Paul is the CTO of Zynga Germany, where he works on technology for future Zynga games. Paul created the popular user interface framework jQuery UI, as well as the Aves Engine -- an HTML5 game engine that was bought by Zynga. His favorite topics include innovative user interfaces and experiences, browser games, JavaScript wisdom and of course, jQuery.

Ben works at Google on the Picnik photo editor and spends his 20% time playing with various aspects of WebGL, including authoring the open source WebGL Inspector debugging tool. He has several years’ experience working on low-level OpenGL and DirectX code on consoles, desktops, and mobile platforms and is passionate about computer graphics and the developer experience around it.

Ken Russell is a software engineer at Google, Inc. on the Chrome GPU team, which is focusing on better utilizing the GPU for the display of all kinds of web content. He is currently serving as the chair of the WebGL working group at Khronos. Prior to joining Google, Ken worked at Sun Microsystems, Inc. for over ten years, initiating the Java Binding to the OpenGL API project, and making contributions to many areas of the Java platform. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Master of Science in Media Arts and Sciences from the MIT Media Lab.

Justin is the COO of Moblyng, a Silicon Valley company, focused on mobile html5 games. He has spent 15 years in the game industry, including leading the game engineering teams for Electronic Arts’ game Spore and building the massively multiplayer games Dungeons and Dragons Online, Lord of the Rings Online, and Asheron’s Call at Turbine. He holds a B. S. in Computer Science from Brown University. He also likes airships.

Robbert van Os is a fifteen year Information Technology (IT) veteran with roots in business and technology strategies, from entrepreneurial start-up projects to large scale corporate technology initiatives. The open web / HTML5 is the most recent development he initiated at Spil Games, about 12 months ago!

Chen Qi has been addicted to the Internet for over 14 years. His personal website was selected to be one of the Top 10 Chinese personal websites by LIFE magazine in 2000 . He currently works as CEO of Spil Games Asia and enthusiastic advocates for HTML5 games in Asia. As a big believer in HTML5 games, he initiated an HTML5 research group in China and co-organized over 20 HTML5 lectures across the country. Chen was an entrepreneur and founded a social network for teenagers in 2006. Besides that, he spent 3 years working in an NGO, devoted to protecting nature in the Tibetan area.

Erik started his professional career as a programmer in the games industry back in -96 working for a Swedish game studio on an RTS. Since then he's been working at a number of game studios in Sweden and Australia. In early 2005 he headed up Auran Games Sweden, a subsidiary of the then largest game developer in Australia. After a short break making a plunge into full time indie game development with TimeTrap he joined Opera software where he's now working in the core graphics department, eagerly advocating html5 game development.

Darius Kazemi is a programmer and evangelist at Bocoup in Boston, where he builds HTML5 demos and leads game development projects. He joined their merry band of JavaScript experts after spending six years working as an analyst in social games and MMORPGs. Some of the titles he's worked on include The Oregon Trail and Carmen Sandiego for Facebook, and the MMORPGs Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons & Dragons Online. He's on the Board of Directors of the International Game Developers Association, and is co-organizer of the GameLoop unconference. He writes about the game industry on his blog, Tiny Subversions.

Lilli joined Google in 2008 as a software engineer and became a full time Game Developer Advocate in early 2011. Before joining Google, she worked as a game programmer on a number of XBox, PlayStation, and PC titles, as well as being a part of the team that initially developed the COLLADA file format. Lilli holds a BS from Caltech in Engineering and Applied Science, and in her spare time she enjoys working on video editing and digital art projects.

Grant has 10+ years of Flash and web dev. He's developed myriad open source libraries, commercial apps, games, frameworks, etc. for a huge variety of Fortune 500s. Grant is Developer/Architect of EaselJS, TweenJS, and SoundJS. He's also the developer of Pirates Love Daisies and other presently unreleased HTML5 games / apps.

Sean Middleditch has been involved in the Web industry for over a decade. He’s worked on several high-profile government websites and apps, large eCommerce services, and a variety of Open Source Web frameworks and applications. He’s currently enrolled as a Junior at the DigiPen Institute of Technology studying RTIS, a CS degree in computer game engineering. His last DigiPen game project, Subsonic -- the inspiration for SONAR -- was an IGC 2011 Finalist in the non-professional category.

Miguel Angel Pastor Manuel is CTO of Onan Games (makers of Mandreel). He has previously worked in the video game industry at Sony and LucasArts as Senior Technology Engineer. Onan has been working together with Google to bring several iOS titles into the Chrome Web Store. The first games they ported were Monster Dash and Gun Bros and right now they are porting several more titles.

Jason Meisel is enrolled as a Junior at the DigiPen Institute of Technology studying RTIS. He’s worked as an engine developer and graphics programmer on two other successful DigiPen games: The Y-Front and Nous.

Richard is a HTML 5 developer with a passion for games and software craftsmanship. He currently works at GameSalad developing next generation game engines using Javascript and WebGL. In his free time, he is a strong open source zealot and contributor towards virtual world projects merging web technology, art, and 3d environments in Second Life.

Alan is a systems programmer by day. In his spare time he hacks away on experimental game engines and indie game projects. He is passionate about developing 3d gaming on the web and making it fun and accessible for the game development community. Alan is one of the main hackers behind Mozilla's Paladin project, aimed at improving open source gaming technology for the web.

Rachel joined Google as a software engineer in spring 2011 to work on Chrome. Before that, she spent 15 years in the games industry - from tiny advertising games over arcade games to hugely successful console titles and massively multiplayer games. In her spare time, she loves working on all things digital.

Sam Abadir is a practicing IP lawyer and software engineer. Prior to co-founding appMobi, he worked for Concurrent, a leading company in the Video On Demand (VOD) market, as a legal and technical consultant. Sam is a seasoned entrepreneur, having founded two other companies, LiquidSite and Zelo Technologies, which developed super-scalable file systems for video and rich media. Sam is a graduate of MIT with a BS in Math, and from the MIT Sloan School with a BS in Operations Management. Sam also received a JD with distinction from the University of Iowa School of Law.