Archived program information from SOA Executive Forum may 2005

Last May, InfoWorld hosted a full-day service-oriented architecture conference in New York and San Jose. This September 14th, InfoWorld will produce SOA for Government Executive Forum in Washington D.C. followed by SOA Executive Forum on November 7th and 8th in New York City.


Keynote Speakers

SOA Executive Forum Welcomes the May 2005 Keynote Line Up. Listen as the industry leaders share their visions, ideas and thoughts on service-oriented architecture and the role it plays in enabling business agility.

	Toby Redshaw Corporate VP, IT Strategy, Motorola 8:45 AM to 9:30 AM May 5, San Jose in Club Regent Biography			John D. Halamka MD Chief Information Officer Harvard Medical School 8:45 AM to 9:20 AM May 17, 2005 in New York City Biography
Toby Redshaw is corporate vice president of IT strategy, architecture, and e-business at Motorola. An early proponent of SOA and a frequent speaker on IT issues, Redshaw credits a 40 percent reduction in IT spending -- and a dramatic reduction in application integration costs -- to Motorola's adoption of a services-based approach. He is particularly excited by SOA's speed-to-market advantages and has recently deployed Rearden Commerce's SOA-based services procurement solution across his enterprise. In this keynote, Redshaw discusses the importance of SOA to IT and the role it has played in his organization. Toby Redshaw's Keynote Presentation			Payers and providers in the state of Massachusetts have unified the administrative workflow of healthcare via a regional service oriented architecture. Transactional costs have fallen from $5.00 to .10 and today over 90% of payer/provider transactions pass through this community-wide utility. In this presentation Dr. Halamka will share the experiences from local hospitals and regional initiatives which have adopted a distributed SOA to enhance quality and reduce costs in healthcare. John Halamka's Keynote Presentation
	Mark Carges Chief Technology Officer BEA Systems 9:30 AM to 10:00 AM May 5, 2005 in San Jose May 17, 2005 in New York City Biography
BEA Systems CTO, Mark Carges talks about on the impact SOA is having on organizations today and in the future. Discover how SOA can break down silos of information and provide access to functionality otherwise locked into packaged applications. Understand some of the unique challenges faced as you move towards this promising new approach to architecture. Listen as Carges discusses real-world experiences of SOA implementations and the lessons learned from some of these early SOA adopters. Mark Carges' Keynote Presentation

Session Speakers

Jeff Barr, Web Services Evangelist, Amazon.com
Jim Bole, Vice President, Products, Infravio, Inc.
Rick Caccia, Senior Director of Product Management, Oblix
Mark Carges, CTO, BEA Systems
Dino Chiesa, Product Manager, .Net Developer Platform, Microsoft
Jim Culbert, Chief Technical Officer, MetraTech Corp
Chad Dickerson, CTO, InfoWorld
Tim Ewald, SOA Best Practices, Mindreef, Inc.
Steve Fox, Editor in Chief, InfoWorld
Graham Glass, Chief Technology Officer, webMethods
Bruce Graham, VP of Worldwide Professional Services, BEA Systems
John D. Halamka, CIO, Harvard Medical School & CareGroup Health Systems
Jonathan W. Hill, Associate Partner, Technology and Systems Integration, Accenture
Kerrie Holley, CTO, IBM SOA & Web Services Center of Excellence, IBM Distinguished Engineeer, IBM Global Services, IBM
Gordon Van Huizen, Chief Technology Officer, Sonic Software
Aiaz Kazi, General Manager, Business Integration, TIBCO Software Inc.
Joe Keller, Vice President, Developer and Application Platforms Marketing, Sun
Rohit Khare, Director, CommerceNet Labs
Edwin Khodabakchian, VP Product Development, Oracle
Guljit Khurana, VP, Product Technology, webMethods, Inc.
Eric Knorr, Executive Editor at Large, InfoWorld
Michael Liebow, Vice President, SOA & Web Services, IBM Global Services, IBM
David Linthicum, Chief Technology Officer, Grand Central Communications
David L. Margulius, Senior Contributing Editor, InfoWorld
Frank Martinez, CTO, Blue Titan
Kevin S. McKean, CEO & Editorial Director, InfoWorld Media Group
Eric Newcomer, Chief Technology Officer, IONA Technologies
David L. Nichols, Partner, Technology and Systems Integration, Accenture
Annrai O'Toole, CEO, Cape Clear
Toby Redshaw, Corporate VP, IT Strategy, Motorola
Sean Rhody, Chief Architect, BEA Practice, Computer Sciences Corporation
Marc Saffer, SVP, Chief Information Officer, The Columbia House Company
John Schneider, CTO, AgileDelta, Inc.
Praveen Sharabu, Director Enterprise Architecture, CNF Inc.
John Shewchuk, "Indigo" Project Architect, Microsoft
Jon Udell, Editor and Lead Analyst, InfoWorld Test Center
Phillip J. Windley, Assoc. Professor of Computer Science, Brigham Young University

