Stefan Andreasen, Founder and Chief Technology Officer Kapow Technologies Stefan Andreasen has more than 20 years experience in software design and development. He spent five years with Advanced Visual Systems working on cutting-edge Java and visual programming projects. In 1998 he started Kapow Technologies as a marketplace for cars, real estate and boats for sale. In 2001, Stefan sold the marketplace to the largest bank in Denmark and changed Kapow Technologies into a pure software company and introduced the industry's first server-based solution for mashups, the Kapow Mashup Server. In 2006 he launched www.openkapow.com, where web developers can freely use the product to build and share API's to data on the internet. In his current role as Founder and CTO, Stefan focuses on product innovation and is an evangelist for the company, frequently speaking at industry events regarding Web 2.0 trends and mashups.
Erik Aeyelts Averink
President, Products and Solutions, Tridion
Erik Aeyelts Averink is President Products & Solutions at Tridion. He joined the company in 2004. Prior to joining Tridion in 2004, Erik was a partner at the venture capital firm Gilde IT Fund. During his 11 years at Gilde, he focused primarily on investing and supporting software companies in Europe and the US. While at Gilde, Erik invested in Tridion in 2000 and was on the Board of Tridion from 2000 – 2004. Erik holds Master’s degree in Economics from the Erasmus University in Rotterdam.
Nora Ganim Barnes, Ph. D.
Chancellor Professor of Marketing and Director of the Center for Marketing Research, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Nora Ganim Barnes earned a Ph.D. in Consumer Behavior from the University of Connecticut and is a Chancellor Professor of Marketing and Director of the Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Nora has worked as a consultant for many national and international firms including the National Pharmaceutical Council, the National Court Reporters Association, and the Board of Inquiry of the British Parliament, Scotts Lawn Care Co, Distilled Spirits Council of the US and others. Working closely with businesses in the Northeast US, Nora and her students have provided marketing research assistance to over 200 small businesses. She is the only faculty member at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth to receive both the Teacher of the Year award and Scholar of the Year award from her peers. She has published over 125 articles in academic and professional journals and proceedings, has contributed chapters to books, and has been awarded numerous research grants. Her work on social media usage has been widely covered online as well as in traditional media including Business Week, Inc. Magazine and Fox News. Her areas of expertise include Consumer Behavior (both online and offline) and Marketing Research. She has been named a Senior Research Fellow by the Society for New Communications Research. Nora can be reached at nbarnes@umassd.edu.
Jeffrey Beir
Partner, North Bridge Venture Partners
Jeffrey Beir joined North Bridge Venture Partners in 2004, having been an entrepreneur and CEO in the software industry. For more than two decades, Jeffrey has built world-class product teams, created market-leading products and leveraged technology transitions to create market value. Jeffrey was most recently EVP of Products for Documentum, a division of EMC, where he was responsible for the planning, engineering and delivery of their enterprise content management, collaboration and compliance solutions. Jeffrey was the co-founder and CEO of eRoom Technology which was acquired by Documentum/EMC in December 2002. The acquisition was the largest private software transaction in 2002 with a deal value in excess of $200M. At eRoom, Jeffrey spearheaded the design, development, marketing and sales of the company's award-winning, extended enterprise collaboration solutions and grew the company from a PowerPoint presentation into a market leader in the collaboration category with more than 1,000 customers. In 2003, Jeffrey was recognized by Ernst & Young as Entrepreneur of the Year in New England for Information Technology for his efforts at eRoom. Prior to eRoom, Jeffrey was Senior Vice President of Applications at Lotus Development Corporation, where he led the desktop applications organization and held several other executive management and marketing positions. Prior to Lotus, Jeffrey held engineering positions at IBM and Xerox. Jeffrey received his MBA from the Harvard Business School, an MSEE from Syracuse University and a BSEE from Northwestern University. Jeffrey serves on the Board of Overseers for the Museum of Science in Boston.
Geoffrey Bock
Lead Analyst, Collaboration & Social Computing, Gilbane Group
Geoffrey Bock is the Lead Analyst for the Gilbane Group's Collaboration & Social Computing Consulting Practice where he is also contributer to the Collaboration & Social Computing blog (http://gilbane.com/collaboration/), which covers a broad range of collaboration technologies, including enterprise applications of wikis, blogs and other "social media', and focuses on business strategies for content management and collaboration. An analyst and author with over twenty-five years industry experience, he tracks how organizations create, organize, and manage business information to sustain profitable relationships. He advises software companies, end-user organizations, and government agencies in areas of business planning, technology innovation, and operational excellence.
David Boloker
CTO Emerging Internet Technology
Distinguished Engineer, IBM Software Group
David Boloker is a Distinguished Engineer and Chief Technical Officer for Emerging Internet Technologies in IBM Software Group. Previously, he held the position of Chief Technical Officer for Java Technologies in Software Group. David is recognized in and outside IBM as a technical leader in the Internet software space guiding IBM's investments as well as internal product development. David's recent responsibilities included shaping IBM’s Web 2.0 strategy, founding the Open Ajax Alliance, driving IBM’s Situational Application work as well as researching new areas in software design. Additionally, he spends about a third of his time working in the venture capital and startup communities partnering and discussing various trends and directions in the internet and gaming areas. Previous to joining Software Group, David worked at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center and the Cambridge Scientific Center doing research in the area of remote distribution and control of complex hardware and software systems, dynamic I/O configuration of mainframe operating systems and secure internet gateways. David has been recognized by IBM with numerous Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards in the areas of Java, Secure Internet Gateways, Dynamic I/O Configuration and the Remote Distribution and Control of S/370, 4300, S/390 and AS/400 Architecture processors.
Christopher M.L.S. Bouton, Ph.D. is Head of Integrative Data Mining at the Pfizer Research Technology Center in Cambridge, MA and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Bioinformatics Graduate Program, Boston University. Trained as a molecular biologist with over a decade of experience in the laboratory, he is now a computational biologist leading a team of Ph.D. level scientists in the areas of systems biology, knowledge engineering, software development, machine learning, data mining and large-scale 'omics data analysis. As part of these efforts, Dr. Bouton is investigating how collaboration and social computing environments can improve information sharing within research organizations. Dr. Bouton received his BA in Neuroscience (Magna Cum Laude) from Amherst College in 1996, and his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in Molecular Neurobiology in 2001.
Don Bridges
Tech Docs Manager, Data Conversion Labs
Don Bridges is the Commercial Tech Docs Manager at Data Conversion Laboratory (DCL). He works with customers and prospects from Software, Aerospace, Manufacturing, Transportation, and other industries helping them develop migration plans to meet business and technical requirements. He is a frequent conference speaker and has written several articles on the business aspects of XML implementation. Prior to joining DCL he worked in the engineering, consulting, and software fields. He has a Bachelor's degree in Engineering from LSU and calls Albuquerque, NM home.
Matthew Brown
Principal Analyst, Forrester Research, Inc.
