Speakers

Speakers

KEYNOTES

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    Sanjiva is a long time open source developer and advocate and is a member of the Apache Software Foundation, an emeritus board member of the Open Source Initiative, and the founder and chief scientist of the Lanka Software Foundation. Prior to starting WSO2, he worked at IBM Research where he led the development of web services standards and technologies.
    Opening Keynote:
    Vision for Agile Digital Transformation
    Monday, February 20 (Conference Day 1)
    Keynote
    09:00 – 10:00
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    Thomas is a results-oriented, technology executive and change agent focused on the business of software. Capable and forward-looking, he leads within mission-driven, agile organizations that differentiate themselves through excellence in product innovation and customer-centered solutions by focusing on reducing technical friction through simple, human-centered solutions. He is a dynamic thought leader, practitioner and innovator with deep experience in enterprise and public-sector solution implementation. Thomas is responsible for West’s ongoing digital transformation bringing tools, techniques and processes to drive culture and product delivery via enterprise architecture throughout the corporation’s technology portfolio.
    Disruption from Within
    Monday, February 20 (Conference Day 1)
    Keynote
    10:00 – 10:45
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    Jason is a global technology leader with over 20 years of software development and IT experience at large public companies. He is currently responsible for implementing best-in-class enterprise solutions to transform government services. Prior to joining the State of Arizona, he led the global delivery of business systems for Go Daddy. Jason holds a bachelors degree in Computer Systems Engineering from Arizona State University and an MBA from ASU’s W.P. Carey School of Business. He, his wife and his two children call Phoenix their home.
    Digital Government – State of Arizona’s Cloud First Journey
    Tuesday, February 21 (Conference Day 2)
    Keynote
    09:00 – 09:45
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    Asanka spearheads the company’s customer facing technical tasks and oversees the solution architecture and technical sales functions. He also provides consulting to key WSO2 customers and conducts workshops specifically targeted at enterprise architects and technical managers. Asanka has over 15 years of industry experience, which include implementing projects ranging from desktop and web applications through to highly scalable distributed systems and SOAs in the financial domain, mobile platforms, and business integration solutions.
    Closing Keynote:
    Iterative Architecture: A Pragmatic Approach to Digital Transformation
    Wednesday, February 22 (Conference Day 3)
    Keynote
    14:15 – 15:00
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    Catheryne Nicholson is the CEO and co-founder of BlockCypher, a Blockchain Web Services (BWS) company. BlockCypher’s blockchain-agnostic infrastructure exposes simple web APIs for developers to easily build reliable blockchain applications. BlockCypher runs multiple open and private blockchains at-scale on their same infrastructure. Catheryne is an engineer, entrepreneur, mother, and former U.S. Naval Officer. She has built large-scale software platforms in education, energy and emissions management, CRM, and defense systems for companies such as MommaZoo, C3, Siebel Systems, and Northrop-Grumman. She graduated from the U.S Naval Academy and Stanford University and holds a BS in Aerospace Engineering, an MS in Environmental Engineering, an MBA, and is a registered PE in Mechanical Engineering.
    Keynote:
    The Blockchain’s Digital Disruption
    Wednesday, February 22 (Conference Day 3)
    Keynote
    13:30 – 14:15

  • SESSIONS

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    Anjana is a key part of WSO2’s real-time analytics’ architecture team and spearheads efforts to shape the capabilities offered in this technology area. He has also contributed to WSO2’s integration-related projects, particularly focusing on data integration. He has carried out several onsite customer engagements providing support for various integration and analytics projects as well.
