Piergiorgio Lucidi is an open source ECM Specialist and a Certified Alfresco Trainer at Sourcesense. Sourcesense is an European open source systems integrator, providing consultancy, support, and services around key open source technologies.

He works as a mentor, technical leader, and software engineer, and he has over 9 years of experience in the areas of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and system integrations. He is an expert in integrating ECM solutions in web and portal applications. He regularly contributes to the Alfresco Community as an Alfresco Wiki Gardener, and during the Alfresco DevCon 2012 in Berlin he was named as an Alfresco Community Star.

He contributes in the Apache Software Foundation as a PMC Member and Committer of Apache ManifoldCF. He is also the project leader of the CMIS, Alfresco, and ElasticSearch connectors. He is a project leader and committer of the JBoss Community and contributes to some of the projects of the JBoss Portal platform.

He is a speaker at conferences dedicated to Java, Spring Framework, open source products and technologies related to the ECM and WCM world.

He is an author, technical reviewer, and affiliate partner at Packt Publishing, where he wrote the following technical books:

As a technical reviewer, he also contributed on these books:

As an affiliate partner, he also writes and publishes book reviews on his website Open4Dev (http://www.open4dev.com/).

Hetal Patel is a Senior Consultant at CIGNEX Datamatics, and has extensive experience in implementing Enterprise Web Applications using J2EE technologies.

He rolled out numerous Alfresco and Liferay deployments worldwide in the ECM and Portal domain.

He is also a certified Alfresco corporate trainer, certified Alfresco Engineer, and provides Alfresco Developer and Administrators training worldwide.