Matthew is a principal analyst at Forrester. A professional with more than 12 years of experience, Matthew advises clients in a wide variety of industries around the globe on knowledge management practices and tools. One of Matthew's primary research objectives is to help clients define and measure the effectiveness of knowledge management strategies. His research covers areas including knowledge management program design, change management, specific tools and methodologies — and addresses broader issues such as the impact of Social Computing on past knowledge management approaches. He focuses on how companies enhance the impact of their workforce using knowledge management practices and technologies such as enterprise portals, search and information access, expertise networks, collaboration tools, and related software. Considered an authority on information access and collaboration tools, Matthew's research has been cited in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and numerous industry and trade publications. Matthew also frequently presents his research at major industry events and conferences. Prior to joining Forrester, Matthew held a leadership position for more than five years in global management consulting firm McKinsey and Company's Knowledge Services operating group. In this role, Matthew led change management and technology programs involving communities of practice, enterprise search, document management, enterprise portal, and expertise location services. Prior to McKinsey, Matthew co-founded and served as vice president of operations for an eCommerce startup based in Austin, Texas. Further professional experience includes consulting and project management at two interactive services firms — serving clients Dell, Trilogy, IBM, Tivoli, PCOrder, and Canon USA on commercial and public sector applications. Matthew graduated magna cum laude from the Babson College M.B.A. program — with a focus on high-tech marketing strategy and management of innovation. Matthew has his B.A. in English and studio arts from Colgate University.
Lee Buck is the co-fonder and Chief Technology Office of Near-Time. Previously, Lee was the co-founder and CTO of Extensibility, Inc. a leading provider of XML tools, acquired by TIBCO Software, Inc. in September 2000. After the acquisition Lee served as TIBCO's VP & Chief Scientist, XML Technologies. Lee is a recognized authority on XML and schema and has helped shape a number of Internet standards by serving on committees such as the W3C's XML Schema Working Group. Prior to Extensibility, Lee founded Software Designs Unlimited, a commercial software developer serving clients such as National Geographic Society, Simon & Schuster and Charles Schwab. Lee is a contributing author to the XML Handbook as well as an award winning author of an AppleScript Rapid Application Development tool.
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Linda Burman
President, LA Burman Associates Inc.
Linda Burman is President of L A Burman Associates Inc., a recognized leader in the content industry. The consultancy provides: information strategy, project leadership, market/technology analysis/RFP development, business development and training to: tool vendors, standards organizations, the investment community and companies who are implementing digital asset (DAM) and enterprise content management solutions (ECM). In 1999 Ms. Burman founded and chaired the PRISM (Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata) Working Group and drove adoption into the industry (prismstandard.org). The PRISM specifications enable sophisticated search and navigation across disparate content repositories, digital rights tracking, automating processes and interoperability. She has held senior marketing, product/business management and technical roles in leading knowledge management, publishing and networking firms including Apple Computer. She is also co-author of Mastering XML & Mastering XML PRO (Sybex, 1999, 2001) and has been a lecturer at the University of Toronto. She has spoken, chaired tracks, developed conferences and delivered tutorials at many industry events including AIIMOnDemand, The Seybold Seminars, Henry Stewart DAM Conference and the Gilbane Conference.
Tony Byrne is Founder and Principal of CMS Watch (www.CMSWatch.com), a vendor-neutral technology evaluation firm. A former reporter, publisher, international educator, Byrne previously headed the Engineering and Production groups at an Internet consulting firm. He is the author of The CMS Report, now in its 9th Edition, and publisher of the Enterprise Portals Report, the Records Management Report, and the Enterprise Search Report.
As Chief Taxonomist at SchemaLogic, Gary brings 20 years of experience in the computer industry with experience in product management, research, data modeling and solution design for large scale search, taxonomy, content management and knowledge management projects. At SchemaLogic he works directly with customers in the solution design and implementation phases as well as providing guidance on the overall direction of these large projects. Additionally Gary is directly involved in evolution of SchemaLogic’s product suite. Prior to joining SchemaLogic Gary worked on a number of initiatives for companies like Microsoft, Boeing, Washington Mutual and Primus Knowledge Solutions where he provided expertise in search, auto-categorization, and taxonomy management. Gary holds a Bachelors degree in Philosophy from Reed College.
Leonor Ciarlone
Lead Analyst, Content Globalization, Gilbane Group
Leonor Ciarlone is the Lead Analyst for the Gilbane Group's Globalization Consulting Practice where she is also a contributer to the practice's blog (http://gilbane.com/globalization/). Leonor also covers BPM. Leonor brings over 15 years of experience analyzing, designing, and developing content-centric applications in a variety of industries including manufacturing, insurance, and software development. She served as an analyst and information architect from 1986 to 1999 for companies such as FM Global, Commercial Union Insurance, EMC Corporation, Inso Corporation, Intellution, Inc., and General Cinema Corporation. From 1999 to 2003 Leonor was a Senior Consultant with InfoTrends/CAP Ventures, a worldwide market research and strategic consulting firm for the digital imaging and document solutions industries. In this capacity she provided personalized market research and strategic consulting to companies that invest in, provide, or implement content-driven technologies and solutions. Her deliverables included market trends analysis, competitive intelligence, strategic and tactical marketing services, and technology assessment services to a variety of vendor and corporate clients. Leonor has provided numerous presentations on XML and related standards for various technical communication conferences, written articles for magazines and organizations including EMedia, eContent, and IEEE, and has judged local and international technical documentation competitions. She is a past president of the Boston Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication and has won multiple awards from chapter competitions. She earned a B. A. Degree in Journalism from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.
Phil Costa
Director of Product Management, Flex and ColdFusion Adobe Systems, Incorporated
As Director of product management, Phil leads the product management teams for Flex and ColdFusion, and he plays an integral role in developing the long-term roadmap for the Adobe platform technologies. In his current role, Costa spends a great deal of time talking with customers as well as the developer community at large to identify their needs and uncover new market opportunities. Costa joined Adobe in 2005 through the acquisition of Macromedia, where he had worked for six years. While at Macromedia and Allaire Corporation, Costa served as a product manager for both Flex Builder and ColdFusion. He also worked in competitive analysis and marketing. Prior to joining Macromedia, Costa worked as an analyst for Giga Information Group (now part of Forrester Research). He has also served as managing editor and online publications manager of a scientific journal publisher. Costa is frequently invited to speak at industry events on topics such as rich internet applications, Web services, XML, and service-oriented architecture (SOA).
