comet technologies for nearly a decade. He is a regular contributor to CometDaily.com and a member of the OpenAjax Alliance. Before focusing on Lightstreamer, Alessandro was leader of several software projects in the finance industry.

• Focused Session: Ajax and Comet: Implementing the Real-Time Web

Todd Anglin is an active .NET community member, President of the North Houston .NET User Group, and Telerik's Chief Technical Evangelist. At Telerik, Todd is responsible for building Telerik's global community of developers and helping ensure Telerik's products serve the needs of .NET developers around the world. Before joining Telerik, Todd worked as a developer in a Fortune 200 financial services company supporting applications on a wide range of platforms and technologies, including Unix, Windows Server, Informix, Oracle, and SQL Server. He also an avid entrepreneur with previous experience running a small .NET software studio. URL: http://www.telerikwatch.com

• Focused Session: ASP.NET AJAX and the Future of Web Development
• Focused Session: ASP.NET MVC: First Look
• Focused Session: WPF: The Road Ahead
• Workshop: Silverlight 2.0 Deep Dive

Sanket Atal is Director of R&D with Oracle's Fusion Middleware Group, heading the SOA and Enterprise Content Management development organizations in India. Sanket has been with Oracle for 12 years and was one of the founders of Oracle's R&D centre in Portland, Oregon, USA. Prior to joining Oracle, Sanket was a Database Kernel architect with Informix Corporation.He has Bachelor's degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science from Cornell University, Master's in Computer Science from University of Wisconsin-Madison, and MBA from University of Oregon.

• Focused Session: SOA Adoption Patterns in Real Life - Case Studies & Best Practices
• Focused Session: Enterprise Content Management: Benefits and Challenges

Udayan Banerjee is the CTO of NIIT Technologies Ltd. An engineering graduate from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, Udayan has been working in the Indian IT industry for the last 30 years in different capacities. During this period, Udayan has been associated with many global enterprises such as British Airways, Hitachi, AstraZeneca, ING, Misys, Indian Army. His current area of interest covers Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Rich Internet Application (RIA), Web 2.0, Knowledge Management, Code Comprehension, and Model Driven Software Engineering.

• Focused Session: Building an AJAX Framework for an Enterprise SOA-based Application

Neelima Bawa is the Development Manager for the Oracle AD4J (Application Diagnostics for Java) team. She has over ten years of experience with a wide range of technologies such as Java, C, C++, Web technologies, Databases, System programming, System and Network Administration etc., and their usage via both Oracle and other industry leading products. Neelima leads a team at Oracle Corportation that builds the essential tools and technology to troubleshoot production Java applications.

• Focused Session: A New Approach to Production Java Application Diagnostics

Donald Belcham is an independent contractor specializing in software development with the .NET platform. Recognized by Microsoft for his technical skill and community contribution with the Microsoft MVP award in C#, Donald is a notable leader in the developer community. In addition to being a founding member, and current President, of the Edmonton .NET User Group, Donald regularly speaks for .NET User Groups and Code Camps across North America on topics ranging from development practices to the intricacies of different technologies. Donald has a riveted passion for Agile development practices and solid OO fundamentals.

• Focused Session: Doing More With CruiseControl.Net and nAnt
• Focused Session: Single Responsibility and the Separation of Concerns
• Focused Session: Logical Layers and Seams
• Workshop: Parachuting Into Brownfields

Colin came to officialCOMMUNITY from Microsoft where he was a Senior Consultant with the Microsoft Consulting Services unit working enterprise customers on their adoption of Microsoft technology. Colin has delivered a number of in-person and Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) webcast sessions since the early part of the decade on topics ranging from .NET Development to infrastructure deployment with the Microsoft platform. In addition to technical talks, Colin participates in the community through active contribution on the MSDN and ASP.NET Forums, publishing code examples, sharing experiences through his blog, and attending local user group events. On the publishing end Colin has provided technical review services for Addison-Wesley's .NET development series, the Windows Server 2003 series from Microsoft Press, and co-authored a Windows Server 2003 MCSE study guide for Syngress Publishing. In addition he also holds a Masters of Science from the University of Liverpool.

• Focused Session: What's New in IIS 7.0 for Developers?
• Focused Session: Migrating ASP.NET Applications and Services to IIS 7.0
• Focused Session: Extending IIS 7.0 from End-to-End with .NET
• Focused Session: Debugging ASP.NET Applications in IIS 7.0
• Focused Session: Visual Studio 2008 for ASP.NET Developers

Chad is an Architect, Administrator, and Developer with technologies such as SQL Server (and all related technologies), Windows Server, and Windows Clustering. He currently works with Gratis Internet Inc., an online marketing firm based in Washington, DC www.gratisinternet.com, and also spends a significant amount of time writing, talking, presenting and blogging about SQL Server in the local DC area and online at mssqltips.com and his personal site, chadhoc.net. In the past, Chad has worked with companies and organizations such as Microsoft Corporation and The American Red Cross, and provided consulting/support services at companies such as Bank of America, HP, Citigroup, Qualcomm, Scottrade, TJX, SunTrust, and Zurich Financial Services. For over 2 years with Microsoft Corporation Chad was responsible for providing onsite and remote support, guidance, and advice with SQL Server products to some of Microsoft's foremost enterprise customers running the largest, most complex SQL Server installations and configurations in the world.

