Michael is the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Internet Strategist for Trellon, LLC. Michael's work with Trellon has been focused on the non-profit, academic and socially responsible business sectors, with a specific emphasis on environmental, social justice and open source issues. He has a passion for interoperability and deploying Drupal in high performance environments. Recently, he helped scale the Earth Day web site to handle over 80 million page requests in a 48 hour period.
Federico Pistono is a filmmaker, blogger and computer scientist. In 2002, at the age of 16, he receives a full scholarship for the international college UWCAD, a placed focused on the international understanding between different cultures, living away from home together with 200 students from 82 countries.
In 2007 he founds the "Grilli biellesi" (http://grillibiellesi.org), a non-profit organisation which deals with social issues, particularly with energy, the environment, information, waste, connectivity and water as a right to life.