Dr. Donna L. Cuomo
Chief Information Architect
Center for Information & Technology, THE MITRE CORPORATION
Dr. Donna Cuomo is currently the Chief Information Architect in MITRE’s Center for Information and Technology. In this position, she is responsible for strategic planning, enterprise information architecture, and supporting the formulation and communication of the corporation’s IT vision. Dr. Cuomo has been at MITRE for 18 years and has supported the design and development of MITRE’s intranet, collaboration and content space for the past 10 years. She has focused on web-based knowledge and information systems, content management and repository services, information retrieval and delivery, and the corporate portal and services. Dr. Cuomo also held positions of increasing responsibility in the Center for Air Force Command and Control where she managed various efforts related to user interface design of and human factors engineering for various command and control systems. In the early 90’s, she also led internal research and development projects at MITRE focused on developing methods for evaluating human-computer interaction Dr. Cuomo received her bachelor’s, Master and PhD degrees in Industrial Engineering from State University of New York at Buffalo, where she majored in Human Factors Engineering and Human–Computer Interaction.
Don is an industry analyst, author, and corporate strategist with expertise in business- and marketing-focused application of technology. He lectures, writes, and is frequently quoted on the topics of online marketing, content management, multicultural marketing, localization, return on investment, and website globalization. His book, "Business Without Borders: A Strategic Guide to Global Marketing," is widely used in universities and in business training courses. Since 2002, he has led Common Sense Advisory's research into the best practices, technology, and professional services that support business globalization.
Don Dodge
Director of Business Development Emerging Business, Microsoft
Don Dodge is a veteran of five start-ups including Forte Software, AltaVista, Napster, Bowstreet, and Groove Networks. Don is currently Director of Business Development for Microsoft's Emerging Business Team. The goal is to help VC's and start-ups be successful with Microsoft, and together, provide great products for our customers. He writes a daily blog, Don Dodge on the Next Big Thing.Don has been in the software business for more than 20 years. He started his software career with Digital Equipment, aka DEC, in the database group. He worked with 5 software start-ups over the next 12 years. Forte Software was the first multiplatform object oriented development environment. AltaVista was the first search engine on the web. Napster was the first P2P file sharing network. Bowstreet was the first web services development environment. Groove Networks was the first secure P2P collaboration platform. Now he is at Microsoft... “the biggest start-up in the world”... working with VC's and start-ups in the greater Boston area.
Andrew Draheim is an independent Globalization Consultant. The client portfolio of his consulting firm, Dig-IT!, include The World Bank, The World Conservation Union, several localization service providers, and others. Andrew has 18 years of international experience in managing operations in publishing, electronic publishing and localization worldwide. He helps international companies to manage and implement change by assisting them in understanding the individual challenges of their organizations, identifying the technology needed to address them, and by effectively implementing these solutions. Andrew completed the implementation of five localization production hubs in developing countries for the World Bank and developed the global publishing strategy of the World Conservation Union. As Translation Manager at The World Bank, he implemented and managed one of the world’s largest Globalization Translation Management System (GTMS) installations. He is co-author of the best practice guide for implementing global content management systems (CMS) published by the Localization Industry Standard Association (LISA), and he facilitates workshops on CMS. Andrew has also served as Managing Director for Central & Eastern Europe for Berlitz GlobalNet and Managing Director of HEP, the electronic publishing arm of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group that includes Scientific American, Henry Holt, St. Martin’s Press, Farrar Straus and Giroux, as well as Handelsblatt.
Seth Earley is the founder or Earley & Associates, Inc, a consulting firm specializing in knowledge, content and document management systems with a focus on taxonomy development and workflow design. With 20 plus years in the technology field, he has been involved in knowledge and content management processes for the past 12 years. He has taught graduate courses in KM and is co-author of Practical Knowledge Management from the IBM Press. He host monthly conference calls on search, content management and taxonomies and has founded communities of practice supporting a world wide network of professionals in those fields. Seth advises senior management teams at global organizations in technology selection and implementation and is a popular presenter at business and technology conferences.
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Richard Ferrie
Senior Vice President, Publishing Operations and Content Management, Pearson
Reed Fox
Director, Editorial Operations, Consumer Reports
Reed Fox has worked in the printing and publishing industry for the past 25 years. He has held various editorial and production positions, as well as positions with graphic arts houses and prepress service bureaus. He has been with Consumer Reports since 1996, when he was brought in as Production Editor and charged with moving all publication prepress services in house. Successfully completed in 1997, this transition resulted in greater efficiency and productivity, as well as substantial savings. In 1999, Fox was made Production Manager, and introduced new processes and procedures designed to streamline the editorial workflow, as well as new and updated technologies and systems to support the editorial platform. In 2001, as Production Director, he led the Content Management System implementation team, resulting in the launch of the cms in October. As Production Director, he played a lead role in the development of systems to automate database publishing, and worked with Web Production to design more efficient processes for content flow from print products to our Web site. In 2003 he was made Director of Editorial Operations with direct responsibility for Print Production and Prepress, Web Production, Copy Desk, Fact checking, and Scheduling. Most recently, Fox helped to launch the Editorial Division’s media neutral initiative, resulting in the creation of editorial franchises and processes to efficiently generate content for all published products, print and digital; played a key role in the implementation and launch of a new web content management system; coordinated the recent launch of a digital asset management system; and is leading the team planning major upgrades to the Editorial systems platforms, including the content management systems.
Eric Frazer, Psy.D.
President, Behavioral Health Intelligence
Eric Frazer Psy.D. is a clinical psychologist and Assistant Clinical Professor at Yale University School of Medicine. The consulting organization Behavioral Health Intelligence (BHI) was established as a response to acute organizational breakdown in the mental health industry. A decade of studying case-flow coordination, care management, and chronic clinician turn-over revealed the need for new technology solutions. Introducing Wiki applications and methods for collaborative change are the mechanisms for improving informatics and treatment outcomes; the scope of BHI's consultancy. A model of collaborative work, knowledge share, and collective learning verses the current model of independent client responsibility is a new practical philosophy taught for organizational management in health care.
David Nelson-Gal
Senior Vice President of Engineering, Interwoven, Inc.
David Nelson-Gal has over twenty five years of expertise in enterprise software and infrastructure environments. Interwoven is a leading supplier of Enterprise Content Management Solutions for Business. As the Senior Vice President of Engineering, David is responsible for the technical operations of Interwoven’s worldwide engineering team. David joined Interwoven in 2004 from Sun Microsystems where he was Vice President of Software Engineering for N1 Grid Systems. He has also held responsibility for Sun’s HA Clustering, Java Technology Group, and C++ development environments. Before Sun, David was Director of Advanced Technology at Ready Systems specializing in realtime embedded operating systems and embedded systems development environments. Prior to Ready Systems, David developed some of the first embedded Ada development environments for Rolm Milspec Computers. David holds BS and MS degrees from the University of Michigan where he did some early research on Computer Vision and Robotics. Outside of technical work, David was also the editor-in-chief of the University of Michigan’s Yearbook. Currently, he likes to coach youth soccer in his spare time.
