Open Standards Forum | Presenters

Arne Ansper, Cybernetica, Estonia

Arne Ansper is working as a Development Manager for Cybernetica AS - Estonian based R&D Company, active in the fields of information security, data communication, telematics and visual navigation systems. Arne Ansper has been working as an architect for several security critical distributed systems including data communication security systems, digital-signature and time-stamping systems and security critical governmental information systems. Arne Ansper holds an M.S. and B.S. degrees in Computer Science from Tallinn Technical University.

Pyounguk Cho, Principal Product Manager, Oracle, United States

Mike Edwards, Member of the OASIS Open CSA Member Section, United Kingdom

Mike Edwards works as a Strategist on Emerging Technologies at IBM's Hursley Park labs. Currently he works on SOA and is the chair of the Service Component Architecture Assembly specification working group in the Open SOA collaboration. Mike has worked on various aspects of software for 25 years, including Java, Web services, Computer Telephony, Electronic documentation, OS/2 Operating System and Computer Graphics.

Paul Fremantle, Co-Founder and Vice President, Technical Sales, WSO2, United Kingdom

Paul Fremantle is a Co-Founder and VP of Technical Sales at WSO2, the leading Open Source SOA company. Paul is also Co-Chair of the OASIS WS-RX TC, which recently published the WSRM1.1 standard for Reliable Messaging. Paul is a member of the Apache Software Foundation, and a well-known speaker and blogger on SOA.

Patrick J. Gannon, President & CEO, OASIS

Patrick J. Gannon is President and CEO of OASIS; an international not-for-profit non-governmental organization (NGO) whose mission is to drive the development, convergence and adoption of e-Business standards. He has served on the OASIS Board of Directors since July 2000. Patrick has also served since 2000 with the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), as Chairman of the Team of Specialists for Internet Enterprise Development, which advises governments in transitional economies on best practices for electronic business. He has worked for BEA Systems, as Senior Vice President in the eCommerce Integration Division. Patrick also served as Vice President of Marketing and Industry Programs at Netfish Technologies and as Vice President of Strategic Programs for the CommerceNet Consortium, directing research and development efforts in new Internet commerce standards such as XML. While at CommerceNet, he was the first ProjectLeader for RosettaNet and served as Executive Director for the Open Buying on the Internet (OBI) initiative. Patrick is co-author of the book: Building Database-Driven Web Catalogs, and is an international speaker on electronic business and Web Services standards. Patrick is based in Boston.

Jagdip Grewal, Chief Technical Architect, NHS Connecting for Health

Jagdip Grewal leads the architecture team at NHS CFH. His background includes management and enterprise architect roles in financial and professional services firms, as well as executive roles in internet start-ups. He is a member of the IET and has a Computer Science degree from Cambridge University and a MBA from London Business School.

Kazunori Iwasa, Senior Engineer, Fujitsu Limited, Japan

Kazunori Iwasa is a senior Engineer at Strategy and Technology Division, Software Unit of Fujitsu Limited. Kazunori works for Web Services, XML and B2B related working groups in various standard bodies. The current and past activities include OASIS WS-Reliable Messaging TC, WS-Reliable Exchange TC, ebXML Messaging Services TC and others. He is one of the editors of OASIS WS-Reliability specification, that was ratified as OASIS standard in 2004. He promotes Web Services and B2B technologies in various industry organizations in Japan and Asia. It includes ECOM, INTAP, JEITA, COXEC, eBusiness Asia Committee (eAC) and others. He also promotes interoperability test of these technologies in eBusiness Asia Committee and ECOM. The industry organizations he provides consulting services with his expertise includes: Japan Automotive Manufacturers Association, ECOM, INTAP, COXEC, SPIA Forum and others.

