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He is currently the President and CEO of Capers Jones & Associates LLC. He is also the founder and former chairman of Software Productivity Research LLC (SPR). He holds the title of Chief Scientist Emeritus at SPR. Mr. Jones founded SPR in 1984. Before founding SPR Capers was Assistant Director of Programming Technology for the […]

He is an executive at Bosatsu and a senior technologist with a focus on trends in modern information technologies. His experience has spanned many industries including retail, banking, online games, defense, finance, hospitality and health care. He focuses on Web Architecture, Social Networking, the Semantic Web, Data Science, 3D graphics, visualization, scalable systems, security consulting

World-renowned expert, speaker and author on Data Warehousing, is widely recognized as the “father of Data Warehousing.” He is creator of the Corporate Information Factory and more recently, creator of the Government Information Factory. He has over 35 years of experience in database technology management and data warehouse design, and he is known globally for

Mr. Curtis is one of the nation’s most recognized authorities on software development and human factors in computer systems. He is the cofounder and chief scientist of TeraQuest Metrics, a firm that provides management consulting and training-in-process improvement for companies that build or acquire software-intensive systems. As director of the Process Program at the Software

Beverly Bammel has 25 years of experience bridging the gap between technology and management professionals. She has worked closely with IT executives in developing IT strategy and direction. Beverly is co-inventor, along with Roger Sessions, of the SIP (Simple Iterative Partitions) methodology that focuses on reducing complexity in large IT systems. An accomplished speaker, Beverly

He is a mathematician turned into an entrepreneur in/with Data Science. Mr. Petrella participated in many projects built on distributed technologies like spark, cassandra and mesos in various fields including Geospatial, IoT, Automotive and Smart cities projects. He is the creator of the Spark Notebook, the only reactive and fully Scala notebook for Apache Spark.

He is the Knight Chair in Visual Journalism at the School of Communication of the University of Miami (UM). He is also Director of the Visualization Program at UM’s Center for Computational Science. He teaches courses on infographics and Data Visualisation. Mr. Cairo is the author of the books Infografía 2.0: Visualización interactiva de información

He is a Principal at CMS Watch, covering ECM technologies and practices. Prior to joining CMS Watch, Mr. Pelz-Sharpe was a strategist and led the ECM Consulting team at Wipro one of the world’s largest IT services firms headquartered in India. He spent years with Ovum, the largest industry analyst firm in Europe, serving 3

Beth Cohen is a senior cloud architect for Cloud Technology Partners, Inc., a firm focused on delivering solutions to help enterprises leverage the efficiencies of cloud architectures and technologies. Some of Beth’s recent projects include: Architected a new infrastructure platform to support a SaaS software implementation. Built the cloud infrastructure for a major international electronics

Agile is not new. Agile is not a trend. Agile is established. We already celebrated that the Agile Manifesto has been written more than 10 years ago. Mr. van Bennekum is co-author of the Manifesto and still very active in the area of Agile Solution Development. He still does it for the same reason as