Bertrand Meyer is Professor of Software Engineering at ETH Zurich, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, research professor at ITMO (State University of Saint Petersburg) and Chief Architect of Eiffel Software (based in California). He is the initial designer of the Eiffel method and language and has continued to participate in its evolution. He also directed the development of the EiffelStudio environment, compiler, tools and libraries through their successive versions.
Other activities include: chair of the TOOLS conference series (running since 1989, hosted at ETH since 2007, forthcoming session June 27 - July 2, 2011, in Zurich); director of the LASER summer school on software engineering (taking place every year since 2004 in early September in Elba island, Italy); member, and chair since 2009, of the IFIP TC2 committee (Software technology); member of the IFIP Working Group 2.3 on Programming Methodology; member of the French Academy of Technologies. He is also active as a consultant (object-oriented system design, architectural reviews, technology assessment, patents and software litigation), trainer in object technology and other software topics, and conference speaker. Awards include ACM Software System Award, Fellow of the ACM, Dahl-Nygaard Prize, Harlan D. Mills Prize, and honorary doctorate from the Technical University (ITMO) of Saint Petersburg. Since 2011 he has been an adjunct research professor at ITMO, as holder of a newly created chair on Software Engineering and Verification.
Prior to founding Eiffel Software in 1985, Meyer had a 9-year technical and managerial career at EDF, and was for three years on the faculty at the University of California. His experience with object technology through the Simula language, as well as early work on abstract data types and formal specification (including participation in the first versions of the Z specification language) provided some of the background for the development of Eiffel.

Arie van Deursen holds a PhD from the University of Amsterdam (1994), and an MSc degree from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (1990). Since 2003, Arie van Deursen is head of the Software Engineering Research Group (SERG) at Delft University of Technology. Before that he worked as a researcher at CWI, the Dutch Research Center for Mathematics in Computer Science. He is a regular program committee member of all key conferences in the field of software engineering, most notably the prestigious ICSE (2010?2012), FSE (2010, 2012), OOPSLA (2012), and ECOOP (2010,2011) conferences. Arie van Deursen?s main field of research is software engineering. His research goals are twofold: (1) to obtain a deep understanding of how people build and evolve software systems; and (2) to use the thus obtained theories and models to develop new methods, techniques and tools that advance the way in which software is built and modified. In his empirical work, he has looked at software testing practices from different perspectives. By using repository mining techniques, he has investigated the interplay between coding activities and developer testing activities, as visible in the code?s version control system. Furthermore, he has used grounded theory, a research methodology from the social sciences, to identify integration testing practices in open source plug-in architectures (to appear in ICSE 2012)

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