Silvio Galea
Development Manager, Harvard Business School Publishing
Silvio Galea has been architecting Digital Publishing Systems and leading teams through web centric enterprise systems development for over 10 years. As Development Manager at Harvard Business School Publishing, Silvio is responsible for driving the development of HBSP’s next generation Content Driven applications. Prior to HBSP, Silvio was an independent consultant working on a Digital Publishing startup and consulting with various companies on the transition to a Web 2.0 presence. In his prior life, Silvio was the Managing Director of Proxicom's New York Technology Practice where he served clients in the Publishing, Financial, Retail, and Automotive across both the continental United States and Europe.
Ismael Ghalimi is a passionate entrepreneur and fervent industry
observer, founder and CEO of Intalio, creator of BPMI.org and
initiator of Office 2.0. Ismael is an advisor to several high-tech
companies, including AdventNet (a.k.a. Zoho), Diigo, EchoSign,
EveryTrail, G.ho.st, Open IT Works, ThinkFree, and 3TERA. Ismael is a
professional scuba diver, instrument rated private pilot, and American
V-Twin rider.
Frank Gilbane has been writing about, organizing conferences on, and consulting to Fortune 2000 companies and government agencies on information management technology since the early 80s. Frank is President & CEO of the analyst and consulting firm Gilbane Group, Inc., and organizes the Gilbane Conferences. Frank is also a Managing Partner at Lighthouse Seminars LLC, a producer of educational events for enterprise software. Frank was a member of the Board of Directors of market research and consulting firm CAP Ventures (now InfoTrends), Inc. and the founding Director of their Dynamic Content Software Strategies service. Frank was the founder and former president of Publishing Technology Management, Inc., a founder of the French firm TechnoForum SARL, and co-founder of the Documation conferences in North America and Europe. He has held various positions in software development, marketing, and senior management at Texet Corporation and Quadex Corporation. He was a founding member of the Board of Advisors to SGML Open (now OASIS), is a past member of ANSI, ISO, and CALS Standards Committees, the Graphic Communications Association (GCA), numerous editorial advisory and corporate boards, and a recipient of the GCA's TechDoc award. Frank has a BA in Philosophy from Boston University, and an MA in Philosophy from Tufts University.
Serge Gladkoff graduated from a Russian ivy league nuclear science college, and for more than seventeen years has been engaged in the localization industry, first as a deputy director for a software distribution company Dialogue-MEPhI, then as a localization manager of Moscow office of Borland International and for fourteen years, as the owner of the Logrus International Corporation. Serge Gladkoff heads GALA standards effort, as current Chair of Standards Committee.
Anne Gonnella and Leigh McCuen work for the Space Telescope Science Institute which supports the Hubble Space Telescope. Anne has a background in Physics and Astronomy, and has worn many hats from Information Architect to Manager of the Institute's Strategic Planning group. Leigh has a background in Philosophy and is a Senior Application Developer. Both nurtured the CMS in its infancy and continue to work ensuring the mature system meets the needs of the users.
Yogesh Gupta was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of FatWire Software in August 2007. Yogesh oversees all global operations of the company, including sales, marketing, development, finance and professional services. He also serves on FatWire's Board of Directors.
A customer focused and visionary technology executive, Yogesh brings over two decades of experience in product development, marketing, strategy, planning and business development to FatWire. Prior to FatWire, he held increasingly responsible senior management roles at CA (NYSE: CA), most recently as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Strategist. His other roles at CA included five years as Chief Technology Officer, SVP of Worldwide Product Marketing, SVP of Strategic Planning, as well as General Manager of CA's $2 billion distributed product portfolio. In 2004, Yogesh was selected by InfoWorld as one of the 25 most influential CTO's worldwide. Before CA, Yogesh held technical and management roles at various companies including Cullinet Software and Burroughs Corp.
A recognized expert in emerging technologies and industry trends, Yogesh is a published author and much sought-after speaker who regularly presents to audiences ranging from CIOs to CTOs, to industry analysts, financial investors and the media. He also serves on the boards of multiple industry and academic consortia.
Yogesh holds a Bachelors degree in Electronics Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras and a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin.
Rachel Happe, Research Manager, leads IDC's research on the Digital Business Economy, covering how online business models and practices affect business environments, technology architectures, corporate processes, and contributor expectations. Rachel Happe has over ten years of experience working with emerging technologies including eCommerce and enterprise software applications. Prior to IDC, Rachel was the Director of Product Management at Bitpass where she worked with media and publishing companies such as Disney, United Media, CanWest, and Ziff Davis to monetize their digital assets as well as with MSN and ninemsn to develop a digital rewards and purchasing infrastructure. While at Bitpass, Rachel was instrumental in developing Mperia, an internet music site. Her experience is chronicled in the book, The Future of the Music Business, in an interview that discusses changes in the music business brought about by internet technologies. Prior to Bitpass, Rachel was the Product Marketing Manager for IDe, an enterprise software company that developed applications to manage the new product development process. Rachel started her business career at PRTM as a Business Analyst focused on helping technology companies understand and improve their product development operations. She has presented and written about trends in product development management, both at industry conferences and as a visiting speaker at the Wharton and Kellogg schools of business.
Alain Heurtebise
VP Sales and Marketing, Exalead S.A.
Alain Heurtebise, vice president of sales and marketing, is responsible for the overall strategy and direction of Exalead's direct and indirect sales channel worldwide. He began his career as a project manager for information technology services company Electronic Data Systems and Générale de Service Informatique (currently known as ADP), where he led the company's Italian software and services business for more than a decade. Heurtebise has a degree from Ecole Centrale Paris in applied mathematics.
Jeff Hickey
Manager of International IT, Choice Hotels
Jeff Hickey has been a key driver of the international website strategy at Choice Hotels International since its early beginnings. He is the original designer and developer of the regional website technology platform and now researches and implements new initiatives that help sustain growth and properly represent Choice’s brands to the online consumer. Jeff has been an enthusiast of online globalization for Choice Hotels, sharing the experience at numerous events worldwide. He is an honors graduate of Dalhousie University with a post-graduate in Information Technology.
Under Jim’s leadership since its founding in 2000, CrownPeak has become the market leading company in the content management software services sector. In the past four years, CrownPeak has experienced explosive growth, with over 90% year-to-year CAGR. CrownPeak has also sustained over 93% customer retention over four years. Among the companies in the CrownPeak client roster today are Trek Bikes, Honeywell, Crain Publishing, New Century Mortgage, Hyundai Motors, and the State of Virginia. Jim’s professional background combines extensive startup experience with years of software development and professional services delivery and management. He has spent the past ten years working with web content management and search technologies. Jim previously held senior executive positions in professional services management, sales, and operational management with companies such as USWeb, MarchFIRST, and successful startup, W3-design. Jim was named by CMSWatch as one of the 20 People to Watch in Content Management for 2005.
