email: scott@thirstyhead.com

Scott Davis is the founder of ThirstyHead.com, a training and consulting company that specializes in Groovy and Grails solutions.

Scott published one of the first public websites implemented in Grails in 2006 and has been actively working with the technology ever since. Author of the books Getting Started with Grails and Groovy Recipes: Greasing the Wheels of Java, as well as two ongoing IBM developerWorks article series (Mastering Grails and in 2009, Practically Groovy), Scott writes extensively about how Groovy and Grails are the future of Java development.

Scott teaches public and private classes on Groovy and Grails for start-ups and Fortune 100 companies. He is the co-founder of the Groovy/Grails Experience conference and is a regular presenter on the international technical conference circuit (including No Fluff Just Stuff, JavaOne, OSCON, TheServerSide, and QCON). In 2008, Scott was voted the top Rock Star at JavaOne for his talk "Groovy, the Red Pill: How to blow the mind of a buttoned-down Java developer". In 2009, he won a second Rock Star award for his talk "Resource-Oriented Architecture (ROA) and REST".

email: andrew@thirstyhead.com

Andrew Glover began writing about Groovy in 2004 with the IBM developerWorks article series Practically Groovy. He is the founder of the easyb Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) framework, and is the co-author of numerous books including Continuous Integration, Groovy in Action, and Java Testing Patterns. He is a prolific writer for multiple online publications including IBM developerWorks, O'Reilly ONJava and ONLamp, and JavaWorld. He actively blogs about software at thediscoblog.com.

email: tim@thirstyhead.com

Tim Berglund is a developer, consultant, and trainer who builds web applications with open-source tools, especially Groovy and Grails.

Tim specializes in helping clients through periods of technology transition, with interests spanning web applications, business integration, data architecture, and software architecture. In all these engagements, he is especially passionate about helping developers improve in their craft.

Tim is an international conference speaker at venues such as The Server Side Symposium Europe, The Scandinavian Developer Conference, and No Fluff Just Stuff. He also speaks at user groups in the United States, and helps lead IASA Denver and the Denver Open Source User Group (DOSUG). He is currently writing the book Deploying Grails (O'Reilly), due out in 2010. Tim blogs regularly about technology and software development.