During the 4th annual EDA Summit virtual conference, thousands of IT professionals came together to learn how to reap the rewards of EDA, hear how business leaders and IT practitioners have embraced it, and discover best practices for successfully planning and managing event-driven initiatives.
Presenters included leaders of EDA adopters like Dell Technologies, JP Morgan Chase & Co., F5, TELUS Health, Citi, and TAB Bank, as well as solution providers like Solace, AWS, Boomi, Dynatrace, VMware and more.
Join us as we kick off the 4th annual EDA Summit (December 11, 2024) with Denis King, CEO of Solace, who will set the stage for an exploration of the transformative power of Event-Driven Architecture (EDA). Denis will highlight how EDA is reshaping real-time data integration, accelerating AI innovation, and enabling enterprise agility across industries. …
Pioneers; innovators; trailblazers. EDA Summit has spotlighted some of the foremost visionaries and thought leaders from the world of event-driven architecture… and beyond.
David Mooter
Principal Analyst, Forrester Research
David Mooter
Principal Analyst
Forrester Research
David advises clients with a particular emphasis on business-first design principles and how application architectures such as APIs foster innovation and sustainable business flexibility. His research focuses on integration, API strategy and management, event-driven architecture, and microservices. Prior to Forrester he was at Progressive Insurance where he led successful efforts to modernize the company’s decades-old policy servicing system and led its technical strategy for APIs, integration, and event streaming. His IT experience also includes technology leadership, software design and development, and cofounding a successful online game business.
Carl F. Lehmann
Principal Analyst | Automation & Integration, S&P Global Market Intelligence
Carl F. Lehmann
Principal Analyst | Automation & Integration
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Carl Lehmann is a senior research analyst at 451 Research within S&P Global Market Intelligence. He specializes in process automation, integration, and hybrid IT in cloud-native architectures. His research includes digital automation platforms, robotic process automation, and hybrid integration platforms. Previously, Carl was a principal analyst at BPMethods and authored a book on business strategy. He also held leadership roles in product management at OpenText, Gartner, and META Group. Carl began his career at AT&T and Digital Equipment Corporation. He holds a degree from Boston University School of Management.
David Menninger
Executive Director , ISG Software Research
David Menninger
Executive Director
ISG Software Research
Executive Director, ISG Software Research covering the software technology market including AI, analytics, data and event streams including governance and operations. Previous experience includes leading product management and marketing for data and analytics software vendors including EMC/Pivotal, Vertica, Oracle, Applix, InforSense and IRI Software.
Sarah Aamir
Partner Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
Sarah Aamir
Partner Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services
Sarah Aamir is an innovative leader and industry expert in IT networking and Go-To-Market business development. With extensive experience in the AWS Marketplace, she bridges the gap between technology and strategy, driving impactful change. Sarah’s insights into the financial services industry and generative AI empower teams to achieve remarkable results. As a dynamic speaker, she inspires audiences with her vision for the future and practical strategies for overcoming challenges.
Serge Beuzit
Senior Architect , Amadeus
Serge Beuzit
Senior Architect
Amadeus
“Currently Senior Architect at Amadeus I worked on release engineering, high availability application development, platform design, cloud computing and many other topics. A few years ago I specialized in event-driven and micro-service architectures and, as lead architect of the first Amadeus cloud native and event driven open platform, supported many projects in their move toward EDA. Outside of work, when not spending time with family and friends or traveling, I like to experiment with new technologies, hack connected objects or tinker with 3D printers”.
Kiran Manchikanti
Director of Applications, United Airlines
Kiran Manchikanti
Director of Applications
United Airlines
Kiran Manchikanti is a seasoned technology leader with over 20 years of expertise in the industry. Currently as a Director, he leads Application Development and DevOps teams at United Airlines, responsible for design, development, operations, and resiliency aspects of software applications. With his extensive experience, Kiranbrings a unique blend of technical acumen and leadership skills to drive innovation and efficiency. His expertise spans multiple facets of software development, ensuring seamless application delivery and optimal performance.
