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.

Wayne Hom is EVP & CTO of Augmentum. He has 20 years of experience inventing, developing, and delivering commercial software technologies. He comes to Augmentum from Vitria, where he was VP of solutions engineering. Previous positions include VP of user experience at Zaplet; VP and chief architect at Walker Interactive; Windows architect, Cadence Design Systems; and chief architect, Symantec. Wayne has driven a diverse set of software products including shrink wrap PC project management software, workstation-based CAD tools, mainframe-based ERP systems, client/server-based financial reporting systems, Web-based collaboration systems, and vertical industry focused reporting and business process management systems. He has outsourced software development ranging from application components for the financial and health care verticals, to ground up development of reporting tools, to complete product development and QA in India and in China.

William Hurley is the Chief Architect of Open Source Strategy at BMC Software, Inc. Also known as "whurley", he is responsible for creating BMC's open source agenda and overseeing the company's participation in various free and open source software communities to advance the adoption and integration of BSM solutions. A technology visionary and holder of 11 important patents, whurley brings 16 years of experience in developing groundbreaking technology. He is the Chairman of the Open Management Consortium, a non-profit organization advancing the adoption, development, and integration of open source systems management. Named an IBM Master Inventor, whurley has received numerous awards including an IBM Pervasive Computing Award and Apple Computer Design Award.

Rami Jaamour is the product manager for SOA Solutions at Parasoft. He has contributed to the WS-I Testing Tools Work Group and the Apache Software Foundation, where he contributed to the WSS4J project, an open source WS-Security implementation for Java. Rami has published articles related to Web services security, and spoke at several events related to SOA and Web services. His experience with SOA and Web services includes the development of effective Web services automated testing methodologies and working with many of Parasoft's customers to ensure secure, reliable, and compliant Web services.

Sajindra Jayasena is a senior software architect at Virtusa Corporation, a global provider of IT consulting, technology implementation and outsourcing services focused on transforming IT through software platforming. He has led numerous IT architecture, strategy and implementation projects for over five years, and in the recent past has focused on SOA-based enterprise platforms. Sajindra counts over 11 years’ expertise in J2EE/J2SE development and design, including J2SE/J2EE Open Source enterprise platforms. Sajindra is currently the lead technical architect of the Openreach Portal Platform for British Telecom’s new Openreach organization. He has also played senior consultant and architect roles on a number of leading banking and finance projects at Virtusa.

As Vice President of the WebEx Connect division of WebEx Communications, David Knight is responsible for setting the strategic product direction and requirements for the company’s composite collaboration application platform, presence-enabled applications, and associated technology components. Prior to joining WebEx, Mr. Knight held executive positions at Portera Systems, a vendor of professional service automation systems; and Sybase, where he was Director of Internet Middleware, among other roles. He began his management career at Oracle. David Knight holds a bachelor of science degree and master of business administration degree from Carnegie Mellon University.

Simon Laws is a member of the IBM Open Source SOA project team working with the open source Apache and PHP communities to build Java, C++, and PHP implementations of the Service Component Architecture (SCA) and Service Data Object (SDO) specifications. Prior to this role he was working in the distributed computing space building service-oriented solutions for customers with a particular interest in grid computing and virtualization.

Doug Levin founded Black Duck Software (www.blackducksoftware.com) in 2002 and has been its Chief Executive Officer and President since its inception. From 1987 to 1995, Doug held various senior management positions with Microsoft Corporation including heading up worldwide licensing for corporate purchases of non-OEM Microsoft software products. Doug is an adjunct lecturer of Entrepreneurship and Management (on leave-of-absence) at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at his alma mater, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also holds a certificate in international economics from the College d'Europe in Bruges, Belgium.

Rob Levy is executive vice president and CTO of BEA Systems. He leads the company’s efforts to align BEA’s technology vision with its business strategy. He is responsible for developing and implementing technology initiatives within the company and fostering BEA’s commitment to software innovation and open standards. Previously, Rob was executive vice president of New Products Strategy, responsible for all aspects of the BEA AquaLogic product line, including research and development, product management, support, quality assurance and strategic planning. He has over 25 years of experience in leading all aspects of the computer software and services business and a proven track record of running large development organizations.

