Brian Barr is the co-founder and managing partner of AgileTrailblazers – a company founded to enable organizations to rapidly realize continuous business value delivery through use of lean and agile principles. Brian has over 25 years of...more

Arlo does a little bit of everything, but what he really does is inspire courage. He has gone back and forth several times between management and in-the-trenches development on technically sophisticated products. He challenges every assumption he can...more

Anna Bloom recently completed a fellowship program with Code for America, a nonprofit dedicated to designing technologies that help make city governments more open, participatory and efficient. During the fellowship, Anna worked with the city of...more

Sean Brown is the Sr. Director of Advanced Applications Engineering at Comcast Interactive Media (CIM), a division of Comcast Corporation. He leads the engineering team developing the XFINITY TV app for iOS and Android. Prior to leading mobile...more

Trotter Cashion is a nerd that likes nerdy things. He’s co-founder of Mashion, a best-practices focused consulting company in Philadelphia / Mountain View, CA. At night, he can usually be found hacking on various open source projects (heâs...more

Chiu-Ki started writing mobile apps at Google, where she worked on Google Mobile Maps for Android. After a brief stint in web development at two startups, Chiu-Ki is now back to her mobile roots with her own company. The first title is “Monkey...more

Douglas Crockford was born in the wilds of Minnesota, but left when he was only six months old because it was just too damn cold. He turned his back on a promising career in television when he discovered computers. He has worked in learning...more

André is an Executive/Agile Coach, Agile Trainer based in Philadelphia. For over a decade, André has led agile adoptions, providing guidance to teams and organizations seeking shorter development cycles, higher quality, and more...more

Gordon Dickens is an instructor/mentor/consultant for Chariot Solutions chariotsolutions.com with experience in the IT consulting for over 15 years. Gordon"s background includes presenting at conferences and user groups on Spring, Groovy &...more

Chad Fowler is currently the VP Engineering at @LivingSocial. Chad has authored The Passionate Programmer and Rails Recipes and is also a technologist, consultant, speaker, teacher, musician, organizer.

Debasish Ghosh is the chief technology evangelist at Anshinsoft , where he specializes in leading delivery of enterprise-scale solutions for clients ranging from small to Fortune 500 companies. His research interests are functional programming,...more

My name is Alex, I’m from Philadelphia, PA. I start things: businesses, conversations, parties, and sometimes a little trouble. I’m probably best known for starting Philadelphia’s Indy Hall coworking community in 2006, years before...more

Naeem Hussain is the co-founder and managing partner of AgileTrailblazers – a company founded to enable organizations to rapidly realize continuous business value delivery through use of lean and agile principles. Naeem has over 12 years of...more

Yehuda Katz is a member of the Ruby on Rails core team, and in his day job, works on the SproutCore framework. He is a member of the jQuery Core Team, and is currently working on changing the way we write JavaScript applications in the browser. He...more

Trevor Lalish-Menagh is a senior web developer at Comcast Interactive Media where he spearheaded the front-end unit testing initiative, and co-created EnvJasmine (github.com/trevmex/EnvJasmine), a headless self-contained framework for testing...more

Corey Leigh Latislaw (@corey_latislaw) is a Senior Mobile Architect at Chariot Solutions. She helps businesses determine their mobile needs and then builds them the appropriate solutions. She created the Philadelphia Android Alliance, a rebel army...more

Brian LeRoux has been thrashing devices with the PhoneGap project since its inception at Nitobi in Vancouver, Canada. These days he works at Adobe Systems here in SF on the open source analogue Apache Cordova. He’s mostly known for his work on...more

Nathan Marz is the lead engineer on Twitter’s Publisher Analytics team. Previously Nathan was the lead engineer of BackType which was acquired by Twitter in July of 2011. He is a major believer in the power of open source and has authored some...more

Tony Morris is a software developer for a product company, and keen open-source contributor, who has deployed functional programming techniques in industry for over 10 years. Tony teaches informally and at the tertiary level and aspires to observing...more

Rick is the CTO of Dell Boomi where he is responsible for product management and engineering. He is considered an industry expert on SaaS & Cloud integration, multi-tenant architecture, and API design and best practices. Dell Boomi has a patent...more

When he is not ruining people’s lives by writing software like phuby, enterprise, and neversaydie, Aaron can be found working on slightly more useful software like Rails or Nokogiri. To keep up his Gameboy Lifestyle, Aaron spends his weekdays...more

Benjamin Pierce joined the CIS Department at Penn in 1998. Previously, he was on the faculty at Indiana University and held research fellowships at Cambridge University, the University of Edinburgh, and INRIA-Roquencourt. He received his Ph.D....more

Joe Rafter, Vice President, Strategic Global Transformation of The Yell Group, is a strategic thinker with an operational mindset, adept at aligning business and technology partners to plan and prioritize business initiatives. He implements business...more

Ken Rimple is the author (with Srini Penchikala, and contributions by Gordon Dickens) of Spring Roo in Action, published by Manning Publications (http://manning.com/rimple). Ken created and leads the Education Services team for Chariot Solutions, which...more

Rob Spectre is a punk rock technolologist having a barrel of monkeys on the Internet. Doing just about anything for a good laugh, Rob is an ardent support of open source software and creative commons art, the startup scene in New York and every...more

Josh Suereth is a Senior Software Engineer at Typesafe and the author of “Scala In Depth”. He has been a Scala enthusiast ever since he came to know this beautiful language in 2007. He started his professional career as a software...more

Angelo J. Valletta is Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer, and Head of Bank Operations for Sun National Bank. In this role, he has leadership responsibility for Sunâs Technology,Bank Operations, ATM and Merchant Services....more

James Ward (www.jamesward.com) is a Principal Developer Evangelist at Heroku. Today he focuses on teaching developers how to deploy Java, Play! and Scala apps to the cloud. James frequently presents at conferences around the world such as JavaOne,...more