Nilesh Junnarkar, Software Development Manager, Oracle

Nilesh Junnarkar is a Software Development Manager in Oracle's Fusion Middletier organization. Nilesh manages SOA/Web Services platform development in Oracle application server. He is a program manager for Web Services Interoperability. His interests include XML, Web services interoperability and Caching related areas. He has participated in various tech talks and presentations on J2EE, Caching and XML technologies and Web services interoperability area

David Keene, Vice President Platform, Technology and Solutions EMEA Marketing for SAP UK

David is Vice President at SAP responsible for the Solution Marketing and Competitive Intelligences organizations across the EMEA region. He previously worked at Oracle Corporation where he held an executive position within the California based technology company's Fusion Middleware Product Division, leading the growth and adoption of Oracle Fusion Middleware and the subsequent initiatives around Fusion. Prior to Oracle David had a distinguished career within the Banking, Insurance and Financial Services Industries.

Dieter Koenig, Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM, Germany

Dieter König is a Senior Technical Staff Member with IBM Software Group's laboratory in Böblingen and architect for IBM WebSphere Process Server. Dieter was a member of the OASIS WS-BPEL Technical Committee which created the WS-BPEL 2.0 industry standard. He has published many articles and has given talks at conferences about Web services and workflow technology, and is co-author of two books about Web services.

Herbert Leitold, Site Manager, A-SIT, Secure Information Technology Center Austria, Austria

Herbert Leitold received his masters in telecommunication and informatics in 1996. He has been research assistant at the Graz University of Technology from 1996 to 2001. Since 2001 he manages the technology assessment unit Secure Information Technology Center – Austria (A-SIT). In 2003 he became board member of the non-profit foundation Stiftung Secure Information and Communication Technologies SIC. Since 2005 he coordinates the E-Government Innovation Center EGIZ which is a joint initiative of the Graz University of Technology and the Austrian Federal Chancellery.

Mark Little, Technical Development Manager, JBOSS SOA Platform

Mark is Technical Development Manager for the JBoss SOA Platform and Director of Standards for Red Hat. Before joining JBoss/Red Hat he was Chief Architect at Arjuna Technologies, where he lead the transactions and Web Services development teams. Prior to Arjuna, Mark was a Distinguished Engineer at Hewlett Packard and has been active on many standardisation efforts, including OASIS WS-CAF and OASIS WS-TX."

Hal Lockhart, Principal Engineering Technologist, BEA Systems, United States

Hal Lockhart is a Senior Principal Engineering Technologist in the CTO’s Office of BEA Systems. He represents BEA in information security-related standards activities at various bodies including OASIS, WS-I, EPCGlobal, JCP, W3C, Liberty Alliance, OMG and Open Group. At OASIS he is the co-chair of the XACML TC, co-chair of the Security Services (SAML) TC, and an active member of a number of other TCs, including the WS-SX TC. He was the OASIS Coordinator for the April 2005 WSS Interop demonstration. In 2005 he was elected to the OASIS Technical Advisory Board and was re-elected in 2007. He currently serves as co-chair. He has frequently been an OASIS speaker at various public events. He is also the primary representative to OASIS for BEA Systems. In his more than 30 years in the software industry, he has worked in nearly every aspect of the business. He has been an application developer, kernel engineer, systems architect, engineering manager, operations manager, consultant, author, Director of Security and standards representative. He has worked in development, operations, service delivery, marketing and sales, in large companies and small ones as well as consulting at many Fortune 500 companies.

Ulf Persson, Director, Solutions Marketing, Axway Inc., United States

As a Director of Solutions Marketing and the CTO Office based out of Scottsdale AZ, Ulf Persson is responsible for defining and building Axway’s business, solution and product offerings for Supply Chain related industries. Prior to this, Ulf Persson has been working in the Axway Product Management Team, responsible for Axway global product and solution strategies around the Synchrony B2B Integration Gateway, a modular scalable technology solution including B2B communication services, web services, partner management service, process and integration services, transformation services and end-to-end visiility. Persson has over eighteen years experience working on integration projects and products, with last thirteen years focused on EDI, XML, EAI, B2Bi, E-Business and Supply Chain Collaboration projects in US, Asia Pacific and Europe for industries like Transport and Logistics, eTrade/Single Window/eGovt, Automotive, Bank and Finance and so on. Persson was part of Axway’s pioneering team in Asia Pacific, and was instrumental in setting-up Axway’s (formerly Viewlocity Asia Pacific) regional operations in 1996. For the eight years that Persson has worked and lived in Asia (Singapore, Beijing, Tokyo and Hong Kong), he has been responsible for Axway technical direction and overseeing all technical activities and implementations across Asia Pacific including Greater China (Hong Kong, China and Taiwan), Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Japan and Australia. Prior to his stint in Asia Pacific, Persson was a member of Axway’s global research and development group in Europe.

