Alain Chesnais

Alain Chesnais has over 25 years of professional software development experience with more than 20 spent in management roles. He served as president of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery, the world's largest educational and scientific computing society) from 2010 to 2012. He is a recognized leader in computer graphics software development. He has been professionally engaged either as Founder, President, VP or CTO in many companies, including Visual Transitions, TrendSpottr, SceneCaster, Tucows, ATI, TrueSpectra, etc. Alain Chesnais was director of engineering at Alias|wavefront on the team that developed the technical academy award winning Maya software package. He was also President of ACM SIGGRAPH, the premier non profit organization for the promotion and development of computer graphics and interactive techniques, from 2002 to 2005.

Ricardo Cabello ( Mr.doob )

Ricardo Cabello - also known in the Web 3D and Demoscene Communities as Mr.doob - (@mrdoob) is a self-taught graphic designer and computer programmer focusing on the possibilities the web has to offer. His work goes from simple interactive digital toys — Google Gravity, Ball Pool and Harmony — to full featured experiences — The Johnny Cash Project, The Wilderness Downtown and ROME. Ricardo spends his spare time developing very successful open source libraries like three.js, frame.js and stats.js with the hope of making web development simpler for everyone. three.js is a lightweight cross-browser JavaScript library/API used to create and display animated 3D computer graphics on a Web browser. Three.js scripts may be used in conjunction with the HTML5 canvas element, SVG or WebGL.