David S. Linthicum is an internationally known application integration and service-oriented architecture expert. In his career he 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. He's held key technology management roles with a number of organizations including CTO of Mercator, SAGA Software, Mobil Oil, EDS, AT&T, and Ernst and Young. In addition David was an associate professor of computer science for eight years, and continues to lecture at major technical colleges and universities. He has authored over 500 articles for major computing publications, and has monthly columns in several popular industry magazines. His latest book, Next Generation Application Integration, was just released and is already a bestseller.

Paul Lipton is senior architect specializing in SOA and Web services in the Wily Technology Division of CA. He has served in CA's Office of the CTO as a strategist, and has been an architect and developer of enterprise systems for over 20 years. Paul has also participated in many standards organizations, is a founding member of the CA Council for Technical Excellence, a Microsoft MVP, and a Sun Java Champion. He is a highly sought-after author and speaker, and has shared his knowledge around the world covering such topics as enterprise architecture, SOA, Web services, management/security, governance, Java, .NET, and EAI.

Bob Lozano is a technology industry veteran, serial entrepreneur, and co-founder and chief strategist of Appistry, a software company pioneering the convergence of grid computing, virtualization, and service-oriented architecture. Bob founded and led successful companies PaylinX and Tapestry Computing. He holds a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Missouri and an MS in electrical engineering from Stanford University.

Sastry Malladi is a technology evangelist with over 18 years of experience in architecting and building scalable distributed computing systems in the areas of application servers, Java/J2EE/Web services, SOA and grid computing. He is currently a principal architect at eBay, driving the SOA architecture for the eBay e-commerce platform. Prior to joining eBay, Sastry was co-founder and CTO of OpenGridSolutions, a founding member and architect at SpikeSource, and architect at Oracle. He holds a master's degree from I.I.T, Kharagpur, India, and has contributed to and represented in many standards at OMG, JCP, GGF and OASIS.

Javier Mariscal is the president and founder of TwoConnect, Inc, a highly renowned consulting and systems integration company based in Miami, Florida, with subsidiary offices in New York City and San Francisco. After nearly 15 years, Javier is still mostly responsible for guaranteeing that TwoConnect’s innovative integration solutions deliver real and immediate results to its clients. As an author and frequent speaker on SOA and related technologies, he constantly reaffirms the need for “practical SOA,” which focuses not on pushing a brand or a platform but on delivering immediate business rewards. In 2006, TwoConnect announced a new line of products and services under its AdapterWorx brand, which has been hugely successful in accelerating its SOA solutions delivered. Following the success of AdapterWorx and a banner year in 2006 in general, Javier was nominated for Entrepreneur of the Year by Hispanic Business Magazine.

Frank Martinez, is a recognized expert in the area of distributed, enterprise application and infrastructure platforms. Mr Martinez is focused on driving development of scalable service-oriented infrastructure software that integrates business processes and information enterprise-wide. Mr Martinez’s reputation as a technological visionary is demonstrated by his record of bringing innovative and commercially successful software solutions to market. He has had operating roles as a senior executive of several VC-backed firms. Mr Martinez was recently named an InfoWorld Innovator by InfoWorld magazine and has also been named one of 25 leading IT innovators by CRN.

Miko Matsumura is vice president, SOA products at webMethods and chair of the OASIS SOA Adoption Blueprints Technical Committee. He is well recognized for his work at The Middleware Company, Systinet, and as Chief Java Evangelist for Sun Microsystems. He has an MBA from San Francisco State University and a masters in neuroscience from Yale University.

David Mavashev is a leading expert on IT infrastructure, middleware and messaging technologies with over 25 years of experience architecting systems and solutions. His areas of expertise encompass implementing service-oriented architectures and the underlying infrastructure monitoring that is fundamental for SOA governance, as well as tools and technologies for monitoring and managing integrated application processes and performance across the enterprise, and helping companies achieve business agility through effectively aligning IT with business processes in the real-time enterprise. A successful entrepreneur, David founded Nastel in 1994 and also served as the company’s CTO for many years. Prior to that, he was the technical manager of the messaging group at NYNEX, where he architected and managed the implementation of the first commercial transactional messaging product, which now forms the basis for IBM WebSphere MQ (formerly MQ-Series). A pioneer in the early evolution of messaging technologies, David logged many years as an IT consultant working with some of the world’s foremost banks and financial institutions.