Sciences and Public Administration with faculty of Information Management and European Union. While working at the Ministry of Economy and Transport, Maritime and Inland Waterways Transport Department as referent in 2004-2005, Robert was involved with the following activities: Project planning and management (TEN-T, Schengen Fund, Interreg), reporting; Project assessment (Interreg); River Information Services — RIS (management, external relations, coordination, studies, reports); Infrastructure development (national public ports, RIS); Finance (budget planning, implementation, accounting, registration, money transfer, reporting); Public procurement (editing/preparing documentation, managing the process, reporting to EU); and PR activities (writing/editing/publishing articles in the field of inland navigation). While working at RSOE since February 2006 as Deputy Secretary-General/Project manager, Robert has been involved with the following activities: Project planning and management (TEN-T), reporting; River Information Services — RIS (management, external relations, coordination, studies, reports); Infrastructure development (RIS); and Coordination of RSOE Emergency and Disaster Information Service.

Ian Robinson, Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM, United Kingdom

Dr. Ian Robinson is the Transaction Architect for WebSphere Application Server and has worked at IBM's Hursley Lab in the UK since 1990. He is co-chair of the OASIS WS-TX technical committee and active in a number of other industry software standards efforts.

Andreas Schaad, Senior Researcher, SAP AG, Germany

Dr. Andreas Schaad, CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) works for SAP Research in the Security and Trust group. Prior to joining SAP Germany he obtained his PhD on Organisational Control Principles at the University of York, UK followed by work for Ernst & Young, UK as an Information Systems auditor. He has worked for SAP Labs France as a senior researcher and is currently associated with SAP Research Germany. He is actively serving on several ACM and IEEE conference committees and his research interests include all aspects of organisational control, compliance and workflow security on which he has extensively published.

John Wailing, Head of Architecture and Chief Technology Officer in the Office of the Chief Information Officer at the Home Office - UK Government

John Wailing is Head of Architecture and Chief Technology Officer in the Office of the Chief Information Officer at the Home Office. He is seeking to get a common Enterprise Architecture Framework adopted across the department to enable a holistic view of Home Office business to be taken. His goal is to allow processes to be joined up, information to be shared and assets to be reused. Prior to returning to the Home Office he led the development of a Cross Government Enterprise Architecture at the Cabinet Office.

Kirk Yang, Chairman of SOA Application Technical Forum, Beijing Digital China LTD, China

Kirk Yang is the Chairman of SOA Application Technical Forum(SOA AP TF), the TF focusing on the Adoption and Promotion of SOA in China. SOA AP TF is the substitute of to Changfeng Alliance, sponsored by 15 Chinese top IT enterprises. Moreover, some famous Chinese research institutes and universities are also involved in the activity of SOA AP TF, such as Chinese Academy of Science, BUAA, etc. Being the Chairman of SOA AP TF, Mr. Yang is also acting as the Senior consultant in Digitalchina, the biggest IT services enterprise of China. During the past five years, Mr. Yang is working as the Senior Architect and Project Manager in the field of government, and financial industry as well, responsible for the implementation of OA, MIS, ERP, CRM systems. Now, Mr. Yang is focusing on the fields of SOA, Security, Open Source, and so on. Before joining in Digitalchina, Mr. Yang was the vice president of Dalian Globalmart Company, and Senior System Analyst in China Petrochemical Company. Mr. Yang graduated from Mathematics Department of East China University of Science and Technology, has over 13 years work experience in IT field.