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Don't miss these exciting Featured Keynote Speakers:

Craig Hayman, VP Development & Technical Support,| Workplace,Portal & Collaboration Software, IBM Software Group will be addressing "The Benefits of an Open Service Oriented Architecture in the Enterprise" in his opening keynote of the World Congress. The presentation will address the many benefits of an open, standardized Service Oriented Architecture, including improved return on investment (ROI), faster time to market or time to deployment, better reuse, service location transparency, better scalability, and more maintainability. Attendees will hear why these are essential to the modern, on-demand Enterprise.

Jim Colson, Distinguished Engineer, Chief Architect, IBM Client Software and Pervasive Computing will deliver the opening keynote at the Developer Forum. The talk, "Integrating the OSGi Service Oriented Architecture into the Enterprise", will address the critical need to address on-demand Enterprise requirements with a robust, proven, open Service Oriented Architecture. A developer's roadmap for successful deployment will be discussed and will suggest a developer's roadmap for successful deployment.

Mike Milinkovich Eclipse Foundation Executive Director
Accelerating OSGi Adoption
Open standards and open source are highly complementary. When working well together, they can spur the rapid and widespread adoption of new technologies. This is the case with OSGi and Eclipse. This talk will focus on providing an overview of how open source and open standards intersect and how commercial interests can leverage the opportunities they create. Along the way we will touch on how Eclipse and OSGi have interacted to the benefit of both, debunk a few myths about open source and look to a future where open source and open standards co-operate for the benefit of the industry.

The Congress gathers the world's top experts on commercially available and developing OSGi implementations, exploring the latest end-to-end architectures and solutions in mobile, automotive, and home environments.

Participating in this year's Congress are the following leaders in their industry.

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Addre Elia Assad graduated at Federal University of Paraibo, Brazil , with one year studying abroad at University of Leeds – UK. Computer Science Msc student at Federal University of Pernambuco – Brazil. His international work experience includes UNESCO, Paris, France, as a technical support team member, developing a dynamic content provider system for UNESCO’s portal, and as a Schartner Innovations (www.schartner.net) software engineer, building the CAD Integration module for company’s ERP system (BOB’S_WORLD). Currently is is working in JSR-232 Test Compatibility Kit, at CESAR, representing Motorola, as the MEG TCK technical leader. 

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Andrés Manso joined HogarDigital in June 2000 as Project Manager from Barcelona Dessign (California), where he managed the development of large-scale object-oriented software projects. Their research work on residential gateways is the basis of HogarDigital's technology. He is Computer Engineer from the Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya in Barcelona. 

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Antonio Kung has more than 20 years experience on embedded and real-time systems. After leading the development of real-time kernels, he co-founded Trialog in 1987 where he led the development of advanced software products such as protocols and real-time kernels in the area of automotive and home applications. He now serves as chief technology officer and head of the company product division, including EHS/KNX home networking technology. He was or is in particular involved in initiatives with focus on OSGi and security (e-PASTA, TEAHA, Medianet, GST).Antonio Kung holds a Master's degree from Harvard University and an Engineering degree from Ecole Centrale Paris. He has given numerous seminars in the area of embedded systems and teaches computer science courses in several French universities  

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Christer Larsson has over 10 years of experience in business development and advanced systems design for high-tech companies. With experience from the automotive, airline and telecom industries working for such companies as Volvo IT, Carmen Systems and Ericsson, his background is perfect for managing the meltdown of different technologies into telematics. Prior to managing Gatespace Telematicshe was responsible for the telematics business unit at Gatespace AB.

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Clement Escoffier is working on his Masters degree in the LSR Adele group of Grenoble University. His research interests include autonomic computing and service-oriented architecture. He will start working on his Ph.D. later this year.

