Swami Chandrasekaran a Senior SOA Solutions Architect with IBM, has more than 12 years of progressive experience in the areas focused on strategy, architecture, implementation, and delivery of large scale strategic IT solutions. His credits include technical and strategic interface with various senior executive and institutions, including Fortune 100/500 companies, U.S. and international clients.
In his current role at IBM, as a visionary and senior member of the client services organization, he leads pre-sales, architecture and design of service-oriented applications for their key clients and partners. He is also the Co-Lead Architect and SME for the WebSphere Business Services Fabric Telecom Content Pack product.
His current areas of passion include Service Oriented and Composite Applications, Semantic Web, Next Generation Service Delivery Platforms, and Enterprise Architecture Visualization. He lives with his family in Dallas, TX and during his free time he blogs at http://blog.nirvacana.com. He has authored several articles featured in "BearingPoint Institute for Thought Leadership" and also hold several patent disclosures. He previously worked for BearingPoint and also for Ericsson Wireless Research. Swami hold's a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Electrical Engineering.
William Laurent is one of the world's leading experts in information strategy, and Business Intelligence and Governance. For more than 15 years he has advised numerous companies and governments on technology strategy, methodologies, and best practices. He is a regularly featured writer and columnist for DM Review where he writes about IT and corporate governance. In addition, he serves as Contributing Editor for Dashboard Insight. William has taught at Baruch College and Columbia University. He runs an independent consulting company that bears his name, and lectures frequently on various technology and business topics worldwide. Mr. Laurent is the former President of National Information Management and currently resides in New York City metro area and Tokyo Japan. He would enjoy your comments at <[email protected]>.