Giacomo Aceto, born in 1983, studied Software Engineering at the University of Bologna in Italy. He completed his master thesis at the Uppsala University in Sweden (Informatics and Media Dept) and he worked on the finalization of a couple of publications. His main topic was AI: development of a Meta-interpreter for Defeasible Logic.

In his carrier, he dealt with European Research Projects, developing software and managing the software implementation process. In this domain, he has implemented Code Generators, Semantic Libraries, and interfaces among different kind of BPM engines and he has collaborated on the definition of an integration between BPM and IEM specifications. He published scientific papers at the following conference: ICAIL, RuleML, and I-ESA.

He is now working as an IT Project Manager in a company dealing with Facility Management and he keeps on working as a Quality Assurance Engineer (Test Process and Test Automation). Recently he has worked on the implementation of a Portfolio Project Management tool (CA Clarity) and he gained strong experience in terms of program and portfolio management.

Roger Carhuatocto has over 12 years of experience as an IT Consultant and Architect. He blends his experience in Computer Security with his passion for Open Source.

He has served in companies, such as Safelayer, Hewlett-Packard (Spain), and Thales Group (Spain), and has provided consulting services to PDVSA (Venezuela), Saraiva (Brasil), United Nations Office (Geneva), and so on. He has been involved in big projects related to e-ID Card, Identity Management, and big Business Applications based on Liferay Portal, Alfresco ECM, Bonita BPM, WSO2 ESB, and WSO2 Identity Server in Spain and Latam. Now he is a part of his own business initiative called Chakray Consulting, which offers high-level consulting services to build mission critical systems using Open Source.