 
Toby Redshaw
Corporate VP, IT Strategy, Motorola

Toby Redshaw is Corporate Vice President of Information Technology (IT) Strategy, Architecture and eBusiness for Motorola. He oversees the company's enterprise-wide IT blueprint, including the integration of IT solutions across Motorola's various business sectors, anticipating IT industry future directions, and establishing the IT strategy, architecture and standards across the company globally.

In addition, Redshaw also has primary responsibility for IT business development, emerging technology, the intranet, common platforms and all IT deals. In this position, Redshaw reports to Motorola's Chief Information Officer.

He also serves as Chairman of the Board of Intellext, a leading edge start up company focused next generation intelligent search technology, Chairman of the RosettaNet Telecomm Council, and Chairman Kellogg Innovation Network run by the Center for Research in Innovation and Technology at Kellogg Business School. He is an advisor to, and previous board member of the World Cataract Foundation (a charity focused on third world blindness.)

Redshaw joined Motorola in October 2001. A Mexican and a British citizen, he completed a 17-year career with Federal Express, where he was Vice President of Global Supply Chain Integration. With FedEx, Redshaw spent six years in Asia, and another three years in Latin America. He held a number of high-impact positions with FedEx, including: Chief Information Officer, Latin American and Caribbean Business Units; and various field, operational and technology posts. Immediately prior to joining Motorola, he worked for Zoho, Inc. in Sunnyvale, California, where he directed its international business units, a JV in China and a U.S. business unit.

Redshaw holds dual degrees in philosophy and economics from the University of Memphis. He also is a fellow with the Institute for Global Futures, and has extensive advisory board and board of director experience in the technology / software industry.

Toby Redshaw's Keynote Presentation

John D. Halamka, MD, MS is Chief Information Officer of Harvard Medical School, Chief Information Officer of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Chairman of the New England Health Electronic Data Interchange Network (NEHEN) , Chief Information Officer of the Harvard Clinical Research Institute (HCRI), and an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Halamka completed his undergraduate studies at Stanford University where he received a degree in Medical Microbiology and a degree in Public Policy with a focus on technology issues. While at Stanford he served as research assistant to Dr. Edward Teller, Dr. Milton Friedman, and presidential candidate John B. Anderson. He authored three books on technology related issues and formed a software development firm, Ibis Research Labs, Inc. Additionally, he served as a columnist for Infoworld, technical editor of Computer Language Magazine and technology consultant to several startup companies.

In 1984, Dr. Halamka entered medical school at the University of California San Francisco and simultaneously pursued graduate work in Bioengineering at the University of California, Berkeley, focusing on technology issues in medicine. During medical school and graduate training, he continued his business activities and developed Ibis Research Labs into a 25 person software consultancy, specializing in medical and financial information interchange. Ibis was sold to senior management in 1992.

Dr. Halamka served his residency at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in the Department of Emergency Medicine. While at Harbor-UCLA he was an active member of the information systems team and developed a hospital-wide knowledge base for policies, procedures, and protocols. Further, he was instrumental in creating an on-line medical record, a quality control system, and several systems for medical education. His research focus during residency was building automated triage tools for patients infected with HIV.

In 1996, Dr. Halamka joined the faculty of Harvard Medical School and continues to integrate his knowledge of medicine and technology focusing on the use of the Internet to exchange clinical patient data. His research includes security / confidentiality issues, scalability issues, and implementation of standards for exchange of administrative and clinical information. As a clinician as well as researcher, Dr. Halamka uses these tools to improve the care of the patients he treats in the Beth Israel Deaconess Emergency Department. He is also an active teacher, lecturing on both medical and technology topics to the students, residents, and faculty of Harvard and MIT.