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  • Craig Hayman, VP Development & Technical Support,| Workplace,Portal & Collaboration Software, IBM Software Group
 

Craig Hayman is Vice President, Worldwide Solutions Development with responsibility for the delivery of IBM's Client Technology, Voice, RFID and Industry Solutions products.    He was previously Vice President of Strategy, IBM Software Group with responsibility for software strategy across the IBM Software Group which includes the WebSphere, Lotus, Tivoli, DB2 and Rational product lines.  Mr. Hayman joined IBM in 1997 as program director for meta-data management where he worked to create the XML standard needed to represent objects in transactional systems.  In 1999 he formed part of the core three-person team which initiated the major revamp of the IBM development tools product line.  The resulting WebSphere Studio line of products were launched in 2001 together with the underlying open source development environment eclipse.org. In January 2000 Mr. Hayman was named Director WebSphere development where he led the product development and support of the WebSphere Application Server driving increases in customer satisfaction and standards adoption while achieving double-digit market-place growth. Prior to IBM in 1990 Mr. Hayman was one of the founders and development executive of an enterprise tools vendor.   Publicly listed in 1995, the company was subsequently purchased.  He has also held development roles at British Telecom and Credit Suisse First Boston. He has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Electronics from the University of London.

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Davide is Software Architect at Esmertec AG. He has several years of architecture and development experience and worked as an R&D consultant for many organizations worldwide.  Italian, 30 years old, currently located in Zurich (Switzerland), Davide is a member of Esmertec's Architecture Group, CLDC Products, where he focuses on innovative Java solutions for connected devices based on Esmertecs core technologies.  He represents Esmertec in various technology standardization bodies, including OSGi.  

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  • Donsez Didier, Ph.D. Student, University of Grenoble (an ObjectWeb Member)
 

Didier Donsez passed his PhD in computer science on OO-DBMS and Transactional Systems at University Paris 6 in 1994. He is currently assistant professor at University Grenoble 1 (France). His current centers of interest are database systems, middleware and software engineering, dynamic service platforms applied to embedded and sensor-based systems. Didier is also the cofounder of the OSGi™ User Group France.

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Dimitar Valtchev is Chief Technology Officer of ProSyst Software. Before ProSyst he had a successful academic career as a researcher and lecturer at several universities. His main interests are in the fields of embedded systems, distributed computing , and signal processing. Recently he was involved in numerous projects using a service gateway based architecture. Dimitar holds an MSEE, an MSCS, and a PhD in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Sofia.

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Dr. Christoph Kuhmünch studied computer science and business administration at the University of Mannheim. In 2002 he graduated with a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Mannheim. His research topics included multimedia systems, distributed systems and networking technologies. In the following two years he worked at DaimlerChrysler's Telematics Laboratories in Ulm Germany with research focus on Multimedia Systems. Since 2004 he works at Siemens Corporate Technology at the competence centre Software & Engineering architecture.

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Dr. McAffer leads the Eclipse Runtime, Eclipse Rich Client Platform and Equinox teams.  He is one of the architects of the Eclipse platform and has been involved with the Eclipse project from the beginning.  His current interests range from Eclipse as a Rich Client Platform to the broader use of Eclipse and OSGi as a component runtime.  Most recently Dr. McAffer co-authored "The Eclipse Rich Client Platform".   

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Eddie Drake is responsible for the development of the Myrio IP VideoPlatform. As one of the founding engineers and architects for Myrio,Drake has been involved in all product development of Myrio solutions since inception. He led the design and development of Myrio's set-top box client software, which is one of the first Linux/Java TV-based clients commercially deployed today. He was the original Project Manager for the On Demand Network (ODN), the prototype application and predecessor to Myrio's current production solution. He also led the team that developed Myrio's first prototype application, tested at a rural telephone company in northern Nevada for 18 months.

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Enrique Rodriguez is a Project Management Committee (PMC) member and a committer on the Apache Directory project.  Enrique originally joined the Apache Directory project as the lead developer of the Kerberos protocol provider plug-in and continues to focus on the protocol provider implementations and integration with the OSGi Service Platform. Enrique was formerly a systems architect contracting for Microsoft Consulting Services, the director of implementation and principal product architect for a dot-com, and the Director of Global Systems for Liberty Mutual Insurance. .Enrique earned a degree in Electrical Engineering and minored in the Biology of Behavior at Rensselaer (RPI). 

