Guest Speakers

Keynote Presentations By:

Jeff Gleason
Director, IT Strategies
Transamerica Life Insurance Company
Annuity Products and Services

Jeff Gleason serves as the Director of IT Strategies for the Annuity Products and Services Division for Transamerica where he leads the definition and implementation of IT Strategies and Architecture for the Financial Markets Group. Since early 2003, Jeff's focus has been on defining FMG's strategic architecture and making use of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) concepts, Web Services patterns and Business Process Management (BPM) capabilities to solve complex business challenges. It is Jeff's goal to help Transamerica realize a level of business agility and responsiveness that will improve competitive advantage in the development and delivery of annuity products and services to its large base of distribution partners and customers.

Prior to joining the AEGON Insurance Group, Jeff was the Sr. Manager of Data Architecture for Shoptalk Networks, a Chicago-based software company. At Shoptalk, Jeff was a managing member of the technology team responsible for building the world's first production, VoiceXML-based application development framework. Jeff's previous experiences include various management roles in Telecommunications and Publishing companies. Within these industries, Jeff focused on integration technologies, database administration and data warehousing architectures.

Bret Dixon
Senior Vice President
Americas Services
BEA

Bret Dixon is Senior Vice President with BEA Systems where he oversees the strategic and operational aspects of the America's Consulting, Support, and Education Professional Services Groups. He works extensively with BEA's SOA Consulting Practice as well as BEA clients to develop, implement and evolve methods to accelerate the benefits of Services Oriented Architecture.

Prior to BEA, Mr. Dixon served with The Feld Group, a premiere IT strategy and technology management firm serving CEO's and CIO's at F500 corporations. He has led multiple engagements through the construction and launch of comprehensive plans designed to better technology department efficiencies as well as the achievement of higher business value for enterprises with IT budgets ranging from $40 to $800 million.

Session Speakers

Navdip Bhachech, Director, Microsoft
Todd Biske, Software Infrastructure Engineering,
    A.G. Edwards Technology Group, Inc.
Paul Brunet, Director SOA Marketing, IBM
Derek Butcher, CTO, InfoWorld
Dave Chappell, Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software
Stephen P. Cho, Ph.D., Senior Director, Product Management and Marketing,
    Application-Oriented Networking Business Unit, Cisco Systems
Jim Crew, Vice President, SOA Software
Jim Culbert, Principal, Culbert Information Associates
John deVadoss, Director of Architecture Strategy, Microsoft
Steve Fox, Editor-in-Chief, InfoWorld
Bob Glushko, Center for Document Engineering, University of California, Berkeley,
   School of Information
Adam Gross, Vice President of Developer Marketing, Salesforce.com
David Harrington, VP/CTO, MedicAlert Foundation
Eric Knorr, Executive Editor At Large, Infoworld
David S. Linthicum, CEO, BridgeWerx
David Margulius, Contributing Editor, InfoWorld
Miko Matsumura, VP of Technical Standards, Infravio
Scott Morrison, Director of Architecture, Layer 7 Technologies
Dennis Nadler, CTO, Merlin Technical Solutions
Eric Newcomer, Chief Technology Officer, IONA
Dave Rosenberg, Chief Information Officer, Glass Lewis & Co
Doug Saucier, VP Enterprise Architecture Services, Sony Pictures Entertainment
Jeff Schneider, CEO, Momentum SI
Terri Bennett Schoenrock, Director, Global Managing Principal,
    Enterprise Application Services Program Office,
    HP Services Consulting & Integration
Ken Schuelke, VP of Enterprise Architecture, Ameriquest Capital Corporation
Maja Tibbling, Lead Enterprise Architect, CNF, Inc.
Phil Windley, Associate Professor of Computer Science,
    Brigham Young University and InfoWorld Contributing Editor
Ed Vazquez, Group Manager, Web Services Integrations & Implementations,
    Sprint-Nextel
Peter Yared, Founder and CEO, ActiveGrid

 
Navdip Bhachech
Director, Microsoft

Navdip is a Director in the Application Platform team at Microsoft. He has been with Microsoft since 1998 and currently works with clients and product teams on broad technical issues affecting the application platform, usually with an application development focus. He was previously Director of the Microsoft Technology Center in the Silicon Valley. His work is focused on Service Oriented Architectures, Connected Systems, and helping Microsoft customers realize benefits from these technologies in their Enterprises.

