Daniel Adelhardt is Senior Product Manager at Software AG within the Business Infrastructure Products & Solutions team and responsible for the SOA Governance platform CentraSite ActiveSOA. In this position he is involved in many large scale SOA and SOA Governance projects worldwide and consulting customers on how to establish a successful SOA Governance. Prior to joining Software AG he spent 9 years at Sun Microsystems as Java & Software Architect and Java Ambassador. He is frequent speaker at technology conferences and published multiple articles on SOA, Java and Java EE technologies. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Mohamad Afshar, PhD, is VP of Product Management for Oracle Fusion Middleware. He has core product management responsibilities for Oracle's middleware portfolio and is a part of the team that is driving Oracle's vision and strategy for convergence of infrastructure, next generation business automation, and event driven architecture. He has particular expertise in Services-Oriented Architectures and works closely with customers and partners who are driving enterprise-wide SOA initiatives. He holds a PhD in Parallel Database Systems from Cambridge University, UK.

Mohamad recently joined the author team for the book "SOA Governance" which is scheduled for release in 2009.

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Jan Algermissen is founder and principal consultant at NORD Software Consulting. NORD provides integration architecture management consulting to major publishing, legal and industrial companies. Jan's primary focus is the application of Web architecture to enterprise IT. Jan has been consulting and developing distributed systems for over 15 years and has been an expert for Web architecture for the last 8 years. Jan is author of numerous articles on REST and RESTful Web services and member of the JAX-RS (JSR 311) expert group and the Microsoft WCF HTTP advisory board. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Axel Angeli is a management advisor and team coach for mission critical project management and architecture for Ultra-Large Systems and especially bringing SAP Netweaver projects on track. In more than 25 years in business, Axel Angeli has been in many roles in the computing and management consulting: SAP Netweaver guru, SOA and cloud evangelist, project rescuer, complexity and change manager, coach for distributed technology. After all he is a passionate information professional who travels the world to help enterprises to get the best return out of their investments into IT and especially their SAP installations with his speaking, writing and consulting. Axel Angeli is a renowned international conference speaker and site experts for SAP Netweaver on searchsap.com Axel Angeli owns his own advisory Logosworld, Germany and is member of the project rescue network "The Project Angels". Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Anthony has intensive experience in large scale Web architectures and Information systems. He is currently working as a Senior Cloud Computing Consultant at Logica in Paris, creating value by successfully integrating people, business and technology to create effective, sustainable business ecosystems. Before joining Logica, Anthony worked for 5 years in the Research industry, first at the famous French national institute for research in computer science and control (INRIA) in the field of High Performance Computing (HPC) applied to bio-informatics and bio-technologies. During his stay at INRIA he participated in many R&D projects boosting the transfer of high-end technologies from the research domain to the user community. He taught courses in parallel computing at the University of Rennes 1, published and presented many articles in international journals and conferences. Then at Thales Group, a global technology leader for the aerospace, space, defense and security; he integrated the Research and Innovation unit, where he helped develop global security technologies for the civil and military domain. He managed and developed innovative projects around security and cloud computing, submitted a patent, and led a core technology activity around High Performance/Scalability/Availability of Critical Information Systems based on SOA standards. Anthony holds a Masters in Computer Science from the ESIB Engineering School where he graduated top of class. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Jean-Paul De Baets is Integration Architect at FEDICT, the organisation in charge of the initiation, implementation and assistance of e-government projects for the Federal Government of Belgium. He initiated the Federal Service Bus Program by defining the vision and the requirements and is the technical lead on the project. The FSB is an implementation of the Enterprise Service Bus pattern enabling different government agencies to exchange information using SOA concepts. In addition to the technical platform, an important part of this project was to define and implement a SOA governance program, in other words, to define the processes, organisation and supporting tools to enable Fedict to correctly manage its web services. Jean-Paul is also lead architect for various large e-gov projects and provides technical expertise to other government agencies around SOA, Web Services, BPM and EAI. Prior to Fedict, Jean-Paul worked as a consultant for Cap Gemini, Forté Software and Sun Microsystems. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Thomas Bandholtz is a Consultant and Project manager for government and industry (media, banks, energy). In informatics since mid 80s, Thomas started WS/SOA in 1998 with an early focus on semantics. Thomas contributed to ISO Topic Map standardization at OASIS and moved over to W3C Sematic Web in 2003. Thomas also made contributions to the SKOS standardization. Thomas is an open source product manager of iQvoc, and acts as an SKOS-XL vocabulary management tool. Thomas is currently driving Linked Environment Data, publishing the Environment Specimen Bank of the Federal Environment Agency, Germany, in SCOVO. Thomas is a member of the W3C eGovernment Interest Group (invited expert). Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Stuart has 20+ years in IT, of which 15 at CGI as an architect in both functional and technical domains. He is a founder of CGI's SOA strategy and a member of the CGI Technology Council and as such directly involved in developing the company's Cloud offerings. Stuart has been active in The Open Group's SOA Working Group since its foundation and is a co-leader of the security stream within The Open Group's new Cloud Working Group. Over the last few years Stuart has been particularly involved with Identity and Access Management and its relationship to SOA and more recently Cloud Computing. He finds current developments in Identity fascinating and particularly relevant to the Cloud. Before getting into IT Stuart tried (but failed) to make it as a professional musician and remains an unrepentant hippie (without the hair). Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Dr. Toufic Boubez is a well-respected SOA and Web services pioneer and co-author of the SOA Manifesto. He is a Certified SOA Architect and Security Specialist, as well as a consultant and Certified SOA Trainer for SOA Systems Inc. He is the founder of SOA Craftworks and the founder and CTO of Layer 7 Technologies, one of the most successful vendors in SOA Governance and Security. Prior to Layer 7, he was the Chief Architect for Web Services at IBM's Software Group, and the Chief Architect for the IBM Web Services tools. At IBM, he founded the first SOA team and drove IBM's early XML and Web Services strategies. As part of his early SOA activities, he co-authored the original UDDI specification, and co-authored a service description language that was a precursor to WSDL. His current activities span SOA Security, SOA Governance and the impact of Cloud Computing. Toufic is a sought-after presenter and has chaired many XML and Web services conferences, including XML-One and WebServices-One. He has also been actively involved with various standards organizations such as OASIS, W3C and WS-I. He was the co-editor of the W3C WS-Policy specification, and the co-author of the OASIS WS-Trust, WS-SecureConversation, and WS-Federation specifications. He has also participated on the OASIS WS-Security, SAML and UDDI Technical Committees. He is the author of many publications and several books, including "Building Web Services with Java" and the upcoming titles "SOA Governance" and "SOA Security: Practices, Patterns, and Technologies for Securing Services". InfoWorld named him to its "Ones to Watch" list in 2002, and CRN named him a Technology Innovator for 2004. Dr. Boubez holds a Master of Electrical Engineering degree from McGill University and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Rutgers University. Toufic will be teaching the SOA Security Specialist Certification post-conference workshop from Oct. 7-8, 2010. For more information, visit the Workshop Agendas page. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Marco is an architect for Ordina, a large IT services provider in The Netherlands. He is a specialist in the interpretation and translation of a business' vision into IT solutions. He is currently working on the translation of policy and business semantics into formal models as part of the INDiGO project for the Dutch Immigration and Naturalisation Service. Marco has published several articles and is co-author of two books on IT and SOA architecture implementation. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Dr. Paul C. Brown is a software and systems architect with a deep background in the design of distributed information systems. His early work focused on fault-tolerant real-time monitoring and safety systems. Subsequent work on distributed decision support systems evolved into a more general interest in the design of event-driven distributed systems using model-based design methodologies. His model-based tool architectures are the foundation of a diverse family of applications that design distributed control systems, process control interfaces, internal combustion engines, and NASA satellite missions. Extensive design work on enterprise-scale information systems led Dr. Brown to recognize that service-oriented architectures inherently structure both business processes and information systems. This led to the concept of Total Architecture: that business processes and information systems must be architected together. The Total Architecture approach has proved itself building numerous information systems for global enterprises and the Fortune-500. Dr. Brown has authored a pair of books on Total Architecture from Addison Wesley: 'Succeeding with SOA: Realizing Business Value through Total Architecture'; and 'Implementing SOA: Total Architecture in Practice'. Dr. Brown received his BS in Electrical Engineering from Union College, and his MS and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is presently a Principal Software Architect at TIBCO Software Inc. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Helge Buckow is a Senior Knowledge Expert with McKinsey & Company's Berlin Office and a member of McKinsey's Business Technology Office. Since joining McKinsey in July 2002, he has been working on various engagements mostly focusing on IT architecture and IT strategy. Helge is responsible for the coordination of McKinsey's IT architecture practice.

Prior to McKinsey he worked for six and a half years in the IT department of Deutsche Bank in different management positions. Helge Buckow holds a university diploma in physics from the Freie Universitat Berlin and an MBA from Columbia University, New York, USA.

