Ilia Alshanetsky the principal of Advanced Internet Designs Inc., company specializing in security auditing, performance analysis and application developments. He is the author of FUDforum (http://fudforum.org), a highly popular, Open Source bulletin board focused on providing the maximum functionality at the highest level of security and performance. Ilia is a Core PHP Developer, an active member of PHP’s Q&A team and was the Release Master for the 4.3.X PHP series. He authored and co-authored a number of extensions with notables such as SHMOP, PDO, SQLite and GD and is responsible for large number of bug fixes and performance tweaks in the language. A prolific lecturer and writer, Ilia can found speaking at international conferences and is frequently published in print and online magazines on a variety of PHP topics. He is also the author of an upcoming book on PHP security. Ilia can be reached at ilia@ilia.ws

Since my graduation from the university of applied sciences for Telecommunications and Media in St.Pölten (Austria) in 2003, I worked for Telekom Austria as an internet developer and designer.

Alexander Aulbach has been programming PHP since about 9 years. So he belongs to the dinosaurs of PHP-programming who know what PHP/FI was :) Working for Mayflower GmbH he has the chance to bring back some of his knowledge to the community.

Mr. Cecchet is the Principal Architect at Continuent, Inc. and has extensive experience providing open source middleware for large-scale data servers. He contributed to the DynaServer project at Rice University, focusing on the design of scalable, high-performance and highly available e-business servers. He is also the Chief Architect of the ObjectWeb international open source consortium and the leader of the C-JDBC project (http://c-jdbc.objectweb.org). Mr. Cecchet holds a Ph.D. from Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, France.

Volker Göbbels trifft man auf vielen internationalen Konferenzen an. Als Eigentümer der Arachnion GmbH und Co. KG arbeitete er für viele Jahre mit PHP, jetzt an anspruchsvoller E-Commerce- und Systemintegration für eine schnell wachsende Zahl nationaler und internationaler Kunden. Er hat mehrere Artikel publiziert, viele PHP-Bücher rezensiert und arbeitet nun an einem Buch mit dem Thema "PHP-Entwicklung mit Eclipse".

Christopher Kunz ist regelmäßiger Speaker auf der International PHP Conference. Er arbeitet seit über sechs Jahren mit PHP und ist einer der Gründer der Filoo GmbH, einer Firma, die Hosting-, Housing- und Consultingdienstleistungen für internationale Kunden anbietet. Als aktives Mitglied der deutschen PHP-Community engagiert sich Christopher im Hardend-PHP-Team sowie im OWASP. Er hat zahlreiche Artikel zu PHP-bezogenen Themen verfasst und ist Co-Autor eines Buches zu PHP-Sicherheit.

Stefan Neufeind works in consulting, development and administration for SpeedPartner GmbH. They provide complete web solutions for small businesses and actively contribute to various free software projects. You may have seen Stefan at a conference, read an article from him or have seen him in several open-source-projects.

Georg Richter is the author of PHP's mysql extensions. He works for MySQL AB as a Senior Developer (SAP R/3 adaption, PHP's mysql extensions, Connector/OO.org), contributes code to various Open Source projects and is a member of the Apache Software Foundation.

Tobias Kunze Briseño is Head of Portal Technology and Senior Development Manager at Pangorga GmbH, a 100% subsidiary of Lycos Europe. He joined Pangora coming from California's Silicon Valley, where he developed network-based technologies at Zack Systems and worked as a software engineer at Silicon Graphics. Besides his professional work, he has been an active contributor to open software projects for over 15 years.

Björn Schotte setzt als Chefredakteur des PHP Magazins und Head of Chair der International PHP Conferences die Trends im deutschsprachigen PHP-Markt. Als einer von vier geschäftsführenden Gesellschaftern der Mayflower GmbH, die seit Jahren mit ihrer Marke ThinkPHP internationales Rennomée im LAMP-Bereich erlangt, betreut er internationale Großkunden in LAMP-Projekten.

Started working as an IT and business process consultant after graduating in economics. Worked employed and freelance in several projects with different technological backgrounds, including PHP, ASP, Delphi/Pascal, Visual Basic, Oracle, MS SQL, MySQL, Windows, Linux. Joined Globalpark GmbH in 2003 as IT project manager. Since then working on the company's product OPST, a large PHP application for conducting online surveys.

Zeev Suraski, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Zend Technologies Zeev, along with Andi Gutmans, is the one of the architects of PHP, having written a new language implementation from scratch that was officially released as PHP 3.0. The PHP 3.0 release quickly made PHP's popularity boon and attracted the masses to develop in the language through its powerful extensibility features. The pair then went on to develop the Zend Engine I, the scripting language that powers PHP 4.0 that further revolutionized the performance and reliability of PHP. He and his colleague Andi, have also designed and implemented the Zend PHP 4.0 components and have recently been driving the design and implementation of the Zend Engine II, which powers PHP 5.

Seit Markus Wolff in 1999 PHP entdeckt hat, entstanden unter seiner Mitwirkung zahlreiche Websites, Intranets und Datenbankanwendungen. Wann immer seine Zeit es erlaubt, arbeitet er an Open-Source-Projekten mit und vermittelt seine Erfahrungen auf PHP-Konferenzen, in Fachartikeln und Schulungen. Aktuell agiert er als Projektconsultant unter anderem für Startups wie Jimdo.com.

Aaron Wormus is a freelancer based in Frankfurt Germany. With a background in client/server development and intranet infrastructure, Aaron uses PHP to bring cost effective and simple back-end solutions to medium and small sized enterprises. In his spare time, Aaron writes the weekly PHPBarnstormer column, a regular column for PHP Solutions magazine and is contributing to an upcoming book on PHP Application development.