PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Ali Arsanjani
IBM
Dr. Ali Arsanjani is CTO of SOA Emerging Technologies within IBM Global Services. He leads a team responsible for developing worldwide competency in SOA and increasing delivery excellence of SOA solutions using IBM and non-IBM tools and SOA offerings, most of which he has co-developed.
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Anthony Assi
VCE
Anthony has intensive experience in large scale cloud architectures. He is currently working at VCE, the JV from Cisco and EMC with investments from VMware and Intel, where he is an architect for cloud platforms and helps organizations accelerate the adoption of cloud computing. Anthony is the co-author of the upcoming book "Service-Oriented Infrastructure: On-Premise and in the Cloud".
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David Chou
Microsoft
David Chou's focus is on collaborating with enterprises and organizations in such areas as cloud computing, SOA, Web, distributed systems, and security.
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John de Vadoss
Microsoft
John de Vadoss leads the Patterns & Practices division at Microsoft. His responsibilities include platform and architecture strategy for the developer tools and the application platform.
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Suzanne D'Souza
KBACE Technologies
Suzanne DSouza is the SOA/AIA/BPM Practice Lead at KBACE Technologies. Suzanne worked for 12 years at Oracle Corporation in the Consulting and Fusion Middleware Product Development groups, working on marquee SOA/AIA/BPM customer engagements. Suzanne has published articles and delivered several presentations and workshops in the SOA arena at conferences including Oracle Open World.
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Thomas Erl (Chair)
Arcitura Education
Thomas Erl is a best-selling IT author and founder of SOASchool.com® and CloudSchool.com™. Thomas has been the world's top-selling SOA author for over five years and is the series editor of the Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl, as well as the editor of Service Technology Magazine.
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John Evdemon
Microsoft
John Evdemon has been designing and deploying enterprise solutions across a wide range of programming languages and platforms for well over two decades. John currently serves as an architect for Microsoft where he specializes in designing and implementing highly scalable, event-driven hybrid cloud solutions.
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Clive Gee
IBM
Clive has worked in IT for more than 30 years, during the last few of which he led many SOA implementation and governance engagements for major clients all around the world, helping them to cope with the complexities of successfully transitioning to SOA.
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Olaf Heimburger
Oracle
Olaf Heimburger works in Oracle Development for the Fusion Middleware Architects Team and helps customers to implement Oracle Fusion Applications and Identity Management.
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Jürgen Kress
Oracle
Jürgen Kress is the founder of the Oracle EMEA SOA Partner Community and the global Oracle SOA Partner Advisory Council.
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Zaigham Mahmood
University of Derby, UK
Dr. Zaigham Mahmood is Reader in Applied Computing and Assistant Head of Distributed and Intelligent Systems research group at the University. He has recently published 'Cloud Computing for Enterprise Architectures' and is currently co-authoring 'Cloud Computing Fundamentals: Concepts and Technology' with Thomas Erl.
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Joe McKendrick
Forbes, CBS Interactive, ZDNet
Joe McKendrick is an author and independent analyst who tracks the impact of information technology on management and markets. Joe contributes regularly to Forbes magazine, CBS Interactive and ZDNet.
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Tom Plunkett
Oracle
Tom is a Senior Solution Consultant with Oracle, specializing in cloud computing and SOA projects for the United States Department of Defense.
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Pethuru Raj
Wipro Consulting Services
Pethuru Raj has more than 12 years of IT industry experience and is an Enterprise Architect with Wipro Consulting Services. His knowledge is focused on emerging technologies such as cloud computing, service-oriented architecture (SOA), event-driven architecture (EDA), and enterprise architecture (EA). He has solid and sound expertise in big data computing, model-driven architecture (MDA), cloud analytics, machine-to-machine (M2M) integration, high-performance system design, and Smartphone applications.
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Christoph Schittko
Microsoft
Christoph Schittko is an architect for Microsoft based in Texas. He works with customers to build innovative solutions that combine software and services for cutting edge user experiences that leverage SOA and cloud computing solutions.
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Andre Tost
IBM
Andre Tost works as a Senior Technical Staff Member in the IBM WebSphere organization, where he has helped IBM's customers establish Service-Oriented Architectures for the past eight years. His special focus at the moment is on Cloud Computing platforms.
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Clemens Utschig
Boehringer-Ingelheim
Clemens works for Boehringer-Ingelheim's Global Business Services (GBS) as Chief Architect, helping to establish GBS' next gen' business architecture based on service orientation. Before joining BI he worked at the Oracle Headquarters in the United States as platform architect, working with the Fusion Applications development as advisor and supported customers all around the world on their journey towards implementing enterprise-wide SOA.
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Matthias Ziegler
Accenture
Dr. Matthias Ziegler is a senior manager and master technology architect at Accenture, with particular expertise in large-scale SOA transformations and innovative projects around cloud computing and business process management. He leads the Architecture Innovation group in Austria, Switzerland and Germany, which pioneers emerging technologies.
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