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. He is resonsible for IBM vision, strategy and execution of that strategy in the SOA space of emerging technologies and SOA offerings. He is a hands-on, sought-after architect around the world on IBM's largest accounts. To accomplish this Dr. Arsanjani works with IBM Software Group, Research as well as other part sof IBM Global Business Services to delivery SOA SOlutions for clients using IBM tools, technologies and latest SOA offerings.

In his role as Chief Architect for the SOA and Web Services Center of Excellence within IBM Global Services, he and his team specialize in harvesting and developing best-practices for the modeling, analysis, design and implementation of SOA and Web Services. He leads the internal IBM worldwide SOA & Web Services Community of Practice (6000+ members) and is the principal author of the (Service-oriented Modeling and Architecture) SOMA method for SOA as well as other assets, offerings and tools around SOA.

He has been focusing on SOA Tooling with an extension and plug-in to Rational Software Architect called SOMA Modeling environment (SOMA-ME) which provide tooling support for IBM's SOA Methods and assets for SOA Solution development. This has been described in the August 2008 edition of the IBM Systems Journal. Dr. Arsanjani is engaged in developing SOA competency around the world in multiple industries and countries, working not only to develop teams to support the deployment of IBM tools and assets in the SOA space, but also to engage on a day to day basis with IBM's largest clients.

Dr. Arsanjani not only works in executing a global strategy for GBS but also works to assess and develop tools to support IBM's offerings. He represents IBM in standards bodies such as The Open Group and is responsible for co-leading the SOA Reference Architecture and SOA Maturity Model standards within that body.

Inside of IBM he leads research efforts in emerging technologies, tools and consulting offerings that combine services with the software required to successfully deliver those services, effectively, in a scalable and repeatable fashion across the world

Jean-Paul De Baets is Integration Architect at FEDICT, the organisation in charge of the initiation, implementation and assistance of e-government projects for the Federal Government of Belgium.

He initiated the Federal Service Bus Program by defining the vision and the requirements and is the technical lead on the project. The FSB is an implementation of the Enterprise Service Bus pattern enabling different government agencies to exchange information using SOA concepts.

In addition to the technical platform, an important part of this project was to define and implement a SOA governance program, in other words, to define the processes, organisation and supporting tools to enable Fedict to correctly manage its web services.

Jean-Paul is also lead architect for various large e-gov projects and provides technical expertise to other government agencies around SOA, Web Services, BPM and EAI.

Prior to Fedict, Jean-Paul worked as a consultant for Cap Gemini, Forté Software and Sun Microsystems.

Stuart has 20+ years in IT, of which 15 at CGI as an architect in both functional and technical domains. He is a founder of CGI's SOA strategy and a member of the CGI Technology Council and as such directly involved in developing the company's Cloud offerings. Stuart has been active in The Open Group's SOA Working Group since its foundation and is a co-leader of the security stream within The Open Group's new Cloud Working Group. Over the last few years Stuart has been particularly involved with Identity and Access Management and its relationship to SOA and more recently Cloud Computing. He finds current developments in Identity fascinating and particularly relevant to the Cloud. Before getting into IT Stuart tried (but failed) to make it as a professional musician and remains an unrepentant hippie (without the hair).

Grady is recognized internationally for his innovative work on software architecture, collaborative development environments, and software engineering. A renowned visionary, he has devoted his life's work to improving the art and science of software development. Grady served as Chief Scientist of Rational Software Corporation since its founding in 1981 and through its acquisition by IBM in 2003. He now is part of the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, serving as Chief Scientist for Software Engineering.

There he continues his work on the Handbook of Software Architecture but also mentors and leads various software engineering projects that are beyond the constraints of immediate product horizons. Grady continues to engage with real customers working on very real problems and is working to build deep relationships with academia and other research organizations around the world. Grady is one of the original authors of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and was also one of the original developers of several of Rational's products. Grady has served as architect and architectural mentor for numerous complex software-intensive systems around the world in just about every domain imaginable.

Grady is the author of six best-selling books, including the UML Users Guide and the seminal Object-Oriented Analysis with Applications. He writes a regular column on architecture for IEEE Software. Grady has published several hundred articles on software engineering, including papers published in the early '80s that originated the term and practice of object-oriented design (OOD), plus papers published in the early 2000's that originated the term and practice of collaborative development environments (CDE).

Grady is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR). He is an IBM Fellow, an ACM Fellow, a World Technology Network Fellow, a Software Development Forum Visionary, a recipient of Dr. Dobb's Excellence in Programming award as well as three Jolt Awards, and generally just a really nice and gentle fellow.

Grady was a founding board member of the Agile Alliance, the Hillside Group, and the Worldwide Institute of Software Architects, and now also serves on the advisory board of the International Association of Software Architecture. Additionally, Grady serves on the board of Iliff School of Theology. He is also a member of the IEEE Software editorial board. Grady helped establish work at the Computer History Museum for the preservation of classic software and therein has conducted several oral histories for luminaries such as John Backus and Fred Brooks.

Grady received his bachelor of science from the United States Air Force Academy in 1977 and his master of science in electrical engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1979.

Dr. Toufic Boubez is a well-respected SOA and Web services pioneer and co-author of the SOA Manifesto. He is a Certified SOA Architect and Security Specialist, as well as a consultant and Certified SOA Trainer for SOA Systems Inc. He is the founder of SOA Craftworks and the founder and CTO of Layer 7 Technologies, one of the most successful vendors in SOA Governance and Security. Prior to Layer 7, he was the Chief Architect for Web Services at IBM's Software Group, and the Chief Architect for the IBM Web Services tools. At IBM, he founded the first SOA team and drove IBM's early XML and Web Services strategies. As part of his early SOA activities, he co-authored the original UDDI specification, and co-authored a service description language that was a precursor to WSDL. His current activities span SOA Security, SOA Governance and the impact of Cloud Computing.

Toufic is a sought-after presenter and has chaired many XML and Web services conferences, including XML-One and WebServices-One. He has also been actively involved with various standards organizations such as OASIS, W3C and WS-I. He was the co-editor of the W3C WS-Policy specification, and the co-author of the OASIS WS-Trust, WS-SecureConversation, and WS-Federation specifications. He has also participated on the OASIS WS-Security, SAML and UDDI Technical Committees. He is the author of many publications and several books, including "Building Web Services with Java" and the upcoming titles "SOA Governance" and "SOA Security: Practices, Patterns, and Technologies for Securing Services". InfoWorld named him to its "Ones to Watch" list in 2002, and CRN named him a Technology Innovator for 2004. .

