Corsin is a senior software engineer and architect at Netcetera and a research assistant at ETH Zurich. His projects at Netcetera include the development of platform architectures as well as business-critical transaction systems. He is involved in various customer projects and supports clients with architecture and engineering know-how. He studied computer science at ETH Zurich and is currently working on his PhD in the Global Information Systems research group at ETH. His research focusses on model-driven approaches and infrastructure for ubiquitous and mobile information environments.

Joachim works as Chief Technology Officer at Netcetera. With his more than 20 years experience in the IT world he is responsible for strategic decisions in technology, chief architect in larger software projects, consulting customers, leading projects, and coaching engineering teams. He has received his M.Sc. in Physics from ETH Zurich, Switzerland and is a co-founder of Netcetera, a software engineering company focusing on information and transaction systems in secure and mission-critical environments, based on J2EE and Eclipse RCP.

Completed his PhD at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. After some time at IBM Research, he did a post-doc at Cornell. Then he worked on NMS/EMS for Fujitsu Network Communications in San Jose, California. In 2003, he joined JBoss to work full-time on open source. Bela manages the Clustering Team at JBoss and created and leads the JGroups project. Bela's interests include network protocols, performance, group communication, trail running, biking and beerathlon. If not hacking code he spens time with his family.

Robert Brazile is the CTO of ATG, a leading provider of e-Commerce software. At ATG, he is responsible for the product architecture, user interface design, and product strategy groups. While at ATG, Robert has held positions in engineering, engineering management, product management, technology partnership and technical marketing. He has 20 years of high-tech industry experience, and prior to joining ATG, he served in engineering positions at various companies, including IEX, CenterLine (formerly Saber) Software and BBN.

Before joining Neoxia, Nicolas Dasriaux has been designing and programming applications for state organizations and financial institutions. He is a co-founder of Neoxia, a consulting company specialized in information system governance and architecture. He has then been working on mission critical projects in a financial institution as lead developper and architect. Since then, he has been performing numerous consulting missions related to Java EE applications, including service, data and database architecture. He is the initiator of Neoxia's "Java Application Performance" service offering, that was then expanded to cover performance testing and design for performance. He is also leading the R&D efforts in Neoxia, with a focus on application frameworks, second generation enterprise web applications and service, process and data architectures.

Christof Dornbierer is the CTO of Zurich-based AdNovum Informatik AG. He graduated in Computer Science at the ETH Zurich in 2004 and started working for AdNovum Informatik AG as a software engineer. Mr Dornbierer was appointed Head of Middleware Product Engineering at the end of 2005. At the same time, he assumed responsibility for consulting mandates and projects in the area of security, single sign-on (SSO), and identity management (IDM). Since August 2008 he has been the technical leader of the AdNovum group and member of the executive board. In this function, Christof Dornbierer plays a decisive role defining and governing the AdNovum technology strategy and the AdNovum software engineering process.

Nicolai is Product Manager at Myriad Group AG. In this position he is taking care of Myriads Java related products, specifically the Virtual Machines and compiler technology. In these areas Nicolai is managing the entire product lifecycle including the roadmap and innovations. He is also looking into mobile software platforms such as Android for which Myriad recently introduced new products.
Before joining Myriad in 2003, Nicolai gathered several years of experience as an independent software developer and consultant for various clients. During this period he developed content management systems, e-commerce applications and web based solutions.
Nicolai received his M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Hildesheim, Germany.

Peter Gassmann is working at AdNovum Informatik AG in Switzerland. As a long-time Java and Identity architect, he joined AdNovum in Summer 2010. Before that, he worked 10 years at Sun Microsystems, first in the Sun Java Center, helping customers successfully using Java technology. Then, besides working with Java technologies and the NetBeans development environment, he also got involved with Identity Management, selling and working with Sun's Identity, Role and Access Management products. Before joining Sun Peter worked in the insurance industry. Peter has graduated in Computer Science at FH Brugg-Windisch.

Didier Girard is CTO of SFEIR a consulting company based in Paris. He is also a member of the Open Source Get Together Paris. He built, abut.cnam.fr, a community web site on literature in 1994. He started building server side java applications in 1997. Didier has bloged on J2EE at application-servers.com since 2000 and on GWT at onGWT.com since GWT was open sourced. He is an early adopter who is constantly looking for good technologies for SFEIR's clients. He is currently working on several projects using GWT as the GUI technology.

