Corey Gilmore is the President of CFG Consulting, Inc., specializing in developing rich internet applications with ColdFusion, PHP and Ajax for the Federal government and Fortune 100 clients. His guiltily enjoys designing and implementing low-cost, high performance business continuity plans using VMware ESX server. As the former Director of Information Technology for the United States Senate Democratic Leadership, he designed and implemented a continuity of operations plan to ensure Senate business continuity in the event of a disaster. Corey can be reached at cfgci.com.

Coach Wei is a seasoned developer and a thought leader in software. He started Java development in 1996. Prior to that, he worked mainly in C and C++. He also has extensive experience with DHTML/JavaScript (AJAX), and wrote thousands of lines of cross-browser JavaScript beginning in 1997. Coach is the founder of Nexaweb Technologies, a software platform provider for enterprise Rich Internet Applications. Before founding Nexaweb, Coach architected and designed software for managing storage networks at EMC Corporation. Coach received his master's degree from MIT, holds several patents, and is an industry advocate for open standards.

James Benson, AICP - Jim is the COO of Gray Hill Solutions in Seattle.  Gray Hill creates tools for government and industry to harness and utilize real-time data.  Jim has always driven applications for his clients to store and provide information in easily extensible ways.  Web 2.0 has therefore been a natural environment for him.  Jim is also involved with the CooperationCommons and the Institute for the Future's Future Commons to study human cooperation and envision the future of cooperation.  Jim's tags: Gray Hill Solutions (www.grayhillsolutions.com , Jim's Blog http://ourfounder.typepad.com), CooperationCommons (www.cooperationcommons.org), Institute for the Future (www.iftf.org ).

Kurt Cagle is an author, business analyst and systems architect specializing in XML and web technologies. He has written or cowritten more than fifteen books on a variety of computer related topics, and has produced more than two hundred articles and blogs and white papers. He's worked with both Fortune 500 and start-up companies, both developing innovative client-based and web services oriented solutions (and knew about AJAX long before the term was coined) and providing consultative services to companies to best understand the emerging nature of the new web. He currently lives in Victoria, British Columbia with his wife and family, and can be reached via his blog at www.understandingxml.com or at kurt.cagle@gmail.com.

Ajit Jaokar was recently appointed to chair Oxford University's next generation mobile applications panel. His current area of focus includes Channels to market for mobile applications (selling mobile applications), IMS (IP multimedia subsystem), Multiplayer Mobile gaming and Mobile communities. He currently plays an advisory role to a number of mobile start-ups in the UK and Scandinavia and works with the governments and trade missions of a number of countries including South Korea, Ireland (www.investnet.ie and the Faroe Islands. An innovator and a pioneer in the Mobile Data industry, he is also a member of the Web 2.0 Working Group.

Anil Sharma, a 20 years veteran in the industry, is a founder of Vertex Logic and chief architect of its AjaxFace product. Prior to that, he was CTO and founder of Softrock Systems and Component Plus. There he built a model driven application platform using J2EE. His primary interests include user interface infrastructures and model driven applications.

Rob Gonda is Editor-in-Chief of AJAX Developer's Journal and serves as iChameleon's Chief Technology Officer. Rob (http://www.robgonda.com) joined the company at its inception with over 10 years of experience as a technologist bringing an extensive background in software development, technology, product management, technical direction, and service strategy. He's an Advanced Certified ColdFusion Developer and holds a BS in computer science and engineering and an MBA with a specialization in entrepreneurship from the Wayne Huizenga School of Business.

Kevin Hakman is the director of product marketing for TIBCO General Interface, the award winning AJAX and Rich Internet Application framework and toolkit. Kevin Hakman pioneered AJAX in the enterprise co-founding General Interface in 2001. Since that time General Interface (aka 'GI') has been powering Web applications that look, feel and perform like desktop applications, but run in the browser at Fortune 500 and U.S. Government organizations. General Interface was also the first to use its own toolkit to provide full visual tooling for AJAX when it released it's 2.0 Version in 2003. TIBCO acquired General Interface in 2004 to extend its vision for service oriented applications to the end user. Kevin is a contributor to the SOA Web Services Journal and the AJAX Developer's Journal.

Kate Allen is a Software Consultant to Federal and private sector clients. Kate is an IT Project Manager with experience in both commercial software and in-house application development. In addition to Project Management and Enterprise Application Implementations, Kate follows, studies, and writes about Web 2.0 and the changes Web 2.0 is bringing to IT. She is also working on a book about Web 2.0 for Addison-Wesley.