    Hands on with Analytics
    Discover Data That Matters: Deep Dive into WSO2 Analytics
    Tuesday, February 21 (Conference Day 2)
    Analytics
    09:00 – 10:30
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    Brayden is a Software Engineer working in Higher Ed at Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo Utah. He is an avid developer with a passion for open source software. Brayden is passionate about creating software that makes the lives of developers easier and better. He is currently the lead engineer of BYU’s new API management solution which uses WSO2 products at its core. The migration from BYU’s old API Manager to this new solution has presented some interesting roadblocks as well as produced some amazing benefits for BYU’s software. Brayden’s daily workload revolves around making API management better for both the consumers and the producers of APIs, and he is driven to making this new API-centric strategy a win for everyone involved. He believes that both API developers and consumers should experience their first “wow” moment as quickly as possible when it comes to API management.
    Customer Story
    Implementing a Modern API Management Solution that Benefits Producers and Consumers
    Tuesday, February 21 (Conference Day 2)
    API
    16:15 – 16:30
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    Chamith has over eight years of experience in computer systems and network administration and currently oversees WSO2’s overall Public and Managed Cloud operations. He was an original author of the Texplorer Project and is interested in platform and infrastructure virtualization, distributed computing, Cloud technologies, IT security, IT automation and orchestration. He is an active member of the Lanka Linux User Group (LK-LUG) that advocates the use of free and open source software applications.
    DevOps Best Practices in 7 Steps
    Wednesday, February 22 (Conference Day 3)
    DevOps
    09:00 – 09:30
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    Chintana is a part of WSO2’s solutions architecture team that provides consultancy to customers to help them identify technology requirements and implement various projects in key technology areas, ranging from integration, analytics, API management, and security. He has provided technology consulting on customer engagements including architectural guidance, integration of web services, print process automation and online management solutions. Chintana is also a committer on the Apache Stonehenge project.
    Building Platforms for Rapid Application Development
    Monday, February 20 (Conference Day 1)
    Strategy
    13:30 – 14:00
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    David P. Bonaccorsi Senior’s current responsibilities include being a chief architect for Fidelity Brokerage Technologies’ (FBT) API management strategy, governance registry and essential components of the FBT Brokerage as a Service (BaaS) platform. He is also responsible for providing enterprise architecture contributions to the reengineering of FBT Producer Services. He has 40 years of development experience as an IBM Business Partner, IBM SWG developer and a Fidelity architect with a broad background in WSO2 products, IBM AIM Middleware and IBM AIM Industry solutions deployed for customer services and CRM.
    Brokerage as a Service (BaaS), Transforming Fidelity Brokerage Technology Delivery Systems Using WSO2 Integration Platform and SOA Design Patterns
    Tuesday, February 21 (Conference Day 2)
    Integration
    11:00 – 11:30
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    In his role, Dmitry oversees WSO2’s Cloud solutions and drives efforts to develop and enhance capabilities. Prior to WSO2, Dmitry worked at Quest Software (now part of Dell) as a Director of Cloud Solutions, and later co-founded Jelastic PaaS and led Jelastic’s sales, marketing, customer and partner relationships. He has been a featured speaker at multiple industry events including Microsoft TechEd, VMware VMWorld, Parallels Summit, Quest Innovate, and Technology Experts Conference (TEC).
    Cloud as a Delivery Channel
    Monday, February 20 (Conference Day 1)
    Strategy
    14:30 – 15:00
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    Dushan is currently a part of WSO2’s team that provides support to customers in production. His expertise is in the integration technology area and has previously contributed towards developing WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus. He also provides WSO2 QuickStart Program consulting services to assist customers in implementing enterprise integration patterns that support their business requirements. Dushan is a Sun-Certified Java programmer with experience in developing enterprise applications using the latest Java J2EE technologies.
    Advanced Integration
    Implement an Effective Digital Platform Using WSO2 Integration
    Monday, February 20 (Conference Day 1)
    Integration
    14:15 – 15:00
    Hands on with Integration
    Building an End-to-End Integration Scenario with WSO2 Integration
    Monday, February 20 (Conference Day 1)
    Integration
    15:30 – 17:00
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    Francesco is a versatile and experienced enterprise architect with a strong commercial focus and proven consulting, leadership and technical skills developed over 10 years in the IT industry working in a variety of challenging roles. He is a strategic thinker and a pragmatic decision maker with a concentrated focus on the customer. He also has a passion for service delivery and for the appropriate use of IT as an enabler to solve business problems.
