pastSpeakers

She is an Exceptional Speaker, has the reputation of capturing the attention of audiences and maintaining their interest while guiding her listeners painlessly through sophisticated material. Ms. Atre is President of Atre Group Inc. and of a leading consulting, training and publishing company, specializing in Business Intelligence. Before heading her present company, Ms. Atre was […]

He is the author of Predictive Policing: Taking a Chance for a Safer Future. He holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Twente in The Netherlands and is a well-known enthusiastic speaker. Rutger has broad experience in Business Intelligence and Predictive Analytics. To broaden his view he exchanged the Dutch National Police

She is currently recognised as one of Europe’s leading authorities on tools and methods.She has a considerable number of successful and widely acclaimed books to her credit and is frequently a keynote speaker on conferences and seminars all over the world.Her books include detailed surveys for the tool and method user or developer.Rosemary has well

He is Principal and Co-Founder of Business Rule Solutions, LLC, where he actively develops and applies the IPSpeak™ methodology including RuleSpeak®, DecisionSpeak™ and TableSpeak™. Mr. Ross is recognized internationally as the “father of Business Rules.” He is the author of ten professional books including the groundbreaking first book on business rules The Business Rule Book

He is a full-time researcher in the world of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) currently working on Data Analytics. He studies the trends on how APIs are impacting our worlds both good and bad. He is responsible for understanding the technology, business, and politics of these APIs that are driving our websites, mobile, and devices are

He was one of the original developers of SDL (Specification and Description Language). In 1967, SDL became a standard in the telecoms industry. At Ericsson he also invented use cases as a way to specify functional software requirements. In April 1987 he quit Ericsson and started Objective Systems. A majority stake of the company was

Dr. Howard A. Rubin is a tenured Full Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science at Hunter College of the City University of New York, the CEO of Rubin Systems Inc., a META Group Research Fellow, a Faculty Affiliate of Cap Gemini, and a former Nolan Norton Research Fellow. In 1997, Industry Week

Mr. Reifer has more than 30 years of progressive management experience in both government and industry. At the Aerospace Corporation, Mr. Reifer managed all of the software efforts associated with the Space Transportation System (Space Shuttle). At TRW, he served as the Deputy Program Manager for the Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) line of business organization.

Mr. Ertman is a Fellow at Luminis in the Netherlands. Besides his day job he served as the Java User Group leader for NLJUG, the Dutch Java User Group (approx. 4000 members) for the past decade. A frequent speaker on Java, Software and Services Architecture related topics all over the world, as well as a

William functions as Strategist, Lead Enterprise Information Architect, and Program Manager for complex, high-volume full life-cycle implementations worldwide utilizing the disciplines of data warehousing, master data management, business intelligence, data quality and operational business intelligence. Many of his clients have gone public with their success story. William is a Southwest Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist,