APAC Extended Horizons Summit 2008

Simon Phipps

Chief Open Source Officer
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Simon Phipps is the Chief Open Source Officer at Sun Microsystems, co-ordinating Sun's extensive participation in free and open source software communities, promoting consistency and best practice and actively participating in the global conversation they express. Prior to this appointment he co-founded Sun's pioneering staff weblog facility at blogs.sun.com. Simon joined Sun in mid-2000.

A computer industry insider of 20+ years standing, Simon has worked in such hands-on roles as field engineer, programmer and systems analyst as well as being involved at a strategic level in some of the world's leading computer companies. Fascinated by the idea of 'action at a distance', he worked with OSI standards in the eighties, on the first commercial collaborative conferencing software in the nineties, and helped introduce both Java and XML at IBM.

Simon has served on the Community Advisory Boards of OpenSolaris and currently serves on the GNOME, OpenSPARC and OpenJDK communities. He holds a degree in electronic engineering and is a Chartered Engineer and Member of the British Computer Society where he is on the committee of his local branch.

To learn more about Sun's engagement with open source visit sun.com/opensource. His personal home page and blog is http://www.webmink.net.

Duncan Bennet

Vice President & Managing Director
Sun Microsystems Australia & New Zealand.

Duncan Bennet is the Vice President and Managing Director of Sun Microsystems Australia & New Zealand responsible for overall growth strategy of the local business.

Duncan was previously Sales Director of Sun ANZ for four years overseeing year-on-year successful local sales growth and has more than 30 years experience in the technology and software development industry.

Prior to this, Duncan held a number of positions at Sun including the Managing Director of Sun's software joint Venture with Netscape called iPlanet.

Duncan joined Sun in 1999 following the acquisition of Forte Software Incorporated, the market leader in high end distributed computing development tools. He launched and ran the Australia and New Zealand operations from late 1995, building a highly profitable blue chip customer base.

Over the past 30 years, Duncan has been involved in several start-ups for US-based technology companies, including Pyramid Technology, Prime Computer and Forte Software. His success in these ventures is evident. In every case, their market share in Australia was significantly higher than the normal two per cent the Australian market represents in the global IT market.

Duncan has a Bachelor of Business degree majoring in Data Processing from Massey University in New Zealand.

Ross Altman

CTO - SOA & Business Integration
Sun Microsystems Inc.

As CTO for SOA and Business Integration, Ross Altman focuses on the direction, development and communication of Sun's business integration technology vision and strategy.

Mr. Altman came to Sun through Sun's acquisition of SeeBeyond, the application integration and SOA development tools vendor. Prior to joining SeeBeyond, Mr. Altman was director of integrated technologies at EDS. Before working at EDS, Mr. Altman was a vice president and research director with Gartner, where his research focused on the use of integration middleware to support composite applications, straight-through processing and business process management.

Mr. Altman holds bachelor's and master's degrees from Rutgers University. In addition, he has authored more than 150 articles on application development and integration and has delivered more than 100 presentations on these subjects at industry conferences and seminars.

Maurice Bonotto

Solutions Architect - Desktop Software
Sun Microsystems Australia and New Zealand

Maurice Bonotto brings 14 years of desktop computing experience to his role as Solution Architect for Desktop Software for Sun Microsystems – Australia and New Zealand.

A Sun veteran, Maurice joined Sun twelve years ago and he specialises in the Sun Desktop Virtualisation products. From his role at Sun and previous roles, he also has a high level of knowledge with Sun, Wyse, Citrix, Microsoft and other desktop products in the industry. Maurice has been involved in architecting, piloting and deploying Desktop solutions in Australia and New Zealand, across many different industries, including Government, Health, Education, Call Centres and Retail. Maurice also works closely with Sun Desktop products engineering and development teams to help develop the product.

Daniel Cifuentes

Solutions Architect for Desktop and Mobility
Sun Microsystems Australia and New Zealand

Daniel Cifuentes brings more than 16 years of industry experience to his role as Solution Architect for Desktop and Mobility for Sun Microsystems.

In this role, Daniel is responsible for delivering refreshing solutions that challenge the traditional model of PC-centric desktop architectures to government and enterprise customers, as well as assisting and educating the partner community. Daniel also has deep ties into the product and global engineering teams that sit at the heart of Sun's novel approach to the desktop.

