Prof. Jim Austin
Jim is a Professor of neural computing at the department of computer science at the University of York, where he leads the Advanced Computer Architecture research Group. He is the CEO of Cybula Ltd., a spin off company of the University of York, and a member of White Rose Grid Executive.

Dr Steve King
Steve King is a Specialist for advanced Engine Health Monitoring Methods at Rolls-Royce plc. He holds a degree in Mathematics and Computer Science and a PhD in the use of Expert Systems for Vibration Analysis. He is a Chartered Engineer and a member of the Institute for Engineering Technology (IET). Having worked in Rolls-Royce since 1979, he has built up many years experience working in advanced signal processing methods, Data Mining, Neural Networks and equipment health monitoring. Steve's current post is within the Company's Global EHM Capability Group with responsibility for Advanced EHM methods. Prior to this he spent 12 years working in the Company's Corporate Strategic Research Centre with responsibility for the development and application of Computational Intelligence techniques across all business areas of Rolls-Royce. He was awarded the Rolls-Royce Chairman's award for Technical Innovation in 2001, and is named on four patents. He is also a member of the International Scientific Committee of the International Conference for Condition Monitoring.

Wolfgang Ziegler
Since 1987 Wolfgang Ziegler is a member of the scientific staff of the Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing (SCAI). He joined the department of bioinformatics in 2005 as head of Grid Middleware Research Group. His research areas are Grid Computing, Resource Management und Scheduling, Management of Virtual Organisations, and Service Oriented Architectures. He was active in the US Grid Forum since 1999, he was a co-founder of the European EGRID in 1999 and since 2001 he was co-chairing several working groups of the Global Grid Forum (now Open Grid Forum). Currently he is co-chairing the Grid Resource Allocation Agreement Protocol Working Group (GRAAP-WG), which develops WS-Agreement, a proposed recommendation for an XML language for specifying a service level agreement between a resource/service provider and a consumer, and a protocol for creation of an agreement using agreement templates. He is also active in the OGSA-RSS working group and the Grid Scheduling Architecture Research Group (GSA-RG). He has been involved in programme committees of a number of conferences and workshops in the field of Distributed Computing and Grids. He was programme co-chair of the UNICORE summit co-located with the EuroPar 2006 and 2007. He is currently participating as work-package leader or coordinator in several national and European Grid projects, e.g. D-Grid, the CoreGRID Network of Excellence, the Integrated Project PHOSPHORUS, and the SmartLM project.

Stefano Beco
Stefano Beco is a 20-years-experienced Project Manager, with a solid technical background gained from his participation in several International projects, mainly in the development of Command & Control software and in Remote Sensing Satellites Ground Segment and the Earth Observation Users Services areas. Since 2000 he is involved in Grid R&D, being involved as senior scientist and project manager in several European projects funded by European Commission (EU-DataGRID, EU-CrossGrid, EGEE-I, II and III, NextGRID, AKoGriMo, BREIN, OneStopGov, GENESI-DR, RESERVOIR) and European Space Agency (SpaceGRID, THE VOICE, GDCD, DICTE). Since January 2005 he is Head of the Innovation and Advanced Applications Group in Elsag Datamat spa, where Environmental, Space, Collaboration Working Environment and Grid research projects are carried on.

Eduardo Oliveros
Eduardo Oliveros Díaz holds a Telecommunication Engineer Degree from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (1997). He worked for Future Space(1998) where he participated in the project Infomail (Multimedia Messaging Server) of Telefonica R&D. He joined Telefónica R&D in 2000, in the “Messaging Services” division, participating in the development of different e-mail Systems, Directory and Voice Portals solutions for Spain and South America. Following he joined the “Real-time communications services” division (2005) where he was involved in several Telefónica Corporation innovation projects concerning Directory and Unified Messaging Systems. He has participated in the European project Akogrimo (IST FP6) involved in exploitation activities. Currently he is working in the project IRMOS (IST FP7) and as Administrative Coordinator in the European project BREIN (IST FP6).

Achim Streit
Dr Achim Streit is head of the "Distributed Systems and Grid Computing" division at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH) in Germany.