As Chief Information Officer at Harvard Medical School, he oversees all educational, research and administrative including all electronic courseware development. As Chief Information Officer at Beth Israel Deaconess, he is responsible for all clinical, financial, administrative and academic information technology serving 3000 doctors, 12000 employees and one million patients. As Chairman of NEHEN, he oversees the HIPAA transactions exchanged among the payors and providers in New England As Chief Information Officer of HCRI, he oversees the data management of clinical trials associated with Harvard Medical School.

John Halamka's Keynote Presentation

Mark Carges, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), has been with BEA for more than eight years, and has been instrumental in leading the strategy, development and integration of several BEA products. Prior to his position as CTO, Mr. Carges was Executive Vice President of Strategic Global Accounts, responsible for the leadership and execution of programs that effectively built, expanded, and maintained strong and sustainable relationships with key BEA global customers.

In his current role as CTO, Mr. Carges continues to foster BEA's commitment to technological innovations and open standards. Combining a background in technology with extensive experience with customers, his priority will be to continue to exceed customer expectations.

Prior to his role in sales, Mr. Carges led the Enterprise Framework Division responsible for BEA's platform product lines, including BEA WebLogic Integration, BEA WebLogic Workshop, BEA WebLogic Portal and BEA Liquid Data for WebLogic.

Mr. Carges is one of the original architects of Tuxedo. Prior to joining BEA, he designed and developed early versions of Tuxedo at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Unix System Laboratories, and Novell. Mr. Carges is the co-author of the book, "The Tuxedo System, Software for Constructing and Managing Distributed Business Applications", and a patent-holder for innovations within Tuxedo.

Mr. Carges has a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master's degree in computer science from New York University.

Mark Carges' Keynote Presentation

 
Jeff Barr
Web Services Evangelist, Amazon.com

As Web Services Evangelist for Amazon.com, Jeff Barr focuses on creating developer awareness for the Amazon software platform. He has a longstanding interest in Web services and programmatic information interchange. Jeff has held development and management positions at KnowNow, eByz, Akopia, and Microsoft, and was a co-founder of Visix Software. Jeff's interests include collecting and organizing news feeds using his site, www.syndic8.com. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from the American University and has done graduate work in Computer Science at the George Washington University.

 
Jim Bole
Vice President, Products, Infravio, Inc.

Jim brings more than 17 years of entrepreneurial software development and technical management experience in startups and Fortune 100 companies. Jim was a member of the founding development team at Formtek, a pioneer in the engineering imaging and document management space. After leading core technology development, he assumed P&L responsibility for the Professional Services, Training and Support organizations. As VP of Technology and Services, Jim oversaw expansion of the company's global service business and the successful acquisition by Lockheed Martin. Jim also held VP of Engineering and CTO roles at pop2it.com and WorkExchange Technologies. Jim holds a BS in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.

 
Rick Caccia
Senior Director of Product Management, Oblix

Rick Caccia is senior director of product management at Oblix and brings more than a dozen years of experience designing, developing, managing, and launching infrastructure and Web technologies. He has held senior product management roles at NetDynamics, KnowNow, and Cohera. Rick has also held systems integration positions at Deloitte Consulting and Anderson Consulting, where he developed and deployed supply chain systems and client-server CRM systems. He has published numerous article and papers on data and application integration, and has presented at a variety of conferences on various web integration topics. Rick has a BA and MBA in marketing and technology management for UC Berkeley.

 
Dino Chiesa
Project Manager, .Net Developer Platform, Microsoft

Dino Chiesa has 17 years of experience in the software industry, primarily in server application development and distributed application architecture. He joined Microsoft 6 years ago, seeking software that was simpler and easier to use and deploy, while still delivering top operational qualities.

In his current role at Microsoft, Dino has two primary functions. One is to help companies apply Microsoft's platform technologies, including .NET, Windows Server, and the Windows Server System, to build intelligent business solutions. The other is to help guide the future technical strategy of the Microsoft platform, including .NET. One of his core interests is interoperability, particularly between systems using Windows Server and the .NET Framework as an application platform, and external systems using other platforms and technologies.