Michelle Huff is a product management director for Oracle’s content management solutions. Prior to this, Michelle was responsible for product marketing for the Stellent Universal Content Management and Multisite Web Content Management product lines. She also served as the Manager of Web Projects at Stellent, where she led Stellent's online business initiatives, focusing on Stellent's public facing Web sites and successfully managed the rollout of Stellent's Japanese, Korean, German, and Dutch sites. She has worked in the content management industry for over seven years. Michelle holds a BA in Business Administration and a Certificate in International Studies in Business from the University of Washington.
Detlef Kamps, President RedDot Solutions As president of RedDot Solutions, Detlef Kamps provides strategic direction and oversees business operations for the company’s North American presence. Kamps joined RedDot in 1998 when the company was known as InfoOffice, Inc. Prior to joining RedDot and launching the company into the U.S. market, Kamps served as vice-president of sales and marketing at Spectrum Laboratories, Inc. Previously, he worked as a management consultant with Kurt Salmon Associates, where he helped several Fortune 500 companies in Europe and the U.S. to develop and implement IT strategies. He also worked at Lufthansa German Airlines, where he was responsible for the team that successfully developed and implemented flight engine monitoring software. Kamps began his career in his native Berlin at software developer Brainware. Kamps earned a master’s degree in economics, business administration and computer science from Free University, Berlin, and from the University of California Berkeley. He also holds a bachelor’s degree of economics and business administration from Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universitaet, Bonn.
Dr. Burch Kealey
Assistant Professor of Accounting, University of Nebraska-Omaha
PhD (University of Oklahoma) Professor Kealey teaches Intermediate Accounting, Principles of Accounting and Graduate Accounting Theory. Graduate-level accounting students awarded Dr. Kealey the 2004 Graduate Accounting Professor of the Year. Teaching interests include financial accounting and financial analysis. Professor Kealey's research interests include, factors affecting student performance, financial reporting, auditing, determinants of audit fees and the information content of accounting numbers. Dr. Kealey is also interested in how technology affects disclosure practices and investor's use of accounting numbers. His work was awarded Best Educational Research Paper Award at the American Accounting Association Western Regional Meeting 2003. Dr. Kealey has published in International Journal of Accounting and Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting. He reviews papers for American Accounting Association International Accounting Section. Kealey has presented at several conferences and workshops. He most recently spoke of his use of ISYS at the Text Analytics Summit in Amsterdam in the spring of 2007.
Lori Kegel Manager Technical Communications, Boston Scientific
Lori Kegal is a Senior Manager of Technical Communications at Boston Scientific Corporation (Formerly Guidant Corporation), where she manages a team of professional writers and analysts responsible for providing compliant, localized product labeling and literature that meets the need of internal constituents, patient and physician customers, and regulatory agencies worldwide. In this capacity, she has championed and directed the development of next-generation product literature and labeling systems that include XML authoring strategies, content management tools, and a new technology support team within Technical Communications. Kegal also led efforts to reduce translation service fees, resulting in a savings of approximately $100,000 per new product.
Robinson Kelly
CEO and Co-Founder, Clay Tablet Technologies
As a professional in the localization and content management field, Robinson has extensive experience in the translation process and the globalization of enterprise, scale content projects. Robinson is a technology entrepreneur and business start-up veteran. Clay Tablet is the fourth start-up technology company he's been involved with over the past 15 years, including, working in Silicon Valley launching a content management firm. With this experience, he saw a serious lack of integration between content management systems and translation systems, and saw the need to develop a unique translation process integration solution. As CEO and Co-Founder of Clay Tablet Technologies, Robinson is responsible for the sustained growth of Clay Tablet by driving strategy, setting goals and directing the team. He draws upon his considerable localization, translation process and content management business experience and expertise to build sales and grow strategic partnerships. Robinson is a frequent speaker on localization, the translation process and content management topics.
Mary Laplante
Vice President Consulting Services & Project Management, Gilbane Group
Mary Fletcher Laplante manages Gilbane Group Vendor and Enterprise consulting and services. Mary also contributes to the Globalization Consulting practice and blog at http://gilbane.com/globalization/. She brings broad information technology marketing experience to the task of helping companies introduce new products. Ms. Laplante is a Partner Fastwater LLC, and was the first Executive Director of the industry consortium now known as OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards). OASIS provides a forum for the development of open e-business standards, typically built around XML. Before helping in the creation of OASIS, Ms. Laplante developed and managed her own consulting practice providing marketing and technical expertise in publishing-related applications and technologies. She has held executive and senior positions at several publishing software companies; she was President and Chief Operating Officer for Cygnet Publishing Technologies, Incorporated; Vice President of Marketing for Avalanche Development Company; and Vice President and Senior Product Manager at Scribe Systems, Inc. Prior to forming Fastwater, Ms. Laplante was a Director in the Document Software Strategies Group at CAP Ventures, Inc., a strategic consulting and research company that covers the markets for document technologies. Ms. Laplante is a frequent speaker at industry events like The Gilbane Conferences, Internet World, The Seybold Seminars, and the Gartner Group Internet Electronic Commerce conference.
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Krista LaRiviere
Co-Founder & General Manager, Hot Banana
Andy Macmillan
Vice President, Product Management
Oracle Content Management
Andy MacMillan is Vice President of Product Management for Oracle content management. Mr. MacMillan is responsible for the go-to-market strategy for Oracle's comprehensive enterprise content management products—a set of Fusion Middleware applications that provide unified content management, enterprise-wide federated records and retention management, imaging and process management for enterprise applications, and distributed information rights management for securing and monitoring content items wherever they live. Mr. MacMillan joined Oracle through the acquisition of Stellent, Inc., where he was the Vice President of Product Marketing. His background at Stellent included leading the product strategy for the web content management products as a product manager and implementing enterprise content management solutions directly with customers as a technical architect. Prior to Stellent Mr. MacMillan was a consultant at EDS designing and delivering enterprise applications, primarily for General Motors. He holds a bachelor's of arts degree in information technology management from Michigan State University and a master's degree in business administration from the University of Edinburgh (Scotland).
Anne Gonnella and Leigh McCuen work for the Space Telescope Science Institute which supports the Hubble Space Telescope. Anne has a background in Physics and Astronomy, and has worn many hats from Information Architect to Manager of the Institute's Strategic Planning group. Leigh has a background in Philosophy and is a Senior Application Developer. Both nurtured the CMS in its infancy and continue to work ensuring the mature system meets the needs of the users.
Andrew P. McAfee
Associate Professor of Business Administration
Andrew McAfee joined the faculty of the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School in 1998. His research investigates how managers can most effectively select, implement, and use Information Technology (IT) to achieve business goals. He was the recipient of a US Department of Energy Integrated Manufacturing Fellowship for his doctoral research, which focused on the performance impact of enterprise information technologies such as SAP's R/3. His current research falls into three categories. The first is an exploration of how Web 2.0 technologies can be used within the enterprise, and what their impact is likely to be. The second is an exploration of when IT leads to increased use of market mechanisms for coordinating activity, and when it instead leads to greater use of hierarchies. The third is a study of IT's impact over time on the structure of US industries.
