
Robin Bater is the IBM Rational Software WorldWide Community of Practice lead for Analysis, Design and Construction tools and works with many of IBM's strategic customers. With over 20 years of software developement experience, Robin has worked extensively in Object-Oriented Analysis and Design, and is now concentrating on IBM's strategy for Service Oriented Architecture and how the IBM tools, built on eclipse, can be used to deliver better business value.

Dirk Bäumer ist als Softwareentwickler bei den IBM OTI Labs in Zürich beschäftigt. Er ist seit der ersten Stunde an der Entwicklung der Eclipse-Plattform beteiligt. Der aktuelle Schwerpunkt seiner Arbeit liegt im Bereich Java Development Tools und Refactoring. Er ist Committer für diverse Komponenten des Eclipse-Projekts.

Wayne Beaton is employed by the Eclipse Foundation where he works as an evangelist, spreading the word and helping folks adopt Eclipse technologies. Wayne has extensive experience in object-oriented software development and is a strong proponent of refactoring, unit testing, and agile development methodologies.

Andy Clement is a senior software developer at IBM's Laboratory at Hursley Park, a committer on the AspectJ project, and co-founder of the AJDT project. He is involved in the use of aspects in J2EE middleware and has presented and taught many AOP sessions at conferences like AOSD, EclipseCon and OOPSLA. He is one of the co-authors of "Eclipse AspectJ : Aspect-Oriented Programming with AspectJ and the Eclipse AspectJ Development Tools".

Leif Frenzel is Senior Architect at Innoopract, a specialist in Eclipse distribution and visual web application development tools. Currently his focus is on Yoxos, the Eclipse distribution. Leif is a recognized speaker at conferences and has published numerous articles related to Eclipse plug-in development. He has also contributed to Open Source projects that develop language support for functional programming languages and Team support for distributed revision control.

Rod is one of the world's leading authorities on Java and Java EE development. He is a bestselling author, experienced consultant, and open source developer, as well as a popular conference speaker. Rod is co-founder of the Spring Framework and is also CEO of SpringSource, which provides Spring-related training, consulting, and support. Along with Jürgen Höller, he continues to lead the development of Spring. Rod is actively involved in client projects at SpringSource, as well as Spring development, writing and evangelism.

Bernd Kolb focuses on model-driven software development and eclipse technologies. As a consultant he worked in different domains from tooling for automotive embedded systems to enterprise Java applications. He is a regular speaker at conferences and has written a number of articles as well as co-authored a book. Bernd is a committer in the Eclipse Modeling Project and can be reached via e-mail to b.kolb {_at_} kolbware.de

Bernd Kolb focuses on model-driven software development and eclipse technologies. As a consultant he worked in different domains from tooling for automotive embedded systems to enterprise Java applications. He is a regular speaker at conferences and has written a number of articles as well as co-authored a book. Bernd is a committer in the Eclipse Modeling Project and can be reached via e-mail to b.kolb {_at_} kolbware.de

Jochen Krause ist Geschäftsführer der Innoopract Informationssysteme GmbH, einem Anbieter von Software und Dienstleitungen rund um Eclipse. Innoopract ist Hersteller der Eclipse Distribution Yoxos und von Werkzeugen zur visuellen Webentwicklung (W4T). Jochen Krause repräsentiert Innoopract seit 2003 bei Eclipse und ist Mitglied des Web Tools Project Management Committees (PMC). Er ist Diplom-Wirtschaftsingenieur und beschäftigt sich seit 1992 intensiv mit Informationstechnologien, insbesondere Internet-Technologien, objektorientiertem Softwaredesign und Software-Entwicklungsprozessen.

Martin is a consultant and coach at akquinet it-agile GmbH, a company located in Germany that is focused on agile software development. He received a master degree in Computer Science from the University of Hamburg and worked as intern as part of the AspectJ team at Xerox PARC back in '99. While he is helping teams to become more agile he also authored several articles on rich client and server-side development with Eclipse and Eclipse runtime technology for the german Eclipse magazine and investigated the combination of aspect and Eclipse technology. He is involved as a committer in the Equinox Incubator project.

Craig McClanahan is a Senior Staff Engineer for Sun Microsystems, Inc. He is currently Architect for Java Studio Creator, an Interactive Development Environment (IDE) tool for graphically building web applications using JavaServer Faces technology. Craig is also the original developer of Apache Struts, a popular open source framework for building Java-based web applications.

Daniel Megert holds a Diploma in Computer Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and is currently working with IBM Research in Zurich. He is one of the initial Eclipse committers and worked on several components including Search, Text, and the JDT UI. He is currently the lead of the Eclipse Platform Text and Eclipse JDT Text components.

