An industry leader with more than 20 years of experience as a senior executive and solutions architect, Bill is an expert in large-scale software development, global trading systems, middleware architecture, and next-generation telecommunications network infrastructures. Bill served as CIO at Global Crossing where he was responsible for consolidating the technology infrastructure of its global acquisitions and centralizing worldwide information systems and controls. Bill also served as CTO at OptiMark and developed three complete exchange systems at the Pacific Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, and the Osaka Stock Exchange, all going live in under three years from inception and eventually integrated with NASDAQ's distribution network.

Bill's recent focus has included enabling banks, broker-dealers and buy-side firms transition from silo trading organizations to integrated Capital Markets solutions. As president of TekFinancial Solutions, Bill leads a veteran staff of specialists who build market leading solutions that maximize ROI, operability and scalability.

Stefan Andreasen has more than 20 years of experience in software design and development. He spent five years in Boston with Advanced Visual Systems working on cutting-edge Java and visual programming projects. In 1998 he started Kapow as a marketplace for cars, real estate and boats for sale. The data was collected with a web-scraping technology based on visual programming, which made it possible to collect information from thousands of web sites with very limited resources. In 2001, Stefan sold the marketplace and changed Kapow into a pure software company - Kapow Technologies. The web-scraping software was productized and expanded to a general web-based integration platform for mashups, data collection, content migration, portal clipping and web service enabling of web functionality. In 2006 he launched www.openkapow.com, where web developers can freely use the product to build and share APIs to data on the internet. Stefan now focuses on long-term strategy and building the business.

Paula is a member of the Secure Software and Services department at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. She is currently working on SOA Security and user-centric Identity Management. She was actively involved in defining some of the specifications and standards for web services security working with both OASIS Web Services Security TC and WS-I Basic Security Profile Working Group. She is currently involved in the Eclipse Higgins project for user-centric Identity Management. Paula works closely with IBM WebSphere and Tivoli product groups.

James Barry is responsible for the development of mid-market Payroll and HR applications as well as the Web Services for partners for ADP Employer Services. These applications service over 30,000,000 employees' payroll through over 100,000 companies. James led the introduction of ADP's newest Web based applications, including the world's largest SAAS application, PayeXpert. His applications are a core piece of the SOA architecture unifying applications at ADP. Prior to ADP, he was a founding VP at CollabNet. At IBM he was the executive who led the introduction of WebSphere Application Server, introduced full support of the Apache Web Server and was the strategist on the team that brought Linux into IBM. James is a graduate of the University of Colorado with over 25 years of diverse business experience.

James resides in New Jersey with his wife and daughter.

Bob is a creative leader who has introduced many technical and process innovations in order to meet complex business requirements. He has experience with Internet, Client Server, UNIX, Linux, Mainframe, Parallel Processing, and Data Warehousing.

Bob joined ADP in 2002 and is responsible for the development of all Payroll, HR, Benefits and Time & Labor Management products for the $5B ADP Employer Services Division. He leads a department of 1200+ IT associates with an annual budget of $125M. He has significantly improved the reliability of ADP's Internet product suite reducing downtime 92% over a two year period.

Bob spent twelve years at United Airlines where he worked with business units to develop an overall strategy and project plan on how new technologies should be used in the future airport environment. Bob holds both a Master of Science and Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial and System Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Mighael Botha is an information technology evangelist with more that 20 years of experience in the IT industry. Mr. Botha has extensive experience across all platforms ranging from IBM Mainframes to distributed Windows applications. He currently holds the position of director and technology evangelist at Software AG North America. Mr. Botha has been focusing on Enterprise Application and Data Integration during the last 10 years and on Service Oriented Architecture during the last 5 years. He has extensive experience in the successful implementation of SOA within large organizations within the US as well as internationally, enabling these organizations to improve overall business processes and deliver on the promise of SOA.

Andy Brown is managing director and CTO for Infrastructure at Credit Suisse. In this role, Andy is responsible for driving technology convergence and introducing technology innovation in the company. Prior to joining Credit Suisse last September, Andy was managing director and chief technology architect at Merrill Lynch where he spearheaded strategic plans, guidelines, technology governance processes and technology portfolio management. He joined Merrill Lynch in London in 1996 and has served in roles in Europe and the US in infrastructure architecture and engineering, Equity Technology Architecture, GMI Architecture, GMI eCommerce, Global Networks and Market Data Services.