• Focused Session: Partitioning with SQL Server
• Focused Session: SOA with SQL Server
• Focused Session: SSD and SQL - The impact of Solid State on SQL Server
• Workshop: SQL Server 2008 Deep Dive
• Chalk Talk: Open Session SQL 2008 Q&A

As the Director of the Windows Group in India, Amit is passionate about building up a team that really understands how to build and evolve the world’s best operating system. He has spent several years being a key member of the Windows team that shipped Windows 2.1, 3.0, 3.1, '95.

• Keynote: Turning Walls Into Bridges with Visual Studio Team System 2008

Holly is a tooling developer within the IBM Java Technology Centre. She is the author of the GC and Memory Visualizer tool and leads development on a number of other tools. Her tooling work builds on her experience working as a performance engineer within the garbage collection development team. Holly has been with IBM for six years. Before joining IBM, she completed a doctorate in quantum computation at the University of Oxford.

• Focused Session: Java Performance Tooling
• Focused Session: Java Performance - Myths, Mysteries, and Paradoxes

Jean-Luc David has written five books including Professional Visual Studio 2005 Team System and Professional Team Foundation Server for Wiley Publishing. In his current role at Microsoft as a Developer Advisor for Microsoft Canada, he spends much of his time with development communities, companies and schools, connecting them to the resources they need to learn new skills and improve their careers. Prior to joining Microsoft, Jean-Luc ran a successful development and consulting firm specializing in areas such as Web Development and providing early guidance on Team System.

• Focused Session: Team Development 3.0
• Focused Session: Hone Your Coding Kung Fu with Best Practices
• Focused Session: The Zen of Tools Extensibility
• Focused Session: Hands-on Lab - Test Case Management Drill Down
• Focused Session: Hands-on Lab - Team Project Management Drill Down
• Focused Session: Hands-on Lab - Team Development Drill Down

Erik Dörnenburg is an application architect and developer at ThoughtWorks Inc., where he is helping clients with the design and implementation of large-scale enterprise solutions. Building on his experience with J2EE, Microsoft .NET and other environments, Erik is continually exploring new patterns of enterprise software. Before joining ThoughtWorks Erik was Technical Director at Pixelpark UK, a new media company, where he integrated enterprise systems with web-based solutions and a variety of digital delivery channels. His career in enterprise software began in the early nineties on the NeXTSTEP platform and Erik has been an advocate of agile, test-driven, object-oriented development and Open Source software for many years. He holds a degree in Informatics from the University of Dortmund and has studied Computer Science and Linguistics at the University College Dublin.

• Focused Session Domain Annotations
• Focused Session Developer Productivity

Yakov Fain is a managing principal of Farata Systems, a consulting, training and product company. He's authored several Java books and dozens of technical articles. The latest book he co-authored is "Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex and Java: Secrets of the Masters." Sun Microsystems has nominated and awarded Yakov with the title Java Champion. He leads the Princeton Java Users Group.

• Focused Session Picking the Right Technology for Enterprise RIA
• Focused Session What It Takes to Become an Enterprise Developer
• Workshop Rich Internet Applications with Flex and Java

Jim Farley has an extensive background in commercial, educational and governmental domains. Jim’s previous roles include Chief Technology Architect at Harvard University, and several positions at the General Electric Global R&D Center, where he worked with various client organizations, including NBC, GE Aircraft Engines, and the Air Force. Jim is a lecturer on Distributed and Enterprise Computing at the Harvard Extension School, and has written several books and articles on various technology areas including Java, .NET, and portals. His most recent book is “Practical JBoss Seam Projects”, by Apress, and he’s also co-author of “Java Enterprise in a Nutshell” and author of “Java Distributed Computing”, by O’Reilly Media.

• Focused Session The Future of Enterprise Java

Jesse James Garrett, co-founder and president of Adaptive Path, is one of the world's most widely recognized technology product designers. Every day, product designers around the world depend on Jesse's tools and concepts, which have been published in more than a dozen languages. His book, The Elements of User Experience, has been called "brilliant" and "essential" and is considered one of the seminal works on user-centered design.

In 2005, Jesse gained worldwide attention for coining the term Ajax and defining the concepts behind this emerging trend in Web technology. Jesse is the recipient of WIRED Magazine's 2006 Rave Award for Technology. He has been named one of the "50 Most Important People on the Web" by PC World magazine, one of the "Top 100 Most Influential People in IT" by eWeek magazine, and one of the top 100 technology industry leaders by Software Development Times magazine.

