Chair: Steffen Schaefer is Technical Thought Leader for wireless e-business in IBM Global Services, working for more than twelve years in Object Technology and component development. On a large number of projects he has built wireless application platforms as well as applications for mobile computing - working in lead architecture roles, as well as a development lead / technical project manager. The last couple of years he has primarily spent in Scandinavia, involved with Mobile Internet for leading wireless service providers. In Central Europe, he's helping car manufacturers on OSGi based Telematics clients and back end platforms and is strongly engaged on projects for Mobile Gaming.

Steffen has organized various workshops at OOPSLA, on Pervasive Computing, methodology and component development. He has published a book and a number of articles on object oriented methodologies.

Steve Marney is an Enterprise Consultant at EDS Enterprise Information & Technology and has over fifteen years experience developing intelligent and object oriented systems in Manufacturing, Engineering and Financial industries. Mr. Marney is currently the Enterprise Architect for CIO systems within EDS. He also represents EDS at the OMG where he co-chairs the Manufacturing Technology and Industrial Systems Task Force. He presented a paper on "Using Objects to Manage In-Memory, Data Intensive Expert Systems" at OOPSLA '95, chaired the Experience Report session on Frameworks at OOPSLA '96, and gave a tutorial titled Architecture for Distributed Business Object Systems at OOPSLA '97. He also participated in workshops on Integration of Intelligence into Business Objects at OOPSLA '96 and '97 and helped organize workshops on Implementation and Application of Object Oriented Workflow Management Systems at OOPSLA '98, '99 and 2000. Mr. Marney also helped organize the OOPSLA 2001 and 2002 workshops on pervasive and mobile computing.

Jens Jahnke is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Victoria, Canada. He is also a Research Fellow of the Advanced Systems Institute of British Columbia (ASI). His research interest are in issues of network-centric software engineering and embedded pervasive devices. He directs several research projects in this area with industrial collaboration. He has served as organizer for several workshops including the 3rd Workshop on Net-Centric Computing in co-location with the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2001). He received the German Software Engineering Prize of the Ernst-Denert Stiftung.

Jutta Eckstein is an independent consultant and trainer from Munich, Germany. She has developed object-oriented software since 1990. Besides engineering software she has been designing and teaching OT courses in industry. Having completed a course of teacher training and led many 'train the trainer' programs in industry, she focuses also on techniques which help teach OT and is a main lead in the pedagogical patterns project. She has presented work in her main areas at OOPSLA, OT, EuroPLoP and diverse XP conferences.
She is a member of the board of Hillside Europe e.V., the association to advance expert knowledge (in the shape of patterns) about practice-proven techniques for analysis, architecture and programming of software systems as well as for the formation of organizational and team structures for software development.
She is furthermore a member of the program committee of Agile Devlopment Conference 2003, EuroPLoP 2003, OT2003, XP 2003, and XP and Agile Universe 2003.

Rob van den Berg