Dr. Boubez holds a Master of Electrical Engineering degree from McGill University and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Rutgers University.

Toufic will be speaking at the SOA Symposium and will also be teaching the SOA Security Specialist Certification post-conference workshop from Oct. 26-31, 2009. For more information, visit the Workshop Agendas page.

Bjoern Brauel is Vice President of Business Architecture at Software AG, the world's largest independent provider of Business Infrastructure Software.

In this position he has responsibility for Software AG's global Business Architecture practice and specializes in delivering methodologies and best-practices to drive enterprise wide adoption of SOA and BPM.

Mr Brauel is the co-author of "SOA Adoption for Dummies" and was previously working as Deputy CTO on driving the technology strategy for Software AG. Mr. Brauel holds a diploma in Computer Science.

Twan van den Broek is Principal Consultant and solution architect at CIBER. Twan combines a broad experience in SAP development with knowledge on current SAP NetWeaver and SOA possibilities to deliver innovative SAP solutions.

With SAP NetWeaver as Business Process Platform the world of SAP projects is changing rapidly. A new, agile, approach is key to successful delivery. Twan is project lead at the first Agile SAP project in the Netherlands at the Dutch Railways.

Dr. Paul C. Brown is a software and systems architect with a deep background in the design of distributed information systems. His early work focused on fault-tolerant real-time monitoring and safety systems. Subsequent work on distributed decision support systems evolved into a more general interest in the design of event-driven distributed systems using model-based design methodologies. His model-based tool architectures are the foundation of a diverse family of applications that design distributed control systems, process control interfaces, internal combustion engines, and NASA satellite missions. Extensive design work on enterprise-scale information systems led Dr. Brown to recognize that service-oriented architectures inherently structure both business processes and information systems. This led to the concept of Total Architecture: that business processes and information systems must be architected together. The Total Architecture approach has proved itself building numerous information systems for global enterprises and the Fortune-500.

Dr. Brown has authored a pair of books on Total Architecture from Addison Wesley: 'Succeeding with SOA: Realizing Business Value through Total Architecture'; and 'Implementing SOA: Total Architecture in Practice'. Dr. Brown received his BS in Electrical Engineering from Union College, and his MS and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is presently a Principal Software Architect at TIBCO Software Inc.

Simone Brunozzi is the Amazon Web Services Evangelist for Europe. He joined Amazon.com in May 2008, traveling across Europe to showcase new solutions by Amazon Web Services and to help developers build businesses and applications. He has been following the “Cloud Computing” paradigm shift since 2006, and believes that it is going to replace the traditional computing model in a few years. Of Italian origin, Simone loves travelling, meeting people and connecting with them. He is a Linux and Ubuntu enthusiast, loves blogging on www.brunozzi.com, and has interests in the environment, clean energies, and technology in general. Prior to joining Amazon, Simone had his own business focusing on Web applications. He also served as a Professor of Programming Languages and Compilers at Perugia University and worked as a network and system administrator at the University for Foreigners in Perugia. Simone has a Computer Science degree and spent six months at UC Irvine, California, where he studied the American approach to business and science. He gained early programming experience at the Ministry of Aerial Defense in Rome, Italy.

Benjamin has been involved with the REST community through his blog and other forums since 2004. He is credited with inspiring the popular Restlet framework for Java, he coined the term “REST Triangle”, and has deep understanding of both the theory and practice of REST-style architecture.

As an architect working in the Rail industry he is experienced in bringing together REST architecture, systems architecture, systems integration, and a variety of other topics at an enterprise scale. Benjamin has recently been working with the likes of Thomas Erl on documenting the convergence between SOA and REST.

David Chappell is vice president and chief technologist for SOA at Oracle, where he is driving the vision for Oracle's SOA Grid initiative. Chappell has over 20 years of experience in the software industry. 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 Enterprise Service Bus (O'Reilly, 2004), Dave has had tremendous impact on redefining the shape and definition of SOA infrastructure.

Most recently, David contributed patterns to the book SOA Design Patterns pertaining to SOA grid technology. David is also currently working on a separate title dedicated to grid-enabled service-oriented architecture, a topic he has already written extensively about:

Pethuru has been working as an SOA specialist with Wipro Technologies in Bangalore for the past three years. He was previously selected as a JSPS Research Fellow and again as a JST Research Scientist to focus on emerging technologies in IT for two leading Japanese universities for 3 years. Pethuru further spent 8 years in the Enterprise Java field, specializing in integration middleware and SOA technologies and, most recently, has been focused on research dedicated to the convergence of SOA and Cloud Computing platforms. He also attained his PhD degree in theoretical computer science at Anna University in Chennai.

As a co-author of the upcoming Next Generation SOA book, Pethuru has been sharing his research into modern SOA technologies. He has also written many journal articles, white papers and additional book chapters for various international publications.

Pethuru maintains a personal site at: www.peterindia.net

Howard S Cohen, is an Associate in Booz Allen Hamilton with over 10 years of experience in Consulting, Systems Integration and Technical Leadership. He currently supports US Joint Forces Command J89 Directorate Joint Command & Control (JC2) Architecture and Capability Assessment Enterprise (JACAE) as the System Integrator. His experience includes: Enterprise Services, Virtual infrastructure, Software Configuration, Team Management, Project Management, Training and Infrastructure Support.

Howard has worked extensively in government and industry with companies such as Lockheed Martin, Exis Net, Cox Communications, York County School Division, Gateway, and US Joint Forces Command. He has taught courses on Management of Information Systems, Information Technology Security, and E-Commerce. Howard has written numerous papers including a recent article in SOA Magazine.

Howard holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Saint Leo University, Saint Leo, Florida along with various industry recognized certifications. Howard is a member of AFCEA, currently sits on the Technical Review Committee for the Chief Information Office of US Joint Forces Command and the SOA Educational Committee for the SOA Certified Professional Program.

