Speakers

Keynote Presentations by:

Tony Bishop
Senior Vice President Director of Planning & Optimization, CIB Technology
Wachovia

Tony serves as Senior Vice President & Director of Product Management for Wachovia's Corporate Investment Banking Technology (CIBT) group. His team leads the product management disciplines of design, framework creation, operational model best practices, governance and component portfolio management related to CIBT's Service Oriented Architecture & Service Oriented Utility Infrastructure. The group supports for CIBT, the on-going creation of business and infrastructure service components that are deployed in composite frameworks across desktop, server, message bus and data fabrics.

Prior to coming to Wachovia, Tony served as Chief Architect at DataSynapse. Under his leadership, the company developed patent pending methodology & technology for building a service-based, performance optimized architecture that brought speed & time to market value to leading investment banking organizations' trading, risk & decision support operations.

Bishop brings more than 19 years of technology consulting, software design & architecture, architecture best practices, engagement and delivery experience within the financial services, insurance and industrial industries.

Shadman Zafar
Senior Vice President Architecture and eServices
Verizon

Shadman Zafar is Verizon's senior vice president of Architecture and eServices, with responsibly for providing technical and consultative services, high-performance interfaces, and creating new-generation communication services. Prior to this position, Zafar was chief technology officer and senior vice president for Verizon eBusiness Design and Technology.

Prior to the merger of GTE and Bell Atlantic that created Verizon, Zafar was assistant vice president E-Commerce - Enterprise Systems with GTE where he worked in close partnership with national marketing and business groups for fast and focused delivery of GTE's e-commerce capabilities. He also held the position of director-Enterprise Systems Architecture Design and Planning.

Zafar began his GTE career in 1994 as a technical staff member where he held positions responsible for the application and deployment of several major projects. Zafar received GTE's Leslie H. Warner Technical Achievement Award in 1997.

Zafar holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science from Ohio Wesleyan University and has worked in MIT Media Lab and AI Lab for postgraduate work in neural networks. Zafar is active in web research groups nationally and internationally, including IEEE and WWW consortium. He is currently researching sociological impacts of emerging technology trends on contemporary society.

Randy Heffner
Vice President
Forrester Research

Randy is a vice president in Forrester's Application Development & Infrastructure research group, covering enterprise application architecture, including service oriented architecture (SOA), enterprise application security integration (EASI), high-end application design, and Java and Microsoft application platform strategy. His career covers 24 years leading enterprise architecture efforts including 10 years at Sprint, six years with a Big Five consultancy, and with firms in the retail and litigation support industries.

Bruce Graham
Vice President of Worldwide Consulting
BEA

Bruce Graham, Vice President of Worldwide Consulting for BEA Systems, is responsible for BEA's consulting organization and its worldwide operations. Bruce launched and continues to lead the Global SOA Practice for BEA, and is a major driver behind the recent BEA AquaLogic product family, and BEA's recognized leadership in SOA. Bruce joined BEA in 2003 from the Feld Group, a premiere IT strategy and technology management firm serving Fortune 200-sized corporations, where he was a founding partner in the firm.

During his career, Bruce has served as CIO of multiple multi-billion enterprises, in addition to serving as COO then CEO of a major application service provider. Bruce brings to BEA a unique, broad understanding of the development and real-world execution of "transformational" IT strategies, as well as extensive hands-on experience in systems development and integration in the Global 2000.

Bruce regularly keynotes industry conferences, is interviewed by publications worldwide, and briefs both industry and financial analysts for BEA. He attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School and holds a bachelors degree in History from Texas Tech University.

Sandy Carter
VP of WebSphere Marketing, Strategy and Channels
IBM

As IBM VP, WebSphere Marketing since March, 2005, Sandy has had worldwide responsibility for Marketing, Strategy, and Channels. During Sandy's tenure, the WebSphere portfolio has grown 18% in 2005 over the prior year and is in its 26th consecutive quarter of growth. Her influence has significantly strengthened the WebSphere brand through IBM's acquisitions of Gluecode, Ascential, and DataPower Corporations, and she has led WebSphere to win 7 industry awards.