David S. Linthicum is the president and CEO of BRIDGEWERX, and the author of several books on application integration and service-oriented architecture, and the host of the SOA Expert Podcast. You can reach
Dave at David@bridgewerx.com.

Scott Preston lives in Columbus, Ohio with his wife Emily and dog Castle. Scott has been developing Web applications since graduating from The Ohio State University in 1996. Scott started out building Web apps with PERL and Active Server Pages, then moved on to J2EE, and .NET before settling in on his current favorite, LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP). Scott is also a member of the Java Community Process and just finished his first book "The Definitive Guide to Building Java Robots."

Jay Fienberg is co-founder of Juxtaprose (www.juxtaprose.com) where he designs information architecture and user experience for websites and information systems. He specializes in design for enterprise-scale,
web-based social and collaboration systems. Since the early 1990s, Jay has also designed and developed hypertext, database, and content management systems and worked in a wide range of programming languages including XML, SQL, SGML, Python, PHP, Javascript, Java, HTML, CSS, and APL. Jay has a number of blogs, websites, and online projects available via jayfienberg.com.

Dietrich Kappe is a co-founder and the CTO of Pathfinder Associates, LLC , a hybrid User Experience Design and RIA development shop. Dietrich published one of the first 100 public web sites and launched one of the first Java Servlet-based web applications. He has been a software engineer for over 17 years, a frequent open source contributor, and has developed applications for the Media, Financial Services, Insurance and Healthcare industries. Dietrich is a technical speaker on Agile Software Development, AJAX and Business Rules technology. He publishes the Agile Ajax and Business Rules blogs and is a contributor to the RealRules Blogzine.

Greg Winton is a 20 year veteran of software development, specializing in network and mobile application development. Currently he is leading the Web 2.0 initiative at Vision Chain, Inc., a Washington DC based software company specializing in demand signal repositories and interconnected enterprise applications. Author of "Palm OS Network Programming" (O'Reilly, 2001) and several articles on handheld development and usability, Greg has been making the world a better place for end users, one enlightened developer at a time.

John Crupi is the CTO of JackBe Corporation. As CTO he is entrusted with understanding market forces and business drivers to drive JackBe's technical vision and strategy. John Crupi has 20 years of experience in OO and enterprise distributed computing. Previously, John spent eight years with Sun Microsystems, serving as a distinguished engineer and CTO for Sun's Enterprise Web Services Practice. John is co-author of Core J2EE Patterns, has written many articles for various magazines, and is a well-known speaker around the globe. He is a frequent blogger and was selected to join the International Advisory board for AJAXWorld Magazine.

Luis Derechin is the CEO and co-founder of JackBe Corporation. He is the executive leader of JackBe for daily operations, partnership development, and long-term strategy. An entrepreneur at heart, Luis has a reputation for founding and guiding companies that become both leaders in their categories and recognized successes. JackBe is Luis's third start-up; he earlier founded D'Hogar, a retail company that earned the loyalty of more than 500,000 customers, and AviMed, an online software provider.

Dan Malks is vice president of application platform and oversees JackBe's application platform, leading JackBe's technology strategy and delivering key elements of JackBe's innovative product suite. Before joining JackBe, he was a principal engineer at Sun Microsystems where he was a leader in service-oriented architecture (SOA) and strategic initiatives. Dan led efforts for Sun's top customers, including Sabre and AOL, and contributed to countless others. Dan was awarded "Technology Innovator of the Year" in 2005 in Arlington, VA, for his work leading the development of a global messaging infrastructure for Bono and U2's worldwide Vertigo tour. Also in 2005, Dan was the lead architect for Live8's U.S. mobile messaging infrastructure. Through his career, Dan has focused on software patterns and object-oriented technologies, working primarily in Java and Smalltalk. He is co-author of Core J2EE Patterns.

Philip McCarthy is a UK-based software development consultant specializing in J2EE and Web technologies. An early adopter of rich browser-based client development, he has several years' experience integrating AJAX technologies into enterprise Java frameworks, gained on projects in the financial services, telecoms, and digital media sectors. Philip is also the author of the "AJAX for Java Developers" series for IBM developerWorks, and blogs about software development at chimpen.com

Jason Blum is principal engineer with the advanced technologies development team in the United States Senate, Office of the Sergeant at Arms. Formerly the lead administrator of the Senate's shared Web hosting environment, Jason now designs and manages for Senate offices the implementation of schema and pattern-centric solutions in XML, ColdFusion, Flex, and .NET. He is a Certified Advanced ColdFusion developer with a BA in philosophy, masters degrees in philosophy of education and in IT, and an intermediate certification in Hungarian from itk.hu.