 
Jim Culbert
Chief Technical Officer, MetraTech Corp

Jim leads the company's technology strategy, product innovation and standards initiatives. He joined the company in 1998, as vice president of engineering. His duties included strategic management, technology direction, business development and he led the launch of the first version of MetraTech's billing solution. Jim has nearly 20 years of experience delivering innovative solutions from Internet application development in the network layer through complex Web Services and has long served as the company's chief technical architect and evangelist. Prior to MetraTech, Jim was senior technical consultant at Internet Business Advantages and was responsible for implementing Web-based business solutions for Fortune 500 companies as well as all technical aspects of project delivery. Previously, Jim was a founding engineer and principal developer at NetCentric, where he managed the client software development team and was responsible for system interfaces for its IP telephony suite. While at AT&T Interchange, he developed new online services as well as the first TCP/IP based online service on the market. Jim holds a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is also a guest lecturer on software engineering.

 
Chad Dickerson
CTO, InfoWorld

Chad joined InfoWorld Media Group in March 2001. As CTO of InfoWorld Media Group, Chad is charged with spearheading InfoWorld's technology initiatives. As an InfoWorld columnist and working CTO, he truly reflects the voice of InfoWorld's audience - technology leaders - by sharing his unique perspective on the expanded role of IT in today's business environments.

Prior to InfoWorld, Chad served as CTO of Salon.com, where he created and managed long-term plans for technology initiatives, including web publishing systems, content distribution and syndication, and capacity planning. Chad has also served as Director of Applications Development at CNN/Sports Illustrated Interactive and Technical Product Manager at CNN Interactive. Chad has a BA in English Literature from Duke University.

 
Tim Ewald
SOA Best Practices, Mindreef, Inc.

Tim Ewald is a senior member of MindReef's technical staff, focused on best practices for designing and developing Web services and SOA. Before joining MindReef, Tim was a Program manager Lead at Microsoft, where he was co-creator of the MSDN XML Web Services Developer Center. Mr. Ewald was also the primary architect of MSDN2, an XML-based publishing Infrastructure in use at Microsoft.com. Tim is an internationally known speaker and educator, as well as the author of numerous books and articles dedicated to distributed computing.

 
Steve Fox
Editor-in-Chief, InfoWorld

Steve oversees the day-to-day editorial operations for InfoWorld Media Group and is responsible for managing strategic development and implementation of editorial initiatives. He brings 25 years of publishing experience to the job, including, most recently, three-plus years as editorial director of CNET, where he directed coverage for both CNET.com and ZDNet. Steve is no newcomer to IDG. Previously, he held positions of editor-in-chief at PCWorld.com, editor at PC World magazine, and editor-in-chief at The Web magazine. Steve also worked for Omni magazine (where he was managing editor for four years), Popular Mechanics, and the IEEE. He graduated from Yale University with a bachelor's degree in English.

 
Graham Glass
Chief Technology Officer, webMethods

Graham Glass is a leader and visionary in distributed computing environments. As chief technology officer, Graham is responsible for driving webMethods' technology strategy. Prior to joining webMethods, Graham was chairman and chief architect of The Mind Electric, the leading pioneer and provider of Web services infrastructure. Graham founded the company on the premise that Web services would become the dominant distributed computing architecture and would eventually define the fabric of computing. Graham grew the company from a start-up to an industry leader in creating, deploying and managing service-oriented architectures. Graham is an author and frequent speaker at industry trade shows and conferences on the topic of Web services and SOA.

 
Bruce Graham
Vice President, World Wide Professional Services, BEA

Bruce Graham, BEA's Vice President of Professional Services, most recently served as BEA's Vice President of Strategic Global Accounts, where he lead the sales and development efforts for BEA's top customers. Bruce joined BEA in 2003 from the Feld Group, a premiere IT strategy and technology management firm serving F200-sized corporations, where he was a founding partner in the firm. Bruce brings to BEA a broad understanding of the development and real-world execution of "transformational" IT strategies, as well as extensive hands-on experience in post-merger integration of multi-billion dollar organizations.

The Feld Group is known for taking direct operational roles inside its client's organizations. Bruce most recently served as President and CEO of Interliant, a publicly held global application service provider. In this role, Bruce led the integration of Interliant's prior acquisition of 27 companies. With his Interliant management team, Bruce reduced cash burn and operational expenses by over 80%, implementing a focused corporate strategy that eliminated 32 product lines and divested 6 non-strategic business units.

Prior to Interliant, Bruce served as CIO at AmeriServe Food Distribution, Inc., a privately held foodservice distribution company that grew from $1B to $9B in sales in 12 months through the acquisition of its two largest competitors. Bruce and his team were brought in post-acquisition, and were responsible for deploying a single enterprise resource planning and warehouse management system, a 2 TB decision support system, and retraining 35,000 employees across 27 distribution centers within 16 months.