Most recently, Sandy has been appointed owner for cross IBM Channels, Strategy and Marketing for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), including messaging, content & presentations. One of her most notable accomplishments has been IBM's promotion and support of SOA, IBM's most significant software announcement in five years. Under her leadership, the September, 2005 announcement reached more than 21 million customers, widening IBM's lead over the competition in SOA and resulting in marketplace recognition such as:

• IBM is #1 in customer preference for SOA per AMR Research
• IBM is #1 in market share for SOA by Wintergreen Research
• IBM is at the top of the list for SOA capabilities per Yankee Group
• IBM leads in the Gartner Magic Quadrant in 8 SOA related areas

In her most recent prior position as VP, Infrastructure Solutions and On Demand Operating Environment, Sandy drove global share of on demand voice in the press to 51%, an increase of 36% over 2004 and awareness for On Demand Business to 79% from 58%. In a prior role, as VP of Marketing for Tivoli Software at IBM, Sandy led the Tivoli brand through consecutive quarters of double-digit growth. Previously, as VP of WebSphere Marketing and Channel Execution and as VP WebSphere e-Commerce Marketing, Sandy helped to grow market share 10 times faster than the competition for WebSphere and revenue by 300% on IBM's award-winning commerce product.

Earlier in her career, Carter was responsible for over $1 billion of worldwide solution revenue in the Intel server arena. Sandy's background includes marketing leadership for IBM's network security and UNIX products. She also has extensive solutions and applications marketing expertise. Additionally, her product development experience spans multiple server platforms and she is fluent in eight programming languages.

Sandy is a graduate of Duke University with a B.S. in Computer Science and Math and an M.B.A from Harvard University. Her professional associations include Member and winner of the Best Speaker Award, the Marketing Focus Advisory Council; Board Member of the Grace Hopper Industry Advisory Committee; and membership in Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Inner Circle. Sandy has delivered numerous keynotes at industry events, and in the past year has spoken at IDC, InfoWorld and Gartner conferences. She recently won an Award from AIT United Nations for helping developing countries. Sandy is an active member of the Women in Technology Group, and the Lead IBM Partnership Executive at Duke University.

Session Speakers

Bryan Aupperle, WebSphere Enterprise Platform Software Solution Architect, IBM
Dr. Toufic Boubez, Ph.D., CTO, Layer 7 Technologies
Derek Butcher, CTO, InfoWorld
Jim Crew, Vice President, SOA Software
Rob Davies, VP Product Development, LogicBlaze
Tim Ewald, Principal Architect, Foliage Software Systems
Maurizio Ferconi, Managing Director, Head of Financial Engineering, Putnam Investments
Steve Fox, Editor-in-Chief, InfoWorld
Bob Glushko, Ph.D, Center for Document Engineering, School of Information, UC Berkeley
Michael Hill, Global Director, Enterprise Architecture & Governance, Hewlett-Packard Company
Rohit Khare, Research Director, CommerceNet
Eric Knorr, Executive Editor, InfoWorld
Harel Kodesh, Group President, Amdocs Product Groups, Amdocs Inc
David S. Linthicum, CEO, BridgeWerx and InfoWorld's Real World SOA Blogger
Rajeev Mahajan, Account Practice Manager, BEA Systems
Miko Matsumura, VP Technology Standards, Infravio
Neil McAllister, Editor, InfoWorld
James McGovern, Enterprise Architect, The Hartford
Scott Metzger, Chief Technology Officer, TrueCredit
Ashish Mohindroo, Senior Product Director, Oracle Fusion Middleware
Dennis Nadler, CTO, Merlin Technical Solutions
John Nallin, Vice President, Information Services, UPS
Sheppard Narkier, Vice President, Head of Portfolio Management, Wachovia CIB Technology Group
Cathy Neuman, VP in Business Consulting Services, IBM
Eric Peebles, Chief Application Architect, City of Chicago
Ben Sabrin, Vice President Americas, JBoss Inc.
Doug Saucier, Vice President IT, Sony Pictures Entertainment
Jeff Schneider, CEO, MomentumSI
Rick Slade, Practice Principal, HP
TN Subramaniam, Chief Architect and Director of Technology, RouteOne LLC
Alex Stamos, Partner, iSEC Partners
Dr. Lew Tucker, Vice President of AppExchange, salesforce.com
Jon Udell, Lead Analyst, InfoWorld
Ed Vazquez, Group Manager, Web Service Integration and SOA Implementation, Sprint Nextel
Dr. Johannes Viegener, Vice President R&D crossvision Suite, Software AG
Steve Vinoski, Chief Engineer, IONA Technologies
Phil Windley, Associate Professor of Compter science, Brigham Young University and Contributing Editor to InfoWorld
John Yapaola, Vice President & GM, Americas, Kapow Technologies, Inc.
Peter Yared, CEO, ActiveGrid

