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Mehmet Akin - IBM

		Solving Cross-Domain Issues When Building Mashups Track: User Interface & User Experience
Mehmet Akin is a Software Developer in the Lotus Sametime Core Services Team based at the IBM Dublin Software Lab in Ireland. He currently works as the UI lead developer for the new Lotus Sametime 8.5 Browser IM Client which is based on the Dojo Toolkit. He is co-author of the book "Building Dynamic Ajax Applications Using Websphere Feature Pack for Web 2.0" and spoke at various events, the last one being IBM Lotusphere 2009 in Orlando/Florida. Back to Top

Dustin Amrhein - IBM

		Cloud-Enabling Your SOA Track: Day 1: SOA & Cloud Bootcamp Day 2: SOA and Cloud Sessions
Dustin Amrhein has held various jobs in software design and development including web-based application development, distributed system infrastructure development, and Web 2.0 runtime architecture design. In his current role, he is a technical evangelist for IBM emerging technologies in the WebSphere portfolio. Follow him on Twitter @WebSphereClouds and visit the IBM WebSphere emerging technologies page. Back to Top

Akbar Ali Ansari - Oracle

		Context-Driven User Interface Track: User Interface & User Experience
Akbar Ali Ansari is a software engineer with Oracle. Before coming to Oracle he worked with BEA systems for 7 years. He is part of the Engineering team of Oracle WebLogic Server Application server and has worked on designing and developing many functionalities of WebLogic Server. He's an expert member of JSR 262 and JSR255. Back to Top

Matias Bagini - JRapid Corp

		Bringing Productivity Back to Developers in the Age of AJAX Track: RIA Tools & Frameworks
Matias Bagini is CEO of JRapid Corp. He is a software engineer with technical and entrepreneurial background. Previous to founding JRapid, where he has business and technical strategical responsibilities, he worked as a web developer in two software factories. He developed HTMLi, one of the first Open Source AJAX frameworks. Back to Top

Julio Barros - E-String Technologies

		Getting Started Programming with Objective-C and the iPhone Track: iPhone Developer Summit
Julio Barros has been developing iPhone software since the SDK was released, and has been involved with a variety of projects for the iPhone. Prior to focusing on the iPhone, Julio worked on commercial software projects for almost 20 years in Colorado, New York, and Washington DC. He is a consultant, freelance programmer and trainer. Back to Top

Keith Bergelt - Open Invention Network

		AJAX Innovation & Adoption Using Open Tools & Services Track: RIA Tools & Frameworks
Keith Bergelt is the CEO of Open Invention Network (OIN), the non-profit collaborative enterprise that enables innovation in open source and an increasingly vibrant ecosystem around Linux that has received investments from IBM, NEC, Novell, Philips, Red Hat and Sony. Previously Mr. Bergelt co-founded, advised and managed intellectual property portfolios within several multinational organizations. Mr. Bergelt holds degrees from Duke University, Southern Methodist University School of Law and an MBA from Theseus Institute in France. Back to Top

Rohit Bhardwaj - Kronos

		Testing Services for SOA Using SoapUI Track: Governance, Testing, Standards, Compliance
Rohit Bhardwaj is currently working at Kronos Incorporated as Principal Software Engineer. He has fourteen years of extensive experience in architecture, design and agile development. He is expert in application development in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), REST, Cloud Computing, Web Services, XML, XSL, SOAP, UDDI, JSON, and SOAPUI. Bhardwaj is a Sun Certified Java developer for Java 1.5 Platform and did his Masters in Computer Science at Boston University and Harvard University. Back to Top

Robert Boedigheimer - Schwans Shared Services

		Internet Explorer 8 and its Impact on Your Web Sites Track: User Interface & User Experience
Robert Boedigheimer works for Schwans Shared Services, LLC providing business solutions with web technologies and runs Robert Boedigheimer Consulting, LLC. Robert has been designing and developing web sites for the past 10 years including the early days of ASP and ASP.NET. He was the lead architect, designer, and developer for the schwans.com rewrite with ASP.NET, and recently implemented a large ASP.NET 2.0 project. He is a columnist for aspalliance.com, an "Early Achiever" MCSD for .NET with C#, an MCPD: Web with C#, and a 2nd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do. Robert has spoken at industry conferences including the Heartland Developers Conference, Twin Cities Code Camp, Tulsa Tech Fest, Microsoft's Visual DevCon, and numerous national and international VSLive! events. Back to Top

Sujoe Bose - DSine Dynamics

		RIAlizing Enterprise Applications Track: Business Value of RIAs \| Enterprise RIA
Sujoe Bose has 15 years of Software Architecture and Development experience. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington. He has published and presented papers in several International Conferences. His research interests spans across Algorithms, Databases, Programming Languages, Enterprise Systems Design and Integration. Speaking Experience: Sujoe Bose has presented several talks in International Conferences such as JavaOne, ACM SIGMOD and CIKM. He has also been teaching in the University of Phoenix for the past 4 years. He has a wide variety of experience in enterprise systems for companies such as HP, Fujitsu-ICIM, Singapore Telecom, Sabre etc to name a few, and has conducted several in-house trainings and workshops as well. Back to Top

Eric Bruno - Sun Microsystems

		GENERAL SESSION: What Is JavaFX...and Why Should I Care? - Sun Microsystems
Eric Bruno is a systems engineer at Sun and author of 'Java Messaging' as well as co-author of 'Real-Time Java Programming With Java RTS' and 'JavaFX: Developing Rich Internet Applications.' Back to Top

