Collaboration processes and tools pioneer Ward Cunningham returns to GOSCON to conduct an intimate interactive session at GOSCON 2007. Cunningham was a GOSCON 2006 keynote speaker on Large Scale Collaboration and was one of the most popular speakers to address the audience.

Titled "Talk Shop with Ward Cunningham", the session will include practical guidance and discussion  with newcomers and veterans of collaboration tools.  Topics will be drawn from audience interest at the start of the session.  Seating will be limited, sign-up will be available at the registration desk at the conference.

Ward Cunningham is best known as the inventor of Wiki. He is now the Chief Technology Officer of AboutUs.org, a Portland based growth company hosting the communities formed by organizations and the people they touch. Ward co-founded the consultancy, Cunningham & Cunningham, Inc., has served as a Director of the Eclipse Foundation, an Architect in Microsoft's Patterns & Practices Group, the Director of R&D at Wyatt Software and as Principle Engineer in the Tektronix Computer Research Laboratory. Ward is well known for his contributions to the developing practice of object-oriented programming, the variation called Extreme Programming, and the communities supported by his WikiWikiWeb.