Martin Kernland is a senior software architect at mimacom, a company specialized in Enterprise Java and open source technologies, especially ICEFaces, Liferay and the Spring Framework, and successfully applying agile methods based on SCRUM.
Prior to mimacom, Martin was Head of R&D, Architect and Senior Engineer at Whitestein Technologies, and before that he was developing an industry-grade JMS messaging server at Softwired inc. Martin holds a master degree in computer science and economics from the University of Zurich. He is married and father of two girls.

Micha is responsible for Research and Innovation at mimacom, a company specialized in Java and open source technology applying agile methods based on SCRUM. He is initiator of the open source framework edoras and participating in the development of ICEfaces, an Ajax-framework based on JSF.
After his diploma thesis in artificial intelligence, he focused on Java, especially in light-weight, model- and process-driven architecture, framework developing and agile methodologies.

Nemanja has a decade of commercial experience with JEE software architecture, engineering, business and technical analysis, design, integration, development and deployment of distributed, desktop and Internet applications. He is currently architecting and leading the development of a global underwriting solution for Zurich insurance company. Holds a Master Degree in Software Systems from Belgrade University and is a co-founder of Serbian JUG JavaSvet.

Dr. Silvano Maffeis is co-founder and CTO of Vipera, a company specialized on the development and operation of mobile data solutions. Silvano is recognized internationally as an expert in the areas of middleware, J2ME, J2EE and mobile computing. Silvano has published more than 30 articles in journals such as "Communications of the ACM" and "IEEE Computer". He is the inventor of various middleware products and the author of several US patents.

Jakob Magun is Managing Partner with mp technology consulting. He has a degree in Computer Science from ETH Zürich and has focused over the last years on IT Technology and Business Consulting, J2ME Wireless Applications, BlackBerry Software Development, Push E-Mail and RFID Technology. Currently he is engaged in IT Technology evaluation assignements as well as IT Project review and coaching.

Dr. Karim Riad MAZOUNI joined OCTO Technology in October 2008 to start and lead OCTO's Swiss subsidiary in Lausanne. OCTO Technology is a 10 year old French company focused on consulting about software architecture and agile development methodologies. Before OCTO, Karim spent 8 years at Sun Microsystems as a Senior Software Architect and team leader. Before Sun, Karim spent 2 years (1998-2000) at UBS AG IT System Engineering division in Zurich working as a technical IT architect on various projects involving distributed objet technology (CORBA, EJB, IBM Component Broker). From 1991 to 1997, Karim worked as a teaching & research assistant at the IT department of EPFL in Lausanne and focused his research work on the design & implementation of reliable distributed object-based systems. Karim got his Ph.D from EPFL (1996), his Master from Univ. of Paris (1990) and his Engineer Degree from Univ. of Algiers (1988), all three in Computer Science.

Tobias Murer is CTO of UBS Wealth Management & Swiss Banking. In his former role he was heading Java architecture at UBS Wealth Management & Swiss Banking. Attracted to Java technology since working at Sun Labs in Palo Alto in 1998 he has been a Java developer, consultant, architect and technical leader in software engineering companies before joining UBS in 2007. Tobias holds a Master and a Ph.D. in computer science (ETH Zürich) and a Master of Advanced Studies in Management, Technology, and Economics (ETH Zürich).

Alexander Neumann is an editor of the iX magazine since December 2008. His primary area of responsibility is the online channel "heise Developer". After completing his university studies in German language and history and several years of working in science and as a lector in advertising, he started off in the area of IT journalism in 2004 as the editor of "Java Magazin" and "Eclipse Magazin" published by Software & Support Media. On top of that, Alexander was a member of the program committees for the conferences Eclipse Summit Europe, Eclipse Forum Europe and Software QS Day.

Philipp H. Oser is a Lead Architect at ELCA where he architected and lead the development of two Java Enterprise Edition enhancement frameworks: first a proprietary one, LEAF Java, and more recently an open one based on Spring called EL4J. These  frameworks have been used in more than 35 projects. In parallel, Mr. Oser is a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences North-West Switzerland (the former Fachhochschule Aargau). Before joining ELCA, Mr. Oser spent a year at Ubilab (UBS IT research lab). He studied Computer Science at ETH Lausanne and at Carnegie Mellon University. His interest lay mainly in framework design, software architecture, and the J2EE.

