'<p class=bio><img src=/images/tools/speakers/weck.jpg width=100 align=left><b>Wolfgang Weck</b> recently joined Oberon microsystems as a software architect. Previously, he has been researching and teaching component-oriented programming in academia. He has published and presented papers in conferences such as TOOLS, OOPSLA, and ECOOP.<p class=bio><b>Cuno Pfister</b> is co-founder and managing director of Oberon microsystems Inc, a company specializing in component-oriented software architecture. He is an architecture consultant and the designer of several commercial component frameworks. He has been presenting within industrial courses of Oberon microsystems, and has been speaker at a number of industrial conferences.'