Joe McKendrick is a nationally published known author and consultant with deep knowledge and insights regarding trends and developments in the technology industry. He is a contributing editor to a number of national and international publications and Websites including Database Trends & Applications, Webservices.Org, ENT Online, and Enterprise Systems. He also serves as analyst for Evans Data Corp., for which he coauthors Evans' Web services survey reports, and is lead analyst for Evans' enterprise development management issues and database development surveys.

John Michelsen is the founder & chief architect of iTKO's LISA automated testing product and a leading industry advocate for software quality, learned through leading countless large-scale enterprise development projects. Before forming iTKO, John was CTO at Trilogy Inc., and VP of development at AGENCY.COM.

Laurence Moroney is a senior architect and the director of technology evangelism for Mainsoft Corporation, where he is responsible for counseling customers about their interoperability and porting challenges. Previously, he worked in several fields designing architecture for financial services systems, airports, casinos, and professional sports.

As director of open source programs for IONA, Debbie Moynihan is responsible for driving the strategic product marketing and product management activities for IONA’s open source line of business. She brings more than 15 years of software industry experience and expertise to her role, including several years in IBM Software Group with product marketing and product management responsibility for the WebSphere Commerce and WebSphere Business Integration & Business Process Management product families.

Diane Mueller is VP, XBRL Development, focused on financial services and XBRL at JustSystems Canada. She has been designing and implementing products and applications embedded into mission-critical financial and accounting systems at F500 corporations for over 20 years. Diane has been actively involved in development efforts of the XBRL standard for the past seven years. She is currently a Member of the XBRL International Steering Committee. She was co-chair of the 14th XBRL International Conference , a past at-large member of theXBRL-US steering committee, the past chair of the XBRL/GL working group and a contributor to the Canadian GAAP XBRL taxonomy.

Jeff Nick, SVP and CTO of EMC, joined the company in September 2004 from IBM, where he held the distinguished title of IBM Fellow, the highest technical honor that IBM bestows on its IT innovators. During his 24-year career with IBM, he filed more than 80 inventions and holds more than 50 U.S. patents in computer systems technology. Most recently, Jeff was vice president, architecture and design, eBusiness On Demand, responsible for the design and architecture of IBM's On Demand initiative. He also led IBM's grid computing strategy, responsible for the definition and evolution of IBM's Open Grid Services Architecture. Jeff began his IBM career as a software engineer focusing on the System 390 MVS operating system, and he eventually became the lead architect for the S/390 z-series platform and eServer initiative. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Marist College with a BS in finance.

Jonathan Nolen is the Director of Developer Relations with Atlassian software. He established the Atlassian Developer Network and assits Atlassian's user/developers in creating compelling new functionality that is made available for free to all. Jonathan could speak on the wiki market in general, the extensibility of Atlassian's products, the role of the Developer Network at Atlassian, on the benefits of transparency in a company. His blog is at http://jnolen.com.

Tim Pacileo is an Executive Consultant specializing in IT strategy; architecture design; sourcing; enterprise application selection, implementation and oversight; business continuity planning; software and hardware evaluation and selection; and infrastructure design, focusing on data center and server consolidation, storage area networks (SANs). Prior to joining Compass, he was with Gartner Consulting.

Michael Peachey is product manager and director of engineering for TIBCO Software’s acclaimed AJAX and Rich Internet Application (RIA) toolkit: TIBCO General Interface. A recognized leader in AJAX innovation, Michael co-founded General Interface in 2000 with a vision for applications that performed like desktop GUIs, but ran in the browser. Since 2000 he has overseen the development of AJAX frameworks and solutions that have powered astoundingly rich Web applications in demanding Fortune 500 and U.S. Government deployments. Michael has furthered this vision with TIBCO since the 2004 acquisition of General Interface Corp. He has worked with leading businesses such as American Express, Hearst Publishing, Intuit, and many others to deliver business solutions optimized around Internet technologies since 1992.

