Ari has more than 20 years of software development expertise and a deep understanding of open source, enterprise software, and the execution required to build successful products. Ari was previously founder and CTO at Terracotta. Previously, Ari was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Accel Partners. Before joining Accel, Ari was the Chief Architect at Walmart.com, where he led the innovation and development of the company’s new engineering initiatives. Prior to Walmart.com, Ari worked as a consultant at Sapient and at PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Ari holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering Computer Science as well as in Mechanical Engineering from University of California, Berkeley.

David leads DevJam, a Minneapolis based company composed of agile collaborators working in the North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. As mentors and practitioners, DevJam focuses on using agile methods to help people and companies improve their software production skills. DevJam provides seasoned leaders that strive to pragmatically match technology, people, and processes to create better and cooler products.

Along with coaching and presenting / leading workshops / tutorials at a variety of conferences, David is the creator of the video series Cutting an Agile Groove release through The Pragmatic Bookshelf.  Here has also contributed to several books “Managing Agile Projects” and “Agile in the Large” as well as creating curriculum for The University of Minnesota and Capella University.

For more information, check out the DevJam website www.devjam.com

Dio Synodinos is the research platform team lead at C4Media and a freelance consultant, focusing on rich Internet applications, web application security, mobile web, and web services. He's also the lead editor for HTML5 and JavaScript for InfoQ, where he also regularly writes about the JVM platform. He's also the author of Pro HTML5 and CSS3 Design Patterns by Apress and The Essential Guide to HTML5 and CSS3 Web Design by friendsofED. Going back and forth between server-side programming and UI design for more than a decade, he has been involved in diverse software projects and contributed to different technical publications.

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Dr. Jim Webber is Chief Scientist with Neo Technology the company behind the popular open source graph database Neo4j, where he researches and develops distributed graph databases and writes open source software. Previously, Jim spent time working with big graphs like the Web for building distributed systems, which led him to being a co-author on the book REST in Practice, having previously written Developing Enterprise Web Services - An Architect's Guide. Jim is active in the development community, presenting regularly around the world. His blog is located at http://jimwebber.org and he tweets often @jimwebber.

Khawaja Shams is a member of the Operations Planning Software (OPS) Lab at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He manages the Data Services team in the Planning and Execution Section. Khawaja develops software that contributes to the operations of robotic assets including ground, airborne, and waterborne robots, as well as Mars rovers. He leads several software projects, and he serves as the Cognizant Engineer of server side components for the Activity Planning and Sequencing Subsystem (APSS) for the Mars Science Laboratory. Khawaja works closely with the Office of the CIO at JPL to co-lead the efforts to securely deliver the benefits of cloud computing to missions across NASA. He serves as an advisor on the CIO Technology Advisory Board (CTAB) at JPL. Khawaja obtained his bachelors in computer science from UC San Diego, and his Masters in Computer Science from Cornell. He is currently pursuing a PhD in robotics at USC.