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Hans Werner Bitzer has an academic education in philosophy and knowledge engineering. From 1988 to 1992 he worked as group manager „Interactive Video Systems / Multimedia“ in the Olivetti Research Lab in Nuremberg, that was specialized on Knowledge-based Applications. In 1992 he started to work as project manager in Deutsche Telekom´s R&D department in Berlin where he worked on Multimedia Tele Services, Interactive Digital TV, and the convergence of TV & Internet. In 1999 he became Head of Section Smart Home Solutions / eHome and was Technical Manager of Deutsche Telekoms TeleHome Platform Project. Since 2004 he is also Technical Manager of the IST IP Daidalos.

He represented Deutsche Telekom in standardization groups like ISO MHEG, DAVIC, DVB, helped to form the newly started Home Gateway Initiative, HGI, and is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the OSGi Alliance

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Ikuo Yamasaki received B.S. and M.S. degrees in electronic engineering from University of Tokyo, Japan, in 1996 and 1998, respectively. In 1998, he joined Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation and currently belongs to NTT Cyber Solution Laboratories, Yokosuka, Japan. While he had been engaged in researching traffic control and management technologies in IP networks, currently he is engaging in researching and developing the adaptive network middleware CSC (Communication Service Concierge) on OSGi service platforms. He is a member of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers and a secretary of OSGi Users’ Forum Japan.

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In his role at CTO, Kumanan sets the corporate technology direction, and guides the Espial industry standards compliance. He influences the direction of select standards bodies by participating in many keyindustry standards groups.

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Javier Zamora is General Manager of eNeo Labs, a TechFoundries company that develops and commercializes advanced services aimed to the European Digital Home market.  He has extensive professional experience in the field of video services in broadband networks. He served in ISO-IEC as the Editor of MPEG-4 DMIF, member of ANSI NCITS and representative of Columbia University at The ATM Forum for Video-on-Demand services. Before joining TechFoundries, Javier spent four years as the Director of Product Development of Xbind, Inc. in New York City.Javier Zamora holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering by Columbia University and a M.S. and B.S. in Telecommunications Engineering by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.

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Jean-Pierre LeBlanc is currently CTO at Cellon since early 2004.  Prior to arriving at Cellon, he was VP C++ and Mobile at Borland Software.  He holds a masterès degree in Computer Engineering and have been in the software business for 20 years.

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  • Jim Colson, Distinguished Engineer, Chief Architect, IBM
 

Jim Colson, Distinguished Engineer, is the Chief Architect for Client Software for IBM.  Client Software enables platform integrators and device manufacturers to build highly functional, economically viable, appliance grade devices such as set top boxes, residential gateways, information appliances, cellular phones, PDAs, and automotive telematics systems while also enabling the same Programming Model to be deployed onto devices such as desktop and laptop computers. Within IBM, Jim is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology, a member of the I/T Architect Certification Board, and a member of the Software Group Architecture Board Steering Committee. Previous IBM responsibility, as a member of the Federal Systems Division, includes the architecture, development and deployment of advanced real-time, multiprocessor control systems products and solutions using advanced object oriented and data flow technologies.  These systems were consumed by a large variety of customers including Boeing, Walgreens, Applied Materials, Brown Printing and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.  Prior to this, Jim developed advanced robotics and computer vision technologies and products in conjunction with IBM Research and IBM Manufacturing Systems Products.  Before joining IBM in 1982, Jim was a technical staff member at Texas Instruments doing robot and computer vision development.   This work, which was also an integral part of Jim’s first Masters Degree, was adopted by the National Bureau of Standards as the basis for the specification and measurement of robot performance independent of kinematic configuration (ANSI/RIA R15.05-1-1990 American National Standard for Industrial Robots and Robot Systems - Point-to-Point and Static Performance Characteristics). Jim holds over 20 patents.  Jim has a BSME from the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, and both MSME and MSCS degrees from the University of Texas at Austin.