Michael Pellegrini is a Principal Architect in the Office of the CTO at Active Endpoints, Inc. For the past 15 years, Michael has worked for both leading software vendors and IT organizations in moving technology solutions from early-adoption to mainstream acceptance

Asankha is a software architect at WSO2, inc. where he leads the WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus and Apache Synapse projects. He is an Apache Web services PMC member and a committer, and also contributes to the Apache Axis2 project. He has over 6 years of experience as an architect and technical lead for many projects for US and European markets. Asankha has a first class honors degree from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka and a Masters in computer science from the National University of Singapore in affiliation with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Alessandro Perilli has been an evangelist in the virtualization industry since 2003, through his popular blog virtualization.info. As an industry analyst his work is mostly focused on observing and reporting on new and ongoing market trends, and maintaining a tight relationship with consolidated vendors and emerging startups. Alessandro has a parallel focus in the computer security industry, in which he has been active for more than 10 years, achieving certifications such as the CISSP, and collecting awards such as the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP).

Alessandro Perilli has been an evangelist in the virtualization industry since 2003, through his popular blog virtualization.info. As an industry analyst his work is mostly focused in observing and reporting on new and ongoing market trends, and maintaining a tight relationship with consolidated vendors and emerging startups. Alessandro has a parallel focus in the computer security industry, in which he has been active for more than 10 years, achieving certifications such as the CISSP, and collecting awards such as the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP).

Christopher Poelker is VP Enterprise Solutions, FalconStor. Prior to this, he was a storage architect at HDS. Before HDS, Chris was a lead storage architect at Compaq, where he built the sales/service engagement model for Compaq StorageWorks, and trained VARs and Compaq ES/PS on StorageWorks. His certifications include MCSE, MCT, MASE, A+ certified.

Sean Rhody is the editor-in-chief of SOAWorld Magazine. He is a respected industry expert and a consultant with a leading consulting services company.

Marc Rix is a lead SOA solutions architect at SAIC, focused on accelerating key business activities through SOA and BPM. He has been building enterprise-scale integration solutions for the past 10 years.

Peter Roden, director of technology development, is responsible for leading OASIS business development and technology services. He served as the CTO for numerous venture-funded companies where he was responsible for the development and support of Web-based commercial software products. He was the founder and CEO of SupplyWorks, Inc., a leading provider of business-to-business electronic commerce services and solutions that leverage the Internet to empower manufacturing procurement. Peter received an associate's degree in film and communications from McGill University in Montreal, a BS in computer science from Antioch University, San Francisco, and pursued graduate studies in the management of technology at Harvard and MIT. Peter is based in Boston and speaks English, Czech, and French

Jesus Rodriguez is the chief software architect at TwoConnect, Inc. (www.twoconnect.com), a Microsoft Gold Partner based in Miami, Florida. He is also a Microsoft BizTalk Server MVP and one of a few architects worldwide to be a member of the .NET 3.0 Digerati team. As a member, Jesus has been selected to participate in a variety of Software Design Reviews with Microsoft’s Product Teams. Jesus is the Lead Architect for several BizTalk Server adapters including Web Services Enhancements 3.0, SalesForce.com, SonicMQ and the award-winning Service Broker Enhancements. He is an active contributor to the .NET and J2EE communities, focusing on the interoperability aspects between those two platforms. His contributions include several articles for various publications including MSDN, Architecture Journal and SOA World Magazine. Jesus is frequently seen leading sessions at TechEd, MVO Summit and the Microsoft Business Process and SOA Conference, as well as conducting Web Casts on varying Microsoft technologies. He is a prolific blogger on all subjects related to integration and has a true passion for technology.

David Roth is CEO of Trigence. He brings deep industry and leadership experience to Trigence. Most recently, he was vice president of sales and business development at Consera Software, which was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in February 2004. Crossing over to the HP team, David was responsible for integrating Consera software into HP OpenView Automation Manager. He holds a BA in business communications from the University of Southern California.

Bob Roudebush, director of solutions engineering, joined Double-Take Software as a Product Manager in April 2005. Promoted to director of solutions engineering in January 2006, Mr. Roudebush is Double-Take’s chief evangelist. Mr. Roudebush has over 11 years of IT industry experience and holds multiple industry certifications including Novell Master Certified Network Engineer (MCNE), Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). He has also been named a Microsoft MVP Award winner for 2006.

