Alex Russell is a software engineer at Google focusing enabling better web applications. Prior to Google he built JavaScript libraries used by startups and enterprises alike.

Yehuda Katz is developer at and Co-founder of Tilde Inc, a member of the Ember.js, Ruby on Rails and jQuery Core Teams and co-author of best-selling jQuery in Action and Rails 3 in Action.

Both Alex and Yehuda serve on the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) and the JavaScript standard committee (ECMA TC39).

Brian Kardell is a front-end engineer at The Apollo Group, chair of the W3C Extensible Web Community Group, co-author of HitchJS and a member of the W3C CSS Working Group (JQuery).