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Dr. Paul Buhler is a Certified SOA Architect and a Certified Cloud Computing Specialist, as well as a Certified SOA Trainer for SOA Systems Inc. and SOA School. With over 20 years of professional experience, Paul is a respected researcher, practitioner, and educator of service-oriented computing, SOA, and service-based technologies. He serves as the Chair of the SOA Education Committee for SOASchool.com and on the program committees of many of the international conferences and workshops relevant to the advancement of service-oriented computing and service engineering. Paul has authored over 20 published papers regarding SOA, agent-based computing, and Web service composition. His expertise has been sought in areas of enterprise architecture, open source middleware, complex event processing, semantic Web technologies and cloud computing. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Yves Chaix (www.yveschaix.com.ni) is an independent e-Gov consultant, operating mainly in Nicaragua, who is credited for leading a team of consultants that documented an eGov conceptual and implementation framework based on FirstGov and FEA-PMO. He has pioneered Web services projects throughout Nicaragua, and is now an SOA Certified Professional. Yves has been a permanent assessor for the Nicaraguan Commission on e-Gov since 2005 during which he helped realize a set of documents on interoperability policies and standards, and the review of e-Gov related bills. Yves was the Spanish translator of the book SOA Principles of Service Design by Thomas Erl, as well as the www.soaprinciples.com Web site. Yves also coordinated both the Spanish and French translation teams for the SOA Manifesto and the Annotated SOA Manifesto. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

David Chou is a technical architect at Microsoft. His focus is on collaborating with enterprises and organizations in such areas as cloud computing, SOA, Web, distributed systems, and security. His involvement supports decision makers in helping them to define the appropriate evolutionary strategies in their architecture development. Drawing from his extensive experience at previously held positions with Sun Microsystems and Accenture, David enjoys helping his clients and customers create value by using objective and pragmatic approaches to create definitive IT strategies, roadmaps, and solution architectures. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Howard S Cohen is a Certified SOA Trainer and a Certified SOA Architect for SOA Systems Inc. and SOASchool.com. Howard has also been an Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton with over 10 years of experience in Consulting, Systems Integration and Technical Leadership. He supports the US Joint Forces Command J89 Directorate Joint Command & Control (JC2) Architecture and Capability Assessment Enterprise (JACAE) as the System Integrator. Howard is the Chair of the SOA Patterns Review Committee and is responsible for overseeing the on-going review and "shepherding" of candidate patterns for the SOAPatterns.org master catalog. His experience has focused on Service-Oriented Architecture, Enterprise Services, Web-based Service Technologies, Virtual and Cloud-based infrastructure, Software Configuration, Team Management, Project Management, Training and Infrastructure Support. Howard has worked extensively in government and industry with companies such as Lockheed Martin, Exis Net, Cox Communications, York County School Division, Gateway, and US Joint Forces Command. He has taught courses on SOA, Management of Information Systems, Information Technology Security, and E-Commerce. Howard has written numerous papers and articles for various publications, including the SOA Magazine. Howard holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Saint Leo University, Saint Leo, Florida along with various industry recognized certifications. Howard is a member of AFCEA, currently sits on the Technical Review Committee for the Chief Information Office of US Joint Forces Command and the SOA Educational Committee for the SOA Certified Professional Program.

Dr. Starr will be teaching the SOA Architect Certification post-conference workshop from Oct. 7-8, 2010. For more information, visit the Workshop Agendas page. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Daniel Compagno works as Project Manager and Solution Architect at Serasa Experian, which is the market leader in Latin America in information services supporting companies in their decision-making process. In Brazil, it means the solution of all the stages of the business cycle, from prospection to collection, offering the best tools to organizations. With deep knowledge of the Brazilian market, it unites the strength and tradition of the name Serasa with the global leadership of Experian. Daniel is currently leading a team of "IT Projects & Integrations" and has been working on several strategic outsourcing initiatives (ASP, SaaS, SOA) in Brazil and globally. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Dr. Manas Deb is a Senior Director in the Fusion Middleware/SOA+BPM+Governance Suites Group at Oracle HQ. He currently leads strategic engagement initiatives for Oracle's service-oriented integration and BPM solutions worldwide. He is also responsible for Oracle's SOA Methodology initiatives. Manas has worked in the software industry for over 20 years, most of which was spent in software product management/marketing and on architecting and leading a wide variety of enterprise-level application development and business integrations projects in a wide variety of industries. Manas attended post-graduate studies at University of Texas at Austin. He has a PhD in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, as well as an MBA. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

John deVadoss leads the Patterns & Practices team at Microsoft. His responsibilities include platform and architecture strategy for the developer tools and the application platform. He has over 15 years of experience in the software industry; he has been at Microsoft for over 10 years, all of it in the enterprise space - as a consultant, as a program manager in the distributed applications platform division, as an architect working with some of Microsoft's key partners, director of architecture strategy and most recently leading technical strategy for the application platform. Prior to Microsoft he spent many years as a technology consultant in the financial services industry in Silicon Valley. His areas of interest are broadly in distributed application architectures, data and metadata, systems management and currently on edge architectures (both services and access), but most of all in creating business value from technology investments. John has a BE in Computer Engineering, and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he also did graduate work towards a PhD in Computer Science - which he hopes to complete at some point in the future. John's blog is at www.devadoss.net/blog. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Lonneke Dikmans is Managing Partner at Approach. She is responsible for the SOA BPM practice and works as an architect at customer sites. Lonneke has hands-on experience with web services, service oriented architecture, and traditional J2EE applications on different platforms in a wide variety of industries. Besides acting as a project architect and sometimes enterprise architect, she advises companies that are setting up Service Oriented Architectures and BPM initiatives. Lonneke speaks regularly at conferences in Europe and the United States and publishes frequently on the internet and in magazines. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Duncan holds an MSc in Software Engineering from the Delft University of Technology. During his study he joined ASR Netherlands as a software engineer on the Visual Basic and later the J2EE platform. After graduating from university he became a technical lead on the J2EE platform, mostly responsible for the software factory's continuous integration platform and the technical integration of the developed software components. In 2007 he joined the Fortis global Java Framework development team, with a focus on configuration, context management, session management and remoting and the integration of the framework with common opensource frameworks. After the split-up of Fortis in 2008 he rejoined ASR Netherlands as a technical SOA architect. His responsibilities encompass the improvement of technical standards and guidelines, practices and patterns of ASR's SOA, as well as the validation and introduction of new SOA technologies. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Dr. Aaron J. Drew is a Systems Engineer for the Department of Defense Business Transformation Agency (BTA). Within the BTA, Dr. Drew directly supports the Defense Business System Acquistion Executive (DBSAE) component. Dr. Drew is currently drafting a SOA Implementation Strategy, on behalf of the DBSAE, to be applied against the business systems that reside in the DBSAE Business System Portfolio. Dr. Drew also provides system engineering support for the Chief Technology Officer and Chief Architect of the Business Mission Area in the Office of the Deputy Chief Management Officer, U.S. Department of Defense. In addition to his duties supporting the BTA/DBSAE, Dr. Drew is also the Chair of the Defense Knowledge Online (DKO) Re-Architecture Working Group. Prior to working for the BTA, Dr. Drew spent 10 years with the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) as a Cold Fusion Software Engineer. Dr. Drew is the co-creator of the Manpower, Personnel, & Security- Corporate Management Information System (MPS-CMIS), which is a web based End to End HRM Information System. Dr. Drew is currently serving as an Adjunct Assistant Professor with the University of Maryland University College in their Graduate School of Management & Technology. Dr. Drew previously served as an Adjunct Professor with Marymount University in their Graduate School of Business. Dr. Drew's scholastic background includes Applied Social Psychology, Human Resources Management, and Information Technology. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Thomas Erl is the world's top-selling SOA author, series editor of the Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl (www.soabooks.com), and editor of the SOA Magazine (www.soamag.com). With over 125,000 copies in print world-wide, his books have become international bestsellers and have been formally endorsed by senior members of major software organizations, such as IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Sun, Intel, SAP, CISCO, and HP. Two of his six books, SOA Design Patterns and SOA Principles of Service Design, were authored in collaboration with the IT community and have contributed to the definition of the service-oriented architectural model and service orientation as a distinct paradigm. Thomas is currently working with over 20 authors on eight new books dedicated to service-oriented computing and modern service technology platforms, such as cloud computing. In cooperation with SOASchool.com™, Thomas has helped develop the curriculum for the internationally recognized SOA Certified Professional accreditation program (www.soaschool.com), which has established a series of formal, vendor-neutral SOA certifications. Thomas is also the founder of SOA Systems Inc. (www.soasystems.com), a company specializing in vendor-neutral SOA consulting and training services. Thomas is the founding member of the SOA Manifesto Working Group (www.soa-manifesto.com), chair of the SOA Education Committee, and oversees the SOAPatterns.org initiative, a community site dedicated to the on-going development of a master pattern catalog for SOA. Thomas has toured over 20 countries as a speaker and instructor for public and private events, and regularly participates in SOA Symposium (www.soasymposium.com) and Gartner conferences. Over 100 articles and interviews by Thomas have been published in numerous publications, including the Wall Street Journal and CIO Magazine. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Mike Ferguson is Managing Director of Intelligent Business Strategies Limited. As an analyst and consultant he specializes in business intelligence, data management and enterprise business integration. With over 29 years of IT experience, Mike has consulted for dozens of companies, spoken at events all over the world and written numerous articles. He is an expert on the B-EYE-Network in UK, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, India, Scandinavia and China. Formerly he was a principal and co-founder of Codd and Date Europe Limited - the inventors of the Relational Model, a Chief Architect at Teradata on the Teradata DBMS and European Managing Director of DataBase Associates. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

David Frankel has over 30 years of experience in the software industry as a technical strategist, architect, and programmer. He is recognized as a pioneer and international authority on the subject of model-driven systems. He has published two books and dozens of trade press articles, and has co-authored a number of industry standards, including the upcoming new version of the ISO 20022 core standard. David works on standards strategy for SAP, and is a member of the company's Technical Strategy group. He focuses on standards for the financial services sector and for model-driven systems. He has been deeply involved in the Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN) since its founding. Recently he has been working on semantic interoperability in business networks. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Jakob Freund has profound experience in BPM projects, especially in the area of strategic BPM, process modeling and business IT alignment. He is author of several books, founder of BPM-Netzwerk.de and member of the advisory board of the "Gesellschaft fur Organisation". Furthermore he gives lectures at the university of applied science in Zurich and Bern.