Dr. Manas Deb is a Senior Director in the Fusion Middleware/SOA+BPM+Governance Suites Group at Oracle HQ. He currently leads strategic engagement initiatives for Oracle's service-oriented integration and BPM solutions worldwide. He is also responsible for Oracle's SOA Methodology initiatives. Manas has worked in the software industry for over 20 years, most of which was spent in software product management/marketing and on architecting and leading a wide variety of enterprise-level application development and business integrations projects in a wide variety of industries. Manas attended post-graduate studies at University of Texas at Austin. He has a PhD in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, as well as an MBA.

Mr. Demarteau works for Capgemini as an IT security consultant specialized in technical fields, such as penetration-testing and PKI (public key infrastructure). Mr. Demarteau graduated with a masters degree in computer science, with a specialization in ICT security, at the Utrecht University. During his studies he followed several subjects related to security, distributed systems and programming and network related topics. His graduation research was done at Capgemini and was related to the field of trust management. His deep technical background and highly analytic viewpoints make him a unique and versatile analyst.

John DesJardins is the Chief Architect for the BeNeLux region with Software AG. John has over 15 yrs of enterprise IT experience, including over 10 years of leadership level experience on Enterprise Software projects. He also advises Software AG R&D management on the needs of customers to align product strategy in areas such as SOA Governance, SOA Enablement and BPM.

John works with strategic customers across the BeNeLux region, advising them on SOA architecture and strategy, and helping them to launch major business initiatives and deliver innovative solutions built on our leading BPMS and SOA platforms. Within BeNeLux, some key customers he has assisted include Fortis Bank, T-Mobile, the National Bank of Belgium, and Dresdner Bank.

His past experience has included engagements with Global 2000 business customers such as GE Capital and GE Power Systems, Fidelity Investments, FedEx, Dell, and Verizon as well as US Government clients such as the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the US Navy, and the Defense Logistics Agency.

John has also previously held the role of Program Manager for Integration in webMethods IT team and the role of Senior Product Manager for webMethods B2B. John holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.

John deVadoss leads the Patterns & Practices team at Microsoft. His responsibilities include platform and architecture strategy for the developer tools and the application platform. He has over 15 years of experience in the software industry; he has been at Microsoft for over 10 years, all of it in the enterprise space – as a consultant, as a program manager in the distributed applications platform division, as an architect working with some of Microsoft’s key partners, director of architecture strategy and most recently leading technical strategy for the application platform.

Prior to Microsoft he spent many years as a technology consultant in the financial services industry in Silicon Valley. His areas of interest are broadly in distributed application architectures, data and metadata, systems management and currently on edge architectures (both services and access), but most of all in creating business value from technology investments.

John has a BE in Computer Engineering, and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he also did graduate work towards a PhD in Computer Science - which he hopes to complete at some point in the future.

Thomas Erl is the world's top-selling SOA author, Series Editor of the Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl (www.soabooks.com), and editor of the SOA Magazine (www.soamag.com). With over 120,000 copies in print world-wide, his books have become international bestsellers and have been formally endorsed by senior members of major software organizations, such as IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, BEA, Sun, Intel, SAP, CISCO, and HP.

His most recent titles - SOA Design Patterns and Web Service Contract Design and Versioning for SOA - were co-authored with a series of industry experts and follow his first three books Service-Oriented Architecture: A Field Guide to Integrating XML and Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture: Concepts, Technology, and Design, and SOA Principles of Service Design.

Thomas is currently working with over 20 authors on a number of upcoming titles, including SOA Governance, SOA with .NET, SOA with Java, Modern SOA Infrastructure: Technology, Design, and Governance, and SOA with REST. He is also overseeing the SOAPatterns.org initiative, a community site dedicated to the on-going development of SOA patterns.

Thomas is the founder of SOA Systems Inc. (www.soasystems.com), a company specializing in vendor-neutral SOA consulting and training services. Thomas is also the founder of the internationally recognized SOA Certified Professional program (www.soacp.com and www.soaschool.com). Thomas is a speaker and instructor for private and public events and is regularly invited to Gartner summits. Articles and interviews by Thomas have been published in numerous publications, including the Wall Street Journal and CIO Magazine. For more information, visit: www.thomaserl.com.

Thomas will be speaking at the SOA Symposium and will also be teaching the SOA Architect Certification post-conference workshop from Oct. 26-30, 2009. For more information, visit the Workshop Agendas page.

Gerrit Fokkema graduated in experimental physics at the university of Groningen. After some years teaching at sub-university level he entered the energy and utilities market in 1988, nearly with the start of the first ‘horizontal integrations’ and mergers in the utilities market, slowly heading up for the liberalization and European playing field. First years he was responsible for development of successful new customer information systems and geographical systems. After working for a period of two years in the just opened gas market in the United Kingdom Gerrit got in 2001 heavily involved in setting up the Energy Clearing House (ECH) for the opening Dutch energy market. After a successful start in 2002 he was asked to join the ECH as director ICT for further development of the automated service portfolio, resulting in his current position at EDSN, the successor of ECH.

Marcel Gerardts is independent Solution Architect for CRM implementations. During his 10 years of experience in Siebel applications he developed extensive experience in CRM architecture, performance- and capacity management, application integration and process management in many lines of business (public sector, publishing, telecom, insurance, finance, etc.). He is currently working as Solution Architect at the INDiGO project of IND.

Frederic Gittler is working as senior research engineer and architect at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories (HPLB). Frederic made his entire career in Hewlett Packard, both in the United States and in Europe where he developed products and solutions, delivered consulting, and participated to research in the areas of networking, security, large system architectures, and governance. As representative of HP to the NESSI Steering Committee, Frederic has been a core contributor to both the processes and the deliverables of the initiative. Since the beginning of 2009 he has been unanimously elected as the NESSI SC Chairman.

Alexander den Hartog works as a system architect at Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V., an international dredging company. He is responsible for constructing the enterprise architecture and for making sure that projects conform to it. He started his career as a software engineer at PAC Manufacturing Automation BV. From 1999 till 2002 he started his own company called FibIT B.V. This company employed ten persons and focused on internet related assignments and the development of software for real estate agents. In 2003 Alexander started working as a development specialist middleware & integration at one of his former clients: AXA Insurances in Utrecht. Among others he designed their SOA and implemented interfaces for their outsourcing partner. Later he also integrated BPEL for supporting the total value chain. In 2007 he left AXA to help Boskalis with introducing Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Portals and SOA.