Ajit Sagar is a principal architect with Infosys Technologies, Ltd., a global consulting and IT services company. He has more than 15 years of experience in the IT industry. During this tenure, he's been a programmer, lead architect, director of engineering, and product manager for companies from 15 to 25,000 people in size. Ajit has served as J2EE Editor of Java Developer's Journal, was the founding editor of XML-Journal, and has been a frequent speaker at SYS-CON's Web Services Edge series of conferences, at JavaOne, and other international conferences as far away as China. He has published more than 125 articles.

Sekhar Sarukkai is the co-founder and CTO of Securent, a leader in enterprise entitlement management. Prior to this, he co-founded Confluence Software, a Web services security company, and was also a chief architect for HP's e-Speak initiative. He holds MS and PhD degrees in computer science from Indiana University.

Nitin Madhukar Sawant is an IT architect and consultant with Accenture India. He holds an M. Tech in software engineering from NUS Singapore, and has 13 years of experience in the IT industry as an architect. He holds a Certified Information Systems Security Professional certification (CISSP) from the ISC, is a Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), and also holds a diploma in CyberLaw.

Rich Schreiber has over 25 years experience working closely with CIOs, CTOs and VPs applying technology solutions to align IT to meet business goals. He has extensive expertise in integrated infrastructures such as SOA and the emerging application performance management challenges facing Global-2000 size companies, as well as messaging, middleware systems, network and data security and managed file transfer. He has worked with industry leading hardware and software companies including DEC, Prime and RAD/componentized application pioneer Seer Technologies. Rich is a recognized middleware expert who has been deeply involved in working with IBM WebSphere MQ since IBM brought it into the market as MQ Series in 1993. He is a sought after speaker and published author of books on middleware infrastructures and messaging with MQ.

Thiru Sivasubramanian is the SOA lead for THBS, helping to transition enterprise customers’ requirements into cost effective offshore/onsite services, strategies and actions service models to offer value added services. Thiru received his bachelor’s degree in Electronics from Annamalai University in Tamil Nadu, India

Bill Soward is CEO of Adaptive Planning. Previously, he was an EIR at Accel Partners. Prior to Accel, he was GM of FRS, S1's most successful business unit. He was also interim CEO of S1 Europe and S1's Edify business unit, and held various executive roles at Edify and Rolm.

Dr Hal Stern is Distinguished Engineer & VP, Global Systems Engineering, Sun Microsystems. In his more than 13 years with Sun, Hal has been CTO, Sun Services; chief architect of Sun Professional Services; CTO for the Sun ONE (iPlanet) infrastructure products division; and the chief technologist of Sun's Northeast U.S. Sales Area. He has done architecture, performance, and reliability work for Major League Baseball, mlb.com, several financial information and transaction clearing networks, and defined next-generation interactive services as part of Sun's technology partnership with the National Hockey League. He is listed as inventor or co-inventor on three networking technology patents and has co-authored technical books on networking and high availability techniques. Before joining Sun, Hal developed molecular modeling software for a Boston area start-up company and was on the research staff at Princeton University.

Michael Stiefel is principal of Reliable Software. A consultant on software architecture and development, and the alignment of information technology with business goals, his current work involves training in distributed applications development, software best practices, in .NET, C#, Web services, C++, and SQL Server. He also advises on IT strategy and planning, including budgeting, hiring, and growth management, and designs and implements service-based applications including Web services. Michael is currently a member of the OASIS Technical Committee, developing a core SOA Reference Model and related reference architectures. In July 2006 he was named a Microsoft Visual Developer Solutions Architect MVP. He is a Visiting Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the science, technology and society program where his research and teaching focus is the teaching of engineering to high school and undergraduate students.

Roger Strukhoff is Group Publisher and Editorial Director of SYS-CON Media. He spent 15 years with Miller Freeman Publications and The International Data Group (IDG), then co-founded CoverOne Media, a custom publishing agency that he sold in 2004. His work has won awards from the American Business Media, Western Press Association, Illinois Press Association, and the Magazine Publishers Association. You can read his blog at "rssblog.linux.SYS-CON.com" and contact him at roger(at)sys-con.com.

