Speaker

Sebastian Bergmann thePHP.cc

Sebastian Bergmann holds a degree in Computer Science and is a pioneer in the field of quality assurance in PHP projects. His test framework PHPUnit is a de-facto standard. He is actively involved in the development of PHP and creator of various development tools. Sebastian Bergmann is an internationally sought-after expert. As an author he shares his long-standing experience in books and articles. He is a frequent speaker at conferences around the world.

Arne Blankerts thePHP.cc

Arne Blankerts is a co-founder and Principal Consultant with thePHP.cc and head of development at Ballyhoo advertising agency in Hamburg, Germany. Furthermore he offers security consulting and training with thePHP.cc, is a regular author writing articles for the German PHP Magazine, php|architekt and others. Arne is the inventor and lead developer of an open source site system called "fCMS" (http://fcms.de) and in the unusual case of spare time he helps maintaining the German translation of the PHP manual.

Steven Bristol Less Everything

Steve wrote his first program at the age of nine using BASIC. Since then he has written everything from proxy servers (C++ on Linux) to global human resources applications (C# on Windows) and has now settled on Ruby On Rails as the love of his life. He is a Core Contributor to the Rails Framework and has contributed to several other open source projects. He created the open source social network Lovd By Less. He has led teams of software engineers for over 11 years. He knows over fourteen different programming languages. He was a mentor in the 2007 Google Summer of Code. He has gone over 150 miles per hour with his knee on the ground while racing motorcycles. He has been married for 10 years. He has three children. He can divide by zero.

Andreas Ecker 1&1 Internet AG

Andreas Ecker is Head of Web Technologies at 1&1 Internet AG. As the Project Lead of the qooxdoo AJAX Framework, Andreas is responsible for coordination and development of this popular open source project, giving developers the ability to build impressive applications for all common browsers.

Matthias Eißing Embarcadero

Since 1992 Matthias Eißing has been engaged in development tools and databases by Borland. From the year 1997 on he is working for Borland CodeGear, now Embarcadero. Beside his experience with middleware of DCOM/COM+ and CORBA/J2EE-based systems in the Java world, Matthias Eißing had an eye on Windows DNA and .NET also. As a declared .NET specialist and certified trainer for C#, his emphasis is on analyzing, consulting and supporting customers on base of C#Builder, JBuilder, Delphi and Delphi for PHP.

Shahar Evron Zend Technologies

Shahar Evron has been developing in PHP for the last 8 years. For the last 5 years Shahar has been working in various positions at Zend Technologies, currently as the Product Manager for Zend Server. Before joining Zend Shahar worked as a system engineer in an open-source focused ISP, gaining experience in working with many open-source technologies. Shahar is also a core contributor to the Zend Framework, and is involved mostly with the development of the Framework's Web Services components.

Neal Ford ThoughtWorks

Neal is an application architect at ThoughtWorks. He is also the designer and developer of applications, instructional materials, magazine articles, video presentations, and author of the books "Developing with Delphi: Object-Oriented Techniques", "JBuilder 3 Unleashed", and "Art of Java Web Development". Neal has also spoken extensively at national and international conferences.

Tammo Freese

Johann-Peter Hartmann Mayflower GmbH, SektionEins GmbH

Johann-Peter Hartmann is founder of the PHP support enterprise ThinkPHP, CTO of Mayflower GmbH and CEO of the web application security startup SektionEins GmbH. He has been speaker at several conferences and published several articles in the area of PHP and security. He is responsible for the PHP and web 2.0 security scanner Chorizo! and contributed to the security of well known PHP tools.

Stuart Hayton IBM

After many years of architecting pioneering and highly available customer facing self service solutions, I'm privileged to be able to work on, and contribute to, the implementation of the PHP language support in Project Zero. http://www.projectzero.org

Thomas Herchenröder 1&1 Internet AG

Thomas Herchenröder is a member of qooxdoo's core developer team at 1&1 Internet AG, located in the lovely city of Karlsruhe. He is working on the framework tool chain including configuration management, code generation and testing tools. Before joining qooxdoo, Thomas was involved in various fields like Unix development, network services and knowledge representation.

