Speakers
Paul Allen, Independent Consultant
Paul Allen is an independent consultant, author, educator and thought leader in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) practices. His detailed knowledge stems from 34 years experience in the management and development of large-scale business systems, and combines with a uniquely practical understanding of the problems companies face as they apply new technologies in search of business value. Paul is a widely published author and popular speaker whose current research is on how best to leverage solution driven SOA practices in different cultural contexts, including enterprise architecture, business improvement and organization change management.
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Better and Faster BPM using Service Oriented Viewpoints |
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Just in Time SOA Governance in the Software Lifecycle |
David Beisert, Finocom
David Beisert is a development architect at Finocom and is a renowned expert on SAP Netweaver and integration topics in the SAP community. He has already spoken on several SAP conferences about best architecture practices in larger SAP development projects.
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Running SOA in a grid |
Dr. Sohrab Bhot, TUSC - ROLTA
Sohrab R. Bhot completed his B.Sc. (Hons), M.Sc. and Ph.D. from Victoria University of Manchester (UK). He has over 25 years of experience in Information Technologies covering diverse areas such as Electronics, Computer Manufacture, Networking, IT Security as well as Software Development. He has been working for Rolta India Limited for the past 17 years and currently holds the position of Director Operations for professional services in CA and Oracle technologies.
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Supporting the direction for SOA today |
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SOA - Finding the Obvious (How to capture your existing Data and Application services for reuse) |
Yasmine Limberger
Yasmine Limberger has a degree in economics with focus on personnel management and marketing. She has worked for more than 10 years in the IT consulting business with responsibility for Recruiting, Marketing and Alliance Management. Since 2001, Yasmine has been working for a joint venture of Accenture and Microsoft where she is responsible Manager for Recruiting-Marketing, Talent-Acquisition and Press Relations. During thousands of job interviews and assessment centers she gained and structured her experiences with applicants and personalities on the one hand and specific job requirements on the other. Her outcome and advice can be read in a monthly career article series in Germany’s “dot.net magazin”. With this longterm experiences Yasmine acts as Management Coach, Trainer, Author and Speaker for international careers in the IT-business.
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Building Careers with SOA |
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Being a Project Manager for SOA Project - Challenges, Skills and Opportunities |
Axel Angeli, Logosworld, SOA Evangelist
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).
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Building the SOA City: Understanding the Market Nature of SOA |
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SOA Vendor Challenge: A Panel Discussion |
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SOA Camp Essentials |
Amol Khire, TIBCO
Amol joined TIBCO in 2006 and is the head of TIBCO India Quality Assurance overseeing teams responsible for performance engineering, service virtualization and complex event processing products. Prior to joining TIBCO, he was the lead engineer for the SOA Partner Program at Sun Microsystems. Amol has over 10 years experience in SOA, performance engineering and real-time messaging. He has a BS in Electronics and Telecom from COEP, Pune and has passed all 3 levels of the CFA Program.
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High Performance SOA: Tips, Tricks and Best Practices |
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Challenges and Best Practices for Quality Assurance with Virtualization of Services |
Ashant Chalasani, Indo-German Software Competence Network
Ashant Chalasani serves as the Chairman of the Indo-German Software Competence Network (Indescon) i.e. a network of German and Indian IT SME's. Based in Germany, he plays an active role in solving structural problems that help German and Indian IT SME's increase cooperation. Within a span of 6 years of career, Ashant has founded 3 companies operational in Germany, USA and India. He studied Bachelor of Sciences in Electronics & Electrical Engineering from Purdue University, USA and Masters of Information Technology from Universität Stuttgart, Germany.
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Europe - The Next Battlefield for Indian IT SME's |
Srihari Srinivasan, ThoughtWorks
Srihari Srinivasan is a consultant and a senior developer at ThoughtWorks Inc. and has been in the industry for about 8 years. He has designed and developed many complex applications in various technologies (Java, Ruby/ROR). He has been consulting for clients on service oriented architectures and domain specific languages for almost a year now.