    Customer Story
    A Semantic and Ontology Informational Data Model
    Tuesday, February 21 (Conference Day 2)
    Integration
    11:30 – 11:45
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    Gion Sialm is head of WSO2 at the federal office of information technology, systems and telecommunication (FOITT). He provides consulting to the top management of the FOITT and key customers. He is establishing the two largest exchange platforms in the Swiss Government based on WSO2. Formerly he set up enterprise and e-government identity and access management solutions as well as cloud services for the Swiss Government. Gion Sialm has more than 20 years of industry, research and government experience, which includes managing, architecting and engineering projects of web applications through to highly scalable distributed services such as SOA and REST with OAuth and SAML for enterprise applications and mobile platforms.
    Customer Story
    Why Swiss Chocolate Relies on WSO2
    Tuesday, February 21 (Conference Day 2)
    Integration
    11:30 – 12:00
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    Ismail Seyfi is a Lead Software Architect with experience developing in full software lifecycles including content management, workflow, identity management and mobile systems. He has over 14 years of professional experience in operations, planning/supporting, programming languages and tools. Ismail has led and successfully delivered many projects at government agencies including general services administration, veterans affairs, Army Corps of Engineers and the domestic nuclear detection office. At iJET International, he leads the Platform team that provides highly durable, stable, available and fault-tolerant cloud-based systems to support all technical initiatives.
    Customer Story
    0-60 with WSO2: API Management and User Authentication & Authorization Automation
    Wednesday, February 22 (Conference Day 3)
    DevOps
    10:00 – 10:30
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    Jack began his career at the Faculty of Information Technology, Pittsburgh PA, USA, in the early 80s. Now he is a founding partner of Chakray Consulting, a specialized WSO2 boutique IT firm of senior integration consultants. In his more than 30 years of experience he has acquired an eclectic variety of skills that range from being a specialist in enterprise portals to being a SAP business consultant. In the past two decades, he has been dedicated to the open source sector and led some very successful projects. He currently is based in the UK and is working as solutions and integration architect and a trainer in WSO2 products for global companies worldwide.
    Customer Story
    Integrating Systems for University of Exeter using Zero and the WSO2 Platform
    Wednesday, February 22 (Conference Day 3)
    Solutions Provider
    12:00 – 12:30
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    Jonathan Marsh joined WSO2 in 2006 and has served as VP of Business Development and currently is the VP of Strategy, helping develop and implement scalable models for sales, marketing, partnerships, alliances, and OEM programs. Prior to joining WSO2, Jonathan spent nearly a decade at Microsoft where he worked to develop and standardize an array of XML and Web Services technologies.
    Is It Time to Update My Open Source Strategy?
    Monday, February 20 (Conference Day 1)
    Strategy
    16:30 – 17:00
    Positioning WSO2 for Quicker Uptake
    Wednesday, February 22 (Conference Day 3)
    Partners
    10:00 – 10:30
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    Johann is the product lead for WSO2 Identity Server. In addition to his product development efforts he has provided security and API management solutions for numerous customers during customer Quick Starts. He has been a speaker at WSO2 conferences and has also conducted several technical webinars.
    Introduction to Security (Session 02)
    Introduction to Security: End-to-End Identity Management
    Tuesday, February 21 (Conference Day 2)
    Security
    14:15 – 15:00
    Hands on with Security
    Building a Secure Enterprise
    Wednesday, February 22 (Conference Day 3)
    Security
    09:00 – 10:30
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    John joined Fidelity in 1996 and has served in multiple IT management roles across several business lines since then, including brokerage, mutual funds/asset management, capital markets, life insurance/annuities, HR/payroll, and defined contribution(4o1K) teams.

