Allan Bond is a software developer who has been active in the IT industry for over 10 years. His primary focus is systems development using Java and related technologies. He has worked and consulted for a variety of organizations ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies and government agencies. Allan holds a Masters degree in Information Systems Management from Brigham Young University.

Arun Gupta is a Java EE and GlassFish evangelist working at Oracle. Arun has over 15 years of experience in the software industry working in the Java(TM) platform and several web-related technologies. In his current role, he works to create and foster the community around Java EE and GlassFish. He has been with the Java EE team since its inception and contributed to all Java EE releases. Arun has extensive world wide speaking experience on a myriad of topics and loves to engage with the community, customers, partners, and Java User Groups everywhere to spread the goodness of Java.

He is a prolific blogger at http://blogs.oracle.com/arungupta with over 1200 blog entries and frequent visitors from all around the world with cumulative page visits > 1.2 million. He is a passionate runner and always up for running in any part of the world. You can catch him at @arungupta.

Bruno Vernay has been through Database and Web development, Network & Security, Messaging and Rule Engines, Data Mining, Portal, SSO and Federation. All this with Java, Linux, and Open Source. He is still asking for more after almost 13 years. He enjoys the "human adventure", engages with the community globally and locally and also participates in the group AlpesJUG.FR. He likes new technologies as much as getting rid of old unneeded ones. He tries to take the time to learn new stuff by reading books. He likes to be useful.