Bruce's previous roles include serving as the CIO at the Oshawa Group, Ltd., a $6 B Canadian grocery distributor and retailer, where he developed and implemented a $250M IT strategy, and as the Director of IT Services at Westinghouse/CBS. His department's work at Westinghouse was the subject of numerous industry articles, a Microsoft case study, and was nominated for the Smithsonian Award for Technology Excellence.

Before joining the Feld Group, Bruce held various positions within the IBM sales organization, including serving as the IBM Client Manager for American Airlines. He attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School and holds a bachelors degree in History from Texas Tech University.

 
Jonathan W. Hill
Associate Partner, Technology and Systems Integration, Accenture

Jonathan W. Hill is an Associate Partner working in Accenture's Enterprise Integration practice. He has over 15 years experience working with organizations to match application architecture requirements to the appropriate technology strategies and meet their business objectives. Jon is leading Accenture's global participation in the SAP NetWeaver Partner Initiative, working across areas of Accenture expertise-Enterprise Integration, SAP integration, global architectures and core technologies- to define the methodologies and develop the skills and assets for NetWeaver adoption. Jon is also developing Accenture's point-of-view on the continuing evolution of the integration landscape.

 
Kerrie Holley
CTO, IBM SOA & Web services Center of Excellence, IBM Distinguished Engineer, IBM Global Services, IBM

Mr. Holley is the CTO for IBM's SOA and Web Services Center of Excellence and Chief Architect in Application Innovation Services (AIS). He is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and a member of IBM's Academy of Technology IBM's Academy of Technology is comprised of approximately 300 of IBM's top technologists in all lines of business that include software, hardware, research and services. . He is an invited committee member of the National Academies, which operates under a charter granted by the United States Congress to provide independent scientific and technical advice to the government. He has twenty-five years' experience translating business requirements into process designs for cutting-edge network centric distributed solutions. The editors of Science Spectrum magazine and U.S. Black Engineer & Information Technology Magazine selected Kerrie Holley as one of the "50 Most Important Blacks in Research Science" for 2004.

 
Gordon Van Huizen
Chief Technology Officer, Sonic Software

Gordon Van Huizen is CTO for Sonic Software. He has 24 years of software development experience and has been leading the development of Internet applications, application servers and middleware since 1996. Prior to Sonic, Van Huizen was director of engineering for BEA's WebLogic Server. At Sonic, Van Huizen provided a driving force in bringing the industry's first enterprise service bus (Sonic ESB) to market, and continues to lead the company's technology strategy.

An authority on Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), Van Huizen has delivered keynote speeches at numerous conferences and written for publications such as Network World, Business Integration Journal and Java Developer's Journal, and he contributed to Professional Java Server Programming, J2EE Edition. InfoWorld named Van Huizen one of its "2004 InfoWorld CTO 25" for his leadership in integration technology and pioneering the ESB vision.

 
Aiaz Kazi
General Manager, Business Integration, TIBCO Software Inc.

Aiaz Kazi is TIBCO's General Manager, Business Integration, and is responsible for demonstrating TIBCO's proven and complete infrastructure that supports Service Oriented Architecture ("SOA") and Event Driven Architecture ("EDA")- as part of the overall marketing strategy for TIBCO's Business Integration products. Kazi is both a veteran of the enterprise software market and a champion of SOA- as he has been helping thousands of customers achieve true business agility for about fifteen years- marketing enterprise software solutions. Prior to TIBCO, Kazi was responsible for Product marketing at webMethods, handling the core flagship product and the SOA/Web Services products acquired from The Mind Electric. Prior to that, he led the product management team at BEA where he executed the launch of BEA's integration efforts. Kazi has an MBA from the Haas School of Business (Berkeley) and a BS in Computer Science.

 
Joe Keller
Vice President, Developer and Application Platforms Marketing, Sun

Joe Keller is responsible for helping to define, set and drive Sun Microsystems' product direction with the Java technologies. Keller's responsibilities include all enterprise middleware, including Java ES, and developer tools and programs. Before taking on this expanded role, Keller was in charge of Sun's Java, Web Services &Tools Business and Keller has held a series of other leadership roles with Sun's software organization.

