Ben Forta is, first and foremost, an educator with over three decades of experience in and out of the classroom. Education is Ben’s passion. Between writing, lecturing, and in-classroom experience, he has dedicated his professional and personal lives to teaching, inspiring, mentoring, and sharing his love for technology and creativity. He is immensely grateful to have had the opportunity to share with millions worldwide. As Adobe’s Senior Director of Education Initiatives, he spends a considerable amount of time teaching, talking, and writing about creativity and digital literacy and the future of education, and provides feedback to help shape the future direction of Adobe products. And, in his spare time, Ben leads a high-school robotics program at a local Michigan high school.

Ben is the author of over 40 books, including the world’s best-selling title on SQL, as well as titles on topics as diverse as Adobe Spark in the classroom, Regular Expressions, mobile development, and Adobe ColdFusion. Over 900,000 copies of his books are in print in English, and titles have been translated into 16 additional languages. Many of these titles are used as textbooks in colleges and universities worldwide. Through his books and videos Ben has taught coding skills to over 1,000,000 people.

Ben has decades of experience in the tech space in product design and development, support, training, and marketing. Ben is also a successful entrepreneur with experience creating, building, and selling start-ups. He is a sought-after public speaker, a writer and blogger, and he presents on education and development topics worldwide.

A veteran ColdFusion developer and troubleshooter since 1997, Charlie Arehart is a longtime contributor to the community and a recognized Adobe Community Professional. He's a certified Advanced CF Developer and Instructor for each version since CF 4 who:

* has written over 80 articles for the Adobe DevCenter, FusionAuthority Quarterly Update, CommunityMX, and ColdFusion Developers Journal

* has given more than 90 presentations to hundreds of user groups and 25 different CF conferences

* blogs at http://www.carehart.org/blog

* is a contributor to the CF10 (and all three volumes of the CF8 and CF9) Web Application Construction Kit books by Ben Forta et al, and several other books.

He runs several community resources, including:

* the Online ColdFusion Meetup, http://www.coldfusionmeetup.com, the world's largest CF user group

* the UGTV repository of recorded user group presentations from all over the world (http://www.carehart.org/ugtv)

* the CF411 site with several hundred resources and tools of interest to CFers (http://www.cf411.com)

Now an independent contractor, Charlie provides troubleshooting/tuning assistance and training/mentoring for CF teams, individuals, and shops (carehart.org/consulting). His customers are as varied as large organizations like UPS and CVS, government agencies, hosting companies, and small to medium sized businesses.

Raymond Camden is a Senior Developer Evangelist for Adobe. He works on the Document Services APIs to build powerful (and typically cat-related) PDF demos. He is the author of multiple books on web development and has been actively blogging and presenting for almost twenty years. Raymond can be reached at his blog (www.raymondcamden.com), @raymondcamden on Twitter, or via email at raymondcamden@gmail.com.