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John Barr is currently President of the OSGi Alliance. Dr. Barr has been with Motorola for over 15 years working on real-time distributed systems, low power system and software technologies, DSP development methodologies, software systems and the convergence of computing and communications. He is responsible for strategic relationships with consortia and standards development groups (e.g., IEEE, OSGi, W3C and IETF) to ensure that the Motorola Communications Enterprise incorporates Internet technologies that fundamentally change the way people communicate and interact while mobile. Dr. Barr has a Ph.D. from UCLA and previously was a staff engineer at Hughes Aircraft and a professor of Computer Science at the University of Montana.

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Kai Hackbarth is Product Manager at ProSyst Software GmbH. Mr. Hackbarth is Chair of the OSGi Requirements Working Committee and is actively working in other OSGi Expert Groups as well. Before joining ProSyst in 2001, he was a Product Manager for e-commerce solutions at Infomatec AG in Germany and was the founder of Softstream. Mr. Hackbarth's focus lies in the areas of telematics, home automation, and mobile devices, where he actively drives current developments and is involved in the strategic positioning of ProSyst's product portfolio.

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Karim El-Khazen is currently the Technical Manager of End-to-End Reconfigurability (E2R) European research project. He belongs to the Seamless Radio Access Lab of the European Communications Research of Motorola Labs (France). He is currently addressing Reconfigurability and Cognitive Radio concepts. He has previously addressed the management architectures in Beyond 3G mobile telecommunications systems. He received MSc degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech (USA) in 2001 and Engineering Degree in Networks and Telecommunications from ENSEA (France) in 2000. He has more than 30 publications in conferences and international journals in the field of mobile communications. He is a member of IEEE. 

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Kevin Meagher is one of the pioneers of The Connected Home in the UK. In
2000, he founded Intamac Systems Ltd – www.intamac.com – which he has
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Intamac has developed an Internet platform that will, together with the Home
Hub or Gateway devices, be the key to the growth of the Connected Home. The winner of several industry awards for best new innovation, his company
specialises in Internet based monitoring and control and work to provide partners with managed facilities to support new products and services aimed at the mass market. Intamac are committed to open standards and believe that growth in the Connected Home will only be possible if we focus on customer needs. They also believe that the nature of this new market will also demand new levels of cooperation between manufacturers and service providers as the boundaries between product and service become blurred. Their systems and services have already been adopted by British Telecom and other leading European manufacturers, as interest in the Connected Home grows. Currently Managing Director of Intamac Systems, Kevin is a Chartered Engineer with an MBA and additionally is a recognised expert in aircraft systems and logistics. As Group Captain in the Royal Air Force he worked with complex
avionic systems on modern combat aircraft where networking was essential to
improve their capability, cost, efficiency and safety. With the advent of the Internet, Kevin saw how new server platforms could be used to network systems and appliances in the home to deliver these same benefits to consumers. It was out of this work that his vision for The Digital Home was born.

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Marcel is an experienced software developer with a background in mechanical engineering. He has an extensive knowledge of C/C++ and is an early adopter of Java and related technologies. Having been the head of a research department for a software house for years he has a very broad knowledge of current technologies and is used to working in innovative environments, building networked applications on both Linux and Windows systems. Marcel is very good at understanding and explaining complicated technical issues. Today Marcel is working as a senior software engineer and gives courses on topics like UML and OOA&D.

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Marco Pistoia, Ph.D. is a Research Staff Member in the Security, Networking, and Privacy department at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY.  He has written ten books and several papers and journal articles on all areas of Java and e-business security.  His books include "Enterprise Java Security," published by Addison-Wesley in 2004, and "Java 2 Network Security," published by Prentice Hall PTR in 1999.  He has published and presented at several conferences worldwide, such as Sun Microsystems’ JavaOne, ACM OOPSLA, ACM ECOOP, IEEE InfoCom, the O’Reilly Conference on Java, IBM Solutions, IBM SecureWorld, and Colorado Software Summit.  He has been invited to teach graduate courses on Java security, and has presented at the New York State Center for Advanced Technology in Telecommunications (CATT), Brooklyn, NY.  Dr. Pistoia received his PhD in Mathematics at Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY in 2005 with a dissertation entitled "A Unified Mathematical Model for Stack- and Role-Based Authorization Systems," and his Master of Science and Bachelor of Science degrees in Mathematics summa cum laude from the University of Rome, Italy, in 1995.  His technical interests are in mobile-code security, component software, and static analysis of object-oriented languages