A Sun veteran, Daniel has been at Sun for almost ten years ago, and has been deployed into many pre-sales roles at Sun spanning partner sales, direct technical sales support through to solution sales support and solution architecture across Australia and New Zealand. He was also a key designer of the Sydney Sun Solution Centre, Sun's showcase of technology and solutions for customers and partners.

Daniel has a Degree in Computer Engineering and postgraduate Business studies from Universidad Simón Bolívar in Caracas, Venezuela.

Michael Czapski

Advanced Solutions Architect - SOA/BI/Java CAPS
Sun Microsystems Australia and New Zealand

Michael Czapski has 25 years of experience in the IT industry, the last 10 of which in the field of Enterprise Application Integration, with Internet Security, Web Technologies, Enterprise Architecture and Web Services playing increasing role in his day to day activities.

Michael is responsible for providing Java CAPS expertise and leveraging Java CAPS capabilities in solutions spanning the spectrum of Sun software offerings.

Michael authored a number of technical whitepapers on topics ranging from scripting ICAN eVision with JavaScript to implementing Web Services Security with Java CAPS. He is a Java CAPS Apostle and an active contributor to Java CAPS communities and forums.

Michael held a number of positions with SeeBeyond, in development, delivery and presales, ranging from Senior Consultant to Advanced Solutions Architect, before the company was acquired by Sun in November 2005.

Michael holds degrees of Master of eBusiness Technology and Bachelor of Applied Science (Computing) from the University of Technology, Sydney.

Chris Fleischmann

Solutions Architect - Software
Sun Microsystems Australia

Chris's IT career began as a C/C++ programmer writing low-level API's (device libraries) for serial communications to UPS power supply systems and developing real-time graphical point of sale systems. In later years Chris presented/lectured on a range of different programming topics helping lecturers and tutors help students.

Chris has over 8 years of commercial experience using Java, Java Products and Java based solutions. His skill-set is diverse, ranging from being a Java developer to running multinational, multimillion-dollar Enterprise Java projects, positioning Java and Java related solutions for ANZ customers and recently taking up a new role as a Java Ambassador for Sun Microsystems.

Andrew Latham

Solutions Architect - Identity Management
Sun Microsystems Australia

Andrew Latham brings over 10 years IT Security industry experience to his role as a Solution Architect for Sun Microsystems, focusing on all facets of the Sun Java System Identity Management Suite.

In this position, Andrew is responsible for delivering solutions in identity, audit, compliance and success management to a broad range of government and enterprise customers.

Kevin LeMay

Senior Technical Product Manager - Identity Management
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Kevin LeMay is a Senior Technical Product Manager at Sun Microsystems for the company's Identity Management products. As an identity solutions expert, Kevin is responsible for bringing real-world architecture and functionality considerations to Sun software development teams and assistance with setting product strategy and vision.

Kevin has been in various roles over the past 8 years with Sun including Product Management, Engineering Management and Professional Services providing architecture and solution design around large scale Identity implementations for Fortune 500 companies. Kevin is originally from Calgary, Alberta Canada where he was a principal in a Calgary-based consultancy firm for 8 years specializing in Internet and Enterprise Networking technologies prior to joining Sun.

Brian Brannigan

Managing Director
Agreon

Brian Brannigan, a pioneer of Identity Management in the region, remains passionate as to the vital role an experienced integrator plays in deriving business value from complex IT initiatives. Combining regional management experience with pure play provisioning vendor, Access 360, and his experience as Founder and MD of Voice Integrators a leading CRM Self-Service specialist integrator, he continues to oversee the rapid growth of Agreon. Brian holds a Computer Science degree with Honours from the university of Liverpool.

Antony Krilis

Business Development Manager
Agreon

Antony possesses a wealth of Identity Management consulting experience gained from assisting a number of ’s largest organisations including a large telecommunications organisation, a multinational manufacturer, and multiple government agencies. In ’s last 5 years with Agreon he has worked in a number of roles ranging from implementation, strategic identity consulting and business development. In recent times ’s focus has been working with Agreon’s existing base, and prospective customers, to identify their key business drivers and pain points and conduct current state and gap analysis of their existing Identity Management infrastructure. ’s Bachelor of Business with e-Business and I.T from the is complemented with certified accreditation on a broad range of identity and access management solutions.