Eric Bruno - Sun Microsystems

		Power Panel: Driving Profitability Through User Experience
Eric Bruno is a systems engineer at Sun and author of 'Java Messaging' as well as co-author of 'Real-Time Java Programming With Java RTS' and 'JavaFX: Developing Rich Internet Applications.' Back to Top

Eric Bruno - Sun Microsystems

		Introducing Rich Internet Applications Development with JavaFX Track: Business Value of RIAs \| Enterprise RIA
Eric Bruno is a systems engineer at Sun and author of 'Java Messaging' as well as co-author of 'Real-Time Java Programming With Java RTS' and 'JavaFX: Developing Rich Internet Applications.' Back to Top

Max Carlson - OpenLaszlo.org

		Using JavaScript 2 Today with OpenLaszlo Track: Business Value of RIAs \| Enterprise RIA
Max Carlson is Lead Runtime Architect of OpenLaszlo and Co-Founder at Laszlo Systems. Before Laszlo, he worked for a series of startups and at Excite@Home where he pioneered the use of dynamic Flash content for the broadband portal and worked on DHTML and Flash applications for broadband customers. Back to Top

Tony Carrato - IBM

		Delivering on SOA Value Track: Governance, Testing, Standards, Compliance
Tony Carrato is an Executive IT Architect for the SOA Advanced Technology team in IBM’s Software Group. He is a member of a team who help IBM clients define and implement leading edge SOA projects around the world. Tony co-chairs chairs The Open Group SOA Working Group. Back to Top

Suresh Chandrasekaran - Denodo Technologies

		GENERAL SESSION: Data Mashups: Deliver Your Project Faster with Virtualized Data Services Across Internal & External Sources
Suresh Chandrasekaran leads the sales and marketing in North America and APAC for Denodo Technologies, the leader in Data Mashups software. Suresh brings strategy consulting and enterprise software product management, marketing and sales experience on a worldwide basis in several middleware and Web technology companies. Prior to Denodo, Suresh held executive positions at Vitria Technology, Epicentric (now Vignette), AltaVista, and Compaq, and was a management consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton serving many different vertical industries. Suresh has an MBA from the University of Michigan. Back to Top

Suresh Chandrasekaran - Denodo Technologies

		Power Panel: The Business Value of Service Orientation
Suresh Chandrasekaran leads the sales and marketing in North America and APAC for Denodo Technologies, the leader in Data Mashups software. Suresh brings strategy consulting and enterprise software product management, marketing and sales experience on a worldwide basis in several middleware and Web technology companies. Prior to Denodo, Suresh held executive positions at Vitria Technology, Epicentric (now Vignette), AltaVista, and Compaq, and was a management consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton serving many different vertical industries. Suresh has an MBA from the University of Michigan. Back to Top

Robbie Cheng - ZK Framework

		Building Rich Internet Applications with a Direct RIA Solution Track: RIA Tools & Frameworks
Robbie Cheng is an Evangelist of the ZK framework. He is the principal developer of ZK Mobile for Android and ZK Forum. He is the co-author of the book "ZK: Ajax without the Javascript Framework" and has published many articles on AJAXWorld Mgazine, TheServerSide, and Javalobby. He has also spoken at various events, Google Developer Day, Mobile Monday, and OSDC 2009. He blogs at Ulitzer.com. Back to Top

Jason H. Christensen - jasonc411.com

		Combining REST and Context for Killer iPhone Apps Track: iPhone Developer Summit
Jason Christensen (http//jasonc411.com) has over 15 years of industry experience providing technical direction in some of the world's largest companies. He regularly speaks at conferences regarding the use of advanced technology, and has worked as a technologist, lead architect and developer on high-profile, cutting edge projects throughout his career. He has been working on mobile, and mobile context-aware computing threads since 2004 and has developed on J2ME, Maemo, and iPhone platforms. Follow him on Twitter. Back to Top

Anthony Cincotta - Booz Allen Hamilton

		SOA and Cloud Computing for On-Demand Parallel Processing Track: Day 1: SOA & Cloud Bootcamp Day 2: SOA and Cloud Sessions
Anthony Cincotta ia a Sr. Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton. He supports SOA Engineering and Applied R&D efforts for Defense and Intelligence Community clients and is focused on delivering scalable service-oriented engineering and governance solutions to support enterprise system and organizational transitions to Net-Centricity. Cincotta's solutions integrate SOA with emerging technologies to improve operational awareness and enhance information distribution. He currently leads a prototype promoting technical adoption and rapid implementation of enterprise service lifecycle governance. Back to Top

Frank Cohen - PushToTest

		Open-Source SOA Test Automation Primer Track: Governance, Testing, Standards, Compliance
Founder of PushToTest and author of FastSOA, Frank Cohen is the expert you 'Go To' when you need to understand and solve problems in complex interoperating information systems, especially Service Oriented Architecture (SOA,) AJAX, and Web services. Back to Top

Jim Connors - Sun Microsystems

		GENERAL SESSION: What Is JavaFX...and Why Should I Care? - Sun Microsystems
Jim Connors is a long-time member of Sun’s system engineering community. He has spent a decade helping customers leverage Java technologies ranging from Java Card and Java ME to Java EE and JavaFX. Back to Top

