Speaker Bios: Andi Gutmans leads the PHP Collaboration Project and Zend product strategy, working together with both partners and the community, to build the market’s leading Web development platform. He has been a leading contributor to PHP since 1997 and spearheaded the object-oriented improvements for PHP 5. Andi is a member of the PHP Group, the Apache Software Foundation, and on the board of the Eclipse Foundation. He has a rich background in enterprise software development including real-time avionics simulation software and n-tier J2EE applications.

Bradford Cottel leads open-source evangelism at Zend Technologies. He's built web apps using Ruby on Rails for startups and now uses PHP on Zend (Framework) for the enterprise. Having cut his teeth at Borland on the C++ team, he helped deliver several award-winning versions of Borland C++ and led core technology strategy to deliver common code into a number of Borland products. At Rational (now IBM), Brad managed products across four states and delivered them all as a suite of development tools on Unix, under schedule. In previous incarnations, Brad was a systems software engineer on the first portable computer: the Osborne, running CP/M, was qualified to compete on his university's programming team (in FORTRAN, when he was a freshman), speaks fluent Nepali, and has taught Pascal using Dave Gries' The Science of Programming, at the National Computer Centre in Kathmandu.

The world’s leading Rich Internet Applications & Web 2.0 event is expected to attract more than 2,000 i-technology developers. AJAXWorld grew from a single track, one-day seminar, less than a year ago, into a four-day international conference & expo with more than 150 sessions delivered in ten simultaneous tracks, by more than 150 faculty members.

Track 01: Rich Internet Applications
Track 02: Web 2.0 Enterprise Mashups
Track 03: Enterprise AJAX Applications
Track 04: RIA Frameworks & Toolkits
Track 05: Security in RIA Applications
Track 06: Server-Side AJAX
Track 07: iPhone AJAX Applications
Track 08: Emerging RIA Technologies
Track 09: Bleeding-Edge AJAX Applications
Track 10: OpenLaszlo Diamond Track