Ari Zilka founded Terracotta in 2003, where he currently serves as the infrastructure software company's CTO. There he's been working to refine the software that makes it easy to scale a Java application to as many computers as needed, without the usual custom application code and databases used to share data in a cluster.

Prior to Terracotta, Ari was the Chief Architect at Walmart.com, where he led the innovation and development of the company's new engineering initiatives. While there, he built and led a team of core engineers focused on performance management, and operations cost-saving measures. Outside of Walmant.com, Ari's work in software development and consulting has had him working with Gap.com, Nike.com, Harrod's of London, Siemens, Intel, Compaq, and Barnes & Noble among others.

In June 2008, Ari and the Terracotta development team celebrated the release of the first commercially-available book about the technology, "The Definitive Guide to Terracotta: Cluster the JVM for Spring, Hibernate and POJO Scalability". The book was written for both developers and architects who want to learn the "whats, wheres, whens, and whys" of the Terracotta scaling engine.

Ari holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering Computer Science as well as in Mechanical Engineering from University of California, Berkeley.

Mr. Setrakyan brings over 9 years of experience to GridGain Systems which spans all areas of application software development from design and architecture to team management and quality assurance.

His experience includes architecture and leadership in development of distributed middleware platforms, financial trading systems, CRM applications, and more.

Mr. Setrakyan holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from University of California at Davis specializing in Networking and Algorithms.

John Fallows is a pioneer in the field of real-time browser networking and co-founder of Kaazing Corporation. Originally from Northern Ireland, John graduated from Cambridge University in the United Kingdom and has worked in the software industry for over fifteen years. Prior to founding Kaazing, John was a Consulting Member of Technical Staff for Server Technologies at Oracle Corporation. During his last 5 years at Oracle, John focused on designing, developing, and evolving Oracle ADF Faces to fully integrate Ajax technologies.

John is a popular speaker at international conferences and has written numerous articles for leading IT magazines such as Java Developer's Journal, AjaxWorld Magazine, and JavaMagazine (DE). John is co-author of the book Pro JSF and Ajax: Building Rich Internet Components, (Apress). In his role as chief technology officer, John formulates Kaazing Corporation's vision of bringing the capabilities of desktop applications to your plug-in free Web browser. He defines the architecture of the Kaazing product suite and oversees its development.

Nati Shalom is the CTO and Founder of GigaSpaces. He is also the Head of the Israeli Grid consortium. He has more then 10 years of experience with distributed technology and architecture namely CORBA, Jini, J2EE, Grid and SOA.

As a technology visionary, he is a frequent presenter at industry conferences and is actively involved in evangelizing Space Based Architecture and Data Grid patterns.