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Matthew Friend is Principle Sales Engineer and platform specialist at salesforce.com. With 16 years experience in the IT industry his background includes application development, systems consulting and pre-sales consulting covering CRM, Product Information Management, SOA, Integration and security.

As a force.com platform evangelist, Matthew helps guide customers in adopting the force.com platform, allowing them to implement complex projects 5x faster and at half the costs of traditional Java and .NET environments.

Matthew joined salesforce.com in September 2007.

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Robert Gimbel is trainer, consultant and project manager at camunda. He is specialized in requirements engineering (elicitation, analysis, documentation) and agile IT project management. Robert has worked as Product Owner in Scrum-projects for many years. He trains and coaches companies during their introduction of Scrum.


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Dominic Greenwood is Chief Operating Officer with Whitestein Technologies AG, a Swiss company with process management and logistics products employing goal-oriented real-time optimization. With a background in software research, his interests and expertise focus on creating commercial software products employing innovative technologies including distributed systems, software-agent based goal-oriented reasoning, proactive computing, emergent systems, ubiquitous systems and semantic technologies. He holds a Ph.D. for his work on the application of cognitive algorithms to non-linear problems in the teletraffic domain. He has authored several software standards, published more than 60 peer-reviewed research papers, and filed several commercial patents. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Sean Gu is an Enterprise Application Architect at IBM Business Partner Strategy & Technical Enablement with 16 years IT project experience. His areas of expertise include ERP (PeopleSoft, Siebel, and Lawson), IT Methodologies, OO Technologies, SOA Composite Applications and Business Process Integration. Graduated from the University of Chicago, he holds Master's degrees in Computer Science and MBA. He is a Master Certified IT Architect, and has been engaged in SOA projects since 2004. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Sven-Hakan Olsson is an independent consultant, course leader and speaker with focus on application architecture, SOA and Cloud Computing. Since 1977, he has worked in a large number of IT development projects, ranging from embedded microcontrollers to main-frames. He has carried out modelling, architecture design and programming in diverse business areas. He has also specialized in reviews of problem projects. Sven-Hakan Olsson holds an MScEE from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Twice, in 2008 and 2010, he has been appointed one of the "top developers in Sweden" by the magazine IDG Computer Sweden. Sven-Hakan co-founded the Swedish consultant company Know IT (publ) 1990 and held board and management positions there for 13 years before returning to be an independent consultant. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Steve Harrop is a Principal SOA Architect at Vodafone Group. In the 16 years Steve has been with Vodafone, he is now responsible for coordinating and developing SOA governance across the Vodafone Group IT estate. Before, he was the Service Layer Architect at Vodafone UK, creating the technology-wide strategy and roadmap for adoption of SOA, encompassing UK-wide service gateway consolidation. He has led various initiatives for the strategic defence and exploitation of mobile differentiating services, and has also spent time working in the Telco Industry with BellSouth in the US and IBM in New Zealand. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Winnie Hua is a Principal Consultant/Architect in CTS Inc. She holds an advanced degree in Computer Science with 20 year project and consulting experience on a wide range of leading-edge technologies. As a hands-on practitioner, she has led lifecycle design and development of high-performance large-volume eCommerce systems on different platforms using a variety of cutting-edge SOA technologies and unified/agile methodologies. She has initiated/participated in applied research on various emerging Cloud technologies, and has published several books and numerous technical papers. Affiliated with many professional associations, she frequently speaks in conferences/seminars and co-founded a few IT forums. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Henrik Hvid Jensen is a leading SOA guru in Denmark. His Scandinavian book "Service Oriented Architetcture - Integration as a competitive advantage" and blogs have been used as inspiration in many projects. He has taught on SOA, Events Driven Architecture and Semantic Web as External Associate Professor at Copenhagen University. He is today Project Director at Devoteam Consulting. Henrik holds a Masters in Computer Science from Copenhagen University and a Bachelor in International Trading from Copenhagen Business School. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Nicolai Josuttis is one of the word-leading independent experts for bringing SOA into operation. As a system architect, technical manager, and consultant, he is working for large international companies in different domains to realize their SOA strategy. Some of these companies have up to 10 million mission-critical service calls per day. He speaks and writes with authority (being the author of 'SOA in Practice' and other books such as 'The C++ Standard Library') and provides inhouse training in German and English. He is one of the authors of the SOA manifesto. With his partner, Jutta Eckstein, expert for agility in large and global systems, you will find two world-leading experts for the successful realization of large and distributed IT projects (see IT-communication.com). Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Christian Klezl is currently Vice President and Cloud Leader, IBM Northeast Europe. In this role he is responsible for IBM's Cloud Computing portfolio across all brands and organizational units. Prior to this assignment he has been leading the Global Technology Services business for Central- and Eastern Europe, based in Prague, Czech Republic and responsible for the general management of a comprehensive services business across 13 local country organizations. From January 2006 to June 2008 he has been responsible for the Infrastructure Services business for IBM in Central- and Eastern Europe, Russia, Middle East, Austria and Switzerland (CEMAAS).

Prior to this role Christian has been assigned to IBM EMEA's "Central Region", headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany as Sales Director for the business lines Integrated Technology Services, Networking Services and Technical Support Services across all industry sectors and SMB.

Located in Paris from 2000 to 2004, Christian has been leading the Selective Outsourcing and Managed Services business for IBM Global Services in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). In this position he has been responsible for building and managing a dedicated offering-, sales- and delivery-organization for packaged IT outsourcing, including server, desktop, storage and output management services.

Before taking this line responsibility, Christian Klezl was ITS Solutions and Alliances Executive for the same organization, leading the strategic business development and being responsible for several emerging growth opportunities including IT Optimization, wireless e-business, storage services, security and e-business transformation.

Christian joined IBM in April 1998, being responsible for Marketing and Communications in the Emerging Markets of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, Middle East and Africa. In April 2000 he has been appointed Director of Communications, IBM Global Services EMEA and joined the Executive Leadership Team of IBM's services organization in EMEA.

Prior to working for IBM he spent ten years in sales and marketing positions in the IT-industry, worked as an entrepreneur and consultant for companies including Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Philips and Reuters and managed a European PR-agency network.

Christian studied at the Technical University of Vienna, holds a BA-equivalent in marketing, a Diploma in Management and an MBA from Henley Management College, UK. Being a global citizen having worked in Europe, America and the Far East, Christian currently is living in Vienna, Austria together with his wife and three children.

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Dirk has been dealing with the challenges of enterprise IT and distributed software architectures throughout his entire working life. He devoted himself to SOA in 2001 when he joined Shinka Technologies, a start-up company and platform vendor in the early days of XML-based Web services. Since then, Dirk has acquired a rich set of real world experience with this upcoming new paradigm both from the view point of a platform vendor and from the perspective of software projects in different industry verticals. Writing the book Enterprise SOA was an issue of personal concern to him as it provided the opportunity to share his experiences and many insights into the nature of enterprise IT with his readers. Today, Dirk works for SOAPARK, applying the guiding principles outlined in this book. Dirk has a Ph.D. in Natural Science and an MSc in Computer Science. He is married, farther of two kids, and lives in Dusseldorf, Germany. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