Fabian Jakobs 1&1 Internet AG

Fabian Jakobs holds a Computer Science degree from the University of Karlsruhe and works as a JavaScript framework developer at 1&1 Internet AG. His main working area is the qooxdoo JavaScript GUI toolkit. He is currently involved in architecturing and implementing next generation of qooxdoo's widget and layout system for the upcoming release.

Michael Johann rails-experts.com

Michael Johann is editor-in-chief of RailsWay magazine (www.railsway.de) and author of \"Ruby on Rails für JEE Experten\", (Hanser Verlag). He is a consultant and trainer for JRuby on Rails and a regular speaker at conferences around the globe. Bevor switching to Ruby on Rails he become a reknown JEE expert and editor-in-chief of JavaSpektrum magazine which was founded in 1996.

Dierk König Canoo Engineering AG

Dierk is Fellow at Canoo Engineering AG, Basel, where he manages the open-source project Canoo WebTest. He is a committer to the Groovy and Grails projects and the GPars project and writes and speaks about modern software development at international conferences. He is lead author of the "Groovy in Action" book. Twitter: @mittie

Carola Kummert Dreamlab Technologies Deutschland

Carola Kummert is the Head of Education of Dreamlab Technologies Germany. She has much experience on practical programming trainings and web development. She get in contact with PHP the first time in year 2000, so she knows most of the daily programming questions and their solutions. Some of them are described in the German PHP Magazine by her regularly published articles.

Guillaume Laforge SpringSource

Guillaume Laforge is the Groovy Project Manager, and Spec Lead of JSR-241, the Java Specification Request standardizing the Groovy dynamic language. He co-authored Manning's bestseller "Groovy in Action". Along with Graeme Rocher, he founded G2One, Inc., the Groovy / Grails company dedicated to sustaining and leading the development of both Groovy and Grails, and providing professional services (expertise, consulting, support and training) around those technologies. In November 2008, SpringSource acquired G2One, as Groovy and Grails bring additional weapons to the SpringSource portfolio to fight the war on Enterprise Java complexity. You can meet Guillaume at conferences around the world where he evangelizes the Groovy dynamic language, domain-specific languages in Groovy, and the agile Grails web framework.

Robert Lemke TYPO3 Association

Robert Lemke is the lead developer of TYPO3 CMS and founding developer of the FLOW3 application framework. He is passionate about clean code and found his personal mission in bringing successful development and architecture techniques from other programming languages to the PHP world. He works full-time for the non-profit TYPO3 Association and lives in Lübeck, Germany, together with his wife, his daughter and Vibiemme, their espresso machine.

Michael Marth viibee.com

Michael Marth has been developing commercial software for 10 years, mainly in Java and Ruby. His interests are in agile development, software architectures and UI technologies. Michael's educational background is a PhD in data analysis.

Clint Oram SugarCRM

Clint Oram Vice President, Sugar Open Source Community Relations, Co-Founder Clint Oram is one of three co-founders of SugarCRM and co-led the product design and development as well as the customer services team through the first year of business. He is now responsible for managing relations with the Sugar Open Source community, including developer relations and Sugar’s community web site properties. Previously, Clint managed SugarCRM’s European operations, located in Dublin, Ireland. Clint’s 12 years in enterprise software experience spans product management, professional services and software engineering. Prior to co-founding SugarCRM, Clint worked at E.piphany, Octane Software, Hewlett Packard and PG&E.

Gregg Pollack RailsEnvy

Gregg Pollack lives in Orlando, Florida where he helps produce the Rails Envy Podcast, runs the Orlando Ruby Users Group, organizes BarCampOrlando, and is the Director of Engineering for Halogen Guides. He's also sometimes known as the "Ruby on Rails" guy in the Mac parody commercials released last year.

Stefan Priebsch e-novative GmbH

Stefan Priebsch has been solving IT problems for over 25 years. He is founder and CEO of e-novative GmbH, one of the first German IT consultancies offering PHP-based solutions. Stefan holds a university degree in computer science, is an internationally recognized PHP expert, book author, trainer and consultant. You can reach him at stefan.priebsch@e-novative.de.

