Speakers

Axel Angeli

Axel Angeli is the founder of Germany-based Logosworld.com, a company originally specialized in Life Sciences and Artificial Intelligence research. Today, Logosworld is a platform for a small group of technically oriented advisors and analysts, dedicated to SAP-centric Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and evangelizing the concept of SOA as a Darwinistic approach to cope with the eternal change within an enterprise. Speaking five languages and having learned about work and lifestyle in many parts of the world, Axel now focuses on management and troubleshooting of critical mission tasks as head and/or mentor of large, international development teams. Axel is known for his brutally honest presentations and publications where he unveils the true facts hidden by marketing blurbs. His latest project is “Building the SOA City” where he invites communities to demonstrate that SOA by evolution can work (www.soacity.org).

The Clash of the Titans Reloaded

Jason Bloomberg

Jason Bloomberg is Senior Analyst and Managing Partner at Service Orientation 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 leverage their IT resources to meet changing business needs. He is a frequent speaker, prolific writer, and pundit.

Mr. Bloomberg has a diverse background in eBusiness technology management and industry analysis, including serving as a senior analyst in IDC’s eBusiness Advisory group. He co-authored the books Service Orient or Be Doomed! How Service Orientation Will Change Your Business and XML and Web Services Unleashed.

	Governance, Quality, and Management: The Three Pillars of SOA Implementations
	Building the Business Case for SOA
	Avoiding SOA Pitfalls
	Architecture Deep Dive for SOA

Dave Chappell

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

As author of the O’Reilly Enterprise Service Bus book, Dave has had tremendous impact on redefining the shape and definition of SOA infrastructure. He has extensive experience in distributed computing infrastructure, including ESB, SOA Governance, EJB and Web application server infrastructure, JMS and MOM, EAI, CORBA, and COM. Chappell's experience also includes development of client/server infrastructure, graphical user interfaces and language interpreters.

Next Generation Grid Enabled SOA - Not Your MOM's Bus

John Crupi

John 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 Crupi has 20 years 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. Mr. Crupi is co-author of the highly popular Core J2EE Patterns book, has written many articles for various magazines and is a well-known speaker around the globe. He is a frequent blogger and was selected to join the International Advisory board for Ajax Developers Journal. John was also named as a member of the Software Development Magazine's Dream Team

	Demystifying Enterprise Mashups
	Perfecting the Approach to Enterprise SOA

Lee DAI

Lee Dai is the Technical Director heading Technical and Consultancy services of Progress Asia. With over 18 years of experience in the Software and Information Technology industry, Lee Dai brings extensive experience in business process re-engineering, and has been an evangelist in the area of integration and service oriented architecture (SOA).

Prior to joining Progress Software, Lee Dai held various management positions at webMethods, GXS and IBM in both the US and Asia Pacific. He has a Master degree in Engineering from the University of Maryland.

SOA and SOA Management: Why, Where and How

Rangan Devarajan

Rangan Devarajan is a Senior Vice President, heading Technology Development at Symphony Services, a global software engineering company and leader in the outsourced product engineering space. Having extensive professional experience in product engineering services, managing products and operations in India, he now focuses on the technologies for the future. In a role that leverages his deep technological acumen, Rangan is engaged in forecasting the market for future technologies, its relevance to today’s businesses and ways to help present customers adapt to the new technologies, whether it is by offering them migration tools & frameworks, competency in the new technologies, training, consultation, as well as staffing services to meet the needs of new technologies.

Rangan has a prolific and highly commended background having worked at global leaders like HP, Flextronics, GE and PSI Data Systems. Apart from a Bachelor’s degree in Special Mathematics, he also holds a Bachelors degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He owns two patents on remote projector management.

Designing a Secure SOA Solution

Keith Harrison-Broninski

Keith Harrison-Broninski is a consultant, writer, researcher and software developer working at the forefront of the IT and business worlds.  Keith wrote the landmark book "Human Interactions: The Heart And Soul Of Business Process Management", described by reviewers as "the overarching framework for 21st century business technology" and "a must read for Process Professionals and Systems Analysts alike".   Keith founded Role Modellers, whose company mission is to develop understanding and software support of collaborative human work processes, the field Keith pioneered with his work on Human Interaction Management.  For more information about Keith, see http://keith.harrison-broninski.info.

	SOA Governance and Human Interaction Management
	SOA Governance and Human Interaction Management

Doug Hauger

Doug Hauger, Chief Operating Officer for Microsoft India. In this role, Doug is responsible for all marketing and brand development activities for the four product business groups in the country – Server & Tools, Client, Information Worker and Microsoft Business Solutions. Doug is also responsible for managing the business operations for the Microsoft India subsidiary. Doug joined Microsoft India in July of 2005. Prior to this he was General Manager for Customer and Partner Satisfaction based at the Microsoft headquarters in Redmond. Doug has been with Microsoft since June of 1999 and has nearly twenty years of experience in the IT industry. He has an M.A. from Boston University and a B.A. from St. Olaf College in Minnesota, U.S.A. Doug is based in New Delhi, where he lives with his wife and two children

Beyond SOA: Software Plus Services

Prasanna Krishna

Prasanna Krishna is Lab Director at Torry Harris Business Solutions (THBS) and also heads the ‘SOA Centre of Excellence’. Prasanna who holds delivery responsibility worldwide for THBS comes with 21 years of experience in the IT industry, bringing in expertise in best practices for delivery of large outsourcing deals. He has been a part of the leadership team in large MNCs. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Engineering from University of Mysore, securing the First Rank in the University, followed by a M. Tech from IIT Delhi.