Jim Connors - Sun Microsystems

		Introducing Rich Internet Applications Development with JavaFX Track: Business Value of RIAs \| Enterprise RIA
Jim Connors is a long-time member of Sun’s system engineering community. He has spent a decade helping customers leverage Java technologies ranging from Java Card and Java ME to Java EE and JavaFX. Back to Top

Paul Croft - Mediatonic

		A New Generation of Connected Games! Track: iPhone Developer Summit
Since Co-founding Mediatonic 3 years ago Paul has grown the indie games firm to 16 people and was recently featured in Develop Magazines '30 under 30' feature on rising stars in the videogame industry. Mediatonic has worked with clients such as Sega, EA, Nintendo and Namco, responsible for bringing their content to the web in innovative new forms. Back to Top

Jose de Castro - Voxeo Corporation

		Getting Groovy with SIP Track: RIA Tools & Frameworks
Jose de Castro is a Lead Architect & Senior Engineer a Voxeo, a company he joined through the acquisition of VoiceReady, where he served as Chief Architect. He oversees all aspects of the design and development of Voxeo Designer, a web-native speech UI design framework. He has also been tasked with creating Voxeo's next-generation Web Services API for provisioning phone numbers and controlling calls over the Web. Prior to Voxeo, he served as an Application Architect at companies including Spherion, NetbyTel and elQ2. Back to Top

Jeremy Deane - Collaborative Consulting

		Resource-Oriented Enterprise Service Bus Track: Governance, Testing, Standards, Compliance
Jeremy Deane is a Technical Architect at Collaborative Consulting and has over 12 years of software engineering experience in leadership positions. His areas of expertise include Resource Oriented Architecture, Performance Engineering and Software Process Improvement. In addition, he is an accomplished speaker and frequent contributor to the SOA Institute. Back to Top

Blake Dournaee - Intel

		GENERAL SESSION - The Evolving SOA Appliance: 3 Game-Changing Innovations - Intel
Currently the product manager responsible for Intel SOA products. As a product manager at Sarvega, he was deeply involved in the development of their flagship XML security, routing and acceleration appliance products. Blake was a specialist in applied cryptography applications at RSA Security and was a frequent speaker at many RSA conferences throughout the US and Europe. Blake is an established author who wrote the first book on XML Security and co-authored SOA Demystified from Intel press. Back to Top

Yakov Fain - Farata Systems

		Occasionally-Connected Applications with Adobe AIR and BlazeDS Track: RIA Tools & Frameworks
Yakov Fain is a managing principal of Farata Systems, a consulting, training and product company. He's authored several Java books and dozens of technical articles. The latest book he co-authored is "Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex and Java: Secrets of the Masters." Sun Microsystems has nominated and awarded Yakov with the title Java Champion. He leads the Princeton Java Users Group. Back to Top

Donald F. Ferguson - CA

		Power Panel: The Business Value of Service Orientation
Dr. Donald F. Ferguson is a Distinguished Engineer, Corporate SVP and Chief Architect for CA's Enterprise IT Management (EITM) product family. Prior to joining CA, he was a Microsoft Technical Fellow working in the Office of the CTO. He worked on various projects exploring the future of enterprise software, with a special emphasis on Web services and Internet application platforms. Ferguson spent twenty years with IBM, becoming an IBM Fellow in 2001. He was the chief architect for the WebSphere product family from its inception until becoming the chief architect for IBM Software Group. As Corp. SVP & Chief architect, he focused on design issues and initiatives spanning the DB2, WebSphere, Tivoli, Lotus and Rational product families. This included working on many SOA and Web service initiatives, specifications and standards. Don's hobbies include Kenpo Karate and Krav Maga. Back to Top

Mark Fisher - SpringSource

		Lightweight SOA with Spring Integration Track: SOA in Action
Mark Fisher is a Senior Software Engineer with SpringSource and lead of the Spring Integration project. He is also a committer on the core Spring Framework project, where he played a central role in developing the annotation-based configuration features of Spring 2.5. He has provided consulting and training services for clients across numerous industries throughout North America. Mark speaks frequently on the No Fluff Just Stuff Software Symposium tour, at SpringOne in Europe and America, and has presented at several Java User Groups. Back to Top

Chris Fleck - Citrix Systems

		Build Once, Run Anywhere, No Objective C Required Track: iPhone Developer Summit
Chris Fleck is Vice President of Solutions Development and Community Evangelism at Citrix Systems. He started his career at IBM working across multiple engineering and product organizations leading to Business Unit Exec of the IBM Industrial Computer Group. As a pioneer of new technologies, Fleck founded an IBM spin-off to commercialize the initial Server Blade products as CEO of OmniCluster Technologies. At Citrix he is responsible for the Developer Network, solutions development, and growing the technical community around Citrix. As part of the Citrix CTO Office he is also involved with or leading multiple strategic initiatives at the company. Currently his hot topics include Mobility, Virtual Appliances and Cloud Computing. You can follow him on Twitter, Ulitzer, and his blog at TechInstigator.com Back to Top

