Erik Bruchez has extensive experience in the software industry as a software architect and consultant. He was involved with World Wide Web technologies since the Web’s inception in 1992. As a former employee of Symantec Corp., he contributed to the VisualCafe for Java product line. In 1999, he co-founded Orbeon, Inc. (www.orbeon.com), where he is now an architect of Orbeon Forms, an open source web platform for form-based applications that builds on technologies such as XForms and Ajax. Erik participates in the W3C’s XForms and XML Processing Model working groups. He is the author of articles about web applications and XML technologies and has been a speaker at conferences such as JavaOne, ObjectWebCon, and XTech. Erik holds an MS/CS from the Swiss Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland. He spends most of this time between Switzerland and California.