Speakers @ SOAWorld Conference & Expo 2007 West

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The Most Significant SOA and Open Source Events of 2007!

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Faculty for the SOA/EOS Conference, June 25-26, 2007

THE MOST DISTINGUISHED CONFERENCE FACULTY OF 2006

Andy Astor

Andy Astor is co-founder, president and CEO of EnterpriseDB. Prior to EDB, he was a vice president at webMethods, Inc., where he was responsible for technical marketing, corporate acquisition integration and standards leadership and evangelism. While at webMethods, he was elected twice to the Board of Directors of the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I), and he served as that organization's Marketing Chair. A frequent speaker at industry conferences, Andy is also on the International Advisory Board for SOA Web Services Journal.

Session: Top Five Mistakes to Avoid in Migrating to Open Source

Jeff Barr

Jeff Barr is Amazon.com's Web Services Technical Program Manager. He focuses on helping the Amazon Web Services developer community achieve success in building innovative and successful businesses using Amazon.com data and technology. Jeff has held development and management positions at KnowNow, eByz, Akopia, and Microsoft, and was a co-founder of Visix Software. His outside interests include collecting and organizing news feeds using his own site, www.syndic8.com. Jeff holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the Aman University and has done graduate work in Computer Science at the George Washington University.

Session: Amazon Web Services: Fueling Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Kevin Bedell

Kevin Bedell, one of the founding editors of Linux.SYS-CON.com, writes and speaks frequently on Linux and open source. He is the director of consulting and training for Black Duck Software.

Session: How to Measure the Impact of Open Source on Software Project Velocity

Brian Behlendorf

Brian Behlendorf founded CollabNet, with O'Reilly & Associates, in July 1999. CollabNet provides on-demand distributed software development solutions and is the primary sponsor of the award-winning Subversion open source project. Before launching CollabNet, Behlendorf was co-founder and CTO of Organic Online, a Web design and engineering consultancy located in San Francisco. During his five years at Organic, Behlendorf helped create Internet strategies for dozens of Fortune 500 companies. During that time, he co-founded and contributed heavily to the Apache Web Server Project, co-founded and supported the VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) effort, and assisted several IETF working groups, particularly the HTTP standardization effort. Before starting Organic, Behlendorf was the first Chief Engineer at Wired Magazine and later HotWired, one of the first large-scale publishing Web sites. He is currently a Director of the Mozilla Foundation and a retired Director and President of the Apache Software Foundation. In 2006, Behlendorf was named a Young Global Leader, an affiliate program of the World Economic Forum. Among his many books are Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution, and Running a Perfect Web Site with Apache.

Session: Bringing Open Source Software Collaboration Practices and Principles to Corporate Environments

Steve Benfield

Steve Benfield is CTO of Agentis Software. A technology marketeer and strategist with 20 years of software entreprenuerism experience, he is both a gifted writer and a technical visionary, a combination of qualities that made him the perfect choice of Editor-in-Chief for SYS-CON Media's inaugural publication 12 years ago, PowerBuilder Developer's Journal. Steve's proven ability to determine marketing and technology strategies that align with market needs led to successful stints at SilverStream, where he started as technology evangelist and ended as CTO, and at ClearNova where he was CTO.

Session: Beyond BPM: Using Goal-Seeking Agents to Tackle Highly-Complex SOA Applications

David Boloker

David Boloker is a Distinguished Engineer and Chief Technical Officer for Emerging Internet Technologies in IBM Software Group. Previously, he held the position of Chief Technical Officer for Java Technologies in Software Group. David is recognized in and outside IBM as a technical leader in the Internet software space guiding IBM's investments as well as internal product development in the Internet space David's responsibilities include building IBM's technical e-Business strategy, working with internal IBMers to develop the appropriate products for the Internet space, researching new areas in software design as well as guiding a group of researchers working in Software Group. Previous to joining Software Group, David worked at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center and the Cambridge Scientific Center doing research in the area of remote distribution and control of hardware and software systems, dynamic I/O configuration of mainframe operating systems and secure internet gateways. David has been recognized by IBM with numerous Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards in the areas of Java, Secure Internet Gateways, Dynamic I/O Configuration and the Remote Distribution and Control of S/370, 4300, S/390 and AS/400 Architecture processors. David earned a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in Mathematics from Boston University.