 
Bryan E. Aupperle
WebSphere Enterprise Platform Software Solution Architect, IBM

Bryan Aupperle has spent most of his 15 year career at IBM developing technologies for accessing making mainframe applications. His current focus is on technologies for the modernization and SOA enablement of these applications. He is one of IBM's key architects in this area.

 
Dr. Toufic Boubez, Ph.D.
CTO, Layer 7 Technologies

Prior to co-founding Layer 7 Technologies, Toufic Boubez was the Chief Web Services Architect for IBM's Software Group. He co-authored the original UDDI API specification, chaired many XML and Web services conferences and was named on InfoWorld's "Ones to Watch" list. An author of many publications, including "Building Web Services with Java". Toufic is also actively involved with various standards organizations such as WS-I, OASIS and ACORD and co-author of WS-Trust and WS-SecureConversation.

 
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.

 
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 Manager(TM)".

 
Rob Davies
VP Product Development, LogicBlaze

Rob Davies is the Vice President of Product Development of LogicBlaze. Rob has over 20 years technology experience in developing distributed enterprise systems and products. Having managed products for telecommunication, distributed workflow and real-time imaging systems, Rob brings both a breadth and depth of experience across all areas of the software lifecycle, including analysis, design, development, testing,release and deployment, to the company.

Previously, Rob was the founder, CTO and Senior Vice President of Engineering for SpiritSoft, a Java enterprise middleware provider. Prior to that, Rob held Technical Deputy Director roles at Mercury. Rob has also held management and engineering positions at the Nomura Research Institute, British Telecom Research Labs, Cable and Wireless and US West.

Rob is heavily involved in the open source community: he was a co-founder of the Apache Software Foundation's ActiveMQ and ServiceMix projects, as well as a developer of the Lingo, ActiveCluster and ActiveSpace projects. Rob began his career as a Senior Researcher at the University of Essex, England, researching active memory systems and persistence mechanisms forC++.

Rob received his MSc in Intelligent Knowledge-based Systems from Cranfield University, United Kingdom.

 
Tim Ewald
Principal Architect, Foliage Software Systems

Tim Ewald has over 15 years experience building distributed systems and has been involved with Web services since their inception 8 years ago. Tim works as a Principal Architect at Foliage Software Systems, where he helps customers design and develop systems ranging from enterprise IT to medical devices. Prior to joining Foliage, Tim worked as an architect at Mindreef, a leading vendor of Web services diagnostics tools. Before that, he was a Program Manager Lead at Microsoft, where he worked as the architect of MSDN2, a next generation XML and Web services based publishing engine. Tim is an internationally known speaker and author.