An eight year Oracle veteran, Jurgen works at EMEA Alliances and Channels. As the founder of the Oracle EMEA SOA Partner Community and the global Oracle SOA Partner Advisory Council. With more than 2000 members from all over the world the SOA Partner Community is the most successful and active community at Oracle. Jürgen hosts the community with monthly newsletters, webcasts and quarterly events. Supplemented by many web 2.0 tools like discussion forums, online communities, blogs and wikis. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Johan Kumps is a SOASchool Certified SOA Architect - Analyst at RealDolmen, a Belgian consultancy organisation based near Brussels. For several years Johan has been involved in the service oriented analysis and design phase of several Service Oriented Architectures for both Flemish and Belgian Federal Government . In this statute Johan designed the Federal Service Bus (FSB) platform for the Belgian Federal Government using Oracle technology. The FSB is an implementation of the Enterprise Service Bus pattern enabling different Government divisions to exchange information using SOA concepts. Currently Johan is fulfilling the roles of SOA Architect and SOA Analyst at the Crossroad Bank Social Security (CBSS). CBSS is realizing the transition of a mainframe environment towards a new Service Oriented Architecture capable of the automation of all business process currently running on the mainframe and preparing CBSS for future changes and needs. He is involved in the business process analysis and design phase of this project. Thanks to his everlasting interest in new things and taking what he's doing to the next level, Johan came across Semantic Web technologies a few years ago. Some time ago he realized that this new approach to the Web was becoming more and more mature. Johan started his own investigation and rapidly came across some colleagues that had already been investing time in this matter. No further convincing was necessary to make Johan see that he needed to sink his teeth in the combination of semantic technologies and service oriented principles. As a committee member of the JBoss ESB project, he started with the implementation of Semantic SOA features in the JBoss ESB platform. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

At Forrester Research, Holger Kisker analyzes trends and key paradigm shifts in the business process and software application market and has a deep knowledge in the end-to-end software life cycle from market analysis to portfolio planning, development, and successful market introduction. He includes in his research all application software such as ERP, CRM, SCM, BI, and industry-specific applications. Holger publishes and consults on all aspects for a successful strategy including the right portfolio selection; partner management; business models; and market messaging in a time of disruptive trends like cloud computing, social media, sustainability, and next-generation smart solutions. With 12-plus years of deep industry expertise, Holger also focuses on the IT trends and opportunities in the energy market. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Robert Laird is a senior architect at IBM, leading in the software product architecture for SOA Governance and SOA Policy. He has 20 years of experience in the telecommunications industry at MCI and Verizon Business. Bob has extensive consulting experience across a wide range of global and industry organizations and has written three SOA books and numerous articles. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Kevin Lee is a researcher in the Managing Complexity Group at the National ICT Australia. His research interest is primarily in semantic technology and cloud computing, including formal ontologies, description logics, automated reasoning and belief change.

His current project investigates the problem of automated resource provisioning in the cloud. Specifically, he makes use of machine learning techniques to predict resource usage. Based on this prediction, he devises algorithms to optimise between resource availability and cost.

Furthermore, he has been a main investigator in a number of collaborative projects with industry as well as government and research institutions. He has also published in prestigious international conferences, including AAAI and TABLEAUX. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Mr. Levy is co-founder of Dovel Technologies. As Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Levy consistently works at the forefront of technological innovation by leveraging cutting edge technologies in the development of complex business systems for the Federal Government and the private sector. Mr. Levy has more than 25 years of broad-based experience in the development and deployment of large and complex information systems. Mr. Levy's technical expertise encompasses large system architecture, system development life-cycle processes, mission-critical systems' operations, systems development methodology, software estimation, as well as CMMI and Six Sigma principles. Because of the breadth of Mr. Levy's technical and managerial skills, he is highly sought after to perform due diligence assessments, as well as to act as an expert witness and as a public speaker. Under Mr. Levy's direction and leadership, Dovel Technologies expanded its practice area into the design and deployment of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), Service Oriented Enterprise (SOE), and Service Oriented Infrastructure (SOI) concepts. Mr. Levy completed his undergraduate degree in Tel Aviv University, and he has a Master's Degree in Computer Science from George Washington University Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Art Ligthart is a partner with Ordina, a large IT services provider in The Netherlands. He specializes in IT Architecture and modern architectural styles like Service Oriented Architecture, Event Driven Architecture and Rule Oriented Architecture. His main drive is to enable business flexibility and have IT deliver real value. Art has published several articles and books on IT architecture, including two books with best practices on implementing SOA. He initiated the International SOA Symposium together with Thomas Erl and has been Chairman of the Program Committee in 2008 en 2009. His most recent project at the Dutch Immigration and Naturalizations Service won the prestigious NAF-award for best IT Architecture in the Netherlands in 2009. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Mark Little was Chief Architect, Transactions for Arjuna Technologies Ltd, a UK-based company specialising in the development of reliable middleware that was recently acquired by JBoss, Inc. Before Arjuna, Mark was a Distinguished Engineer/Architect within HP Arjuna Labs in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, where he led the HP-TS and HP-WST teams, developing J2EE and Web services transactions products respectively. Mark is one of the primary authors of the upcoming book "Modern SOA Infrastructure: Technology, Design, and Governance" and the OMG Activity Service specification and is also on the expert group for the same work in J2EE (JSR 95). He is also the specification lead for JSR 156: Java API for XML Transactions. He's on the OTS Revision Task Force and the OASIS Business Transactions Protocol specification. Before joining HP he was for over 10 years a member of the Arjuna team within the University of Newcas tle upon Tyne (where he continues to have a Visiting Fellowship). His research within the Arjuna team included replication and transactions support, which include the construction of an OTS/JTS compliant transaction processing system. Mark has published extensively in the Web Services Journal, Java Developer's Journal and other journals and magazines. He is also the co-author of several books including 'Java and Transactions for Systems Professionals' and 'The J2EE 1.4 Bible'. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Anna Liu is currently a Principal Researcher at NICTA, and leads a team of 30+ in the Enterprise Software and Services area, with a strong focus on engineering Cloud Computing solutions. She also holds an Assistant Professorship at the University of New South Wales in Sydney Australia. She previously held Group Management and Principal Architect positions at Microsoft, working on various EAI, SOA and Web 2.0 projects. Her goal is to understand enterprises' IT challenges, and to help them with building successful systems through the use of architecture patterns, proven best practices, and reusable frameworks. Anna has extensive experience in the financial services industry and the Government sector, and specialises in designing high performance and highly scalable distributed systems including for cloud environments. Anna holds a PhD (Computer Science UNSW) and a BE (Computer Engineering UNSW). She has also held visiting scientist position at the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, and serves on the Science Advisory board of a number of cloud startups. She has also been a frequent speaker on architecture topics at conferences such as OOPSLA and ICSE, and more recently a popular speaker on Cloud Computing. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Francois Lascelles is the Technical Director, Europe for Layer 7 Technologies, a leading provider of SOA governance and security solutions. Francois advises global corporations and governments in planning and implementing secure SOA and Cloud based systems. Long before terms like 'SOA' and 'Web services' were coined, Francois was using XML for developing enterprise applications. Francois is a highly valued speaker and consultant, recently presenting at European Identity, SOA Forum, SOA Symposium, JBoss World, SOA Masterclass, Zapthink SOA. Francois is co-author of the upcoming book "SOA Security: Practices, Patterns, and Technologies for Securing Services" for the "Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl" book. Francois has been published by SDTimes, DM Review, IT Knowledge Exchange, Sys-con on various topics relating to REST, SOA Security and governance. You can follow Francois Lascelles on twitter at http://twitter.com/flascelles or read his blog at http://flascelles.wordpress.com. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Brian Loesgen is a Principal SOA Architect with Microsoft. Based in San Diego. Brian is a 6-time Microsoft MVP for BizTalk Server, and has been involved with BizTalk since prior to the BizTalk Server 2000 beta. Brian has extensive experience in building sophisticated enterprise, ESB and SOA solutions. Brian was a key architect/developer of the "Microsoft ESB Guidance", initially released by Microsoft in Oct 2006. He is a co-author of the SOA Manifesto, and is a co-author of 8 books, including "SOA with .NET and Windows Azure", and is the lead author and currently working on "BizTalk Server 2010 Unleashed". He has written technical white papers for Intel, Microsoft and others. Brian has spoken at numerous major technical conferences worldwide. Brian is a co-founder and past-President of the International .NET Association (ineta.org), and past-President of the San Diego .NET user group, where he continues to lead the Connected Systems SIG, and is a member of the Editorial Board for the .NET Developer’s Journal. Brian was also a member of the Microsoft Connected Systems Division Virtual Technical Specialist Team pilot, and is part of Microsoft’s Connected Systems Advisory Board.

Brian has been blogging since 2003 at http://blog.BrianLoesgen.com.

Jason Macy is the CTO at Crosscheck Networks responsible for implementation and product strategy of the SOA Web Services based technologies. As co-founder of Crosscheck Networks, Jason has pioneered the field of web service testing and simulation with over 50,000 product installations worldwide. Jason previously served as VP Engineering for the wholly-owned subsidiary Forum Systems where he is responsible for the software development lifecycle of the industry's only FIPS certified hardware security gateway for XML and SOA. Before moving into the XML web services realm, Jason worked as the lead architect for Raytheon responsible for testing and successful commissioning of the Air Traffic Control system at Schipol Airport in Amsterdam, Holland. Jason has extensive experience in XML, Web Services, Networking, and Security and provides education and training of SOA web services implementation, testing, and security including speaking engagements at industry conferences such as Gartner and StarEAST. Jason holds dual-degrees in both Computer Science and Computer Engineering. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Dr. Wolfgang Mai is head of the Business Architecture department in the Deutsche Post BRIEF division since 2008. As head of this division, Mai is responsible for ensuring the business integrity and flexibility of the IT application landscape, which is supported and facilitated using a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) approach. Mai has consistently developed and established governance methods to ensure successful collaboration of the enterprise architecture and business units.