Session: OpenAjax | Eclipse Ajax Tooling Framework

Dave Chappell

David Chappell is vice president and chief technology evangelist for Sonic Software Corporation. Chappell has over 20 years of experience in the software industry covering a broad range of roles including R&D, code-slinger, sales, support and marketing. He is well known for his writings and public lectures on the subjects of the enterprise service bus (ESB), Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), message oriented middleware (MOM), enterprise integration, and is a co-author of many advanced Web Services standards. As director of engineering for Sonic Software, Chappell led the development effort for SonicMQ®, which has grown to become synonymous with enterprise messaging and the Java™ Message Service (JMS). He has extensive experience in distributed computing, including JMS and MOM, CORBA, COM, EJB and Web application server infrastructure. Chappell's experience also includes development of client/server infrastructure, graphical user interfaces and language interpreters. Chappell is well noted for authoring the Enterprise Service Bus (O'Reilly), Java Web Services (O'Reilly), Professional ebXML Foundations (Wrox) and Java Message Service (O'Reilly). In addition, he has written numerous articles in leading industry publications, such as Business Integration Journal, Enterprise Architect, Java Developers Journal, JavaPro, Web Services Journal, XML Journal and Network World. Chappell and his works have received many industry awards including the "Java™ Technology Achievement Award" from JavaPro magazine for "Outstanding Individual Contribution to the Java Community" in 2002, and the 2005 CRN Magazine “Top 10 IT leaders” award for “casting larger-than-life shadow over the industry”.

Session: The Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Delivering SOAs

Si Chen

Si Chen is the founder and Principal of Open Source Strategies, Inc. and is a Core Developer of the Open For Business project (www.ofbiz.org) and Release Manager for opentaps (www.opentaps.org). He has given presentations at MySQL UC 2006 and the Southern California Linux Expo. In a previous career as a fund manager, he has also been published and appeared on Reuters TV.

Session: Opening Up Enterprise Software: Key Trends and Opportunities for Open Source Applications

Christophe Coenraets

Christophe Coenraets worked at Sybase/Powersoft from 1994 to 2000. He started working with Java in 1996 and became the technical evangelist for the company's Java and Internet Application Division. Christophe then joined Macromedia as the company's JRun and J2EE technical evangelist. He is currently senior evangelist for Macromedia.

Session: Unleashing the Power of RIAs with SOA and Messaging

Bill Coleman

Coleman founded and was the first chairman and CEO of BEA Systems. Under his leadership, BEA became the fastest software firm ever to exceed $1 billion in annual revenue. As vice president of system software at Sun Microsystems, Coleman's team transformed SunOS into the commercially successful Solaris operating system. While at Sun he also founded Sun's Professional Services Division and co-founded Sun's Federal Division. With more than 30 years of i-technology experience, Coleman leads Cassatt’s seasoned executive team which averages nearly twenty-five years of experience per member.

Session: SOA Web Services Keynote

Douglas Crockford

Douglas Crockford is a product of our public education system. A registered voter, he owns his own car. He has developed office automation systems. He did research in games and music at Atari. He was Director of Technology at Lucasfilm. He was Director of New Media at Paramount. He was the founder and CEO of Electric Communities/Communities.com. He was founder and CTO of State Software, where he discovered JSON. He is interested in Blissymbolics, a graphical, symbolic language. He is developing a secure programming language. He is now an architect at Yahoo!.

Session: JSON: The Data Transport Format of the Stars

John Crupi

John is the CTO of JackBe Corporation. As CTO he is entrusted with understanding market forces and business drivers to formulate JackBe's technical strategy and roadmap. John Crupi has 20 years experience in OO and enterprise distributed computing. John was previously with Sun Microsystems for eight years, serving as a Distinguished Engineer and CTO for Sun's Enterprise Web Services Practice. Mr. Crupi is co-author of the popular Core J2EE Patterns book, has written many articles for various magazines and is a well-known speaker around the globe. He is a frequent blogger and was just selected to the International Advisory Board for AJAX Developer's Journal. John was also named as a member of Software Development Magazine's Dream Team.

Session: Focusing on the "A"(rchitecture) in AJAX

Max Dolgicer

Max Dolgicer is an internationally recognized expert and Managing Director at International System Group (ISG), Inc a leading consulting firm that specializes in IT Strategy and development and integration of large-scale distributed applications using Service-Oriented Architectures. Mr. Dolgicer has been involved in leading management and technical roles in many of the major engagements for Forune 500 clients.

Session: Case Study: Making the Business Case for a Transition to SOA

Luis Derechin

Luis Derechin is the CEO of JackBe and is also a co-founder. Leader of JackBe both for daily operations and for long-term strategy, he has a noted history of founding companies that become both leaders in their categories and recognized successes. JackBe is Luis Derechin's third start-up?the previous two having been D'Hogar, a retail company that earned the loyalty of more than 500,000 customers, and AviMed, an online software provider for more than 17,000 healthcare professionals. He studied Business at Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico and engineering at the University of California, San Diego.

Session: AJAX and SOA: The Perfect Match

Christian Donner

Christian Donner has 20 years of experience in project delivery and consulting. His professional focus includes EAI, BI, CRM, supporting business strategy through the development, implementation, and maintenance of mission critical systems. He is a senior technical architect at Molecular, a Web consulting firm located in the Boston area, and has written for both Java Developer's Journal and .NET Developer's Journal. He can be reached at pubs2005@cdonner.com.