Previously, Andy headed up Technology Architecture for Banque Paribas Capital Markets based in London and Paris. His major achievement was the rollout of Windows/NT desktop across the PCM businesses in 1995 enabling a new generation of desktop financial instrument development and associated revenue streams. Andy has previously worked in three other major industries for blue chip companies.

As VP/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.

As the Chief SOA Evangelist, David is a leading contributor to the development and execution of HP's SOA strategy, positioning, and customer advocacy, working with product and marketing teams across HP Software, Services, and related TSG groups. David also chairs the SOA Customer Advisory Board, which supports the development of our SOA products.

David was the VP of Marketing and SOA Evangelist for Systinet, where he established the product and marketing vision for Systinet's SOA Governance and Lifecycle Management solutions. David has more than 20 years' experience driving product strategy for enterprise software and systems companies such as Spotfire, Portera Systems, Netscape, NeXT Software, Cadre Technologies, and Data General. His experience spans the development and marketing of business intelligence analytic applications, web-hosted enterprise applications, industry-leading web application servers and application development tools, and distributed OLTP systems. David has a B.S. in computer science and marketing from Boston College.

David Chappell is vice president and chief technologist for SOA at Oracle Corporation. Chappell has over 20 years of experience in the software industry covering a broad range of roles including architecture, code-slinging, sales, support and marketing. He is well known worldwide for his writings and public lectures on the subjects of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), the enterprise service bus (ESB), message oriented middleware (MOM), enterprise integration, and is a co-author of many advanced Web Services standards.

As author of the O'Reilly Enterprise Service Bus book, Dave has had tremendous impact on redefining the shape and definition of SOA infrastructure. He has extensive experience in distributed computing infrastructure, including ESB, SOA Governance, EJB and Web application server infrastructure, JMS and MOM, EAI, CORBA, and COM. Chappell and his works have received industry awards including the "Java™ Technology Achievement Award" from JavaPro magazine and the CRN Magazine "Top 10 IT leaders" award.

Jim is CTO at Weather Services International, a provider of meteorological data, services and systems. Jim oversees the company's technology, integration and service delivery strategies. 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 sponsored research and development at MIT where he continues to lecture on system 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 Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Electrical Engineering from MIT.

John Daly was named vice president and general manager of Keane's Global Architecture Services in March 2005 when Keane acquired technology consulting firm netNumina. Mr. Daly was managing director of netNumina at the time. Mr. Daly has more than 17 years experience in all phases of business and technology consulting including Strategic Planning, Operations, Supply Chain, BPO, Architecture and System Design. He is also an expert in Services Oriented Architecture (SOA). Throughout his tenure in the technology industry, Mr. Daly has been responsible for identifying and developing partnerships with key Fortune 100 institutions to deliver strategic and tactical technology solutions.

As VP of Actional at Progress Software, Dan Foody leverages his 20+ years of enterprise software development to span the boundary between business and technology with service-oriented architectures (SOA). Previously serving as CTO for Actional Corp., acquired by Progress in early 2006, Foody's experience with distributed systems technologies including middleware, integration and Web services have provided him with a broad understanding and passion for solving today's critical business issues with innovative technology solutions. Most recently, Foody was the recipient of InfoWorld's 2005 CTO 25 award.

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.

George Glass is BT's chief architect. As such, he runs a team of architects and designers who maintain and evolve the core technical architecture for the company; and he is responsible for both the vision and roadmap of the architecture itself.

He has over 19 years' experience within BT and its associated global ventures, resulting in a comprehensive knowledge of the company's systems estate. This, combined with a deep understanding of BT's business aims, means he has been able to define an outstanding, and achievable, systems strategy to support its ambitious transformation from a telco to a networked IT services company.

George joined BT directly from Queen's University, Belfast in 1987 to work on a variety of application software development projects. He later held a number of billing design and consultancy positions, culminating in a billing project manager role, during which he delivered two projects that delivered significant cost savings to BT.

Jeff Harman is the vice president of Systems Integration for Webster Bank. He received his Bachelor's and Master's of Science degrees from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1997. Jeff is the architect of Webster's SOA implementation connecting together over 20 different systems from 10 different vendors into a unified framework. The SOA implementation (the Webster Integration Layer or WIL) was completed in the summer of 2005 and has been continually expanded and improved since then. Before working for Webster, Jeff worked for Adobe Systems in San Jose.