 
Maurizio Ferconi
Managing Director, Head of Financial Engineering, Putnam Investments

Maurizio Ferconi heads the Financial Engineering group at Putnam Investments, where he is responsible for risk, performance measurement / attribution systems, research, analytics libraries and applications. As part of his role, he evaluates new technologies including work from the open-source community and from start-ups to determine when they can bring a competitive advantage, as well as keeping in contact with venture capitalist firms for earlier determining the viability of emerging solutions and better understanding the risks associated with embracing them. Prior to joining Putnam Investments, he was the Head of Risk Analysis and Asset and Liability Management at Pioneer Investments where he totally revamped the technology area and brought new techniques for improving the portfolio construction and management process by using quantitative methodologies. Prior to Pioneer Investments he was at Citadel Investments. Maurizio holds a Ph.D. in Physics.

 
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, Ph.D
Center for Document Engineering, School of Information, UC Berkeley

Bob Glushko is an Adjunct Professor at the University of California at Berkeley in the School of Information, the Director of the Center for Document Engineering, and one of the founding faculty members in the Services Science, Management & Engineering program. He has twenty-five years of R&D, consulting, and entrepreneurial experience in information management, electronic publishing, and Internet commerce. 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. He is a member of the Board of Directors for OASIS, an international consortium that drives the development, convergence, and adoption of e-business standards.

 
Michael Hill
Global Director, Enterprise Architecture & Governance, Hewlett-Packard Company

Michael Hill is Global Director, Enterprise Architecture and Governance, at Hewlett-Packard. He has more than 20 years experience in IT consulting for system vendors and Big 5 consulting firms. He spent the past 15 years helping business and IT executives address the challenges of extracting value from IT, improving IT operations effectiveness, and turning abstract concepts like "Business-IT alignment" into actionable plans.

Mr. Hill played a key role in the HP/Compaq merger, working with regional business managers to meet challenging integration goals. Most recently he has worked closely with CIOs at major companies, helping them achieve business agility. He currently leads HP's efforts to help customers implement best practices for IT governance and SOA transformation.

 
Rohit Khare
Research Director, CommerceNet

Rohit Khare is the Director of CommerceNet Labs, which is investigating decentralized electronic commerce.

Dr. Rohit Khare is an award-winning researcher in the fields of Internet protocols and decentralized systems. He founded KnowNow (http://www.knownow.com/) in 2000 and previously worked on Internet standards development at MCI's Internet Architecture Group and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) (http://www.w3.org/). He founded 4K Associates (http://www.4k-associates.com) and edited the World Wide Web Journal (W3J) (http://www.w3j.com/) for O'Reilly & Associates (http://www.ora.com). He received his Ph.D. in Software Engineering from U.C. Irvine in 2003.

 
Eric Knorr
Executive Editor, 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.

 
Harel Kodesh
Group President, Amdocs Product Groups, Amdocs Inc

Harel Kodesh leads the Amdocs Product Group, overseeing the specification, architecture, development and release of each product in the industry-leading Amdocs portfolio. Prior to Amdocs, Harel served as president and CEO for Wingcast, a joint venture of the Ford Motor Company and Qualcomm that developed a worldwide telematics solution. Before Wingcast, he served in executive positions at Microsoft, where he founded the Windows CE group that developed the new operating system and a wide range of products, including the PocketPC and Smartphone, based on it. Harel also led Microsoft's mobility devices efforts and managed the Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) team, which created the Component Object Model, a key technology used in the Windows operating system. Harel also worked for Motorola, where he led the company's early efforts in wireless data. He was also an early investor in Mobilitec, a service delivery platform leader, and has served as its chairman.

Harel holds a bachelor of science degree in Computer Engineering and a master of science degree in Electrical Engineering from Technion, the prestigious Israel Institute of Technology.

 
David S. Linthicum
CEO, BridgeWerx and InfoWorld's Real World SOA Blogger

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.

 
Rajeev Mahajan
Account Practice Manager, BEA Systems

Rajeev Mahajan is a Practice Manager with BEA Systems and evangelizes and leads SOA solution implementations for BEA clients.

Leveraging fifteen years of deep IS technology experience he interprets the linkage of business drivers to technology for business stakeholders and IT executives all over the world.

