Some of the people who will be helping the CFCAMP's a great series of events:

!! Ben Forta (Adobe, U.S.A)

Ben has been a card-carrying ColdFusion supporter ever since he first started using the stuff many moons ago, first with Allaire, then Macromedia and now Adobe. Now-a-days he not only enlightens the world on how cool ColdFusion is but also how it can integrate with other cool Adobe technologies such as Flex and AIR. He has written or co-authored a stack of books (lots - but not all - on ColdFusion), blogs heavily, travels the world speaking at events and user groups and still has time to be the father of seven lovely children with his wife Marcy.

Adam Lehman

Unfortunately Ben had to pull out last minute due to some personal commitments that came up unexpected this week. but wait for it we have Adam Lehman coming down from the US in his place!! Adam's the Worldwide ColdFusion Specialist and actually probably does more pure ColdFusion work now than Ben. You can see Ben's view opinion's of Adam here http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2006/8/18/Introducing-Our-New-ColdFusion-Specialist-Adam-Lehman

So it's a shame not to be having Ben down, but it's going to be great meeting Adam and hearing him speak!

Nick Watson

Technical Account Manager for ColdFusion and Flex in EMEA, previously held the position of Senior Support Engineer with Macromedia, Nick was also a Senior consultant for ColdFusion with <allaire> and Macromedia

Mark Blair

Technical Director for Adobe in the Pacific, Mark has worked for Allaire as a Senior Consultant, Technical Services Manager for Macromedia, Server Product Manager for Macromedia and head of Adobe Consulting in the Pacific.  A passionate speaker on topics related to the web, RIA, Flex and of course ColdFusion!

Andrew Spaulding

Andrew is a Systems Engineer for Adobe in Australia. Andrew started in IT as a User Interface developer for Achilles Foundation in 2003. After migrating the UI from various Java mixes to Flex, Andrew left Achilles Foundation to become a contract Flex developer, working on multiple Flex projects throughout Australia. This then led to a career with Macromedia in October 2005, now Adobe Systems, where he provided support for customers around Asia Pacific; and more recently progressing to a technical sales role as a Systems Engineer.

Andrew runs a blog at www.flexdaddy.info where he contributes Flex articles and provides coding and development techniques to the community. Andrew is also a certified Adobe Flex instructor.

Geoff Bowers

CEO of the world renowned ColdFusioneers at Daemon, Geoff's also the Keeper of the Goog, an Adobe Master Instructor, Adobe Community Expert for ColdFusion, organizer of the webDU conference and proud father of the FarCry community. Based in Sydney, Australia, Geoff occasionally gets let out for overseas jaunts and is a conference regular "rabbiting on" about code management, account management and the FarCry Framework.

Mark Mandel

Mark Mandel is a Senior Software Architect at NGA.net and has been working with ColdFusion for a number of years, including at his very own dot com bomb back in the late 90's. More recently he has become very active within the ColdFusion open source community, authoring several projects, including Transfer ORM and JavaLoader.

Mark can often be found blogging at www.compoundtheory.com, which has housed his thoughts on ColdFusion for the past few years, as a regular poster on ColdFusion mailing lists as well as generally causing havoc in the #coldfusion channel on Dalnet irc network.

When he's not too busy coding he enjoys spending his extra time getting beaten up, training martial arts in a wide variety of disciplines and reading way too much fantasy literature.

Robin Hilliard

Robin is CEO of RocketBoots, a company providing consulting and training services to developers working with ColdFusion, Flex, Flash, Flash Media Server and Flex Data Services. He is a former employee of Allaire and Macromedia and is a regular speaker at WebDU, WOTP and Max Asia on application architecture and other topics. Robin is the ANZ Adobe User Group Coordinator, an Adobe certified Master Instructor for Flex and ColdFusion and has a BSc in Computer Science and Pure Mathematics from Sydney University. He lives in Sydney with his wife Sarah and has two amusing daughters. Robin lurks on cfaussie (in the glass box labeled "break in case of flames or aggravated whinging").

Peter Bell

Teaches, writes and blogs extensively on code generation and related technologies such as Software Product Lines and Domain Specific Languages. CEO/CTO of SystemsForge - a company that generates custom web applications in New York, Edinburgh and (soon) Sydney! Currently spending three months in Sydney to set up a new office and to learn to surf, dive and sail :->

Lucas Sherwood

Gareth Edwards

- always on the lookout for "The Perfect line of code", Gareth chases down the freshest CF framework or idea, dissects it to see how it ticks. It's been rumoured that his school careers counselor suggested he use his skills to be a forensic scientist, but Gareth found programming was a lot less messy than being elbow-deep in an autopsy...(the obligitory blog plug link)

Wayne McFetridge

- based in the the picture-esque Sunshine Coast, Wayne is a web applications developer comfortable in ColdFusion and Flex - and a pair of boardies when he's out chasing the best shore breaks in Queensland...

Barry Beattie

- is just this guy, you know? (link)

Andrew Mercer

I am a Adobe ColdFusion Developer by day, and Railo hacker by night. I came across Alaire ColdFusion in 1996 when I was just getting to HTML. I was evaluating different ways of getting data out of the RDBMS (I was a DBA at the time) and spat it onto a web page. I stopped looking when I found CFML. I become a ColdFusion Web Developer in 2000. I was around to see Macromedia add Flash to ColdFusion. I was around to see Adobe added PDF to ColdFusion. I plan and being there for many more improvements.

User Group Manager of ColdFusion User Group of Western Australia

Blogging at webonix.net

James Homes

James is an animal rights activist, studies Iaido and Kenjutsu, participates in sport target shooting and blogs on Coldfusion, AIR, AJAX and related technologies. In his spare time he works at a University supporting a fleet of ColdFusion servers.

Kay Smoljak

Kay is a compulsive geek who, from time to time, talks about herself in the third person. She likes ColdFusion, ColdFusion, web standards, and obnoxious music.

Other people involved with these events will be putting their blurb up as soon as they overcome their shyness...