• Keynote: Delivering Long-Term Value in a Short-Term World
• Workshop: Master Class: The Elements of User Experience

Mike Grushin is the CIO of feedbackFX www.feedbackFX.com, a software-as-a-service solution that adds visual markup, commenting and opinion exchange functionality to any existing platform or application. He brings over 10 years of Web application development experience mostly working with Fortune 500 companies utilizing Microsoft, JAVA and Adobe technologies. His past projects include delivering enterprise e-Learning software, content management systems and eCommerce sites for companies in various industries. Mike is actively involved in the New York City software development community and regularly blogs on everything tech-related on http://blog.grushin.com.

• Focused Session: RIA Development on The Microsoft Stack Using Flex
• Focused Session: Exploring Amazon Web Services
• Focused Session: Developing Scalable UGC (User Generated Content) Sites

Abhinav is a Mobility Practice Lead with Microsoft Global Services (India) and has worked on different versions of .NET Compact Framework as well as SQL CE. He has also worked on WCF for Windows Mobile and implemented push Direct Push Algorithm for various customers.

• Focused Session: Developing Mobile Applications using .NET Compact Framework 3.5

Sachin has over nine years of experience in various capacities in product development. He is currently the Director of Engineering for the ‘Tools Development Center of Expertise’ at Progress Software- India. He has extensive experience in building tooling products. Since 2004 he has been leading a high-calibre Eclipse development team at Progress Software that has developed the Sonic Workbench - an Eclipse based IDE for Sonic ESB development and OpenEdge Architect - a set of Eclipse plugins supporting development in the Progress OpenEdge platform. Prior to Progress, he was the architect for Pramati Studio - an IDE for J2EE applications - where he designed and developed core pieces of technology that formed the mainstay of the product. Subsequently he lead the Pramati Web Server development.

• Focused Session: Eclipse LTK - Refactoring for the Masses

Barry Hiern is a Senior Principal Product Manager in Oracle’s Fusion Middleware Division and is focused on driving the security requirements of Oracle’s web user interface products. With over a decade in the Oracle development organization, he has been involved in the design and implementation of Web security, from the very early days of Portals, through to Oracle’s next generation Web 2.0 products. Barry is a frequent speaker at Oracle technology events world wide and runs workshops on securing Oracle’s portal offerings.

• Focused Session Security Architectures for the Rich Web

Naresh Jain is a software craftsman working for Directi as Quality and Community Evangelist. He helps software organizations deliver quality software solutions using Agile and Lean thinking. He has worked on a variety of software projects utilizing XP, Scrum and Crystal techniques, since 2003. Naresh is passionate about building a community of talented and capable software craftsmen, the next generation of software leaders in India. In recognition of his accomplishments, in 2007, the Agile Alliance awarded Naresh with the Gordon Pask Award for contributions to the Agile Community.

• Workshop: Acceptance Test-Driven Development

Nakul Joshi is a Senior Consultant within Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS), specializing in SharePoint-based solutions. Nakul is also part of a team known internally as the "SharePoint Rangers”, who are usually "where the buck stops" when it comes to helping customers implement SharePoint. SharePoint Rangers help customers deploy SharePoint based solutions and also serve as an extension to the product team by working with MCS on behalf of the product team.

• Focused Session: Search in SharePoint Server 2007 - Customizing and Extending

Neelesh Kamkolkar has 12 years of experience in software design, development, product strategy and management. He has worked on performance management and diagnostics solutions amongst other technologies that bridge the gaps between application development, quality assurance and operations teams. Most recently he was with H.P and prior to that with Mercury Interactive in senior product management and marketing roles.

• Focused Session: A Lap Around Visual Studio Team System 2008

Enterprise Architect with over 10 years of industry experience specializing in C/C++, Java and Microsoft Technologies. At WSO2 while contributing to a variety of projects, Sanjaya helps establish overall engineering processes. Previously he has lead a 300+ engineering team, developing many enterprise solutions, providing strategic direction to improve software engineering productivity and software quality.

• Focused Session: Web Services Development in Java without JEE

Rangachar Kasturi received his BE (Electrical) degree from Bangalore University, India in 1968 and MSEE and Ph.D. degrees from Texas Tech University in 1980 and 1982, respectively. He was a professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Electrical Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University during 1982-2003 and was a Fulbright Scholar during 1999. Dr. Kasturi has been elected to serve as the 2008 President of the IEEE Computer Society. He was the President of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) during 2002-04. He has served as the editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence and the Machine Vision and Applications journals. Dr. Kasturi is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of IAPR. He has received the Penn State Engineering Society Premier Research Award and has been inducted into the Texas Tech Electrical Engineering Academy. His research interests are in computer vision and pattern recognition. He is an author of the textbook, Machine Vision, and has published numerous papers and research reference books. He has directed many research projects in document image analysis, video sequence analysis and biometrics. In particular, he is directing a project that evaluates research progress in detection and tracking of faces, people, text, and vehicles in video sequences.

• Keynote: Role of IEEE Computer Society In the Developer Ecosystem

Werner Keil is currently a Principal Architect for T-Mobile. His 18 years of experience includes working as a project manager, analyst, consultant and software architect on leading-edge technologies for Banking, Insurance, Telco/Media and Public Organizations. He develops Enterprise Systems using Java EE, BEA/Oracle, Ajax or Adobe Technologies. In his spare time, Werner runs and supports open source projects, and writes songs, novels and articles. Werner is a member of the Eclipse Foundation, the JCP and Spec Lead of JSR-275.