    His current responsibilities include guiding the future roadmap for API management as a revitalized platform for Fidelity’s internal and external business partners and developer communities. He also is a key leader in working to modernize the mainframe platform that still runs a significant amount of workload for Fidelity for both individual investors as well as advisors.

    Over John’s career, he has focused on middleware and its many evolutions including its role in supporting SOA from both a development and operational perspective.

    Before Fidelity, John spent several years with other large businesses including Nynex (now Verizon), AIG, Raytheon, Liberty Mutual, among others.
    Brokerage as a Service (BaaS), Transforming Fidelity Brokerage Technology Delivery Systems Using WSO2 Integration Platform and SOA Design Patterns
    Tuesday, February 21 (Conference Day 2)
    Integration
    11:00 – 11:15
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    Kasun is a key member of WSO2’s architecture team that drives development efforts of WSO2 integration platform. Previously, he was involved in developing WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus as a product lead of WSO2 ESB and he has authored the book, “Beginning WSO2 ESB”. He is an elected member of the Apache Software Foundation and a Project Management Committee member and a committer for the Apache Synapse open source ESB project. Kasun has provided technology consulting on numerous customer engagements by helping to successfully design and implement solutions for integrating Web Services, REST, SAP and various other technologies.
    Introduction to Integration
    The Role of Enterprise Integration in Digital Transformation
    Monday, February 20 (Conference Day 1)
    Integration
    13:30 – 14:15
    Hands on with Integration
    Building an End-to-End Integration Scenario with WSO2 Integration
    Monday, February 20 (Conference Day 1)
    Integration
    15:30 – 17:00
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    Luca is a senior programer and a former solutions architect with experience in IT management and operations, project, program and service management in complex environments. His interests are in engagement related to systems integration, application, infrastructure and service management, IT strategy and ERP implementation.
    Customer Story
    A Semantic and Ontology Informational Data Model
    Tuesday, February 21 (Conference Day 2)
    Analytics
    11:30 – 11:45
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    Manoj is a senior technology leader successful in building high performing teams and leading complex software/web development projects. He currently leads the software development of SaaS and engineering tools at Nutanix. He’s responsible for highly scalable full stack development using Node.js, Sails.js, Express.js, Backbone.js and Angular.js. The domains involved include mobile development, RESTful APIs for software upgrades, portal, analytics, Heroku PaaS, Heroku Connect, and identity & access management.
    Customer Story
    Enhancing Customer Experience with WSO2 Identity Server
    Wednesday, February 22 (Conference Day 3)
    Security
    11:30 – 11:45
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    Matt Barnes serves as an Automation and Software Engineer at iJET International. He spent the past two years with iJET automating the integration of WSO2 products, ensuring high availability of production environments and enabling agile development cycles. In previous positions Matt has served as a lead Software Engineer and Architect for both commercial and government agencies.
    Customer Story
    0-60 with WSO2: API Management and User Authentication & Authorization Automation
    Wednesday, February 22 (Conference Day 3)
    DevOps
    10:00 – 10:30
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    In 2015, Michael joined Techsoup Global as Senior Director of Community and Platform. Techsoup’s mission is to build a dynamic bridge that enables design and implementation of technology solutions for a more equitable planet. In his role, Michael directs DevOps, infrastructure, and software development teams that build and support platform products and services.

    He previously worked at the Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties in 2000 to manage technology and information systems. He helped transform the organization into a more effective enterprise, using sophisticated technology to efficiently distribute food, communicate, raise money, and measure the Food Bank’s impact. As CTO, he also worked at a national level with other enterprise food banks on developing IT best practices and standards as part of the Feeding America Technology Governance Team.