 
Rohit Khare
Director, CommerceNet Labs

Rohit Khare is the Director of CommerceNet Labs, which is investigating decentralized electronic commerce. Prior to that, he founded KnowNow in 2000 based on his doctoral research at UC Irvine into application-layer Internet protocols and architectural styles for decentralized systems, for which he shared a SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award with ACM Fellow Richard N. Taylor.

 
Edwin Khodabakchian
Vice President of Product Development, Oracle

Edwin Khodabakchian is vice president of product development at Oracle Corporation. In this role, he is responsible for the development of Oracle BPEL Process Manager. Mr. Khodabakchian joined Oracle following his role as CEO and co-founder of Collaxa, a company that pioneered the Web service orchestration space and delivered the first and most comprehensive implementation of the BPEL standard. Collaxa was acquired by Oracle in June 2004. Mr. Khodabakchian holds a Bachelor of Science in Math and Physics and a Masters of Science with Highest Honors in Computer Science and Physics from Ecole Centrale Paris.

 
Guljit Khurana
VP, Product Technology, webMethods, Inc.

Guljit Khurana is Vice President, Product Development, Web Services for webMethods, where he is responsible for overall strategy and direction for the company's Web Services and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) offerings. Guljit joined webMethods from The Mind Electric, where he was Vice President, Product Technology, and served as a key corporate spokesperson and visionary with regards to SOA. With more than 15 years of software industry experience at firms such as Talarian and Avantgo (acquired by Sybase), Guljit has significant success in developing middleware and distributed computing products and services.

 
Eric Knorr
Executive Editor at Large, InfoWorld

Eric is executive editor at large for InfoWorld. He brings 20 years of technology journalism experience to the planning, development, and execution of feature articles that serve the needs of enterprise IT managers. Eric is the former editor of PC World magazine, the creator of the bestselling PC Bible, a founding editor of CNET, and a veteran of several dot-com follies. A winner of the Neal and Computer Press Awards for journalistic excellence, he has written hundreds of articles on desktop and enterprise technology. He has a bachelor of arts from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

 
Michael Liebow
Vice President, SOA & Web Services, IBM Global Services, IBM

Mr Liebow is a member of IBM Global Services Leadership team and has a broad background which makes him well suited to fuse the power of technology and business. He has held a variety of sales, marketing and management positions within a diverse range of industries, including high-technology sector, consumer package goods, media and entertainment. In 1997, Michael articulated a long-term technical vision for the IBM Netfinity platform through the creation of the X-architecture; a technical blueprint for bringing mainframe attributes to the Intel server market which IBM continues to follow today.

 
David Linthicum
Chief Technology Officer, Grand Central Communications

David Linthicum is an internationally known distributed-computing and application integration expert. He has twenty years of experience in the integration-technology industry, most recently as chief technology officer of Mercator Software, Inc. Before joining Mercator, David was the chief technology officer of SAGA Software, and held senior-level management positions at Electronic Data Systems, AT&T Solutions, Mobil Oil, and Ernst & Young LLP. He has consulted for hundreds of major corporations engaged in systems analysis, design, and development, with a concentration in complex distributed systems.

David keynotes many leading technology conferences including eB2B Marketplace World, eB2B World, Software Development, eBusiness World, EAI Summit, B2B Application Integration Summit, Enterprise Integration, e-Business Integration, Computing Without Bounds iEC, iEB, and Comdex.

 
David L. Margulius
Senior Contributing Editor, InfoWorld

Dave Margulius is a technology analyst focused on the Enterprise IT marketplace. A contributing editor for InfoWorld Magazine, and an occasional contributor to The New York Times, Margulius is also a member of the Board of Directors of The Churchill Club, Silicon Valley's leading business and technology forum. Previously he held management and marketing roles with several Internet-related companies, including Netscape, Kontiki, Evite, and Boston.com. Margulius is a graduate of Stanford Business School and holds a Computer Science degree from Brown University.

 
Frank Martinez
Chairman, Co-Founder, and CTO, Blue Titan Software

Frank Martinez is the CTO, chairman, and cofounder of Blue Titan Software, a provider of service-oriented infrastructure that helps enterprise architects control, share, and scale applications, driving business innovation across the distributed enterprise.

 
Kevin S. McKean
CEO & Editorial Director, InfoWorld Media Group

Kevin is responsible for the management of the company's print publication, InfoWorld, and its online operations, InfoWorld.com, including research and events. Prior to joining InfoWorld, Kevin was responsible for the strategic editorial direction of PC World in print and online. He led complete redesigns of both the PC World website (launched October 2000) and the magazine (September 2001).