Session: The Current State of Open Source Business Intelligence

Yakov Fain

Yakov Fain works as a senior software architect at BusinessEdge Solutions, a large integration and consulting firm. He is a contributing Java enterprise editor at Java Developer's Journal. He authored the best selling book "The Java Tutorial for the Real World," an e-book "Java Programming for Kids, Parents and Grandparents," and co-authored the book "Java 2 Enterprise Edition 1.4 Bible." Yakov is also an adjunct professor at New York University. He leads the Princeton Java Users Group. Sun Microsystems has awarded Yakov with the title Java Champion. You can contact Yakov at yakov@smartdataprocessing.com.

Session: SOA and RIA Together: Developing with Adobe Flex and Java

John Fallows

John Fallows, former lead developer for Oracle ADF Faces Rich Client, has been working in distributed systems for over a decade. After five years spent focused on designing, developing the JavaServer Faces standard to provide AJAX functionality, playing a leading role in the Oracle ADF Faces team, he recently joined a start-up. Originally from Northern Ireland, John graduated from Cambridge University in the United Kingdom and has worked in the software industry for more than ten years. Prior to joining Oracle, he worked as a research scientist for British Telecommunications Plc.

Session: AJAX and Faces: Friends or Foes?

Charles Fiesel

For 10 years, Charles is renowned for helping companies understand how cutting edge technologies can be utilized to improve interactive experiences. He introduced RIAs to some of the largest companies in the world more than 5 years ago and led creative, technology and business strategy teams to develop one of the first RIA prototypes in the world for a major global bank. Having worked at Laszlo Systems as their financial Services Evangelist, Charles now leads the RIA practice at Roundarch. Roundarch is focused on fusing user-centric experience design with technology to deliver large-scale web initiatives for some of the world?s largest public and private organizations. Roundarch has developed RIAs via Laszlo, Adobe Flex and Nexaweb platforms for current clients. Rich interfaces delivering enterprise content, composite applications empowering dynamic portals and SOA development are Roundarch cornerstones. Roundarch is the winner of the MIT/Accenture Digital Government Award for its work designing and building the US Air Force Portal.

Session: Making Web 2.0 Happen

Marc Fleury

Born in Paris in 1968, Marc Fleury got his Ph.D in physics from the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris. He started in Sales at Sun Microsystems France and then moved to the US where he worked on early java enablement of SAP at SAPLabs. Marc started the JBoss project in 1999. An ex-Lieutenant in the paratroopers, Marc holds a degree in Mathematics from the Ecole Polytechnique, a master in Theoretical Physics from the Ecole Normale ULM and was a visiting scientist at MIT during his thesis. Marc's research interest focuses on aspect oriented middleware.

Session: Enterprise Open Source Keynote

Rob Gonda

Rob Gonda, Deputy Editor of AjaxWorld Magazine ( http://www.ajaxworldmagazine.com/), serves as iChameleon's Chief Technology Officer. Rob ( http://www.robgonda.com) joined the company at its inception with over 10 years of experience as a technologist bringing an extensive background in software development, technology, product management, technical direction, and service strategy. iChameleon ( http://www.ichameleongroup.com) is proud to have as clients CP+B, Mini Cooper, Victoria Secret, Slim Jim, Earthlink, just to name a few. Prior to joining iChameleon, Rob acted as CTO for Comvoz Communications, a multi-national VoIP company, and prior to Comvoz he co-founded Eldish Marketing, a regional ISP and Web development company at a time when the Internet was still unknown. In addition to holding a number of chief architect, senior programmer/developer and business analyst roles across the industry, Rob is fluent in several key computer and programming languages, including HTML, ColdFusion, C++, JavaScript, SQL, ASP, Perl, and Java. He's an Advanced Certified ColdFusion developer and holds a BS in computer science and engineering and an MBA with a specialization in entrepreneurship from the Wayne Huizenga School of Business.

Session: Enterprise-Level AJAX Thinking

Karl Gouverneur

Karl Gouverneur is the Chief Technology Officer at Seattle-based Safeco Insurance where he is responsible for IT strategy, architecture, application development frameworks, and the relationship with business partners. Prior to Safeco, Karl was the CTO at Chicago-based CNA Financial where he contributed to over $170M to CNAs profits through the use innovative; strategic IT enabled solutions such as service-oriented architecture, voice over IP, a claims transformation program, strategic sourcing, and enterprise content management. Mr. Gouverneur has also been an entrepreneur by founding his own ERP systems integration firm in Chicago called Vanenburg Business Systems taking it from startup to a $100M firm with offices worldwide. Early in his career he worked at Ernst and Young where he worked in several Fortune 250 clients where he played many roles developing custom and packaged software solutions.

Session: An Enterprise-Grade Approach to SOA

Kevin Hakman

Kevin Hakman is Co-founder, TIBCO General Interface, TIBCO Software Inc. Prior to TIBCO General Interface, he was the co-founder of Versalent Inc. a leading provider of enterprise client technology. Prior to Versalent, he founded a series of successful emerging Internet technology and ecommerce ventures. He has also written for eBusiness Journal and HotWired.

