Ram Appalaraju
VP of Technology & Product Marketing, Azul Systems
Ram's areas of technical specialty include systems architectures, operating environments, middleware, and IT transformation services. Prior to Azul, Ram was a Vice President at HP, responsible for leading a company-wide marketing strategy and execution of Adaptive Enterprise solutions for Enterprise customers. During his 11 year experience at HP, Ram held a number of senior marketing executive positions for servers and systems software including HP's Unix system software.

Dr. Conleth O'Connell
Chief Technology Officer, Vignette Corporation
Conleth is responsible for driving new technology and innovation within Vignette. Dr. O'Connell joined Vignette in 1996 as one of the company's first engineers and helped develop Vignette's initial product offering. Prior to becoming CTO, Dr. O'Connell held multiple engineering and architect roles. He influenced the company's support for open standards by participating in various standards committees, including W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), OASIS, and WS-I (Web Services Interoperability).

David Lee
Senior VP of Architecture, ING
Dave has driven data center transformation in his leadership role at CitiStreet, now part of ING. Dave offer practical experience in matching enterprise architectures to the needs of the business, and has successfully worked through issues in stability and scalability, particularly with handling seasonal peak demand. Dave previously was Director of Engineering and Operations at Key3Media Events Inc.