Eric Bachard is a professor of Physics at the Université of Technology of Belfort Montbéliard ( http://www.utbm.fr ). OpenOffice.org project contributor since 2003 (core developer since 2005), involved in the development team of the Aqua port for OpenOffice.org, Eric is responsible of the OpenOffice Education project (http://education.openoffice.org/ ). He has also been the President of the EducOoo association (http://www.educoo.org/ ) since its creation in 2008.

François ELIE (France) is President of ADULLACT, association devoted to build, develop and promote a patrimony of free software, especially in professional areas, bound for local authorities. ADULLACT's forge is the first of its kind all the world over, and it led the march to other initiatives like European forge OSOR.

http://www.adullact.org and http://www.adullact.net

Philosophy teacher and computer scientist amateur, François ELIE recently wrote a book untitled : "Free Software Economics" ("Economie du logiciel libre" - edit. Eyrolles)

http://izibook.eyrolles.com/store/9782212124637/Economie+du+logiciel+libre

Pierre Jean Duvivier, 35 years old, is responsible for the Webfactory in the Department of Digital & Business Development of Edipresse Switzerland. He leads 12 people in charge of production, maintenance and traffic of the Edipresse websites. He and his team just migrated more than 23 webistes in about 18 months, with a majority of them based on Drupal.

Francois X. Leytens graduated as an Engineer and got a MIS Ph.D. Francois is active in the IT since more than 20 years and worked for an International group for the engineering of Sun Microsystems for more than 8 years. In this position he had the opportunity to be very close of many government administration worldwide.

Since 1994, Francois has always evangelized for open source solutions worldwide and been active in many group. Living in Valais, he is now focusing on PloneGov for the Swiss Market and especially on the French part of it.

Derek Mathieson is Section Leader and principal architect in CERN’s administrative information systems. He is also a key architect of the J2EE implementation of CERN's e-Business system. He originally came to CERN as part of his Information Engineering Degree at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland.

After graduating, he returned to CERN where he developed the software for some of the embedded systems that control CERN's massive particle accelerators. In his spare time in 1992 he also helped debug one of the world’s first web browsers. Later he was offered a post at the Supercollider (SSC) in Dallas, Texas, where he developed device drivers for the SONNET high-speed optical network. When Congress closed SSC, he returned to CERN where he joined the CERN Electronic Document Handling section as a developer. Since then he has moved on to lead the Section, and responsible for technology choices for Java development in the group.

Derek has been interested in Java technology since its inception, and in early 1997, he installed his first 'production' applet to perform client-side password encryption as part of a Web-based 'single sign-on' solution.

His interests include JEE architecture, Security, agile development methods, coding standards for the Java platform and snowboarding.

Steven Newhouse was appointed Technical Director of the Enabling Grids for e-Science (EGEE) project in November 2008. Previously, he worked as a Program Manager in the High Performance Computing group in the Windows Server division at Microsoft.

James is currently head of CERN’s Recruitment, Programmes & Monitoring group in the Human Resources Department. In addition to being responsible for core HR business processes such as recruitment, the group is also responsible for all the statistics, forecasting and KPIs for HR at CERN.

Jean-Francois is currently leading several Knowledge Management projects.

After 2 (exciting) years experience in dashboards definition and implementation @ Cockpit Group for MNE’s, National or International Organizations across Europe, he was looking for projects encompassing a broader horizon and closer insights to organisational knowledge management processes.

Jean-Francois previously led the engineering team in charge of the development of the A400M Wing Anti-Ice System. A400M being Airbus’ future Military Aircraft, intended to (first) fly later on this year.

Jean-Francois graduated with a Cum Magna Laude in Electromechanical Engineering, Université de Louvain-la-Neuve. He also has a Postgraduate in Management Sciences from Solvay Business School, Brussels.

In his spare time he enjoys family, friends, playing tennis, snowboarding and dreaming how human will be saving this planet in 15 years time.

Niall Stapley is a senior software developer at CERN who has worked in the area of accelerator controls for nearly 10 years. At the moment he is involved in automated testing, software quality and release management, including providing tools to support the work of developers and projects.

Originally he arrived at CERN on the technical student programme to help develop ACCIS, the database driven Accelerator Information System. After graduating in Computing from University West of England, he returned to CERN to work on the CERN alarm system, where his primary task was integrating the disparate controls and infrastructure systems around CERN to report abnormal events to the alarm system.

Primarily working with Java/J2EE, he is interested in agile and lean development, and especially anything that improves the software development process, or software quality.

Didier Trosset has been a professional programmer for 15 years. He started his career with a couple of video games titles published on Mac and PlayStation. After an attempt to create his own start-up, he choses a geographical relocation closer to his origins, near Geneva in the Alps.

From this point in time, he has been working in Switzerland. He first wrote computer programs for a cable and sattelite pay TV provider, controlling the data streams that were travelling back and forth from the Earth to televisions.

He then joined a small company, writing Linux device drivers for high speed digitizer PCI cards. Since bought out two years ago, he is spreading Linux support to other devices for the premier measurement company.

Nick is CEO of Constellation Technologies, a spin-out from STFC’s Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford, UK, using technology developed as part of the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) project at CERN.