Session: The Four Quantum States of AJAX

Anil Hemrajani

Anil Hemrajani has been working with Java Technology since late 1995 as a developer, entrepreneur, author, and trainer. He is the founder of Isavix Corporation, a successful IT service company (acquired in 2003), and DeveloperHub.com (formerly isavix.net; acquired in 2004), an award-winning online developer community that grew to over 100,000 registered members. He has twenty years of experience in the Information Technology community working with several Fortune 100 companies and also smaller organizations. He has published numerous articles in well known trade journals, presented at conferences and seminars around the world and received the "Outstanding Contribution to the Growth of the Java Community" award from Sun Microsystems, the "Best Java Client" award at JavaOne for BackOnline, a Java-based online backup client/server product, and was nominated for a Computerworld-Smithsonian award for a free online file storage service web site. His more recent project is the visualpatterns.com web site.

Session: Agile Java development with Spring, Hibernate and Eclipse

Israel Hilerio

Israel Hilerio is a program manager at Microsoft in the Windows Workflow Foundation team. He has 15+ years of development experience doing business applications and has a PhD in Computer Science.

Session: Building Web Services Using Windows Workflow Foundation

Dion Hinchcliffe

Dion Hinchcliffe, editor-in-chief of SYS-CON Media's Web 2.0 Journal (web2.sys-con.com), is cofounder and chief technology officer for the enterprise architecture firm Sphere of Influence Inc. (www.sphereofinfluence.com), founded in 2001 in McLean, Virginia. A veteran of software development, Dion works with leading-edge technologies to accelerate project schedules and raise the bar for software quality. He is highly experienced with enterprise technologies and he designs, consults, and writes prolifically. Dion actively consults with enterprise IT clients in the federal government and Fortune 1000. He also speaks and publishes about Web 2.0 and SOA on a regular basis.

Session: Leveraging the "Global SOA" with Web 2.0

Simon Horwith

Simon Horwith is the editor-in-chief of ColdFusion Developer's Journal and is the CIO at AboutWeb, LLC, a Washington, DC based company specializing in staff augmentation, consulting, and training. Simon is a Macromedia Certified Master Instructor and is a member of Team Macromedia. He has been using ColdFusion since version 1.5 and specializes in ColdFusion application architecture, including architecting applications that integrate with Java, Flash, Flex, and a myriad of other technologies. In addition to presenting at CFUGs and conferences around the world, he has also been a contributing author of several books and technical papers. You can read his blog at http://simon.coldfusionjournal.com.

Session: Implementing SOA Using Flex, Flash, and ColdFusion

Cory Isaacson

Cory Isaacson is President of Rogue Wave Software, a QUOVADXtm division. Cory has been actively involved in leading information technologies since 1985, starting as the founder and chief executive of Compuflex International. In the mid-1990s, Compuflex merged with Capita Technologies, a division of Inter-Public Group of Companies (IPG), and there he held the post of Senior Vice President through 2000, leading the media and entertainment practice of the firm. He has spoken at hundreds of public events and seminars, is the author of numerous articles on a variety of subjects and is a regular columnist and technical editor for WebSphere® Advisor® Magazine. Cory has been providing guidance to IT professionals in the development and implementation of powerful business applications throughout his career.

Session: Achieving Optimal Application Performance in a SOA Environment

Jonas Jacobi

Jonas Jacobi is a J2EE technology evangelist at Oracle. A native of Sweden, he has worked in the software industry for more than fifteen years. Prior to joining Oracle, Jonas worked at several major Swedish software companies in management, consulting, development, and project management roles. For the past three years, he has been responsible for the product management of JavaServer Faces, Oracle ADF Faces, and Oracle ADF Faces Rich Client in the Oracle JDeveloper team.

Session: AJAX and Faces: Friends or Foes?

Ajit Jaokar

Ajit Jaokar was recently appointed to chair Oxford University’s next generation mobile applications panel ( http://www.forumoxford.com). His current area of focus includes Channels to market for mobile applications (selling mobile applications), IMS (IP multimedia subsystem), Multiplayer Mobile gaming and Mobile communities. He currently plays an advisory role to a number of mobile start-ups in the UK and Scandinavia and works with the governments and trade missions of a number of countries including South Korea ( www.iparklondon.com), Ireland (www.investnet.ie, http://www.enterprise-ireland.com) and the Faroe Islands ( http://www.thebitland.com). An innovator and a pioneer in the Mobile Data industry, he is also a member of the Web 2.0 Working Group.

Session: The Impact of Web 2.0 / AJAX on Mobile Applications

Werner Keil

Werner Keil is a software architect working for a leading UK pension fund. He has more than 17 years experience as project manager, analyst, consultant and software architect on leading-edge technologies for finance, insurance, telco/media and governments. He develops enterprise systems using Java EE and Microsoft technologies, does web and portal design.