Co-founder and VP of research and development, Serendipity Technologies, Yuval Tarsi has broad startup experience, most recently as vice president of research and development and Israel Site Manager for ©Right. Previously, he served as vice president, research and development, and vice president of technologies at Trivnet, a provider of e-commerce and m-commerce solutions. Prior to that, Yuval served in the Israeli Intelligence Corps' prestigious "Haman Talpiyot" program. He holds a BSc in mathematics and computer science from Tel Aviv University.

A globally recognized pioneer of Rich Internet Applications, David Temkin is CTO and Founder of Laszlo Systems. In this role, he has positioned the company to become the next technology standard for Rich Internet Applications. Under his direction, Laszlo developed its patent-pending open source product suite and extended operations to both coasts of the United States. Before founding Laszlo, David was senior director of engineering at Excite@Home, where he led a team of 55 engineers, designers, and technical writers responsible for developing the company's consumer software. Prior to Excite@Home, he was an engineering manager in the Newton division at Apple Computer and developed enterprise software at EDS. He graduated from Brown University with a double major in computer science and history, and is named on four software patents.

Ian Thain is a senior technical evangelist/software engineer in the Worldwide Marketing Organization of Sybase, Inc. For over six years, he has worked with many engineering teams, including the Sybase WorkSpace product, and is a dedicated technical expert, continually working with Sybase's key partners and clients to enhance the capabilities of the solutions that Sybase can offer to its customers. Ian regularly addresses technical audiences all over the world, providing technical knowledge. He also writes whitepapers, demos, and articles for various Sybase products and is published in journals such as SOA World Magazine and PowerBuilder Developer’s Journal from SYS-CON Media. Ian also blogs at http://ianthain.pbdjmagazine.com/, http://ianthain.wsj2.com/, and http://blogs.sybase.com/bloggers/IanThain.aspx.

Raghu Thiagarajan is responsible for directing TIBCO Software's SOA strategy and products across the company’s existing business integration and emerging SOA governance and deployment product families. He has 16 years experience in the software industry, and has held positions in engineering, product management and product strategy at Sybase, CrossWorlds Software and IBM. He is primarily interested in the convergence of integration, data access and application developer technologies as SOA architectures evolve.

Doug Tidwell is a senior software engineer at IBM. He was a speaker at the first XML conference in 1997, and has spoken on technical topics around the world. He works in IBM's Software Strategy group, evangelizing emerging XML standards such as XForms, SCA and SDO. He is the author of O'Reilly's XSLT, and has written many articles on IBM's developerWorks site and elsewhere on the Web.

A graduate of mathematics and computer science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mark has proven himself as an entrepreneur and technology innovator. Prior to joining Coral 8, in 1998 he founded a Web integration and personalization startup CallTheShots, Inc., which was acquired by Akamai Technologies in 2000. During his two years at Akamai, Mark led the design and architecture of their 'Edge Computing' strategy and platform and was also responsible for major partnerships with IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, Vignette, ATG, and other technology vendors. Akamai's Edge Computing is the largest distributed computing platform of its kind, comprised of 15,000 hosts across 65 countries. Mark also has a diverse development and management background, amounting to key product releases at CETR, Eclipse International, Teknekron Software Systems (now TIBCO), and Mystic River Software. He also did research in scalable distributed systems at Stanford University.

Hub Vandervoort, CTO, enterprise infrastructure, Progress Software, has more than 20 years of experience as a consultant and senior technology executive in the networking, communications software, and Internet industries. Previously, Hub was vice president of strategic services for Sonic Software. Prior to Sonic Software, he co-founded three start-up ventures.

Alex Vasilevsky brings more than 20 years of extensive engineering, technology leadership and management experience to Virtual Iron Software. As a co-founder, he has been instrumental in defining and creating the technology and architecture behind Virtual Iron, and holds five U.S. patents for his innovative work in parallel processing.

Jeffrey L. Walker founded TenFold in 1993. From TenFold’s inception to October 1996, he was chairman, president, chief executive officer, and chief technology officer. Before founding TenFold, he was an independent consultant from 1991 to 1993. From 1985 to 1991, Jeffrey held several management positions at Oracle Corporation. He was the designer of Oracle’s applications products and founder of Oracle’s Applications Division. Before joining Oracle, he founded and was chief executive officer of Walker Interactive Products, an applications software company, and was the designer of Walker’s products. Jeffrey holds a BA in mathematics from Brown University.

