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Panel Discussion: SOA Governance and IT Governance

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Anne Thomas Manes, Burton Group
Ronald Schmelzer, Zapthink
Frank Martinez, SOA Software
David Bressler, Progress Software
John Michelsen, iTKO
Ed Horst, Amberpoint
Joe McKendrick, ZDNet - moderator
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Is SOA Governance a part of IT Governance or should it be separate? Who in the organization should be responsible for SOA Governance? Is ITIL suitable for SOA Governance or does it need to be extended? Join this live panel discussion about how organizations are implementing SOA governance. Learn what is working, what isn't, and the tools and techniques others have found to be successful.

Anne Thomas Manes is a former Chief Technology Officer at Systinet, a web services infrastructure vendor. She was the Director of Market Innovation in Sun Microsystem's software group. Manes' 26-year industry background also includes field service and education at IBM Corporation, customer education at Cullinet Software, product management at Digital Equipment Corporation, chief architect at Open Environment Corporation, and research analyst with Patricia Seybold Group. She was named one of the 50 most powerful people in networking in 2002 by Network World. She has also been listed among the "Power 100 IT Leaders," by Enterprise Systems Journal. A frequent speaker at trade shows and conferences, she authors numerous articles in trade publications. Anne Manes is a member of the Web Services Journal editorial board. She authored "Web Services: A Manager's Guide," published by Addison-Wesley, 2003, and participated in web services standards development efforts at W3C, OASIS, WS-I, and JCP.

Ronald Schmelzer, Managing Partner at ZapThink, 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 of Service-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.

Frank Martinez is Senior Vice President, Product Strategy for SOA Software. Frank Martinez is a recognized expert in the area of distributed, enterprise application and infrastructure platforms. Mr. Martinez is focused on driving development of scalable service-oriented infrastructure software that integrates business processes and information enterprise-wide. Mr. Martinez's reputation as a technological visionary is demonstrated by his record of bringing innovative and commercially successful software solutions to market. He has had operating roles as a senior executive of several VC-backed firms, and was instrumental in building Intershop Communications into a multi-billion dollar public company in less than three years. Mr. Martinez was recently named an InfoWorld Innovator by InfoWorld magazine and has also been named one of 25 leading IT innovators by CRN.

As SOA Evangelist for the Actional products, David Bressler provides Progress' customers and field teams with the expertise and experience required to deliver an enterprise service-oriented architecture (SOA). David also helps steer technology partnerships to provide pragmatic value to customer deployments. From his 15+ year career in enterprise software and data networking, David brings to customer engagements a deep knowledge of application integration and data networking, blended with an ability to leverage emerging technology to create business value. David joined Progress in 2006 with the acquisition of Actional. Prior to joining Actional, David drove TIBCO's IP multicast adoption and designed many of the first IP multicast trading floors on Wall Street, and around the world. He went on to become Vice President of Strategic Technology development at Aether Systems, and then on to manage the delivery of shared middleware networks at Radianz (now BT Radianz). David received his MBA in International Business from New York University Stern School of Business where he graduated with distinction.

John Michelsen is a founder and Chief Scientist of iTKO LISA, an automated SOA software testing and virtualization company. John has more than 15 years of high-level enterprise development experience, as a chief architect of development teams and as an executive in designing, developing, and managing large-scale, object-oriented solutions in all types of traditional and network architectures. Before forming iTKO, Michelsen was development director at Trilogy, and VP of Development at AGENCY.COM. He is the chief architect of iTKO's LISA automated testing product and a leading industry advocate for software quality, with several published articles and speaking appearances at technology conferences under his belt.

Ed Horst has more than twenty years of experience in planning, marketing and developing distributed systems, management frameworks and development tools. He was the vice president of Marketing at OnKilter, a strategy execution software vendor, and Provato, an electronic contract management solution provider that was acquired by I-Many. Previously, he was a founding member of the marketing team at Forte and held various engineering and product management positions at Ingres.

In addition to his work at leading software companies, Mr. Horst served for several years an IT Director for Atlas Die, a Midwestern manufacturing firm, where he was an early implementer of several early-stage technologies, including CAD applications, relational databases and wide area networking systems.