Conor Twomey
Founder, AI One
Conor Twomey
Founder
AI One
Accomplished executive leader with over 15 years of experience addressing the most demanding data challenges for top corporations worldwide. Conor is the former Head of AI Strategy at KX, a pioneer in real-time data analytics and decision intelligence. Under his leadership, KX successfully transitioned from a time-series database company to the Enterprise AI platform of choice for large-scale AI implementations. Before this role, Conor managed a 400-person organization encompassing Presales, Professional Services, Support, Managed Services, and Customer Success Management. Conor is a sought-after speaker and contributor, renowned for his insights on frontier technology topics including Data, Analytics, Machine Learning&AI
Santosh Ojha
Architect, NTT Data Services
Santosh Ojha
Architect
NTT Data Services
Santosh is experiences IT professional, specialized in integration and digital transformation based out Pune India. He has vast experience in architecture and developing software systems for banking, insurance, payment, retail, healthcare and payment. He has been working on Integration technologies for 10 years and leading multiple forum since 2018.
He enjoys connecting people and active member of communities. He loves mentoring and hand holding aspiring individuals for career growth.
Craig Campbell
Lead Architect, eProcess360
Craig Campbell
Lead Architect
eProcess360
Craig Campbell is a seasoned software engineer with over 20 years of experience across multiple industries, including roles at Novell, Landesk, Navitaire, FamilySearch, General Atomics, Baker Hughes, and currently WC-3. With a deep understanding of both legacy and cutting-edge technologies, Craig brings a wealth of expertise in designing, managing, and deploying scalable solutions. His work spans critical sectors, from desktop management to aerospace, offering unique insights into the challenges and opportunities in software development today.
Malik Badaruddin
CTO, GetGo Technologies
Malik Badaruddin
CTO
GetGo Technologies
Founding member of GetGo Technologies, I am currently the Chief Technology Officer who saw the start of our company. We innovated the car sharing industry and grew from 400 vehicles, in the car sharing space in 2021 to 3000 cars today. We are also the largest car sharing solution in Singapore and have built on top of Solace EDA, providing various innovative solution to car-sharing in scopes of safety, speed and reliability
Bertrand Hasnier
Aeroline Data Leader, Sopra Steria
Bertrand Hasnier
Aeroline Data Leader
Sopra Steria
My professional career, within start-ups and major corporations, has always focused on helping my customers to use and deploy new technologies.
Web design in the 90s, professional mobile applications in the early 2000s,IoT, BigData and AI for the past 10 years.
Today, I am in charge of project management and architecture consulting for our major European clients in the aeronautics and defense sectors, on Data, AI, Cloud and cybersecurity topics at Sopra Steria (Positioned in TOP 5 european digital company & positioned as AI technology leader).
Clemens Vasters
Principal Architect, Microsoft
Clemens Vasters
Principal Architect
Microsoft
Clemens Vasters is an accomplished public speaker and is well versed in EDA, having been a reviewer for books on EDA. He is also the driver for CNCF CloudEvents and xRegistry and is on the board for MQTT.
Bob Hundal
CTO, Kinseed
Bob Hundal
CTO
Kinseed
Bob Hundal is Chief Technology Officer for Kinseed, bringing revolutionary digital transformation to the healthcare industry – on a mission to improve patient outcomes and liberate clinical data. Prior to Kinseed Bob held a number of technology leadership roles within the financial services and telecoms sectors.
Gang Tao
CTO, Timeplus
Gang Tao
CTO
Timeplus
Gang has over 20 years experience in software development, and is a recognized expert of AI, BI, Big Data and Data Visualization. He was the principal engineer of Splunk’s ML and Data platform. He’s also a die-hard fan of AC Milan.
Eric Deshayes
Managing Director Platforms Product Business Group, smartTrade
Eric Deshayes
Managing Director Platforms Product Business Group
smartTrade
With an engineering degree from Ecole Centrale de Lyon, Eric started working as a software engineer at Amadeus, Application Networks, Thomson Reuters before joining smartTrade.
At smartTrade, Eric is now spearheading the delivery of customized software solutions, overseeing dedicated development and support teams to transform financial institutions’ business requirements into advanced trading systems, elevating their market presence and client engagement.
Sol Rashidi
IT Exec and Author
Sol Rashidi
IT Exec and Author
With 10 patents and a bestselling author of top 100 AI books, Sol Rashidi has is an esteemed executive and leader within the AI, Data, and Technology space. Having helped IBM launch Watson in 2011 as one of the earliest world applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Sol was the first appointed Chief data & AI Officer in 2016 and has since held 4 C-Suite positions across Fortune 100’s, is an Amazon executive, and is at the forefront of strategy and deployments for Data & AI applications.
