Hub Vandervoort, CTO, Progress Software, has more than 25 years of experience as a consultant and senior technology executive in the networking, communications software and Internet industries. As CTO, Mr. Vandervoort is responsible for incorporating market and customer requirements into the Progress SOA Portfolio of products, including Progress Sonic, Progress Actional, and Progress DataXtend Semantic Integrator. Prior to his CTO position, Vandervoort was vice president of strategic services for Sonic Software and led a number of key initiatives including Sonic's expansion into the Financial Services market worldwide.

Ron Ambuter has over twenty years experience in Management, Application Development Management, Project Management, Analysis, Design and Delivery, Workflow, Imaging and Business Process Management (BPM). His experience combines broad-based industry knowledge with a concentration in the financial industry. At JP Morgan Chase he has played a variety of roles. In his recent role as Division VP for Customer Service Technology, he managed systems development and support for enterprise level systems focusing on customer service applications. Ron is currently focusing on horizontal enterprise business and technology strategies touching on Business Process Management, Customer Experience and Business Agility.

Prior to JP Morgan Chase, Ron served as Vice President for Cap Gemini Sogeti, managing their National Imaging and Workflow Practice, and as CEO for Opticos, an early innovator in workflow and imaging. Ron has introduced BPM solutions in Asia, the Pacific Rim, South America and Europe.

Keith Swenson is Vice President of Research and Development at Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation for the Interstage family of products. He is known for having been a pioneer in web services, and has helped the development of standards such as WfMC Interface 2, OMG Workflow Interface, SWAP, Wf-XML, AWSP, WSCI, and is currently working on standards such as XPDL and ASAP. He has led efforts to develop software products to support work teams at MS2, Netscape, and Ashton Tate. He is currently the Chairman of the Technical Committee of the Workflow Management Coalition. In 2004 he was awarded the Marvin L. Manheim Award for outstanding contributions in the field of workflow.