Nicole Best

Training Manager & Identity Manager Specialist
Agreon

Nicole possesses a wealth of local and international Identity Management implementation and training experience garnered across the globe assisting a number of the world’s Global 1000 organisations deploy the Sun Java System Identity Management Suite. In Nicole’s last 5 years with Agreon she has Consulted to a major European Oil and Gas Company, a leading Singaporean Financial institution, a multinational Australian Manufacturing Company and an International T elecommunications organisation.

In more recent times, through Agreon’s training partnership with Sun Education, Nicole has focussed her efforts on developing, implementing and coordinating standard and tailored training courses to Sun’s Identity Management customers and partners. Nicole’s experience in the trenches and strong training skills has provided her with the credentials that warrant her reputation for delivery excellence.

Peter Vaneris

Support Engineer - Java CAPS
Sun Microsystems Australia

Peter Vaneris has 19 years of experience in the IT industry, the last 3 in the field of Java CAPS Support. Prior to working with Java CAPS, Peter specialised in system administration, monitoring, automation and enterprise management.

Peter has also contributed to Michael Czapski's "Java CAPS Basics: Implementing Common EAI Patterns".

Tony Smith

Chief Information Officer
Harris Scarfe

Tony's career has spanned several sectors over more than twenty years, but predominantly the FMCG sector with organisations including Cadbury Schweppes, Nestle Dairy Products and Bonlac Foods (now Fonterra Australia). He was CIO for Bonlac Foods in Melbourne before joining Harris Scarfe in 2004 as CIO. Harris Scarfe is an Australian based privately owned retailer with a focus on homewares, small electrical and apparel.

Tony believes IT capability, agility and alignment has a foundation in simplification, standardisation and standards. He believes complexity is the enemy of innovation and efficiency. A "less is more" approach has seen him lead substantial reductions in IT costs at several organisations whilst simultaneously improving project "DIFOT" (delivery in full on time) for new initiatives.

Wayne Garside

Client Relationship Manager
Landgate

Wayne Garside is Manager of Application Services at Landgate in Perth.

Over the past 20 years he has experienced a wide variety of roles in IT - primarily in applications development and support, but with some infrastructure and contract management roles as well. More recently his focus has been on Enterprise Architecture, including the acquisition and deployment of the Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite.

His current responsibilities include Strategic IT Planning; Project/Program Management services and he helps guide Landgate’s Innovation Program.

Landgate is the Statutory Authority responsible for Western Australia's land and property information. The Authority maintains the State's official register of land ownership and survey information and is responsible for valuing the State's land and property.

Nesh Nenad Mijailovic

Konak Solutions Pty Ltd

Nesh has been working in the Telecommunications Industry for over 15 years in Europe and Australia. He holds a Masters of IT in Software Design and Engineering. In recent years, as a Chief Software Architect, Nesh developed the NOVA Solution currently running the majority of Australia's international calls/minutes for the prepaid card market using the MySQL database as its backend. In the latest adventure, Nesh is working on the NICE4Billing Reseller (White Label) Solution for the postpaid and prepaid VoIP market.

Matthew Yee

Business Lead
Role Management Practice
Agreon

Matthew is technical and business lead for the Role Management practice at Agreon, bringing a broad appreciation of Role Management and RBAC based technologies as part of a wider GRC (Governance, Risk and Compliance) strategy. Tertiary educated in software engineering and business, Matthew is also trained and certified in a number of Identity Management technologies from several solution providers including the Sun Java System Identity Management Suite.  Matthew’s experience encompasses a number of Sun Provisioning and Access Management initiatives ranging from development to solution design across a range of industries with a particular focus on Telecommunications and Financial services.

Ralph Szulerowski

Sun Microsystems

Ralph is a graduate of the University of Wollongong – Bachelor of Mathematics and has been working in the computer software business for over 25 years, initially as a computer programmer and database administrator. Ralph made the switch to the “vendor side” of software early in his career and worked at software companies such as Software AG (ADABAS), Oracle, Business Objects, BEA Systems (WebLogic), IONA Technologies and MySQL. Ralph currently has responsibility for business development of MySQL within Australia and New Zealand.

Anton Baggerman

Applications Development Manager
Dairy Farmers

Anton Baggerman has over 25 years of experience in the field of IT, a large part of it in the area of applications development, implementation and integration. In the past fifteen years he has built and supported a myriad of integration architectures to support a number of mergers, acquisitions and ERP implementations.

Having built the foundation based on the eGate, ICAN and Java CAPS architectures, he has now embarked on the next phase which aims to achieve further business efficiencies through the delivery of sophisticated B2B and eCommerce initiatives leading to enhanced customer relationships.