Pierre Fricke - Red Hat

		Business Agility in the "Depression of 2008-1X" with Open Source SOA and Business Rules Track: SOA in Action
Pierre Fricke is Director of Product Line Management for Red Hat's JBoss SOA products, responsible for driving the strategy and enterprise messaging for these Red Hat products. Starting with JBoss Portal and JBoss jBPM in 2005, Pierre led the product strategy and expansion into the integration and SOA market with the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform which includes JBoss ESB, JBoss jBPM and JBoss Rules. Today, these products are the unit volume market leader or emerging strong challengers to long time incumbents. Pierre's focus is to expand Red Hat's market presence in these major middleware categories, bringing the value of open source and community innovation to customers in these markets. Fricke started working on UNIX at IBM in 1983 as one of the first AIX developers, building experience in data management, operating systems, communication programs, development processes, and customer support. After holding several software development management positions and completing his M.B.A. at the University of Texas in Austin, Pierre became one of the leading strategists and marketing leaders in IBM focusing on interoperability, integration, WebSphere, Windows NT, UNIX, as well as Linux and open source. He led the creation of IBM's "Compete, Leverage, and Interoperate" Windows NT strategy after OS/2 was discontinued. He also was one of the eight original leaders on the team that lead IBM into Linux and open source in 1998 and 1999. Back to Top

Roberto Gamboni - Polish

		Rapid Applications Development in JavaScript Using Polish Track: User Interface & User Experience
Roberto Gamboni has been developing web applications for the past 5 years. Together with Krishna Krishnamaneni he contributes to www.rubywaves.com and Polish - their joint foray into developing next-generation web applications using resource-oriented architecture. Back to Top

Jeremy Geelan - SYS-CON Media

		Power Panel: Driving Profitability Through User Experience
Jeremy Geelan is Sr. Vice-President of SYS-CON Media & Events. He is Conference Chair of the all-new International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series, of the International Virtualization Conference & Expo series, of AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo series, and of the long-running SOAWorld Conference & Expo series. He's founder of Cloud Computing Journal, Web 2.0 Journal, AJAX & RIA Journal and other leading SYS-CON titles. From 2000-6, as first editorial director and then group publisher of SYS-CON Media, he was responsible for the development of all new titles and i-Technology portals for the firm, and regularly represents SYS-CON at conferences and trade shows, speaking to technology audiences both in North America and overseas. He is executive producer and presenter of "Power Panels with Jeremy Geelan" on SYS-CON.TV. Back to Top

Jeremy Geelan - SYS-CON Media

		Power Panel: The Business Value of Service Orientation
Jeremy Geelan is Sr. Vice-President of SYS-CON Media & Events. He is Conference Chair of the all-new International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series, of the International Virtualization Conference & Expo series, of AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo series, and of the long-running SOAWorld Conference & Expo series. He's founder of Cloud Computing Journal, Web 2.0 Journal, AJAX & RIA Journal and other leading SYS-CON titles. From 2000-6, as first editorial director and then group publisher of SYS-CON Media, he was responsible for the development of all new titles and i-Technology portals for the firm, and regularly represents SYS-CON at conferences and trade shows, speaking to technology audiences both in North America and overseas. He is executive producer and presenter of "Power Panels with Jeremy Geelan" on SYS-CON.TV. Back to Top

Michael Girouard - Magnani Caruso Dutton

		Object Oriented JavaScript Track: User Interface & User Experience
Mike Girouard is a front-end web developer living in New York City. As the Sr. Developer at the creative agency Magnani Caruso Dutton, he takes pride in his ability to introduce web standards and beautiful code to industry giants such as Discover and AT&T. In his offtime, Girouard goes right back to his editor and codes toward his latest open-source baby, Panda PHP Components. You can read more about him and his other projects on his blog, http://www.lovemikeg.com/blog. Back to Top

Alex Givens - UC4 Software

		How Workload Automation Solutions Can Improve SOA ROI Track: SOA in Action
Alex Givens is a Senior Solutions Architect for UC4 Software, Inc., makers of UC4 Workload Automation Suite. For 13 years, Alex has helped organizations improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their business processing. Alex has spoken on business process automation at many international, national and regional conferences. Back to Top

Andreas Grabner - dynaTrace Software

		Lifecycle APM - Strategies for Optimizing Application Performance in SOAs Track: Governance, Testing, Standards, Compliance
Andreas Grabner has 10 years experience as an architect and developer in the Java and .NET space. In his current role, Andi works as a Technology Strategist for dynaTrace Software in the Methods and Technology team. In his role he influences the dynaTrace product strategy and works closely with customers in implementing performance management solutions across the entire application lifecycle. He is a frequent speaker at technology conferences on performance and architecture related topics and regularly publishes articles blogs on blog.dynatrace.com. Back to Top

Anil Gurnani - J P Morgan Chase

		Case Study: AJAX Clients for Enterprise Services Running in EC2 Track: Business Value of RIAs \| Enterprise RIA
Anil Gurnani is currently working at J P Morgan Chase as Technical Project Manager. He is the author of "Web Development with TIBCO GI: Building AJAX clients for Enterprise SOA" which was published in February by Addison Wesley/Pearson. He has written many articles in print and online magazines on various topics related to software development and has been teaching advanced courses in Java and C++ part time at NYU since 1998. He started his career at Sun Microsystems in Silicon Valley and has been working in the challenging Finance industry since 1997. Back to Top

Patrick Hertzog - NEXThink

		Information Dashboards: Design & Implementation Track: User Interface & User Experience
Patrick Hertzog is the User Experience Officer and co-founder of NEXThink. He has more than 8 years of experience in user interface design and implementation for both desktop and web applications. He is the author of two patents on information visualization and has published papers in several renowned international conferences. Back to Top

