Dr. Rajkumar Buyya is the founder and CEO of Manjrasoft Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia. In his academic role, he serves as a Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering; and Director of the Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He has over 16 years of industrial and academic R&D experience in software systems for CAD, Internet, and high performance distributed computing applications.

Dr. Buyya has been awarded, over $3 million, competitive research grants from various national and international organisations including the Australian Research Council (ARC), Sun Microsystems, StorageTek, IBM, and Microsoft, Australian DIISR (Dept. of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research), and the European Council. He has carried out fundamental research in utility-oriented distributed computing platforms such as Grids and Clouds.

Dr. Buyya has published over 310 high quality and high impact research papers that are well referenced. The Journal of Information and Software Technology in its Jan 2009 issue, based on an analysis of ISI citations, ranked two of his journal papers among the "Top 10 Cited Software Engineering Articles in 2002". He received "Research Excellence Awards" from the University of Melbourne for productive and quality research in computer science and software engineering in 2005 and 2008. He also received the Chris Wallace Award for Outstanding Research Contribution 2008 from the Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia.

Software technologies for Grid and Cloud computing developed under Dr. Buyya's leadership have gained rapid acceptance and are in use at several academic institutions and commercial enterprises in 40 countries around the world. He has led the establishment and development of key community activities, including co-founding of IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing and four IEEE conferences (CCGrid, Cluster, Grid, and e-Science). He has presented over 200 invited talks on his vision on IT Futures and advanced computing technologies at international conferences and institutions in Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America. These contributions and international research leadership of Dr. Buyya are recognised through the award of "2009 IEEE Medal for Excellence in Scalable Computing". For further information on Dr. Buyya, please visit: http://www.buyya.com.

Dileban Karunamoorthy is Chief Software Architect and leads the development of Aneka at Manjrasoft. He is currently responsible for the architecture and design of Aneka inlcuding leading major implementations in the product. He is also responsible for mentoring new engineers and contributors, delivering technical presentations, and carrying out deployments on customer environments. Dileban has over than 11 years of industry experience. In his previous role he spent 8 years working for an ERP company where he played a lead role in the development of an Enterprise Document Management system, and later led a team in a technlogy conversion projepct. Dileban's core interests include Distributed Computing, Cloud Computing, Grid Computing, Virtualization, Programming Languages, Architecture and Design. He has also co-authored a number of papers and taught students distributed computing.

Dr. Wolfgang Gentzsch is a senior consultant for HPC, Grid and Cloud Computing and the General Chairman of the ISC Cloud Conference Series. Previously, he was an Advisor to the EU funded project DEISA, the Distributed European Initiative for Supercomputing Applications, and he directed the 3-year German Government funded $150 Mio D-Grid Initiative for developing a sustainable Grid infrastructure for research and industry in Germany. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the OGF Open Grid & Cloud Forum standards organization, and a member of the US President's Council of Advisors for Science and Technology, PCAST. He founded the e-School Project which aims at building and operating a professional interactive Web 2.0 computer simulation laboratory for K-20 science and engineering education and edutainment.

Before, Wolfgang was a professor of computer science and mathematics at several universities in the US and in Germany, and held leading positions at the MCNC Grid and Data Center, Sun Microsystems, Gridware, Genias, and the DLR German Aerospace Research Center. Wolfgang studied mathematics and physics at the Technical University in Aachen, and got his PhD in numerical methods for partial differential equations.

Laurence Liew is the CEO and Founder of 1degreenorth Pte Ltd, a provider of next-generation High Performance Computing and Cloud Computing infrastructure solutions.

Prior to starting 1degreenorth, Laurence was the Director of Platform Computing in Singapore holding multiple portfolios which includes: R&D Centre Director for Platform's Open Source Grid Development Centre which is responsible for the development and overall product strategy for Platform's HPC management software, Director of Platform's Cloud Innovation Centre helping customers in Singapore and the region to be Cloud enabled, and Platform's HPCCommunity.org Community Manager - a portal for the global HPC community.

Laurence is a veteran of the open source and HPC/Grid/Cloud community and has been promoting the use of Linux/HPC/Grid/Cloud since 1998. He was involved in building the very first commercial Linux cluster for a local research institute in 1999 and has since implemented and consulted for many organizations in APJ, Europe and US, on HPC, Grid and now Cloud. Laurence also led a team from 2002- 2006 in Singapore to co-develop the San Diego's Supercomputer Centre Rocks toolkit - the world's most popular open source HPC cluster management system.

Laurence graduated from National University of Singapore (NUS) with First Class Honours in Engineering, and holds a Master in Knowledge Engineering from NUS.