    Journey of Migration from Legacy ESB to Modern WSO2 ESB Platform
    Wednesday, February 22 (Conference Day 3)
    Solutions Provider
    11:30 – 12:00
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    Mifan has extensive experience in SOA and industry specific solution architectures and specializes in spatial architectures and GIS, eGovernment cloud, emergency management, and big data analytics. In his role, he works closely with customers liaising with WSO2 Engineering and Sales teams to analyze and define domain specific solution architectures in client domains. He is also a lead architect for many global projects, including the national initiative to build a cloud-based SOA platform for local government bodies in Sri Lanka.
    Geospatial Big Data – Location Intelligence in Digital Transformation
    Monday, February 20 (Conference Day 1)
    Strategy
    15:30 – 16:00
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    Naresh heads up StubHub’s Enterprise Architecture team and spearheads the company’s technology strategy. He has nearly 20 years of experience in the financial services and e-commerce domains. He has architected and developed SOAs, frameworks, and web and native applications and finds delight in simplifying work for others.
    Panel: Bridging IT and Business in Digital Transformation
    Tuesday, February 21 (Conference Day 2)
    Panel
    09:45 – 10:15
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    Neil Custer has over 30 years of broad experience in the information technology field. His responsibilities have spanned hardware assembly, maintenance and operations; network architecture and infrastructure installation and operations; planning and execution of physical and IT operations security, system certification processes, backup, recovery, and disaster preparedness; and all phases of the application software development life cycle in both classic waterfall and agile development environments. Neil has developed software in more than five different languages for 17 years providing solutions for deployment on several platforms. For the past three years he has been a Senior Enterprise Systems Engineer/Developer for Eagle Technology Group, LLC. His most recent work is focusing on fielding Java apps and web services using WSO2 platform products. He is currently certified in WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus and WSO2 API Manager.
    Providing a Pathway from Stovepipe Systems to a Secure SOA Enterprise
    Wednesday, February 22 (Conference Day 3)
    Solutions Provider
    11:00 – 11:30
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    In his role, Nirosh oversees global partnerships and is responsible for the overall training functionality of WSO2 among its partners and customers. Prior to joining WSO2, Nirosh worked with Sri Lankan Airlines, the national carrier of Sri Lanka in the sales and marketing division, where he handled a portfolio of clients. He has also gained experience in the IT sphere, working as an UI Engineer at Virtusa Corp, a global IT services company.
    WSO2 Partner Program – Engaging with WSO2
    Wednesday, February 22 (Conference Day 3)
    Partner
    09:00 – 09:45
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    As part of the solutions architecture team, Nuwan works closely with WSO2 customers to develop and implement enterprise solutions. His experience spans across multiple verticals, such as e-government, education, e-commerce, and healthcare. Previously, he contributed to the development of various products, mainly focused on the API management technology area. He was also involved in research and development for the EU’s Information Society Technologies SOA and mobile computing projects, and is a member of the British Computer Society.
    Introduction to APIs
    APIs as Your Digital Connector
    Tuesday, February 21 (Conference Day 2)
    API
    11:00 – 11:45
    Hands on with APIs
    Unboxing WSO2 API Manager
    Tuesday, February 21 (Conference Day 2)
    API
    13:30 – 15:00
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    Nuwan is a part of the architecture team that drives development efforts of WSO2’s API management platform. Previously, he spearheaded architectural, research, and development aspects of WSO2 API Manager. He has also been involved in many customer engagements where he has assisted in developing their solutions architecture. Prior to joining WSO2, he worked at Informatics International Limited as a Senior Software Engineer.
    Advanced APIs
    Building an Effective API Architecture
    Tuesday, February 21 (Conference Day 2)
    API
    11:45 – 12:00
    Hands on with APIs
    Unboxing WSO2 API Manager
    Tuesday, February 21 (Conference Day 2)
    API
    13:30 – 15:00
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    Prabath has over 11 years of industry experience that currently involves providing security architecture solutions WSO2 key customers. He has spoken at several global user conferences and authored four books related to Apache Maven, enterprise integration, and API security. He is an Apache Axis2 PMC member and a member of OASIS Identity Metasystem Interoperability TC, OASIS eXtensible Access Control Markup Language TC, OASIS Security Services TC, OASIS Identity in the Cloud TC, and OASIS Cloud Authorization TC.
