Kai graduated from Technical University of Berlin with a Diplom-Informatiker degree (equivalent to a Master in Computer Science). In the 90's he created and managed Germany's biggest IRCnet server irc.fu-berlin.de, and co-managed one of the world's largest FTP server ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de. He is truly an early bird to the Internet having professionally set up his first public web server in 1993.
Since then, he has worked on numerous web-based projects for a variety of international companies like Lufthansa, Audi, Toyota, Deutsche Telekom, Gruner+Jahr, and SuSE. In 2002 Kai co-founded Apache Friends and created the multi-platform Apache web server bundle XAMPP. His third book, Das XAMPPP-Handbuch, was published by Addison Wesley in 2006.
Currently Kai works as Senior Engineer/Technology Evangelist for Web Tier products at Sun Microsystems.
The title of his presentation will be: "Listen to the people!"