Mary Grygleski
AI Practice Lead, Callibrity
Mary Grygleski
AI Practice Lead
Callibrity
Mary is a Java Champion, and the AI Practice Lead at Callibrity, a consulting firm based in Ohio. She started as an engineer in Unix/C, then transitioned to Java around 2000. After 20+ years of being a software engineer and technical architect, she discovered her true passion in developer and customer advocacy. She has serviced companies such as IBM, US Cellular and Chicago Mercantile Exchange, in topic areas that include Java, GenAI, Streaming systems, Open source, Cloud and Distributed messaging systems. She is the President of the Chicago Java Users Group (CJUG), and the Chicago Chapter Co-Lead for AICamp.
Stéphane Goudeau
Principal IT Architect, BCG
Stéphane Goudeau
Principal IT Architect
BCG
As a Principal IT Architect at BCG, I specialize in designing and implementing robust architectures tailored to client needs. My role involves working closely with clients to understand their challenges, define strategic solutions, and oversee operational aspects of complex enterprise projects, ensuring excellence in service delivery.
With 30 years of experience in IT, predominantly with Microsoft, I have developed a deep expertise across various technical domains including development technologies, application design, infrastructure, Cloud services, and advanced data architecture. My work at BCG often involves integrating AI and Generative AI technologies to drive innovation, enhance data systems, and support strategic decision-making.
James Eastham
Serverless Developer Advocate, Datadog
James Eastham
Serverless Developer Advocate
Datadog
James Eastham is a Serverless Developer Advocate at Datadog. He has over 10 years experience in software, at all layers of the application stack.
He has worked in front-line support, database administration, backend development and now works with some of the biggest companies in the world architecting systems using AWS technologies.
James produces content on YouTube, focused around building applications with serverless technologies using .NET, Java & Rust.
Francois Rivard
CEO, Astrakhan
Francois Rivard
CEO
Astrakhan
CEO of Astrakhan, a consulting firm expert in Unified Middleware and Enterprise Architecture Chairman of the Digital Innovation Council of the European Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong Frequent publications on EDA and API Management on LinkedIn and Medium. Has helped major companies worldwide designing their digital integration platforms using Event-Driven Architecture, API Management and iPaaS.
As Solace’s Field CTO, Jonathan helps companies understand how they can capitalize on the use of event-driven architecture to make the most of their integrations, microservices, and applications. He is an expert at architecting large-scale, mission critical enterprise systems, with over a decade of experience designing, building and managing them in domains such as air traffic management (FAA), satellite ground systems (GOES-R), and healthcare.
Cyrus Mobini
AI Integration Software Engineer, Solace
Cyrus Mobini
AI Integration Software Engineer
Solace
Cyrus is an AI integration software engineer at Solace, where he focuses on driving advancements in event-driven architecture (EDA) and artificial intelligence (AI). With a diverse background that includes roles as an AI engineer, AI researcher, and full-stack software developer, Cyrus brings expertise in AI-integrated software development, large-scale software architecture, machine learning, and full-stack development.
Outside of work, Cyrus spends his free time exploring new experiences and technologies, contributing to open-source projects, and staying involved in AI meetups, where his professional and personal passions naturally align.
Dev Agrawal
Software Engineer, Smart Data
Dev Agrawal
Software Engineer
Smart Data
Dev Agrawal is a software engineer at Smart Data, and makes content on YouTube and Twitch around software development and design. Dev has been writing fullstack javascript applications for 7 years, has an interest in devtools that enable productivity, home brewing coffee, and heavy metal.
Alessandro Petroni
CEO – Executive Advisor , BusinessMesh
Alessandro Petroni
CEO – Executive Advisor
BusinessMesh
Alessandro Petroni is a business and technology strategy executive with a passion for driving innovation and business growth. He has held leadership positions at top financial institutions, including Deutsche Bank and Merrill Lynch Bank of America, and directed global FinServ strategy at Red Hat.
Alessandro is a recognized thought leader, publishing numerous articles and authoring the Wiley Open APIs for Financial Services. He is currently CEO of BusinessMesh.io, a consulting startup focused on technology strategy development and delivery in Finserv solutions and applied AI in FinServ. He holds AI certifications from MIT, Business Strategy Specialization from Harvard Business School, and an master in Computer Science.