    Advanced Security
    Identity Solution Patterns
    Tuesday, February 21 (Conference Day 2)
    Security
    15:30 – 17:00
    Hands on with Security
    Building a Secure Enterprise
    Wednesday, February 22 (Conference Day 3)
    Security
    09:00 – 10:30
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    Pranav leads the product engineering efforts at West Interactive Services. He manages several products ranging from customer facing portals to middleware and speech application development tools. He has been working with technologies as they emerge for more than 20 years, starting with PC-based phone systems to complex self-service solutions and integration. He holds a master’s degree in Computer Science.
    Customer Story
    Multi-tenanted, Role-based Identity & Access Management solution at West
    Wednesday, February 22 (Conference Day 3)
    Security
    11:00 – 11:15
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    Prasad Putta is the Director of Enterprise Technology Services at the State of Arizona Department of Administration (DOA). He is responsible for strategy, architecture and implementation of innovative IT solutions that bring enterprise-level efficiencies to the State. Prasad has over 20 years of software industry experience in both public and private sectors. He earned his master’s degree in Computer Science Engineering from Andhra University in India.
    Customer Talk
    AESP(Arizona Enterprise Services Platform), Rollout and Adoption of a Statewide Private PaaS
    Monday, February 20 (Conference Day 1)
    Strategy
    16:00 – 16:30
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    As a Principal Architect, Randy provides the technology leadership for BNY Mellon’s API Program. This encompasses evangelizing architectural styles to scale out hundreds of new financial services to building tools to automate RESTful facades for legacy services. Randy is a seasoned software architect, tech lead, and hands-on programmer capable at all levels of software design and implementation. Proven record delivering architectures and codebases for large programs, in both the cloud and installable business software products. Proven experience guiding and coaching teams to deliver high-quality code at the highest possible velocity.
    Customer Story
    API Management Tools for Digital Financial Services
    Tuesday, February 21 (Conference Day 2)
    API
    15:30 – 16:15
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    Ratnavel is an Integration Architect in the fields of SOA, enterprise integration solutions, enterprise and solution architecture, with over ten years of experience in the information technology field. He has proven success as a strategic/architectural consultant experienced in managing, delivering, and deploying small, medium as well as large-scale initiatives. His specialties include SOA, web services, integration, business process management, business activity monitoring, enterprise architecture and solution and technical architecture.
    Customer Story
    Journey of Migration from Legacy ESB to Modern WSO2 ESB Platform
    Wednesday, February 22 (Conference Day 3)
    Solutions Provider
    11:30 – 12:00
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    Richard started out his career in the United States Marine Corp as an aviation logistics information technology specialist, where he supported the air wing command in regards to supply chain and aviation maintenance systems. He served four years in the USMC in various locations, Okinawa, Japan and Yuma, Arizona during most of his time in the service.

    After finishing his duty in the military, he took an opportunity with Motorola which led him on his current 16-year career. In many cases, he was asked to change with the company in culture and technology as well as best practices. His entire career has been built around integration technologies that enable the business to achieve its goals.
    Customer Story
    Hybrid Cloud and Container Architecture with Zero Touch Automation
    Monday, February 20 (Conference Day 1)
    Strategy
    15:30 – 16:00
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    Rodrigo has worked in the Brazilian Federal Highway Police since 2005, especially with systems architecture and development. He is a Mechatronic Engineering graduate, who has a master degree in Computer Science and is a PhD student in Electrical Engineering at the University of Brasilia.
