Alex Skinner

Alex Skinner is the managing director and co-founder of global digital agency Pixl8 and provides strategic direction and consulting on the more advanced projects undertaken at Pixl8/ In addition, he works with the platform team to deliver Pixl8's Open Source CMS and MVC Framework Preside CMS.

Brad Wood

Ortus Solutions

Brad grew up in southern Missouri and after high school majored in Computer Science with a music minor at MidAmerica Nazarene University (Olathe, KS). Today he lives in Kansas City with his wife and three girls. Brad enjoys all sorts of international food and the great outdoors. Brad has been programming ColdFusion since 2001 and has used every version of CF since 4.5. He first fell in love with ColdFusion as a way to easily connect a database to his website for dynamic pages. He enjoys configuring and performance tuning high-availability Windows and Linux ColdFusion environments as well as SQL Server. Brad is the ColdBox Platform developer advocate at Ortus Solutions, lead developer of the CommandBox CLI, and Senior Architect of BoxLang.

: http://www.codersrevolution.com/
: @bdw429s

Charvi Dhoot

Senior Product Manager ColdFusion, Adobe Systems

Charvi Dhoot has over 12 years of professional experience as a software engineer for Qualcomm, and as a product manager for Speech AI & ML and Social technology products.

She holds an Under Graduate degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering, with a minor in Computer Science from International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad. She also holds Post Graduate Degree in Computational Signal Processing with 2 conference papers and 1 journal publication.

Charvi 2023 joined the Adobe ColdFusion team as a Senior Product Manager, where she applies her experiences and skills to solve new challenges & identify opportunities for the continued growth of ColdFusion.

David Tattersall

FusionReactor

David Tattersall is the CEO and co-founder of Intergral and OpenTrace - a long-time entrepreneur in the observability and monitoring space.  Intergral is the company behind FusionReactor, the most widely used performance monitoring solution for ColdFusion.  With over 40 years of IT experience and 20 years helping teams understand and improve application performance, David is now focused on the next evolution of observability - combining telemetry, AI, and automation to help engineering teams move from reactive monitoring toward autonomous operations.

: https://fusion-reactor.com/
: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/fusionreactor/

Grant Shepert

I have been a full stack developer for over 30 years, long enough that "html has images now!" was a moment for me. In the years since ColdFusion 1.5 and having survived 3.1, I have expanded my toolset to include a multitude of industry evolutions (ah those love/hate/disable/love JS years) programming languages like NextJS and React, honed my processes through hard-earned experiences, and yet always CFML has remained dear to my heart.

: @grantshepert

Guust Nieuwenhuis

WeAreNorth

Guust Nieuwenhuis is a Full Stack Web Wizard with experience in a wide range of technologies. Over the last couple of years, he has been involved in projects for various clients like the European Commission, NSHQ (NATO), Adobe, AS Adventure Group, NS (Dutch railways), CZ Groep, Proximus, Avery Dennison, ZilliZ and Mediagenix.

Through We Are North, he does ‘Customization-As-A-Service’. They don’t build from scratch, but find the best solutions out there and tailor them to their customers’ business needs. In doing so, they never lose sight of the goal of the client.

In his free time, Guust play the double bass and drums, cross the forest on his mountain bike and coaches the youth at his local football club (where he’s a board member as well). He likes spending time with his wife and two kids or meeting friends for a chat, game or drink.

When Guust still have some time left, he mainly spends it behind his computer to fulfil his hunger for the latest trends in IT.

: http://www.guustnieuwenhuis.be
: @lagaffe

Jacob Beers

Jacob is a Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions, Corp. While he has been working as a programmer for the past 10 years he never intended to make a career out of it. His professional journey thus far has been marked by a diverse set of pursuits including 3d animation, game design, fine art, special education, and operating a survival swim school. He likes to think his unusual combination of experiences provides him with a unique and pragmatic approach to software development.

: https://jbeers.github.io
: @jtbeers

Kai Koenig

Software Architect, Ventego Creative

Kai is one of the co-founders of and works as Software Solutions Architect for Ventego Creative Ltd in Wellington, New Zealand. 

Kai got his first computer in 1985 and hasn’t stopped building things with technology since then.

As a software architect he works with a variety of clients to help them leverage technology to achieve their business visions and goals. He specialises in JVM-based technologies (like Java, Kotlin, Adobe ColdFusion, Railo and Lucee) and mobile application development with Android and Flutter.

Other areas of Kai’s interest are delivering education online, improving development teams’ performance through continuous integration and build processes, data science and machine learning technologies. 

Kai regularly speaks at international conferences like Droidcon Berlin, Mobile Refresh Wellington, CF Camp in Germany, Android Makers in France and many others. 

: kaikoenig
: @AgentK

Luis Majano

CEO, Ortus Solutions

Luis Majano is a Computer Engineer, published author, and founder and CEO of Ortus Solutions, Corp (www.ortussolutions.com), a consulting firm specializing in open-source tooling, web development, architecture, and professional open-source.

Since 2000, he has designed and worked with software architecture and technologies. He is passionate about learning and mentoring developers so they can succeed with sustainable software practices and the usage and development of open-source software.