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A RESTful Approach to Application Integration |
Lynton Grice, Logosworld, Sap Integration Advisor
Lynton Grice is an SAP Integration consultant and technical advisor for SAP focussed EAI and SOA initiatives. Being somewhat of a “lab rat” by nature, Lynton spends a great deal of time experimenting and “playing” with the new SOA trends and technologies out there and regularly publishes his findings. Lynton has a great practical knowledge of scripting languages like Python and is a huge promoter of using the “best of breed” approach to SOA development.”
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Choosing the ‘Best of Breed’ Approach for Agile SOA Development |
Derek Wood, SAP Integration Advisor, Johannesburg
Derek Wood is an Enterprise SOA Architect with more than a decade of SAP and IT experience. He is one of the leading SAP NetWeaver experts in South Africa with an extensive amount of project experience including Banking, Automotive and Industrial. He has multiple SAP and industry recognised qualifications and certifications, including a Bachelor of Business Science from the University of Cape Town and an MBA in Media and Communication from the University of St. Galen, Switzerland.
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The Common Information Model and How It is Leveraged by SAP to Provide a Base for Delivering Business Content |
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How Do You Build and Leverage a Service Repository? |
Frank Mueller, Senior Architect, BTC
Frank Mueller works as team manager and senior architect at BTC in Germany. Since 21 years now he’s worked in system management and software development, the last 9 years leading various teams in new economy, defence, and the utility industry and writing for German IT magazines. His special interests are requirements engineering, software cost estimation and agile processes as well as large scaleable and reliable system architectures, concurrency, and dynamic languages like Smalltalk and Erlang.
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On Event-Driven Architecture |
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Agility And The Way To SOA |
Kiran Datar, Managing Director, Webex Communications Pvt Ltd
Kiran Datar holds a B.S. (Physics & Economics) from Middlebury College, VT and an M.S. (Operations Research) from Columbia University, New York. He has over 12 years of experience in various high technology and finance positions. He co-introduced the concept of Conferencing Services in India with Cyberbazaar. Kiran Datar at 39 years sits at the helm of a business that has the largest market share of 65% and a list comprising of over 2600 satisfied customers from India’s top companies.
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Collaboration : The Drive Towards On-Demand Platform |
Jigar Bhansali, Solutions Architect webMethods, Software AG
Jiger Bhansali is Software AG’s Solutions Architect for the webMethods Business Line. Bhansali has been working in the IT (Information Technology) industry for over 13 years with a wide area of IT experiences in both pre-sales, consulting and services environments. In his current role at Software AG, Bhansali is responsible for promoting, developing and implementing SOA solutions in Asia. He has extensive knowledge in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) – technical and business imperatives needed to ensure successful SOA implementation.
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The Compound Effects of SOA and BPM |
Kalyan Kolachala, CEO & Managing Director, SOAMatrix
Kalyan has over 15 years of experience - almost exclusively in enterprise product development. This includes around seven years in the US as developer/lead/architect with Sybase, Fujitsu, and HP. He was managing offshore development in India for the last five years with Nokia, Divine, and BEA in a techno-managerial role and was responsible for delivery of multiple products/releases. Last couple of jobs were at BEA India managing the development and performance teams for integration products such as WebLogic Integration and AquaLogic Service Bus and at Fiorano as VP-Engineering managing engineering for all Fiorano products
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SOA – Past, Present and Future |
Rajesh Veeramachaneni, Director of Engineering, SOAMatrix
Rajesh brings to SOAMatrix 10 years of rich experience in design, development, project execution and delivery of enterprise projects in Supply Chain Management domain and SAP Integrations space using Java, J2EE and distributed technologies. Rajesh was responsible for client engagement and management with several strategic ISV customers in the North Americas and Europe at Bristlecone, a global supply chain consulting organization. He was also instrumental in systematic ramping and building of SAP Netweaver custom development and integrations competency practice at Bristlecone.
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SOA in Real World: Industry Case Studies |
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