Dmitri Glazkov is a software architect, developer, tester, implementer, troubleshooter, instructor, project manager, and a public speaker. He is the CTO of Gandalf Development, Inc., in the Estrada Web Technology division. Estrada is a content management system which originated (with his help) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and was later exclusively licensed by his company. Gandalf defines (and refines) the direction of the product and keep us in the competitive fold. He gives public talks about Web technology, content management, and Web 2.0-related issues.

Dmitri occasionally writes a post or two on his blog at http://glazkov.com/.  This blog had seen quite a bit of traffic and has been linked and commented by Web luminaries like Eric Meyer, Dave Shea, Shaun Inman, and Jeffrey Zeldman.

Session: Social networking systems: chat rooms on steroids or a real tool for social change?