Janez was first exposed to free software in elementary school and has been passionate about it since. He has been involved with Drupal since his introduction while completing a computer science degree. Between 2010 and 2012 he led the transition to Drupal 7 at one of the biggest publishing companies in Slovenia. After that he joined Examiner.com which was the biggest Drupal website at the time. He started contributing to Drupal 8 early in the release cycle and due to his experience in the publishing industry became active in the media initiative and eventually became its lead. Janez is, besides free software and Drupal, passionate about challenging technical problems, complex computer systems, management processes, investing, and most sports that include putting some kind of a board below one's feet.

With a career spanning over two decades, Mariano Crivello has established himself as an expert Solutions Architect in the realm of software development. His journey in the software industry began in 1997 in highschool where he built the schools first website. Since then, Mariano has dedicated himself to mastering the intricacies of technology, software, and now artificial intelligence. Since embracing Drupal in 2007, his career has taken him around the world and back where he has had the opportunity to work with brilliant minds and challenging projects throughout.

Beyond his professional pursuits, Mariano is a dedicated family man who balances his tech-driven career with his love for the environment and adventure. As an avid waterman, he travels the world in search of challenging waves to surf, while also committing to beach cleanups and work with various environmental organizations.

Mariano's unique blend of technical prowess, environmental consciousness, and family values make him not just a skilled Solutions Architect, but also a well-rounded individual dedicated to making a positive impact both in the digital and natural worlds.

Michael E. Meyers joined Tag1 Consulting as Managing Director in 2017 after a decade of working with the team on many projects.

Prior to joining Tag1, Michael was VP of Developer Relations at Acquia, responsible for developer marketing & events, developer relations, and helped launch the developer products group. Michael co-founded & was CTO of NowPublic.com, the first venture-backed Drupal based startup that pioneered citizen journalism. With the help of Tag1, he grew NowPublic into a top 500 website. As CTO of The Clarity Digital Group, which acquired NowPublic, Michael and the Tag1 team rebuilt Examiner.com, the first Drupal-based top 100 Internet site, and the leading contributor to Drupal 7.

Michael has made major contributions to and helped establish Drupal as one of the most successful open source platforms; He’s an advisor to the Drupal Association board and several startup companies.

Lynette has been part of the Drupal community since Drupalcon Brussels in 2006. She comes from a technical support background, from front-line to developer liaison, giving her a strong understanding of the user experience. She took the next step by writing the majority of Drupal's Building Blocks, focused on some of the most popular Drupal modules at the time. From there, she moved on to working as a professional technical writer, spending seven years at Acquia, working with nearly every product offering. As a writer, her mantra is "Make your documentation so good your users never need to call you."

Lynette lives in San Jose, California where she is a knitter, occasionally a brewer, a newly-minted 3D printing enthusiast, and has too many other hobbies. She also homeschools her two children, and has three house cats, two porch cats, and two rabbits.

Preston is a product strategist, developer advocate, speaker, and author of Decoupled Drupal in Practice (Apress, 2018).

A globally recognized voice on decoupled Drupal and subject matter expert in the decentralized web and conversational design, Preston is Editor in Chief at Tag1 Consulting and Principal Product Manager at Gatsby, where he works on improving the Gatsby developer experience and driving product development.

Having spoken at over 50 conferences, Preston is a sought-after presenter with keynotes on five continents and in three languages.

Preston is a product strategist, developer advocate, speaker, and author of Decoupled Drupal in Practice (Apress, 2018).

A globally recognized voice on decoupled Drupal and subject matter expert in the decentralized web and conversational design, Preston is Editor in Chief at Tag1 Consulting and Principal Product Manager at Gatsby, where he works on improving the Gatsby developer experience and driving product development.

Having spoken at over 50 conferences, Preston is a sought-after presenter with keynotes on five continents and in three languages.

Michael E. Meyers joined Tag1 Consulting as Managing Director in 2017 after a decade of working with the team on many projects.

Prior to joining Tag1, Michael was VP of Developer Relations at Acquia, responsible for developer marketing & events, developer relations, and helped launch the developer products group. Michael co-founded & was CTO of NowPublic.com, the first venture-backed Drupal based startup that pioneered citizen journalism. With the help of Tag1, he grew NowPublic into a top 500 website. As CTO of The Clarity Digital Group, which acquired NowPublic, Michael and the Tag1 team rebuilt Examiner.com, the first Drupal-based top 100 Internet site, and the leading contributor to Drupal 7.

Michael has made major contributions to and helped establish Drupal as one of the most successful open source platforms; He’s an advisor to the Drupal Association board and several startup companies.

Narayan is a co-owner of Tag1 Consulting, who joined the team in 2008. He was introduced to Drupal during his tenure at the Oregon State University Open Source Lab where he was the co-lead system administrator, and served as their Database Administrator of over 180 MySQL databases, the Freenode Server administrator, and the Drupal.org Server Administrator. He is a permanent member of the Drupal Association as their Systems Coordinator, and is a member of the Drupal.org infrastructure team. He is also a co-maintainer of the Pressflow high performance Drupal distribution. Narayan is a co-author of the O'Reilly book High Performance Drupal.

Outside of Drupal, Narayan has been deeply involved in the FreeBSD, Gentoo and Slackware communities. He was a contributing editor and system administrator of a popular Linux community website. As a Google Summer of Code student he developed the KDE front-end to the SUSE System Update server, and became a KDE core committer in 2007. He also ported and updated the XML-RPC system to KDE3 and KDE4.

More recently, he acted as infrastructure lead for the examiner.com 2.0 re-launch and infrastructure lead for the drupal.org redesign launch. Narayan is currently Chief Technology Officer at Tag1 Consulting.