Vikas Jain - Oracle

		GENERAL SESSION - The Evolving SOA Appliance: 3 Game-Changing Innovations - Intel
Vikas is a Product Manager in the Fusion Middleware Security group of Oracle Corporation responsible for driving product strategy for web services and SOA security with special attention to industry standards compliance. Before joining Oracle, he was doing development of Identity Management products at Oblix which was later acquired by Oracle. Back to Top

Charles Jolley - SproutCore

		Building Native Look-and-Feel Web Applications using SproutCore Track: Business Value of RIAs \| Enterprise RIA
Charles Jolley is the creator of SproutCore and CEO of Sproutit, which provides consulting and software services for building SproutCore applications on the web. He has helped build some of the most popular RIAs on the web today. Back to Top

Eric Konieczny - Booz Allen Hamilton

		Establishing Presence within the Service-Oriented Environment Track: Governance, Testing, Standards, Compliance
Eric Konieczny is a Consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., providing software development and technology consulting services to the federal government. His skill set and focus areas include Java/JEE software development, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), and Semantic Web technologies. He holds a BS in Computer Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute. He recently co-presented "SOA for the Intelligence Community" at the 2008 XML-in-Practice Conference. He has also delivered several technical presentations within Booz Allen Hamilton, including sessions focusing on innovative approaches to service discovery and dynamic service orchestration. Back to Top

Krishna Krishnamaneni - Polish

		Rapid Applications Development in JavaScript Using Polish Track: User Interface & User Experience
Krishna Krishnamaneni has been developing web applications for the past 5 years. Together with Roberto Gamboni he contributes to http://www.rubywaves.com and Polish - their joint foray into developing next-generation web applications using resource-oriented architecture. Back to Top

Senthil Krishnapillai - Sybase iAnywhere

		Break The Mold - iPhone for the Mobile Enterprise Track: iPhone Developer Summit
Senthil Krishnapillai is director of product management at Sybase iAnywhere. Senthil's mobile communications group, part of the Information Anywhere suite, is responsible for the designing and bringing future generation of Mobile collaboration products to the market. Senthil is experienced in managing enterprise products for worldwide markets and has successfully developed and marketed innovative products for the mobility market. He has more than 15 years experience in product management, product marketing and product development for mobile devices and smartphones with Sybase and Extended Systems and was the founder of Rand Software, a synchronization software company. He is a member of various consortiums including OMA-DS and CTIA. Back to Top

Mark Krzysko - US Department of Defense

		Power Panel: The Business Value of Service Orientation
Mark Krzysko serves as the Assistant Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (ADUSD) for Business Transformation. In this senior leadership position, he is directing technical and transformational efforts to make timely, authoritative major weapons system acquisition information available to support oversight of Department's major defense acquisition programs. Back to Top

Mark Krzysko - US Department of Defense

		Authoritative Decision-Making Information via SOA and Governance Track: SOA in Action
Mark Krzysko serves as the Assistant Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (ADUSD) for Business Transformation. In this senior leadership position, he is directing technical and transformational efforts to make timely, authoritative major weapons system acquisition information available to support oversight of Department's major defense acquisition programs. Back to Top

Greg Lomow - Deloitte Consulting

		Business-Driven SOA Governance Track: Governance, Testing, Standards, Compliance
Dr Greg Lomow is a Specialist Leader in the Solution Architect Group at Deloitte Consulting LLP. He has 20 years of experience as an information technology professional and 10 years experience design and developing SOA-based solutions. Dr. Lomow completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Calgary, Canada. He co-chaired all 5 "SOA for eGovernment" conferences from 2004 to 2008. Back to Top

Anne Thomas Manes - Burton Group

		Power Panel: The Business Value of Service Orientation
Anne Thomas Manes is a Research Director at Burton Group, a research, consulting, and advisory firm. Anne leads research for the Application Platform Strategies service. Named one of NetworkWorld's "50 Most Powerful People in Networking," in 2002 and one of Enterprise Systems Journal's "Power 100 IT Leaders," in 2001, Anne is a renowned technologist in the Web services space. Anne participates in standards development at W3C and OASIS. She is a member of the editorial board of Web Services Journal. She is a frequent speaker at trade shows and author of numerous articles and the book, Web Services: A Manager's Guide, published by Addison Wesley. Prior to joining Burton Group, Anne was chief technology officer at Systinet, a Web services infrastructure company, and before that she pioneered Sun's Web services strategy. A 24-year industry veteran, Anne developed her expertise working at a number of the world's leading hardware and software companies. You can reach Anne via e-mail at anne@manes.net or through her Web site at http://www.bowlight.net. Back to Top

Miko Matsumura - Software AG

		Power Panel: The Business Value of Service Orientation
As Vice President and Chief Strategist at Software AG, Miko Matsumura is responsible for the technology strategy. He holds 12 years of experience in Enterprise Software and Middleware technologies. Prior to his current role, Matsumura served as vice president of SOA product marketing at webMethods and vice president of worldwide marketing at Infravio. He emerged as an industry thought leader while at The Middleware Company, where he was a co-creator responsible for building the partner program for SOA Blueprints, the first complete vendor-neutral specification of a SOA. He holds an MBA from San Francisco State University and a Masters Degree in Neuroscience from Yale University. Back to Top