David Mendels
Senior Vice President, Enterprise and Developer Solutions Business Unit
As senior vice president of the Enterprise and Developer Solutions Business Unit, David Mendels leads Adobe's development of comprehensive, integrated technologies and solutions for enterprises and developers who want to engage their customers and constituents with information more efficiently and effectively. He oversees products such as the Adobe® LiveCycle™ line of server software, enabling organizations to deploy solutions that effectively create, capture and integrate information and processes across the extended enterprise, and the Macromedia® Flex™ product line, helping developers and enterprise develop and deploy applications that combine the richness of the desktop with the reach of the web. Mendels joined Adobe through the company's acquisition of Macromedia in December 2005. At Macromedia, Mendels served as executive vice president and general manager for Macromedia's tool and server product division. In this role, Mendels directly managed the product marketing, management and development of Macromedia's MX products including the Flash® and Flex line, Macromedia Studio 8 and ColdFusion® software. Mendels began his career in Macromedia's international department in 1992. He led Macromedia's Japan field operations including all sales and marketing. After returning to the United States in 1995, Mendels held positions running business development and alliances as well as general management of a number of Macromedia product groups, playing a major role in Macromedia's product and business development for more than 10 years. Mendels earned a master of arts degree in Japanese studies from the University of California at Berkeley and a bachelor's degree in East Asian studies from Wesleyan University.
Bruce Molloy’s visionary leadership has helped grow multiple companies, resulting in many award-winning products. As a recognized authority in Knowledge Management, he has been featured in numerous publications including the Wall Street Journal and Barron’s. As CEO of Connotate Technologies, Mr. Molloy has brought the company from a promising technology to a high-growth market leader. Having secured strategic investment from Goldman Sachs, Connotate is growing at more than 300% a year, boasting market leading customers in finance, publishing and government. An experienced entrepreneur, Mr. Molloy has served as CEO and board member of several technology companies. One of his companies, The Molloy Group, merged with ServiceWare Technologies and completed a successful IPO. Mr. Molloy holds a B.A. in Physics and Music from Columbia University.
Mike Moran
Distinguished Engineer & Product Manager OmniFind Enterprise Edition, IBM Software Group
Co-author of Search Engine Marketing, Inc., Mike Moran is an IBM Distinguished Engineer with more than 20 years experience in search technology working at IBM Research, Lotus, and other IBM software units. He led the product team that developed the first commercial linguistic search engine in 1989, and has been granted four patents in search and retrieval technology. He led the original search marketing strategy for ibm.com, as well as the integration of ibm.com’s site search technologies. Mike worked on IBM’s Web site for eight years and is currently Product Manager for IBM's OmniFind search product. Mike also holds an Advanced Certificate in Market Management Practice from the Royal UK Charter Institute of Marketing, and writes columns for Revenue Magazine and WebProNews. He is a member of the Search Engine Marketing Council of the Direct Marketing Association, and a charter member of the DMA's Internet Marketing Advisory Board. Mike is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, including Search Engine Strategies, ad:tech, and the Emetrics Summit. Mike's new book, Do It Wrong Quickly, explains how the Internet changes the old marketing rules. Mike can be reached through his Web site (mikemoran.com), which is also home to his Biznology newsletter and blog.
Lynda Moulton
Lead Analyst, Enterprise Search, Gilbane Group
Lynda Moulton is the Lead Analyst in the Gilbane Group's Enterprise Search Consulting Practice where she also manages the Enterprise Search blog (http://gilbane.com/search_blog/). Lynda Moulton is also principal of LWM Technology Services, a management consulting practice dedicated to leveraging organizations’ knowledge. In 1980 she founded Comstow Information Services, which developed BiblioTech software products, forerunner of today’s content management systems. In 1999 she sold BiblioTech to Inmagic, Inc. For over 25 years she has been a thought leader in corporate knowledge management, speaking and writing on the role of professional competencies and business strategies. In 1993 Greenwood Press published her book Data Bases for Special Libraries: A Strategic Guide to Information Management. As a consultant she has worked on leveraging automation technologies, guiding taxonomy development and facilitated search interfaces. Among her clients are defense organizations such as Raytheon, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Northrop Grumman, and MIT. Lincoln Laboratory, biotech and pharmaceuticals such as Pfizer, Biogen, Novartis and Gilead Sciences, and law firms such as Pillsbury Madison & Sutro, Greenberg Traurig, and Goodwin Procter. Ms. Moulton is an active leader in the Boston KM Forum, a contributor to the publications and programs of The Gilbane Group, and a past leader in divisions and chapters of the SLA where she co-authored the original document Competencies for Special Librarians of the 21st Century.
Dr. Conleth O’Connell Chief Technology Officer, Vignette
Dr. O'Connell joined Vignette as one of its first engineers and as is responsible for driving new technology and innovation. He was recently honored as a Distinguished Alumni by Ohio State University. He holds a number of patents for innovation in content management and delivery, with several more pending.
John Parsons is the Editorial Director for The Seybold Report, a bimonthly journal of news, trends and in-depth analyses of technologies affecting publishers, printers, Internet providers and business communicators. (Seybold publications, covering a wide variety of technical and business topics, have been in continuous publication since 1971. For more information on the current publication, go to www.seyboldreport.com.) John has worked in magazines, advertising, software development, web publishing and in other sectors of the publishing communications field since 1975, and has written and spoken widely on a broad spectrum of industry topics. He resides in Bremerton, Washington, and can be reached at jparsons@risiinfo.com.
Richard Pasewark is a proven content management and publishing solutions leader, with experience bringing XML, Web Services, and multichannel publishing systems to market. Rich has led product management, sales, and marketing teams to drive new product launches, open new markets, and contribute to the overall strategy of content management and multichannel publishing at a wide variety of customers. Rich is the former SVP of sales and marketing and Quark, the former VP of sales and marketing at XyEnterprise, and has held sales, marketing, and technical positions at Adobe, Frame Technology, and EDS. Rich is based in Boston and is currently consulting on Web Services and SOA solutions for marketing, content management, compliance, and multichannel publishing applications.
