Dr. Zakir Laliwala is an entrepreneur, open source specialist, and a hands-on CTO of Attune Infocom. Attune Infocom provides enterprise open source solutions and services for SOA, BPM, ESB, portal, cloud computing, and ECM. At Attune Infocom, he is responsible for the delivery of solutions and services and product development. He explores new enterprise open source and defining architecture, roadmaps, and best practices. He has consulted and provided training on various open source technologies, including Mule ESB, Activiti BPM, JBoss jBPM and Drools, Liferay Portal, Alfresco ECM, JBoss SOA, and cloud computing, to corporations around the world.

He has a PhD. in Information and Communication Technology from the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology. He was an adjunct faculty member at the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT) and at CEPT University where he taught students at the Master's level.

He has published many research papers in IEEE and ACM International Conferences on web services, SOA, grid computing, and Semantic Web. He also serves as a reviewer at various international conferences and journals. He has also published book chapters and is writing a book on open source technologies. He is the co-author of Mule ESB Cookbook, Packt Publishing.

Irshad Mansuri has more than three years of experience in implementing Java, J2EE, Activiti, JBPM, and Liferay solutions. He has successfully migrated the IBM WebSphere Portal to Liferay Portal for a client based in the UK. He has successfully delivered and managed projects in Liferay, Alfresco, jBPM, and Activiti. He has also delivered training on Liferay Portal, Activiti, and jBPM to various clients across the globe. He is responsible for implementing, deploying, integrating, and optimizing portals and business processes using Activiti, jBPM, and Liferay development tools.