Eugene Ciurana, Director of Systems Infrastructure, LeapFrog Enterprises

Eugene Ciurana is the Director of Systems Infrastructure for LeapFrog Enterprises, where he and his team designed and built a 100% SOA-based system that enables millions Internet-ready educational products and services. In 2006, he led the official adoption of Linux and other open-source technologies at Wal-Mart Stores Information Systems Division as chief liaison between Walmart.com Global and the ISD Technology Council.

Eugene has contributed to Java, Linux, and OS X open-source projects and has architected main line of business applications and real-time systems for the largest companies in the world, including Wal-Mart, Bank One/Chase, National Oilwell Varco, Bank of America, Credit Suisse, Nortel Networks, Sun Microsystems, IBM, Univex/Celanese, Nexis/Lexis, etc. He's the author of over 50 feature articles and editorials for major publications in the United States, Mexico, and Europe. He's currently writing books about the Google App Engine and about how to build scalable enterprise systems.

Scot Finnie, Editor in Chief, Computerworld

Scot Finnie is Computerworld's Editor in Chief. He has been a technology journalist, reviewer, and editor for more than 20 years. He's also the author of Scot's Newsletter Blog. Finnie specializes in enterprise IT, operating systems, client software, mobile hardware, personal tech, and the Internet.

Kevin Forbes, Enterprise Architect, Healthways

Kevin Forbes is Enterprise Architect at Healthways, Incorporated and is responsible for SOA, EDM and Grid computing strategies. Kevin has 21 years of experience as a software engineer and architect.

Dr. Chris Harding, Forum Director for SOA and Semantic Interoperability, The Open Group

Dr. Chris Harding leads the SOA Working Group at The Open Group - an open forum of customers and suppliers of IT products and services. In addition, he is a Director of UDEF Forum, and manages The Open Group?s work on semantic interoperability.

Recognizing the importance of giving enterprises quality information at the point of use, Dr. Harding sees information interoperability as the next major challenge, and frequently speaks or writes on this topic.

Dr. Harding has a Ph.D in mathematical logic, and is a member of the British Computer Society (BCS) and of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Dr. Harding can be reached at: c.harding@opengroup.org

Steve Harris, Senior Vice President, Product Development, Server Technologies

Mr. Harris has degrees from George Washington University and UC Berkeley. After more than 10 years in scientific and engineering computing and consulting areas, he spent three years working on document management and systems integration. In 1993, he co-founded a software startup providing an object-oriented database product to Smalltalk developers (a precursor to Java). He sold the company to ParcPlace-Digitalk and served as VP of Engineering of that publicly-held company. He joined Oracle in 1997 to manage development of the Java virtual machine for the Oracle8i release. Since then, his role has expanded to include the entire J2EE platform in the Oracle Application Server and Web Logic Server product. This includes EJB, Servlets, JSPs, JDBC drivers, SQLJ, TopLink, and web services support in both the application server and database.

Eric Knorr, Editor in Chief, InfoWorld

Eric Knorr is editor in chief 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.

John Landwehr, Director, Security Solutions & Strategy, Adobe Systems, Inc.

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Dave Linthicum, CEO, StrikeIron

As CEO of StrikeIron, Dave is responsible for driving the company's leadership position as the frontrunner in delivering critical Web services and data, on demand, for the emerging Internet. Prior to StrikeIron, Dave was the CEO of the Linthicum Group, LLC, a leading think tank in the area of enterprise architecture and use of next generation Internet. Moreover, Dave was the CTO of Mercator Software and has held key management roles with a number of organizations including CTO of SAGA Software, Mobil Oil, EDS, AT&T, and Ernst and Young.

Dave was also an associate professor of computer science for eight years, and continues to lecture at major technical colleges and universities. Dave keynotes at many leading technology conferences, and has several well read columns and blogs. Dave has authored 10 books, 3 which were best sellers, including the ground breaking books "Enterprise Application Integration" and "B2B Application Integration."

In addition to his entrepreneurial leadership Dave is an internationally known application integration, service oriented architecture (SOA), and Web 2.0 visionary. In his career David has assisted in the formation of many of the ideas for modern distributed computing including EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) and B2B application integration, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), and synergies between existing enterprises and the emerging Web, approaches and technologies in wide use today.