Jason Hogg is an Architect inside the Office of the CTO within WorldWide Services. Jason has worked at Microsoft for 6 years where he has also worked inside Microsoft's Patterns & Practices and Microsoft Research. While at Microsoft Jason has specialized in topics relating to design of distributed applications, with an emphasis on SOA, security and interoperability. Prior to joining Microsoft Jason worked for 12 years as a consultant in the United States, Great Britain and Australia at organizations including The United Nations, WorldNow, J Sainsbury's, British Airways and BankWest . Jason is co-author of a number of books, including Web Service Security Patterns and the recently published SOA Design Patterns book. Jason holds an MSc (CompSci) from University of Washington.

In his role of Principal Technology Officer at Capgemini speaker Sander Hoogendoorn, is involved in the innovation of software development, is agile thought leader and responsible for Capgemini’s agile Accelerated Delivery Platform (ADP). Sander’s expertise ranges from software development processes, software estimation, architecture, patterns, UML, model driven development, .NET and Java. He is a member of Microsoft’s Partner Advisory Council for .NET. Sander has published books on UML and agile, and over 200 articles in (inter)national magazines, such as OBJECTSpectrum, International Developer, DevX, Software Release Magazine, Informatie. Sander is a well known speaker at international conferences, including OOP, JAOO, Javapolis, SDC, TDWI and DevDays. He also hosts seminars and workshops on a range of subjects in the Netherlands and Belgium.

Erwin de Jager studied economics at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. After graduating in 1994, Erwin went to work for the National Social Insurance Institute (LISV). He worked on economic models in connection with the financing of the unemployment fund and led consultations with the representatives of the industries on the amount of the premiums. In 1999, Erwin was working as a Management Consultant and Project Manager for DCE Consultants. He advised and led projects in the National Government (Ministry of Justice), provincial government (South Holland and Gelderland), municipalities (Amsterdam) and financial sector (Interpay) to conceal from the field of information supply function and quality of business processes. From 2005 Erwin works as an independent project and program manager in the Utilities sector. For Eneco Erwin worked as a Information Manager where he brought alignment between business and IT department. In addition he led several projects to improve the quality of the IT function within Eneco. In 2006 Erwin led the project for Energy Clearing House (ECH) to built a Register for Measurement Data for the Dutch energy companies. From 2007 till now he is the project manager for Energy Data Services Netherlands (EDSN) to built a Registry for Connection Data for the regional grid operators in the Netherlands. This project, together with Logica, is one of the biggest SOA implementations in the Netherlands.

Harm Jan is the Professional Service Manager with Verizon Business Netherlands, Middle East & Africa where he is responsible for the consultancy services and team of specialists with The Netherlands, Middle East and Africa. The EMEA practices in the area of PKI & Identity & Access management, Security Operating Centers and PCI Compliancy are under his management. Within his region he is also responsible for the delivery of professional services engagements related to Security Infrastructure Implementation, Ethical Hacking, GRC. In addition he is responsible for the IT Service, Unified Communications and Contact Centers consultancy within his region. Within Verizon Business he is member of the Global Identity & Access Management Council. Harm Jan delivers strategic consulting services to key customers in various industries and government bodies and frequently publishes and presents at various events. Verizon Business has in more than 27 countries delivered PKI solutions and services for both e-ID schemes and Enterprises. Harm Jan holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science of the Middlesex University, UK and his Master Thesis is around Identity Trust Models.

Radovan Janecek is Vice President, Software Engineering at CA. Prior joining CA, Radovan held R&D management and architecture positions at HP Software. He was responsible for service portfolio management R&D delivering products such as HP Service Manager, Asset Manager, Project and Portfolio Manager, IT Analytics, and BTO Data Warehouse. Prior to this role Radovan was Chief Architect of BTO (Business Technology Optimization) product portfolio.

Prior this role, Radovan spent eight years on SOA first as co-founder of SOA startup company Systinet (2000), as an R&D VP for SOA Center at Mercury (2006) that acquired Systinet, and as R&D director of HP SOA Center (2007)

Prior starting Systinet, Radovan worked as researcher at IBM T. J. Watson Research Institute.

Radovan holds MSc in computer science.

Nicolai Josuttis is an independent system architect, technical manager, author, and consultant. He is a well-known expert for bringing SOA strategies into operation. As a key player for the SOA realization at well-known companies such as T-Mobile and Volkswagen, he speaks and writes with authority (being the author of 'SOA in Practice', 'The C++ Standard Library' and 'C++ Templates').

With his partner, Jutta Eckstein, expert for agility in large and global systems, you will find two world-leading experts for the successful realization of large and distributed IT projects (see IT-communication.com).

Dirk has been dealing with the challenges of enterprise IT and distributed software architectures throughout his entire working life. He devoted himself to SOA in 2001 when he joined Shinka Technologies, a start-up company and platform vendor in the early days of XML-based Web services. Since then, Dirk has acquired a rich set of real world experience with this upcoming new paradigm both from the view point of a platform vendor and from the perspective of software projects in different industry verticals.

Writing the book Enterprise SOA was an issue of personal concern to him as it provided the opportunity to share his experiences and many insights into the nature of enterprise IT with his readers.

Today, Dirk works for SOAPARK, applying the guiding principles outlined in this book. Dirk has a Ph.D. in Natural Science and an MSc in Computer Science. He is married, farther of two kids, and lives in Dusseldorf, Germany.

Francois Lascelles is the Technical Director, Europe for Layer 7 Technologies, a leading provider of SOA governance and security solutions. Francois advises global corporations and governments in designing and implementing secure SOA and cloud based systems. Francois recently presented at JBoss World, Javacaps Horizons, Zapthink SOA and SOA Telecom. Francois is co-author of the upcoming book "SOA Security: Practices, Patterns, and Technologies for Securing Services" for the "Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl" book and has been published by DM Review and SOA WS Journal on topics relating to WS Security performance, Identity Federation and Loose Coupling.

Arnaud is a Senior Manager with Logica responsible for Telecom mobile and Cloud services. Prior to joining Logica in 2008, his responsibilities included consultancy, business management and marketing in a range of companies from innovative telecom and a mobile start-up "Wokup!" to EDS Consulting Services. Arnaud has recently been assisting clients to understand and address major business and technology issues that face mobile 2.0 and SaaS businesses.