Nuno Gaspar
Sr. Software Engineer, Amadeus
Nuno Gaspar
Sr. Software Engineer
Amadeus
“Senior Software Engineer, I joined a team specializing in event-driven and microservice architectures four years ago. Before that, I pursued a PhD focusing on formal methods for software design, honing my expertise in rigorous system modeling. My professional journey has led me to play a key role in advancing event-driven architectures, blending cutting-edge practices with a solid theoretical foundation to help drive innovation. Outside of work, I am passionate about exploring new technologies and finding practical applications for them”.
Stefano Passaro
It and Business Process Management, Naturgy
Stefano Passaro
It and Business Process Management
Naturgy
“I’m part of the Naturgy IT team, specifically I work in the gas distribution company called Nedgia. I’ve been around for more or less 20 years working in the industry and this last 2 years leading the S4Hana greenfield implementation project”.
Linus Hakansson
Chief Product Office, Gravitee
Linus Hakansson
Chief Product Office
Gravitee
Linus is the Vice President of Product for the Gravitee API platform and has held prior architect roles across various cloud and integration technology companies. Linus loves to discuss the full API lifecycle, ranging from initial API design to managing and securing API products and services.
Ed Funnekotter
Chief AI Officer, Solace
Ed Funnekotter
Chief AI Officer
Solace
Edward Funnekotter serves as the Chief Architect and AI Officer at Solace. Leading the architecture teams for both Cloud and Event Broker products, he also leads the company’s strategic direction for AI integration within products and internal tools. In 2004, Edward began his journey with Solace as an FPGA architect. He later transitioned into management and led the Core Product Development team for several years before ascending to his present position.
Aaron Wentzell
Vice President, Solution Delivery, Bits in Glass
Aaron Wentzell
Vice President, Solution Delivery
Bits in Glass
“Growing up on a farm in Northern Alberta, I followed an unconventional path to a fulfilling IT career. As Vice President and Integration Practice Lead at Bits In Glass, I combine my passion for technology, team building, and organizational change. Over the past nine years, I’ve expanded our team from 7 to over 60 top-tier integration developers spread across 3 continents, enabling us to partner with leading clients in industries like banking, logistics, and technology. I lead strategic planning for growth and manage key partnerships, ensuring competitive excellence.”
Eric Carsted
Principal Architect, Bits in Glass
Eric Carsted
Principal Architect
Bits in Glass
Eric is the Principal Architect at Bits In Glass (BIG), where he leads the architecture team, drives the adoption of emerging technologies, and oversees the technical quality of BIG’s integration and data projects. With over 40 years of experience in the technology industry—30 of those in architecture roles—Eric brings unmatched expertise to every client engagement.
His career highlights include serving as Chief Enterprise Architect at Sun Microsystems, Industry Architect for Oil and Gas at IBM, and Chief Architect for large-scale construction projects, including a refinery and a SAGD oilsands facility. Eric also led enterprise integration for Air Canada, enabling a seamless migration of their critical Passenger Reservation and Departure Control Systems.
Eric specializes in designing and implementing complex integrations and enterprise infrastructure, with deep experience in platforms such as MuleSoft, AWS, Solace, TIBCO, Informatica, IoT, SCADA, and OSIsoft PI. His extensive background ensures that clients benefit from innovative, scalable, and high-performing solutions tailored to their unique needs.
Gregory Foden
FX Infrastructure Lead, Citigroup
Gregory Foden
FX Infrastructure Lead
Citigroup
Greg Foden is Senior Vice President and Infrastructure Lead for FX Technology at Citi. With 15+ years experience within Capital Markets technology roles at several large financial services organizations, he has a particular expertise in low latency messaging/eventing technology and the associated high-performance infrastructure such as server compute, networks and WAN circuits, with a particular focus on the transport layer.
Shawn McAllister is responsible for the strategy and delivery of the Solace PubSub+ Event Streaming and Management Platform. He leads a team of incredibly talented engineers and architects in this endeavor Shawn has worked with many of our clients to help them adopt event-driven architecture and to learn first-hand their needs as input to the innovation built into the PubSub+ Platform. He has participated in the definition of various OASIS messaging protocol standards, including MQTT 3.1.1, MQTT 5.0, and AMQP1.0.
Before joining Solace, Shawn led software, hardware, and test engineering teams at Newbridge Networks (later Alcatel Canada), where he was responsible for developing features on ATM and Ethernet switches as well as the 7750 Multiservice IP Router. Shawn holds a Bachelor of Mathematics from the University of Waterloo, with majors in both Computer Science and Combinatorics/Optimization.
