Udi Dahan is "The Software Simplist," recognized by Microsoft with the coveted Most Valuable Professional award for solutions architecture now four years running. Mr. Dahan is a Connected Technologies Advisor working with Microsoft on WCF, WF, and Oslo. He also serves as a member of the Patterns & Practices Advisory Board for CAB and Prism. He provides clients all over the world with training, mentoring, and high-end architecture consulting services, specializing in service-oriented, scalable, and secure .NET architecture design.
Mr. Dahan is a member of the International .NET…
Jens Coldewey is based in Munich, Germany. For more than 10 years, Mr. Coldewey has worked with numerous top 50 large and medium-sized companies to introduce Agile practices and Agile management, specializing in deploying Agile development in large organizations. He is a founding member of the nonprofit AgileAlliance and has served as board member.
Mr. Coldewey is Managing Director of it-agile GmbH, the leading German supplier of Agile support. He is a regular speaker at Agile and OO conferences. Mr. Coldewey's publications include "Pattern Language for Accessing Relational…
Roberto Verganti is Professor of Management of Innovation, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and Visiting Scholar in the Technology and Operations Management unit at the Harvard Business School, where he was also Fulbright Visiting Scholar in 1997-1998. His research explores the management of innovation, with a special focus on innovation driven by design and innovation in rapidly moving environments. Roberto Verganti has published more than 100 articles in journals, including the Harvard Business Review, Management Science, and the Journal of Product Innovation…
Scott Stribrny is a leading figure in the world of process improvement. With over 30 years’ diverse experience, Mr. Stribrny is the cofounder, President, and Managing Director of Group Atlantic, Inc. His current interests include change management, new paradigms for organizational design, and technology-based competitive strategy. Mr. Stribrny advises companies on how to adapt modern software development techniques to fit specific projects and how to effectively transfer new technologies to the system developers within the organization. His accumulated management experience ranges from…
Vince Kellen is a Fellow of Cutter Consortium, a member of Arthur D. Little's AMP open consulting network, and a frequent Summit speaker. He is currently CIO at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), a member of UCSD’s Chancellor's Cabinet, and Vice Chancellor and CFO of the UCSD senior management team. Dr. Kellen brings a rare combination of academic, business, and IT strategy experience to his role, with a focus on strategic transformation within IT, applying leading-edge approaches to current business challenges. His 25 years of executive-level experience offers a proven track…
Edgar Barroso is a Cutter Expert and a visiting professor in innovation and public entrepreneurship at the School of Government at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Mexico. Dr. Barroso is a member of Mexico's National System of Art Creators, working on a three-year project dedicated to creating seven chamber and orchestral music pieces based on scientific phenomena combining art, science, and technology.
Dr. Barroso combines his career as a composer and entrepreneur. As a consultant, he promotes and conducts workshops, courses, and seminars on creativity…
Professor Ciaran Murphy is the Bank of Ireland Professor of Business Information Systems; and the Chair of the Department of Accounting, Finance and Information Systems at University College Cork, Ireland.
Ciaran Murphy is an internationally recognized expert in Decision Support Systems. He has consulted to financial services companies, government agencies and international bodies. He is widely published, and has been author and editor of number of books, including Information Systems at CORE with Pat Finnegan. In addition, he has served on the editorial boards of a number…
Ed Yourdon was cofounder, with Karen Coburn, of Cutter Consortium. Ed served as Fellow of the Cutter Business Technology Council, and Founding Editor and Editor Emeritus of the Cutter IT Journal. He chaired Cutter's Summit for many years. Mr. Yourdon is widely known as the lead developer of the structured analysis/design methods of the 1970s. He was a codeveloper of the Yourdon/Whitehead method of object-oriented (OO) analysis/design and the popular Coad/Yourdon OO methodology.
Mr. Yourdon had extensive experience in identifying and providing business continuity planning (BCP)…
Kent Graziano is an award-winning author, speaker, and trainer in the areas of data modeling, data architecture, and data warehousing (DW). He has more than 30 years' experience, including two decades with DW and business intelligence (BI) in multiple industries. Mr. Graziano is also highly skillful in developing and leading successful software and DW implementation teams, including several Agile DW/BI teams.
Mr. Graziano has worked with Oracle RDBMS (since version 5) and various Oracle tools for more than 25 years. He is an internationally recognized expert in…
Nancy Williams has more than 25 years' business management and technical experience. Ms. Williams is a well-known BI industry consultant, educator, author, and practitioner. Her work focuses on how organizations can leverage BI to improve business performance. Ms. Williams is also VP of Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing at DecisionPath Consulting, a BI/DW strategy firm.
Ms. Williams has helped leading organizations formulate business-focused BI and DW strategies and business cases that earn funding and chart a course toward BI success. These organizations include Marriott…
Dave Rooney is a Cutter Expert. He is a veteran Agile Coach and software developer with more than 30 years’ experience. As a well-recognized member of the global Agile community since 2000, Mr. Rooney helps a wide variety of organizations — large and small, private and public sector, startups and Fortune 15 companies — improve their software delivery process. He has a deep interest in the human factors involved in the effective delivery of software that delights customers and follows practices that make the work environment not just more humane, but also fun. Mr. Rooney is an…