 Scott Hickey
Senior Consultant, Object Partners Inc., Minneapolis
A Senior Consultant with Object Partners, Inc., Scott Hickey has been developing software for over 20 years and working with Java since 1998. He was the lead developer for the Groovy Eclipse Plugin and has authored several Groovy related articles. He has presented at many local and regional conferences as well as the international Grails and Groovy Exchange.
Session: The Business Value of Polyglot Programming
 Jeff Brand
Senior Developer Evangelist, Microsoft, Minneapolis
Jeff has been with Microsoft for over 12 years, starting with the company soon after the release of Windows 95. While at Microsoft, he has been a consultant, an ecommerce specialist, and an enterprise technology advisor. Prior to Microsoft, Jeff was in the Air Force stationed at Offutt AFB in Omaha, where he was Chief Network Engineer (his pre-developer days) for the USSTRATCOM LAN. Today, Jeff is a .NET Developer Evangelist for Microsoft's North Central District. He lives in Minneapolis and often travels to the surrounding states of Nebraska, Iowa, and the Dakotas. In his current role, he is responsible for working with developers and customers that are evaluating or using .NET and assisting in them in understanding and using Microsoft's developer platform.
Session: Develop and Deploy Applications using Microsoft Cloud Services
 Mark Tarmy
IT Consultant, MSI Systems Integrators, Portland, Ore.
Mark Tarmy is an IT consultant for MSI Systems Integrators. His expertise in the cloud computing journey includes the physical, virtual, and cloud enabled world, providing expertise for cloud business drivers, vendor cloud solutions, service chain, workloads, governance, management, and the due diligence required to ensure cloud solutions are not oversimplified or underestimated. His expertise in business continuity and IT optimization includes IT service delivery, consulting for DR planning, and provisioning tied to business risk, TCO and ROI. His 20 years of IT experience include leadership as a CIO/CTO for financial services and electronic publishing industries. He has a thorough knowledge of information systems and IT governance with experience in security, financial services, utilities, software application, database development, infrastructure management; and design, development and implementation for databases, content management, and e-commerce. Mr. Tarmy has a bachelor’s degree in engineering and a master’s degree in industrial administration (MBA) from Carnegie Mellon University.
Session: The Cloud Journey: From a Physical Data Center, to Virtualized Environment, to Cloud
 Randal Schwartz
General Manager, Stonehenge Consulting Services, Portland, Ore.
Randal L. Schwartz is a renowned expert on the Perl and Smalltalk programming languages, having contributed to a dozen top-selling books on the subject, and over 250 magazine articles. Schwartz runs a Perl and Smalltalk training and consulting company, Stonehenge Consulting Services, and is a highly sought-after speaker for his masterful stage combination of technical skill, comedic timing, and crowd rapport. And he's a pretty good Karaoke singer, winning contests regularly.
Session: Forget the ORM! Persistent Data with Object-Oriented Databases
 Andy Peters
Founder and CEO, Ninth Division
Andy Peters is Founder and CEO of Ninth Division, now in its second year building mobile applications for the consumer market and for midsize and larger businesses. With 12 years of experience building web and software products for the consumer marketplace, including more than three years of development work for Intuit’s well-known TurboTax, Andy signed on to help with the development of local Omaha start-up, Sojern. Following its successful launch, Andy made good on his own innovative IT ideas and started Ninth Division with the goal of running a business of his own in web product development and mobile applications. Catching the wave early in the explosive growth of mobile, Ninth Division has prospered, adding a partner Hasani Hunter and capitalizing on both experience in product development for consumers and frontline technological expertise.
Session: Building Mobile Applications? Get Ready to Not Know What You Are Doing
 Mathijs Gajentaan
CEO and Co-founder, Winvolve, Toronto
Mathijs Gajentaan is Co-Founder and CEO of Winvolve Inc., a New Media Development Firm that specializes in creating engaging experiences for Mobile and Digital Media. The company is on the forefront of using Augmented Reality and 3D animation. Winvolve is representing partner for Layar in North-America. Mathijs has over 15 years of experience in Interactive and Digital Media and has worked in various senior roles with large international firms and well-known brands as: Nestle, KPN Telecom, WPP, Tucows and Web Analytics firm Nedstat.
Session: Augmented Reality in Mobile Applications
 Russ Olsen
Software Engineer and Author, ROIV
Russ Olsen's career spans three decades, during which he has written everything from graphics device drivers to document management applications. These days, Russ diligently codes away at GIS systems, web service security and process automation solutions with both J2EE and Rails. Russ spends a lot of his otherwise free time talking and writing about programming, especially Ruby. Russ is the author of Design Patterns In Ruby (http://www.designpatternsinruby.com) and the Technology As If People Mattered blog (http://www.russolsen.com). Russ' technical pontifications have been translated into six languages and Russ has spoken at various conferences including Paris On Rails, Developer Day, RubyNation and the VTM Professional Ruby Conference.
Session: Programming In Interesting Times
 John McDonald
Security Evangelist Team Leader, RSA
John McDonald is the team leader for RSA's Security Evangelist team, which is responsible for working with customers to deliver the EMC/RSA message and strategy. John has over 25 years experience in the security industry, and has been actively involved with security at EMC since he joined the company over 5 years ago. Before EMC he worked with several consulting companies performing security audits and security infrastructure design for numerous customers, including several Fortune 500 ones. John is a CISSP.
Session: The Role of Security in Trustworthy Cloud Computing
 Stephen Haberman
Senior Software Engineer, Bizo
Stephen Haberman is a local Omaha-area software developer focusing on open source and web technologies. After several years of independent enterprise consulting, he's currently working for Bizo, a San Francisco-based company that is a leading data provider in the B2B online advertising industry. After living in a coffee shop everyday to get out of the house, he's realized it's actually nice to just work from home.
Session: Hadoop in the Cloud
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