    Customer Story
    WSO2+Teradata: Analyzing Vehicle Traffic And Detecting Irregularities In Real-time
    Tuesday, February 21 (Conference Day 2)
    Integration
    12:00 – 12:30
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    Ruwan is part of WSO2’s EMM/IoT team. His main area of focus is in the application of WSO2 techonolgies to connected devices. He has served as a technology consultannt for customer engagements and is also a past contributor to the development of WSO2’s API management and app management products. Prior to joining WSO2 he worked for Virtusa, where he provided technology consultation for British Telecom PLC
    Hands on with IoT
    Using WSO2 IoT Server as an Enterprise Mobility Management Platform
    Tuesday, February 21 (Conference Day 2)
    IoT
    15:30 – 17:00
    Hands on with IoT
    Extending WSO2 IoT Server to Fit your IoT Architecture
    Wednesday, February 22 (Conference Day 3)
    IoT
    09:00 – 10:30
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    Sameera, with over 8 years of industry experience, is a member of WSO2’s architecture team that drives development and enhancement of overall WSO2 platform capabilities. He is also one of the lead architects behind the WSO2 Carbon and WSO2 Update Manager projects. He has provided technology consulting on various customer engagements including architectural guidance to help customers successfully design and implement their solutions with the WSO2 platform. He has contributed to a number of Apache projects, including Apache Axis2 and Axiom.
    WUM: Continuous Access to Product Updates
    Wednesday, February 22 (Conference Day 3)
    DevOps
    09:30 – 10:00
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    With nearly two decades of experience working for systems integrators and software vendors with global exposure, Samisa leads the delivery of post sales customer satisfaction at WSO2. His current role includes looking after WSO2’s technical support and executing development services to help customers implement solutions. Prior to his current role, Samisa played the role of VP of engineering at WSO2 where he was looking after the engineering team building the WSO2 product platform. He has been a committer in the Apache Web services project since May 2004, and initiated the Apache Axis2/C project. He has also published two books: ‘RESTFul PHP Web Services’ and ‘PHP Team Development.’
    Building a Successful Delivery Team for Customer Success
    Wednesday, February 22 (Conference Day 3)
    Partners
    09:30 – 10:00
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    Shankar oversees WSO2’s engineering efforts that are focused on developing middleware platform capabilities. He has provided technology consulting on customer engagements, including cloud, distributed systems, enterprise integration, governance, and security solutions. Shankar is an Apache Software Foundation member and committer in various Apache projects. He has extensive knowledge in cloud computing, service-oriented architecture, security, governance, enterprise integration, and telecommunication billing systems.
    Introduction to Security (Session 01)
    Identity and Access Management in the Era of Digital Transformation
    Tuesday, February 21 (Conference Day 2)
    Security
    13:30 – 14:15
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    Shuyi Chen is a Senior Software Engineer at Uber working on building scalable real-time data solutions. He built Uber’s real-time complex event processing platform for Marketplace that process up to 30 billion message a day in real-time, built streaming system that support Uber’s large-scale real-time visualization. He has years of experience in storage infrastructure, data infrastructure, Android/iOS development in Google and Uber.
    Customer Story
    Scalable Real-time Complex Event Processing at Uber
    Tuesday, February 21 (Conference Day 2)
    Analytics
    11:00 – 11:30
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    Sri Harsha Pullleti started his career as a webMethods developer at Walgreens as a consultant after completing his Masters in Computer Science.

    In 2006, he joined Motorola Mobility as a webMethods developer consultant. In 2008, he was hired as a full-time employee and started in the role of a solutions delivery lead. Currently, he manages and leads the entire integration team of Motorola Mobility and leads support for platforms like JBOSS, .Net, Layer 7 (API Gateway) and Test Automation among others.
    Customer Story
    Hybrid Cloud and Container Architecture with Zero Touch Automation
    Monday, February 20 (Conference Day 1)
    Strategy
    15:30 – 16:00
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    Srinath is a long-standing open source contributor. He is a co-founder of Apache Axis2 (open source Web Service engine), a member of the Apache Software foundation and a committer in Apache Geronimo (J2EE Engine) and Apache Airavata. He has extensive experience working with large-scale distributed systems and parallel computing and is a co-architect of WSO2’s Complex Event Processing engine. Srinath has also authored two books about MapReduce.