Art Ligthart is a partner with Ordina, a large IT services provider in The Netherlands. He specialises in Service Oriented Architecture. His main drive is to use SOA as an enabler in solutions for business process improvement and enhanced business agility.

He has published several articles and books on application architecture, including a book with best practices for the successful implementation of SOA ('SOA. Een praktische leidraad voor invoering: Socrates' (SDU, 2005), and a book which will be launched at the symposium, 'Service Oriented Architecture: de volgende fase' (SDU, 2008).

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Brian Loesgen is a Principal SOA Architect with Microsoft. Based in San Diego. Brian is a 6-time Microsoft MVP for BizTalk Server, and has been involved with BizTalk since prior to the BizTalk Server 2000 beta. Brian has extensive experience in building sophisticated enterprise, ESB and SOA solutions. Brian was a key architect/developer of the "Microsoft ESB Guidance", initially released by Microsoft in Oct 2006. He is a co-author of 6 books, including "BizTalk Server 2004 Unleashed", and is currently working on "SOA with .NET". He has written technical white papers for Intel, Microsoft and others.

Brian has spoken at numerous major technical conferences worldwide. Brian is a co-founder and past-President of the International .NET Association (ineta.org), and past-President of the San Diego .NET user group, where he continues to lead the Connected Systems SIG, and is a member of the Editorial Board for the .NET Developer's Journal. Brian was also a member of the Microsoft Connected Systems Division Virtual Technical Specialist Team pilot, and is part of Microsoft's Connected Systems Advisory Board.

Brian has been blogging since 2003 at http://blog.BrianLoesgen.com.

Brian Lokhorst, SOACP currently works as solution architect for the new Declarations Management System (DMS) of the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration (DTCA). This system has to comply to the legislation of the European Community as described in the MASP (Multi Annual Strategic Plan). Before that he worked as an integration-technology architect in the program responsible for getting the DTCA transformed into a service oriented organization, with a special focus on Web services and the use of ESB-technology for its technical implementation. Before that he was responsible as technical team lead and senior infrastructure developer for the B2B-integration implemented with Web services and ESB-technology between two government agencies. Before that he was responsible for developing the ICT-service portfolio architecture and the architecture of software factories for the DTCA.

Brian is a Certified SOA Architect and IBM Certified RUP 7.1 Solution Designer. Brian holds an MSc in Business Economics & ICT from the University of Groningen and a BSc in International Business Economics from the School of Business and Economics at Windesheim University. Brian was a contributor for the SOA Design Patterns book where he provided research materials that helped establish relationships between SOA design patterns and previously documented enterprise integration patterns. Most recently, Brian has been participating as a technical reviewer for the Modern SOA Infrastructure: Technology, Design, and Governance title. Brian further helped develop Enterprise Architecture (EA) description language called 'Archimate' in 2004. Archimate has been released to the 'Open Group' as official standard by June 2008.

Chris Madrid is a Solution Architect at Microsoft, where he is a member of the Enterprise SOA Solutions Team. The team focuses on helping customers reach their full potential by implementing service-orientation concepts on the Microsoft platform.

Prior to Microsoft, Chris worked in service-orientation as a Senior Solution Architect at Avanade, an Accenture and Microsoft joint-venture consultancy. Chris has published several articles covering service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Web services technologies, and has delivered numerous talks and presentations at conferences and architectural forums.

Some of his recent publications are Relating Master Data Management to SOA and SOA Realization through Service Virtualization.

Linus Malmberg is founder and CEO of Cordial Business Advisers. During the 1990s he was pioneering BPR – Business Process Reengineering in Scandinavia amongst the region’s most successful companies and organizations. Mr. Malmberg has devoted his consulting work to develop adaptive organizations and carry through large transformations and the implementation of new business models. In 2007 he launched the training program Certified Business Architect in Sweden in order to establish a new profession: The Business Architect. The need to bridge the gap between business and IT is necessary in order to create the business models of the merging service economy. Today, more than 200 people have attended the twelve day program and have started a revolution in business development.

Anne Thomas Manes is the Vice President and research director for Burton Group Application Platform Strategies. She covers service-oriented architecture (SOA), web services, XML, governance, Java, application servers, superplatforms, and application security.

Prior to joining Burton Group, Anne was former chief technology officer at Systinet, a SOA governance vendor (now part of HP) and director of market innovation in Sun Microsystems's software group. With 28 years of experience, Anne was named one of the 50 most powerful people in networking 2002 by Network World and among the "Power 100 IT Leaders," by Enterprise Systems Journal.

Anne has authored "Web Services: A Manager's Guide" (Addison-Wesley, 2003) and contributed the foreword for the new book "Next Generation SOA" (Prentice Hall, 2009). Anne has also participated in Web services standards development efforts at the W3C, OASIS, WS-I, and JCP.

Markus Mazur works as an IT Business Consultant for SOAPARK, a consulting company dedicated to strategy, organization, and architecture for SOA and BPM. Markus studied Business Administration at the University of Cologne where he gained a great amount of experience in the application of cost-benefit calculation in the IT area. At SOAPARK Markus is engaged in projects which are aimed at the introduction of Service Repositories. As an intermediary between IT and Business Departments he is familiar with the different needs of the distinct groups of users and is actively involved in the organization of Service Repositories. Convinced of the fact that a Service Repository is a central planning, monitoring and communication tool for an SOA, he deals with the question of what a perfect Service Repository should look like. Apart from his activity as an SOA Consultant Markus works on commercial Web 2.0 applications where he moves within the triangle of aesthetics, simplicity and ergonomics.

Joe McKendrick is an author and independent analyst who tracks the impact of information technology on management and markets. His popular 'Service Oriented Architecture' blog is published regularly at the ZDNet site. Joe is also SOA community manager for ebizQ, and speaks frequently on Enterprise 2.0 and SOA topics at industry events and Webcasts. He also serves as lead analyst and author of Evans Data Corp's highly regarded bi-annual SOA/Web Services and Web 2.0 surveys. Joe writes a regular column for Database Trends & Applications, and has authored numerous research reports in partnership with Unisphere Research for user groups such as SHARE, Oracle Applications Users Group, and International DB2 Users Group. In a previous life, Joe served as director of the Administrative Management Society (AMS), an international professional association dedicated to advancing knowledge within the IT and business management fields.

