Program Committee
The Program Committee is responsible for the quality of the conference program, speakers and the presentations. All members have earned their reputation and status in the industry and are dedicated to making this best possible event.
The Committee members are:
- Art Ligthart, Committee Chairman (Partner at Ordina - Netherlands)
- Thomas Erl (Author and Founder of SOA Systems - Canada)
- Frank Buschmann (Principal Engineer at Siemens AG - Germany)
- Mels Dees (Chief Editor at SDU/Automatisering Gids - Netherlands)
- Roel Wieringa (Professor at the Informations Systems Group, University of Twente - Netherlands)
- Bert Bastenhof (Principal Architect at Rabobank - Netherlands)
- Frits Bussemaker (Chairman of BPM Forum - Netherlands)
- Herbjörn Wilhelmsen (Senior Consultant, Objectware - Sweden)
- Jaap Franse (CEO Systemation - Netherlands)
- Mattias Abrahamsson (SOA Practice Lead, Acando, Sweden)
Biographies for the Committee members are currently being assembled and will be published soon.
Committee Review Process
The Committee is inviting the world's top SOA experts and authors to provide speaker sessions with high-quality content for SOA practitioners. All speakers are being asked to submit multiple speaker session proposals from which the Committee is choosing the best and most suitable sessions for this event. If a given speaker does not provide a suitable proposal, the speaker cannot be added to the agenda.
Subsequent to selecting the top proposals, the Committee is further responsible for reviewing each speaker's presentation materials in advance. The focus of this review is not on technical content, but to ensure the the presentations are as professional and visually demonstrative as possible and to further ensure that the length and structure of the presentation is suitable for its timeslot.
Throughout this process, the Program Committee remains independent and is in no way influenced by vendors or sponsors.
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Art Ligthart |
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Thomas Erl |
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Frank Buschmann
Frank Buschmann is a software engineer at Siemens, where he focuses on object- oriented technology, software reuse, and patterns. His research interests include Object Technology, Application Frameworks and specifically Patterns. In his development work, Frank has lead the design and implementation of several large-scale industrial software projects, including business information, industrial automation, and telecommunication systems. He is a member of the ANSI C++ standards committee. He is the co-author of various books, among them the 'Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture' series (currently 4 volumes), 'Security Patterns: Integrating Security and Systems Engineering', and 'Past, Present, and Future Trends in Software Patterns'. |
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Mels DeesMels Dees is Publisher and Chief Editor of one of the largest IT-related publications in the Netherlands, 'Automatiseringsgids'. |
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Roel Wieringa
Roel Wieringa is full professor of information systems at the University of Twente, The Netherlands, and is chair of the Information Systems group. The Information Systems group performs research in business-IT alignment, IT-enabled value networks, mobile and context-aware service provision and information security in business networks. His recent publications concern the mutual alignment of IT services and IT architecture in value webs and the role of business problems in structuring IT requirements specifications. Wieringa shares a joint responsibility for the Masters of Science in Business Information Technology, which teaches the principles and practice of business-IT alignment, process management, architecture and governance in business networks. Prof. Wieringa has published over 100 scientific papers in scientific journals and international conferences, is a member of the steering committee of the International IEEE Conference on Requirements Engineering and has been Associate editor for Requirements Engineering of IEEE Software Magazine. He has authored the book Requirements Engineering: Frameworks for Understanding (Wiley, 1997) and the book Reactive System Design: Yourdon, Statemate and the UML (Morgan Kaufmann, 2003). He is member of the editorial board of the Requirements Engineering journal (Springer). |
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Bert BastenhofBert Bastenhof is an IT architect at department policy and architecture at directorate Group ICT at the Rabobank. He has worked in several IT functions since 1976. He is a frequent speaker at seminars and symposia. |
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Frits BussemakerFrits Bussemaker has been working in the IT industry for 20 years. He has held various senior commercial positions with companies including Logica, Cambridge Technology Partners and Tibco. He is now Management Consultant with Ordina. In 2003 he was the founder and chairman of the BPM-Forum Netherlands, A neutral expert platform for Business Process Management. He is also the founded and former Chairman of the Dutch chapter of the Association for Strategic Alliance Professionals and boardmember of the Business Rules Platform. He is a regular speaker on BPM and a columnist in Business Process Management Magazine and bptrends.com. He is a honorary fellow of Inholland. He has an MSc from the University of Delft. |
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Mattias AbrahamssonMattias Abrahamsson is a senior consultant and manager at Acando, Sweden. The hunt for the silver bullet has spurred Mattias interest in SOA and he is currently SOA Practice Lead at Acando. As a veteran system developer, an avid architect and now passionate evangelist he has fiddled with many aspects concerning SOA. It is Mattias firm belief that the most critical success factor for a SOA endeavour is the mindset of the people involved. Mattias hunt for the silver bullet has not yet ended, but he is sure SOA will make it a lot easier to hit the target. |
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Jaap FranseJaap Franse is a managing director of Systemation AES. He is a frequent speaker at seminars and congresses. |
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Herbjörn WilhelmsenHerbjörn Wilhelmsen is a Architect/Senior Consultant at Objectware. Before that, he was a consultant at KnowIT, and Development Manager of MyPay. He is a member of IASA. He specializes in Solution Architecture, SOA, Smart Clients and Web Clients. He will be participating in the panel "ESB and SOA" More information can be found at LinkedIn. |
