Kristy Sanders has developed innovative IT solutions around the world for over 15 years. She is an expert, hands-on practitioner in Decision Management tools, approaches, practices, and technologies. Her work has helped companies increase the value of Decision Management investment and translate technological capabilities into measurable business results.

Umamaheswaran T. G is a SUN-certified Java professional with more than nine years of experience in enterprise-level implementation of the Software Development Life-Cycle (SDLC), including business analysis, functional and technical design, development, and support. He has also worked as a Consultant with industry leaders, such as Wells Fargo, USA; Citibank Japan, Bank of America, Fidelity Information Systems, and Kaiser Permanente across various business operations. He is also involved in design and development of various modules using Java, J2EE, Spring Web Services, Struts, dom4j, Drools Rule Engine, XML, XSD, Autosys, WebSphere, and Oracle.

Edson Tirelli has a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, and has 12 years of experience in business application development, especially in the telecom industry. He is currently a senior software engineer at Red Hat where he works with AI-related research and development, and has been involved with the Drools project for the last six years. His main areas of interest are AI applied to business, middleware technologies, and compilers/language translation tools. A frequent presenter at Rules-related conferences, he is the lead designer for the Drools Fusion module for Complex Event Processing.