Murat is responsible for Products and Marketing for Zenoss. Formerly Director of Product Marketing of Application Delivery for Mercury Interactive/HP Software, Murat brings to Zenoss more than 10 years of experience in applications, security, and software markets globally. His previous experience within Mercury/HP Software saw Murat head up Competitive and Market Intelligence, Engagement Management and Pre Sales. Murat has built and managed marketing organizations for companies and division from zero to $200+ million in license revenues.

Danny Allan is Director of Security Research with Waltham-based Watchfire, a provider of software and services to help ensure the security and compliance of Websites. In 2000, he joined Watchfire bringing with him several years of business and technology-related experience including penetration testing and internal system remediation for one of Canada's biggest universities. In his role as security analyst, he is closely involved with enterprise global customer deployments, researching and evaluating technologies, and helping define and recommend strategic directions for Watchfire's security solutions. In his more than six years with Watchfire, Allan has held several critical customer-facing positions, including Team Lead, Consulting Services and Sales Engineer. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce with a major in Information Systems from Carleton University.

Wayne Ariola, Vice President of Corporate Development at Parasoft, oversees the company's Business Development team as well as Enterprise Test team. Prior to joining Parasoft, Ariola was responsible for corporate development for Fasturn, Inc., a company he helped to start. Ariola was a Principle Consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he was recognized as leader in the Strategic Change practice. He has a BA from the University of California at Santa Barbara and a MBA from Indiana University.

As Vice President of Product Management and Marketing for GroundWork, Tony Barbagallo oversees product management, corporate and channel marketing, as well as the company's presence within the open source community. Tony brings more than 20 years of strategic marketing and selling experience to GroundWork. He most recently served as Vice President of Marketing at EVault, a provider of online backup and recovery systems, with responsibility for strategic marketing and product management initiatives. Prior to that, Barbagallo was vice president of sales and marketing for Dantz Development where he oversaw the return of the company to profitability and subsequent acquisition by EMC. Previous to Dantz, Tony was group marketing manager at Microsoft, where he led the product marketing and partner alliance programs for the Windows CE operating system and tools. Tony came to Microsoft via the acquisition of VXtreme, a developer of streaming media technology, where he served as Vice President of Marketing. Tony has also held a variety of sales and marketing positions with Mentor Graphics, Wind River, Sun Microsystems and General Electric.

During his career, Michael Baum has been building and managing large-scale IT environments at Yahoo, Infoseek, and several companies he's co-founded. His focus now is applying many of the innovations and affordances that grew out of these experiences to the challenges of managing the modern data center. In addition to Splunk, Michael is a co-founder of Collation, acquired by IBM's Tivoli Group; Arthas, acquired by Yahoo; and Reality Online, acquired by Reuters. He was a software engineer at IBM’s Silicon Valley Laboratory and a member of the original IBM PC development team. He has a BS in computer science from Drexel University and an MBA from the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania. Michael is also a regular speaker at industry conferences including Interop and LinuxWorld and writes about IT troubleshooting for Infoworld.

Madeline Bayliss has split her career in senior management roles between the client side in financial services and the vendor side in a wide range of technologies. Currently she is part of the management team at Solstice Software, the leader in automated end-to-end testing for integration and SOA, as vice president for direct and partner sales and operations. Bayliss is also a director of the Integration Consortium. Previous technology affiliations include Unisys, NewView Technologies, CA and Compuware.

With over 15 years of experience in delivering and architecting large-scale systems across multiple platforms, Kadeer Beg has provided consulting to fortune 500 clients and worked in senior management for Societe Generale, New Era of Networks, Sapient, Bell Canada, Cendant, and IBM. Kadeer currently heads up the SOA Technology Practice at Prolifics.

Jason Bloomberg is senior analyst and principal at service orientation and enterprise Web 2.0 advisory and analysis firm ZapThink LLC. He is a leading thought leader in the areas of enterprise architecture and service-oriented architecture, and helps organizations around the world better leverage their IT resources to meet changing business needs. He is a frequent speaker, prolific writer, and pundit. His latest book, Service Orient or Be Doomed! How Service Orientation Will Change Your Business (John Wiley & Sons, 2006, coauthored with Ron Schmelzer), is recognized as the leading business book on service orientation. Jason has a diverse background in eBusiness technology management and industry analysis, including serving as a senior analyst in IDC’s eBusiness Advisory group, as well as holding eBusiness management positions at USWeb/CKS (later marchFIRST) and WaveBend Solutions (now Hitachi Consulting). He also co-authored the books XML and Web Services Unleashed (SAMS Publishing, 2002), and Web Page Scripting Techniques (Hayden Books, 1996).

