Claude Baudoin has 35 years of experience in IT, Software Engineering, and Knowledge Management, including 26 years at Schlumberger, the leading global oilfield services company.

While at Schlumberger, he held positions as Software Engineering Manager, Research Lab Manager, and IT Director. In 2005, as IT Advisor to the CIO, he wrote the company's SOA Strategy which is now being implemented.

Mr. Baudoin holds an Engineer degree from Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, and a MS degree in Computer Science from Stanford. He wrote two books on software engineering and two patents related to networking and security.
 

Todd Biske is a Senior Enterprise Architect with Monsanto in St. Louis, Missouri. He has over 15 years of experience in Information Technology, both as a corporate practitioner and as a SOA consultant, working with companies in various industries including agriculture, travel and leisure, insurance, and financial services. He is the author of the book "SOA Governance" from Packt Publishing, has a M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and writes a popular blog on strategic IT topics.
 

Renee Fulton has twenty-five years of experience in information technology. She has worked with Northrop Grumman since 1995, most recently as a SOA Architect, BPM consultant, and Enterprise Architect. Currently, she is working to bring SOA to the Department of Public Health and Human Services and to state governments. She earned both her bachelors and masters degrees in information technology and information systems at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.
 

Judith Hurwitz has been a thought leader in technology research and strategy consulting for more than 20 years. In 1992, she founded Hurwitz Group, a software research and consulting organization that quickly became an industry leader with top technology clients. Currently she is the President of Hurwitz & Associates, a research and consulting firm with a pragmatic portfolio of service offerings focused on identifying customer benefit and best practices for buyers and sellers of information technology in the US and Europe. Judith is a co-author of Service Oriented Architecture For Dummies, published by Wiley in 2007.

An award-winning IT journalist and editorial executive, Maryfran Johnson was named Editor in Chief of CIO magazine and events in January 2009. This unique dual role combines strategic direction of the leading publication for senior IT executives with all editorial content for CXO Media's extensive portfolio of national and regional events. Along with agenda development and speaker recruitment, Maryfran also serves as conference moderator for the CIO 100 Symposium, The Year Ahead Summit, The CIO Leadership Event and the new regional series of CIO Perspectives Forums launched in 2008.

Brenda Michelson is an IT strategist, community leader, hands-on practitioner, and the voice of business-driven architecture. Brenda has dual roles. She is the Program Director for the SOA Consortium and principal of Elemental Links, an IT consulting practice specializing in strategy,
architecture, transformation and execution services for business-driven IT.

Previously, Brenda was a Senior Vice President and Senior Consultant/Analyst with the Patricia Seybold Group. Brenda spent 19 years in corporate IT, most recently as Chief Enterprise Architect for L.L. Bean.