How to Build Cost Effective SOA. “Made in India” Really Works!

Srini Kumar

Srini Kumar is Assoc Vice President and Head of SOA Practice at Satyam. Working with CTO Office as an Integrator he is also responsible for developing a Center of Excellence in Frameworks and delivering projects. Srini Kumar has worked in areas of IT Strategy, Enterprise Architecture, Application development/delivery and Project Management. Srini's management expertise spans IT Organization Assessment, IT Strategy, Portfolio Management and IT Process Improvements. Srini holds a bachelors degree in Engineering from Bangalore University followed by a MS from University of Texas, Elpaso.

Open Source Enablement of SOA

Krishna Kumar

Krishna kumar heads the insurance verticals development team in the financial services product technology unit of SAPLabs India. He has been responsible for Enterprise Architecture, Application development/delivery and Project Management of different Products within SAP’s banking and insurance portfolio. KrishnaKumar actively involves in coaching the different development teams in the areas of ERP and platform architecture.

He has been one of the successful architects who has pioneered the SAP’s ESOA initiative and is continuously driving the knowledge spread within the SAP empire. Krishna holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer science and Engineering from Madurai Kamaraj University and also has an MS in Information Systems from BITS Pilani.

ESOA and Banking – Business Process Modeling of a Banking Scenario and Implementation of Enterprise Services

Atul Patel

Atul Patel heads the MDM business across SAP Asia Pacific and Japan., based in Singapore. He is responsible for showcasing SAP Netweaver MDM’s ability to provide a single version of the truth for customer, product, employee, supplier, or user-defined data objects as part of SAP NetWeaver. Atul has over 15 years experience in the software industry, all of which have been spent in key technology and enterprise applications software vendors in Presales, Business Development and Delivery/Project Management roles across key verticals of Public Services, CPG, FSI and Manufacturing. Atul has a wealth of knowledge in Applistructure and is a thought leader in the emerging market of Master Data Management solutions.

MDM: Jumpstart Your SOA Journey

Kaushal Sarda

Kaushal is the founder of CollCraft Technologies, a company established within the business incubator at IIT Bombay. CollCraft has developed a unique enterprise 2.0 platform called Uhuroo for information sharing and workgroup collaboration. Uhuroo is an easy-to-use information sharing and group collaboration platform that allows teams within or across companies to collect, share information (notes, important emails, documents, web-pages, folders, etc) in a flash, manage collaborations, and ensure that all their information and conversations remain secure, automatically classified, and available for future reference & quick consolidation.

As a founder, Kaushal is responsible for the overall product vision, and managing the conceptualization, definition and development of Uhuroo. Kaushal has a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering from University of Mumbai, and MS in Information Systems from George Mason University (GMU), Fairfax, VA, USA

Enterprise 2.0 - A Corporate Productivity Catalyst

Anil Sharma

Anil Sharma is a Staff Engineer at BEA Systems working on the Integration suite of products. He has been developing middleware infrastructure software for SOA & J2EE while working for BEA, Oracle & Pramati. He has also written several articles on SOA & J2EE.

	EAI to SOA: Radical Change or Logical Evolution?
	BPEL: Strengths, Limitations & Future!

Chaitanya Sharma

Chaitanya Sharma is Senior Manager, Systems Engineering ASPAC/J at Fair Isaac Corporation. Chaitan has over 7 years of experience in the fields of business rules technologies and optimization, and their application to specific-industry problems. Chaitan spent several years in software engineering positions at ILOG, Broad Vision, Mascot System, now iGate and Amsoft Systems. He attended the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India, where he graduated with a MS in Mathematics and a MS in Software Systems.

Achieving Decision Yield across the SOA-based Enterprise

Moti Thadani

Moti Thadani is currently Vice President and General Manager - India at TIBCO Software. He has previously held senior positions at innovation-driven companies like Sun Microsystems enhancing the performance of J2EE application servers and laying the foundations for the path breaking Sun Cluster product as well as at Infosys, IBM and Data General. Moti has a broad range of capabilities from operations to strategic planning to technical architecture and delivery of complex, scalable systems. His expertise is in distributed systems and in implementing and using the core Internet technologies. Moti has been awarded four US patents. He earned his BTech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and his MS in Computer Science from Tulane University.

Service Component Architecture (SCA) - SOA for a Heterogeneous World

Coach Wei

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 standard, Coach is the author of open source word processor AjaxWord, a committer at Apache XAP project and a member of OpenAjax Alliance steering committee, etc. He is a frequent speaker at industry events and has many publications on various technical journals. Coach obtained his master's degree from MIT, holds six patents and maintains “Direct from Web 2.0” blog at www.coachwei.com.

Web 2.0 and SOA – Friends or Foe?