After completing his studies in electrical engineering at RWTH Aachen University, he led the research of object oriented Finite Element Simulation at the Institute for Electrical Machines. He then served as a strategy consultant in business technology office of McKinsey & Company for five years. Since 2006 Mai is with the Deutsche Post AG and was responsible for IT service design among other things for Deutsche Post BRIEF. At the end of 2007 he joined Dr. Johannes Helbig, CIO, as Chief Architect and a founding member in the SOA Innovation Lab, Germany's first business initiative for SOA and architecture management.

Deutsche Post BRIEF is part of Deutsche Post DHL, the world's largest mail and logistics group. Supported by the combined logistics expertise of its Deutsche Post, DHL, and Postbank brands, the Deutsche Post group offers integrated services and customer-oriented solutions for the management and transport of goods, information, and payments via its global and local networks. Deutsche Post World Net is a leading provider of dialog marketing services, as well as efficient outsourcing and system solutions for mailing. In 2006, the group posted revenues of EUR 60 billion. Deutsche Post World Net employs over 520,000 people in more than 220 countries and territories, making it one of the world's largest employers.

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Berthold Maier works for Oracle Consulting Germany as Chief Architect and has more than 15 years experience as developer, coach and architect in the area of building complex mission critical applications and integrations scenarios. Within last ten years in Oracle he has held several positions in the consulting organization including architect with focus on Java/JEE, Integration, SOA, BPM, DB, ECM, Security, Enterprise Architecture Management. Since Dec. 2006 Berthold took over the responsibility of chief architect for the consulting organization in Germany. In this management position he is responsible for the reference architecture around Integration. Berthold is also well-know as a conference speaker, book author and magazine writer. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Linus Malmberg is founder and CEO of Cordial Business Advisers. During the 1990s he was pioneering BPR - Business Process Reengineering in Scandinavia amongst the region's most successful companies and organizations. Mr. Malmberg has devoted his consulting work to develop adaptive organizations and carry through large transformations and the implementation of new business models. In 2007 he launched the training program Certified Business Architect in Sweden in order to establish a new profession: The Business Architect. The need to bridge the gap between business and IT is necessary in order to create the business models of the merging service economy. Today, more than 200 people have attended the twelve day program and have started a revolution in business development. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Eric Jan Malotaux has been developing software for more than 25 years, using many different programming styles and programming languages. Currently he works for Ordina, a large ICT service provider in the Netherlands. Eric Jan specializes in software architecture, development environments, model-driven development, and agile development processes like Evo, Scrum and Extreme Programming. Service-orientation in the sense of making the functionality of components available to other components in the form of reusable, self-contained services has been a recurring theme in all his architectures, long before the term SOA existed. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Ian is a Security Solution Architect with Vordel, a provider of fast, safe, connectivity for SOA and Cloud services. Ian is responsible for architecting and implementing best of breed SOA security infrastructures for leading Fortune 1000 and public sector organizations in Europe and North America. Ian regularly delivers training workshops to partners and customers and also is a frequent presenter at industry conferences. Prior to joining Vordel, Ian worked at Northgate Information Solutions, Egg PLC and EDS. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Pawel Maszczyk is an experienced IT practitioner, having worked in Enterprise and Systems Architecture and Software Design and Development for the last 15 years. He has worked with software vendors, systems integrators and consultancies mainly in telecommunications and retail sectors. Pawel led the implementation of Service Oriented Architecture at the Carphone Warehouse where he was the Lead Enterprise Architect responsible for all application and integration architecture within the Carphone Warehouse Group.
Pawel currently holds the position of the UK Managing Director at Enable-U- a SOA focused consultancy and software reseller enabling you to get on top of your Service Oriented Architecture. Since joining Enable-U Pawel was involved in architecture and governance projects at Vodafone, RBS, Tesco and Jyske Bank. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Isabelle is responsible for Product Management with Vordel. She also helps design and review architectures for many of Vordel's strategic accounts across Government, Banking, Insurance and Telecoms. Prior to joining Vordel, Isabelle was engaged as a Senior IT Specialist at IBM for many years where she consulted on SOA Architectures, integration via ESBs and participated on the WebSphere Architecture Board. A regular speaker at international conferences, Isabelle is also an accomplished author with several publications to her credit. These include WebSphere V5 Systems Administration Handbook (published by IBM) and Effective VisualAge for Java (published by Wiley) amongst others. Isabelle speaks French, Spanish and English fluently. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

The economics of cloud computing can look enormously attractive, especially when weighing the costs of storage or processing at a few cents per instance or gigabyte, versus the tens of thousands of dollars in up-front investments required for on-site solutions. Cloud providers, both internal and external, can deliver economies of scale not available to individual enterprises. But over the long run, do these huge savings hold up or collapse for enterprises? What about the costs associated with integration, configuration, data deduplication, and monitoring? Plus, the greatest economic shift of all enabled by service-oriented architecture and cloud computing is just starting to get underway - companies are becoming providers as well as consumers of services. This has implications for the ROI and value of cloud implementations beyond cost efficiencies and ROI. This session will examine the economic pros and cons of on-demand versus on-site computing, and where these approaches may or may not work. The emerging role of SOA as a foundation for cloud will be explored. In addition, the lessons learned from SOA will be examined, in terms of funding services, collaboration between business and IT departments, and determining ROI from service implementations. In addition, this session will explore the 10 top trends shaping organizations and the way they leverage information technology, from the rise of the "loosely coupled" company to the disruptive forces reshaping the vendor community. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Mario Moreno is a Project Director and International Expert on SOA and Agile Practises. He works for LOGICA Management Consulting Company and manages the Skill Centers on IT Strategy, SOA Governance and Agile Methods. He's also the author of the Logica GO-ON Service-Oriented Enterprise Methodology used by many companies such as the French Ministry of Defense. Responsible of LMC International SOA Methodology, he is involved in many Projects as International Expert for defining SOA Program Strategy and Roadmap, Introducing SOA Methodology and Governance, Training and Coaching SOA Business Analysts, Architects, Designers and Developers. He's responsible of the Logica Consultants SOA training and certification. Mario has 26 years experience on Project and Programme Management, Architecture and Methodology in more than 30 big companies in many sectors: industry, space, banks, insurance, retail, defense. He's also an expert on IT Strategy, IT Governance and Enterprise Architecture. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Prior to joining Vordel as CEO, Vic held senior executive roles in a number of leading fims, including Senior Vice President International Operations for Cullinet Software, Vice President and General Manager European Operations for Powersoft, Vice President European Marketing for Sybase, and Vice President Marketing for NetDynamics Inc. Most recently he was a principal at Atlas Venture, where he was responsible for enterprise software investments in the UK, and held several board positions. Vic holds a degree in Physics from the University of Bristol, and has completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Dave Nielsen managed the PayPal Developer Network through 2006. After PayPal, Dave helped companies marketing their Web Services & Developer Tools to developers. With the emergence of Cloud Computing, Dave saw a real need to educate developers, entreprenuers, IT professionals, and corporate executves about the opportunities and challenges provided by Cloud Computing. CloudCamp, which Dave co-founded in 2008, has held over 120 events reaching more than 12,000 attendees all over the world. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Hajo Normann is SOA/BPM architect at HP Enterprise Services. Since 2005 he has helped with motivating, designing and implementing integration and process solutions for various customers using Oracle SOA Suite and BPM Suite. Hajo works on SOA/BPM principles, design guidelines and best practices. Hajo has been Oracle ACE Director since 2007. Since 2008, Hajo has been leading together with Torsten Winterberg (OPITZ Consulting) the special interest group "DOAG SIG SOA". Hajo is a co-founder of the "Masons-of-SOA", an inter-company network. This group consists of architects from Oracle Germany, Opitz Consulting, SOPERA and HP. Masons-of-SOA's mission is to spread SOA knowledge and support projects / initiatives across companies. The masons meet regularly for thought exchange, and have written a multi article series on "yet untackled SOA topics". They have also contributed to Thomas Erl's book "SOA Design Patterns". Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Cesare Pautasso is assistant professor in the new Faculty of Informatics at the University of Lugano, Switzerland. Previously he was a researcher at the IBM Zurich Research Lab and a senior researcher at ETH Zurich. His research focuses on building experimental systems to explore the intersection of model-driven software composition techniques, business process modeling languages, and autonomic/Grid computing. Recently he has developed an interest in Web 2.0 Mashups and Architectural Decision Modeling. He is the lead architect of JOpera, a powerful rapid service composition tool for Eclipse. His teaching and training activities both in academia and in industry cover advanced topics related to Web Development, Middleware, Service Oriented Architectures and emerging Web services technologies. For more information, visit www.pautasso.info. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Nils is a consultant, trainer and software developer at camunda Services GmbH in Berlin, Germany. Apart from implementing real world business processes with Activiti and jBPM for different customers, he writes articles on open source BPM and is a committer to Activiti. Together with his colleagues at camunda, he created the Activiti Cycle application. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Thomas works as a principal architect with [ipt], a Swiss consulting firm. In this position he helps blue chip clients achieve success with their SOA roadmap and implementation. Thomas is passionate about research in SOA and related middleware technologies; he actively engages with the international community, publishes articles and is a frequent speaker. He is also the author of three books, including a published dissertation. Thomas has a penchant for asynchronous, distributed and parallel architectures. Prior to joining [ipt] Thomas worked as a senior engineer with the Hewlett Packard middleware division (ex Bluestone). At HP he was the lead developer for the JMS message broker and its integration into the HP application server. He then joined Arjuna Ltd., a spin-off from HP. Thomas holds a PhD in Parallel Computing from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Jean Rodrigues is Director of Corporate Solutions at Seed Technology Solutions, a SOA specialized consultancy company in Brazil. He's an SOA evangelist, delivering several speeches regarding SOA Governance, SOA Methodologies, and strategies to adopt SOA efficiently. Jean has over 14 years experience delivering large scale SOA and enterprise Java applications, including mission critical platforms. He also writes articles regarding SOA, Identity & Access Management and Java technologies. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Jesus Rodriguez is the Chief Architect of Tellago and Tellago Studios, a boutique application development and consulting firm specializing in large-scale SOA and BPM projects. He is also a Microsoft MVP, an Oracle ACE and one of a few Architects worldwide to be a member of the Microsoft Connected Systems Advisor team. As a member, Jesus has been selected to participate in a variety of Software Design Reviews with Microsoft's Product Teams including Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Workflow Foundation and BizTalk Server.

