Marco Cantù is the author of the best-selling series Mastering Delphi and a few other programming books. Marco is an expert in Delphi, XML technologies, and object-oriented design. Marco lives in Italy, teaches many Delphi and XML classes, and is a frequent speaker at conferences worldwide.

Jim Cooper is a consultant with Falafel Software. He is also the UK Developer Group’s Technical Leader, and the architect of Tabdee Ltd's TurboSync Palm conduit components. He has used Delphi since its first release, and has long had an interest in developing for PDAs. An Australian living in England (temporarily, according to his wife), he has written for The Delphi Magazine and spoken at conferences in Europe, the UK and the US.

Neal is an application architect at ThoughtWorks. He is also the designer and developer of applications, instructional materials, magazine articles, video presentations, and author of the books "Developing with Delphi: Object-Oriented Techniques", "JBuilder 3 Unleashed", and "Art of Java Web Development." Neal has also spoken extensively at national and international conferences.

Paul joined the company at the start of 2003, following the acquisition of TogetherSoft by Borland. Paul brings over 16 years' experience in the IT industry, specialising in Java and UML , object-oriented analysis and design, and J2EE. He is an accomplished speaker and has presented many papers on his specialist areas at conferences, seminars and training courses throughout the UK and Europe. In addition to software development project consulting, Paul has been involved in the specification and provision of analysis methods, software development methods and systems support.

Jon is Lead Evangelist and Product Line Manager for CodeGear's Java products across the European region, and has over 15 years experience in the IT industry. He has worked with JBuilder since it's first release, and regularly presents at conferences, user group meetings, and other events. Jon also works closely with CodeGear's enterprise customer base.

Stefan Heymann ist Geschäftsführer und Teilhaber von Consic Software Engineering. Er hat 20 Jahre Erfahrung in der Entwicklung von Datenbank-, Netzwerk- und Web-Applikationen mit Turbo/Borland Pascal und Delphi und ist Autor des destructor.de OpenSource XML-Parsers. Seit einigen Jahren hält er als Speaker bei der EKON Sessions zu Delphi, XML und InterBase.

Corné Human - joined Borland Software Corporation at the start of 2003 as part of it's acquisition of Starbase Corporation, in the role of European Product Line Manager for StarTeam and CaliberRM. Corné brings over 10 years of involvement in the IT industry, and has focussed in the last 5 years on Software Configuration and Change Management as well as Requirements Management. In his current capacity, Corné is focussed on representing the new product lines in SCM and Requirements Management within the broader Borland ALM strategy, thus extending Borland's traditional strength in development tools into the areas of Software Quality and Software Process Improvement.

Cary Jensen is President of Jensen Data Systems, Inc., a company that provides computer software training, consulting, mentoring, and development services. He is an award-winning, best-selling co-author of nineteen books, including Advantage Database Server: The Official Guide (2003, McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media Group), Building Kylix Applications (2001, Osborne/McGraw-Hill), Oracle JDeveloper (1998, Oracle Press), JBuilder Essentials (1998, Osborne/McGraw-Hill), Delphi In Depth (1996, Osborne/McGraw-Hill), and Programming Paradox 5 for Windows (1995, Sybex). Cary's online Web column, The Professional Developer, is currently a feature of the Borland Developers Networ (bdn.borland.com), and he is a popular speaker at conferences, workshops, and training seminars throughout North America and Europe. Cary is the author and trainer for the Delphi Developer Days 2001-2004 seminars and workshops series and the Advnatage Developer Days 2004 seminars. He was also the author and principle speaker for the 1995-1999 Delphi World Tours and the 1999-2001 Delphi Development Seminars. Cary's company, Jensen Data Systems, Inc., won the 2002 and the 2003 Delphi Informant Reader's Choice Awards for Best Training. Cary has a Ph.D. in Human Factors Psychology from Rice University, specializing in human-computer interaction.