 
Todd Biske
Software Infrastructure Engineering, A.G. Edwards Technology Group, Inc.

Todd Biske is a Senior Technology Engineer with A.G. Edwards Technology Group, Inc. He's been with them for 7 years as a member of their Technology Architecture and Engineering department. In that time, he has been involved with their adoption of J2EE technologies and the development of their Client Account Access web site. Since 2003, he has had the role of Product Manager for SOA and Web Services Technology, and is part of the leadership team for their SOA Competency Center. He is a member of SOA Leaders and the OASIS SOA Adoption Blueprints Technical Committee, and holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

 
Derek Butcher
CTO, InfoWorld

As CTO of InfoWorld Media Group, Derek is charged with spearheading InfoWorld's technology initiatives. He is responsible for implementing the technology and best-practices that define the expanded role of IT in today's business environments.

Prior to InfoWorld, Derek served as Director of Engineering for InfoWorld, where he created and managed long-term plans for technology initiatives, including web publishing systems, content redistribution and syndication, and web serving capacity. Derek has also served as Senior Engineering Manager at Disney Internet Group, where he was responsible for the architecture and development of the Go.com homepage, personalization engine, and other tools. Derek studied Computer Science and Psychology in the Bachelor of Science Honors Program at the University of Washington, where he also researched virtual reality interfaces at the Human Interface Technology Lab.

 
David Chappell
Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software

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(TM) 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(TM) 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".

 
Stephen Cho Ph.D.
Senior Director, Product Management and Marketing,
Application-Oriented Networking Business Unit, Cisco

Stephen Cho is Senior Director of Product Management and Marketing for the Application-Oriented Networking Business Unit at Cisco. He is responsible for the group's product management, marketing, sales strategy, and overall business operations/planning, and he developed the original business plan for the group starting in 2003. Cisco's AON technology provides a range of intelligent application infrastructure services and business solutions through a network-based platform.

Prior to this he was Senior Director of the Service Provider Solutions Practice in Cisco's Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG), which provides growth business consulting services to Cisco's leading service provider customers. Before this, Mr. Cho managed the IBSG Customer Care and e-Commerce solutions organization.

Before joining Cisco, Mr. Cho spent several years in business strategy and technology consulting with McKinsey & Company in their Telecommunications, Multimedia, and Electronics Practices and as a leader of their North American Data Networking Initiative. Prior to this, he was with The Boston Consulting Group focusing on technology areas. Mr. Cho was a Fulbright Scholar and holds a Ph.D. from Yale University and a B.A. from Dartmouth College.

 
Jim Crew
Vice President, SOA Software

Jim Crew is the inventor and driving force behind SOLATM - SOA Software's mainframe web services product offering "Service Oriented Legacy Architecture". SOLA is the result of work that Mr. Crew did at Merrill Lynch, where he was Director of Infrastructure with responsibility for Database Administration. A large part of his responsibilities was improvement of the overall infrastructure, particularly that of mainframe integration. Mr. Crew recognized that there were tremendous efficiencies to be gained by introducing Web Services to the mainframe platform and in 2001 he chartered a team to explore the possibilities offered by using Web Services to re-use existing mainframe assets in composite applications. After considerable research Mr. Crew determined that the key to fully exploiting mainframe Web Services was to build a Web Services platform that took advantage of the reliability and scalability of the mainframe platform while offering full conformance to Web Services standards.

This work was hugely successful at Merrill Lynch where SOLATM is extensively deployed in production, running 2,000,000 transactions a day and forming the backbone of the mainframe integration infrastructure. Thanks to the ease of use and efficiency of SOLATM Merrill estimates that it has saved at least $42,000,000 while making the firm more agile and improving the reliability of the environment.

In late 2005 Merrill Lynch sold SOLATM to SOA Software of Los Angeles California. Mr. Crew and his development team went with the software to join SOA where they are busy further developing SOLA and integrating it into SOA Software's award winning web services management product "Service ManagerTM".

Mr. Crew is a 28 year veteran of the Financial Services industry.

 
Jim Culbert
Principal, Culbert Information Associates

Jim is a Principal at Culbert Information Associates, a consulting firm specializing in SOA technologies. Over the past 18 years, Jim has focused on Internet-based distributed computing technologies. Jim has held developer, architect, evangelist and senior management positions at large and small organizations and has helped found four startup companies. Mr. Culbert spent the early part of his career in distributed systems development topics. Jim has been a regular speaker on SOA and Web Services over the past seven years and has authored and contributed to numerous articles on these topics. Jim holds a Bachelor and Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from MIT.