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Michel D'Hooge started his career 12 years ago by working on automotive and embedded systems technology. Since 2001, he is involved in OSGi development and he experimented with several technologies (Prosyst, IBM, Oscar and Knopflerfish.) He now works on OSGi security and in September 2004 he released a PermissionAdmin Service implementation for Oscar. He is currently working on means to improve the global behavior of an OSGi framework when malicious or badly coded bundles are executed.Michel D'Hooge holds a Computer Science Engineering degree from Ecole Superieure d'Electricite.

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Miguel Lopez has thirteen years experience as a Software Technologist in industries as diverse as Nuclear, Telecom and Automotive. At Siemens VDO he is the technical team leader of the TLA foundation layer which is based on OSGi Service Platform Specification. He contributes to the TLA evolution. He is involved in Core Platform and Vehicle Expert Groups within OSGi Alliance.

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Mikael Desertot passed his research master inside the LSR Adele team . He is now jointly preparing his PhD thesis with the LSR Adele team and Bull company on dynamic server architecture. The main center of interest is J2EE and OSGi™ more especially on their deployments. He has a 3 years-experience in bundle development, Eclispe-plugin development, J2EE server internals and in porting Oscar  on TINI boards.

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Olivier Pave has been with Siemens VDO Automotive for the past 5 1/2 years, initially as Chief Software Architect for Navigation System, and then as Manager for standardization activities with various automotive consortiums and projects. He has worked in the software business for 14 years in different domains -- from automation, to online travel solutions and now in the automotive industry.Currently he coordinates the Siemens VDO software architecture effort to converge on open standards. He holds a master's degree in Computer and Engineering Sciences from Nice Sophia-Antipolis University, France.

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Paolo Pastorino holds a degree in Physics (M.S.) from the University of Torino, and a Master in Telecommunications and Information Technology from COREP/SSGRR, Italy. His experience ranges from the design of optoelectronic devices to advanced residential/SOHO networking solutions. He managed several projects dealing with residential/SOHO networks, terminals and services, test beds for the delivery of broadband services to the home, prototypes of advanced STB/RG, home terminals and network nodes. He is author of several papers about home networking and speaker to many international conferences. He is currently on leave from Telecom Italia to cover the role of CTO-CBO of HGI. 

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  • Paul Kopff, Research Engineer, Electricité de France
 

Paul KOPFF is a confirmed research engineer in the Customer Products and Services Dpt. of the R&D Division of Electricité de France is currently - inside the STABILO project - in charge of the specification and development of experimental customer services, especially those related to real time energy management by home automation. As Electricité de France was one of the cofounders of the OSGi Alliance, he promoted this standard for supporting the former M@jordom EDF project developments and was encouraged to continue with it in the current STABILO EDF project, which participates also to the European Project TEAHA.

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  • Peter Kriens, OSGi Alliance Fellow and Technology Officer and President, aQute
 

Peter Kriens is currently OSGi’s Technical Director and the editor of the R2, R3 and R4 specifications. He has been working with OSGi technology since 1998. He has his own company, www.aQute.biz, that specializes in OSGI/Java and general software consulting. Peter has been working in the forefront of the software industry since 1979. Het is Dutch, lived 10 years in Sweden and currently resides in France. He worked in more places than he cares to remember.  

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Prashant Viswanathan is co-founder of Gatewide LLC, which provides IP surveillance products. He has been involved in Engineering and Research and Development at Echelon Corporation, Sun MicroSystems and Hughes Software Systems where he has developed embedded systems for control networks, distributed systems and telecommunication software. He holds an MS in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a BS degree in Computer Science from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India.