Toufic Boubez is the co-founder and CTO of Layer 7 Technologies. Prior to co-founding Layer 7 Technologies, he was the chief Web services architect for IBM's Software Group and drove their early XML and Web services strategies. Toufic co-authored the original UDDI API specification. He’s the co-editor of the W3C WS-Policy specification, and is a co-author of the WS-Trust, WS-SecureConversation, and WS-Federation specifications. Toufic is a sought-after presenter and has chaired XML and Web services conferences. In 2002, InfoWorld named Toufic to its “Ones to Watch” list. An author of many publications, one of his most recent books is "Building Web Services with Java: Making Sense of XML, SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI."

Bob Buffone, Chief Architect, is responsible for platform and tool technology at Nexaweb Technologies, Inc., a provider of the leading standards-based platform for building and deploying Enterprise Web 2.0 (EW2.0) applications. Bob is also a committer on the Apache XAP Project, which provides an extensible framework for declaratively creating Ajax applications. Before Nexaweb Bob was with Trakus, a technology company focused on tracking sports in real time. A leading expert in User Interface design, he is a regular speaker at industry events and has published multiple articles on tool and application development.

Arjé Cahn is CTO of Open Source Content Management developer Hippo (Amsterdam, The Netherlands). He runs the Hippo open source team at www.hippocms.org. and has earned his merits in the open source world with an Apache committership. Arjé is a regular speaker on the subjects of open source, XML, and Cocoon and has been involved in the organizing committees of several Apache conferences. He has written for both technical and business publications on open source. He blogs at blogs.hippo.nl/arje/.

Dave Chappell is vice president and chief technologist for SOA of Oracle. He 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 and a regular speaker at SOA World Conference & Expo since 1999.

Neelan Choksi is VP, Americas, of Interface21. He aims to capitalize on the Spring Framework's tremendous popularity by broadening the company's product portfolio. Neelan also founded SolarMetric, which was acquired by BEA Systems. At BEA, Choksi led the effort to open source the technically heralded Kodo product as the OpenJPA project. He blogs at http://blog.interface21.com/main/author/neelanc/.

Jonathan Clark, Founder, CTO & President of Thinstall. Mr. Clark co-founded the video game development company Crack dot Com in 1994, which produced the original PC and Mac titles Abuse and Golgotha and ported Doom and Quake to Unix platforms. He founded Thinstall in 1999 originally focusing on virtualization and copy protection technology solutions for software publishers. The first version of Thinstall for application virtualization was released in 2001 after several years of R&D. Mr. Clark continues the development of Thinstall technology for the enterprise and participates in the company's business direction.

Frank Cohen is the leading authority for testing and optimizing software developed with service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Web service designs. He is CEO and Founder of PushToTest and inventor of TestMaker, the open source SOA test automation tool, that helps software developers, QA technicians, and IT managers understand and optimize the scalability, performance, and reliability of their systems.

Dan Corsberg, Director of Professional Services at Trivera Technologies, a leading technology-training provider, brings over 20 years of software development experience, training development, management and delivery. Dan has extensive experience in Java development, object-oriented design and implementation, distributed/service-oriented architectures, and software project management. He holds two patents in applying knowledge-based processing techniques to real-time systems and another patent in XML-based collaborative authoring. In addition, he works as a curriculum designer, course author, mentor, and instructor of software curricula for industry professionals.

John Crupi is the CTO of JackBe Corporation. As CTO he is entrusted with understanding market forces and business drivers to drive JackBe's technical vision and strategy. John has 20 years of experience in OO and enterprise distributed computing. Previously, John spent eight years with Sun Microsystems, serving as a Distinguished Engineer and CTO for Sun's Enterprise Web Services Practice. He is co-author of the highly popular Core J2EE Patterns book, has written many articles for various magazines, is a frequent blogger, and is a well-known speaker around the globe.

Cornelia Davis is a consulting technologist in the EMC CTO Office focusing on information modeling, content management, and collaboration. Particular areas of interest include the technological underpinnings of the semantic Web as well as the utilization of Internet-based technologies and architectures within the corporate enterprise. She advocates the decoupling of not only services from historically monolithic enterprise applications but also the decoupling of the data. To this end she is actively involved in efforts to produce standardized interfaces for Enterprise Content Management, information modeling and operational semantics included. She has 20 years of experience in software and holds a BS and an MS in computer science from California State University, Northridge, and blogs at www.corneliadavis.com.

Nora Denzel recently retired from Hewlett Packard as the senior vice president and general manager of HP’s over one-billion dollar software division. At HP, Denzel led one of the most dramatic turn-arounds in the software industry by reinvigorating HP’s OpenView and OpenCall software product lines through both internal product development and the successful integration of over eight acquisitions. During her tenure as HP’s software chief, software sales more than doubled the bottom line improved by over 72%. She has been named as one of the top 20 "Storage Movers and Shakers" by Storage, Inc. magazine and one of the most powerful people in networking by Network World magazine.