Darrell Meyer - Ext JS

		JavaScript Not For You? Build RIAs in Java Using Ext GWT Leveraging the Google Web Toolkit Track: Business Value of RIAs \| Enterprise RIA
Before joining Ext, Darrell Meyer was the creator of the popular open source MyGWT Widget Library for Google Web Toolkit (GWT). Darrell brings his expert Java and GWT knowledge to Ext, where he leads the Ext GWT product team. With 10+ year's experience building enterprise web applications, Darrell is equally well versed as both a software architect and user interface expert. Back to Top

Ashish Mohindroo - Oracle

		OPENING KEYNOTE: Breaking the Collaboration Barrier with Rich Enterprise Applications
Ashish Mohindroo is senior director of Product Marketing, at Oracle. He manages a team that is responsible for product strategy and global marketing for Oracle Fusion Middleware and Service-Oriented Architecture products and solutions. He launched and continues to lead the global Go-To-Market Initiatives for Oracle's Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Complex Event Processing, Business Process Management (BPM), Master Data Management (MDM), and Developer Tools product offerings and is a major driver behind Oracle's recognized leadership in SOA. Under Mohindroo’s leadership, Oracle’s SOA products are the fastest growing components of Oracle Fusion Middleware. He regularly keynotes industry conferences, is interviewed by publications worldwide, and briefs industry analysts for Oracle. Back to Top

Kevin Moore - USMEPCOM

		How SOA Makes the U.S. Department of Defense More Agile Track: SOA in Action
Kevin D. Moore is the CIO for USMEPCOM. He has over 26 years of leadership experience and has held several senior level positions in the US Department of Defense (DoD). He is a published author, active speaker, and has been interviewed for the successful transformation that is occurring in USMEPCOM. Back to Top

K. Scott Morrison - Layer 7 Technologies

		How to Fail at SOA Track: Day 1: SOA & Cloud Bootcamp Day 2: SOA and Cloud Sessions
K. Scott Morrison is VP of Engineering & Chief Architect at Layer 7 Technologies, where he works to scale, simplify and secure Web applications. He has extensive IT and scientific experience in a number of industries, was previously Director of Technology at Infowave Software, and has also held senior architect positions at IBM. Back to Top

Anil Patel - Harris Corporation

		Identity Propagation in N-Tier Enterprise Systems Track: Governance, Testing, Standards, Compliance
Anil Patel, a Software Architect at Harris Corporation, is currently a member of the Harris Enterprise Architecture Core Technology Center conducting research on IA and standards for SOA. He worked as a Chief Technology Officer and architect for a secure wireless messaging platform for smart devices, a secure appliance to provision wi-fi services to hospitality institutions, and voice based cardiology interpretation reporting software Back to Top

Joe Pezzillo - Push IO LLC

		From the Trenches: Key Lessons from Enterprise iPhone Track: iPhone Developer Summit
Joe Pezzillo is the Co-Founder of Push IO LLC and the founder of Metafy LLC, a Boulder, Colorado based software boutique currently developing a suite of prototype iPhone applications for a Fortune 100 financial services company. In addition to pioneering work in internet radio and managing several startups, Joe spent three years as a researcher at the Apple Electronic Media Lab in the mid 90s. Back to Top

Tom Plunkett - Virginia Tech

		Open Source SOA in the Cloud Track: Day 1: SOA & Cloud Bootcamp Day 2: SOA and Cloud Sessions
Tom Plunkett is an Instructor at Virginia Tech. He has worked with SOA for the last five years, and Java enterprise technology for the last ten years. He is an IBM Certified Solution Designer for Service Oriented Architecture and has over ten technical certifications related to Java enterprise technology. He has taught professionally since 1999 for IBM and other corporate clients and is a co-author of "Intelligent Web Search Agents", Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, 2000 (volume 67). Back to Top

Joe Preston - Momentum Design Lab

		Power Panel: Driving Profitability Through User Experience
Joe Preston is Managing Partner & User Experience Architect at Momentum Design Lab. He has been designing since 1997 across a variety of industries. He has worked for small-scale web design firms, as well as in-house for large-scale website platforms. His attention to detail and ability to translate complex processes into understandable terms has resulted in improved user interfaces and satisfying user experiences in clients' projects. Before coming to Momentum, Preston worked for SMS.ac and Warner Brothers Music. Back to Top

Joe Preston - Momentum Design Lab

		The Business Value of Positive User Experience Track: User Interface & User Experience
Joe Preston is Managing Partner & User Experience Architect at Momentum Design Lab. He has been designing since 1997 across a variety of industries. He has worked for small-scale web design firms, as well as in-house for large-scale website platforms. His attention to detail and ability to translate complex processes into understandable terms has resulted in improved user interfaces and satisfying user experiences in clients' projects. Before coming to Momentum, Preston worked for SMS.ac and Warner Brothers Music. Back to Top

Sacheen Punde - Aeisios Corporation

		Planning for SOA Adoption Strategy - A Managerial Perspective Track: Governance, Testing, Standards, Compliance
Sacheen Punde founded Aeisios Corporation, a consulting organization focused on providing business and technical consulting services to large corporations to plan strategies to adopt and sustain SOA initiatives. As a CIO of Aeisios Corporation, Mr. Punde focuses on establishing solid foundation and planning strategy for SOA and guides C level executives in establishing SOA Competency Centers to develop and maintain much needed infrastructure and resources for a long term SOA platforms. Mr. Punde holds a Master of Science in Technology Management from George Mason University and has over 13 years of System Architecture and design experience. Prior to founding Aeisios Corporation, Mr. Punde served as a Lead SOA Architect for Technical Services at Software AG-webMethods Inc. Back to Top

