Biography: Adrian Cockcroft

Adrian Cockcroft is the director of architecture for the Cloud Systems team at Netflix. He is focused on availability, resilience, performance, and measurement of the Netflix cloud platform, and has presented at many conferences, including QCon San Francisco, Beijing and Tokyo. Adrian is also well known as the author of several books while a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems: Sun Performance and Tuning; Resource Management; and Capacity Planning for Web Services.

From 2004-2007 he was a founding member of eBay Research Labs. He graduated with a BSc in Applied Physics from The City University, London.  

Twitter: @adrianco

Biography: Chris Richardson

Chris Richardson is a developer and architect with over 20 years of experience. He is a Java Champion and the author of POJOs in Action, which describes how to build enterprise Java applications with POJOs and frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate. Chris is the founder of the original CloudFoundry.com and works on cloud technology. He has a computer science degree from the University of Cambridge in England and lives in Oakland, CA with his wife and three children.

Biography: Colin Humphreys

Colin Humphreys is Director of Technology at Carrenza. He has spent the last twelve years sitting on the fence between development and operations, delivering solutions for eBay, Volkswagen, Paypal, Cineworld, and others. Colin and the team at Carrenza won a UK IT Industry Award in 2009 with Comic Relief, and were medallists in 2010 with Tribal DDB. He is passionate about “Infrastructure as Code”, “Continuous Delivery”, “Devops”, “PaaS”, “Agile Testing”, and various other buzzwords." at http://blog.hatofmonkeys.com/

Biography: Jeremy Voorhis

Jeremy Voorhis leads development of AppFog, AppFog Inc's multi-language, multi-IaaS platform as a service (PaaS) product. In his role as Senior Engineer, Jeremy ensures that AppFog's products make developers' applications easy to deploy. His passion for diverse programming languages and dead simple interfaces is eclipsed only by his love of music. Having played piano all his life, Jeremy is an avid musician and open source hacker in his spare time. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

Biography: Mark Rendle

Mark is the creator of the Simple.Data framework. Mark is also a well-known speaker and will be speaking about the Simple.Data Framework at QCon 2012.

Mark's career in software design and development spans three decades and more programming languages than he cares to remember. C# has been his favourite language pretty much since the first public beta, when you had to write the code in a text editor and compile it on the command line.

Mark is Principal Software Architect at Dot Net Solutions.

Biography: Paul Fremantle

As Co-founder and CTO of WSO2, Paul spearheads the company’s overall technical and product strategy. Paul is an experienced software and product development professional, having previously worked as the product lead and architect for the IBM Web Services Gateway. Paul also has significant experience in Open Source and Open Standards: he is VP of Apache Synapse and co-chair of the OASIS WS-RX Technical Committee. Paul provides strong technical vision at WSO2 but acknowledges with pride that he works closely with one of the best teams in the industry.

Paul has published many articles, both on the Web and in traditional forms, and has spoken at numerous industry conferences, including ApacheCon, Colorado Software Summit, XML Europe, Software Architecture, QCon and many others. He has published two books: Building Web Services in Java  (2nd edition) and The XML Files.

Paul previously worked in IBM Global Services for 3 years, providing technical and business consultancy around the Internet and e-business. Before joining IBM, he was a consultant at ZS Associates, providing analytical sales forecasting consultancy to the pharmaceutical market.