Jeff Dierckman is an integration architect at Sallie Mae where he developed a custom service infrastructure that currently supports millions of requests per day. His current areas of interest are event-driven architectures, REST services, and semantics.

Tom Doman, a senior software engineer at Novell, has been working for the past two years on the development of open source identity frameworks and solutions. He helped launch the Novell sponsored Bandit Project (www.bandit-project.org) and participates actively in the development of the Higgins Project (www.eclipse.org/higgins) on the Identity Attribute Service (IdAS) and Context Provider (CP) components. Tom has contributed significantly to the design of IdAS and has worked to ensure it can support the requirements of his LDAP and other Context Provider implementations. He was issued a patent for enhancements to the replication system and has spent the last four years working on other identity-related systems. Tom graduated Magna Cum Laude with a degree in computer science from Brigham Young University.

Daryl Eicher is a vice president of healthcare and industry solutions for Axway. Eicher is recognized as an industry leader in the application of business analytics to effective trade management and as such has worked with Hewlett-Packard, specialized consulting firms and pharmaceutical customers to deliver Axway’s Healthcare Compliance Suite. Eicher also formed and leads the Distribution Program Leadership Council in collaboration with the Healthcare Distribution Management Association.

Kevin Epstein is the VP Products for Scalent Systems with a degree in high-energy nuclear physics and a Stanford MBA, several technology patents in his name, founding experience at three successful ventures, and more than 15 subsequent years of experience in guerrilla marketing tactics at such software industry high-flyers as Netscape, RealNetworks, Inktomi, and VMware.

Yakov Fain is a managing principal of Farata Systems, a consulting, training, and product company. He is the Enterprise Editor of Java Developer's Journal and has authored several Java books and dozens of technical articles. This year he co-authored the book Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex and Java: Secrets of the Masters. Sun Microsystems has nominated and awarded Fain with the title Java Champion. He leads the Princeton Java Users Group.

With 20 years of technology experience, Chris Farrell is responsible for bringing ClearApp’s APM software to market. Before ClearApp, he worked at Wily Technology, where he headed up several marketing organizations, including product management. Prior to Wily, Chris was a senior product manager and development engineer at IBM.

Frederic Faugere is the SOA lead at National Bank of Canada, an integrated group that provides comprehensive financial services to consumers, small and medium-sized enterprises and large corporations in its core market, while offering specialized services to its customers elsewhere in the world. With more than 6 years at National Bank of Canada, Frederic is part of the corporate architecture team and in charge of leading the initiative to build an Integration Competency Center at the Bank. He has an MS in computer science.

Patrick Felstead is the maintainer of a leading-edge identity technology open source project called Bandit (http://www.bandit-project.org). His responsibilities include building and approving architectures of the components we are producing: Common Identity (Higgins), Authentication, Authorization (RBAC and XACML), Audity and Compliance record emmitting, and Persistence. He is building a community around this project and defining goals and assigning tasks to those participating and will also provide much of the content and organization to the wiki pages used to collaborate. Patrick also communicates with many other products inside of Novell and coordinates their uses of Bandit components. Patrick is owner and CTO of Agemni, an ASP that provides a CRM application specific to the satellite reseller. The company was started in 2002 and is one of the leaders with many of the largest Echostar and DirecTV resellers.

Pierre Fricke is director of product line management for Red Hat's JBoss Portal and SOA products. Starting with JBoss Portal and jBPM in 2005, he led the product strategy and management expansion into the integration and SOA market with JBoss Rules, Messaging and Enterprise Service Bus. Today, these products are the unit volume market leader or emerging strong challengers to long-time incumbents. He started working on UNIX at IBM in 1983 as one of the first AIX developers, building experience in data management, operating systems, communication programs, development processes, and customer support. After holding several software development management positions and completing his MBA at the University of Texas in Austin, he became one of the leading strategists and marketing leaders in IBM focusing on interoperability, integration, WebSphere, Windows NT, UNIX, as well as Linux and open source. He led the creation of IBM's "Compete, Leverage, and Interoperate" Windows NT strategy after OS/2 was discontinued and was one of the eight original leaders on the team that lead IBM into Linux and open source in 1998 and 1999. In 2000, Fricke joined D. H. Brown Associates, a research analyst firm, as VP of application and integration infrastructure.

Kyle Gabhart is a subject matter expert specializing in service-oriented technologies and currently serves as the SOA Lead for Web Age Solutions, a premier provider of technology education and mentoring. He is a popular public speaker recognized for his enthusiasm and dynamic analysis of emerging technologies. Since 2001 Kyle has contributed extensively to the SOA/Web Services body of knowledge as an author, speaker, consultant, and open source contributor. He maintains a SOA blog at www.soamatters.com and can be reached by e-mail at kgabhart@webagesolutions.com

Alain Gendre leads the SOA solution division and BPM Program for ILOG's Strategic Business Development Division. As the head of the program, he brings several years of experience in the ILOG Business Rule Management System, Optimization and Visualization products. He received an engineering degree in computer science (Artificial Intelligence) at the Engineering School of Nimes (France) in 1994.