Erich Oswald studied computer science at ETH Zurich. He received a PhD in technical sciences from the institute of computer systems at ETH Zurich. In 2000, he joined Ergon Informatik AG as a software engineer. Erich has since been busy as a software developer, project manager and architect at Ergon. Since 2006, he is Ergon's CTO.

Bruno Schaeffer is a cofounder and fellow of Canoo, a Basel, Switzerland based company specialized in Java consulting and services. He has been a Java developer, consultant, and architect since the early days of Java. Among others, his work areas were building several Web application platforms for the financial industry, portal server infrastructure, Web enabling of host applications, and Rich Internet Applications. He also teaches a course in object-oriented software engineering at the University of Zurich. Prior to that, he worked as an IT researcher and manager in the financial industry. Bruno holds a Master in Computer Science from the University of Linz and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Zurich.

Dr. Peter Schnorf is the head of Platform Architecture in the CTO organization of Credit Suisse's global Infrastructure division. He held various other positions in Credit Suisse over the last 10 years beginning as Smalltalk Architect, running a Web/Java Competence Center, and leading Technical Architecture (technology management and standards) for the IT of Private Banking. Prior to that, Peter spent 8 years in the USA, first as a post-doc for Compiler Technology at Stanford University, then as Researcher in Multimedia for Canon, and finally as Media Architect and SW Engineer at Taligent. He holds a diploma in Mathematics and a PhD in Computer Science from University of Zurich.

Yakov works as software developer since 1999, runs JUG.RU since 2000, blogs since 2004 and plays table tennis.

Marc Stampfli has a master in computer science with major areas of database technology, software engineering and communications technology. He is responsible for Information Management Solution projects like business intelligence & analytics, electronic content and document management, and information integration in IBM Switzerland. In his past at Oracle Software, he worked in various business integration projects and was the program manager for Service Oriented Architectures. Furthermore he is an entrepreneur and management trainer for language and leadership.

Jürg Wanner is co-founder and managing partner of Pyx Engineering AG. He received a Master of Science degree from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich where he studied physics and computer science. From 1985 to 1991 he worked for a large copier and printer manufacturer where he designed and developed document processing software.  After that he joined a leading financial institution where he worked in system engineering. Since founding Pyx Engineering in 1999 he works as an architect, consultant and engineer for various companies, mainly financial institutions. Among others he worked in the following fields: mobile devices, development and large scale application deployment. With more than 20 years experience in software design and development he works with Java since its inception.

Andre Weinand is a senior developer with the IBM Rational Research Lab in Zurich, Switzerland since 1997. He is a team lead and component owner on IBM's Jazz project, the Eclipse based framework for collaborative software development. Before joining Jazz he played an active role in the Eclipse project since its inception, working on JFace, Compare, JDT UI, and the effort to bring Eclipse to Mac OS X. André has been an object-oriented developer, consultant, and architect for more than two decades, working on a wide variety of projects, large and small. Prior to joining IBM he was a member of Taligent's "People, Places, and Things" team. He is one of the principal designers and implementors of ET++, the first portable C++ application framework. André has a doctorate in computer science from the University of Zurich.

Stefan Wengi is the former CTO of Zurich-based AdNovum Informatik. Born in 1969, he is an ETH (Swiss Institute of Technology) graduate in computer science. From 2002 to August 2008 he was the technical leader of the AdNovum group. In this function, he played a decisive role defining and governing the AdNovum technology strategy and the AdNovum software engineering process. His expertise includes the areas of IT security, middleware, software engineering, architecture and strategy. Currently Stefan Wengi is pursuing a masters degree in 'Management, Technology and Economics' at ETH Zurich. In addition he's a lecturer at a university of applied science and provides independent consulting services.

Software engineer at Google Zurich since 2006, currently working on web services based on the Atom Publishing Protocol. Before that, Stephane worked 5 years on a J2EE application framework at Vertical*i S.A., Lausanne. He graduated in computer science at EPFL in 2001.