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  • Richard S. Hall, Invited Researcher, University of Grenoble (an ObjectWeb Member)
 

Richard S. Hall is a guest researcher in the software engineering group of the software systems and network research laboratory (LSR) of Grenoble University in France. His research focuses on component and service orientation and mechanisms to dynamically assemble applications at runtime. Other research interests include software deployment, which was the focus of his Ph.D. thesis. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Colorado, Boulder.   

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Scott Andrews consults the major automotive manufacturers and suppliers in the conceptualization, strategic definition, and development of multimedia and new technology products and services for future generations of vehicles.

Prior to forming Cogenia Partners he led a variety of advanced development programs at Toyota Motor Corporation headquarters in Japan. As part of his work at Toyota, He founded the Automotive Multimedia Interface Collaboration in 1998 and led many of the formative activities of AMI-C. In this capacity he was responsible for engaging all of the major car makers, and worked with them to develop a consensus vision for in vehicle telematics and infotainment systems architectures. He recently served as Toyota's representative on the AMIC Strategic Planning Committee, and has also been involved in numerous outreach activities, most notably managing the transition of the AMI-C Release 2 specifications to ISO and to OSGi. He is an OSGi Invited Researcher.

Prior to moving to Japan, He was the director of Systems Engineering and Advanced Products at TRW Automotive Electronics where he was responsible for the development of automotive radar, vehicle communications and other ITS and OEM product programs. Mr. Andrews holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Irvine, and a Masters Degree in Electronic Engineering from Stanford University.
 

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STANLEY MOYER  is Executive Director and strategic research program manager in the Applied Research area of Telcordia Technologies, where he has worked since 1990. Recently, he led research in the area of network architectures, protocols, and management for supporting home networking and networked devices and appliances. On these topics, Stan was a frequent speaker at events such as the IETF, The Broadband Home conferences, IEEE’s International Conference on Communications (ICC), and other technical workshops. In the past he has worked on ATM switch hardware, broadband network architectures and protocols, middleware, Internet network and application security, Internet QoS, and voice over IP.Stan is currently a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the IEEE Communications Society. He is co-editor of the Consumer Communications and Networking series in IEEE Communications Magazine, vice-chair of the IEEE Conference on Consumer Communications and Networking (CCNC) steering committee, a member at large of the IEEE Communications Society Board of Governors, and a member of the board of directors and secretary for the OSGi Alliance.

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Stéphane Frénot holds a diploma from the National Institute for Applied Sciences of Lyon in Computer science, and a Ph.D. degree from the Lyon I University, France. His dissertation studied distributed systems in the medical care domain. Stéphane Frénot is currently associate professor at the CITI Lab of the National Institute for Applied Sciences (INSA Lyon, France). He is also a member of the ARES http://ares.insa-lyon.fr  research group at INRIA. His main research interests are component-oriented middlewares and more specifically deployment, management and instrumentation of mobile and adaptable components. His main keywords are OSGi, Peerwares and service discovery protocols. 

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Ted Habeck is Advisory Software Engineer working at IBM Research with 15 years experience in software development.  He works with a group of Security experts at IBM Research http://www.research.ibm.com/javasec  to enable, and configure Java2 security for the Eclipse 3.1 platform.

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Thomas Hott joined ProSyst in November 2000. Before, he gained over 17 years of experience in international banking, thereof 4 years as an Executive Board member of Chase Manhattan Bank AG, as head of the banks corporate business, and, since mid 1998, as a Managing Director of Capital Markets at Merrill Lynch Germany. Throughout his career, his main focus was on the successful introduction of innovative products and services. Thomas Hott attained a German Diploma in Economics.

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Thomas Walz joined IBM in 1984, after his studies at the University of Applied Sciences in Karlsruhe / Germany. He holds a degree in computer sciences.Mr. Walz has worked in various positions inside the IBM Development Laboratory and IBM Joint Ventures in Germany and the United States of America doing project management, architecture, design and implementations in product development and customer projects.