Anton holds a Master of Management (IT) degree as well as number of industry certifications.

Scott Farquahar

Co-founder and Co-CEO
Atlassian Pty Ltd

Scott Farquhar is the co-founder and co-CEO of Atlassian Pty Ltd. Since Atlassian was founded in 2002, it has grown to be one of Australia's largest software exporters, with over 10,500 customers in more than 101 countries. Its customer base reads like a who's who of global companies, and includes technology giants like Apple, Cisco, HP, Oracle, SAP; every major investment bank (BNP Paribas, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, World Bank, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Merrill Lynch), NASA and the European Space Agency; GE, 3M, BHP Billiton, BMW, the McLaren F1 team and so on.

In 2005, 2006 and 2007 both Deloitte and BRW named Atlassian as one of Australia's fastest growing software companies. Scott has also been awarded the 'Australian IT Professional of the Year' in 2004 and in 2006 the 'Entrepreneur of the Year' in both the young and overall categories, and went on to represent Australia at the 'World Entrepreneur of the Year' in Monte Carlo.

Suresh Potiny

Director of Engineering, SOA/BI Platform
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Suresh has over 21 years experience in the IT industry, 12 of these with Sun Microsystems.

For the last 9 years, Suresh has Managed Sun's Integration Server Products B2B (ECXPert), Process Manager, ebXML Products Developer Products: Java Workshop, Java Studio.

Jonathan Spiggle

Project Manager
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Jonathan Spiggle has nearly 30 years in the IT industry, experience ranging from pre sales, product architect to project manangement. After initially working for various manufacturing and finance companies for the last 12 years he has worked for software vendors. He joined Sun (STC/SeeBeyond) in 2000 and has worked in Professional Services assisting customers implement solutions. For several years he worked exclusively for health customers which included much work with the previous eIndex product.

He is currently working on JCAPS implementations in NZ.

Bejoy Cherian

Senior Consultant
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Bejoy Cherian has 7 years of experience in the IT industry, the last 3 in the field of Java CAPS v5.x. Prior to working with Java CAPS v5.x and joining Sun Microsystems, Bejoy specialised in Systems Integration in the Healthcare space, using the older SeeBeyond v4.x suite of products specially eGate and eIndex at Sydney West Area Health Service.

Jan Zeilinga

CTO and co-founder
First Point Global

Jan Zeilinga is Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of First Point Global, a consulting and integration firm which specialises in identity and access management. Jan has worked as a security architect throughout his 14 year career, and has performed design, deployment, customisation and support of large scale systems.

Jan has supported clients in banking and finance, Government, Police, Health, Telco, Retail, Media and Manufacturing. During his career he has seen the evolution from network and applications resident security, to access management infrastructure, user provisioning and user lifecycle management, identity risk management and identity driven SOA.

Jan is focused on SOA governance and the convergence of SOA, Identity and XML threat Protection.

Colin Charles

Community Relations Manager, APAC
Sun Microsystems

He lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, having recently relocated from Melbourne, Australia. He has been with MySQL since 2005. Before joining MySQL, he was an active developer with the Fedora and OpenOffice.org projects. His main focus is to deal with distributions shipping MySQL. He also currently spends a lot of his time making community-based projects happy using the MySQL database.

Brendan Marry

Integrated Solutions Architect
Sun Microsystems, New Zealand

Brendan Marry brings nearly 10 years industry experience to his role as Integrations Solution Architect for Sun Microsystems, New Zealand.

In his role, Brendan is responsible for delivering integration solutions utilizing Sun / SeeBeyond's product suite Java CAPS. In addition to this Brendan provides technical and strategic guidance regarding the adoption of ESB, and SOA design principles to a broad range of government and enterprise customers.

Brendan joined Sun three years ago as a result of Sun acquisition of SeeBeyond Prior to joining Sun/SeeBeyond, Brendan has worked in both product development and consulting roles, where he delivered large scale software projects both in New Zealand and across Europe.

Prabhu Balashanmugam

Product Manager, SOA & Business Inegeration Platforms
Sun Microsystems Inc.

Prabhu has been with the Sun/SeeBeyond Product Management team for over four years managing eInsight BPM, eTL Integrator and Event Processing Products in the Composite Application Platform Suite. Prior to sun, Prabhu spent over six years as a consultant in roles including project management, architect, design, development and pre-sales. Prabhu graduated from University of Madras, India with a Masters degree in Computer Science.