Andreas Lobeck arbeitet seit über 7 Jahren bei Borland. Als Technologie-Berater bei Borland setzt er sich ständig mit den Themen Integration und Interoperabilität von Java, C++, CORBA, J2EE-Application-Servern, .NET und deren Zugriff auf Altsysteme auseinander. In den letzten 3 Jahren wurden aber gerade projektübergreifende Themen wie Anforderungsmanagement, UML-Modellierung und Configuration & Change Management (CCM) neue Schwerpunkte.

Brian Long used to work at Borland UK, performing a number of duties including Technical Support on all the programming tools. Since leaving in 1995, Brian has been providing training and consultancy services to the Delphi and C++Builder communities, and more recently to the .NET and C# communities. Brian now consults for Falafel Software (www.falafelsoft.com), acting as a European representative. Besides authoring a Borland Pascal problem-solving book published in 1994, Brian is a regular columnist in The Delphi Magazine and has had numerous articles published in Developer's Review, Computing, Delphi Developer's Journal and EXE Magazine. He was nominated for the Spirit of Delphi 2000 award. He has many online articles available to read at www.blong.com.

Peter Pohmann arbeitet seit 15 Jahren als Softwareentwickler, Projektleiter, Architekt und Coach sowohl in der eigenen Firma dataWeb GmbH als auch für Kundenprojekte. Sein besonderes Interesse gilt dem Entwurf stabiler und verständlicher Softwarearchitekturen, hauptsächlich im Bereich technischer Software. Seine bevorzugte Entwicklungsumgebung ist seit vielen Jahren Delphi, in der letzten Zeit kam C# hinzu. Als großes und wichtiges Versprechen für die Zukunft der Softwareentwicklung sieht Peter die ALM-Strategie von Borland, also die Integration des gesamten Entwicklungsprozesses von Definition über Entwurf und Implementierung bis hin zu Test und Auslieferung in einem einzigen Werkzeug.

Ein langjähriger InterBase/Firebird-Kenner, bekannt aus dem Entwickler-Forum und Autor der etablierten IB LogManager Produktfamilie, einer Logging/Auditing Lösung für InterBase und Firebird.

Peter Tabatt ist freiberuflicher Softwareentwickler, Dozent, Konferenz-Speaker und Autor verschiedener Publikationen im Software und Support Verlag. Sein Schwerpunkt liegt bei der Realisierung von Client/Server- und Web-Anwendungen auf verschiedenen SQL-Server-Datenbanken. Als Programmiersprachen kommen hierbei Delphi, C++Builder und Java zum Einsatz.

Softwareentwicklung mit Delphi und InterBase seit ca 1993. Seitdem auch Speaker, Autor und Trainer. Selbstständig und Geschäftsführer der SDCTec GmbH seit 1996. Interessenschwerpunkt ist datenbankorientierte Anwendungsentwicklung, Datenbank Replikation und Inter- Intranet Portale zur Supportunterstützung.

Hans is a Senior Developer Architect within the EMEA Developer Platform Evangelism Group. His focus is on working with Independent Software Vendors and customers looking to adopt Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 as part of their solutions. He has been working on end-to-end .NET architecture and prior to joining Microsoft, he was a Visual Basic developer and a trainer on enterprise development and SQL Server. Currently, Hans is diving deeper into Visual Studio Team System.

Jason Vokes is Senior Director of Technologies and Marketing International at Embarcadero Technologies. Before taking his current role Jason led the CodeGear business as Senior Director of Sales and Marketing for it’s key EMEA region, after working as EMEA Director of Technologies and Marketing Operations with responsibility for all aspects of product, marketing and leading the European Evangelist team. Jason works closely with Embarcadero partners and customers across the region and also spoken internationally as a conference and seminar speaker.

Henry Wolf beschäftigt sich seit 10 Jahren mit der Entwicklung von Client/Server-Applikationen auf der Grundlage der Datenbanksysteme Oracle und Interbase. Hierbei sammelte er zahlreiche Erfahrungen bei der Konzeption und Implementierung datenbankgestützter Informationssysteme. Er ist Co-Autor des Buches "Java programmieren mit JBuilder" und Autor von Artikeln im "Entwickler" und dem Java Magazin.