• Focused Session: Portlet Bridge for JSF
• Focused Session: Spring Vs. Web Beans
• Focused Session: Enterprise Single Sign-On and Identity Management
• Workshop: EMMA Eclipse, Mylar and Maven

Mike Keith was a co-lead of the EJB 3.0 and JPA 1.0 specifications in addition to representing Oracle on the Java EE 5 specification expert group. He co-authored the premier JPA reference book called Pro EJB 3: Java Persistence API and has over 15 years of teaching, research and development experience in object-oriented and distributed systems, specializing in object persistence. He currently works as an architect for Java persistence strategies at Oracle and represents Oracle on the JPA 2.0 (JSR 317) and Java EE 6 (JSR 316) expert groups. He is a popular speaker at numerous conferences and events around the world.

• Focused Session: EJB 3 Java Persistence API in Action
• Workshop: Building Java Applications Using EJB 3.0 and JPA

Srini Koppolu is a leading visionary who joined Microsoft, USA in 1989 and has since been involved in many path breaking initiatives. He returned to India in 1998 to set up Microsoft India Development Center (MSIDC) which is Microsoft’s largest product development center outside the US. MSIDC has grown into a 1500 people strong R&D organization driving critical product development efforts and has filed more than 180 patents. He has also been instrumental in driving the incubation of RFID technologies and emerging market initiatives.

• Keynote: The Rich, Connected and Community Driven Era

Backed with extensive years of hands-on experience in mobile application development work, Balagopal, the former Forum Nokia Champion and now the technology guru at Nokia, brings with him deep insights and expertise in the development of compelling applications for the mobile space. While mobile application development is his work, passion and hobby, on a personal note, he cools off by listening to music and enjoys long drives. Bala, having his own community and network of developer friends is a storehouse of solutions and a sure bet to extend your network.

• Focused Session: Java Development Overview for Mobile Platforms

Rupesh is a senior member of the ColdFusion server team at Adobe where he is responsible for many of the core features of the server. Prior to Adobe/Macromedia, he was with Pramati Technologies, India's no 1 J2EE application server vendor. Having worked on Java server side technologies for nearly 9 years, he possesses an in-depth understanding of web and Java/J2EE technologies. He can be found online at his blog - http://coldfused.blogspot.com.

• Focused Session: Develop RIAs quickly with Flex and Java

Vinod works as a Technology Evangelist with Microsoft India specializing mostly on SQL Server. With the love and passion for SQL Server would want to help the community to maximize their investments on SQL Server by utilizing the product in the right way in their deployments and implementations. Has been working in the industry on MS technologies for the past 6+ years and been an MVP - SQL Server for 3+ years. Regular speaker at many of the MS Events like TechEd, MSDN, TechNet and more.

• Focused Session: T-SQL Enhancements with SQL Server 2008

Ramesh Loganathan is presently Vice President (Products) and Managing Director of Progress Software in India, responsible for leading the product development at the India Development center. Prior to taking the above position, Ramesh was Vice President of Middleware Technologies at Pramati, responsible for driving the product direction and the Technology Consulting business. Ramesh has been with pramati since 2000, heading Product Engineering until 2004, and then helped setup the team (for Progress Software) that built the Sonic Workbench on Eclipse, eventually transitioned to Progress Software- India.

Ramesh is an accomplished Technologist and evangelist regularly speaking at workshops and seminars in India. Has been active in Tech fora, JCP and SPEC organizations. Member of several Standards Expert groups including J2EE 1.3. Co-founded ebXMLIndia.org and hyd-eclipse.org, and organizes BarCamps and Startup events.

• Focused Session: SaaS: Design Considerations for Getting Custom Solutions as Services Over the Web

Arvind Maheshwari is a Senior Software Development Manager for Oracle Enterprise Managerdevelopment team; he is focused on building management solution for middleware. He has 14 years of experience in IT industry. He has played role of developer, consultant, architect, manager in financial, manufacturing, telecom industry developing enterprise solutions which are deployed in high availability architectures.

• Focused Session: Managing your BPEL Infrastructure

A technopreneur and entrepreneur, Srini is the business force and brain behind Plusmo Inc. Based in Santa Clara in California, Plusmo Inc champions and brings to the world the most prolific source of mobile widgets. Srinivas is also key to bringing in the mobile widget gallery to Nokia S60 devices.

• Focused Session: Developing Widget Applications for the Mobile Space

Chintan is leading the India Incubation “Cellar” in Bangalore for Yahoo! India R&D. Chintan has 14+ years of software development, management and leadership experience in designing and developing complex software products for diverse industries globally. At Yahoo! India he has been responsible for product and engineering of several rapid innovation products focusing on Desktop Search, Advanced Products and Emerging Markets.

