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Ingo works as an Enterprise Systems Architect for Novartis Pharma AG in Switzerland. As a member of Novartis' global Strategy and Architecture group Ingo's focus areas today are conceptual design and implementation of IT-system architectures in the SOA as well as the Identity and Access Management fields. Also Ingo has a chair at the Pharma Enterprise Architecture board at Novartis. Beyond his engagement for Novartis, Ingo gives software architecture and software design patterns lectures at a german university, where SOA has become one of his major fields of research.

Lars is Vice President Sales Enablement in Software AG’s headquarters. In his current role, he is responsible for the positioning of SOA solutions for different vertical markets. With his background as a business analyst focused on SOA and BPM, Lars assures that Software AG’s SOA suite meets customer’s requirements at both the business and the IT level. This includes the definition of market strategies for specific vertical markets as well as the responsibility for Software AG’s Competence Centers (among others for government, banking and insurance). He has more than 8 years of experience in the IT industry in the area of integration technologies, SOA, BPM and ERP. Lars joined Software AG in 2001 and has worked with strategic partners and in solution sales for Software AG prior to his current role.

Mr. Hall is the Product Manager for HP Software's SOA Center. His personal SOA journey originally started at Talking Blocks in 2001 where he was Vice President of Professional Services and Support. Talking Blocks, one of the original ISVs focused on SOA Management, was acquired by HP in 2003. During his time with HP, Mr. Hall has been driving SOA adoption within and across the entire software portfolio and he has recently returned to focus on productizing what he's learned about SOA adoption across the life cycle of services including aspects of Governance, Quality and Management. With over 15 years experience in implementing mission critical systems for Fortune 500 companies and building products for emerging businesses, Mr. Hall brings a wealth of expertise to HP Software including product management, delivery, R&D and support. Mr. Hall holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Claremont McKenna College in Science and Management with a concentration in Physics.

*1959; PhD in Mathematics 1988 at Dorodnicyn Computing Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow; 1992 change from Mathematics to Software Development; many years as Software Developer, Software Architect, IT Architect for several companies: Cartography Software Company MACON, Insurance Company Münchener Verein, Insurance Software Company FJH; today IT Architect of Swiss Life Germany, responsible for Technological Direction and Strategy and IT Enterprise Architecture

John has over fifteen years of experience as a technical leader at all organization levels, designing, developing, and managing large-scale, object-oriented solutions in traditional and network architectures. He is the chief architect of iTKO's LISA automated testing product and a leading industry advocate for software quality. Before forming iTKO, Michelsen was Director of Development at Trilogy Inc., and VP of Development at AGENCY.COM. He has been titled Chief Technical Architect at companies like Raima, Sabre, and Xerox while performing as a consultant. Through work with clients like Cendant Financial, Microsoft, American Airlines, Union Pacific and Nielsen Market Research, John has deployed solutions using technologies from the mainframe to the handheld device.

A graduate in civil engineering, Florian Mösch is a VP of Enterprise Integration & Architecture at T-Mobile Deutschland GmbH. He is responsible for all integration architecture matters and the corresponding technologies and standards. In 1999, he took over the leadership of the main department IS Engineering Services in IS application development. From 2004 on, he has specialized in integration technologies. Among others, Mr. Mösch was responsible for implementing a T-Mobile-wide EAI backbone. In March 2005, he became responsible for the European unit of T-Mobile associations for Enterprise Integration. Besides the operative responsibility for development and deployment, Mr. Mösch also looks after all strategic aspects of integration for the European T-Mobile Group. As Deutsche Telekom moves toward convergence for fixed and mobile customers in Germany, he is involved in architectural and integration topics on the Deutsche Telekom Group level.

*1952; first IT project at Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen in 1974: IT based analysis in historical demograhics; 1984/85 qualification as Media Consultant BTX ; 1985-87 Trainer and Systems Engineer for commercial standard software, Rhein-Main Rechenzentrum, Frankfurt/Main;1987-95 SE for Systems Integration and Program Marketing Manager, Software AG, Darmstadt; 1995-99 Technical Account Manager at Oracle Deutschland Dreieich-Sprendlingen with leading transport and logistics customers, 1999 Principal Systems Engineer, BEA Systems GmbH, Neu-Isenburg; speaker and author in the field of Service Oriented Architecture, convergence in telecommunications and event processing / RFID.

Ronald Schmelzer, Managing Partner and founder, is a well-known expert in the field of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, and XML-based standards. Ron has been featured in and has written for periodicals, and has spoken at numerous industry conferences and in front of some of the largest busineses in the world.

Ron Schmelzer was the lead author of XML And Web Services Unleashed (SAMS 2002) as well as co-author ofService-Orient or Be Doomed (Wiley 2006) with Jason Bloomberg, due to be released in 2006. Ron has served as the chair of the RosettaNet Cluster 1 Workgroup, working group member of CPExchange, member of the UDDI advisory group, and was a member of the CompTIA Electronic Commerce Standards Board (ECSB). Prior to ZapThink, Ron was founder, CTO, and "ePostle of Partners" of ChannelWave Software, as well as founder and President of VirtuFlex Software, and founder and CEO of VirtuMall, one of the first online eCommerce sites in 1994.

Ron was named "Geek of the Week" in Internet Magazine and was listed in Boston Magazine's Internet Top 40. Ron received a B.S. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Xavier Weibel is responsible for the technical strategy for Application and Enabling Services at Swisscom AG, Switzerland. In this position, he leads the architectural definition of the service infrastructure for next-generation networks. Before joining Swisscom Mobile, Xavier was the head of a laboratory of France Telecom R&D in San Francisco, CA in charge of middleware and Web services. He was a guest speaker at Stanford Networking Research Center, CA. Xavier holds a Masters degree in Computer Science, Management and Networks from Toulouse University, France.