Steve Paxhia
Lead Analyst, Publishing Strategy & Technology Practice, Gilbane Group
At The Gilbane Group, Steve leads a consulting practice focused upon the strategies and technologies employed by commercial and enterprise publishing professionals. He assists small publishing technology company's turn their ideas into profitable businesses and larger companies in assessing their strategy and current performance and then helping to accelerate their growth. In the past ten years, Steve has worked with more than 30 companies by helping refine their strategic plans, raise capital, devise go-to-market plans, and make and integrate acquisitions. Steve also mentors a number of CEOs and offers training on board meeting preparation. Before joining the Gilbane Group, Steve founded several successful consulting Practices and served as Chairman of Rovia - A start-up that developed secure fully featured e-books for the college market. Steve has considerable experience with custom publishing, licensing of intellectual property, electronic publishing work flow and technology, and EDI. He was the founder of the publishing industry's Pubnet e-commerce and information system. Before that, Steve was CEO of Inso Corporation. Under his leadership, Inso grew from a 35 person division of Houghton Mifflin Company to a 1000 person public company with sales of $100 million dollars. Steve led the IPO and two subsequent offerings and led the company through 10 successful acquisitions. He also established a comprehensive mentoring program to develop promising young managers into capable executives. Before Inso Corporation, Steve ran Berlitz Translation Services for three years providing him with significant experience in running service businesses and dealing with international clients. Previous to Berlitz, Steve held a series of progressively responsible Sales and Marketing positions at Macmillan Publishing Company culminating in the role of Marketing Vice President. Steve has served on the Boards of SpyGlass and Mathsoft and is Deploy Solutions - a developer of Human Resources technology. Steve also sits on several non-profit boards. Steve holds a Bachelors degree from SUNY Cortland and an MBA from RIT. He has spoken on numerous industry panels and has presented to area forums for aspiring entrepreneurs.
Jerome is chief scientist and co-founder of Vivísimo. In this role, Jerome acts as the visionary for the company driving development and delivery of Vivísimo's products. He also plays a crucial role in the company's overall strategic vision and growth. Before Vivísimo, Jerome was a visiting scientist at Carnegie Mellon University's computer science department, carrying out research on document clustering, data mining and artificial intelligence. Jerome is a frequent presenter at industry conferences including Microsoft's US Public CIO Summit, ICIC 2006 Conference, Life Sciences Conference and ASIDIC. He is an alumnus of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. His academic degrees consist of a B.S. in philosophy from the Sorbonne, an M.S. in cognitive science from the University of Paris IV, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in pure mathematics from the University of Paris-Sud.
Judah Phillips
Director of Web Analytics, Reed Business Interactive
Judah Phillips is Director of Web Analytics for Reed Business Information (Reed). Reed is a leading global business information company. Among its hundreds of publications and websites are leading franchises including Variety, Publishers Weekly, Interior Design, Furniture Today, Broadcasting & Cable, Restaurants & Institutions, and EDN. Judah is a frequent speaker at Internet industry events. He is an active member and on committees and working groups of several industry organizations, such as the Interactive Advertising Bureau and Web Analytics Association. He blogs at Web Analytics Demystified and lives in Boston.
Kaija has over 20 years of successful entrepreneurial experience. In 1983, she established Trantex, a software localization company, which she grew from a one-person company to over 200 employees and sales of $10 million. She also founded Bitwit, a training and new media design company with over 20 employees and $2 million in sales. In 1997, Trantex was acquired by L&H, and Kaija became a partner in IT Venture Development, a private VC fund. She also participated in various national programs on information society, and served in the board of the Finnish Broadcasting Corporation (YLE). In 2000, Kaija joined Blue White Venture as a partner, focusing on helping Finnish companies to North American markets. In addition to her career as an entrepreneur, Kaija has served in boards of several companies, such as YLE, the Finnish Broadcasting Corporation. She has also participated in the development of national information technology and innovation strategy in Finland, and the strategy for the Finnish language cluster. She has also written about technology and business and given several presentations in conferences.
Kathleen has almost a decade of experience in the content management, portal, and search industries. Mostly recently, she has been an independent consultant and writer, working for publications including Portals Magazine, eContent Magazine and The Gilbane Report, as well as for software vendors including BEA and FatWire. Kathleen previously held product management and product marketing positions in Sun Microsystems's software division, managing search, portal, and content management technologies and partners. Prior to joining Sun, she spent four years as an analyst at Giga Information Group (now part of Forrester Research), where she rose to lead Giga's coverage of the enterprise portal, search, content aggregation, and information management markets just as content management and portals grew from almost nothing to become an integral part of the infrastructure software stack. Kathleen has a Masters in Library and Information Science from University of Rhode Island and a BA in History and Political Science from University of Massachusetts.
Kim Riley Manager, Endo Surgery Labeling, Boston Scientific
Kim Riley is a 20 year veteran of the medical device industry and currently the Principal Engineer/Manager of Product Labeling for the Endosurgery Business Unit at Boston Scientific Corporation (BSC). Her responsibilities include generating source text as well as translations for product labeling in Urology/Women’s Health, Oncology, and Endoscopy with a focus on worldwide regulatory requirements, corporate compliance, and localization. Prior to BSC, she was involved in package and product labeling at Ethicon Endosurgery (J&J) and Baxter Corporation. She also has experience in the pharmaceutical and cosmetic/fragrance industries for both packaging and labeling. Kim holds a B.S. degree in Packaging Engineering, a M.S. in Plastics Technology, and a Ph.D. in International Business Administration.
Bill Rosenblatt
Senior Analyst, Gilbane Group & President, GiantSteps Media Technology Strategies
Bill Rosenblatt is is a Senior Analyst in the Gilbane Group's Publishing Technology & Strategy Consulting Practice, and a recognized authority on digital media technologies, including content management, digital rights management, cross-media publishing, and content production systems, as well as on issues related to intellectual property in the online world. He has written several articles and contributed to technology standards initiatives in these areas, and he is the author of Digital Rights Management: Business and Technology (John Wiley & Sons) and managing editor of the Jupitermedia newsletter DRM Watch. He was one of the architects of the Digital Object Identifier, an emerging standard for online content identification and digital rights management. Before founding GiantSteps, Bill was Chief Technology Officer of Fathom, a knowledge destination web site for lifelong learners sponsored by Columbia University, the London School of Economics, Cambridge University Press, the New York Public Library, and other scholarly institutions. Bill defined Fathom’s content and e-commerce technology architecture and built its technology infrastructure. Bill’s publishing industry experience includes stints at McGraw-Hill and Times Mirror Co. (now part of Tribune Co.). Before joining Fathom, he served as VP of Technology and New Media for McGraw-Hill's trade magazine division, where he was responsible for implementing the business’ vertical market web portal strategy, including AviationNow.com, an information portal for the aviation industry. At Times Mirror, as Director of Publishing Systems, Bill implemented content management systems for many of Times Mirror's newspaper, book, and professional information publishing businesses, and helped develop the editorial system architecture for MDConsult, a web service for physicians. At Sun Microsystems, Bill served as a technology strategy consultant to Sun’s major media and publishing customers and did business development for Sun's video server product line. Then, as Market Development Manager for Media, Entertainment, and Publishing, he defined Sun’s market strategy for the industry and built alliances with software vendors who serve it. His career in digital media began at Moody's Investors Service, the bond rating agency, where he developed a pre-web-era architecture for electronic publishing of Moody’s credit reports. In addition to Digital Rights Management: Business and Technology, he is an author of three technical books for the publisher O'Reilly & Associates, which have been translated into French and Japanese; and he was a contributor to the book Electronic Publishing Strategies, published by Pira International Ltd. in the UK. He has been quoted in The New York Times, US News & World Report, Der Spiegel, The Globe and Mail, Australian Financial Review, Electronic Times (South Korea), Billboard, Editor & Publisher, Information Today, and on NPR's All Things Considered. He holds a B.S.E. with honors in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts, and he has had executive education at Harvard and University of Southern California business schools. Bill is a member of the Gerson Lehrman Group Media Council.
