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MQ Technical Panel

Featured Speakers:
Dermot Flaherty, Lead Architect, Messaging Products and Technologies
Ben Mann, Worldwide WebSphere MQ Product Manager
Andrew Bainbridge, Director, WebSphere MQ & ESB Development

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Dermot Flaherty is the Lead Architect, Messaging Products and Technologies, AIM and works in the Messaging and ESB Strategy department in the Hursley Development Laboratories in the UK. He has been with IBM for 25 years and for the last 16 of those has worked on WebSphere MQ since its beginning. Prior to his joining the Strategy team, he had a number of roles in development and among those he was the Lead Architect of WebSphere MQ sysplex shared queues on z/OS.

Ben Mann joined IBM in 1998 developing applications used to track product requirements and train field sales. In 2000, he wrote a dissertation using formal specification languages to model messaging and message brokering behaviors. Ben has held numerous marketing roles in the IBM software group, usually with some connection to WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Business Integration. He is fortunate to have cut his teeth alongside the very people who established the WebSphere MQ business. In 2002, he became the Product Manager for a product spin-off from WebSphere MQ that integrates mobile and wireless devices. By 2004, he took the role as Worldwide Product Manager for WebSphere MQ, and finds the whole business utterly fascinating. Ben is regularly accused of being passionate about WebSphere MQ.

Andrew Bainbridge has held the position of Director, WebSphere MQ and Enterprise Service Bus Development, for the last four years, based at the IBM Software Group Hursley Development Laboratory, near Winchester in the UK, with responsibility for the WebSphere MQ, Message Broker, Enterprise Service Bus and Transformation Extender products, and messaging technology for the WebSphere Platform. Andrew joined IBM UK in 1984 as a systems engineer, working on software development projects and support of networking products, as well as spending time in IBM UK's public sector business, before moving to Hursley in 1992. He worked for a number of years on standards initiatives and product strategy & planning, before taking the first of several management roles in the CICS organization, during which time he was made an IBM senior technical staff member. Prior to taking his current job, Andrew held the position of Director, CICS Products and Web Services Technology Development.