He is the creator of ColdBox HMVC, ContentBox Modular CMS, TestBox BDD, CommandBox CLI, and over 200 open-source projects. He speaks regularly at several international conferences and blogs at www.luismajano.com.

: https://www.ortussolutions.com
: @lmajano

Marin Niehues

Marin Niehues (29) is the Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Business Consulting at PLOIN GmbH, a German boutique consultancy specializing in management and technology. With eight years of consulting experience - plus two startups of his own - he advises a broad portfolio from VC-backed scaleups to DAX40 corporations, focusing on organizational structures, organizational performance and vertical management practices. In the past three years, Marin has spoken at conferences in over ten countries and three continents, including events hosted by Google Canada and Microsoft USA.

Maximilian Kwapil

Webedia GmbH

Hey there, my name is Max.

I've been a full stack Web Developer for a few years now. Although I've been enjoying working with CFML in my day job, I also try to stay curious about other topics. My wife and I live in good old Bavaria with our two cute doggos. Ask me about them when you meet me and I'll show you waaaay too many pictures of them on my phone.

: https://www.gamestar.de

Michael Hnat

bluegras - Internetlösungen

Michael is developing CFML application for more than 20 years and installed his first ColdFusion Server (4.0) from floppy discs (can be seen in several museums). He developed applications for several customers using different Framworks and techniques.
He has been organizing the CFCamp for 12 years meanwhile.
In his free time he's playing ice hockey and golf.

Gianluca Roth

Roth AI-Teaching Academy

I work as an AI Process Specialist at a major automotive manufacturer in Munich and am the founder of the Roth AI-Teaching Academy. In my daily work, I focus on integrating large language models, AI agents, and automation solutions into existing business processes and software landscapes. My focus is on the technical implementation of AI-powered workflows, the optimization of system architectures, and how applications can be prepared for a future with AI interfaces and agent-based systems.

In addition to my work in the industry, I give lectures and workshops on topics such as Generative AI, LLM integration, semantic web structures, and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO). I regularly collaborate with developers, architects, and technical teams to design existing web and backend systems so that they can be better understood, processed, and utilized by modern AI systems.

My focus is on practical, technical approaches to integrating AI into real-world applications — from structured data and API design to retrieval systems, AI agents, and new forms of search.

: https://www.ai-teaching-academy.com/
: gianluca-roth-ai-teaching-academy

Sebastian Zartner

Webedia GmbH

Programmer for more than 25 years, full stack developer at Webedia Gaming GmbH, invited expert in CSS Working Group, proud father of a little, smart girl

Srikanth Madishetti

Software Engineer

Srikanth Madishetti is an Engineering Head at BackAtYou Inc (USA) with over 22 years of experience designing and building large-scale, production-grade software systems. He has worked extensively with ColdFusion, ColdBox, and Lucee, delivering long-living applications in enterprise environments across multiple domains.

He is an ex-Adobe engineer and an active contributor to the CFML community, having delivered numerous technical talks at community forums and international conferences. His recent conference work has focused on practical AI adoption in CFML applications. In 2024, he presented a session on ChatGPT integration with Lucee, showcasing an open source library for chat assistance and content completion. At CFCAMP 2025, he presented a session on AI-driven content moderation and demonstrated another open source library used in real-world systems.

Having explored AI at the feature and integration level in previous talks, Srikanth now focuses on AI from an architectural and system design perspective. His work emphasizes safe, asynchronous, and event-driven AI integration using ColdBox features such as Custom Interception Points and asyncManager, ensuring AI enhances systems without compromising stability or determinism.

Beyond AI, Srikanth has deep experience in CF security, performance, and best practices. He has delivered talks on OWASP security in CFML, ColdFusion best practices, and modern CF coding standards. He has earned Guru and Masters certifications on Experts Exchange for his contributions to Lucee and CFML, based on his published articles and solutions. He is also the author of the book Manage Your Energy, Not Time, available on Amazon.

Srikanth has worked on CFML projects across India, Malaysia, the UK, the US, Cyprus, and Australia, bringing a global, production-focused perspective to his work. He is passionate about sharing practical knowledge that helps teams build resilient, maintainable systems that scale.

: https://www.experts-exchange.com/members/srikanthmadishetti.html?cid=2035

Zac Spitzer

Lucee

I’m the Community Manager for Lucee, responsible for co-ordinating releases, triaging bugs and supporting all the Lucee users.

I’ve been a cfml developer since 1996

Based in Berlin Germany, I’m from Melbourne, Australia.

: https://github.com/zspitzer
: @zackster

Syed Usman Ahmad

Grafana Labs

Usman is a Staff Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs from Nuremberg, Germany. He works with the Open Source community on the community forum, GitHub and Slack.

He has over 15 years of experience in the Tech Industry where he served multiple customers all over Europe, US, Japan, etc.

He is an active international public speaker participating in multiple conferences and events. Also, he is the owner of the FreeLinuxTutorials YouTube channel where he shares educational content around Linux and Open Source Tools.

In his free time, Usman likes to spend time with his family, go out on occasional traveling and play games or read comics.

: https://grafana.com/
: https://www.linkedin.com/in/usmanlinux/