Jesus derived his extensive experience with business process integration and messaging through numerous implementations of disparate systems founded on the principles of SOA and BPM. Jesus is an active contributor to the .NET and J2EE communities and an internationally recognized speaker and author with contributions that include several articles for various publications including MSDN Magazine, Microsoft Architecture Journal, SOAWorld and Web Services Journal as well as speaking engagements at top industry conferences such as Microsoft TechEd, SOAWorld, Microsoft SOA and BPM Conference, Oracle Open World, Web Services Security Conference and the Microsoft MVP Summit. Additionally, Jesus has conducted a number of Web Casts on varying SOA technologies.

Jesus is a prolific blogger on all subjects related to integration and has a true passion for technology. You can gain valuable insight on leading edge technologies through his blog at http://weblogs.asp.net/gsusx

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Evgenia Rosa is a Principal Consultant for SOA and BPM at Oracle Germany. In this role she advises Oracle customers and partners in building their architecture solutions based on Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle BPM Suite and Oracle BPA Suite while particularly focusing on alignment of BPM modelling and SOA Methodologies. Evgenia is working 15 years in the IT industry. Before joining Oracle she worked at the Research Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS) where she was involved in German and European research projects in the area of distributed systems and next generation telecommunication solutions. Evgenia holds diploma in Computer Science from Technical University of Berlin. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Andreas is a Managing Consultant at IBM's Global Business Services Division. He has 15 years of experience in the IT Industry in various roles, including consulting, architecture, business development, and sales, and he has worked with a range of clients in Europe, Asia, and Australia. For the past four years, he has been specializing in SOA Transformations, particularly the Governance and Organization Change Management required to be successful with SOA.
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Bernd Ruecker has profound experience in BPM projects and Java Enterprise. He is specialized in the areas of Process Execution, Business Rules, SOA and business IT alignment. He is author of several books, numerous articles and has spoken at conferences. Bernd is committed to the JBoss-jBPM-project.


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Filippos Santas is a Certified SOA Analyst and SOA Architect, as well as a consultant and Certified SOA Trainer for SOA Systems Inc. In the last 10 years, Filippos has been the lead for the Analysis and Architecture of a number of successful SOA systems and for transforming legacy architectures to SOA architectures in the financial sector.

His achievements include the analysis and architecture of the international insurance claims service network that connects insurances, customer companies and state authorities in 44 countries across the globe combining legislation, business processes, business rules, business objects, knowledge bases and different platforms from each of the companies in each of these countries.

More recently Filippos has been the SOA Architect for the Securities at Credit Suisse combining the profitable and established functionality of legacy systems with centralized business process services, decentralized business rule services, domain specific BOMs and entity services, end-to-end traceability and service composability at every level.

Currently Filippos instructs professional Analysts and Architects in Switzerland on reaching advanced maturity levels in their function. Filippos will be teaching the SOA Analysts Certification post-conference workshop from Oct. 11-15, 2010. For more information, visit the Workshop Agendas page.

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Ralph Schäfermeier is a researcher at the Corporate Semantic Web group of the Freie Universität Berlin. His current work is focused on corporate knowledge/ontology engineering, ontology versioning, and Semantic BPM. He has studied psychology/sociology and Computer Science and holds a MSc degree (Diplom) in Computer Science. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Bob Schat is Principal Solution Architect at CSC, global leader in providing technology-enabled business solutions and services. Bob is responsible for the architecture and the design of solutions offered by CSC, with a focus on Healthcare. Recent projects include the LSP (the Dutch national Switchboard for healthcare information exchange), the central hub for the new Dutch DRG system and several integration projects in hospitals. Bob Schat is an Open Group certified Master IT Architect with extensive experience in the design and implementation of business-driven service oriented architectures. Bob is chairman of the working group of Healthcare IT architects within the Netherlands Architecture Forum (NAF). Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Andreas Schmietendorf received his PhD and post doctoral degrees in Computer Science/Software Engineering from the University of Magdeburg. He is currently working at the Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR Berlin), Germany, as a full professor for business information systems. His research activities consider modern integration architectures, service management and software measurement activities too. Furthermore he works as consultant for several leading industry companies, like Deutsche Telekom or IBM. Furthermore he is a member of the executive board in the Central Europe Computer Measurement Group (CECMG), a partner for the DASMA and a member within the German Interest Group on software metrics. In the year 2006, he called the German BSOA-Initiative (Evaluation aspects of service oriented architectures) into the life. As expert of the ACQUIN, he contributes the accreditation of study program at German universities. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Guido Schmutz works as a Technology Manager for Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), Application Integration and Open Source based development at Trivadis, a leading independent IT service company operating in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. He has worked in the software industry for over 20 years, most of which was spent in software development and on architecting. He has led a wide variety of enterprise-level application development and application integration projects in a wide variety of industries. His current focus is on SOA and Application Integration projects using the Oracle SOA platform. Guido is also an Oracle ACE Director for Fusion Middleware and SOA. Guido is co-author of the english book "Service Oriented Architecture: An Integration Blueprint", the following german books "Spring 2.0 im Einsatz", "Architecture Blueprints" and "Integration Architecture Blueprints" and he is a regular speaker at International Oracle and Java conferences. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Dr. Schweichhart is the executive Chief enterprise architect at Deutsche Telekom Group contributing to the transformation of Deutsche Telekom to a global service company by introducing SOA as a design paradigm since 2005. He has many years’ professional experience as a computer scientist and business information specialist and has held many positions at Deutsche Telekom since the mid-1990s. The most important of these include Head of Group IT Strategy, CIO at T-Systems Nova and Head of IT Architecture T-Home. Dr. Schweichhart is member of board of SOA Innovation Lab e.V.

