Akmal B. Chaudhri has been working with objects and databases for over ten years. He has published and presented widely on Java, XML and Database-related topics at many international conferences, including Object World, Object Technology and OOPSLA. He has also served on the program committees for a number of major conferences and workshops and has edited or co-edited four books and four workshop proceedings, including: XML Data Management (Addison-Wesley, 2003), Java and Databases (Hermes Penton Science, 2002), Succeeding with Object Databases (John Wiley & Sons, 2000), and Object Databases in Practice (Prentice-Hall, 1998). He has worked in a variety of roles, covering development, consultancy and product strategy with Reuters, Logica, Computer Associates and Informix. He holds a BSc (1st Class Hons.) in Computing & Information Systems, MSc in Business Systems Analysis & Design and a PhD in Computer Science. He is also a Member of the British Computer Society (MBCS) and a Chartered Engineer.

Session Achieving Enterprise Application Security

Session Making the most of Eclipse

Chairman of the Board, CEO and CTO Fiorano Software, Inc.

Atul Saini founded Fiorano Software, Inc. in 1995 with the vision of bringing an architectural revolution in the realm of business integration. Today, Fiorano provides the most comprehensive Enterprise Class Integration middleware powering Enterprise Nervous Systems of Fortune 500 companies spread across fast-growing sectors such as telecommunications, health, technology, financial services, government, manufacturing, retail and transportation.

Mr. Saini's vision of integration architecture is redefining business integration technologies today. While other EAI vendors are struggling with archaic monolithic architectures, Fiorano's innovative product, Fiorano ESB, is the only solution built ground up with a fully distributed architecture and a completely standards based approach. Mr. Saini also innovated the concept of SOA Implementation Frameworks (SOAIF) - new generation infrastructure platform software which combines the ESB, BPM, and service-oriented integration approaches. This pioneering concept solved the needs of event-based, process-driven, service-oriented integration of the mission-critical and highly distributed IT environment.

He is also one of the first entrepreneurs to realize the power of Java and JMS, Mr. Saini led Fiorano to become the very first company to release a commercial Java product based on Sun Microsystem's Java Message Service. Today, Fiorano's messaging product, FioranoMQ, is the acknowledged leading Java messaging server in the high growth messaging middleware market.

Mr. Saini has over 15 years of experience in the software industry. He has been a contributing member of the C++ Standards Committee and published an authoritative work on the subject "C++ Programming with the Standard Template Library" (Addison Wesley). He is a Board Member of the EAI Industry Consortium and member of the BPMI.org Standards organization.

Prior to founding Fiorano, Mr. Saini founded Modena Software Inc. which is a leading provider of C++ and Java Test Suites and Libraries. Prior to that, Mr. Saini led compiler development at HAL Computer Systems which was later taken over by Fujitsu of Japan. Mr. Saini holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) at Madras.

Session Simplifying SOA

Director of Technologies and Marketing, APAC BORLAND DEVELOPER TOOLS GROUP

Malcolm is Asia Pacific Director of Technologies and Marketing for the Developer Tools Group of Borland Software Corporation. In this role, Malcolm is responsible for product direction, technical evangelism and marketing for products such as Borland Developer Studio (including Delphi, C++Builder and C#Builder), the Turbo products, JBuilder and InterBase. Prior to this role, Malcolm was the Director of Products – Asia Pacific, responsible for business development, technical management & sales for Borland’s Developer Tools Group across Asia Pacific. Malcolm has nearly 20 years experience with Borland technologies, and first joined Borland in 1997.

Before joining Borland, Malcolm was Senior Consultant at Madrigal Technologies, specialising in the design and implementation of Business To Business and Enterprise Application Integration systems, using a mix of both Java and Microsoft technologies. Malcolm was also responsible for the successful development and deployment of projects throughout Asia, for several leading Telecommunications companies. Based in Sydney, Australia, Malcolm is a regular presenter at developer conferences in Asia, the United States and Europe, as well as an Instructor for Borland Delphi, C++Builder and JBuilder training courses. He has also regularly written for developer magazines, including The Delphi Magazine.

Malcolm holds a Bachelor of Applied Science from the Queensland University of Technology, with a double-major in Computer Science and Data Communications. In spite of the fact that he now has to wear a suit a lot of the time, he is still a developer at heart and has been programming everything from embedded devices to IBM mainframes since he discovered, much to his astonishment 20 years ago, that people were actually willing to pay him to do something he loves.

Session JBuilder 2007: productive team working on the Eclipse platform

IBM

Randel D. Powell, PMP^® manages the Developer Skills team for IBM’s World Wide ISV & Developer Relations team. Randy and his team of technical and business industry professionals work closely with developers, business IT professionals along with collegiate MIS and CIS faculty to exchange information on the latest technologies, standards, and tools. Through the developerWorks Web, developerWorks Live! and IBM Business Perspective events, the team provides briefings, articles, tutorials, demos, webcasts, and workshops globally.

As an experienced global technology professional, he is also a certified project management professional (PMP^®) with over twenty years of consulting, management and project management responsibilities, primarily for the Computer Software and Hardware Development Industries. Previous positions include General Manager with DisCopyLabs, Inc. (www.discopylabs.com ) and World-wide Manufacturing Engineering Operations Manager with Autodesk, Inc. (www.autodesk.com ). He was the Director of Strategic Development with Nimbus, Inc. (now part of www.technicolor.com ), in 1996, when he was recruited into IBM in 1996 to support the development, implementation and support of global SAP business transactions systems for Y2K preparedness. In between his two tours of duty with IBM, he spent a year consulting as a Senior Manager with Ernst & Young's Operations and Technology group as part of the Mergers & Acquisitions practice. His international experience includes management of localized technical IT, supply chain, operations and technical marketing/sales support teams in Asia Pacific, Europe, North & South America.  You can contact Randy at randelp@us.ibm.com.

Session SOA: The Core of Business Process Management

Session Lifecycle Management Solutions