James E. Harmon
President and Senior Instructor ,  Object Training Group
James E. Harmon is the President and Senior Instructor at Object Training Group in Chicago. He is an experienced developer who spent a majority of his career building large scale online applications at Accenture and for several other webcentric consulting firms. He now specializes in training Java developers to be more productive by using the latest technologies and frameworks.

Paul J. Deitel
Founder ,  Deitel & Associates, Inc
Paul J. Deitel are the founders of Deitel & Associates, Inc., the internationally recognized programming languages content-creation, corporate- training and Internet business development organization. The Deitels have written many international best-selling programming languages textbooks that millions of people worldwide have used to master C, C++, Java™, C#, XML, Visual Basic®, Perl, Python, and Internet and web programming.

Harvey M. Deitel
Founder ,  Deitel & Associates, Inc
Dr. Harvey M. Deitel are the founders of Deitel & Associates, Inc., the internationally recognized programming languages content-creation, corporate- training and Internet business development organization. The Deitels have written many international best-selling programming languages textbooks that millions of people worldwide have used to master C, C++, Java™, C#, XML, Visual Basic®, Perl, Python, and Internet and web programming.

Billy Hoffman
HP Web Security Research Group, HP Software
Billy Hoffman is the manager of HP's Web Security Research Group. Prior to his role at HP, Billy was a lead security researcher for SPI Dynamics that was acquired by HP in August 2007. Billy focuses on automated discovery of Web application vulnerabilities and crawling technologies. He has been a guest speaker at AJAX World, Black Hat, Black Hat Federal, Toorcon, Shmoocon, O'Reilly's Emerging Technology Conference, The 5th Hope, and several other conferences. His work has been featured in Wired, Make magazine, Slashdot, G4TechTV, and in various other journals and Web sites. Topics have included reverse engineering law and techniques, ATMs, XM Radio and magstripe projects. In addition, Billy is a reviewer of white papers for the Web Application Security Consortium (WASC), and is a creator of Stripe Snoop, a suite of research tools that captures, modifies, validates, generates, analyzes, and shares data from magstripes. He also spends his time contributing to OSS projects and writes articles under the handle Acidus, and recently co-authored a book on AJAX Security for publisher Addison Wesley Professional, which was released late in 2007.

Bryan Sullivan
Software Development Manager ,  Hewlett Packard
Bryan Sullivan is a software development manager for the Application Security Center division of HP Software. He has been a professional software developer and development manager for over 12 years, with the last five years focused on the Internet security software industry. Bryan is a frequent speaker at industry events, most recently AjaxWorld, Black Hat, and RSA.

Shawn M. Lauriat
Owner and Lead Developer ,  Frozen O Productions
Shawn M. Lauriat is owner and lead developer of Frozen O Productions. He recently joined IBM as a senior PHP engineer for IBM Rational BuildForge when his employer, BuildForge, was acquired by IBM. He currently leads development on the Ajax-driven web application for the most powerful build/process automation tool in the industry, IBM®Rational®Build Forge®. Lauriat is a Zend Certified Engineer.