Kevin also held the position of executive editor at Forbes.com, where he was responsible for product development and content relationships. Additionally, he served for two years as the assistant managing editor for business and finance at Time Inc. New Media. From 1987 to 1997, he worked for Money magazine, first as senior editor, then as the founding new media editor, responsible for all computer-related Money products.

As staff writer and senior editor at Discover magazine from 1981 to 1987, Kevin edited the magazine's computer section and covered a broad range of topics, including science, medicine, and technology. During his tenure, Discover won the 1986 National Magazine Award for General Excellence.

Kevin began his journalism career in 1974 as a police reporter for City News Bureau of Chicago. He joined the Associated Press in 1975, and worked as a general assignment writer and broadcast editor in Denver and New Orleans, before moving to national science writer in New York in 1978. He covered such major stories as the Three Mile Island nuclear incident and the eruption of the Mount St. Helens volcano.

In addition to his work in magazines and online, Kevin was the science editor for the 1991 three-hour WGBH-produced public television special Living Against the Odds. He also authored the chapter on writing about science and technology in the 1994 book Speaking of Writing, edited by noted writing authority William K. Zinsser. He has appeared as a guest on numerous television programs, including NBC's Today show, CBS This Morning, CNN, CNBC, and CNNfn. And, Kevin frequently speaks at conferences and universities.

Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, McKean was raised in Raleigh, North Carolina, and Elmira, New York. He graduated cum laude from Yale University with a bachelor's degree in English.

 
Eric Newcomer
Chief Technology Officer, IONA Technologies

In his role as Chief Technology Officer at IONA, Mr. Newcomer is responsible for directing and communicating IONA's technology roadmap, as well as IONA's product strategy as it relates to standards adoption, architecture, and product design.

Mr. Newcomer joined IONA in November 1999, after nearly 16 years at Digital/Compaq, where he held a variety of technical and management roles. He joined IONA as the company's transaction processing architect, and also served as IONA's Vice President of Engineering, Web Services Integration Products.

Mr. Newcomer leads IONA's participation in all standardization activities, and has been involved in Web services standardization activities from the beginning. He was a founding member of the XML Protocols Working Group at W3C, which produced SOAP 1.2. He is also a former editor of the Web Services Architecture specification at the W3C and is IONA's primary representative to OASIS and WS-I. Mr. Newcomer is co-author and editor of the recently published Web Services Composite Application Framework (WS-CAF) set of specifications and co-chair of the WS-CAF technical committee at OASIS.

A frequent speaker at industry and company events and contributor to popular journals and Web sites, Mr. Newcomer is the author of the best-selling Understanding Web Services (published in May 2002 by Addison-Wesley), and co-author with Phil Bernstein of Principles of Transaction Processing (published in January 1997 by Morgan Kaufman). His new book, Understanding SOA with Web Services, written with Greg Lomow, was published by Addison Wesley in December, 2004.

 
David L. Nichols
Partner, Technology and Systems Integration, Accenture

David Nichols is a Partner and global lead for Accenture's Service Oriented Architecture practice in the Technology and Systems Integration group. He has over thirteen years of experience planning, designing, and developing Enterprise Integration solutions for clients in a broad range of industries, and possesses robust technical experience in enterprise application integration technologies, integration architectures and ERP implementations. David is currently leading the continued development of Accenture's service oriented architecture skills, assets and solutions that will help clients on the journey to become high performance businesses.

 
Annrai O'Toole
Chief Executive Officer, Cape Clear Software

Annrai O'Toole is an acknowledged global expert on business IT integration. Since the 1980's he has been at the heart of the software industry's efforts to reduce the cost and complexity of integrating business systems to increase efficiency and deliver valuable new services online.

O'Toole co-founded Iona Technologies (Nasdaq:IONA) in 1991 which became Ireland's most successful global software company. In 2000, he joined Cape Clear Software as Chief Executive Officer where he is responsible for the company's vision and strategy for simplifying IT integration.

O'Toole began his career working with international software standards bodies to develop standards for software interoperability. With these and other initiatives, he has helped define the direction of the computer industry. He holds an MSc in Computer Science and an Electronic Engineering degree from Trinity College, Dublin.