Andrei is software architect in SOPERA team and is working about 7 years in developing of open source SOA platform. He has a long term experience in design and implementation custom SOA projects using different technologies. Andrei is active committer of Eclipse SOA Tool Platform project and contributor of Eclipse Swordfish project. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Tony Shan is a renowned expert and technology visionary working in the computing field for 20+ years with extensive experience and guru-level knowledge on systems designs, architecture engineering, portfolio rationalization, product development, process standardization, and SDLC. Holding three advanced degrees and multiple industry certifications as a chief/enterprise architect, he has directed the lifecycle design and development of large-scale award-winning distributed systems on diverse platforms. He has initiated advanced applied research and prototyping on emerging computing technologies and methodology, and has played a crucial role of a hands-on strategist in leading establishing IT strategies and architecture blueprints, coupled with pragmatic technology roadmaps and enterprise architecture standards/policies, for IT governance and portfolio/asset management in several Fortune 100 international organizations. He serves as a mentor/advisor on leading-edge technologies in various technical committees and advisory boards, and teaches courses as an adjunct professor. In addition to dozens of top-notch refereed technical publications, he has authored over 10 books on next-generation technologies. He is a member of numerous professional associations and honorary society, a frequent keynote speaker and Chair/Panel/Advisor/Organizing Committee in prominent conferences/workshops, an editor/editorial advisory board member of respected IT research journals/books, and a founder of a few user groups and forums. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Dimitri Sirota is an accomplished entrepreneur and a pioneer in the security field. Prior to co-founding Layer 7 Technologies, Dimitri co-created the award-winning Virtual Private Network provider eTunnels Inc. Dimitri spearheaded its early marketing and business development activities, establishing eTunnels as a leader in secure connectivity for the extended enterprise. He has also worked in senior product marketing and channel development roles at AT&T and Telus. Dimitri holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from McGill University and a Master of Science in Engineering Physics from the University of British Columbia. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Johan Smessaert is Head of Retail Change at ING Belgium, in charge of the IT project portfolio for the Domestic Bank in ING Belgium. With 25 years of experience in Information System development in a complex banking environment, he has built up an extensive knowledge of how SOA evolved over the years. Being in charge of Application Design & Support and the development of Referential Applications at Bank Brussels Lambert, part of ING since 1998, he pioneered with an early in house developed service message bus. Later, in his role of Head of Enterprise Architecture, he coordinated the setup and roll-out of the ING Financial Services Architecture, a full blown application SOA developed at ING at a time when commercial ESBs did not meet the requirements of large financial institutions. More recently, he became head of solution delivery for the Customer Data Management domain of the ING Operations & IT Banking, and finally head of Retail Change of ING Belgium. Johan is ING representative in BIAN (Banking Industry Architecture Network), a non for profit organisation founded by banks (including ING), software vendors and solution providers, seeking to promote SOA in the banking industry as a means to increase interoperability. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Dr. Starr is an Associate Professor and chairman of the Computer Science faculty at the College/University of Charleston, where he has been for 24 years. He also directs the analytics program, Discovery Informatics. Dr. Starr holds a PhD in Systems Science at the Medical University of South Carolina, where he worked in nuclear medicine to develop and test a procedure for attenuation correction in single photon emission computed tomography, a branch of medical image processing in use today. His interdisciplinary research and teaching interests include medical imaging, software design patterns, service-oriented software architectures and computer science education. Dr. Starr has consulted with many companies, agencies and universities including SPAWAR-Atlantic, SOA Systems, Charleston Stereotactic Radiosurgery Group, the Medical University of South Carolina and Appalachian State University. Dr. Starr will be teaching the SOA Architect Certification post-conference workshop from Oct. 11-13, 2010. For more information, visit the Workshop Agendas page. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Volker Stiehl studied computer science at the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg and joined SAP in 2004. He is on the solution management team for a development toolset for applications built on top of an SOA landscape (composite applications). He is also responsible for methodologies and best practices in composite application development. Volker holds workshops in composite applications and is a regular speaker at various conferences, such as SAPPHIRE, SAP TechEd, Jax, and JavaOne. Before joining SAP, he spent 12 years with Siemens as a consultant for distributed J2EE-based business solutions and integration architectures based on various technologies. You may reach him at volker.stiehl@sap.com. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Martin Ströbele is Team Leader for Business Integration at AutoScout24, the leading European online car market. In his role as product owner of the scrum team "business integration" he is responsible for products and solutions that refer to the exchange of data and the integration of cooperation partners. Martin is active member and  leader of the technical board at the STX3 initiative (www.stx3.org) for the technical standardization within the automotive industry. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Matt Sutton is a FEAC Institute Certified Architect and Department of Defense (DoD) Architect in practice. Matt is also a SOA Certified Professional who delivers service oriented concepts for use in the DoD government space. Matt has worked at the United States Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) for over 7 years in a few directorates such as the (Engineering), (Experimentation), and (Planning and Deployment). He currently works for Booz Allen Hamilton at USJFCOM J89 System Engineering and Architecture Division of J8. Matt’s current projects are associated with Architectures and Information Technology, specifically Architecture Federation and Knowledge Management by way of Virtual Collaboration. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Manfred is a free-lance trainer, consultant and author in the area of software architecture (www.softwarearchitekt.at), responsible for the specialist division "Software-Engineering" at the university of applied science Campus 02 (www.campus02.at) in Graz (Styria, Austria) and teaches several courses offered by this division. Before, he was in charge of a team concentrating on software development in the area of web- and database-based solutions. Manfred writes for Microsoft Press, Entwickler.Press and the dot.net-Magazine. Furthermore, he regularly speaks at conferences about software development and architecture. Currently, he writes about Software Architecture in .NET 4 for Microsoft Press.

Dr. Schweichhart is the executive Chief enterprise architect at Deutsche Telekom Group contributing to the transformation of Deutsche Telekom to a global service company by introducing SOA as a design paradigm since 2005. He has many years’ professional experience as a computer scientist and business information specialist and has held many positions at Deutsche Telekom since the mid-1990s. The most important of these include Head of Group IT Strategy, CIO at T-Systems Nova and Head of IT Architecture T-Home. Dr. Schweichhart is member of board of SOA Innovation Lab e.V.

Steve has been involved in computational science since 1975 - a long long time. He has published various papers over the years in topics ranging from query optimization to user interface design to distributed systems and formal methods. These days he works for Cognizant Technology Solutions as the European Technology Officer which is both challenging and great fun. He has a small team focussing on the future of software development and outsourcing and a larger team of Enterprse Architects who deliver to customers.

Recently (last year) he was invited to be one of the authors of the SOA Manifesto. The principle that he has been concentrating on for the past year has been "Verify that services satisfy business requirements and goals" and this is being delivered through SAVARA which applies formal methods to realise the principle.

His main interests are centered on using formal methods to build robust distributed systems and how we innovate. This is why WS-CDL, SAVARA, BPMN2 on the one hand and HoQ and TRIZ on the other are all close to his heart and form the basis for all that he does within both Cognizant and Pi4 Technologies. His aim is simply to contribute to move things forward and deliver software solutions faster, with higher quality and reduced costs and so remove us of the linearity in global delivery of software.

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Linda Terlouw works as an IT Architect in the field of SOA at Icris B.V. She advises large corporations about the gradual migration towards a service-oriented way of thinking and the use of ESB technology for its technical implementation. Before starting Icris, Linda worked for several large companies like IBM and Ordina. When she was working at Ordina she assisted Boskalis in constructing their enterprise architecture. Linda holds both an MSc in Computer Science and an MSc in Business Information Technology from the University of Twente. Currently she is pursuing a PhD in Computer Science at the Delft University of Technology. The focus of this research is the specification of services working from DEMO models. The research is part of the CIAO! Program. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Audrey is a policy officer for the Immigration and Naturalization Services. Currently she is responsible for solving business challenges which have a IT component. Making full use of her expertise and on-the-ground experience of immigration law and procedures she searches for (technological) solutions in the fields of security, digitalization, data mining, matching and profiling. Her approach can be characterized as agile and result-oriented. She is involved in various projects within the INDiGO project.

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Anne Thomas Manes is the Vice President and research director for Burton Group Application Platform Strategies. She covers service-oriented architecture (SOA), web services, XML, governance, Java, application servers, superplatforms, and application security.

Prior to joining Burton Group, Anne was former chief technology officer at Systinet, a SOA governance vendor (now part of HP) and director of market innovation in Sun Microsystems's software group. With 28 years of experience, Anne was named one of the 50 most powerful people in networking 2002 by Network World and among the "Power 100 IT Leaders," by Enterprise Systems Journal.

Anne has authored "Web Services: A Manager's Guide" (Addison-Wesley, 2003) and contributed the foreword for the new book "Next Generation SOA" (Prentice Hall, 2009). Anne has also participated in Web services standards development efforts at the W3C, OASIS, WS-I, and JCP.

Stefan Tilkov is co-founder and a principal consultant at innoQ, a consulting firm with offices in Germany and Switzerland. Stefan focuses on enterprise architecture consulting for Fortune 1000 companies, which currently translates to assessing SOA maturity and deriving appropriate steps for a road map towards a service-oriented enterprise. Stefan has been involved in the design of large-scale, distributed systems for more than 15 years, using a variety of technologies and tools ranging from C/C++ and CORBA over J2EE/Java EE and Web Services to REST and Ruby on Rails. In his current work, he is actively participating in SOA projects using both RESTful HTTP as well as the WS-* universe. Stefan is the author of "REST und HTTP" and co-edited the German SOA book "SOA Expertenwissen", has written numerous articles on SOA, Web services and REST and is a frequent speaker at conferences around the world. He is a member of the SOA Manifesto Working Group, the JAX-RS (JSR 311) expert group, and headed InfoQ's SOA queue for several years. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Bernd Trops is Director of Professional Services at SOPERA GmbH. Since mid 90s he worked for several companies (including GemStone, Brokat, WebGain and Oracle) as a System Engineer and coach on countless OO and SOA projects. During his Oracle days Bernd held the position as a SOA-Architect with focus on large-scale initiatives. One notable project included the Deutsche Post Service Back Bone, which eventually became the foundation for the Eclipse SOA Runtime Framework's core project Swordfish. Today he is responsible for consulting and training at SOPERA, which supports an OpenSource SOA platform contributed to the Eclipse Foundation. Bernd is also a cofounder of the Mason-of-SOA

Andre Tost works as a Senior Technical Staff Member in the IBM Software Group, where he consults IBM customers world-wide on establishing Service-Oriented Architectures. His special focus is on Web services, Enterprise Service Bus and Business Process Management technology. Before his current assignment, he spent ten years in various partner enablement, development and architecture roles in IBM software development, most recently for the WebSphere Business Development group. Andre has spoken at industry conferences worldwide on topics related to SOA and is a frequent publisher of articles and papers. He is also a coauthor of several books on We b services and related technologies. Originally from Germany, Andre now lives and works in Rochester, Minnesota. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Clemens works for Boehringer-Ingelheim's Global Business Services (GBS) as Chief Architect, helping to establish GBS' next gen' business architecture based on service orientation. Before joining BI he worked at the Oracle Headquarters in the United States as platform architect, working with the Fusion Applications development as advisor and supported customers all around the world on their journey towards implementing enterprise-wide SOA. During his platform engineering years, Clemens was responsible for cross product integration, strategic standards as well as a member to the Oracle's SOA platform steering committee, and served on the OASIS TC for Service Component Architecture (SCA).

