Chris Bannon is familiar with many acronyms: UX, ASP.NET, AJAX, C#, SQL and jQuery. As the Lead Web Developer at ComponentOne, he has mastered techniques such as CSS layout, unobtrusive JavaScript, semantic markup and progressive enhancement. Chris currently manages ComponentOne's Dev Tools for ASP.NET and iPhone Web development. He spends most of his time building or using the Web and traveling to share his passion with others. Chris has been a speaker at the Microsoft campus, DevConnections and at various Code Camps in South Florida, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.

Lee S. Barney is the creator of the QuickConnectFamily framework for JavaScript-based cross-platform hybrid applications and a professor in the Computer Information Technology Department at Brigham Young University, Idaho. He served as CIO/CTO of @HomeSoftware, a company that produced Web-based, mobile data and scheduling applications for the home health care industry. He is the author of Developing Hybrid Applications for the iPhone.

Jeff Biggus is the founder of HyperJeff, Inc. and cofounder of Big Stone Phone, producing Unix, Mac, iPhone and iPad apps, and custom in-house software for companies specializing in physics and math software. He has been an independent programming consultant for more than 15 years. Jeff cut his teeth on programming back in the early 1980s on the Apple ][+ and by creating the HyperJeff Network in 1994, a site serving the Mac OS X community since Rhapsody in 1999. While a sys admin for a WebObjects-based company, Jeff first experienced the joys of Objective-C. The HyperJeff site serves up an ad-free list of Mac apps and the largest database of Cocoa articles on the Web. Current hobbies include mathematical physics, an original innovative Web framework system, and esoteric uses of the Cocoa frameworks for Web serving.

Jonathan Blocksom is an independent software developer specializing in
3D graphics, and is the author of the award winning GollyGee Blocks, a
3D modeler for children. Jonathan has worked with OpenGL since it was
just gl and is currently employed by Google in Washington, D.C.

Adam Blum is CEO of Rhomobile. Formerly the Senior Director of Engineering at Good Technology, he led the Server Engineering efforts, including the development of GoodAccess, the first offline and asynchronous-oriented Web browser for mobile devices. Adam's experience at Good Technology demonstrated to him the need for a framework that would help enterprises build mobile applications easily and cost-effectively, without having to develop applications from scratch for multiple platforms.

Nitin Chitkara is the Vice President of Business Development at Mobclix, where he is responsible for the company's publisher and developer relationships. Nitin has extensive experience in mobile application development, design and marketing. He was a senior member of Moviso's BREW development team. Prior to Mobclix, Nitin was a senior manager in PayPal's user experience group, where his primary focus involved market assessment, usability optimization and market-entry strategy.

Bobby Emamian is the cofounder and CEO at Prolific Interactive, a new-media agency specializing in all things digital. With a tech and social media background, he has propelled his company into working with big brands looking to maximize their digital presence. Bobby has made several appearances on panels in Connecticut speaking about the power of social media. Having worked on social media sentiment analysis software in the past, Bobby understands and utilizes social media for his company and clients. Bobby is also the founder of New Media Haven.

Nathan Eror is living the dream as the founder of iPhone and iPad game studio Free Time Studios. He has been building iPhone apps since the initial release of the SDK, and is a regular speaker at iPhone developer conferences in the U.S. and Europe. He lives in Houston, where he is the co-organizer of the iPhone Developer Meetup group and iPhoneDevCamp Houston. Nathan is also very active in the local software development community and the high-tech startup scene.

Noah Gift is the coauthor of "Python For Unix and Linux System Administration" by O'Reilly. He is an author, speaker, consultant and community leader, writing for publications such as IBM DeveloperWorks, Red Hat Magazine, O'Reilly, MacTech and Manning. His consulting company, Giftcs, provides solutions for Python development and systems engineering. Noah is currently coauthoring a book on Google App Engine and writing a large Google App Engine exercise- and nutrition-tracking application. Most recently, he worked as a Python programmer for Weta Digital in New Zealand, which has one of the world's largest render farms. Noah is also the former organizer for PyAtl, which is the Python User Group for Atlanta. He has given presentations at PyCon and PyAtl.