 
Sean Rhody
Chief Architect for BEA Practice, Computer Sciences Corporation

Sean is responsible for the technical solutions and go to market strategy of the practice. He is also currently responsible for defining and articulating his division's SOA vision. Sean is a Partner with CSC Consulting Group, where he has served in a variety of roles since joining the firm in 1997. Prior to Joining CSC, Sean was CIO of a technology marketing company. Sean is also a widely recognized speaker and author.

He is the Editor-in-Chief of Web Services Journal, a leading publication on Web Services. He has published 5 books, the latest being "Beginning Java Web Services" by WROX Press. Sean also served as the Editor of Java Developers Journal for over five years, and has spoken at numerous conferences and trade shows.

 
Marc Saffer
SVP, Chief Information Officer, The Columbia House Company

Marc Saffer joined Columbia House Company in September 2003. As senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer, he has overall responsibility for information technology, strategy and operations. Since Columbia House first launched its Music Club in 1955, the company has grown to become the largest direct marketer of music, DVDs and videos.

With over twenty years of experience at all levels of information technology management, Marc has focused on building efficient, highly motivated IT teams, enabling companies to profit and prosper through appropriate use of technology. Before joining Columbia House, Marc was Vice President, Chief Information Officer at Footstar, a leading $2 billion footwear retailer, and the head of IT at the Macy's East division of Federated Department Stores for three years and eight years, respectively. Prior to that, he spent eight years at the Este Lauder Cosmetics Company and four years with NA Philips, a manufacturer of electronic components, in various IT leadership roles.

Marc attended St. John's University and is a graduate of the City University of New York with a degree in electromechnical engineering.

 
John Schneider
CTO, AgileDelta, Inc.

John Schneider is founder and CTO of AgileDelta, Inc., responsible for the company's strategic and technical direction. He is focused on extending the reach of the Internet and corporate data networks to small, mobile and embedded devices and is actively leading and shaping the future of key internet technologies, such as XML and Javascript. Before joining AgileDelta, Mr. Schneider led Engineering and program Management for Crossgain, a high-profile startup focused on simplifying web services and applications that was acquired by BEA. He was also Principal Systems Engineer at MITRE where he kick-started and led a variety of international technology initiatives for the United States related to XML, messaging and information interoperability.

 
Praveen Sharabu
Director Enterprise Architecture, CNF Inc.

Mr. Paraveen sharabu, 39, has more than 17 years experience in Information Technology systems development and IT Management. He started working at the CNF group of companies (includes con-Way, Menlo and Vector) in 1996 as a consultant, later on took full time employment as an Application Architect, was promoted to IS development Manager and more recently as the Director of Enterprise Architecture. Prior to joining the CNF organization, Mr. Sharabu has held principle consulting positions at the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) Oregon, Washington Department of Ecology and Texas Instruments. Mr. Sharabu holds Masters Degrees in Mathematics and Information Systems from Birla Institute, India and is a member of the Society of Information management.

 
John Shewchuk
"Indigo" Project Architect, Microsoft

John Shewchuk is CTO of Microsoft's Distributed Systems Group. John is responsible for Microsoft's Web services architecture and the identity and access technologies including AD and InfoCards. John was a founder of the Indigo team. Prior to that John played a key role in the early internet technologies developing technologies for components, layout, and styles for the browser and was responsible for Microsoft's Internet development tools. Later John played a key role in the development of VS.NET and it's support for Web services.

 
John Udell
Editor and Lead Analyst, InfoWorld Test Center

Jon Udell is an author, information architect, software developer, and groupware evangelist. He has been an independent consultant, was BYTE Magazine's editor-at-large, executive editor, and Web maven, and once upon a time was a developer at Lotus. In June 2002 he joined InfoWorld as lead analyst, author of the weekly Strategic Developer column, and blogger-in-chief. He also writes a monthly column for the O'Reilly Network.

 
Phillip J. Windley
Assoc. Professor of Computer Science, Brigham Young University

Phil Windley is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Brigham Young University where he teaches courses on digital identity, interoperability, web services, middleware, and programming languages. Phil is also a frequent author and speaker on these topics and writes a blog at www.windley.com. Prior to joining BYU, Phil spent two years as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the State of Utah, serving on the Governor Mike Leavitt's Cabinet and as a member of his Senior Staff. Before entering public service, Phil was Vice President for Product Development and Operations at Excite@Home and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of iMALL, Inc. an early leader in electronic commerce.