Session: Open Source Project Management

Jon Kern

Outspoken software engineering evangelist, Agile Manifesto co-author, speaker, and author, Jon's experience is wide-ranging across varied problem domains and technology platforms. From jet engine R&D (he’s an aerospace engineer, after all) to real-time flight simulator design and development, from TogetherSoft's and OptimalJ's commercially successful modeling tools to building IBM’s Manufacturing Execution System software – Jon has seen and done a lot in his 20 years. Peter Coad recruited Jon in September 1999, to help launch TogetherSoft. Jon was a driving force behind the success of the company and its products prior to its sale to Borland. Jon's a nut when it comes to modeling effectively (focused on the business), building and architecting consistently, and doing it in an agile manner to deliver results. If a team ignores these best practices, it invites the peril of building up Technical Debt, as he likes to refer to it. Jon is a speaker that engages the audience and has fun doing it.

Session: Pragmatic Agile Model-Driven Architecture

Mike Kochanik

Mike Kochanik is vice president of alliances at CollabNet (www.collab.net), the leading provider of on-demand distributed application life-cycle management solutions for software development. Mike has been a major contributor to the creation of network-centric IT strategies that leverage open source software and community-based development processes at Global 1000 rganizations.

Session: The Impact of Open Source Software on Web Services

Jason Levitt

Jason Levitt is a Technical Evangelist for the Yahoo! Developer Network where he helps manage the flow of Web Services from conception to real world deployment. A freelance programmer and journalist, he recently published a book on web services (www.awsbook.com). Still committed to the proliferation of unstructured text known as "the web," you can let loose a stream of his miscellany by putting "Jason Levitt" (use the quotes) into your favorite search engine.

Session: Making Web Services Developer and Business Friendly

Todd Landry

Todd Landry is the Vice President of Product Management and Marketing for Sphere Communications where he oversees the company?s product strategies and go-to-market activities, including alliances and channel development. An accomplished speaker, Landry can be seen in numerous forums, panels and keynotes that include topics such as market changes and impacts, business applications for technology, case studies, industry direction and others. He has joined many industry experts from top analysts, technology vendors and end users of existing and new technologies and has focused on the real value in leveraging technology for business. Previously a vice president at CommWorks Corporate, a subsidiary of 3Com Corporation, Landry oversaw multiple business lines of network access systems and software. He directed a team of Product Management, Marketing, Applications Engineering, Customer Proposals and Technical Publications organizations to provide the delivery tools for product life cycle management, market delivery, sales and customer & industry interaction. Landry has been involved in the telecommunications industry for over 20 years including over 7 years in senior positions with U.S. Robotics Network Systems, where he was responsible for the award winning Total Control product line of carrier Internet access, voice over IP, and 3G wireless data product lines.

Session: VOIP as an Adjunct To Your SOA Framework

Morgan Lim

Morgan Lim is the Chief Marketing Officer and Co-Founder of RaptorHead LLC, an open source desktop applications for Windows. He has been a driving force in publicizing Open Source Software and helping it gain market penetration, for which he has generated widespread media recognition. In addition to being a speaker at open-source conferences, he has consulted for open source companies in sales and marketing strategies and vertical business development and is an active participant in the open source community. He is a graduate of Harvard University in Cambridge, MA.

Session: Bridging the Gap between OSS and Consumers

David S. Linthicum

David S. Linthicum is the author of three books on application integration and SOA, a frequent speaker at industry conferences, and the host of the "Service-Oriented Architecture Expert Podcast" (www.soaexpertpodcast.com). You can reach David at linthicum@att.net.

Session: Joining Enterprises with "Web 2.0"

Paul Lipton

Paul Lipton, a long-time member of the editorial board of SOA Web Services Journal, is Senior Architect in the Unicenter Web Services and Application Management Group at Computer Associates (CA) and affiliated with the Office of the CTO. He has been an architect and developer of enterprise systems for over 20 years, and has worked closely with key CA customers to solve important business challenges through the creation of manageable, mission-critical distributed solutions. Mr. Lipton has represented CA in numerous standards organizations, such as the W3C, OASIS and the Java Community Process. He is a highly sought-after author and conference speaker, and has shared his knowledge with appreciative audiences around the world on such diverse topics as Web services, SOA, management and security, Java, .NET, EAI, distributed systems, and utility computing.

Session: Governance, Security, and Management in a Service-Oriented World - When New and Old Collide

James McGovern

James McGovern is an industry thought leader and the author of the bestselling book: A Practical Guide to Enterprise Architecture (Prentice Hall). He is working on two upcoming books entitled: Agile Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise SOA. He is employed as an Enterprise Architect for The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. He holds industry certifications from Microsoft, Cisco and Sun. He is member of the Java Community Process and of the Worldwide Institute of Software Architects.