Richard Sikes
Senior Consultant & Advisor, The Localization Institute
Richard Sikes has been immersed in localization since 1989. He has held positions as Technical Director for Central Europe for Micrografx, Director of International Development for Delrina Corporation, Director of Development Services for MGI Software, and Director of Globalization for Peregrine Systems where he oversaw localization teams at three company sites and spearheaded company globalization initiatives. Richard also founded the Toronto office of GECAP, which later became part of Bowne Global Solutions. Richard holds a BA in Fine Arts from the University of California, Diplom Betriebswirt from the Fachhochschule Heidelberg, and an MBA from the University of Toronto. Richard's seminars concentrate on a holistic view of the localization process as an integral part of a greater corporate globalization vision, as well as specific tactics for mission determination, process implementation and improvement, budgeting, personnel, infrastructure, career-path planning, and team motivation
Dee Stribling has over 30 years of experience in information technology development and research. Throughout her career, she has applied her expertise across several areas, including health care and emergency management research (Duke University and the Research Triangle Institute). However, managing software development and publications projects (and bridging the business culture gap between the two) has been the focus of her 20-year career at SAS. Her publishing technologies experience includes content management, XML-based authoring, text mining, and ontology development. She is currently the project leader for the SAS Corporate Terminology Management initiative. This continues to be an exciting area as terminology management extends far beyond text-based material (documentation, collateral) and into message text, user interface labels, and software code, across more than 20 languages. Her interests also include facilitating and managing change in business processes within corporate environments and global publishing. Stribling has authored and presented papers primarily via SAS User Group conferences. She will be representing SAS on the LISA terminology special interest group. Stribling earned her Ph.D. in Medical Geography from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Bill Trippe is a Senior Analyst at the Gilbane Group, and President of New Millennium Publishing, a Boston-based consulting practice formed in 1997. Bill has more than 20 years of technical and management experience in content management, XML, and related technologies. He specializes in large-scale applications of content management technology, working with publishers who are typically converting extensive legacy databases and systems into more contemporary, open technology. He brings a unique blend of strategic and hands-on knowledge of the products and trends that are shaping the publishing and content technology marketplace. At The Gilbane Group, Bill covers trends and technologies in the content management industry and develops conferences and tutorials on XML and content management. He is a sought-after speaker and author in the XML field, and is the XML columnist for Transform, a Consulting Associate with the consulting and market research firm CAP Ventures, and a regular contributor to the magazine, EContent.
A software industry veteran, Skip Walter has more than 40 years of technology product development and executive management experience — across Fortune 1000 companies and start-up businesses. Skip was the Founding CEO and Chief Technology Officer of Attenex Corporation, which increases productivity by at least ten times in the legal electronic discovery process for litigation through visual analytics. Skip is an advisory council member of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model consortium and is on the Dean's Advisory Council of the School of Informatics at Indiana University. Skip is currently the Managing Director of Factor, Inc., providing strategic planning and product roadmap design for startup technology companies pursuing social networking and visual analytics as well as eDiscovery strategic planning for Global 1000 corporations.
Melissa Webster
Program Director, Content Technologies & Digital Media, IDC
Melissa Webster serves as a Program Director within IDC's Content Technologies research group. This group’s research programs track, analyze, and forecast markets and trends in document and content management software and services, search engines, text mining, categorization and other information retrieval technologies, authoring tools, XML, rich media asset management, and digital rights management. They also cover the online content market, providing information on emerging technologies and trends of interest to content providers and aggregators. Ms. Webster is the primary analyst for content management, document management, and digital asset management systems; authoring tools; and digital media. Ms. Webster has more than 20 years of experience in the software industry with enterprise software vendors and internet companies ranging from the Fortune 500 to venture-backed startups. She has held senior management positions in marketing, business development, and product development at Oracle, Information Builders, Object Design, RetailExchange, FairMarket, and UniSQL, and has a strong background in object-oriented and multimedia databases, XML, user interface design, and application infrastructure technologies. Ms. Webster formerly led IDC’s Application Life-Cycle Management research program. Ms. Webster holds a B.A. degree from Wellesley College.
David Weinberger
Fellow, Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society
The Wall Street Journal called him a "marketing guru." He's the co-author of the The Cluetrain Manifesto, the bestseller that cut through the hype and told business what the Web was really about. His latest book, Small Pieces Loosely Joined has been published to rave reviews hailing it as the first book to put the Internet in its deepest context. He's been a frequent commentator on National Public Radio's All Things Considered. He's written for the "Fortune 500" of business and tech journals, including The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, The Miami Herald, The Boston Globe, USA Today, The Guardian, The Gilbane Report, and Wired. Journalists from The New York Times, Newsweek, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, InformationWeek, The Economist, the Wall Street Journal and many more turn to him for insight. He is a columnist for Knowledge Management World and il sole 24 ore, and writes an influential business technology newsletter and a well-known daily weblog, Joho the Blog. He was a philosophy professor for six years, a comedy writer for Woody Allen for seven years, a humor columnist for Oregon's major daily newspaper, a dot-com entrepreneur before most people knew what a home page was, and a strategic marketing consultant to household-name multinationals and the most innovative startups. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy and is currently a Fellow at the prestigious Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society. His book Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder is being published by Times Books in May 2007.
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Lisa Welchman
Founder, Welchman Consulting
Lisa Welchman is founder and principal consultant of Welchman Consulting. Her firm provides web operations management consulting services to companies and government agencies. Lisa is also host of the CMSAdvisor podcast series which addresses issues related to content management system implementations.
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Tony White
Lead Analyst, Web Content Management, Gilbane Group
Tony White is the Lead Analyst for the Gilbane Group's Web Content Management Consulting Practice, and contributor to the Web Content Management blog (http://gilbane.com/web_content_management_blog/). Over the past ten years, Tony White has been an analyst at both Giga Information Group (now Forrester Research) and the Yankee Group, and has served in senior marketing roles at Interwoven and BroadVision. More recently, Tony has founded Ars Logica, Inc., a high-tech marketing and advisory firm offering a range of strategic and tactical marketing services to software vendors and providing needs-analysis/product-selection support to enterprise clients. In addition to hosting and speaking at analyst, vendor, and user conferences across Europe, North America, and Asia-Pacific, Tony has delivered competitive analyses to the sales forces of companies such as Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and BEA. His clients have included Adobe Systems, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Ford Motor Company, JPMorgan Chase, Qantas Airways, Siemens, and numerous other Global 2000 companies.