 
John deVadoss
Director of Architecture Strategy, Microsoft

John deVadoss is Director of Architecture Strategy at Microsoft. He has 15 years of experience in the software industry; he has been at Microsoft for 8 years, all of it in the enterprise space - as a consultant, as a program manager in the distributed applications platform division, as an architect working with some of Microsoft's key partners, and most recently leading solutions architecture. Prior to Microsoft he spent many years as a technology consultant in the financial services industry in Silicon Valley. His areas of interest are broadly in distributed application architecture, data and metadata, systems management and currently on edge architectures (both services and access), but most of all in creating business value from technology investments.

 
Steve Fox
Editor-in-Chief, Infoworld

Steve oversees day-to-day editorial operations for InfoWorld Media Group and is responsible for managing strategic development and implementation of editorial initiatives. He brings 28 years of publishing experience to the job, including, most recently, two-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.

 
Bob Glushko
Center for Document Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, School of Information

Bob Glushko is an Adjunct Professor at the University of California at Berkeley in the School of Information Management and Systems and the President of the Robert J. Glushko and Pamela Samuelson Foundation. He has twenty-five years of R&D, consulting, and entrepreneurial experience in information management, electronic publishing, Internet commerce, and human factors in computing systems. He founded or co-founded three companies, the last of which was Veo Systems in 1997, which pioneered the use of XML for electronic commerce before its 1999 acquisition by Commerce One. From 1999-2002 he headed Commerce One's XML architecture and technical standards activities and was named an "Engineering Fellow" in 2000.

 
Adam Gross
Vice President of Developer Marketing, Salesforce.com

Adam Gross is Vice President of Developer Marketing at salesforce.com.He was formerly Vice President of Product Marketing at Grand CentralCommunications. Prior to joining Grand Central, Adam co-founded Personify, a San Francisco-based enterprise software company, and served as a technology analyst in Stanford Research Institute's Media Futures Program. At SRI, Adam helped leading consumer electronics and computer companies - including Apple, Sun, Sony and Microsoft - develop business, technical and regulatory strategies for entering broadband digital video and consumer online services markets. Adam holds a B.S. in New Media Systems and Policy from Carnegie Mellon University.

 
Dave Harrington
VP/CTO, MedicAlert Foundation

Mr. Harrington has over 25 years experience in the software industry, focusing on software engineering, Internet operations, business strategy, healthcare and technology marketing. His technical expertise is in enterprise software, infrastructure services, Internet and Web development tools and technology standards in healthcare. Prior to MedicAlert®, he worked at Motorola, Inc., Unify Corp., Versata Inc., PhysicianAccess.com, PriceWaterhouseCoopers and several Silicon-valley startups. He also has extensive International operations experience, including ex-pat postings in Europe.

 
Eric Knorr
Executive Editor At Large, Infoworld

Eric Knorr brings 20 years of technology journalism experience to the planning, development, and execution of feature articles that serve the needs of enterprise IT managers. Knorr is the former editor of PC World magazine, the creator of the best-selling 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.

 
David S. Linthicum
CEO, BridgeWerx

David 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 (CTO) at Grand Central Communications, a company that delivers integration as a hosted service. He has also served as the CTO at both Mercator Software and SAGA Software, and has 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 at 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 was also the Chairman of the Integration Consortium's Global Integration Summit 2005.

 
Dave Margulius
Contributing Editor, InfoWorld

Dave Margulius is a technology analyst focused on the Enterprise IT marketplace. A contributing editor and columnist for InfoWorld Magazine, and an occasional contributor to The New York Times, Margulius is also a member of the Board of Directors and incoming President 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.

 
Miko Matsumura
VP of Technology Standards, Infravio

Miko Matsumura is Infravio's VP of Technology Standards. He is also chair of the OASIS SOA Adoption Blueprints Technical Committee.

Before joining Infravio, Matsumura emerged as an industry thought leader 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 an SOA application set, supported by BEA, Borland, HP, Microsoft, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Veritas and others. At Systinet, Matsumura worked with the executive team and offshore development center on product development, product strategy, and outbound marketing, including representing the company at industry events.