Dean Hansen

Businesses Development Architect
Sun Microsystems Inc.

Dean has been delivering Enterprise Application Integration solutions for over 10 years. Dean joined Sun as part of the SeeBeyond acquisition and continues to focus on business integration. In this role, Dean is responsible for delivering Business Integration Solutions across industries such as Healthcare, Finance, Banking, Government, Insurance, Telecommunications and Utilities. These solutions span a variety of integration solutions and patterns including Enterprise Application Integration, Composite Application, Business Process Management, Service Oriented Architecture, Event Driven Architecture, Business to Business Integration and Single Customer View. Dean has a deep technical background, and continues to develop, assist and educates the partner community and has ongoing corporate relationships with the Sun global engineering teams.

Tony Abbenante

Manager Integration Services
Department of Human Services Victoria – Office of Health Information Systems

Tony Abbenante is the Integration Manager at DHS Victoria for the HealthSMART whole of state Healthcare program. Tony is responsible for managing and designing the implementation of real-world Enterprise Integration Architecture and strategies into the Health sector.
Tony has managed, architected and implemented enterprise Healthcare integration solutions across Australasia for over 18 years. He has been the IT manager and director, for a number of Health organisations. In this time he has also managed the design and delivery of leading edge, international enterprise software solutions.

John Havers

CEO and co-founder
First Point Global Pty Ltd

As CEO and co-founder of First Point Global, John is responsible for the company's strategy, partnerships, business expansion and profitability. Over the last 8 years, FPG has transitioned from a product focused services company to a leading consulting and integration firm, specialising in the domain of Identity Management. FPG’s customers include a who’s who of blue chip companies and organisations in Australia and New Zealand.

Over a 30 year period John has worked in technical, sales and management roles. He first learned of his penchant for “companies purple” when representing Sun Microsystems at The Lionel Singer Corporation in the early ‘80s, then again at Sun Microsystems in the early ‘90s, and today through First Point Global as a Sun Principal Partner. John’s other great passion for Identity Management emerged while Managing Director of Dascom in the mid ‘90s, and continued following IBM’s acquisition of Dascom in 1999. He went on to co-found First Point Global in 2000 with renowned security architect, Jan Zeilinga.

David Codelli

Group Manager Segment Marketing
Sun Microsystems Inc.

David Codelli is Group Manager of Segment Marketing at Sun Microsystems. He holds a bachelor's degree in Information and Computer Science from Georgia Tech. A 15 year veteran of business integration, David integrated systems and applications in healthcare, financial services, and manufacturing before becoming product manager of the flagship eGate Integrator product from SeeBeyond Technologies Corporation, which was later acquired by Sun Microsystems. David now manages the marketing of Sun's Master Data Management products.

Dr. Stephen Mattes

EMR Interface Manager
HealthTechnology

Stephen is responsible for integrating NSW Health diverse clinical applications to the new Millennium EMR application. He has five years experience in health IT and fifteen in general IT. He is a doctor and electrical engineer.

Bjorn Arne Berge

Partner
Accenture Technology Consulting

Bjørn Arne Berge is a partner with Accenture Australia, based in Canberra. Bjørn Arne leads the Security Service Line in Accenture Technology Consulting in SEAAK (South East Asia, Australia, Korea), acts as the SEAAK Network SL lead, and is the contact for SEAAK Application Renewal SL. Throughout his more than 15 years with Accenture Bjørn Arne has worked within EMEA and APAC, with a focus on security, technology, architecture, strategy and achieving high business performance for clients. Bjørn Arne’s clients and engagements have included the Financial Services, Telecommunications, Government/Public Service and Transport industries, with roles including advisory functions as well as traditional delivery architect/PM roles.

Arjen Lentz

Founder
Open Query

Arjen Lentz is the founder of Open Query, providing independent training and consulting for MySQL in the Australia/New Zealand region. Prior to starting Open Query in 2007, Arjen joined MySQL AB as employee#25 and first APAC employee in 2001, with responsibilities ranging from the MySQL reference documention, to AU/NZ training, global community relations, the MySQL Users Conference (2005-2006), and support engineering. Arjen is a frequent speaker at conferences and user groups, and he is active in Australian Open Source organisations such as Open Source Industry Australia (founding director 2004-2008), Linux Australia (press team), Open Source Developers Club (OSDC 2007 conference director, exec member 2007-present).