Jesus Rodriguez - Tellago

		From SOA to WOA: Introducing Web Oriented Architectures Track: Governance, Testing, Standards, Compliance
Jesus Rodriguez is the Chief Architect of Tellago, Inc. He is also a Microsoft BizTalk Server 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 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. Back to Top

Dan Rosanova - Nova Enterprise Systems

		What Developers Get Wrong When They Embark on SOA Track: SOA in Action
Dan Rosanova is Principal Consultant at Nova Enterprise Systems where he specializes in leading and training customer teams to create effective Integration and SOA initiatives. He has ten years experience delivering distributed computing systems. He is a Microsoft MVP in BizTalk Server and a contributor as SOA Advisor to CIO.com Back to Top

Habeeb Rushdan - LowerHead Consulting

		Adobe Flex and the Microsoft.NET Framework - Strange But Amazing Bedfellows Track: Business Value of RIAs \| Enterprise RIA
Habeeb Rushdan is a Technical Trainer/Consultant at LowerHead Consulting. He has over 10 years of professional software development experience and is certified as: a Microsoft Certified Trainer, MCAD, MCPD, MCTS; .NET Framework 3.5 ASP.NET Apps; Certified Flash MX Developer; Adobe Certified Expert - Flash CS3, and an Adobe Certified Instructor. Rushdan has worked for several software product and technology consulting firms, and now offers his expert software development and coaching talents to various organizations across the US. Teaching and leading software engineering teams are his passions - from small startups with less than 10 employees, to multi-national organizations with over 10,000 employees. Back to Top

Todd Schick - ComponentOne

		Creating Native-Looking Applications for the iPhone with ASP.NET Track: iPhone Developer Summit
Todd Schick is the Director of Technology and Business Development at ComponentOne, a leading provider of developer tools for Microsoft platforms, including Silverlight, WPF and ASP.NET. Schick has been a catalyst for market penetration, sales growth and improved customer satisfaction for numerous technology companies in the Pittsburgh technology corridor. Back to Top

Janelle Shaw - CA

		Get Your Transactions Under Control: SOA Performance Management from CA Wily
Janelle Shaw is a Principal Consultant for Application Performance Management solutions at CA Wily Technology where she has deployed Introscope for numerous customers in a variety of application environments to enable them to understand application behavior, diagnose performance issues, and gain insight into real-time transaction metrics and end user experience. Back to Top

Travis Siegfried - IBM

		iPhone Development in an Enterprise Environment Track: iPhone Developer Summit
Travis Siegfried is an Advisory IT Specialist for the Wireless and Emerging Technology practice at IBM Global Business Services. Travis has had experience working with other large fortune 500 companies to put forth his innovative solutions leading them to success in mobile and emerging technology by creating applications for devices such as the iPhone. Back to Top

Brian Struble - Sensedia

		How SOA Governance and ROI Can Help Companies Thrive Through Economic Challenges Track: SOA in Action
Brian Struble is an expert in SOA asset repository, SOA Governance and ROI analysis. Brian has been responsible for SOA implementation and reuse initiatives in SMB and large corporations. He has extensive experience on system integration in the Financial and Insurance industries, SOA gap analysis, SOA Roadmap and ROI metrics to track SOA project success. Back to Top

Ernest Svehla - IntelliObjects

		Mastering View Controllers Track: iPhone Developer Summit
Ernie Svehla, Chief Architect of IntelliObjects Inc., has been developing iPhone applications for the health care industry since the SDK's release. He has over 20 years experience in developing software products most recently in the web and mobile space. Back to Top

Leonard Tchuta - Shanghai Property Management

		Atomic New Service Pattern Track: SOA in Action
Tchuta Leonard is an IT Manager at Shanghai Property Management. Originally from Cameroon, he holds a bachelor of information engineering and a master of computer science from Shanghai East China University of Science and Technology. Back to Top

Ian Thain - Sybase Inc

		Power Panel: Driving Profitability Through User Experience
As one of the Sybase Tools Technical Evangelist, Ian regularly addresses technical audiences all over the world and his sessions are always very well attended. He also writes education classes, whitepapers, demos and articles for various Sybase products and publishes regularly in Journals such as SYS-CON's PBDJ and International Developer Magazine. He is also the Sybase Unwired Server & PocketBuilder Evangelist and works closely with the team in Dublin, CA and Concord, MA on new features and demonstrations for the products. He is also Tech Chair of iPhone Development Summit 2009 - New York (June) and San Francisco (September). In his customer-facing Evangelist role, Ian is very involved with the design, production and testing of Enterprise class Unwired Solutions, that have been implemented using Sybase's Unwired tools for Sybase customers around the globe. In addition, Ian is a dedicated technical expert continually working with Sybase's key partners and clients to enhance the capabilities of the Unwired solutions that Sybase can offer to its customers. Back to Top

Shashank Tiwari - Saven Technologies

		Collaborative Real-Time RIAs Track: Business Value of RIAs \| Enterprise RIA
Shashank Tiwari, Chief Technologist at Saven Technologies, is a prolific developer, author and speaker who is active in the JCP as an expert group member on the following JSRs - 274, 283, 299, 301 and 312. Apart from being the technology leader at a cutting edge business technology solutions company, Shashank is an author, international speaker, mentor and open source contributor. He is an active member of the Java and RIA communities. Back to Top

