Ryan Ozimek

Ryan Ozimek is the President of Open Source Matters, the non-profit organization managing the Joomla! project's legal, financial, and marketing operations. Ryan is the Co-founder and CEO of PICnet, Inc. In the eight years since the founding of the company, PICnet has grown from a graduate school idea and concept into one of the most recognized and trusted names in the open source non-profit technology field. Ryan has a BA in Communications and a Masters of Public Policy from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).

Ryan will be delivering the keynote speech and will be talking about The Amazing Potential of Joomla! in 2011.

Azrul Rahim

Azrul is the front runner at Slashes & Dots Sdn. Bhd. Since early Joomla days, Azrul has headed the company to provide high quality extensions for Joomla such as JomComment, MyBlog and NiceTalk. In 2007, the company released JomSocial: the game-changing social networking component for Joomla. JomSocial has successfully repositioned Joomla as the CMS of choice for those looking for all-in-one social networking tool. Azrul is passionate to read and keep up with the latest technological and web trends.

Saurabh Shah

Saurabh is a frontend developer at CloudAccess.net, official host of demo.joomla.org. You will find him busy coding Joomla! templates and themes, styling Joomla! extensions, and keeping up to date with Web technologies. Saurabh has been working with Joomla! since 1.0. He is also well experienced with php, database applications, jquery, CSS and HTML. Saurabh has a master's degree in computer science. He is active in the Pune, India community, attending & volunteering local and regional networking events and volunteering with PHPCamp, the biggest conference for PHP developers in India. He is very active on Twitter, sharing his knowledge and experience on web design & development.

Chris Rault

Chris Rault is Co-Founder and Partner of Prothemer, based in South Africa. Prothemer provides highly innovative themes and templates for the Joomla!, Drupal and WordPress Communities. A long-time Joomla advocate, Chris is adept developing for Drupal, WordPress, Magento and more. His experience in development and design of Joomla templates and designs has put JoomlaJunkie into a coveted position as one of the stand-out template clubs in a crowded marketplace. Chris was a CMS Expo Denver favorite, covering topics on usability and advanced web development.

Ajay Lulia

Over 14 years of global experience spanning 3 continents with expertise in delivering mid and large sized projects using various software development methodologies. An active contributor to open source Ajay's primary responsibility is to lead the design and architecture functions across projects and technologies.

Firdouss Ross

A self-proclaimed geek, Ross has a passion for user experience and usability. Currently wearing the 'Front-End Developer' hat in JomSocial, he will ensure that all the products that go through him will be as polished as possible. On other times, he swoons at cutting edge technologies, very fast computers and very fast motorcycles.

Syed Ahmad Fuqaha

Graduated with a degree in architecture, Fuqaha finds himself tapping with the keyboard as much as tooling with scale rulers and analyzing architectural drawings. He has a long relationship with Joomla! spanning the era of Mambo 4.5, at the end of 2004. He is one of the founding members of Malaysian Joomla! community, and was instrumental in organizing Joomla! Day Malaysia 2007 & 2008, and was a speaker in both occasions. Currently he spend most of his time as Customer Experience Manager for Slashes & Dots Sdn Bhd, striving to ensure fans & supporters of the JomSocial project are being looked after well. :)

Shaiffulnizam Mohamad

Shaifful is a co-founder of Joomla.my - malaysian Joomla Community, serving the community previously as a official Malay translator. Was a hardcore Joomla user since mambo (2002), and after that Joomla! Shaifful has been supporting Joomla user through Malaysian Joomla Community website at http://www.joomla-my.org and www.joomla.my. Shaifful was also appointed as a speaker for Joomla Day Malaysia 2007 and 2008, mostly talking about Joomla SEO, security and Joomla itself.

Errazudin Ishak

Errazudin holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science (Sofware Engineering) and works as Senior Software Engineer at Mimos Berhad, a Malaysian government research arm, in ICT and frontier technology. Besides running and ensuring phpcoe.mimos.my alive and kicking, his day job focuses on web application development, deployment, performance and stability. He has spoken at several meetups and conferences and has worked with various back-end and web technologies for almost 10 years. In his free time he loves to emulate Rafael Nadal’s swerving forehand on court.

Kartik Trivedi

Kartik Trivedi is the Partner with IVMstore, a compay that provides standard and customized iPhone apps for Virtuemart Stores. Kartik has been working in Joomla! Since last 3 years and provided High end solutions keeping in mind the Quality of the product & getting it delivered on Time. He has headed several projects from concept to go-live stage for many start-ups and medium sized companies, as well as development and support of RC-CSV, which again is a Vrituemart component for inventory management.

Parth Lawate

Drawn to Joomla ( then Mambo) when working on a non profit project back in his pre college days , Parth Lawate went on to co found Tekdi Web Solutions in 2006, with a focus to provide development services in Open Source technologies while still in college pursuing his degree in Mechanical engineering. An Avid Linux & Joomla evangelist, Parth is active in the Joomla community & plays a key role in organizing Joomla Day India. Since then Tekdi has grown to be one of the leading Joomla development service providers & develops & supports several extensions for Joomla. Over the years the company has expanded to also provide services using other content management systems like Drupal & wordpress as well E Commerce platforms like Magento & recently Smartphone applications.

Ankit Dave

Ankit Dave, Founder of Tailored Solutions and www.iJoomer.com based in India. By background, holding the Master's Degree in Financial Management, worked with Non-Government Orgnization for "Entrepreneurship Development Programs" but had a fire in the belly about technology which lead him to start a venture in providing web and mobile development services specifically on Joomla, iPhone and Android platform since 2005. Today, he leads the iJoomer which is focused to bring in Joomla components on mobile apps as easy installing components in Joomla!