Michael Gile is founder of FuzzyLuke, a Houston startup building mobile automotive diagnostic solutions, including the FUZZYCar iPhone application. Michael has been a software and security engineer for over 10 years, working mostly in startups and small companies. Prior to founding FuzzyLuke, Michael worked extensively in mobile, Web and embedded software development.

Danny Goodman is the author of 45 books (and counting) on computing and Internet technologies. In the community of World Wide Web developers, he is well known for numerous bestselling book titles, including "JavaScript Bible" (Wiley), "Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference" (O'Reilly) "and JavaScript & DHTML Cookbook" (O'Reilly). Danny's nearly 30-year writing career has generated many successful book and software-development projects covering popular client-side scripting languages (HyperTalk, AppleScript and JavaScript). During this time, Danny has been a speaker and instructor at numerous conferences in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. He began his transformation from scripter to native app developer in 2008, and has published iPhone SDK apps for the News, Utilities and Photography categories in the Apple App Store.

Jen Gordon is the owner of Clever Twist, an interactive design studio specializing in iPhone app design and development. Jen lives and breathes ideas and design. Her seven years of experience in Interactive Design and Art Direction for top brands spawned the idea for Clever Twist - a premier provider of engaging and addictive apps that turns "ordinary" on it's head. Her goal is client happiness (including periodic back scratches), really pretty design and wonderfully usable interfaces.

Jeff Haynie is cofounder and CEO of Appcelerator. Jeff is a long-time serial entrepreneur, technologist and blogger. Previously, Jeff was cofounder and CTO of Vocalocity, a software provider in the communications arena, and before that, CTO of eHatchery, a digital incubator and offshoot of Bill Gross' idealab. Jeff has worked on numerous standard committees such as IETF and W3C, as well as being a core contributor to a number of important open-source technologies such as JBoss and OpenVXI. Jeff served with distinction in the U.S. Navy.

Michel Kripalani is President of Oceanhouse Media, publisher of mobile apps that uplift, educate and inspire. Oceanhouse Media is a major player in the iPhone and iPad space with an offering of over 85 apps, numerous bestsellers and proprietary technology. Licensing relationships are in place with Dr. Seuss Enterprises, Hay House Publishers and others. A veteran of the video-game industry, Michel founded Presto Studios in 1991. Presto Studios had numerous hits including The Journeyman Project series, Myst 3: Exile and more. Michel was also Director of Business Development at Autodesk for many years, where he spent a large portion of his time managing relationships with Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo and independent game development studios worldwide.

Mike Lee, the world's toughest programmer, is the founder and CEO of United Lemur, a philanthropic revolution disguised as a software company. Mike also cofounded Tapulous, whose titles include Tap Tap Revenge and Twinkle. Prior to iPhone, Mike cut his teeth and won an Apple Design Award at Seattle-based Delicious Monster Software. Mike is originally from Honolulu, is a popular blogger and occasional pundit, and has been seen on twitter as bmf. His last known day job was as a Senior Engineer at a very large company in Cupertino marketing magical products.

Griffin McGrath is a researcher who specializes in entrepreneurship and innovation research and practice. He is focused on revolutionizing online higher education as well as the pursuit of excellence in entrepreneurship. Griffin specializes in creating strong business plans and innovative venture ideas that will solve problems and fill specific niches in many markets, including social networking, mobile applications and higher education. Griffin is no stranger to strategic management and innovation. He spent four years as a student of entrepreneurship and as a competitor in business-plan competitions on the state level, with several winning ventures. Griffin leverages these successes and coaches undergraduates participating in collegiate business-plan competitions.

Saul Mora has coded in several languages prior to arriving in Objective-C. He has a background in C#, Java and Ruby. He is also the Founding Panda at iPhone Development firm Magical Panda Software, working on custom iPhone development consulting projects.

