Mamoon Yunus is an industry-honored CTO in Web Services-based technologies for enterprises and is a pioneer in Web Services Firewalls. He is the founder of Forum Systems, the leader in Web Services Security. Prior to Forum Systems, Mr. Yunus was a Global Systems Engineer for webMethods where he developed business integration strategy and architecture plans for Global 2000 companies such as GE, Prudential, Pepsi, Siemens, and Mass Mutual. He has held various high level executive positions at Informix (acquired by IBM) and Cambridge Technology Group. Mr. Yunus holds two Graduate Degrees in Engineering from MIT and a BSME from Georgia Institute of Technology.

Anthony Nadalin is IBM’s chief security architect. As a Distinguished Engineer, he is responsible for security infra-structure design and development across IBM, Tivoli and Lotus. He serves as the primary security liaison to Sun Microsystems’ JavaSoft Division for Java security design and development collaboration, and to Microsoft for Web Services security design and development collaboration. In his 21-year career with IBM, Anthony has covered the following positions: lead security architect for VM/SP, security architect for AS/400, and security architect for OS/2. Anthony has authored and co-authored over thirty technical journal and conference articles. Anthony has published two books on Java Security and the Internet. Anthony has been on the technical committee of three major scientific journals and one conference, and has reviewed extensively work published by peers in the field. He has given several presentations and invited speeches at numerous technical security conferences.

Melise R. Blakeslee is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP based in the Washington, D.C. office.   As a member of the Intellectual Property, Media & Technology Department, Melise is the leader of the Firm’s Tech Transactions and e-Business Group. She is admitted to the bars of New York and Washington, D.C.

Melise’s practice is unique in that she has a transactional practice focusing on information technology and the Internet as well as an active litigation docket focusing on complex software and copyright disputes.

Melise’s practice routinely bridges across a wide range of complex IT and IP arrangements, including Multinational IT and BPO outsourcing; and B2B, B2C and commodity exchanges.

In addition, she counsels internet-based businesses on issues such as: consumer privacy, transaction authentication, content licensing, electronic payment systems, advertising concerns and e-business-related insurance issues.

Melise has 19 years of experience protecting and licensing IP in many industry sectors, including software, advertising, art and music.  She leads the Firm's large-scale Internet policing program on behalf of many famous brands.

Dr. Toufic Boubez is the CTO of Layer 7 Technologies and a well-respected Web services visionary. Prior to co-founding Layer 7 Technologies, Toufic was the Chief Web Services Architect for IBM's Software Group and drove their early XML and Web services strategies. He co-authored the original UDDI API specification and participated on several standards bodies, including the UN/CEFACT/OASIS ebXML initiative. He is a sought-after presenter and has chaired many XML and Web services conferences. In 2002, InfoWorld named Toufic to its “Ones to Watch” list. An author of many publications, one of his most recent books is the Building Web Services with Java: Making Sense of XML, SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI. Toufic is also actively involved with various standards organizations such as WS-I, and OASIS and co-author of the WS-Trust and WS-SecureConversation specifications. He is also the co-editor of the W3C WS-Policy specification. Toufic holds a Master of Electrical Engineering degree from McGill University and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Rutgers University.

In his role as Chief Technology Officer at IONA, Eric Newcomer is responsible for directing and communicating IONA's technology roadmap and product strategy. Eric joined IONA in November 1999, after nearly 16 years at Digital/Compaq, where he held a variety of technical and management roles. He joined IONA as the company's transaction processing architect, and also served as IONA's Vice President of Engineering, Web Services Integration Products.

Eric leads IONA's participation in all standardization activities, and has been involved in Web services standardization activities from the beginning. He was a founding member of the XML Protocols Working Group at W3C, which produced SOAP 1.2. He is also a former editor of the Web Services Architecture specification at the W3C and is IONA's primary representative to OASIS and WS-I. Eric is co-author of the WS-Transactions set of specifications and co-chair of the WS-TX technical committee at OASIS. He is also co-chair of the Service Component Architecture (SCA) Policy Working Group and a member of the Eclipse and ObjectWeb Boards.

Paul Lipton is a Senior Architect in CA’s Office of the CTO where he specializes in SOA, Web services, and emerging technologies. He has also participated in many standards organizations such as OASIS and W3C, is a founding member of the CA Council for Technical Excellence, a Microsoft MVP, and a Sun Java Champion. Paul has also been an architect and developer of enterprise systems for over 20 years. He is a highly sought-after author and speaker, and has shared his knowledge with appreciative audiences around the world covering such topics as Enterprise Architecture, SOA, Web services, management/security, governance, Java, .NET, EAI, and emerging technologies.

Stephen Gantz, CISSP-ISSAP, is a senior enterprise architect with Pearson Blueprint Technologies, a software engineering and architecture division of Pearson Government Solutions specializing in enterprise modernization solutions for the federal civilian and commercial markets. In his current role, he leads enterprise architecture engagements for federal agencies seeking to establish programs aligned with the Federal Enterprise Architecture.  Mr. Gantz has over 15 years’ experience in technology-related professional services and software development, primarily as an enterprise and security architect designing portal, e-commerce, enterprise application integration, and security systems and infrastructures. 

Mr. Gantz’s industry expertise includes federal civilian, DoD, and state government, financial services, insurance, retail, telecommunications, and higher education. His areas of technical expertise include security and enterprise systems architecture; service-oriented architecture; business process modeling and analysis; portal, content management, and related applications; enterprise resource planning (ERP); middleware technologies; and data transport, integration, and exchange. He is a regular speaker at industry events on EA, enterprise application integration, security architecture and risk assessment, XML, and content management.

Eugene Kuznetsov is noted as the pioneer in the SOA appliance category and a recognized leader within the XML, Web services and SOA industries. Mr. Kuznetsov founded DataPower in 1999 where he served for three years as president and CTO, then as chairman and CTO until the IBM acquisition of DataPower in October 2005. In recognition of his SOA Appliance vision and leadership, Mr. Kuznetsov was named one of the "Top 25 Most Influential CTOs" for 2005. He is a well regarded speaker at numerous conferences and events including NetSec, JavaOne, Networld+Interop, NATO C3 Agency, HPWorld, CIO Council XML.gov Working Group, Web Services DevCon, MITRE XML Day, NECINA, Web Services Edge, Gartner's Application Integration and Web Services Summit, and the IT Security & Privacy Conference. Mr. Kuznetsov holds a BSEE from MIT.

Andrew Brown has more than ten years of experience in developing and marketing enterprise security solutions. In his role as AmberPoint’s Director of Product Marketing, he works closely with AmberPoint’s hundreds of enterprise customers and helps set the company’s product roadmap for SOA security solutions. Prior to AmberPoint, Andrew was a co-founder and Director of Strategic Marketing at Nanobiz, who built the industry’s first Web services development platform. Andrew went on to serve as Evangelist for the XML Web Services Security initiative at VeriSign, where he drove the development of offerings for application security. Andrew has also been a part of several security-related startups, has participated in industry standards groups, such as WS-I, and was a member of the Java Commerce group at Sun.