In 2006 Clemens co-founded the "Masons-of-SOA", an inter-company network founded by architects of Oracle Germany, Opitz, SOPEra (Eclipse Project Swordfish founders) and EDS, with the mission of spreading knowledge, fostering discussion and supporting SOA programs across companies and borders. After 14 articles on advanced SOA topics in the german Java Magazin, a three patterns in Thomas Erl's SOA Design Patterns catalogue, they are currently working on "Next Generation SOA" - slated to release as part of the Service Oriented Computing Series of Prentice Hall for late 2010. Clemens is also a co-author of the SOA Manifesto.

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Erik is responsible for VINT, the international research institute of Sogeti, in the USA. At the VINT Research institute he has published and organized events around topics such as Open Innovation, new media developments, web2.0, the commoditization of IT, IT governance, collaboration and cloud computing. The continuing theme of VINT research is how new technology is emerging, and then actually gets used to achieve business goals. Erik is an analyst with a broad background in IT with experience ranging from software development using many different technologies to Enterprise Architecture and executive management. Part of his time is spent advising organizations on transformation projects, architectural processes and innovation. Erik is also a trainer, speaker at seminars and author of several books and articles. He is an author of both 'Open for Business -Open Source inspired innovation' and 'SOA for Profit - A manager's guide to success with service oriented architecture'. His latest book is 'Collaboration in the Cloud'. Erik is based in Washington, DC. Erik.vanOmmeren@Sogeti.com. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Peter Paul consults organizations in shifts using information technology. His main interest, and focus area in the last 5+ years have been Service Orientation and integration projects. He has acted in roles like: Architect, Project manager, Process engineer, and Developer. As part of a project he has a strong focus on delivering (business) value to the organization, and the team members. Besides that Peter Paul is a regular speaker (at events like Oracle Open World, Butler Group Master classes), trainer, and blogger. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Sumeet is a Senior SOA Architect at SAIC USA, a FORTUNE 500 company, where he leads the SOA Adoption Roadmap, Strategy and Implementation for a large DoD client. Sumeet has been on the forefront of SOA and its related technologies. At webMethods (now Software AG), he was involved from the very early stage with the implementation of XML-RPC (US Patent: 7028312, circa 1999), the precursor to current day SOAP. During his tenure at webMethods he has acted as the lead engineer and architect for numerous SOA infrastructure products, starting from webMethods Integration Server, B2B to Enterprise Application Integration, SOAP stack and WS-* standard implementations, high performance Policy Enforcement Points and SOA Governance products. These Enterprise level SOA software products are currently deployed at thousands of customer sites. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Dr. Hiroshi Wada is a researcher at the Business Process and Interoperation research group, NICTA (National ICT Australia). He also holds a conjoint lecturer position at the School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales. His research interests include model-driven software engineering, performance engineering, search-based software engineering and distributed computing. In these areas, he has published over 25 refereed papers including four award papers. Dr. Hiroshi Wada joined NICTA in 2010. He received a Ph.D. in computer science from University Massachusetts Boston in 2009. Before pursuing a Ph.D., he worked for Object Technology Institute, Inc., Japan. He helped the company's clients develop and enhance their enterprise systems with emerging technologies, such as CORBA, Web services, UML and MDA, through various consulting and educational services. He also represented the Object Management Group in Japan in technical standpoint. He has developed and provided over 100 short courses to professional institutions and published over 90 trade journal papers. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Herbjorn works as a consultant at Forefront Consulting Group in Stockholm, Sweden and specializes in SOA and Business Architecture. He has many years of industry experience working as a developer, development manager, architect and teacher. Herbjorn has worked with customers in several fields of operations like telecommunications, marketing, payment industry, healthcare, public services and tourism. Herbjorn have been working with SOA Design patterns in the SOA Patterns Review Committee as well as in the "SOA Design Patterns" book. He leads the "Business to IT" group in the Swedish chapter of IASA (International Association of Software Architects) and has published several technical articles in Sweden as well as internationally Herbjorn is active as a book author in the Prentice Hall SOA series. He has co-authored the "SOA with .Net & Windows Azure" book and is currently in the midst of co-authoring the "SOA & Cloud Computing" book. Herbjorn holds a B.Sc. from Stockholm University. Herbjorn occasionally blogs over at https://herbjorn.wordpress.com/. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Torsten Winterberg works as Director Strategy and Innovation and Head of Competence Center SOA at OPITZ CONSULTING GmbH. He has a great deal of experience in building Java EE applications as fulfilling the roles of trainer, project coach and architect. His special interests include the design and development of complex IT systems based upon BPM, BPEL, ESB and service-oriented architectures in general.

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Mr. Dennis E. Wisnosky is the Chief Architect and Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of the Department of Defense (DoD) Business Mission Area (BMA) within the Office of the Deputy Chief Management Officer (DCMO). As Chief Architect and CTO, Mr. Wisnosky is responsible for providing expert guidance and oversight in the design, development, and modification of the federated architectures supporting the Department's Business Mission Area. This role incorporates oversight of the DoD Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA) - the corporate level systems, processes, and data standards that are common across the DOD, in addition to the business architectures of the services and defense agencies. Mr. Wisnosky is leading the transformation of architecture-driven business systems and services development, and deployment. He ensures that Business Process Models are based on a standardized representation, enabling the analysis and comparison of end to end business processes leading to the re-use of the most efficient and effective process patterns and elements throughout the DoD Business Mission Area. A key principle in DoD business transformation is its focus on data ontology and semantic web methods. Mr. Wisnosky also serves as an advisor on the development of requirements and extension of DoD net-centric enterprise services in collaboration with the office of the DOD Chief Information Officer (CIO). Mr. Wisnosky has over 25 years of experience in Manufacturing, and Information Technology (IT), engineering, consulting and training, including extensive experience in business process reengineering and enterprise architecture efforts. His specialty is deriving solutions to effectively move organizations from their "as-is" state of inefficiency to their "to-be" state of achieving strategic and tactical objectives. Mr. Wisnosky is recognized as a creator of the Integrated Definition (IDEFs) language, the standard for modeling and analysis in management and business improvement efforts. In addition, he is the author of several books including DoDAF Wizdom, considered the decisive source within DoD and other government organizations for managing enterprise architecture projects. Mr. Wisnosky holds a bachelor's degree in Physics and Mathematics from California University of Pennsylvania, a master's in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, and a master's in Management Science from the University of Dayton. Mr. Wisnosky has received numerous awards and honors for his work. In 2007 Mr. Wisnosky was a recipient of Federal Computer Week's, Federal 100 Award. Mr. Wisnosky is a PADI certified Rescue Diver and Instrument Rated Private Pilot in Multiengine Aircraft. He and his wife, live in Naperville, Illinois. They have three daughters and eight grandchildren.

Matt Wood is the Technology Evangelist for Amazon Web Services, where he discusses the technical and business aspects of cloud computing at events throughout Europe and with teams of all sizes. With a background in the life sciences, and a PhD in Bioinformatics, Matt has previously built web-scale search engines at Cornell University, genes in Hinxton and was responsible for the software that drives the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute's next generation DNA sequencing platform. Matt is an advocate of agile development, big data analysis and the productivity benefits of elastic computing. Click Here to View Speaker Profile

Mamoon Yunus is an industry-honored CEO of Crosscheck Networks and a visionary in XML, SOA and cloud-based technologies. As the founder of Forum Systems, he pioneered XML Security Gateways & Firewalls. He spearheaded Forum's direction and strategy for seven generations of award-winning XML, SOA and Cloud Security products. Prior to Forum Systems, Yunus was a Global Systems Engineer for webMethods (NASD: WEBM) where he developed XML-based business integration and architecture plans for Global 2000 companies such as GE, Pepsi, Siemens, and Mass Mutual. He has held various high-level executive positions at Informix (acquired by IBM) and Cambridge Technology Group.

He holds two Graduate Degrees in Engineering from MIT and a BSME from Georgia Institute of Technology. InfoWorld recognized Yunus as one of four "Up and coming CTOs to watch in 2004." He is a sought-after speaker at industry conferences such as RSA, Gartner, Web Services Edge, CSI, Network Interop, and Microsoft TechEd. Yunus has the distinction of showcasing Forum Systems' entrepreneurial leadership as a case study at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He has also been featured on CNBC as Terry Bradshaw's "Pick of the Week."

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