• Focused Session: Managing Web Innovation

Janakiram MSV works as a Program Manager with the JScript team at the Microsoft India Development Center. He started his career at Microsoft India as a Technical Specialist. He spent most of his time with the Developer & Platform Evangelism (DPE) group, evangelizing Microsoft application development platform and tools. In his current role, he works closely with the web developer community and drives the customer connection for the JScript product group. Janakiram spoke at any many premier events including Microsoft TechEd, DevDays, TechMela, Linux Bangalore, Linux Asia and Borland DevCon. In his free time, he enjoys playing high definition action games on his Xbox 360. He is an avid blogger and his blog can be found at http://www.janakiramm.net/blog.

• Focused Session: What's new for Ajax Developers in IE8

Subramanyan Murali is a Senior Web Developer at Yahoo! Bangalore for almost 3 years. He is one of the technical leaders among the frontend (web) developer community in Yahoo! Bangalore and is an active member of the Yahoo! Platforms Group. Currently part of the Yahoo! India Maps team and previously on projects dealing with International Yahoo! Homepages and Yahoo! Mail Subramanyan brings a wealth of web technology knowledge and experience to Yahoo! India.

• Focused Session: Yahoo! Front-End Building Blocks

Appointed as AJAX Architect for Sun Microsystems, Greg Murray is deeply involved in the AJAX movement through his participation in the OpenAJAX Alliance and contributions to the Dojo Foundation's open-source JavaScript toolkit. Within Sun, Greg lead a grass roots effort advancing the integration of client-side scripting with Java technologies and is the creator and principal architect of Project jMaki. jMaki uses the best parts of Java and the best parts of JavaScript to deliver rich AJAX style widgets through a singe, easy-to-use interface that accesses components from popular widget libraries such as Dojo, Script.aculo.us, Yahoo's UI Library, Spry, DHTML Goodies, and Google's Web Toolkit. Greg recently contributed to the design and development of the AJAX-based Java Pet Store 2.0 Demo and helped create Java BluePrints solutions for using AJAX with Java technologies.

• Focused Session: Next Generation Ajax Tooling
• Focused Session: Enterprise Mashups Using Java
• Focused Session: Understanding jMaki
• Focused Session: jMaki and Google Web Toolkit (GWT)

Ed Musters is an independent Consultant and President of Open Highway Consulting Inc. and a Microsoft Certified Trainer. Ed is President of the Toronto .NET User Group - one of the largest in North America boasting over 3000 members and regular meeting attendance of 125 developers. Ed's authoring credits include Wrox Professional .NET Framework and articles for Pinnacle .NET Developer. Speaking credits include DevTeach, Code Camps, Microsoft Tech Ed, The .NET Show on YTV Television, local MSDN events, and North America wide MSDN Web Casts. Ed has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for .NET/C# three years in a row. Ed holds certifications for MCT, MCPD, MCSD, and MCDBA. Ed also holds all MCTS certifications in SharePoint including WSS 3.0 Administration, WSS 3.0 Development, MOSS 2007 Administration, and MOSS 2007 Development.

• Focused Session: SharePoint 2007 Feature Deployment for the Developer
• Focused Session: Introduction to Web Part Development in SharePoint 2007
• Focused Session: Introduction to SharePoint 2007 Workflow Development
• Focused Session: Developer’s Introduction to the Business Data Catalog
• Focused Session: Overview of Excel Services

Pandurang works as a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft focusing on next generation web technologies. He is very excited about the Microsoft technologies around Windows Live, ASP.NET AJAX, SharePoint Portal Server and other web technologies that herald the beginning of a new era on the Internet. He has over 8 years of industry experience creating complex web applications and working on several Microsoft technologies. Apart from technology, his interests include reading, writing, travel and photography. His blog can be found at www.thinkingMS.com/pandurang.

• Focused Session: Interoperability: J2EE and .NET

Frank Nimphius is a principal product manager for application development tools at Oracle Corporation since 1999. Prior to this, Frank has worked for more than three years in the Oracle Sales Consulting Organization. Frank actively contributes to the development of Oracle JDeveloper and the Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF). As a conference speaker, Frank represents the Oracle J2EE development team at J2EE conferences world wide, including various Oracle user groups and the Oracle Open World conference.

• Focused Session: Productive Java Enterprise Edition 5.0 Development
• Focused Session: Perfecting the Image: Improving JSF for Better RIA
• Focused Session: Ajax for Everyone: Building RIA with JSF and Ajax

Debu Panda has been working with Java technologies since 1998. He has published articles (30+) on enterprise Java/SOA in several magazines (JDJ, JavaPro, OnJava, TheServerSide.com, etc) and has presented at many conferences (JavaOne, OracleWorld, JavaOne, TheServerSide Symposium, JavaZone, JUGs, etc) on Java topics. He is lead author of the Manning top selling title EJB 3 In Action . His J2EE-focused blog can be found at http://debupanda.com/. He is a Senior Principal Product Manager of the Oracle Application Server development team, where he drives the product strategy for middleware management products.