Sean Valcamp - Avnet

		GENERAL SESSION - Performance Driven Adoption: The Secret to Advancing SOA [Avnet - session sponsored by Software AG]
Sean Valcamp is currently the Information Technology Director and Enterprise Architect for Avnet Inc, a high-tech distributor based in Phoenix, AZ. He is a pioneer in Services Oriented Architecture, leading Avnet’s global implementation beginning in the late 1990’s. For the past 8 years he has provided the strategic and operational guidance to mature Avnet’s SOA practice. Today, Avnet’s SOA implementation is one of the most mature in the industry supporting full service life cycle management along with Business Process Optimization and SOA Governance. Back to Top

Shaun Walker - DotNetNuke Corporation

		Revolutionary Web Platforms - DotNetNuke and ASP.NET Track: RIA Tools & Frameworks
Shaun Walker is Co-Founder and Chief Architect of DotNetNuke Corporation. Shaun has 18 years professional experience in architecting and implementing enterprise software solutions for private and public organizations. Shaun is the original creator of DotNetNuke, a web application framework for ASP.NET which has spawned the largest and most successful open source community project on the Microsoft platform. Back to Top

Rich Waters - ExtJS

		Introducing Ext JS 3.0 Track: RIA Tools & Frameworks
Rich Waters is a Senior Software Architect at ExtJS. Ext is widely acclaimed in the industry, with a diversified client base of over 6,000 corporate clients. Ext products are used across many industries by companies all over the world, including Adobe, Sun, IBM, Best Buy, EMC, Interwoven, Salesforce.com, Cisco, ADP, Vignette, Day.com, GE, HP, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, and many others. Back to Top

Matthias Wessendorf - Oracle

		Comet: Where Are We Now? Where Are We Headed? Track: User Interface & User Experience
Matthias Wessendorf is a software developer at Oracle. He currently works on ADF Faces, which is an AJAX-based JSF component suite. Matthias also contributes to the OpenSource community, mainly Apache MyFaces and Apache Trinidad. Before joining Oracle, he worked as a CMS-Developer at Pironet NDH, where he was building a next-generation CMS, using UI technologies like XUL and AJAX. Back to Top

Elaine Wherry - Meebo

		What Web App Design Can Learn From the Harpsichord Track: User Interface & User Experience
Elaine Wherry is co-founder of Meebo. She majored in Symbolic Systems at Stanford and then joined Synaptics and led their Usability team for several years. In 2005, she started Meebo with two friends from Stanford. Meebo leverages AJAX to enable a more software like experience for its users Back to Top

Kevin Whinnery - Appcelerator

		Native iPhone and Android Apps with HTML, JavaScript, and Rails Track: RIA Tools & Frameworks
Kevin Whinnery is an Appcelerator engineer and technical evangelist. Kevin is the lead developer on Appcelerator Entourage, and is currently supporting developers using the Beta release of the desktop and mobile application framework Titanium. Prior to joining Appcelerator, Kevin has been a web developer on both the client and server side for ERP vendor Lawson Software and technical consultancy Perficient, Inc. Back to Top

Robert J. Williams Jr. - Maxworks

		Managing the Transition to SOA with Opensource SOA Road Maps Track: SOA in Action
Robert J. Williams Jr is Chief Enterprise Architect at Maxworks. He is an Enterprise Architect with 30 years experience that includes the Unix development team and Software Technology Centers at Bell Labs to the Architecture Lead for the US Army's Net-Opts SOA integration pilot project. He has been using ESBs / Web Services to develop SOA Solutions since 2004. He has developed distributed/ service oriented solutions since 1996 (Bell Lab's version of CORBA) and is a certified Rational Consultant. Back to Top

Regev Yativ - Magic Software Enterprises Americas

		Are Rich Internet Applications Ready for the Cloud? Track: Business Value of RIAs \| Enterprise RIA
Regev Yativ is responsible for the company’s business operations in the Americas (North America, Canada and Latin America), and is based in the US. Before this he served as Magic Software’s managing director in Europe and Japan, significantly growing those regions. Yativ holds a B.A. from Israel’s Tel Aviv University. Back to Top

Regev Yativ - Magic Software Enterprises Americas

		Power Panel: Driving Profitability Through User Experience
Regev Yativ is responsible for the company’s business operations in the Americas (North America, Canada and Latin America), and is based in the US. Before this he served as Magic Software’s managing director in Europe and Japan, significantly growing those regions. Yativ holds a B.A. from Israel’s Tel Aviv University. Back to Top

Dr Kareem Yusuf - IBM

		KEYNOTE - Convergence in the Cloud: How Cloud Computing and SOA Produce Real Change
Dr. Kareem Yusuf, Director Product Management, WebSphere Software, IBM is based in Somers, New York. In his current role, Dr. Yusuf is responsible for managing the WebSphere Application Infrastructure Portfolio, including the WebSphere Application Server Family, WebSphere Commerce and most recently has driven key new offerings into market in support of virtualization and Cloud Computing. He focuses on the life-cycle management of the application infrastructure product portfolio, managing new product introduction, product evolution and the markets served. With his team, he covers a wider range of concerns ranging from market analysis and product strategy to product delivery and ecosystem development. In his previous role, as the Director, SOA Strategy & Planning, IBM Software Group, Dr. Yusuf helped foster IBM's leadership position in SOA while driving IBM's SOA strategy and managing the IBM SOA Foundation Portfolio. Back to Top

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