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Jonathan Erickson has been editor-in-chief of Dr. Dobb’s Journal since 1988. Before joining DDJ, Jon was senior west-coast editor for BYTE and senior editor for Osborne/McGraw-Hill books. He is the author of ten books, ranging from graphics programming to organic gardening.
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Scott Ambler is a senior consultant with Ronin International, 
Rebecca Wirfs-Brock
Rebecca Wirfs-Brock, president of Wirfs-Brock Associates, is a world-renowned innovator in practical object
analysis and design techniques. She is lead author of the book, Object Design: Roles, Responsibilities
and Collaborations (Addison-Wesley 2003). She invented the set of development practices known as
Responsibility-Driven Design. Most recently, she has focused on ways to effectively communicate design ideas,
ways to be a thoughtful agile designer, designing flexible software without over- or under-engineering a
solution, and effective ways to consider design alternatives. Among her widely used innovations are use
case conversations and object role stereotypes. She's a proponent of practical techniques and effective
communication. She specializes in the transfer of object analysis and design expertise through mentoring,
consulting, and training.
Michèle
Leroux Bustamante is Principal Software Architect of IDesign Inc., Microsoft
Regional Director for San Diego, Microsoft MVP for XML Web Services and BEA
Technical Director. She has over a decade of development experience development
applications with VB, C++, Java, C# and VB.NET and working with related technologies
such as ATL, MFC and COM. At IDesign Michele provides training, mentoring and
high-end architecture consulting services, focusing on Web services, scalable
and secure architecture design for .NET, and interoperability. She is a member
of the International .NET Speakers Association (INETA), a frequent conference
presenter, conference chair of SD’s Web Services track, and is frequently
published in several major technology journals. Michele is also Web Services
Program Advisor to UCSD Extension, and is the .NET Expert for 
Ellen
Gottesdiener, Principal of EBG Consulting, Inc., is a consultant, facilitator,
and trainer helping project teams explore requirements, shape their development
processes and collaboratively plan and improve their work. Ellen has extensive
experience as a professional workshop facilitator with particular focus on positively
and productively engaging software development and business experts in defining
and achieving shared goals through chartering, requirements and retrospective
workshops. She has presented at many industry conferences and authored numerous
papers on software development requirements, workshops, methods and modeling.
She provides practical, experience-based seminars to clients in a wide variety
of industries. Ellen’s experiences as an agile requirements facilitator
are articulated in her book, Requirements by Collaboration: Workshops for
Defining Needs (Addison-Wesley, 2002).
Christian Gross is a Trainer / Mentor interested in all aspects of Software.
He is especially interested in Open Source technologies (Apache, XML, MySQL,
Mono, Mozilla). His thirst for everything computing started in High School,
when on a Commodore Pet he wrote two lines of BASIC code; 10 Print "Cool"
20 Goto 10. Of late Christian has authored three books; Applied Software Engineering
with Apache Jakarta Commons, Open Source Solutions for OSX, and Open Source
for Windows Administrators.
Elliotte Rusty Harold is an internationally respected writer, programmer,
and educator. He lectures about Java and object-oriented programming at Polytechnic
University in Brooklyn. His Cafe au Lait web site has become one of the most
popular independent Java sites on the Internet, and his spin-off site Cafe con
Leche has become one of the most popular XML sites. He is the author of numerous
books, most recently: Processing XML with Java from Addison-Wesley and
XML in a Nutshell from O'Reilly.
Allen
Holub has worked in the computer industry since 1979. He now works as a
consultant, helping companies not squander money unnecessarily on software.