• Focused Session: Managing your BPEL Infrastructure
• Focused Session: EJB 3 Java Persistence API in Action

Kalpesh Parmar is the lead technical evangelist in India for Infragistics, Inc., the largest provider of user interface components. Mr. Parmar is also actively involved with BDotNet as a manager, one of the largest the ASP.NET user groups in India and has served as a speaker on numerous topics. Prior to joining Infragistics, Mr. Parmar was a Solutions Architect at US Technology.

• Focused Session: Building Great UX with .Net
• Workshop: Building LOBs Applications and Dashboards using Infragistics Components

Rahul Patel is vice president of server technology at Oracle Corp. He is responsible for R&D and product management of Oracle WebCenter, which is Oracle's next generation user interaction platform. He is also responsible for development of Oracle Enterprise Portal and meta-data management for the middleware platform. Mr. Patel has been with Oracle since 2004, holding management and development positions in Oracle's Server Technologies Division. He has played a key role in developing meta-data management and user-interaction platform, which are the core components of Fusion Architecture upon which Oracle's Fusion Applications will be delivered.

Prior to joining Oracle, Mr. Patel worked at BEA systems, responsible for development of its Aqualogic Data Services platform. Mr. Patel has also worked at Sybase, and Versata where he has held senior development positions delivering Enterprise Software products.

• Keynote: Vision of the Future :: Enterprise Developer Platforms

Olivier Poupeney is co-founder and CEO of DreamFace Interactive. DreamFace is built on Olivier’s vast experience of over 15 years of work on improving the user experience through the user interface. From 2000 to 2006, he was the co-founder and VP R&D of Ecensity Corporation, where he led all aspects of research and development in the development of their state of the art Composite Application Framework EPS. Prior to that, Olivier was Field Application Engineering Manager for Silverstream France from 1997 to 1999. He served as a pre-sales engineer for Synon France from 1996 to 1997. Olivier started his career as a trainer and consultant for Powersoft/Sybase France.

• Focused Session: Develop Secured Ajax Applications
• Focused Session: Mashups vs Composite Applications

Rajesh is Director, Server Technologies, at Oracle Corporation. He is responsible for product development and product management of various Oracle Fusion Middleware components, including the next generation user interaction Platform of Fusion. Rajesh has 15+ years of software development experience in the areas of Middleware, Development tools, Networking, Industrial automation and Real time systems. Rajesh holds a Bachelor of engineering degree in Electronics, Master of Computer science degree from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago and a management degree from ICFAI.

• Focused Session: Rich Web Stories in Enterprises

Manas Ranade is a Consultant in Professional Services Group of TIBCO India. Manas has 9 years of experience encompassing s/w development, product development, product implementation & customization across various industry domains. Manas has always been passionate about emerging web technologies and believes that AJAX holds immense potential. Manas has widely used TIBCO GI in various projects ensuring customer satisfaction and appreciation."

• Focused Session: Enhanced Web 2.0

Harish Ranganathan, a Web Developer Evangelist, helps companies and enterprises realize business value in adopting the latest Microsoft Next Web Technologies and helping them address their real world challenges over the web. Harish Ranganathan has been a Technology Specialist in ASP.NET and other web technologies. You can find a lot of his contributions in various technology forums. He is passionate about technology in general and the application of software to address real world problems & challenges in particular.

• Focused Session: Connecting the Worlds - Design/Development Collaboration using XAML, Expression and Silverlight

Toomas Römer is an R&D specialist of the largest custom software development company in the Baltics (Webmedia, Ltd). He is also one of the core developers of the two products (JavaRebel and JspWeaver) that were developed under the trademark ZeroTurnaround. He has also contributed to the open-source Aranea Web Framework. Toomas personal blog can be found at dow.ngra.de.

• Focused Session: Zero Turnaround in Java Development

Brian Sam-Bodden has spent over twelve years working with object technologies, with an emphasis on the Java platform and in recent times falling in love with Ruby. He holds dual bachelor degrees from Ohio Wesleyan University in computer science and physics and is the president and chief software architect for Integrallis http://www.integrallis.com, where he focuses on object modeling and Java, particularly lightweight Java Web development J2EE, Eclipse and Swing based applications. Brian has worked as an architect, developer, mentor, and trainer for several Fortune 500 companies in the tax, insurance, retail sciences, telecommunications, distribution, banking, finance, aviation, and scientific data management industries. As an independent consultant, he has promoted the use of open source in the industry by educating his clients on the cost benefits and productivity gains they can achieve. He is a frequent speaker at user groups and conferences nationally and abroad. Brian is the author of "Beginning POJOs: Spring, Hibernate, JBoss and Tapestry" and has also co-authored the Apress Java title "Enterprise Java Development on a Budget: Leveraging Java Open Source Technologies".

• Focused Session: Beginning Drools - Rule Engines in Java
• Focused Session: Meta-programming in Groovy
• Focused Session: Improving Java EE with JRuby
• Focused Session: Professional Java UI development with the Eclipse RCP

Aninda Sengupta is a Senior Development Manager at Oracle, working on ESB and BPEL products, which form the backbone of Oracle SOA suite. Other than leading the development of these products at Oracle India and being involved with key customers globally on their adoption of SOA, he has been closely tracking the Web 2.0 phenomenon. Aninda has 16 years of software experience spanning India and US — his prior work at Oracle, US, includes development of the EJB Container and his prior companies include Apple Research, US, working on Collaboration Frameworks and CMC, India, working on scientific applications.

