Alejandro is a co-founder of the first Spanish OpenCms Community, opencmshispano.com. Very active member that has participated in many conferences and seminars (Fiber Party, Imaginatica, Campus Party...> ) as well as provided professional training services.

Always in a mood of promoting OpenCms to leverage the value of the website content management system solution, Alejandro provides profesional services helping webmasters and content managers worldwide to create and maintain websites fast and efficiently. All that positioning OpenCms as a definitive and flexible tool for the purposes. Alejandro has been working for more than 4 years with OpenCms as programmer and as team leader in important projects for public administrations.

Takes part in: Accessibility in CMS (Panel)

Dries Buytaert is the original creator and project lead for the Drupal open source web publishing and collaboration platform. Buytaert serves as president of the Drupal Association, a non-profit organization formed to help Drupal flourish.

He is also co-founder and chief technology officer of Acquia, a venture-backed software company that offers products and services for Drupal. Dries is also a co-founder of Mollom, a web service that helps you identify content quality and, more importantly, helps you stop website spam.

A native of Belgium, Buytaert holds a PhD in computer science and engineering from Ghent University and a Licentiate Computer Science (MsC) from the University of Antwerp.

Takes part in: Accessibility in CMS (Panel)

Clearly communicating concepts and ideas to foster a common understanding has been Eric’s passion since starting as a software product designer in the mid-1990s. Eric’s specialty is in bridging engineering teams, subject matter experts, and end users to develop and deliver Web-based applications in start-up, corporate, non-profit and creative design environments. Understanding software and Internet development from each contributor's point of view is essential to managing successful projects, and to creating happy users.

In 2007, Eric partnered with Indi Young, the author of Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior, to create mental models for a wide range of clients and industries resulting in: redesigning the catalog production process for a leading computer manufacturer; re-architecting Web properties across multiple user communities for the California University system; and defining how fleet management organizations communicate with their drivers. Eric started working with Indi to deliver mental model workshops this year and mental models have become his tool of choice for communicating user behaviors, motivations, beliefs, and philosophies that define how products and systems are architected and designed.

Talk: Digging Beyond User Preferences

Workshop: Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior

Steve is the Senior Web Accessibility Consultant and Technical Director at The Paciello Group Europe. He was previously a Senior Web Accessibility Consultant at Vision Australia.

He is also the Director of The Web Accessibility Tools Consortium (WAT-C) for which he has worked with many individuals and organisations around the world to provide localized versions of the WAT-C web accessibility testing tools. He is the creator and lead developer of the Web Accessibility Toolbar (WAT) and co-developer of the Color Contrast Analyser (CCA).

Steve researches, presents and writes articles on how assistive technology works with technologies such as JavaScript, AJAX and Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA)

Talk: WAI-ARIA Just Do It

Jose Florido is an Interaction Designer at Google.

Formerly he was in charge of user experience at Panoramio, a small start-up sold to Google in 2007. He co-founded avidos, a web design and development studio where he worked as designer and front end developer.

His interest in web standards and accessibility led him to start Ovillo, now the biggest Spanish speaking community of developers and designers focused in web standards.

Takes part in: Tu Vida Laboral (Panel)