Paul Mooney is an Associate of the Irish Institute of Pensions Managers and of the Pensions Management Institute. He worked for over ten years in some of the largest employee benefits and insurance companies in Ireland covering a wide range of roles from pensions administrator to financial services consultant. Having moved into IT in that industry he also developed many applications in support of these disciplines.

In the last thirteen years Paul has founded three software development and consultancy companies. He has, during the course of this career, fulfilled the roles of developer, analyst, architect and CEO. For the seven years to 2008 he was CEO of his company which was based in Dublin and had its development arm based just outside Islamabad. This company specialised in web based development with government and private company clients in Ireland and the UK.

Paul is currently a director of SOA Solutions, a Dublin based company which he co-founded with his partner Mr. Stephen Maher. SOA Solutions provides consultancy and training services in the area of distributed software development specialising in Service Oriented Architecture. He is also an SOA Systems associate and Certified SOA Trainer.

Mario Moreno is a Project Director and International Expert on SOA and Agile Practises. He works for LOGICA Management Consulting Company and manages the Skill Centers on IT Strategy, SOA Governance and Agile Methods. He’s also the author of the Logica GO-ON Service-Oriented Enterprise Methodology used by many companies such as the French Ministry of Defense. Responsible of LMC International SOA Methodology, he is involved in many Projects as International Expert for defining SOA Program Strategy and Roadmap, Introducing SOA Methodology and Governance, Training and Coaching SOA Business Analysts, Architects, Designers and Developers. He’s responsible of the Logica Consultants SOA training and certification. Mario has 26 years experience on Project and Programme Management, Architecture and Methodology in more than 30 big companies in many sectors: industry, space, banks, insurance, retail, defense. He’s also an expert on IT Strategy, IT Governance and Enterprise Architecture.

Michael Musgrove is a developer with 20+ years experience building distributed systems using CORBA, JEE and OSI. He currently works in the transactions team at Red Hat, Inc implementing Java and C++ solutions for the middleware market. Prior to his role at Red Hat Michael was involved with a variety of technologies including software and hardware fault tolerance, management of distributed systems and systems management products for servers. His latest interests include how to apply these experiences in a REST setting.

Prakash Narayan is Senior Engineering Manager at Sun Microsystems Inc. He is currently looking at enabling a social networking paradigm for building social applications. That is to build the social web, using the social web. Prakash has been employed at Sun Microsystems for 15+ years. At Sun, he initially worked on providing solutions for High Performance Computing - debugging and analysis tools for multi-threaded and multi-process applications. Subsequently, he worked on Enterprise Java tools. Prakash holds a Masters in Computer Science from IIT, Delhi and a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS), Pilani, India.

Prakash has filed for several patents and is a co-author of the book 'Delivering SOA - Using the Java Enterprise Edition Platform' to be published by Prentice Hall in 2008.

For more information, visit his blog.

Sven-Hakan Olsson is an independent consultant, course leader and speaker with focus on application architecture, SOA and Cloud Computing. Since 1977, he has worked in a large number of IT development projects, ranging from embedded microcontrollers to main-frames. He has carried out modelling, architecture design and programming in diverse business areas. He has also specialized in reviews of problem projects.

Sven-Hakan Olsson holds an MScEE from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. In 2008, he was appointed one of the "top developers in Sweden" by the magazine IDG Computer Sweden. Sven-Hakan co-founded the Swedish consultant company Know IT (publ) 1990 and held board and management positions there for 13 years before returning to be an independent consultant.

Cesare Pautasso is assistant professor in the new Faculty of Informatics at the University of Lugano, Switzerland. Previously he was a researcher at the IBM Zurich Research Lab and a senior researcher at ETH Zurich. His research focuses on building experimental systems to explore the intersection of model-driven software composition techniques, business process modeling languages, and autonomic/Grid computing.

Recently he has developed an interest in Web 2.0 Mashups and Architectural Decision Modeling. He is the lead architect of JOpera, a powerful rapid service composition tool for Eclipse. His teaching and training activities both in academia and in industry cover advanced topics related to Web Development, Middleware, Service Oriented Architectures and emerging Web services technologies.

For more information, visit www.pautasso.info.

Tom is an SOA architect with SOA Systems Inc. specializing in Cloud Computing with a focus on projects in both the public sector and private sectors. Earlier this year, he was part of a team that designed an analytical data tools solution for cloud data leveraging Apache Hadoop, Data Mashups, and SOA.

Tom is a member of the author team for the book "SOA and Cloud Computing" which is scheduled for release in 2010 as part of the Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series. He has written and published technical documents on topics such as Cloud Computing, Java, and SOA.

Tom will be teaching the SOA Analyst Certification post-conference workshop from Oct. 26-30, 2009. For more information, visit the Workshop Agendas page.

Steve Pope is Vice President Northern Europe for AmberPoint, Inc. Steve has over 20 years experience working in the distributed systems space in a variety of roles on both the end user and supplier sides. For the last 5 years, Steve has specialised in SOA governance and has advised many large-scale SOA adopters across EMEA. Prior to AmberPoint, Steve has worked for the UK Ministry of Defence, Informix, Forte Software and webMethods.

Before joining salesforce.com, David Van Puyvelde spent 4 years as Managing Director at ABSI, a System Integrator and Salesforce partner since 2002. Previous to that he was a team leader and project manager at various system integration and enterprise development projects in the Benelux market. Today, David is one of salesforce.com's platform specialists in EMEA, with has a strong focus on Force.com - Platform as a Service solutions.

Thomas holds a Ph.D. in Parallel Computing from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He engages with the world-wide SOA community, is a frequent speaker and book author (co-author of "SOA Design Patterns" and "Modern SOA Infrastructure: Technology, Design, and Governance" within the Prentice Hall SOA Series).

Thomas currently works as an IT architect and business developer with [ipt], a local SOA consulting boutique with a Java technology focus (see Gartner's Guide to SOA Consulting). He is a member of the extended [ipt] board and responsible for the sales process and new client business. Thomas has a track record of successful SOA introduction and delivery projects-often built around ESB platforms. He specializes in SOA reference architectures, SOA design patterns and SOA security.

