Daniel Lezzi
Daniele has degrees in Computer Engineering and Information Technology Engineering and has been a researcher for the Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Changes. His research covers high performance, distributed and grid computing and programming models. Since July 2008 Daniele has worked for the Barcelona Supercomputing Center.

Danielle Venton
Originally from the West Coast of the US, Danielle currently lives in Switzerland and works in the EGEE communications team. After graduating from Humboldt State with a degree in biology, she worked at a riding stable, in a wine lab, as a math tutor, in a national park and as a freelance writer before finding her way to CERN, where she now writes about grid computing.

Nicholas Ferguson
Nicholas got involved in distributed computing as deputy co-ordinator of OGF-Europe. His main interest lies in standards for Digital Repositories, as well as the evolution of distributed computing in Europe and especially the momentum that clouds have been gaining recently. He originally comes from Newcastle but now lives in Pisa. As a keen football supporter, he enjoys playing and watching football, ideally in his home town whenever he can.

Damien Lecarpentier
Damien works as a project coordinator in Helsinki at CSC, the Finnish IT Centre for Science. He works as a dissemination officer within the European Grid Initiative Design Study (EGI_DS), and is also responsible for dissemination and outreach activities in the e-Infrastructure Reflection Group Support Programme 2 (e-IRGSP2).