Joe Pezzillo is the cofounder of Push IO LLC and the founder of Metafy LLC, a Boulder, Colo.-based software boutique currently developing a suite of prototype iPhone applications for a Fortune 100 financial services company. In addition to pioneering work in Internet radio and managing several startups, Joe spent three years as a researcher at the Apple Electronic Media Lab in the mid 90s.

Jonathan Saggau is the founder and CEO of Sounds Broken Inc., a growing Mac OS X and iPhone software contracting shop as well as a technical and business process consultancy. When he's not flying airplanes or reverse-engineering hardware and software, he works with clients such as Fileblaze, topsOrtho, Vertitron, Equity Audio and the Big Nerd Ranch to develop outstanding products, services and processes. Jonathan he has written on software development for Apress and IBM DeveloperWorks. He holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Music Composition. He blogs at jonathansaggau.com/blog and can be followed on twitter @jonmarimba.

Ben Scheirman is a developer from Houston. As Director of Development at ChaiONE, Ben oversees development of iPhone projects as well as Web applications in Ruby on Rails and .NET. Ben is a Microsoft MVP, ASP Insider and Certified ScrumMaster. Ben has spoken at numerous user groups and conferences for .NET and Ruby, and has coauthored two books for ASP.NET MVC. His first iPhone application was featured in the New & Noteworthy section of the iTunes App Store, and he has been enjoying iPhone programming ever since. You can find Ben online at his blog (flux88.com) or on Twitter (twitter.com/subdigital).

Michael Schneider At the beginning of 2009, Michael Schneider left Silicon Valley technology law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati to found HiveBrain Software. HiveBrain publishes a variety of applications on the iTunes App Store, the most notable of which, TouchType, peaked at #13 in the U.S. App Store. HiveBrain most recently has been focused on the Andrew Johnson series of self-help applications, which are published in a variety of categories on the iPhone and Android app stores. Michael continues to practice law under the name Bitwise Legal, focusing on software and interactive media clients. He is also co-author of the book The Business of iPhone App Development: Making and Marketing Apps that Succeed, published by Apress.

Daniel Steinberg has spent the last three decades programming the iPad. OK, he hasn't. But he's been programming the iPhone and the iPad since the SDK's first appeared in beta and is co-author of the book "iPad Programming" from the Pragmatic Programmers and author of their book "Cocoa Programming". Daniel presents iPhone and Cocoa training for the Pragmatic Studio and consults through his company Dim Sum Thinking. When he's not coding or talking about coding for the Mac, the iPhone, and the iPad he's probably cooking or hanging out with his wife and daughter.

Robert Strojan is the founder and lead iPhone developer at Blackout Labs. He has developed multiple applications appearing in the Top 20 Paid Music charts, and his apps have been featured in prominent media outlets like BET and the Chicago Tribune. Robert has also consulted major pro audio manufacturers regarding their iPhone product lines, and published articles in iPhone Life Magazine and Mobile Orchard.

Pete Tenereillo is founder and CEO of Trapster.com. Trapster is world’s largest and most active driver’s social network. It allows drivers to share in real time the location of not only police enforcement points and cameras, but accidents, traffic jams, and other roadway hazards. Trapster is one of the most downloaded navigation application on most smartphones. Prior to Trapster, Pete was co-inventor/developer of Cisco’s PIX Firewall, the first server load balancer, and other related technology. He is an inventor of record on 12 U.S. patents.

Marcus Zarra is the owner of Zarra Studios, where he builds Mac, iPhone and iPad software for a wide variety of clients and customers. Outside of Apple, there are very few people with a better understanding of Core Data than Marcus. He has not only written the book on Core Data, he has also been doing iPhone, and now iPad, development as long as it has been possible to do so, and Mac programming for longer than that. With Matt Long, Marcus is the coauthor of the popular programming blog Cocoa Is My Girlfriend. Marcus and Matt also wrote "Core Animation: Simplified Animation Techniques for Mac and iPhone Development" (Addison-Wesley).