Prior to his tenure at The Middleware Company and Systinet, Matsumura held the position of Chief Java Evangelist for Sun Microsystems, where he was a visible spokesperson for Java technologies and worked closely with Java ISVs and licensees to further the developer community. Before Sun, Matsumura worked at Wired Digital (acquired by Lycos) and the Well online community (acquired by Salon). He has also worked extensively with software start-up companies, including Biztone and Kalepa Networks (acquired by Semio) raising more than 12 million in capital for Java start-ups.

Matsumura is currently a limited partner with Focus Ventures and was an advisor to the Asia Java Fund, as well as start-ups TogetherSoft (acquired by Borland), Dejima (acquired by Sybase) and Kendara (acquired by Excite).

Matsumura holds an MBA from San Francisco State University and a Masters Degree in Neuroscience from Yale University.

 
Scott Morrison
Director of Architecture, Layer 7 Technologies

Scott Morrison is the Director, Architecture for Layer 7 Technologies. He has over 15 years of experience building secure, high-performance distributed application architectures. Scott is a dynamic and highly sought-after speaker who has published over 50 book chapters, juried papers, and magazine articles in medical, physics, and engineering journals.

 
Dennis Nadler
CTO, Merlin Technical Solutions

Dennis Nadler joined Merlin Technical Solutions in April of 2004 as the Chief Technology Officer. His primary responsibilities as the CTO are to set the overall corporate direction for technology, identify and manage the construction of repeatable solutions offerings to speed the delivery of capabilities to clients, and to manage and operate the Professional Services division of Merlin Technical Solutions.

Mr. Nadler has 20 years of experience ranging from detailed systems engineering through enterprise architecture. He has over 17 years of Government experience and 2 years of enterprise application architectures for fortune 500 companies.

Mr. Nadler is a native of Illinois. He holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Southern Illinois University of Illinois and a Master's degree in Computer and Resource Management from Webster University of Missouri.

 
Eric Newcomer
Chief Technology Officer, IONA

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.

 
Dave Rosenberg
Chief Information Officer, Glass Lewis & Co

Dave Rosenberg is Chief Information Officer for Glass Lewis & Co., a leading investment research and proxy advisory firm where he oversees the strategic implementation and operations of the company's IT infrastructure. Rosenberg also serves as Principal Analyst for the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), a global consortium dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux. In this role, Rosenberg conducts analyses of market trends, manages industry communication programs and evangelizes OSDL's mission to increase adoption of Linux and open source technologies.

He contributes regularly to leading industry and business publications, including InfoWorld, CNET, ZDNet, Release 1.0, IT Managers Journal, Slashdot and IBM DeveloperWorks. He authors the popular "Open Resource" weblog on InfoWorld.com.

Rosenberg holds a BA in English from Rutgers University and an MBA from Pepperdine University. His work on wireless service provisioning systems was awarded a U.S. patent in 2003.

 
Doug Saucier
VP-Enterprise Architecture, Sony Pictures Entertainment

Doug Saucier is Vice President of Enterprise Architecture Services at Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE). In this role, Doug manages the architectural services group which is accountable for delivering the processes and services to develop and maintain the technology road map for SPE. Doug oversees the development of standards, development framework and competencies for the organization. His team provides architectural consulting services, the enterprise data model, and the foundational components for a Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) and portal strategy. Reporting to the CIO, Doug started at SPE in March 04 as a consultant and joined full time in August 04, with the goal of developing the company's architectural maturity and helping the divisional CIOs provide better service to their line of business counterparts and reduce overall platform complexity and costs.

Prior to joining Sony, Doug had a varied career in IT and management including most recently the Director of Product Architecture for IDEX CareCast division, a clinical care information systems provider. He has held several other positions including VP Customer Service at the dot.com start up, The Realm; Founder and CEO of Software Management Services; CEO of Scientific Data Systems a Business Micro Computer Hardware/Software manufacturer; and Director of MIS at Pacific Health Resources. Doug studied business at UCLA. He resides in the Seattle area and works in LA.

 
Jeff Schneider
CEO, Momentum SI

Jeff Schneider is the CEO and founder of MomentumSI and serves as the practice manager for the Enterprise Architecture Group. Jeff is internationally known for his work related to web service and service oriented architectures. His concepts of service networks, enterprise vocabularies and the "service oriented enterprise" serve as a blueprint for companies to upgrade not only their enterprise architecture, but also their people and processes.