Sean Walker is a senior sales engineer for Solstice Software Inc., a leading provider of automated, end-to-end integration and SOA testing software. His SOA technology experience includes WebSphere MQ, BEA Weblogic, TIBCO and JMS. Including his time at Solstice, Sean has 10 years of middleware architecture and administration experience and has work experience in the financial, manufacturing, insurance, government and telecom industries.

Roland Wartenberg started his IT career as a consultant with Digital Equipment from 1991 to 1997. He has been with SAP since 1997. He was a development manager with SAP Markets, Palo Alto, from 2000 to 2002. From 2003 to 2005 he lent his multiple skills to the position of product manager for Adaptive Computing with SAP AG in Walldorf, Germany. At the end of 2005 Roland took over new responsibilities as an evangelist for SAP's Platform Ecosystem at SAP Labs, Palo Alto, California. He has been working on SAP's virtualization strategy since October 2006. He has made more than 200 public presentations during the past few years. He holds a Dipl.Ing. in electrical engineering.

Anthony I. (Tony) Wasserman is director of the software management professional MS program at Carnegie Mellon West and executive director of its Center for Open Source Investigation (COSI). He was a co-founder of the Business Readiness Ratings project and serves as its chair. Previously, Tony was VP of Bluestone Software (acquired by HP), responsible for its open source J2EE middleware toolkit for mobile devices. Before that, he was founder and CEO of Interactive Development Environments, Inc. (IDE). Prior to starting IDE, Tony was a University of California professor, where he and his research team developed and released the User Software Engineering tools under the BSD open source license in 1981. He earned a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and a BA in mathematics and physics from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Fellow of both ACM and IEEE. He has written more than 60 papers and edited eight books.

Coach Wei is chairman and CTO of Nexaweb technologies, an Enterprise Web 2.0 software company. Before founding Nexaweb, Coach architected and designed software for managing storage networks at EMC Corporation. As a champion for open source and open standards, he is the author of the open source word processor AjaxWord, a committer at the Apache XAP project, and a member of the OpenAjax Alliance steering committee. An accomplished writer and speaker, Coach has published numerous articles on topics including AJAX, J2EE and .NET, RIA development, XML, signal/image processing, composite materials and ultrasonic imaging. Coach obtained his master's degree from MIT, holds six patents and maintains his “Direct from Web 2.0” blog at http://www.coachwei.com.

Michael Wheaton is principal engineer for Sun Microsystems with 15-plus years of experience in the computer industry. He is a subject matter expert in service-oriented architectures and is responsible for driving vision, training and the development of customer solution offerings around SOA. For the past nine years at Sun, Michael has led and mentored key Sun customers on the integration of evolving technologies into the corporate enterprise. As chief architect, he has led projects across a wide range of vertical markets with some of Sun's largest customers. He is a frequent speaker at a wide range of events.

Dave Wood has over 20 years of IT experience and has delivered a wide range of solutions based on ERP, CRM and Web-based technologies. Dave has been with BT for over three years working on a number of Web-based initiatives and strategies. The last 12 months have been focused on delivering the customer portal for BT's new Openreach organization.

Malcolm Yates, ISV Partner Manager of Canonical, will explain how the free software community works and how companies can engage with this vibrant and productive pool of engineering talent. Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu: one of the fastest-growing Linux distros on the market today, and certainly one of the most respected among experienced Linux users. Since its inaugural release in October, 2004, Ubuntu has earned a significant and very loyal following among desktop Linux users.

Raven Zachary covers open source technology for The 451 Group. This includes coverage of both industry and community issues, as well as the new Commercial Adoption of Open Source (CAOS) Service. Prior to joining The 451 Group, he was the senior technical editor and consulting industry analyst for Enterprise Open Source Journal, and the editor of The Open Source Update, an open source industry newsletter. He was also the principal of o*rev, an enterprise open source consulting firm working with enterprise IT and software vendors on open source strategy.

Jack Zubarev is a founder and COO, overseeing worldwide sales and operations at SWsoft, maker of virtualization and automation software. Jack has helped build SWsoft from its start to today with more than 600 employees. Since 1999, he has held leadership roles including sales engineering, product marketing, and business development.