Dr. Rohit Khare was director of CommerceNet Labs through September 2006. He is an award-winning researcher in the fields of Internet protocols and decentralized systems. He founded KnowNow in 2000 and previously worked on Internet standards development at MCI's Internet Architecture Group and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). He founded 4K Associates, a standards-strategy consultancy, and edited the World Wide Web Journal (W3J) for O'Reilly & Associates. Rohit received his B.S. in Economics and in Engineering and Applied Science with honors from Caltech in 1995 and his Master's and Ph.D. in Software Engineering from UC Irvine in 2000 and 2003, respectively.

Eric Knorr is executive editor at large at 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 best-selling The 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.

Tom Krotchko has been active at Amtrak since 1988 designing yield management and distribution channel applications. Since 2000 he has served as the director of Web Architecture and has been instrumental in the design of customer distribution technologies, including web, kiosk, and voice. Currently he is overseeing SOA adoption for internal and external customers.

Prior to Amtrak, he was president of Comm Systems, specializing in emerging technologies, including security, email and ecommerce systems. He has over 25 years of experience with systems that range from the mundane to the esoteric. He has developed and taught several courses over the years; published numerous articles and served as a contributing editor to Jumpdisk magazine. Tom holds a B.S. and A.S. from the Pennsylvania State University.

Rakesh Kumar is responsible for setting business systems architecture direction at Standard & Poor’s for development of new products and solutions. His responsibility includes developing technology strategy, introducing new technology to the firm, establishing technology standards, best practices and ensuring interoperability of business system architectures. Rakesh has been working in the financial industry for 13 years, and brings a total of 18 years of information technology experience. He holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Mysore University, India.

David S. Linthicum is an internationally known application integration and service oriented architecture expert. In his career David has formed many of the ideas for modern distributed computing including EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) and B2B application integration, and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), approaches and technology in wide use today.

David is currently the CEO of BRIDGEWERX, the only company to offer integration on a SaaS (software as a service) platform, and is the former CTO of Mercator. He has held key technology management roles with SAGA Software, Mobil Oil, EDS, AT&T, and Ernst and Young. In addition he was an associate professor of computer science for eight years. David has authored over 500 articles for major computing publications, and has monthly columns in several industry magazines. He has authored or co-authored six books including David Linthicum's Guide to Client/Server, Intranet Development and Next Generation Application Integration.

Anne Thomas Manes is a vice president and research director with Burton Group, a research and advisory firm. She leads research on application platform strategies, with a specific focus on service-oriented architecture (SOA). Anne is a widely recognized industry expert on SOA and distributed computing. In 2002, NetworkWorld named Anne one of the 50 most powerful people in networking. She received a similar honor from Enterprise Systems Journal, who listed her among the 2001 Power 100 IT Leaders. She is the author of Web Services: A Manager's Guide. She has participated in web services standards development efforts at W3C, OASIS, WS-I, UDDI.org, and JCP. Prior to her role at Burton Group, Anne was chief technology officer at Systinet, a SOA governance company, and director of market innovation at Sun Microsystems, where she led Sun's early web services strategy. Anne developed her expertise working at a number of the world's leading hardware and software companies.

Miko Matsumura is vice president of SOA Product Marketing and Technology Standards at webMethods, Inc. He serves as chair of the SOA Adoption Blueprints Technical Committee at Oasis and is the organizer of the SOA Link Interoperability Initiative. Miko blogs at www.SOAMasterClass.com. Prior to the recent acquisition of Infravio, Inc. by webMethods, Miko served as vice president of marketing and technology standards at 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. He has worked extensively with software startup companies, raising more than 12 million in capital for Java startups. Miko holds an MBA from San Francisco State University and a Master's Degree in Neuroscience from Yale University.

Oren Michels brings more than 15 years of experience to his job as CEO of Mashery. Michels has a proven track record with experience across multiple industries. Previously, Michels was vice president of business development at Feedster, where he negotiated partnerships with AOL, Real Networks and Mitsui, and oversaw the company's activities in China. Michels was also president of Colt HR, a leading provider of outsourced benefits administration software and services. He also co-founded WiFinder, an international provider of directory services for wi-fi public access hotspots; served as president of winebid.com, where he managed the company’s growth and helped establish it as a leading online wine auction market; served as COO of two manufacturing companies; and as CEO of The Groundlings, an entertainment production company in Hollywood. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from MIT and an MBA in finance and entrepreneurial studies from UCLA's Anderson School.