Rajeev has broad industry experience in healthcare, high tech, financial services, manufacturing, and retail, and implementation experience in multi-constituent, multi-channel portal architectures, content management, CRM, e-Business across value chains, distributed component technologies (J2EE), enterprise application integration (EAI), and Object oriented (OO) design.

 
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.

 
Neil McAllister
Editor, InfoWorld

Neil McAllister is a senior editor at InfoWorld. A hands-on technologist, he began his career in IT and later moved on to Web application development during the dot-com boom of the 1990s. His first articles and essays on computing and Internet technology were published in the late 90s by SFGate, the Web site of the San Francisco Chronicle. Since then he's gone on to author hundreds of articles on topics ranging from databases, to enterprise application development, to IT strategy, with a particular emphasis on Linux and open source. Prior to joining InfoWorld, Neil was technology editor for CMP Media's New Architect magazine (nee Web Techniques). He currently writes InfoWorld's "Open Enterprise" column, appearing each Monday on InfoWorld.com.

 
James McGovern
Enterprise Architect, The Hartford

James McGovern is an Enterprise Architect for The Hartford and co-arthor of bestselling books on SOA and Enterprise Architecture. James speaks at multiple conferences, is an active participant in the open source community and an industry thought blogger.

 
Scott Metzger
Chief Technology Officer, TrueCredit

Scott Metzger, chief technology officer at TrueCredit, has overseen the successful implementation of an SOA that supports online consumer credit products for millions of customers. TrueCredit's high-performance Web applications handle up to 25,000 simultaneous users while providing sub-second responsiveness in a secure environment. TrueCredit deployed its business-critical systems on Intel-based servers, Red Hat Linux, and BEA's Java virtual machine -- BEA JRockit. The heart of the SOA is BEA WebLogic Integration, which orchestrates the flow of data and messages to customers and business partners.

 
Ashish Mohindroo
Senior Product Director, Oracle Fusion Middleware

Ashish Mohindroo is responsible for product strategy and global marketing for Oracle Fusion Middleware and Service-Oriented Architecture products and solutions. Ashish launched and continues to lead the global Go-To-Market Initiatives for Oracle's SOA product offerings and is a major driver behind the recent Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle's recognized leadership in SOA Oracle SOA Suite is the fastest growing component of the fastest growing middleware suite in the market.

Ashish has over even years of experience with Middleware and CRM technologies. Prior to joining Oracle, Ashish worked at BEA Systems, where he was responsible for defining the product strategy for BEA WebLogic Portal.

Ashish regularly keynotes industry conferences, is interviewed by publications worldwide, and briefs industry analysts for Oracle. Ashish is an active contributor to leading industry publications that include Business Integration Journal and eBizQ. Ashish holds a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Austin.

 
Dennis Nadler
Chief Technology Officer, Merlin Technical Solutions

Dennis Nadler joined Merlin Technical Solutions as Chief Technology Officer in April 2004. As CTO, he defines the company's technology focus and directs its professional services business.

Prior to this position, Nadler was a technical director in Northrop Grumman Mission Systems Business Sector where he provided Enterprise Application Architecture expertise for numerous engagements. His extensive knowledge of COTS products, emerging technologies, and systems engineering methodologies made him a valuable asset for the Defense Mission Systems (DMS) Business Unit of Northrop Grumman Mission Systems.

During his career, Nadler has held a variety of government positions including: the United States Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) Enterprise Architect and Division Manager, the DoD Global Combat Support System (GCSS) Chief Engineer and Program Manager, and the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Commander of the Center for Horizontal Integration & Engineering.

 
John Nallin
Vice President, Information Services, UPS

"Business continuity planning is a major undertaking. We changed the name of this initiative from 'Disaster Recovery' to focus efforts on keeping the business consistently running in any situation - not just a disaster. We've found that centralization and standardization are essential components in business continuity."