• Focused Session: SOA Adoption Patterns in Real Life - Case Studies & Best Practices

Backed with over two decades of management expertise and deep insights to the consumer market in India, Shiv heads up and drives the Nokia mobile phones business in India while providing strategic direction and operational focus. Besides working at consolidating Nokia’s market presence, he also focuses on building the Nokia brand, driving partnerships and strategic alliances and developing the capabilities of the Nokia organization in India. Over the years, Shivakumar has been able to chart an excellent track record of managing businesses, people and customer relationships and has gained a good understanding of the changing needs of customers and a wealth of experience in delivering solutions.

Shiv is an engineer and an MBA. Shiv’s hobbies include writing, teaching and sports. He wrote a regular marketing column for Business World between 1985 and 1992. Shiv teaches regularly at the Business Schools across the country.

• Keynote: Mobile Internet for Emerging Markets

Bijoy is an Evangelist with Microsoft India and he works on evangelizing development technologies. His responsibilities include driving the awareness-excitement-readiness cycle around these areas, build a community and help incubate solutions on these technologies with the SIs and ISVs in India. He's been at Microsoft for two years, first working as a Technical Lead on the VC++/C#/.Net framework support team and recently moving into the present role. Prior to joining Microsoft he worked with a product development company on installation technologies and before that with a B2B startup as a software developer. When he is not working, he enjoys reading, watching movies, listening to music and sleeping.

• Focused Session: .NET Framework 3.5 - LINQ & Language Enhancements
• Focused Session: Rich Connected Applications using WPF, SQL CE and Microsoft Sync Framework

Eran, a Technion physics masters graduate has been dreaming of Dapper for many years. Prior to Dapper, he founded and steered a large-scale, internationally acclaimed Internet research project called DIMES. Earlier, Eran co-founded and served as the CTO of Cogniview.

• Focused Session: Practical Semantic Web: Web Plumbing 101

Harish is a self confessed Flex addict with a wealth of experience working with Flash & Flex and assorted web 2.0 stuff. He has a day job at Adobe systems as a platform evangelist where he works with developers, partners and community to help them build successful web 2.0 applications leveraging Adobe technologies. Having worked on the Flex engineering team across releases, Harish brings along with him an in depth understanding of the framework internals and swears by the fact that Flex is proof that GOD exists! Harish writes on Flex, Flash and AIR at his tech blog http://www.flexgeek.info

• Focused Session: FL-AIR for the Rich Web

Ramesh has worked on a variety of technologies over 17+ years. He has led R&D initiatives in the companies that he worked for and has a wealth of experience working with several product companies, including many Web 2.0 companies. Ramesh has a passion for computational linguistics and artificial intelligence. At Adobe, he is responsible for helping developers understand and adopt the power of Adobe's RIA technologies to build the next generation rich internet applications"

• Focused Session: FL-AIR for the Rich Web

Dr. Venkat Subramaniam, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia. He has significant experience in architecture, design, and development of software applications. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with agile practices on their software projects. He is a frequent invited speaker at various international software conferences and user groups.

He is author of .NET Gotchas (O’Reilly), coauthor of 2007 Jolt Productivity Award winning book “Practices of an Agile Developer” (Pragmatic Bookshelf), and author of “Programming Groovy”(Pragmatic Bookshelf).

• Focused Session: Open Source Tools for Agile Development
• Focused Session: Java & Dynamic Languages
• Focused Session: Design Patterns in Java and Groovy
• Workshop: .NET Gotchas
• Focused Session: Caring about your Code Quality
• Focused Session: Functional Programming on JVM
• Workshop: Harnessing Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs)

Vignesh Swaminathan works on Enterprise Web 2.0 trends and its adoption inside large enterprises with emphasis on Web 2.0 enabled model driven development. A Principal Product Manager at Cordys, Vignesh brings over 10 years of experience creating model driven enterprise software platforms, with speaking credits at Microsoft Dev Con, HYSEA (www.hysea.org) & Hyderabad Bar Camps and publishing credit in the Microsoft Architecture Journal (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-gb/arcjournal/).

• Focused Session: Enterprise 2.0 and the New Age Weapons for the Developer's Arsenal

Murtaza "Taz" Abdeali is an expert at design, patterns, and implementation. As a consultant and trainer he has helped clients build both client-server and web-based applications in both the Java and Microsoft worlds. His areas of expertise include Java, JSP, Servlets, JavaScript and most recently JSF. Currently, Taz is a Product Manager for Web Client Tools at Infragistics.