Prior to joining [ipt] Thomas was a senior engineer with Hewlett Packard's middleware division. After the HP-Compaq merger in 2001, part of the middleware division was spun out. Thomas was part of that move and took the role of solutions architect in the newly founded company, Arjuna Ltd.

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Ian Robinson is a Principal Consultant with ThoughtWorks, where he specializes in creating sustainable service-oriented development capabilities that align business and IT from inception through to operation. He has written guidance for Microsoft on implementing service-oriented systems with Microsoft technologies, and has published articles on RESTful enterprise development, business-oriented development methodologies, and distributed systems design - most recently in The ThoughtWorks Anthology (Pragmatic Programmers, 2008). He is currently co-authoring a book on Web-friendly enterprise software.

You can read Ian's blog at http://iansrobinson.com.

Jean Rodrigues is Director of Corporate Solutions at Seed Technology Solutions, a SOA specialized consultancy company in Brazil. He's an SOA evangelist, delivering several speeches regarding SOA Governance, SOA Methodologies, and strategies to adopt SOA efficiently. Jean has over 14 years experience delivering large scale SOA and enterprise Java applications, including mission critical platforms. He also writes articles regarding SOA, Identity & Access Management and Java technologies.

Eric Roovers is a senior consultant with IDS Scheer and responsible for IDS Scheer’s service-oriented and enterprise architecture solutions for the Dutch market. He is committed to optimizing change processes within organizations and helping them to work under architecture

Satadru is a Senior SOA Architect with Sun Microsystems, Canada where he consults with clients to provide architecture and design guidance for their SOA initiatives. In the past, Satadru worked as a consultant and product engineer at well-known Java software vendors such as BEA Systems, Inc. He has extensive experience in middleware, application integration and BPM and is a strong proponent of open source based integration technologies. Satadru is currently working with a number of authors from IBM and Oracle on a book dedicated to building SOA with Java.

Jaap Schekkerman is the President and Founder of the Institute For Enterprise Architecture Developments (IFEAD) in the Netherlands. This institute works closely with other research organisations, institutes and universities around the world to create an independent platform for Enterprise Architecture research, developments and knowledge exchange.

Mr. Schekkerman is running IFEAD in parallel with his Enterprise Architecture Opinion Leader activities for Logica Management Consulting the Netherlands, where he is practicing his Enterprise Architecture knowledge, experience and research.

Mr. Schekkerman has worked for more than 35 years in the Business, IT and Consultants world, with 25 years experience managing large, complex enterprise architecture programs in the Defense world, the Governmental area, travel industry and high tech industry. He is giving lectures on Enterprise Architecture at several Universities and received an engineer's degree in electronic engineering and information technology and a degree in clinical chemistry and business economics.

Jaap Schekkerman has published several methods, frameworks and articles and he is the (co)-author of more than 10 books on topics related to Enterprise Architecture Management. His most well known books are: How to survive in the jungle of Enterprise Architecture Frameworks, The Economic Benefits of Enterprise Architecture, The Enterprise Architecture Good Practices Guide and How to Manage the Enterprise Architecture Practice, all published by Trafford Publishing, Canada. He is a frequently invited speaker at national and international congresses and symposia.

Tony Shan is a renowned expert and technology visionary working in the computing field for 20+ years with extensive experience and guru-level knowledge on systems designs, architecture engineering, portfolio rationalization, product development, process standardization, and SDLC. Holding three advanced degrees and multiple industry certifications as a chief/enterprise architect, he has directed the lifecycle design and development of large-scale award-winning distributed systems on diverse platforms. He has initiated advanced applied research and prototyping on emerging computing technologies and methodology, and has played a crucial role of a hands-on strategist in leading establishing IT strategies and architecture blueprints, coupled with pragmatic technology roadmaps and enterprise architecture standards/policies, for IT governance and portfolio/asset management in several Fortune 100 international organizations. He serves as a mentor/advisor on leading-edge technologies in various technical committees and advisory boards, and teaches courses as an adjunct professor. In addition to dozens of top-notch refereed technical publications, he has authored over 10 books on next-generation technologies. He is a member of numerous professional associations and honorary society, a frequent keynote speaker and Chair/Panel/Advisor/Organizing Committee in prominent conferences/workshops, an editor/editorial advisory board member of respected IT research journals/books, and a founder of a few user groups and forums.

Steve Ross-Talbot is the Chief Architect, Cognizant Technology Solutions. Steve has been involved in computational science since 1975 - a long long time. He has published various papers over the years too. His main interests are centered on using formal methods to build robust distributed systems. The idea of getting it right and proving it has been a driving force for Steve, this is why SOA, BPMN, BPMN2, SOAML and WS-CDL are close to his heart along with formal techniques for modeling, verification and simulation and form the basis much that he does at both the Pi4Technologies Foundation and Cognizant Technology Solutions.

Linda Terlouw works as an IT Architect in the field of SOA at Icris B.V. She advises large corporations about the gradual migration towards a service-oriented way of thinking and the use of ESB technology for its technical implementation. Before starting Icris, Linda worked for several large companies like IBM and Ordina. When she was working at Ordina she assisted Boskalis in constructing their enterprise architecture. Linda holds both an MSc in Computer Science and an MSc in Business Information Technology from the University of Twente. Currently she is pursuing a PhD in Computer Science at the Delft University of Technology. The focus of this research is the specification of services working from DEMO models. The research is part of the CIAO! Program.

Stefan Tilkov is co-founder and a principal consultant at innoQ, a consulting firm with offices in Germany and Switzerland. Stefan focuses on enterprise architecture consulting for Fortune 1000 companies, which currently translates to assessing SOA maturity and deriving appropriate steps for a road map towards a service-oriented enterprise. Stefan has been involved in the design of large-scale, distributed systems for more than 15 years, using a variety of technologies and tools ranging from C/C++ and CORBA over J2EE/Java EE and Web Services to REST and Ruby on Rails. In his current work, he is actively participating in SOA projects using both RESTful HTTP as well as the WS-* universe. Stefan is the author of "REST und HTTP" and co-edited the German SOA book "SOA Expertenwissen", has written numerous articles on SOA, Web services and REST and is a frequent speaker at conferences around the world. He is a member of the SOA Manifesto Working Group, the JAX-RS (JSR 311) expert group, and headed InfoQ's SOA queue for several years.