Session: Evaluating Enterprise Applications

Emma McGrattan

Emma McGrattan is Ingres's Senior Vice President of Engineering. A leading authority in DBMS technologies, she has been instrumental in the ongoing success of the Ingres product line and joined Ingres from CA where she held a similar position responsible for the Ingres family of relational database management products. Emma joined CA in 1994 upon its acquisition of The ASK Group, where she held a variety of senior development management positions. At Ingres, her responsibilities include the development and architecture of the Ingres database and associated products and technologies. She directly manages the worldwide engineering, test, and quality assurance teams located in California, New York, and the United Kingdom.

Session: From Open Source to Commercial Product and Back Again - The Ingres Story

Boris Minkin

Boris Minkin is a Divisional Vice President of a major financial corporation. He has more than 12 years of experience working in various areas of information technology and financial services. Boris is currently pursuing his Masters degree at Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey. His professional interests are in the Internet technology, service-oriented architecture, enterprise application architecture, multi-platform distributed applications, and relational database design. You can contact Boris at bm@panix.com.

Session: Developing Web Services with Eclipse and WTP

Aaron Mulder

Aaron Mulder is currently CTO of Chariot Solutions, a Java consulting company. he has been working with Java technology since Java Alpha, and has worked on applets, applications, and Web applications using Java, CORBA, and J2EE. He has contributed to the Apache Geronimo, JBoss, and OpenEJB open-source J2EE servers, as well as the JDBC drivers for the PostgreSQL database. He co-authored the book Professional EJB, and is the author of the WebLogic 7 Deployment and Administration Handbook and an upcoming book on Apache Geronimo. Aaron is also a member of the JSR-88 (J2EE Application Deployment API) expert group and he has presented on a variety of Java-related topics in forums such as Java Users Group meetings, seminars, and the 2001 through 2005 JavaOne conferences.

Session: Apache Geronimo for J2EE Developers

Eric Newcomer

Eric Newcomer is Chief Technology Officer at IONA, in which role he is responsible for directing and communicating IONA's technology roadmap, as well as Iits product strategy as it relates to standards adoption, architecture, and product design. He leads IONA's participation in all standardization activities, and has been involved in Web services standardization activities from the beginning.

Session: "Thinking in Services": Why Successful SOA Requires a New Way of Thinking

Duane Nickull

Adobe's Duane Nickull is Chair of the OASIS SOA RM Technical Committee. He is Architect - W3C Web Services Architecture, Editor - ebXML Technical Architecture, Chair - UN CEFACT eBusiness SOA Working Group, and Past Chair - OASIS ebSOA Technical Committee.

Session: The OASIS SOA Reference Model

Clint Oram

Clint Oram, Co-Founder and General Manager of Sugar Online. Clint Oram is one of three co-founders of SugarCRM and led the product design as well as the customer services team through the first year of business. He is now responsible for managing SugarCRM's community and SugarForge.org, the premiere destination for community collaboration on Sugar Suite extensions, modules, language packs and themes. SugarForge.org empowers the community to leverage the combined ideas of developers around the world, by offering the toolset and location to manage and distribute new community-developed Sugar Suite extensions to the benefit of all SugarCRM users. In addition, SugarForge.org offers a range of support for those who need assistance with Sugar Suite development or implementation. Oram's 8 years in enterprise software experience spans Product Management, Professional Services and Software Engineering. Prior to co-founding SugarCRM, Oram worked at E.piphany, Octane Software, Hewlett Packard and PG&E. Oram holds a BS in Computer Science.

Session: The Secret Ingredient to a Successful Open Source Project

Adam Peller
Adam Peller is Advisory Software Engineer, Emerging Internet Technologies, IBM. Nowadays a Dojo committer, he originally integrated Netscape Rhino to BSF, and while at Lotus worked with Sun on JavaScript integration with the HotJava browser and implementation of a level-zero DOM. In December 2005 he authored the "AJAX Toolkit Framework Proposal" that in due course became Eclipse's ATF project.

Session: OpenAjax | Eclipse Ajax Tooling Framework

Jim Phelan

Jim Phelan is VP of Development and Chief Architect for Stream57, a New York City based firm specializing in communication solution development for the enterprise. Jim’s expertise in creating solutions for consolidation and collateralization of business communications has allowed his team to create applications for the management and delivery of live and on demand rich media content. Jim is a strong proponent of the Adobe Flash Platform and is a member of the editorial board of MX Developer's Journal.

Session: When AJAX Isn’t Enough: Cases for Rich Clients with the Flash Platform

Victor Rasputnis

Dr. Victor Rasputnis has been working in Flex, Java, PowerBuilder, Windows SDK, Assembler – to name a few ecosystems - since 1976. Victor is one of the creators of XMLSP, the product that pioneered AJAX back in 1999. He has been contributing articles to industry magazines, co-authoring books, teaching at Columbia University, Division of Continuing Ed. and speaking at industry conferences and seminars. Victor likes to teach, code, play tennis and swim in the ocean. You can reach Victor at victorrasputnis@teamcti.com.