In addition to web services and service oriented architectures, Jeff has a deep background in: I.T. and Business Alignment, Process Instilment and Personnel Education, Enterprise Application Integration, Package Application Customization, Java and the J2EE platform (He authored the first book on J2EE in 1996), and The Microsoft .Net platform.

Jeff's current research includes: service oriented methodologies, managing metadata across large enterprises, policy based network computing and the convergence of web service orchestration and human workflow.

 
Terri Bennett Schoenrock
Director, Global Managing Principal,
Enterprise Application Services Program Office,
HP Services Consulting & Integration

Terri Bennett Schoenrock is director, global managing principal leading the Service-Oriented Architecture and J2EE Open Source programs for HP's Consulting and Integration division. Prior to taking that position, Schoenrock led the service portfolio of enterprise architecture, IT governance, and other CIO advisory services for HP. Schoenrock is an experienced executive with extensive background in internal IT, business development and consulting, as well as global business management. Schoenrock is an accomplished speaker who addresses customers, analysts, and the media. Prior to joining HP, she founded The Axean Group, a consulting company named multiple times as one of the Fastest Growing Privately Held Companies in the San Francisco Bay area. Earlier, she led Nestle's North American data teams, administration systems, web services and IT training from 1994 to 1996; directed training and consulting organizations prior to 1994, and worked for Oracle Corporation from 1986-1989.

 
Maja Tibbling
Lead Enterprise Architect, CNF, Inc.

Maja Tibbling is a Lead Enterprise Architect with CNF Services Co. CNF, Inc. is a $4.2 billion freight transportation and logistics company.

Maja has over 20 years of IT experience spanning multiple technologies and methodologies. For the last 10 years, Component-based, Service-Oriented and Event-driven Architectures in service of the Real-Time Enterprise have been a focus in the CNF companies. She participated for several years on a vendor-hosted Component-based Development Customer Advisory Board working with contributors to the UML and J2EE specifications. The SOA implementation at Con-Way Transportation Services, one of the CNF companies, has been recognized with a CIO 100 award, several years running, as well as an InfoWorld 100 award.

 
Jon Udell
Lead Analyst, InfoWorld

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.

 
Phil Windley
Associate Professor of Computer Science, Brigham Young University and InfoWorld Contributing Editor

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. Phil writes the popular Technometria blog and is a frequent contributor to InfoWorld and Between the Lines.

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. Still active in business, Phil serves on the Boards of Directors and Advisory Boards for several high-tech companies.

 
Ed Vazquez
Group Manager, Web Services Integrations & Implementations, Sprint-Nextel

Ed Vazquez leads Sprint Nextel's Web Service Integration Product development team in Sprint Nextel's Innovation organization. Ed has been managing enterprise Web platform, infrastructure, and development projects for the past six years - and both internal and external Web Service integrations for the past four years. Having begun his career at Sprint as a call-center agent and having worked in Sprint Local, Sprint Long Distance, Sprint PCS, and now Sprint Nextel divisions / organizations, Ed has a unique understanding of both internal and external customer needs in the web domains. Ed's effort's to transform Sprint's infrastructure (towards SOA) was recently featured in the September 12th, 2005 issue of Infoworld titled "Sprint Makes the Services Connection."

Ed graduated from the University of Kansas in 1994 and recently completed his Masters in Applied Behavioral Analysis (Psychology) at KU, as well. Ed studies XML, WSDL, SOAP, and WS Whatever in his spare minutes and loves KU Basketball, seeing happy Sprint customers, finding patterns in chaos, and not taking life too seriously.

 
Peter Yared
Founder and CEO, ActiveGrid

Peter Yared is the Founder and CEO at ActiveGrid. Most recently, he was CTO of Sun Microsystems' Liberty Network Identity initiative. Peter was also CTO of Sun Microsystems' Application Server Division. Before its acquisition by Sun, Peter served as CTO of NetDynamics, which pioneered the then-leading J2EE application server. Earlier, he was Founder and CEO of JRad Technologies, an enterprise Java company acquired by NetDynamics. Additionally, Peter was Chief Architect of client/server products at object-oriented tool maker Prograph International and the architect of several mission-critical systems deployed by U.S. government agencies and the GED Testing Service. Peter holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Maryland.