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 Java, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Business Process Management (BPM), and Master Data Management (MDM) product offerings and is a major driver behind Oracle's recognized leadership in SOA. Under Ashish's leadership, Oracle's SOA products are the fastest growing components of Oracle Fusion Middleware, which recently crossed $1 Billion in annual revenues.

In his role as chief technology officer at IONA, Eric is responsible for directing and communicating IONA's technology roadmap and product strategy. Eric joined IONA in 1999, after nearly 16 years at Digital/Compaq. He joined IONA as the company's transaction processing architect, and also served as IONA's vice president of Engineering, Web Services Integration Products.

Eric 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. 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.

Eric is the author of the award-winning Understanding Web Services (Addison-Wesley), and co-author with Phil Bernstein of Principles of Transaction Processing (Morgan Kaufman). His most recent book, Understanding SOA with Web Services, written with Greg Lomow, was published by Addison Wesley.

Mark O'Neill is CTO at Vordel, a leading vendor of XML and SOA security products since 1999. He oversees the development of Vordel's technical strategy and product development for the delivery of SOA security and governance solutions for Global 2000 companies and governments worldwide. Mark is the author of the book Web Services Security and a contributing author to Hardening Network Security, both published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill. He regularly presents at industry seminars on the security issues affecting Web Services and SOA deployments. Mark holds a double-honors degree in Mathematics and Psychology from Trinity College Dublin and studied neural network modeling at Oxford University.

Marvin Richardson is a co-founder and managing director of the Trexin Group, an asset development and business consulting partnership. He has been a featured speaker at forums such as the CEO Round Table and CIO Summit, and has authored articles and been widely quoted in business and technology publications. He is a member of several advisory boards, including the InfoWorld CTO Advisory Council, and was recognized as "CTO of the Year" for Consulting Services in 2001. Marv's professional background includes roles in consulting, software, and IT customer organizations. He has deep business and technology management experience from his CTO leadership at Aon, Lante and MCI Systemhouse. Marv focuses on creating business value with leading edge technologies, and on effectively aligning the execution of IT organizations with real business drivers. Marv confesses to being old enough to have expertise in diverse technologies such as services, internet, client/server, and mainframe – but not paper tape.

Michael Rulf is the VP of Advanced Engineering at USinternetworking, an AT&T Company. At USi, Michael provides strategic direction and management of all product engineering initiatives with a primary focus on Oracle's ERP products such as Siebel, E-Business Suite, and PeopleSoft. This includes setting strategic direction and managing development of various SOA initiatives encompassing Oracle ERP products, Microsoft business productivity products such as SharePoint, and ecommerce solutions like IBM WebSphere Commerce. In the last several years, Michael has focused intently on developing and implementing security systems as more organizations expose their ERP and CRM systems to the Internet to increase worker mobility and allow for better ERP management. This has included designing and implementing an Oracle-based identity management system that provisions users to a range of applications utilizing an SOA architecture, resulting in significant industry recognition.

Mr. Ruskin joined TD Ameritrade in September of 2003 charged with setting enterprise applications strategy and improving the business value of technology investments. His role addresses the organization of TD Ameritrade's application portfolio and the design of software constructs and processes permitting agile, cost-effective product development, integration, and operation. He serves as the champion of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and drives transformation throughout TD Ameritrade's IT organization. Prior to TD Ameritrade, Mr. Ruskin served in chief architect and technical director roles at various investment services software and service organizations, where his responsibilities included technology and product strategy, applications architecture, and software development. Mr. Ruskin earned his M.A. in Industrial Design from The Pratt Institute and B.A. in Political Economics from Princeton University.

Derek has been with Comcast for over ten years. In his current role as senior director of Back Office Architecture, he and his team of 23 developers and architects are responsible for the development and implementation of Comcast's enterprise-wide SOA. The SOA has been designed to support numerous business-critical processes, including device and service provisioning, identity management, and the delivery of advanced technologies. During his decade with Comcast, Derek has held several positions in software development and architecture, and he played key roles in helping the company develop its high-speed Internet and digital-voice services. Prior to joining Comcast, Derek worked as a consultant for a systems integrator. Derek holds a Bachelor's degree in communications from the State University of New York at Fredonia.