Lynton Grice
SAP Integration & Development Architect, ERPCrew
Lynton Grice
SAP Integration & Development Architect
ERPCrew
Lynton brings over 21 years of experience in SAP integration and development, having collaborated with some of the world’s largest brands. His passion lies in event-driven architecture, where he excels at designing responsive, scalable solutions that enhance business efficiency. Lynton’s deep understanding of SAP development enables him to implement robust integrations that improve system interoperability and data flow. Throughout his career, he has navigated complex environments, leveraging his skills to streamline processes and optimize performance. For Lynton, working in event-driven architecture and SAP development is not just a profession—it’s his natural habitat, where innovation meets operational excellence.
Thomas Kunnumpurath
VP Systems Engineering Americas, Solace
Thomas Kunnumpurath
VP Systems Engineering Americas
Solace
Thomas Kunnumpurath is the Vice President of Systems Engineering for Americas at Solace where he leads a field team across the region to solution the Solace PubSub+ Platform across a wide variety of industry verticals such as Finance, Retail, IoT and Manufacturing.
Prior to joining Solace, Thomas spent over a decade of his career leading engineering teams responsible for building out large scale globally distributed systems for real time trading systems and credit card systems at various banks.
Thomas enjoys coding, blogging about tech, speaking at conferences and being invited to talk on PodCasts. You can follow him at Twitter with the handle @TKTheTechie, GitHub @TKTheTechie and his blog on TKTheTechie.io
David McCue
Principal Engineer, Chicago Trading Company
David McCue
Principal Engineer
Chicago Trading Company
David McCue is a seasoned technology expert with over 20 years of experience in the industry. He currently manages the Enterprise Messaging Infrastructure team at Chicago Trading Company, which is responsible for the installation, configuration, and monitoring of the messaging platform. Previously, David led the Windows and Core Services team, managing Windows Servers, Active Directory, Virtualization, Storage, Splunk, and Citrix application\desktop delivery
Yalkin Yanik
Principal Solutions Architect, Genentech
Yalkin Yanik
Principal Solutions Architect
Genentech
Yalkin Yanik has a successful record and solid experience in design and development of new digital capabilities using modern API and Microservices Architectures and Cloud Native Apps. Yalkin has concrete know-how on design of Event Driven solutions using platforms such as Solace and Kafka. Yalkin has solid experience on webMethods Technology, Mulesoft, CA API Management Platform, Process Intelligence including real time business analytics, and architecting solutions on AWS.
Kaushik Mody
Director, Technology Delivery, TD Securities
Kaushik Mody
Director, Technology Delivery
TD Securities
“Manage Regulatory Technology platform to ensure regulatory compliance for the bank to ensure trades and transactions as well as finance reporting to a variety of regulatory regimes. The platform utilizes Solace message bus to meet this obligations within the realtime SLAs laid out by the regulators.
I have extensive experience in building and integrating realtime messaging frameworks on a variety of domains including Finance, Energy, Semiconductor, Hospitality and Healthcare.”
Marc Pierne
Engineering Excellence Architect, F5 inc
Marc Pierne
Engineering Excellence Architect
F5 inc
Marc is currently an Engineering Excellence Architect for F5, bringing years of experience with a wide array of challenges and working with a diverse range of clients, including Google and Microsoft. His expertise in software engineering, AI, and solution architecture informs his creative solutions and innovative technical approaches to solving problems, with a special interest in the API and integration space.
Sumeet Puri
Chief Technology Solutions Officer, Solace
Sumeet Puri
Chief Technology Solutions Officer
Solace
Sumeet Puri is Solace’s chief technology solutions officer. His expertise includes architecting large-scale enterprise systems in various domains, including trading platforms, core banking, telecommunications, supply chain, machine to machine track and trace and more, and more recently in spaces related to big data, mobility, IoT, and analytics.
Sumeet’s experience encompasses evangelizing, strategizing, architecting, program managing, designing and developing complex IT systems from portals to middleware to real-time CEP, BPM and analytics, with paradigms such as low latency, event driven architecture, SOA, etc. using various technology stacks. The breadth and depth of Sumeet’s experience makes him sought after as a speaker.