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Tom Enderes is an owner of Gatewide LLC, which provides IP surveillance products. He has held positions as a software engineer at Echelon Corporation and as a research engineer for Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies. He has been involved in the design and development of networked devices and networking technologies. He has participated in the Open Services Gateway initiative (OSGi) and has contributed to Open Source projects. He holds a Dipl.-Ing. from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany.

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Volker Fricke, studied electro-technology, communications technologyfrom 1977 to 1980 at the professional school in Wiesbaden, Germany.He joined IBM Germany 1980 as a test engineer. Since 1987 he hasworked as a Software developer for Embedded Systems at IBMDevelopment Laboratory in Boeblingen, Germany. Since 1997 he has been working on customer projects as a consultant onembedded systems design and project manager for in-vehicleinformation systems at IBM Pervasive Computing. Since 2004 he re-presents IBM in the OSGi Vehicle Expert working group in Europe. Heleads the development of IBM Telematics Reference Implementation(TRI) Solution for IBM Software Group.

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  • Yad Jaura, European Marketing Manager, iAnywhere Solutions
 

Yad Jaura is European Marketing Manager for iAnywhere, the leading provider of management solutions for remote systems and mobile & wireless devices. Prior to joining iAnywhere, Yad worked as Marketing Manager for eGain Communications Limited, where he was responsible for the delivery of marketing and sales support for eGain within Europe. Prior to joining eGain, Jaura held senior product marketing roles at leading mobile computing specialist, XcelleNet, later a division of Sterling Commerce, where he managed the technical services and marketing communications efforts for the remote and mobile environment.Yad has spent over 15 years in IT having worked for a national systems integration house before moving into a consultancy role of networking and communications. 

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  • Dan Bandera, Program Director, Emerging Device Standards and Strategy IBM

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  • Danny DeCock,Researcher in applied cryptography, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium
 

Danny De Cock is researcher in applied cryptography at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. Danny is an expert in computer security and industrial cryptography applications and he has conducted extensive research projects in this field. His work includes analysis and design of identity management systems and secure communications architectures for various environments and communities. He has also researched security aspects of mobile devices, electronic banking, electronic voting schemes and electronic identity cards. Most recently he has laid out the security architecture and functionality of the European projects TEAHA and GST, cfr. http://www.teaha.org and http://www.gstforum.org, respectively.

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  • BJ Hargrave, OSGi Alliance Fellow & CTO, Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM

BJ Hargrave has over 19 years of experience as an IBM software architect
and developer. His focus is small computer operating systems (kernels, file systems, development tools, application binary interface specifications) and Java technology. He holds multiple patents for JVM performance improvements and is the IBM expert and lead architect for OSGi technologies. BJ holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Miami.

BJ has been a leader in the development of the OSGi technology since its inception and was named an OSGi Fellow during the 1st OSGi World Congress for his technical contributions and leadership. He is currently CTO of the OSGi Alliance and chair of the OSGi Core Platform Expert Group.
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  • Vince Izzo, Senior Manager, New Business Development, Motorola Inc.

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  • Detlef Kuck, Teamleader Telematics & Navigation Research, Ford Research Centre Aachen

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  • Dr. Dave Marples, Chief Scientist, Network Systems Research Laboratory, Telcordia Technologies

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Amir Okhravi has worked with Siemens VDO Automotive for the past five years, initially as Application Developer for TLA communication system (4years), and then as Consultant for the Software & Services Division.

He has worked in the software business for last 12 years in different domains, from automation, web modules, web design, taxation systems to online travel. Previous to this I worked in Sales and Marketing in the construction and industrial lighting domain for 4 years. He has a master's degree in Advanced Information Technology and a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry and Management.

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Hagen Schwarz joined IBM in 2001, after his studies at the University of Cooperative Education in Dresden, Germany. The practical training during the course of studies he did at IBM. He is graduated engineer in the field of information technology.