Jorge Mercado, Principal Architect, SOA & Software Architecture, MedicAlert

Jorge Mercado has more than 12 years of experience in systems architecture and design, with an impressive record of success in delivery of Service Oriented Architecture. He presently serves and the SOA Architect and Lead Software Engineer at MedicAlert Foundation, where he plays a leading role in the healthcare pioneer's ongoing adoption of service oriented systems. Prior to MedicAlert, Jorge was the Solutions Architect at Zantaz, a global provider of enterprise-class software and on-demand solutions for Information Retention and Discovery Management. Jorge ran a successful consulting practice that delivered Microsoft and IBM solutions. Prior to that, in his work as a Microsoft consultant, he was responsible for the architecture and implementation of client/server solutions at several large enterprise accounts. Jorge has also served as Solutions Architect for InfoImage, Groupware Specialist for Vanstar and Lotus Note/Domino Developer for IBM Global Services.

Adam Messinger, Vice President, Development Fusion Middleware

As Vice President of Development in the Fusion Middleware group at Oracle, Adam Messinger is responsible for managing the Coherence, JRockit, WebLogic Operations Control, and web tier products. Prior to joining Oracle, Adam worked as a venture capitalist at Smartforest Ventures and O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures. Previously, Adam was a founder of Gauntlet Systems, a software development tools company that was acquired by Borland. Prior to that, Adam was a member of the original WebLogic team and later served in a number of technical leadership roles at BEA. In the distant past, Adam ran the engineering practice at Organic Online and was a researcher at the Santa Fe Institute. Adam is a graduate of the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he was a Sloan Fellow and of Willamette University where he was a G. Herbert Smith Scholar.

Hasan Rizvi, Senior Vice President, Oracle Fusion Middleware Products

As senior vice president of Oracle Fusion Middleware Products, Hasan Rizvi is responsible for the company's Service-Oriented Architecture, Application Server, Communications and Identity Management and Security product development, product management and architecture. Previously Mr. Rizvi was vice president of Oracle Enterprise Manager responsible for the company's Data Center Automation products. Prior to returning to Oracle in 2001, Mr. Rizvi was vice president of Engineering for Corio, Inc. where he led the development of key technologies to enable efficient delivery of software as a service. Prior to that, Mr. Rizvi served as director of OLTP technologies for Oracle, where he was instrumental in development of transaction processing, messaging and queuing and high-end scalability technologies for Oracle Database products. Mr. Rizvi has a M.S. in computer science from Rutgers University and an M.S. in engineering management from Stanford University. He also holds eight patents in the database management area.

Dave Rosenberg, CEO and Co-founder, MuleSource

Prior to founding MuleSource, Dave Rosenberg served as Chief Information Officer for Glass Lewis & Co., a leading investment research and proxy advisory firm. Rosenberg also served as Principal Analyst for the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), a global consortium dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux.

Previously, Rosenberg was Programs Director for LinuxWorld and Comdex and held technology and marketing positions at Sprint, OmniSky and NorthPoint Communications. At OmniSky his work on wireless provisioning systems was awarded a U.S. Patent. He contributes regularly to leading industry and business publications, including BusinessWeek, InfoWorld, ComputerWorld, CNET, ZDNet, Release 1.0, Slashdot and IBM DeveloperWorks. He authors the Negative Approach blog on CNet.com.

Rosenberg holds a BA from Rutgers University and an MBA from Pepperdine University.

Maja Tibbling, Lead Enterprise Architect, Con-Way

Maja Tibbling is a Lead Enterprise Architect at Con-way, Inc. with more than 25 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 13+ 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, Open Group, OMG's SOA Consortium, SOA Exec Forum 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, several InfoWorld 100 and InfoWeek 100 awards as well as TIBCO's Innovator of the Year Award in 2007

John Whitridge, Vice President of Enterprise Architecture, Marriott International

John Whitridge has more than 20 years of experience in information systems and technology design, development and deployment. Fifteen of these years have been with Marriott International, where he has led a number of systems development and integration projects, including new design and development and significant enhancements to Marriott's Revenue and Inventory Management; Consolidated Inventory Management; Sales, Revenue, and Event Management; Sales Force Automation; Sales Decision Support; Next Generation System and Owner Accounts Strategic Information systems. As the Vice President of Revenue Management systems, John led the development team that implemented the award-winning One Yield revenue management system, which is currently installed in more than 2,500 Marriott hotels worldwide. John has also held the position of Vice President of Lodging Systems Strategy and Planning, where he was accountable for Systems Strategy and Planning for Lodging, Marriott Vacation Club International, Ritz Carlton and Ramada International.

John currently holds the position of Vice President, Enterprise Architecture. Marriott's Enterprise Architecture team is currently engaged in a multi-year planning effort to further define and implement its Business, Application, Data and Technical Reference Architectures.

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