Niklas Heidloff is a software architect working for the software group in IBM. Currently Niklas is focussed on invigorating the application development community and promoting XPages as IBM's web and mobile application development platform for collaborative and social applications. In this role he is the Technical Committee Chair and a director of the Board of Directors of the open source site OpenNTF.org. Previously Niklas has been responsible for various other application development areas in the IBM Lotus Domino space, e.g. composite applications. Before this he had worked on IBM Lotus Notes, IBM WebSphere Process Choreographer and IBM Workplace Client Technology. In 1999, he joined IBM as part of the Lotus Workflow team. Niklas studied at the university in Paderborn, Germany, and has a degree in Business Computing (Diplom Wirtschaftsinformatiker)