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  • Dr. Susan Schwarze, Marketing Director, ProSyst Software and Member of the Board / VP Marketing OSGi Alliance

Dr. Susan Schwarze is Marketing Director of ProSyst Software (prosyst.com) and also represents ProSyst in international consortia. She is spokesperson and VP Marketing of the OSGi Alliance and serves on the Board of Directors, applying her marketing know-how, international experience and language skills for the benefit of the OSGi Alliance. Prior to joining ProSyst Software, she has held positions at Sterling Software and OAR Consulting, working on all aspects of the marketing mix, including branding and positioning, global marketing campaigns, partner/customer relations and public relations. Before working in the IT industry, Susan worked for the Secretariat-General of the European Commission, acquired her PhD in International Relations from the Free University of Berlin and gained professional experience and language skills in France, Costa Rica, Belgium, the USA and Germany.

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  • Earl Sorensen, Project Leader, Software and Services, Siemens
     

Earl Sorensen has worked for Siemens VDO Automotive for the past four years, initially as Software Engineer for TLA Entertainment Systems (2.5yrs), and then as Systems Architect for TLA Entertainment Systems.

Since 1st August 2005, he has headed up the Siemens VDO Software and Services business which comprises Advanced Tech, Consultancy Services, Training and Sub-Contracting for the TLA platform.

He has worked in the software industry for around 16 years in many different domains, ranging from banking and finance, life assurance, MQ Series consultancy, and of course more recently the Automotive industry.

He was educated at the University of NSW in Sydney, Australia as part of the Australian Traineeship Scheme.

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  • Rafiul Ahad, Ph.D. Vice President Collaboration Product Development Oracle Corporation

Rafiul Ahad is Vice President of Product Development with the Collaboration product division, Server Technologies, Oracle Corporation.

For the past eight years, Rafiul has been involved in the development of mobile infrastructure products. He is currently responsible for development software for mobile components of Oracle Colloboration Suite of applications. Having served many customers with the mobile products, Rafiul has first-hand knowledge and experience in the promises, perils, and pitfalls of mobile enterprise applications. Rafiul is a member of the Executive Advisory Board of the UCLA Wireless Internet for the Mobile Enterprise Consortium. He has also served as a member of the Board of Directors of Open Service Gateway Initiative Alliance. Rafiul is an author of several professional papers in the areas of database, middleware, and mobile technologies.

Prior to joining Oracle Corporation, Rafiul worked for Hewlett-Packard Corporation for seven years as a software architect and a product development manager.

Before that, Rafiul was Assiatant Professor for four years at the University of Maryland at College Park.

Rafiul received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles in 1985, M.S. degree in Computer Applications from the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok in 1980, and M.S. degree in Computer Science from the Rangoon University, Burma in 1975.

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Mike Milinkovich, is Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation, Inc., a not-for-profit corporation supporting the Eclipse open-source community and commercial ecosystem.

Mike has been contributing to the technology industry for over twenty years. Most recently a vice president in Oracle’s Development Group, Mike led the Application Server Technical Services team, a group of highly technical experts who support Oracle’s application server strategic customers and partners.

Prior to joining Oracle, Mike was with WebGain where he was Vide President of Worldwide Services and President of WebGain Canada. Other experiences include: The Object People which did world wide technology consulting and training; Object Technology International where he held various roles in software engineering, product management and business development; and IBM, where Mike was responsible for world wide product marketing of a major IBM software product line.

Mike earned his Masters of Science degree in Information and Systems Sciences and a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Carleton University. He lives in Ottawa, Canada.

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  • Gérard SEGARRA, Manager of Telematics Research and Innovation Projects, Renault

 

Gerard Segarra obtained an Engineer diploma from the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in 1975 and a Master in Research from the University of Paris 6 in 1976.

After working during 17 years in the PHILIPS Group successively in advanced electronics for military systems, then in industrial minicomputers R&D,
Joined the RENAULT group to manage telecommunication systems and take the responsibility of Information Technology Research. Is currently manager of telematics Research and Innovation projects, Renault and E.C Expert.

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