Mike Milinkovich is Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation, Inc., a not-for-profit corporation supporting the Eclipse open-source community and commercial ecosystem. Mike has been contributing to the technology industry for over twenty years. Most recently a vice president in Oracle’s Development Group, Mike led the Application Server Technical Services team, a group of highly technical experts who support Oracle’s application server strategic customers and partners. Prior to joining Oracle, Mike was with WebGain where he was Vice President of Worldwide Services and President of WebGain Canada. Other experiences include: The Object People which did world wide technology consulting and training; Object Technology International where he held various roles in software engineering, product management and business development; and IBM, where Mike was responsible for world wide product marketing of a major IBM software product line. Mike earned his Masters of Science degree in Information and Systems Sciences and a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Carleton University. He lives in Ottawa, Canada.

ric Newcomer. After nearly 16 years at Digital/Compaq, Eric Newcomer joined IONA in 1999. He is currently Chief Technology Officer, responsible for IONA's technology roadmap, product strategy, and standards activities. He was a founding member of the XML Protocols Working Group at W3C and is IONA's primary representative to OASIS and WS-I. He is the author of the award-winning “Understanding Web Services” and more recently of “Understanding SOA with Web Services”, co-authored by Greg Lomow of Bearing Point.

Kevin Parker is Vice President of Market Development at Serena Software. He has over 25 years in the industry, 9 of them with Serena. He has responsibility for driving the Eclipse Application Lifecycle Framework (ALF) Project and for promoting the Ecosystem with vendors and customers. In his leadership position he is directly involved in shaping and delivering the Serena vision. He was born and educated in the United Kingdom where acquired extensive development, consulting and management expertise. He is a sought after speaker here and abroad and has been the key speaker at over 25 seminars and conferences this year so far: from Buenos Aires to Boston and from Houston to Helsinki.

Based in the worldwide development centre in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Edwin Schumacher is responsible for the technical direction of Compuware’s application development and integration products. An expert on Model-Driven, Pattern-Based Development, he is a respected speaker on the topics of Java and J2EE development, Web Services and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), business process automation (BPA) and Model Driven Architecture (MDA). Edwin Schumacher has worked for Compuware for almost 13 years in a variety of roles. Prior to that, he worked as an ERP product consultant and as a software developer for the Netherlands' largest market research organisation (TNO). Schumacher holds a software engineering degree.

Ilya Shinkarenko is a software engineer by WeigleWilczek GmbH with focus on Eclipse and Java EE. He has developed and led numerous IT-Projects using Open-Source technologies. Ilya is also a trainer employed by RCP Training Alliance and has done about 10 full-blown Eclipse RCP trainings as well as one-day workshops focused on different Eclipse areas.

Axel Stollfuß hat das Informatik-Studium an der Universität Karlsruhe abgeschlossen. Seit 1994 ist er als Berater und Projektleiter im Bereich E-Business für Finanzdienstleister und Medienunternehmen tätig. Sein Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf Architekturen und agilen Projektmanagementmethoden für die Realisierung komplexer Java-basierter E-Business-Lösungen.

Artem Tikhomirov is employed by Borland Software Corporation and currently works on the Eclipse Graphical Modeling Framework (GMF) project. Artem has been a leader in the development of Borland’s Together Edition for Eclipse product, and currently leads development on the generative tooling side of GMF.

Kai Tödter is software engineer in the architecture department of Siemens Corporate Technology. He has more than 10 years of professional Java experience. His main interest is software architecture for smart clients and he focuses on Java rich client platforms. Kai is Siemens' primary contact in the Eclipse Foundation.

Jason Weathersby is the BIRT Evangelist at Actuate Corporation and a member of the Eclipse Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) Project Management Committee (PMC). Jason has over 15 years experience in the software development field, ranging from real time process control to business intelligence software. At Actuate, Jason is currently responsible for educating the Open Source community on BIRT and encouraging its adoption.

Dipl.-Inform. Gerd Wütherich arbeitet als freiberuflicher Software-Architekt und Berater. Er verfügt über langjährige Erfahrung im Entwurf und in der Realisierung großer, javabasierter Anwendungssysteme, die er in unterschiedlichen Projekten im Finanz- und Logistikbereich gesammelt hat. Darüber hinaus ist er regelmäßiger Referent auf Konferenzen, Autor verschiedener Fachartikel und Koautor des Buches "Einführung in die OSGi Service Platform". Weitere Informationen unter http://www.gerd-wuetherich.de.