• Focused Session: Building Enterprise Applications using JSF and AJAX

Tarun Telang is a Senior Software Engineer at SAP Labs India, Bangalore and a SAP Mentor for SAP Community Network. He is a SAP Certified Development Consultant for SAP NetWeaver '04 Web Application Development Focus JAVA and a SAP Certified Application Management Expert for Solution Operations - Root Cause Analysis. He has done Masters of Technology in Information Technology, Diploma in Advanced Computing and Bachelors of Engineering in Computer Science. He is working on SAP NetWeaver Technology since July 2004. His area of interest includes Enterprise Application Management, Rich Internet Application and Service Oriented Architecture.

• Focused Session: Introduction to Java Management Extensions (JMX)

Raghu is a Flex buff by choice and a Tech Evangelist by profession. He works in the Flex Team @ Adobe. He’s a Rich Applications developer with a keen interest in Developer Communities and Dynamic Applications. Raghu writes on his escapades with RIAs (FLEX, AIR, AJAX and Flash) at his tech blog http://raghunathrao.com/blog/flexing/

• Focused Session: Develop RIAs quickly with Flex and Java

A keen Open Source enthusiast, Peter is the initiator and maintainer of two successful SourceForge projects. One of them is JTrac - an open-source issue management web-application completely built on Wicket, Spring and Hibernate. JTrac has been very well received within the Java community and reached a ranking of #13 on SourceForge as soon as version 2.0 final was released in December 2006. JTrac also has been recognized as one of the best Indian Open Source projects – having won a FOSS India Award in February 2008. Peter Thomas works as a Principal Consultant for Satyam Computer Services Ltd, based out of Bangalore, India. He has been a guest speaker on Java technologies at events such as the Indicthreads.com Conference on Java Technology. He also blogs regularly at http://ptrthomas.wordpress.com

• Focused Session: Leveraging Open Source in Java EE Projects
• Focused Session: Migrating to Apache Wicket
• Focused Session: Wicket, Spring and Hibernate: the WiSH Stack
• Workshop: Wicket, Spring and Hibernate: Putting It all Together

Bhavin is the CEO at Directi (http://www.directi.com) a 300+ million dollars group of Business Units, that develop innovative mass-market Web Products serving millions of Customers worldwide. He is chiefly responsible for the vision and architecture of Directi's Products and services. He also serves as a technical advisor to the local CyberCrime Investigation Cell. He has won several awards, including the Entrepreneur of the year award in 2005. Bhavin was also former chairman for the Global ICANN Accredited Registrars Constituency for two consecutive terms. He has been the youngest elected chair for this post in the history of ICANN. ICANN is the global Internet compliance and policy formation authority.

A techie at heart, Bhavin has been designing, architecting and coding applications since the early 90s. Bhavin has been an active speaker in the tech community and blogs at http://bhavin.directi.com. He spends a fair bit of time in conceptualizing high-available and scalable architectures for various Directi products

• Focused Session: Building a Scalable Architecture for Web Apps

Clemens Utschig works within the Oracle SOA Product Management Team responsible for security aspects and cross product integration. Aside from technology, Clemens' focus is on project management and consulting aspects coming along with SOA implementations. As a native Austrian, Clemens' Oracle career started in Europe at the local consulting services branch— working with customers on J2EE and SOA projects, and founded the local Java community. He is a frequent speaker at conferences evangelizing either on technology or the human factor —two key aspects when introducing new concepts and shifts in corporate IT strategy.

• Focused Session: SOA and the Enterprise, Thoughts Beyond Technology
• Focused Session: SOA Adoption Patterns in Real Life - Case Studies & Best Practices

Anand Vaidyanathan has been in the software industry for 20 years now. He is currently a Senior Development Manager with Oracle India Private Limited and manages the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) development team. Prior to ECM he was involved in developing and managing enterprise software for the Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) domain.

• Focused Session: Enterprise Content Management: Benefits and Challenges

Jinesh Varia helps developers take advantage of disruptive technologies that are going to change the way we think about computer applications, and the way businesses compete in the new web world. Jinesh has spoken at more than 50 conferences/UserGroups. He is focused on furthering awareness of web services and often helps developers on 1:1 basis in implementing their own ideas using Amazon’s innovative services. Jinesh is a Web Services Evangelist at Amazon and has over 7 years experience in XML and Web services and has worked with standards-based working groups in XBRL. Prior to joining Amazon as an evangelist, he held several positions in UBmatrix including Solutions Architect, Enterprise Team Lead and Software engineer, working on various financial services projects including Call Modernization Project at FDIC. He was also lead developer at Penn State Data Center, Institute of Regional Affairs. Jinesh’s publications have been published in ACM and IEEE. Jinesh is originally from India and holds a Master’s degree in Information Systems from Penn State University. He plays tennis and loves to trek.

• Focused Session: Building Java-based Cloud Architectures
• Focused Session: Cloud Computing - Amazon EC2/S3 Deep Dive

Armed with 8 years of solid professional experience in the mobile communications and software development arena, Vivek demonstrates indepth expertise and insights in the building of application development platforms for the mobile communication industry, both on the infrastructure and device front. A regular at technology events like MobileMonday and BarCamp, Vivek works for the Java platform development program at Nokia.

• Keynote: Mobile Java – Accelerating Convergence