David Greschler is the director of virtualization strategy, System Center division at Microsoft Corp. He is a director of System Center marketing, and is focused on virtualization management tools for the desktop and datacenter. David came to Microsoft with the July 2006 acquisition of Softricity. Prior to joining Microsoft, he was co-founder of Softricity, developers of SoftGrid and the originator and leading vendor of the application virtualization industry. With more than 20 years of pioneering experience in the computer field, David has held various positions at the MIT Media Lab and The Computer Museum, and holds numerous virtualization patents.

Mark Hansen is the author of "SOA Using Java Web Service" (Prentice Hall), a programmer's guide to Java Web Services. His company, Javector Software, provides Web Services. Mark holds a PhD from the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Søren Hartvig is chief architect and Open Source Software Champion at Capgemini Consulting. Since 1996 Søren has been focusing on Java technologies, and has been a participant in Capgemini, delivering projects based on this. Throughout the years of delivering full-scale enterprise systems within the vast amount of sectors, including telecommunication, health care, public, government, transport and financial, Søren has focused on how to adapt the open source software communities into the enterprise software market. As the attention on standards and SOA-driven architectures has grown in the past couple of years, Søren has, within the Capgemini group, delivered more full-scale SOA solutions based largely on open source software components.

Michael Harvey founded m.d.harvey & company in 1995 to provide strategy consulting to CEOs and senior executives in the technology, entertainment, and media industries. He has since completed many successful assignments for some of the leading companies in those fields including RealNetworks, Microsoft, and Corbis Corporation. Prior to establishing m.d.harvey & company, Michael worked in a variety of marketing and general management positions for Microsoft Corporation from 1989 to 1995, helping to launch many major products and initiatives. Before joining Microsoft, Michael worked as a financial analyst on Wall Street for J.P. Morgan. He also worked as an industrial engineer for IBM, designing high-end clean-room facilities for hard-disk manufacturing. Michael received his degree in industrial engineering in 1986 from Stanford University’s department of management science & engineering.

Doug Hass is director of business development of ImageStream, a leading router and WAN product manufacturer. Prior to joining ImageStream, he was a partner in Midwest-based Internet provider Skye/net. An Army veteran, certified personal trainer, and outdoorsman, Doug rode professional rodeo for five years, and founded Roughstock.com, an award-winning country music site.

Matt Haynos is the product manager for IBM's WebSphere Extended Deployment. Before that, he was on IBM's grid computing team since its inception as an emerging business opportunity; he had various responsibilities covering a broad range of initiatives and strategies related to building IBM's grid computing business. He has held a variety of technical and managerial positions within IBM in the application development, program direction, and business development areas. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science/applied mathematics and cognitive science, with honors, from the University of Rochester; and a master's degree in computer science from the University of Vermont.

Rob High is the chief architect for the SOA Foundation, an IBM Distinguished Engineer, and member of the IBM Academy of Technology. He is responsible for ensuring an open industry architectural definition of the principles of business and IT alignment enabled by SOA, as well as ensuring IBM's software and services portfolio is architecturally grounded to enable for efficient SOA-based solutions. This responsibility extends across the IBM software portfolio, including WebSphere, Rational, Tivoli, Lotus,and Information Management products relevant to enabling SOA. Rob has 29 years of programming experience and has worked with distributed, object-oriented, component-based transaction monitors for the last 14 years, including SOMObject Server, Component Broker, and most recently the WebSphere Application Server. Prior to his current responsibility, Rob was the chief architect for the WebSphere foundation with architectural responsibility for the WebSphere Application Server and the related products integrated on that core runtime.

Andrew Hillier, CTO and co-founder of CiRBA, has over 15 years of experience in the creation and implementation of mission-critical software for the world's largest financial institutions and utilities. A co-founder of CiRBA, he leads product strategy and defines the overall technology roadmap for the company.

Hideki Hiura is chief scientist and CTO of JustSystems, Inc. He is a founder and chairperson of OpenI18N.org/Free Standards Group, an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the use of free and open source software by developing and promoting standards. He is also a founding member of W3C I18N WG. Prior to JustSystems, as an architect at Sun, he was involved with a variety of standards and standard organizations including ISO, W3C, OMG, The Open Group, OSF, Unix International, X Consortium, and Unicode.

A respected entrepreneur and speaker, Fred Holahan is one of the software industry's foremost experts on business and systems integration. He is chairman of Active Endpoints Inc., the leader in BPEL-based SOA orchestration.