As a senior member of the bank’s Enterprise Architecture Team, Burt Covnot works closely with lead architects in the various Lines of Business (LOB) organizations in workgroup settings to ensure a consistent, enterprise-wide approach to SOA and BPM. Burt is a co-lead of the bank’s SOA Enterprise Center of Excellence and leads BPM focused workgroups. Burt has been with the bank for 10 years.

Burt Covnot has nearly 20 years of IT management and software development experience in a

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.

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.

Dr. Burc Oral is the the CTO and VP of Engineering at Cover4Me where he works on applying the alchemy of BPM and SOA to workforce management. Prior to that, he was the senior architect at CellExchange focusing on enterprise architecture solutions for the Federal government. He has broad experience in large scale system architecture definition and systems engineering, software development lifecycle, Service Oriented and Event-Driven Architectures, and portals. He has envisioned, designed, built and deployed solutions at JP Morgan Investment, Health and Human

Naresh has more than fifteen years experience in business process re-engineering and design. He is a Six Sigma Black Belt with extensive experience in managing large technology enabled process improvement initiatives for Fortune 100 companies. As a key member of the Operations Management team at SDG, Naresh has successfully managed strategic planning initiatives for SDG and implemented metrics driven and highly effective organizational processes for SDG. Naresh holds an MBA in Finance, as well as a BS in Computer Science.

Esther Schindler has been writing about technology subjects since 1992. For the last several years, she has focused primarily on software development topics. In adddition to writing thousands of articles (such as "Five Things CIOs Need To Know About Software Requirements" and "The Enterprise Committer: When Your Employee Develops Open-Source Code on the Company Payroll"), she has had her name plastered on nearly a dozen books and has written analyst reports about software development trends.