Siew Kit Lee
VP of Technology and IT, Singapore Cruise Center
Siew Kit Lee
VP of Technology and IT
Singapore Cruise Center
Prior to joining SCCPL, Mr. Lee has held senior management job roles in Singapore Airlines, SATS, NCS, and Changi Airport Group (as GM, T5 Planning). Mr. Lee is very hands on and passionate on how to apply technologies to solve real problems.
Budhaditya Bhattacharya
Developer Advocate, Tyk
Budhaditya Bhattacharya
Developer Advocate
Tyk
Budha is the lead developer advocate at Tyk. He is co-creator of the API platform maturity model, the course instructor of the API Platform engineering fundamentals programme, and the host of LEAP 2024 – the API observability conference.
He is also the elected chair of the OpenAPI Initiative’s Governance Board, driving initiatives for the education and adoption of the OpenAPI Specification.
Roberto Acevedo
Global Integration & Automation CoE Manager, JDE Peet’s (Jacobs Douwe Egberts)
Frederico Dionisio
Senior Integration Consultant, Link Consulting
Frederico Dionisio
Senior Integration Consultant
Link Consulting
Currently leading the Solace Partnership at Link Consulting and acting as tech lead in a major bank in Saudi Arabia. His background is mainly focused on the integration area, from APIs, microservices, event driven solutions, and ESBs. For the last couple years, he’s been solely focused on Middle-Eastern clients (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain).
Ayush Parashar
VP, Engineering – AI and Data, Boomi
Ayush Parashar
VP, Engineering – AI and Data
Boomi
A technologist with passion for generating value out of big data & application integration domain, with deep expertise in product development and enterprise customer implementations.
Areas of expertise & interest:
iPaaS, application integration, Customer 360, Master Data Management, Modern Data Stack, Data Preparation, Data Catalog & Discovery, Data Governance, architecting big data solutions, Spark, Hadoop, MPP Databases & Systems, Software Engineering (developing web apps), Data Integration, Performance Engineering, BI, Analytics, AWS, SaaS.
Madhav SBSS
Director Product Management – AI, Boomi
Isael Pelletier
Principal Solutions Architect , AWS
Isael Pelletier
Principal Solutions Architect
AWS
Isael Pelletier is a Principal Solutions Architect and serverless specialist at AWS with over 20 years of experience in software development and enterprise architecture. For the past 10 years, he has focused exclusively on FaaS-based distributed applications. His expertise is in serverless adoption and optimization in a wide range of industries, including banking, telecommunication, healthcare, startups and more.
Albertus Indarko Wiyogo
Executive VP of Information Systems, PT Kereta Api Indonesia (Persero) KAI
Albertus Indarko Wiyogo
Executive VP of Information Systems
PT Kereta Api Indonesia (Persero) KAI
Albertus Indarko Wiyogo is a seasoned technology leader with extensive experience in driving digital transformation within the transportation sector in Indonesia. Currently the Vice President of Information System at PT Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI), Albertus led PT KAI’s transformative journey to enhance its digital capabilities and experience through Event-driven Architecture (EDA) and revolutionize its operations and customer experiences.
Throughout his career, Albertus has held multiple Vice President roles at PT KAI of IT Planning, IT Operation and Digital Business. He was also Vice President of Information Technology at PT Kereta Commuter Indonesia, Director of Technology & Operation at PT JakLingko Indonesia and Deputy Director of Transformation Office at PT KAI.
Tom Hillebrand
Head of SAP Technology, RealCore Group
Tom Hillebrand
Head of SAP Technology
RealCore Group
With a strong focus on innovations in the area of SAP technologies, Tom defines itself as an early adopter of new technologies for the enterprise sector. Through his collective experience in hybrid cloud architecture, he forms solutions and offerings with the intention of helping his customers to grow their businesses. With over 10 years of development experience, finding solutions to complex problems is his passion and part of his daily work. Tom is always interested in expanding his network to meet more like-minded people to learn from.
Jeff Pollock
VP, Product Development, Oracle
Jeff Pollock
VP, Product Development
Oracle
Mr. Pollock is an expert technology leader for data platforms, big data, data integration and governance. Jeff has been CTO at successful startups and a senior exec at Fortune 100 tech vendors. He is currently VP of Products and Cloud Services for Data Replication, Streaming Data and DB Migrations. At IBM, he was responsible for all Information Integration and Data Governance products, previously Jeff was an independent architect for US Defense Department, Vice President of Technology at Cerebra and Chief Technical Officer of Modulant – he has been engineering artificial intelligence based data platforms since 2001. As a business consultant, Mr. Pollock was a Head Architect at Ernst & Young’s Center for Technology Enablement.
