Dr. Kresten Krab Thorup is Chief Architext and Co-founder of EOS Trifork, a vendor of J2EE compatible application servers. Thorup received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Aarhus; he has served on the expert group for JSR-14 (Adding Generics to Java), and is currently serving on JSR 244 (Java EE 5.0). Before joining Trifork and the EOS-group, Thorup spend three years at NeXT in San Francisco.

Floyd Marinescu is online community guru, co-founder & Chief Editor of InfoQ.com, and the QCon conferences.

http://www.infoq.com/about.jsp

InfoQ.com currently recently reached over 370,000 unique visitors/month, and is the 650th most influential site on the internet, according to technorati.

Previously, Floyd Marinescu authored the book EJB Design Patterns in 2002 and Domain-Driven Design Quickly in 2005. Floyd also created TheServerSide.com, TheServerSide.Net, and TheServerSide Java Symposium conferences.

Floyd managed TheServerSide.com between 2000-2005 in which time the site became the largest Java community in the world.