Sumitro Sarkar is a vice president with Thomson Financial. He is responsible for defining technology strategies around product induction, product consolidation, and technology rationalization and transformation. He has over 19 years of experience in technology consulting and product strategy in Big 5 consulting firms such as Ernst & Young to financial information services/product companies. His areas of interests are redefining technology value propositions, bleeding-edge technology myths, using technology to change the rules of business and financial impacts of technology decisions. He has a BA in Economics and Mathematics, and an MBA from India. He also has an MBA from the Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University.

Charles Stack has been managing software development for over 20 years, with more than a decade of experience managing the development of online systems. He was the founder and CEO of Flashline, which was acquired by BEA Systems in 2006. Flashline's flagship product is now marketed as BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Repository. Stack is recognized throughout the industry as a true visionary. He is credited with founding the first Internet retail store, Books.com, and is the inventor of numerous patented Internet-based applications. His awards include InfoWorld's "Top 10 Innovators in eBusiness," and the Small Business News "Visionary Award." He is a frequent speaker at conferences and trade shows, lecturing on service-oriented architecture, governance and business alignment.

Maja Tibbling is a lead enterprise architect at Con-way, Inc. with more than 20 years of IT experience spanning multiple technologies and methodologies. She has had a primary focus on Component-based, Service-Oriented and Event-driven Architectures for the last 10+ years. Maja is part of the team that implemented SOA and EDA at Con-way Freight and continues to evangelize the practice as well as shape the evolution in the enterprise. She has shared Con-way's SOA success story through trade publications and Gartner, InfoWorld and vendor conferences. In the late 1990s, Maja participated in a vendor-hosted Component-based Development Customer Advisory Board, working with contributors to the UML and J2EE specifications. Many of the participants are now thought leaders in the SOA domain. Con-way IT has received industry recognition for the business value provided by its SOA implementation, through CIO 100 awards for 2002 - 2006 and several InfoWorld 100 awards, amongst others.

Ed Vazquez leads the Enterprise Transformation Practice. In his more than a decade of Web Application Management (including six years of SOA and Web Service Implementation Management), Ed has led major programs to transform enterprise Business and IT organizations with Sprint, Pfizer, and other companies. Prior to focusing on Enterprise Transformation and Innovation, Ed developed significant subject matter expertise in the SOA Lifecycle, SOA Governance, and Business Driven SOA. Ed graduated with both his Master's Degree and Bachelor's Degree from the University of Kansas.

Tim Vibbert (aka SOA Chief) is a well-known service oriented expert and thought leader. He serves on several Oasis technical communities (SOA Reference Model and SOA Adoption Blueprints). Tim frequently speaks at leading technology conferences throughout the world. He also publishes a daily e-newsletter and blogs at SOAOrganix, and is a master commentator for the SOA Master Class online community.

Tim is a Systems Engineer for Lockheed Martin Information Systems & Global Services, a large System Integrator in the defense and aerospace industry. He is sought out by many internal organizations for advice and guidance related to SOA implementation projects. He is a contributor in the SOA strategic direction of the integrator. Tim also is a member of several internal SOA and Web 2.0 organizations and advisory councils. In addition, Tim has authored several articles for major computing publications. Tim has authored several SOA related whitepapers.

Hong Zhang currently serves as General Motors' global director & chief architect of IT Architecture and Standards. Hong joined GM in 2000 as director of Architecture. He designed GM's first-generation service-oriented architecture and established GM's first architecture standard. In 2001, Hong was appointed director of Enterprise Technology Architecture. He developed GM's holistic enterprise architecture framework and institutionalized GM's enterprise architecture governance. Hong also designed and implemented GM's technology innovation zone and reference architectures. In 2006, Hong initiated GM's enterprise-wide service-oriented architecture (SOA) strategy and defined an overall structure for GM's next generation service-oriented architecture including the integration with business process management.

Before joining GM, Hong held a variety of positions in the Information Technology and the New Business Venture departments during his 12 years with AT&T. Hong holds both a Master's degree in Computer Science and a Master's degree in Statistics from Wayne State University.

Jun Zhang currently serves as a senior director of architecture at Standard & Poor's, with responsibility of establishing SOA architecture blueprint and establishing related technology standards and direction. He led the effort of developing the first-generation service-oriented architecture infrastructure at Standard & Poor's. He has successfully led development of architecture for numerous applications at Standard & Poor's. Prior to joining Standard & Poor's in 2000, Jun held a variety of information technology positions and brings 13 years of information technology experience. He holds a master's degree in Computer Science from CUNY and a Math degree from Wu Han University, China.