    Introduction to Analytics
    Deriving Insights for Your Digital Business With Analytics
    Monday, February 20 (Conference Day 1)
    Analytics
    13:30 – 14:15
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    Suho is a part of the architecture team that drives research and development efforts of WSO2’s real-time analytics platform. His expertise is in realtime event processing and parallel computing solutions. He is the co-founder of WSO2 Siddhi CEP and previously involved in driving WSO2 Complex Event Processor as a product lead. He also provides technology consulting on customer engagements and does part-time lecturing, mainly focusing on the analytics technology areas.
    Advanced Analytics
    Analytics Patterns for Your Digital Enterprise
    Monday, February 20 (Conference Day 1)
    Analytics
    14:15 – 15:00
    Hands on with Analytics
    Discover Data That Matters: Deep Dive into WSO2 Analytics
    Monday, February 20 (Conference Day 1)
    Analytics
    15:30 – 17:00
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    Stefan leads the team of WSO2 solution architects and consultants in the Connected Company team at RealDolmen. He has 20 years of experience in programing, design and management and still provides consulting services to a number of customers. The Connected Company is all about building constructive business and communication networks. It is their solemn belief that successfull organizations are good at building these networks. They don’t scare their customers with disruption, instead they want to help them with their reaction to disruption. How do they help their clients? By conceptualizing and building platform solutions to support their strategic services and initiatives, by helping them move into the digital age for their core services, by helping to pivot into new business models and by providing an innovative and adaptable solutions architecture. In short they provide options for their customers.
    Customer Story
    Rise to the Challenge with WSO2 Identity Server and WSO2 API Manager
    Wednesday, February 22 (Conference Day 3)
    Security
    11:15 – 11:30
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    Sumedha is part of the team that spearheads architecture efforts on the conceptualization and enhancement of WSO2’s IoT offerings. Previously, he contributed to the successful implementation of data, SAP and repository-based integration projects, as well as many WSO2 quickstart development consulting engagements. He is an active committer in the Apache Axis2 project.
    Introduction to IoT
    Building Enterprise Grade IoT Architectures for Digital Transformation with WSO2 IoT Server
    Tuesday, February 21 (Conference Day 2)
    IoT
    13:30 – 15:00
    Hands on with IoT
    Using WSO2 IoT Server as an Enterprise Mobility Management Platform
    Tuesday, February 21 (Conference Day 2)
    IoT
    15:30 – 17:00
    Hands on with IoT
    Extending WSO2 IoT Server to fit your IoT Architecture
    Wednesday, February 22 (Conference Day 3)
    IoT
    09:00 – 10:30
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    Suresh is a Principal Architect for Operations Technology at United Airlines. Previously he was a Principal Architect for United’s Commercial Systems. Suresh has over 10 years of industry experience as an enterprise architect and technical manager working with startups to fortune 100 companies. He is passionate about new technologies and has been involved with bringing many innovation projects at United to life, ranging from IoT to artificial intelligence.
    Customer Story
    IoT in Airline Operations
    Wednesday, February 22 (Conference Day 2)
    IoT
    11:00 – 12:30
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    Ulrich Herberg, Ph.D. is a Senior Java Architect at Verifone responsible for software architecture and development lead of back-end and front-end infrastructure as well as security of the flagship “Carbon” payment solution. He has several years of experience as a software architect and a researcher working on projects in Fintech, healthcare and smart city. Ulrich is a standardization expert and former working group chair with more than ten RFC standards published at the IETF in areas of IoT, distributed wireless networks, and network security. In addition, he authored more than 25 publications in international journals and conferences and published multiple patents as well.
    Customer Story
    Wednesday, February 22 (Conference Day 3)
    IoT
    11:15 – 11:45