Jeff is also the author of “Semantic Web for Dummies” and “Adaptive Information,” a frequent keynote at industry conferences, author for books and industry journals, formerly a contributing member of W3C and OASIS, and an engineering instructor with UC Berkeley’s Extension for object-oriented systems, software development process and enterprise architecture.
Denis King
President and CEO, Solace
Denis King
President and CEO
Solace
Denis King is Solace’s president and chief executive officer. After kicking off his career with Celestica, which was acquired by IBM, and Newbridge Networks, which was acquired by Alcatel, Denis joined Solace when it was a startup to help build the ground-breaking technology that introduced event-driven architecture to the financial services and telecommunications industries. Since that time, Denis has been instrumental in leading the proliferation of EDA across industries and spurring Solace’s success, having held successive leadership positions as the company’s VP of systems engineering, SVP of global field operations, chief product officer and chief operating officer. Denis earned a bachelor’s of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of New Brunswick.
Denis is a member of the Forbes Tech Council, where he shares his expertise on real-time computing, digital transformation and event-driven architecture.
Solace helps enterprises connect and integrate anything, anywhere, through the power of event-driven architecture. With an event-driven integration and streaming platform called PubSub+ Platform, Solace gives enterprises everything they need to stream events in real-time across their organization and around the world.
Leading enterprises trust Solace to modernize their application and integration landscape, build time-sensitive applications and processes, and create seamless digital experiences for their customers, partners and employees.
Boomi, a Dell Technologies business, instantly connects everyone to everything with our cloud-native, unified, open, and intelligent platform. Boomi’s integration platform-as-a-service (iPaaS) is trusted by more than 13,000 customers globally for its speed, ease-of-use, and lower total cost of ownership. As the pioneer at fueling intelligent use of data, Boomi’s vision is to make it quick and easy for customers and partners to discover, manage, and orchestrate data, while you connect applications, processes, and people for better, faster outcomes.
Since 2006, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any workload, and it now has more than 240 fully featured services. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs.
RealCore Group is a leading technology consulting company specializing in innovative solutions for digital transformation. With a strong focus on modern SAP technologies and expertise in event-driven architecture, we empower businesses to build composable, scalable, and sustainable solutions. Our main offerings include strategic IT consulting, custom software development, and integration services that leverage real-time data processing. Our partner ecosystem consisting of strategic alliances with SAP, Microsoft and Solace is a key differentiator when providing our services. Committed to excellence, RealCore Group helps organizations navigate complex technological landscapes to achieve sustainable growth and a competitive edge.
NCS, a subsidiary of Singtel Group, is a leading technology services firm with presence in Asia Pacific and partners with governments and enterprises to advance communities through technology. Combining the experience and expertise of its 13,000-strong team across 57 specialisations, NCS provides differentiated and end-to-end technology services to clients with its NEXT capabilities in digital, data, cloud and platforms, as well as core offerings in application, infrastructure, engineering and cybersecurity. NCS also believes in building a strong partner ecosystem with leading technology players, research institutions and start-ups to support open innovation and co-creation.
Bits In Glass (BIG) empowers the world’s most forward-thinking companies to adapt and navigate a rapidly changing hyper-automation landscape. As a trusted global boutique consulting firm, we combine a personalized, client-focused approach with the ability to scale and deliver impactful solutions globally. We design, create, and manage data and AI-driven processes tailored to solve your unique business challenges so you can build digital agility into your future.
Your Vision. Our Expertise.
Learn how Bits In Glass can unlock your organization’s potential.
Sierra Digital is the SAP BTP and AI Innovation Station, connecting enterprise users to revolutionary technologies that simplify, enhance, and extend SAP system value without the time, cost, or risk of traditional development cycles. Sierra maintains a library of more than 20 pre-built SAP BTP apps, with award-winning and SAP certified tools that enhance lines of business across the enterprise with automation, analytics, and AI. Sierra is also the proprietor of migration assessments that aid and accelerate the modernization of legacy systems. With major development centers on four continents, Sierra is a global partner to SAP, providing quick cloud advantages with expert advisory, transformation, and managed services. Privately held and headquartered in Houston, Sierra employs more than 350 in the United States and abroad.