Brian Behlendorf founded CollabNet in July 1999. The company provides tools and services based on open source methods. Before launching CollabNet, he was co-founder and CTO of Organic Online, a Web design and engineering consultancy located in San Francisco. During his five years at Organic, Mr. Behlendorf helped create Internet strategies for dozens of Fortune 500 companies. During that time, he co-founded and contributed heavily to the Apache Web Server Project, co-founded and supported the VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) effort, and assisted several IETF working groups, particularly the HTTP standardization effort.

Mr. Behlendorf is currently a Director of the Mozilla Foundation and a retired Director and President of the Apache Software Foundation.

In January 2006, Mr. Behlendorf was named a Young Global Leader by the Forum of Young Global Leaders, an affiliate of the World Economic Forum. He is one of only 41 people in North America chosen to join this powerful international community tasked with making a positive impact on the global future. Mr. Behlendorf moderated a software panel at the 2006 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in January 2006 in Davos, Switzerland.

A 20-year -plus software and systems engineering veteran, Rex Black is president and principal consultant of RBCS, which offers training, assessment, consulting, staff augmentation, insourcing, offsite and offshore outsourcing, test automation and quality assurance services.

Mr. Black has published several books, including “Managing the Testing Process” and “Critical Testing Processes.” He has also written more over 20 articles, presented hundreds of papers, workshops and seminars, and given more than a dozen keynote speeches at conferences and events around the world. Mr. Black is the president of both the International Software Testing Qualifications Board and the American Software Testing Qualifications Board, and is one of the most popular and highest-rated speakers at BZ Media's Software Test & Performance Conferences.

Jeff Feldstein is a manager of software development at Cisco Systems. During his 25-year career, he has been a software developer, tester, development manager and computer consultant; for the past five years, he has been involved with software testing and has managed a team of developers who write software test tools. Mr. Feldstein's specialties include internetworking, real-time embedded systems, communications systems, hardware diagnostics and firmware, databases and test technologies. He is one of the highest-rated speakers at BZ Media's Software Test & Performance Conferences.

Mr. Feldstein is the holder of two patents and has an additional two patents pending. At Cisco, he manages a team of 40 software engineers located across three sites in the U.S., Israel and India that build software systems to automatically test Cisco' s next-generation Network Management Operating System platform.

Dan Koloski, a 10-year veteran of the software industry, has extensive experience designing, building, deploying and testing Web and voice applications. Dan is responsible for defining and articulating the business, partner and marketing strategy for Empirix's Web Business Unit.  Previously, Dan managed Strategic Alliances for Empirix, where he helped grow the business from zero to over $8M annually through innovative partnerships. Dan originally headed Empirix's Web Application Testing group, which under his leadership experienced double-digit revenue growth each quarter. Prior to joining Empirix, Dan served as an Allaire-certified ColdFusion instructor and technologist in the areas of multimedia, content syndication and CRM. He is a frequent speaker and contributor to industry publications. Dan is a graduate of Yale University and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Theresa Lanowitz, Founder of voke, inc. is recognized worldwide as a strategic thinker and market influencer in application life cycle, virtualization and convergence markets. With over 20 years of experience, Theresa has been associated with some of the most breakthrough technology and products of their time. Theresa's professional career began with McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) where she worked on the C-17 transport plane.  While at Borland Software, Theresa shipped the ground breaking Java development tool JBuilder. Theresa also played instrumental roles at Taligent in the areas of product management and international marketing. At Sun Microsystems, Theresa was responsible for the strategic marketing of the Jini project – a precursor to emerging convergence market.

Theresa is a founding member of AppSIC (the Application Security Industry Consortium), a member of the German ComputerWoche.de “Expert Panel on Quality IT Practices” and a frequent guest on SD Times “Week in Review” podcast.

Theresa holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. 

Robert C. Martin has been a software professional since 1970. In the last 35 years, he has worked in various capacities on literally hundreds of software projects. He has authored landmark books on agile programming, Extreme Programming, UML, object-oriented programming and C++ programming. He has published dozens of articles in various trade journals. The former editor of the C++ Report, today he is one of the software industry's leading authorities on agile software development and is a regular speaker at international conferences and trade shows.

Mr. Martin is the founder, CEO and president of Object Mentor Inc., whose highly experienced software professionals provide process improvement consulting, object-oriented software design consulting, training and development services to major corporations around the world.

Gary McGraw is CTO of security firm Cigital. He provides strategic advice to major software producers and consumers, and has written more than 90 peer-reviewed technical publications. He also functions as principal investigator on grants from DARPA, National Science Foundation and NIST's Advanced Technology Program. Dr. McGraw serves on advisory boards of Authentica, Counterpane and Fortify Software, as well as advising the CS department at U.C. Davis, the CS department at the University of Virginia, and the School of Informatics at Indiana University. Dr. McGraw holds a dual Ph.D. in cognitive science and computer science from Indiana University and a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Virginia .

Dr. McGraw is the author of six best-selling books: “Software Security: Building Security In,” “Exploiting Software,” “Building Secure Software,” “Software Fault Injection,” “Securing Java,” and “Java Security.”