He has spent his recent career in developing very early stage companies from science research programmes and has worked with high technology companies for many years. Prior to that, Nick has worked for Schlumberger Wireline in Africa and has been an investment manager in a technology Venture Capital fund. He has an engineering degree from Oxford University, UK, and a MBA from INSEAD in France.

Licencié en sciences économiques et consultant dans le domaine de l'éco-conception des produits, FM a été élu au gouvernement du canton de Vaud en 2003, prenant par la même occasion la conduite de l'informatique cantonale. Convaincu de l'efficience du modèle Open Source, il défend avec conviction l'idée que les données et les développements informatiques financés avec de l'argent public peuvent être mutualisés et doivent pouvoir profiter au plus grand nombre. Il est membre du comité de pilotage du projet E-Government lancé en 2008 par la Confédération et les cantons suisses.

Uwe Geercken is an IT Manager at Swissport Group Service LLC. Swissport provides ground services for over 70 million passengers and 3.5 million tonnes of cargo a year on behalf of some 650 client companies worldwide. He is the key person for data management, databases, software architecture, system engineering, data warehousing and business intelligence issues. "Less is more" and the "KISS" principle is an important part of his thinking and daily business live.

Suite à l'obtention d'un titre de technicien en informatique, Cédric Rochat a acquis une expérience de plus de 10 ans dans la gestion de réseaux et l'administration de machines Linux. Il a d'abord travaillé pour une société spécialisée dans la conception de solutions Web et standalone sur mesure pour la gestion d'entreprise. Par la suite il s'est intéressé à la voix sur IP et il s'est donc tourné vers Asterisk, d'abord dans son temps libre puis dans deux entreprises genevoises spécialisées dans la conception de PBX et les services VoIP en général. Fin 2008, il rejoint Flückiger Electricité SA à St-Blaise, pour continuer sur cette voie.

Nicolas Barcet joined Canonical in September 2007 as Ubuntu Server Product Manager, focusing on bringing together the requirements that our users have in order to make our server product the easiest platform to deploy in business, enterprises and internet data centers. Nicolas has been involved in the open source community has a hobby since 1998 and professionally for the past seven years as a consultant, architect and technical marketing person at some famous names in the software and hardware industry.

Matthew Barker joined Canonical in 2006, taking responsibility for the OEM channel in South Asia. Having successfully built partnerships with hardware manufacturers like HCL, Wipro and PCHouse, he moved into the Canonical Corporate Services Team in 2008. Since then, he has been focused on driving the adoption of Ubuntu in enterprises, and hasoverseen deployments with organisations like the NHS, York University and Handelsbanken. He has experience in all vertical markets, and a deep understanding of how and why Open Source is being adopted.

Thierry PIERRAT a 41 ans. Il est issu d'une formation d'ingénieur technicien en Productique et matériaux nouveaux et développe des logiciels de gestion de production. Il a commencé l'informatique sur Apple 2 en 83 en programmant en assembleur sur 6502 puis sur Z80. Il créé en 1992 une entreprise de graphisme équipée de matériels de découpe et gravure 2D et 3D pour lesquels il a fallu créer les logiciels et post-processeur avec Pascal BELLARD. En 1994, découverte de Linux. Il est co-fondateur de Allied Data Sys. SA (ADS), avec Pascal BELLARD en 2003. Le but étant de réaliser des solutions de Téléphonie IP basées au départ sur le projet Bayonne / CT server puis sur Asterisk. il est intervenant au niveau BAC +3 et Bac +5 pour les formations Réseau et téléphonie IP. Il participe au projet SLITAZ.

I am a Secondary School teacher of English who can boast of having been one of the coordinators of the first year of the Andalusian ICT Schools project. Between April 2004 and August 2008 I worked as a teacher training advisor, coordinating the training around the usage of the Guadalinex distribution for the teachers in my area.

A user of GNU Linux since 1997 (Debian since 1998), I am a member of several Free/Libre organizations: Linux Malaga (local), ADALA (regional), Hispalinux (Spanish), OFSET (international). I am the author of documentation about free educational software and accessibility (27 articles at Linux Magazine, several talks and courses...)

Because of my training as a professional translator I became responsible for the language tools of LuCAS/TLDP-ES. I have contributed with my translations of free software (kbd, yudit, galette, wims, gnuedu), and am the author of documentation about translation tools and internationalization (euro/iso-8859-15 first and utf-8/multilingualization later).

After is IT engineer degree at Mines de Paris in 2006, Jérémy Matos joined ELCA the same year as a development engineer. He worked at developing the strong authentication method ELCARD and was in change of Freeradius integration. He also participated to client deployment of this solution.

Thierry Briffod est cofondateur, gestionnaire et animateur du portail pédagogique de l'enseignement primaire "Petit-Bazar", communauté virtuelle d'enseignants comptant près de 4000 membres.Formateur d'enseignants dans le domaine MITIC (Médias-Images et Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication) au Service Ecoles-Médias du Département de l'Instruction publique du canton de Genève, il est spécialiste de l'intégration des outils web dans l'enseignement.