Wolfgang Böhm worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Chair of Software and Systems Engineering at the Technical University of Munich. He oversaw several research projects, among them the SPES projects SPES2020, SPES_XT, CrESt, and SpesML. Prior to that, he led the application products R&D organization at Nokia Siemens Networks.

Manfred Broy is a professor emeritus for Software and Systems Engineering at the Institute for Informatics of the Technical University of Munich. The core topic of his research is the development of concurrent software-intensive systems based on a solid scientific foundation by means of well-elaborated models and processes, durable and flexible software architectures, and modern development tools on the basis of mathematical and logical methods. He was awarded the Leibniz Preis in 1994 and the Order of Merit (Bundesverdienstkreuz) in 1996 and received the Konrad-Zuse-Medal for extraordinary services in Computer Science in 2007.

Walter Koch works as Applied Researcher at Schaeffler AG, a large automotive supplier in Germany, and is involved in some public funded projects. In parallel he is also in charge for a company-wide initiative for the digitalization in R&D. In 2019 he was elected as president of the German chapter of INCOSE (International Council on Systems Engineering), the authority of systems engineering globally. He has over 30 years of experience in the German automotive supplier business in different companies and management positions.

Nikolaus Regnat is a senior key expert for model-based development at Siemens AG. He has worked since 2003 on model-based development in industry environments and has helped various Siemens business units to adopt model-based development methodologies to their organizations. He is also frequently involved in research projects, among them the SPES projects SPES2020, SPES_XT, CrESt, and SpesML.

Bernhard Rumpe is the Software Engineering chair at RWTH Aachen University and Editor-In-Chief of the SoSyM Journal. His main interests are rigorous and practical software and system development methods based on adequate modeling techniques. This includes agile development methods and model-engineering based on UML/SysML-like notations and domain-specific languages. He also helps to apply modeling, e.g., to autonomous cars, human brain simulation, BIM energy management, juristical contract digitalization, production automation, cloud, and many more. 

David Schmalzing is a research assistant at the Chair of Software Engineering of the RWTH Aachen University. His main interests are modeling languages and methods for consistent, agile, and practical software and system engineering.