John Nallin is the Vice President in Information Services responsible for Business Continuity, Corporate Repositories, Technical Architecture and Telecommunications for UPS worldwide. He is a member of the UPS Information Technology Governance Committee, which oversees the direction of UPS technology and aligns it with the company's business vision and strategy. UPS has invested US$16 billion in technology since John joined UPS in 1987 as Systems Manager for Delivery Information Systems.

He was promoted to Customer Applications Manager in 1990 and became vice president of Applications Development, Database Administration and Software Engineering in support of both domestic and international applications in 1992. In 1996, he was made vice president of Corporate Repositories and Architecture with responsibility for the company's Data Warehouse Database, Software Engineering, the Internet/Intranet and Standards. He acquired additional responsibility for Corporate Telecommunications in 1999.

John has more than 30 years of experience in the field of information technology. He began his career at AT&T as an engineering associate and managed a data center while serving as a sergeant with the United States Marine Corp. He studied business administration and computer science at Seton Hall and Rutgers universities and held management positions with Asbach Consulting, American Cyanamid and Tenneco Chemicals prior to joining UPS.

John is a member of the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) Board of Overseers, where he plays a key role in the university's strategic planning. He is also a member of the NJIT School of Management Advisory Board.

A member of the Marine Corp League, John is also a founding member of the Berkeley Heights Education Foundation and an active participant in United Way.

 
Sheppard D. Narkier
Vice President, Head of Portfolio Management, Wachovia CIB Technology Group

29 years experience in Financial Services IT, working as Enterprise Architect and/or Managing Director of Development, for firms such as Standard & Poors, Dow Jones, SIAC, UBS-IB. Was Global Head of Technology at Sapient. Background includes Systems Engineer at Data General, and developer in Wall St. consulting firms.

 
Cathy Neuman
VP in Business Consulting Services, IBM

Cathy Neuman is vice president of Alliances and Emerging Businesses Leader for IBM Business Consulting Services (BCS). She is responsible for growth strategies across new business areas including SOA and Web services.

In addition, Ms. Neuman is responsible for building relationships and communities of practioners with third parties including ISVs and key service firms in partnership with BCS.

Prior to joining IBM in 2002, Ms. Neuman was a consulting partner with PriceWaterhouseCoopers, leading the e-business strategy and transformation across the firm and with clients.

 
Eric Peebles
Chief Application Architect, City of Chicago

Eric Peebles, chief application architect for the city of Chicago, is responsible for a citywide SOA currently under development. Peebles and his team of more than 50 developers are leveraging BEA WebLogic Platform and the BEA AquaLogic family of products to tie together data stores and applications from multiple city departments. The SOA is helping Chicago provide its 2.8 million residents with efficient, convenient and timely services, managing everything from auto registration to parking tickets, and building permits to water bills. The city's SOA initiative is one of the most ambitious ever undertaken at the municipal level.

 
Ben Sabrin
Vice President Americas, JBoss Inc.

Ben Sabrin is Vice President, Americas responsible for Sales and Field operations. Ben was the first employee at JBoss outside the founders and has grown the Americas sales organization. As a member of the executive team, Ben also helps evaluate open source projects for acquisition and was instrumental in the acquisition of Hibernate, JGroups, and jBPM. Previous to JBoss he was the Director of Business Development in the Southeast for Pencom Systems an IT consulting and recruiting firm. Ben is very active in the United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta's Technology Initiative since inception.

 
Doug Saucier
Vice President IT, 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, MomentumSI

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 has worked in a variety of industries and served clients such as:
3M, Sabre, Motorola, Ford / The Associates, The Annuity Board

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.

 
Rick Slade
Practice Principal, HP

Rick serves as the Americas' Practice Principal for HP's Application Modernization Services; bringing more than twenty-five years of experience in business development, project management and software development to the company. Rick's current roles includes Business Strategy Development and general business management for AMS.