Session: SOA and RIA Together: Developing with Adobe Flex and Java

Clark D. Richey Jr.

Clark is a principal consultant with the RABA Technologies RiSC group for advanced research and development. In his spare time, he teaches the Java platform to students at Loyola College, where as an associate professor, he shares his experiences with much enthusiasm. Clark is the founder of both JUGaccino, a Maryland-based JUG, and the StopLight and PermissionSniffer open source projects. He is also involved in implementing highly scalable, highly secure, service-oriented architectures using Jini.

Session: Service-Oriented Development with Spring Framework

Ajit Sagar

Ajit Sagar is a principal architect with Infosys Technologies, Ltd., a global consulting and IT services company. Ajit has been working with Java since 1997, and has more than 15 years experience in the IT industry. During this tenure, he's been a programmer, lead architect, director of engineering, and product manager for companies from 15 to 25,000 people in size. Ajit has served as JDJ's J2EE editor, was the founding editor of XML Journal, and has been a frequent speaker at SYS-CON's Web Services Edge series of conferences. He has published more than 100 articles.

Session: Applying Business Rules Engines in SOA applications

Dylan Schiemann

Dylan Schiemann is founding software engineer for Renkoo and co-founder of the Dojo Toolkit. He is best known for building web applications that make use of JavaScript, Dojo, and other common web development technologies. He is the co-founder of SitePen, a consulting firm that specializes in designing custom web applications focused on outstanding user experience. Previously, he has developed web applications for Informatica, Security FrameWorks, and Vizional Technologies, to name a few.

Session: Engaging Interfaces with AJAX and Comet

James Schweitzer

James Schweitzer is an IT Specialist with IBM Global Services specializing in Open Source deployments and administration. In his first year at IBM he has worked with clients integrating Open Source applications into proprietary environments. Prior to joining IBM, James spent eight years in IT at a large financial institution.

Session: Case Study: Using FOSS in Retail

Alan Shimel

Alan Shimel is Chief Strategy Officer at StillSecure, in which role he helps shape the company's business and technology strategy. Alan is on the Open Source Snort Rules Consortium Board of Directors and is also responsible for StillSecure's participation in open source initiatives such as the Trusted Computing Group and OS2A.

Session: Using Open Source for Network Security

Bruce Snyder

Bruce Snyder is a 10-year veteran of enterprise software development and a recognized leader in open source software. Bruce has experience in a wide range of technologies including Java EE, Service Oriented Architecture and Enterprise Service Buses. In addition to his role as a Senior Architect and Director of Client Technical Services for LogicBlaze, Bruce is also a founding member and developer for Apache Geronimo, a lead developer for Castor and a developer for Apache ServiceMix. Bruce also serves as a member of the JCP expert group for JSR-221 (JDBC 4.0), JSR-243 (Java Data Objects 2.0) and JSR-291 (Dynamic Component Support for Java). In addition, Bruce is also currently co-authoring 'Professional Apache Geronimo' for Wrox Press and is a speaker at industry conferences including TheServerSide Java Symposium, Java in Action, JavaOne, ApacheCon, JAOO, No Fluff Just Stuff and various Java
Users Groups.

Session: Building an SOA Infrastructure on Open Source Technologies

Jake Sorofman

Jake Sorofman is vice president of product strategy for Systinet where he spearheads: product and market strategies; branding, positioning and messaging; and other product direction initiatives. He possesses strong management skills and has a keen understanding of the frontiers of technology and enterprise markets through his tenure at IBM Software Group, Venetica Corporation, EMC, Documentum, and ERoom.

Session: SOA Governance and Management Issues

Joel Spolsky

Joel Spolsky, a software engineer and writer, is the author of Joel on Software, a popular weblog on software development. He was a Program Manager on the Microsoft Excel team between 1991 and 1994 and later founded Fog Creek Software (http://fogcreek.com ).

Keynote: Making Truly Great, "Blue-Chip" Software Products by Joel Spolsky

Anatole Tartakovsky

Anatole Tartakovsky is a software developer, lecturer, consultant and author. He works as a CTO of Computer Technology, Inc., focused on developing AJAX/FLEX solutions for the financial and retail industries. Anatole has published numerous technical articles and a book in JDJ, PBDJ, XMLDJ and QUE Publishing. He was also teaching "Advanced C/S Coding" at Columbia University and spoke at XML-Edge and Web Services Edge conferences. You can contact Anatole at anatolet@teamcti.com.

Session: SOA and RIA Together: Developing with Adobe Flex and Java

Hugh Taylor

Hugh Taylor is Vice President of Marketing at SOA Software, the leading provider of management and security solutions for enterprise Service-Oriented Architecture. He is the co-author, along with Eric Pulier, of Understanding Enterprise SOA (Manning, 2005) and the upcoming The Joy of SOX (Wiley 2006). The author of more than a dozen articles and papers on the subject of Web services and Service-Oriented Architecture, Taylor is an authority on business process management, SOA, and compliance issues. Taylor received his BA, Magna Cum Laude from Harvard College in 1988 and his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1992. He lives in Los Angeles.