Thorsten Rinne Mayflower GmbH

Thorsten Rinne, graduated in Computer Science, is working as senior developer/team lead for Mayflower GmbH in Munich, Germany. His main focuses are business critical reporting and Basel-II-compliant rating applications based on PHP, MySQL and PostgreSQL. He is the founder and maintainer of the open source FAQ management software phpMyFAQ. He's a Zend Certified Engineer and Certified Scrum Master. He also has spoken at various conferences around the world and he frequently writes articles for the German PHP Magazine.

Tobias Schlitt Qafoo GmbH

obias Schlitt is a qualified IT specialist and is right about to finish his studies of computer since at the university of Dortmund. He is an open source enthusiast and is involved with professional PHP application development for more then 10 years. Tobias is co-founder of Qafoo GmbH, which provides services around quality assurance in the PHP area, and works there as a consultant, trainer and developer.

Tobias Schlottke Gruner + Jahr

Tobias Schlottke is Senior Developer at G+J Online Systeme. Furthermore, Tobias is specialized in IT Consulting, Agile Development and IT Project Management.

Stephan Schmidt 1&1 Internet AG

Stephan Schmidt is Head of Web Sales Development at 1&1 Internet AG and responsible for the development of online order processes in Java, PHP, JavaScript and XSLT as well as project management for related projects. He is author and co-author of several books published by O\'Reilly, entwickler.press and Packt Publishing. Since 2001 he is a regular speaker at international conferences and contributes to several magazines. He has a passion for software design as well as managing software teams.

Lukas Smith Liip AG

Lukas Smith is co-release manager for the PHP 5.3 branch and speaker at various conferences around the globe. As an author of several popular open source components and the experience of 10+ years of Internet development, he works for Liip AG in Switzerland specializing in database-driven Intranet applications.

David Soria Parra Mayflower GmbH

David Soria Parra is a developer at Mayflower GmbH in Munich, focussing on enterprise PHP applications. He is a contributor to the PEAR project, involved in the developement of PHP itself and responsible for the development of PHProjekt 6.

Alexander Strauss Microsoft Deutschland GmbH

Since 2005 Alexander Strauss is Architecture Consultant at Microsoft. He is giving advice to customers and partners about solutions based on the latest Microsoft technologies, always having an eye on basic architecture principles. Beside Business Process Management and Integration-Scenarios, his focus is on the latest Microsoft Presentation-technologies like Silverlight and the Windows Presentation Foundation. Before Alexander Strauss joined Microsoft, he was employed at IBM focussed at web-portals and J2EE-development for the WebSphere platform.

Stefan Tilkov innoQ Deutschland GmbH

Stefan Tilkov is co-founder and principal consultant at innoQ, a technology consulting company with offices in Germany and Switzerland. He has been involved in the design of large-scale, distributed systems for more than a decade, using a variety of technologies and tools ranging from C++ and CORBA over J2EE/Java EE and Web Services to REST and Ruby on Rails. Stefan is the author of "REST und HTTP" (German), numerous articles and a frequent speaker at conferences around the world.

Andreas Tönne Cincom Systems GmbH & Co. oHG

Andreas Tönne is Lead Consultant at Cincom Systems. He is responsible for the management of the Smalltalk-related service business, pre-sales support as well as partner development in the European market. He is a Smalltalk addict for more than 20 years and still enjoys learning new languages and technologies. He has developed web-frameworks for over eight years and published on Exploratory Modeling recently.

Thomas Weinert papaya Software GmbH

Thomas Weinert is Head of Development at papaya Software GmbH. He has long time experience in application development, is author of several PHP books and the developer of Weaverslave.

Jonathan Weiss Peritor Wissensmanagement GmbH

Jonathan Weiss is a Ruby consultant and partner at Peritor Wissensmanagement GmbH in Berlin, Germany. For the last years he has been developing and consulting large Ruby on Rails projects where he focused on Scalability and Security. He is an active member of the Ruby and Rails community and is the developer of the Open Source deployment tool Webistrano. In his spare time he maintains Rubygems and Rails in the FreeBSD Ports system.