Rick began his career at Management Science America (MSA). After several years building enterprise business systems, he moved into the role of manager of R&D and Emerging Technologies for a division of Sara Lee Corporation. There he was responsible for the research and implementation of new computing technologies. In 1992, he left Sara Lee to form the Consulting Division at Micro Focus, developing services; business strategy and overseeing day-to-day operations and bringing the company to the forefront in helping its customers deploy more effective enterprise development environments and migrating applications to more cost effective platforms. Rick came to Extreme Logic in 2000. He served there as Vice President and General Manager for Eastern Region operations. As part of the Extreme Logic management team, he helped guide the company to prosperity, being named Microsoft's North American "Partner of the Year" in 2001 and eventual sale to HP in 2003.

Today, Rick focuses on helping companies transition business functionality to more agile and cost effective computing platforms.

 
TN Subramaniam
Chief Architect and Director of Technology, RouteOne LLC

Dr. T.N.Subramaniam is the Director of Technology and Chief Architect of RouteOne LLC. He has over 14 years of IT experience and in the last 7 years as an Enterprise Architect. He has architected a number of large scale SOA and J2EE implementation. He has worked at Thompson and at EDS. Prior to coming to IT he was a university professor and research mathematician. His main interests are in J2EE, SOA, and XML frameworks.

 
Dr. Lew Tucker
Vice President of AppExchange, salesforce.com

Dr. Lew Tucker is vice president of AppExchange at salesforce.com. In this role Tucker leads the team which developed and launched AppExchange, salesforce.com's on-demand platform for business applications. Tucker has more than 19 years of experience working in some of the most challenging areas affecting the technology industry, including the Internet, Java technology, high performance computing, and artificial intelligence. Prior to joining salesforce.com, Tucker held a variety of positions at Sun Microsystems including director of developer relations, in which he was a member of the executive team which founded the JavaSoft business unit.

 
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.

 
Ed Vazquez
Group Manager, Web Service Integration and SOA Implementation, 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.

 
Dr. Johannes Viegener
Vice President R&D crossvision Suite, Software AG

Dr. Johnannes Viegener joined Software AG in December 2005 and is responsible for crossvisionTM suite R&D. Prior to joining Software AG, Johannes was with SAP AG where, during the last 8 years, he managed several development projects in SAP NetWeaver, leading development teams in India, Germany and other parts of Europe. In the last few years, Johannes was responsible for foundations of the SAP Enterprise Services Architecture (ESA). Johannes holds a doctorate in Computer Science from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany.

 
Steve Vinoski
Chief Engineer, IONA Technologies

Steve Vinoski is Chief Engineer of Product Innovation for IONA Technologies in Waltham, MA. Steve is also an IONA Fellow. Steve joined IONA in December 1996 to start IONA's US-based Engineering organization and to lead the development of IONA's next-generation Adaptive Runtime Technology (ART), a highly flexible and high performance distributed computing engine that underlies IONA's products.

As of the start of 2006, Steve has authored or co-authored approximately 70 highly-regarded publications about distributed computing, middleware, and integration. He writes the "Toward Integration" column for the IEEE Internet Computing magazine.

 
Phil Windley
Associate Professor of Compter science, Brigham Young University and Contributing Editor to InfoWorld

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.

 
John Yapaola
Vice President & General Manager for the Americas, Kapow Technologies

John Yapaola has over 20 years experience in the management and growth of high-technology start-up Companies. He has held executive positions in Sales, Marketing and Operations at several technology companies that had successful IPO's. He is currently Vice President & General Manager for the Americas, for Kapow Technologies Inc and is also a founding member of the New York Angels Investment Group, based in New York City. In his last Executive position, he served as CEO of Let's Think Wireless, a wireless infrastructure design, engineering and installation company. He also served as Executive Vice President of Business Development for Paytrust, Inc. responsible for developing and implementing the business development strategy for the corporation. Prior to joining Paytrust, he served as Executive Vice President of Operations for the Americas for The Fantastic Corporation. Before joining The Fantastic Corporation, he was Vice President of Sales at Logic Works. John Yapaola is on the Board of several privately held companies.

 
Peter Yared
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.