Session: Managing SOX in the Age of SOA

Jacob Taylor

Jacob Taylor CTO and Co-Founder, SugarCRM. Taylor is the leading architect for SugarCRM and defines, manages and develops the core Sugar Suite technology. Taylor has designed Sugar Suite to be one of the most conducive open source application projects for community development and contribution because of it's modular easy to understand architecture and superior coding. He is one of three co-founders of SugarCRM, and has a reputation for engineering excellence. Previous to co-founding SugarCRM, Taylor was the Sr. Development Manager at E.piphany in charge of platform infrastructure and services. Previous to E.piphany, Taylor worked at Symantec Corp. Taylor attained an MS in Computer Science.

Eero Teerikorpi

Eero Teerikorpi is CEO of Continuent. A serial entrepreneur who started his career at Apple Computer, he has more than 20 years of high tech management and enterprise software experience and is also a founding partner at Blue White Venture. Prior to co-founding Blue White Venture, he held top management positions at various cross-Atlantic entities, including President at Capslock, Executive Board Member at Esker S.A. and CEO at Alcom Corporation.

Session: Open Source Middleware: Not Middle of the Road

David Temkin

A Globally Recognized Pioneer of Rich Internet Applications David Temkin is CTO & Founder of Laszlo Systems. In this role, he has positioned the company to become the next technology standard for rich Internet applications. Under his direction, Laszlo developed its patent-pending open-source product suite and extended operations to both coasts of the United States. Before founding Laszlo, Temkin was senior director of Engineering at Excite@Home where he led a team of 55 engineers, designers and technical writers responsible for developing the company's consumer software. Prior to Excite@Home, he was an engineering manager in the Newton division at Apple Computer and developed enterprise software at EDS. He graduated from Brown University with a double major in Computer Science and History, and is named on four software patents.

Session: OpenLaszlo & SOA

Jason Van Zyl

Jason Van Zyl is Chief Architect/co-founder of Mergere and has over tgen years of software development experience for Fortune 500 companies. He's the lead in the development of Maven, Plexus, Continuum and Modello. He is founder of the Velocity project, under Apache Jakarta, and works directly on Maven, as Chair of Apache Maven MC.

Session: Maven - Leveraging the Technical Underpinnings of Open Source Innovation

Shaun Walker

Shaun Walker is founder and president of Perpetual Motion Interactive Systems Inc., a solutions company specializing in Microsoft enterprise technologies. Shaun has 15 years of professional experience in architecting and implementing large-scale IT solutions for private and public organizations. Shaun is the creator and maintainer of DotNetNuke, an open source Web Application Framework written for the Microsoft ASP.NET platform.

Session: Open Source on the Microsoft Platform

Tony Wasserman

Tony Wasserman is Executive Director of the Center for Open Source Investigation and Professor of Software Engineering Practice at Carnegie Mellon West. He was among the creators of the Business Readiness Rating concept and serves as Chair of the BRR Steering Committee. Editor 8 books and author of more than 50 papers published in trade magazines, conference proceedings, and research-oriented journals and books, he has lengthy experience with both open and proprietary software in both industry and academia.

Session: Business Readiness Rating for Open Source Software

Coach Wei

Coach Wei currently serves as CTO for Nexaweb (www.nexaweb.com), developers of the leading software platform for building and deploying Enterprise Internet Applications. Previously, he played a key role at EMC Corporation in the development of a new generation of storage network management software. Coach has his master's degree from MIT, holds several patents, is the author of several technology publications, and is an industry advocate for the proliferation of open standards.

Session: A New Approach to AJAX: Asynchronous Java + XML

Michael Wheaton

Michael Wheaton is a Principal Engineer for Sun Microsystems with 15+ years of experience in the computer industry. He is a subject matter expert in Service Oriented Architectures and is responsible for driving Sun's vision and the development of customer solution offerings around SOA. For the past eight years at Sun, Mike has lead and mentored key Sun customers on the integration of evolving technologies into the corporate enterprise. As chief architect he has led projects across a wide range of vertical markets with some of Sun's largest customers. He is a frequent speaker at a wide rage of events including JavaOne and the Gartner Integration conference.

Session: Transitioning to SOA Governance

Chip Wilson

Chip Wilson, CTO of Geniant, is a nationally prominent expert on SOA. He serves on myriad industry committees and holds a wealth of industry certifications from IBM, Sun, and Microsoft?including the prestigious Microsoft Certified Architect (MCA), held by fewer than 50 people worldwide. He has spoken at numerous Microsoft and industry events, industry user groups, and corporate seminars and is author of "Transparent IT: Building Blocks for an Agile Enterprise," published September, 2005, which describes a detailed framework and roadmap for adopting an SOA and creating an agile, real time enterprise.

Session: The Business Value of SOA

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