Ir. Wouter Paul Trienekens (1961) is Principal Consultant specialised in Enterprise & Solution Architecture and Logica's NL Practice Lead for Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise Service Architecture, part of the group wide IT Strategy & Transformation Practice of Logica.

Wouter Paul is founder of the Research Centre for Enterprise Architecture, Member of the NL Architecture Council within Logica and member of the group core team on Enterprise Architecture & SOA.. With these teams he is establishing the professional (architecting) community and guiding the the curriculum development, training, coaching & certification of Architects and coaching project engagements.

He is Logica's representative for the NESSI:NEXOF-RA programme (service reference architecture) of the European Committee and for the National Architecture Forum (www.naf.nl).

Wouter Paul is chairman of the Dutch Information Architects Society (www.GIA.nl) and architecture editor of the Magazine on Information & Management (www.TIEM.biz). He frequently speaks on seminars and facilitates training workshops and is the Chief Editor of the Information Architecture syllabus of Euroforum.

Before he was appointed Principal Consultant he held the position of Project Director. Typical assignments are in the area of IT Strategy, IT Governance, Large scale IT implementations & Information Architecture.

Wouter Paul has over 20 years consultancy experience in the area of IT Infrastructure, Network & Systems Management, System Architecture, IT Management and Project Management. During the past decade he focussed on Information Architecture and the alignment of Business Strategy and IT Transition.

Clemens works for the SOA Product Management team at Oracle Headquarters, CA. As a native Austrian, he started his career years Oracle/Austria consulting branch, helping customers designing their next generation J2EE and SOA architectures as well as doing crisis management for projects abroad. Since his transfer almost 3 years ago into the Product Management group, Clemens is responsible for cross product integration - and these days the advisor for SOA to Oracle Fusion Applications development as well as an advisory member of the Applications Architecture Board.

He is a frequent speaker at worldwide conferences (Oracle Open World, JAX, OOP, ODTUG) and published many articles in known industry journals on SOA and related challenges.

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Jan Verbeek is one of the founders of Be Informed and has been part of the Be Informed team from the very beginning. Jan is responsible for plotting the roadmap for the further development of the product. Jan supports and advises clients in their implementation of Be Informed, a solution for making knowledge in processes productive, with the motto 'from the possession of knowledge to the application of knowledge'. Because of his extensive knowledge in the field of application architecture and middleware components, Jan is frequently asked to help set up enterprise architectures. At present his focus is directed primarily at designing knowledge architectures for structurally recording knowledge in semantic networks. Recording the knowledge structurally in this way enables knowledge employees to access the specific knowledge they need in the primary process. In a career spanning 21 years, Jan has worked for large organisations such as the Belastingdienst (Dutch Tax Authorities), UWV (Institute for Employee Benefit Schemes), CWI (Centre for Work and Income), TNT Post, Achmea, ABN Amro, Wehkamp, Raad voor de Kinderbescherming (Child Care and Protection Board), the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Justice.

Richard Watson is an analyst for Burton Group Application Platform Strategies. He covers service-oriented architecture (SOA), cloud computing, and business process management. Prior to joining Burton Group, Richard was VP of enterprise architecture for Credit Suisse, leading efforts to adopt SOA, reference data architecture, and Java. While at Credit Suisse Richard led project design reviews, patterns and practices initiatives and capital expenditure reviews for the CTO architecture group. He was also Principal Engineer and technical lead at both CapeClear and IONA Technologies. With 15 years in IT Richard has proven experience delivering systems in mission-critical environments and leading teams developing quality software.

Dr. Jim Webber is the Global Head of Architecture for ThoughtWorks where he works with clients on delivering dependable service-oriented systems. Jim was formerly a senior researcher with the UK E-Science programme where he developed strategies for aligning Grid computing with Web Services practices and architectural patterns for dependable Service-Oriented computing. Jim has extensive Web Services architecture and development experience as an architect with Arjuna Technologies and was the lead developer with Hewlett-Packard on the industry's first Web Services Transaction solution.

Jim is an active speaker in the Web Services space and is co-author of the book "Developing Enterprise Web Services - An Architect's Guide" in addition to being a contributing author to other books and articles. Jim holds a B.Sc. in Computing Science and Ph.D. in Parallel Computing both from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

For more information, visit his blog.

Michael Widjaja is Partner and Senior Executive with Accenture and is responsible for the Technology Architecture practice in the Netherlands. Accenture Technology Architecture looks at how technology and innovation can help clients reach and become High performance Organizations. His expertise covers design, implementation and operations of complex architecture solutions and service oriented architectures (SOA, Mashups, SaaS) and internet and Web 2.0 technologies.

Herbjorn works as a consultant at Forefront Consulting Group in Stockholm, Sweden and specializes in SOA and Business Architecture. He has many years of industry experience working as a developer, development manager, architect and teacher. Herbjorn has worked with customers in several fields of operations like telecommunications, marketing, payment industry, healthcare and public services. He leads the "Business to IT" group in the Swedish chapter of IASA (International Association of Software Architects) and has published several technical articles in Sweden as well as internationally

Herbjorn and is active as a book author in the Prentice Hall SOA series. He has been working with the "SOA Desgin Patterns" book and is currently co-authoring the "SOA with .Net & Azure" book.

Herbjorn holds a B.Sc. from Stockholm University.

Torsten Winterberg works as Director Strategy and Innovation and Head of Competence Center SOA at OPITZ CONSULTING GmbH. He has a great deal of experience in building Java EE applications as fulfilling the roles of trainer, project coach and architect. His special interests include the design and development of complex IT systems based upon BPM, BPEL, ESB and service-oriented architectures in general.

Dennis Wisnosky is the Chief Technology Officer and Chief Architect of the Business Mission Area in the Office of the Deputy Chief Management Officer, U.S. Department of Defense. He is recognized as a creator of the Integrated Definition language, the standard for modeling and analysis in management and business improvement efforts. Wisnosky holds a bachelor's degree in physics and mathematics from California University of Pennsylvania, a master's in management science from the University of Dayton, and a master's in electrical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. Dennis most recently contributed content to the book SOA Design Patterns.