He provides training in OO-Design and Java and also provides design-process-mentoring
and design-review services, technical due diligence, and even writes programs
on occasion. Allen's programming experience covers the gamut from operating
systems, to compilers, to applications programs, and web services. He was an
early adopter of Java, programming in it since its release in 1995. He worked
in C++ for eight years before that, and has also worked in C, Perl, Pascal,
PL/M, FORTRAN, SQL, and various assembly languages. He learned design the hard
way, by beating his head against programs that he'd rather not admit that he'd
written, and is now a recognized expert in OO-Design, UML, and process. He served
as a Chief Technology Officer at NetReliance, Inc. and sit's on the board of
advisors for Ascenium Corp. and Ontometrics. He is the Security-Track chair
for the Software Development conference. Allen has authored nine books
(including Holub on Patterns: Learning Design Patterns by Looking at Code,
Taming Java Threads, and Compiler Design in C) and 100+ magazine
articles (for Dr. Dobb's Journal, Programmers Journal, BYTE,
MSJ, and others). Allen wrote for JavaWorld from 1998 to 2004,
and is now a Contributing Editor for at SD Times. He wrote the popular
"OO-Design Process" column for the IBM developerWorks Component Zone,
was the technical editor of CMP Media's Java Solutions. Allen teaches
regularly for the University of California (Berkeley) Extension (OO Design and
Java). Contact Allen at 
Juval
Lowy is a software architect and the principal of IDesign (
Gary McGraw, Cigital, Inc.'s CTO, researches software security
and sets technical vision in the area of Software Quality Management. Dr. McGraw
is co-author of five best selling books: Exploiting Software (Addison-Wesley,
2004), Building Secure Software (Addison-Wesley, 2001), Software
Fault Injection (Wiley 1998), Securing Java (Wiley, 1999), and
Java Security (Wiley, 1996). A noted authority on software and application
security, Dr. McGraw consults with major software producers and consumers. Dr.
McGraw has written over sixty peer-reviewed technical publications and functions
as principal investigator on grants from Air Force Research Labs, DARPA, National
Science Foundation, and NIST's Advanced Technology Program. He serves on Advisory
Boards of Authentica, Counterpane, Fortify Software, and Indigo Security as
well as advising the CS Department at UC Davis. Dr. McGraw holds a dual PhD
in Cognitive Science and Computer Science from Indiana University and a BA in
Philosophy from UVa. He writes a monthly security column for Network
magazine, is the editor of Building Security In for IEEE Security &
Privacy magazine, and is often quoted in national press articles. 
JP
Morgenthal is Managing Partner for Avorcor, specializing in Information
Technology consulting. JP has been an active leader in the integration community
and is considered one of the leading experts on SOA, integration and information
security. He is author of three books on integration and systems design.
Dan
Saks is the President of Saks & Associates, a training and consulting
company specializing in C++. He is a contributing editor for Embedded Systems
Programming (US) and a member of the advisory board for C/C++ Users Journal.
He has also written columns for the C++ Report, Software Development
magazine and Windows Developer's Journal. Dan is co-author of C++
Programming Guidelines and co-developer of Suite++: The Plum Hall Validation
Suite for C++. He served for many years as secretary of the ANSI and ISO C++
standards committee, and continues to follow the committees' activities.
Paul Tyma is a software engineer at Google, Inc. in Silicon Valley. Previously,
he was Chief Scientist of Preemptive Solutions, Inc. - a Java and .NET code
security company. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Syracuse
University with a research focus in dynamic language performance. Paul is a
frequent industry writer including lead author of the book Java Primer Plus,
the VM Roadtest Java VM column in Java Pro magazine, various articles
in Dr. Dobb's Journal and Communications of the ACM. He has
spoken at JavaOne, Java Business Expo, Software Test & Performance, and
is a ten-year Software Development conference veteran.
Alexandra
Weber Morales is editor in chief of Software Development, a 20-year-old,
Maggie Award-winning magazine reaching 100,000 senior software engineers and
technical managers. A former freelance journalist and technical writer, she
joined San Francisco-based Miller Freeman (now CMP Media LLC) in 1996 and spent
three years traveling Latin America as chief editor (and webmaster) of a Spanish-
and Portuguese-language medical imaging technology magazine. After becoming
Editor in Chief of Software Development in 1999, she oversaw its redesign,
introduced news and variety sections, revamped the salary and job satisfaction
survey, initiated daily reporter coverage of SD's East and West coast conferences,
and launched seven e-mail newsletters reaching 70,000 readers each. Fluent in
Spanish, French, Portuguese and her native English, Weber Morales attended Bryn
Mawr College, where she studied languages and music. In addition to her work
as an editor, she is a recording artist and Latin jazz singer, and mother to
a 4-year-old son who shows great promise as a future percussionist or fireman.
Ross Wheeler is serial entrepreneur having been involved in
technology startups since 1985. He is currently Founder/CTO of Accenia, a leader
in Embedded Supersystem Virtualization. He previously founded and led RouterWare,
the leading network protocol supplier with over 300 networking infrastructure
customers, until its acquisition by Wind River Systems, Inc. in 1999. Following
the acquisition, he continued as CTO with the Networking Business unit. His
prior experience includes positions in software engineering with Fibermux, NewGen
Systems, Gateway Communications, and Lockheed Missiles and Space Co. Mr. Wheeler
holds a BSCS and BS Computer Engineering from Trinity University