Billy has been working with ColdFusion since version 4.0 (1999), and has been an advocate for the language ever since. He is current manager of the Houston ColdFusion Users Group, and has served on the board of the Dallas CFUG. Billy was a technical reviewer for Wrox Publishing's only ColdFusion title (as well as some of their first .NET titles). As an independent consultant, he builds solutions for other platforms as well, including .NET and  node.js. His current focus is on leveraging cloud solutions to build high-end solution with a minimal footprint.

Hailing from the frigid tundra of Minnesota, Peter J. Farrell has a Bachelor of Music degree from the Peabody Institute at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

While studying music, Peter took his life-long interest with computers to a new level and started learning about web development technologies. He has been working with CFML since 2001 and is the lead developer of the Mach-II framework.

Peter is a Senior Technologist for GreatBizTools, a human resources consulting firm. He and his wife, Allyson, live together in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Gert was born in 1967 and lives in Switzerland since 1997. Back in the late eighties he studied astrophysics in Munich but switched later to IT as a profession and worked for several companies in the past as a database administrator and system architect.

Since 2003 Gert has been involved in the Railo project and leads the company since 2006. He is a father of three and boyfriend of one. You might have met Gert at one of the conferences in the past. If not, he will be presenting and attending at several conferences this year. Like this one ...

Co-Owner of Computer Know How, a Wisconsin based technology firm and ColdBox Alliance Partner, I have been working with CFML since 1997.  I am a Husband, Dad, Coach, Youth Leader, and System Architect.  I am also a member of Team ColdBox and enjoy everything Star Wars.

I have worked with ColdFusion since 1999 for several companies. I am an advocate of Eclipse, Source Control, Mylyn, and anything to make developing ColdFusion more productive and easier. My main focus currently is learning Git, Ruby on Rails, and ColdFusion on Wheels. I am an Adobe Community Professional. I have spoken at several user groups and enjoy talking to people about ColdFusion.

Currently, Judah Johns serves as Chief Evangelist of Jelastic, where he is responsible for sharing the good news that is Jelastic. Previous to Jelastic, he worked for the UK2 Group in London, where he helped grow the VPS.net brand and created and launched their Latin American hosting brand, HostPuro. He is a trained Chemist but has worked in industries as varied as politics and oil and gas. He holds bachelor’s degrees in Chemistry and Political Science from the University of Houston and has worked at a number of research institutions in the US. He is currently back living in his hometown of Houston, TX with his two Black Labs, Luther and Remy.

Joseph Lamoree is a software developer from Southern California, working primarily with ColdFusion for many years.

Jim is an operating partner and the CTO for Chicago Growth Partners.   CGP is a Chicago-based private equity group with over $1.2 billion in assets under management.   Jim has worked in a variety of languages, in a variety of roles, for many of the major technology companies including Digital Equipment, Ingres, Compuware/Uniface and Oracle.   His speciality is pre-sales engineering and project scoping.   Jim manages a number of portfolio companies that have significant investments in OpenCFML platforms.    He still writes a bit of code himself, but all of his SVN checkins seem to get piped to /dev/null.

Daria Norris is a Web Developer for the Free Library of Philadelphia, where she develops custom library applications. Her biggest project is a search engine of 20K + digital images from the library's scholarly collections including medieval manuscripts, historical photographs, maps and more. She has been a ColdFusion developer for 15 years, getting her start in a corporate library where she developed a checkout system that evolved into a Competitive Intelligence search engine. Her passion is making information easier to find and plans to return to school to finish a double masters degree in Information Systems and Library Science.

Ean is co-founder of Dallas-based digital media consultancy, Brainfood. He is a long-time participant in the Debian project and collaborated in the creation of the Debian Social Contract which inspired the Open Source Definition[1]. Schuessler also served as President of Software in the Public Interest, an umbrella organization that holds property and provides other services for Debian and other Free Software organizations.  Ean has been a critical participant in the Free Java movement from the very beginning. Brainfood released its first commercial Java-based website on Acme.Serve in 1997, before Sun's Jeeves server hit the market. Ean was also an early maintainer of the Debian Kaffe package and currently is active in the Apache OFBiz effort to create a Free Software ERP system.  Ean recently volunteered with Open Source for America, serving as the Chairman of the technical committee. With the help of other committee members they built a sophisticated OFBiz based community management system.  In 2001 and 2002, Ean teamed up with Brainfood alumni Jerry Pommer and Eric Molitor to compete in Battlebots, achieving a ranking of 35 in the middle class weight group.

Daya is a techno-enthusiast software developer with over 12 years of experience who made a career shift from BioTechnology some 14 years ago. Prior to engaging in Software Development he published two research papers on Drug Delivery vehicles for Cancer treatment. Today he loves Ruby and continues to play with Erlang, Clojure, Node.js and other wide ranging technologies. In last 12 years he has worked with many startups across the US continent and fortune 100 companies like HP and Waste Management. Prior to joining CloudBees he was a Java&Ruby Sr. Technical Lead for SkyAuction.com a travel company. Currently he is focussed on GrandCentral the web console for CloudBees EcoSystem. When he has free time he enjoys playing Racquet Ball, listening to traditional Sufi music.

Alex Skinner is the Co-founder/Managing Director of Pixl8 a mid size web development agency with offices in London and Kuala Lumpur. He holds a degree in Business Information Systems from the University of Portsmouth.

Kurt is has been working with ColdFusion since version 4.5. By day Kurt works for the American Academy of Neurology and by night he consults on web applications for small to medium size businesses. In his spare tech time, he is a member of the ColdSpring and Mach-II open source projects. He recently started a open source project called AppBooster which aims to show best practices for using several different frameworks with CFML.

Alan Williamson was the UK's first Java Champion, a programme from Sun Microsystems to recognize the Top 100 people that have contributed the most to Java. With his deep roots in high performance server side processing, he is responsible for creating the BlueDragon Java CFML runtime engine that is powering MySpace.com. With many books, articles and speaking engagements under his belt, Alan likes to talk passionately about what can be done TODAY and not get caught up in the marketing hype of TOMORROW. Follow his blog output @ http://alan.blog-city.com/

Matt Woodward is Principal IT Specialist for the Office of the Sergeant at Arms at the United States Senate. Matt is largely a web developer but also does a smattering of Linux system administration, working mostly with CFML, Java, Groovy, and miscellaneous other technologies including his latest favorite, CouchDB.

Matt is a fervent free software advocate and is a member of the Open BlueDragon Steering Committee, Team Mach-II, the Free Software Foundation, the League for Programming Freedom, and the Association for Computing Machinery. Along with Peter Farrell, Matt hosts Deductive Developers, a semi-regular podcast covering a wide-range of topics on web development and life as a knowledge worker. Matt is also a Certified Scrum Master and is passionate about making the software development process less painful for everyone involved.