Brian Behlendorf founded CollabNet, with O'Reilly & Associates, in July 1999. CollabNet provides on-demand distributed software development solutions and is the primary sponsor of the award-winning Subversion open source project. Before launching CollabNet, Behlendorf was co-founder and CTO of Organic Online, a Web design and engineering consultancy located in San Francisco. During his five years at Organic, Behlendorf helped create Internet strategies for dozens of Fortune 500 companies. During that time, he co-founded and contributed heavily to the Apache Web Server Project, co-founded and supported the VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) effort, and assisted several IETF working groups, particularly the HTTP standardization effort. Before starting Organic, Behlendorf was the first Chief Engineer at Wired Magazine and later HotWired, one of the first large-scale publishing Web sites. He is currently a Director of the Mozilla Foundation and a retired Director and President of the Apache Software Foundation. In 2006, Behlendorf was named a Young Global Leader, an affiliate program of the World Economic Forum. Among his many books are Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution, and Running a Perfect Web Site with Apache.

Born in Paris in 1968, Marc Fleury got his Ph.D in physics from the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris. He started in Sales at Sun Microsystems France and then moved to the US where he worked on early java enablement of SAP at SAPLabs. Marc started the JBoss project in 1999. An ex-Lieutenant in the paratroopers, Marc holds a degree in Mathematics from the Ecole Polytechnique, a master in Theoretical Physics from the Ecole Normale ULM and was a visiting scientist at MIT during his thesis. Marc's research interest focuses on aspect oriented middleware.

Miguel de Icaza is one of the foremost luminaries in the Linux development community and one of the world's most prominent advocates for Free Software. He founded the GNOME project and is since August 2003 when Novell acquired Ximian he has been Vice President of Developer Platforms for Novell, which in turn became the sponsor of the two top open source projects, GNOME for the desktop and Mono as an open source platform for running Microsoft .NET applications. Miguel was the first recipient of the prestigious MIT Innovator of the Year award in 1999. More recently, he received the 2005 STUG Award from USENIX in recognition of GNOME. He has galvanized efforts to make Linux accessible and available to the average computer user, and continues to reach out globally by working with international organizations to introduce affordable technology alternatives, like Linux, to other nations.

Mike Milinkovich is Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation, Inc., a not-for-profit corporation supporting the Eclipse open-source community and commercial ecosystem. In the past, he has held key management positions with Oracle, WebGain, The Object People, and Object Technology International Inc. (which subsequently became a wholly-owned subsidiary of IBM), assuming responsibility for development, product management, marketing, strategic planning, finance and business development.

Bob Pasker, who co-founded WebLogic and was the chief architect of the WebLogic Application Server, is currently the deputy CTO of Azul Systems. He has been designing and developing for 25 years and has provided technical leadership and management for numerous technologies. Bob graduated magna cum laude from San Francisco State University and holds a Masters degree from Brown University.