Alan Page is one of Microsoft's first Test Architects and chairs the test group in Microsoft's Engineering Excellence team. Among other things, this means that Mr. Page teaches testers how to be better testers, and he has designed and teaches courses for Microsoft's most senior testers and test managers.

Beyond teaching, Mr. Page creates and updates technical courses, working with test teams to help them reach their goals, and writes on his blog and elsewhere. He has been a tester for over 15 years, and has been at Microsoft since 1995, In his current role with Microsoft Engineering Excellence, Mr. Page is not directly responsible for testing any specific product, but rather is charged with helping all of Microsoft test better.

Jack Repenning is Chief Technology Officer at CollabNet. Jack joined CollabNet in 2002; as chief product architect he was primarily responsible for building the product architecture that enabled CollabNet grow its current user base to well over one million users. Jack is also an early member of the wildly successful Subversion open source project, a version control system that is now the leading Software Configuration Management (SCM) solution. Consistently engaged in developer productivity topics, Jack has participated in open source software projects since the early 1980s. Prior to joining CollabNet, Jack worked at well-known Silicon Valley companies such as Hewlett Packard, SGI, Informix, and Rational where he developed expertise in a wide range of technical areas, ranging from inside the kernel to GUI and database design, as well as data center deployment architecture.  Jack holds degrees in Electrical Engineering and Information and Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine.

Robert Sabourin has been involved in all aspects of development, testing and management of software engineering projects. He graduated from McGill University in 1982. Since writing his first program in 1972, Mr. Sabourin has become an accomplished software engineering and SQA management expert and evangelist (don't tell him it can't de done!).

Mr. Sabourin is presently the President of AmiBug , a Montreal-based international management consulting firm specializing in the implementation of “ light effective process” to achieve excellence in delivering on-time, on-quality, on-budget commercial software solutions. AmiBug provides management consulting, training and professional development directly and with various business partners.

Mr. Sabourin is a frequent lecturer at McGill University, where he relates theoretical aspects of software engineering to real- world examples with practical hands-on demonstrations. Robert was instrumental in defining and developing the Minor in Software Engineering program at McGill.

Mark Sarbiewski joined Mercury Interactive (now HP Software) in 2003 and serves as Senior Director of Solution Marketing. Mark is responsible for the design and implementation of HP Software's Quality Management solutions including HP Quality Center, HP Performance Center and HP Application Security Center.

Prior to joining HP Software, Mark was Vice President of Marketing for InterTrust Technologies Corporation, where he led all key Marketing activities. Before InterTrust, Mark was a principal consultant for five years with Pittiglio, Rabin, Todd & McGrath, the leading management consultant firm for technology companies. While there, he worked on more than a dozen major consulting engagements, ranging from strategy development to process reengineering. Before his stint as a consultant, Mark spent four years with IBM where he was an application software engineer.

Mark received his B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics from University of California, Davis and earned his MBA from University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business in 1993.

Joel Spolsky, a software developer in New York City, is president of Fog C reek Software, which makes software testing/QA tools. Well known through his influential blog, Joel on Software, he previously worked a program manager on Microsoft's Excel team.

Mr. Spolsky has written four books: “User Interface Design for Programmers,” “Joel on Software, and on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and Managers, and to Those Who, Whether by Good Fortune or Ill Luck, Work with Them in Some Capacity,” “The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolsky” and “Smart and Gets Things Done: Joel Spolsky's Concise Guide to Finding the Best Technical Talent.”

Spolsky on FutureTest

Anthony I. (Tony) Wasserman is a professor of Software Engineering Practice at Carnegie Mellon West, Director of the Software Management program, and the Executive Director of the Center for Open Source Investigation. Previously, he was Director of Mobile Middleware Labs for Hewlett-Packard's Middleware Division, where he managed a development team working on software infrastructure for mobile W eb services. Before Bluestone Software was acquired by HP, Dr. Wasserman was Vice President of Bluestone Software, responsible for its West Coast Labs, where he led the creation of the award-winning, J2EE-based, Total-e-Mobile toolkit. During the dot-com boom, he was VP of Engineering for a start-up in San Francisco.

Dr. Wasserman earned his Ph.D. in computer sciences from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and his B.A. in mathematics and physics from U.C. Berkeley. He has been selected as both a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, and is often invited to speak at both industrial and research conferences. Dr. Wasserman has published dozens of technical papers, edited eight books and is the recipient of several awards for his contributions. He gave the inaugural Stevens Lecture on Software Development Methods, and was the first recipient of the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award.

Alan Zeichick, chairman of FutureTest 2008, co-founded BZ Media LLC in 1999, bringing more than 20 years as a software developer to the company. He serves as editorial director for the company' s magazines and newsletters, and manages its BZ Research arm.

After starting his career as a mainframe programmer and systems analyst, Mr. Zeichick become a technology journalist, analyst and consultant in the early 1980s, focusing on software development, networking and software security.

The author of more than 2,500 published articles on information technology, Mr. Zeichick is also a former columnist for Red Herring, and is a Senior Contributing Editor to InfoWorld. He has spoken at events as diverse as COMDEX, NetW orld+Interop, American Association of Artificial Intelligence Software Development Expo, JavaOne, Microsoft TechEd and EclipseCon, in addition to BZ Media's events. Read his blog at ztrek.blogspot.com.