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Abhijit Dubey is an Associate Principal with McKinsey and Company, a management consulting firm. He is one of the core leaders of McKinsey's North American High Tech Software and Services practices and advises leading software and hardware companies on a range of strategic and functional issues. Abhijit also leads McKinsey's research and knowledge efforts on Software as a Service (SaaS). Prior to joining McKinsey, Abhijit worked at Schlumberger in their Oilfield services (Wireline logging) group, in several international locations including North Africa and Europe. Abhijit has a Masters degree in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management from Stanford University and a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.

C.K. Prahalad, the Paul and Ruth McCracken Distinguished University Professor at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, specializes in corporate strategy. His books include Multinational Mission: Balancing Local Demands and Global Vision (1987), co-authored with Yves Doz, Competing for the Future (1994), co-authored with Gary Hamel and printed in fourteen languages, and named the Best Selling Business Book of the Year in 1994. The Future of Competition: Co-Creating Unique Value with Customers (2004) (co-authored with Venkatram Ramaswamy), and translated into twelve languages. Business Week described the book as "provocative" and "an important book full of disruptive ideas". The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty through Profit (2004). The book was selected as one of the best books of the year 2004 by The Economist, Fast Company and Amazon.com. He is also the author of numerous award-winning articles. Harvard Business Review awarded him McKinsey Prizes for: "The End of Corporate Imperialism", co-authored with Kenneth Lieberthal (1998); "The Core Competence of the Corporation", co-authored with Gary Hamel (1990), and "Strategic Intent", also co-authored with Gary Hamel (1989); "Weak Signals vs. Strong Paradigms", published in the Journal of Marketing Research (1995), was awarded the 1997 ANBAR Electronic Citation of Excellence; "The Dominant Logic: A New Linkage between Diversity and Performance (1986), co-authored with Richard Bettis, was selected the Best Article published in the Strategic Management Journal for the period 1980-88; "The Role of Core Competencies in the Corporation" (1993) received the 1994 Maurice Holland Award as the Best Paper published in Research Technology Management in 1993; "A Strategy for Growth: The Role of Core Competence in the Corporation" won the European Foundation for Management Award in 1993.

As Vice President of the WebEx Connect division of WebEx Communications, David Knight is responsible for setting the strategic product direction and requirements for the company's composite collaboration application platform, presence-enabled applications, and associated technology components. Prior to joining WebEx, Mr. Knight held executive positions at Portera Systems, a vendor of professional service automation systems; and Sybase, where he was Director of Internet Middleware, among other roles. He began his management career at Oracle. David Knight holds a bachelor of science degree and master of business administration degree from Carnegie Mellon University. Recent Events: Web 2.0 Expo (April 2007). Enterprise 2.0 (June 2007) Conference Board Leadership Conference on Global Corporate Citizenship (February 2008)

Vivek works as Senior Vice President & Global Head of Services for Ramco Systems based out of Ramco New Jersey's office in U.S.A. In this role he has P&L responsibilities for all services vertical offerings and platform based solutions offerings from Ramco Systems. He has 13+ years of experience in Business and IT Consulting, and IT & Business Process Outsourcing focussing on Financial and Telecom services verticals working with some of the leading global companies in these verticals. He has worked in middle and senior management roles in Strategy, Sales, Marketing, Business Development, Alliances, Account Management and Operations in US, Europe and APAC markets. Prior to Ramco Systems, Vivek has worked with Infosys, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Schlumberger and 2 technology start-ups. Vivek is an engineer and an MBA by profession.

Bob Muglia is Senior Vice President of the Server and Tools Business (STB), a part of the Platforms & Services Division at Microsoft. STB is chartered to deliver Microsoft's unique vision for information technology professionals and developers: "Empower People across the IT Lifecycle through Integrated Software Innovation." As STB business leader, Muglia is responsible for developing and marketing Microsoft's infrastructure and developer software. This integrated set of products provides the foundation for IT operations, security, application development and integration. This portfolio includes Microsoft Windows Server, SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center management products and the Forefront line of business security products. Muglia is a member of Microsoft's Senior Leadership Team (which includes Chairman Bill Gates and Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer) that is responsible for shaping the company's business and technology strategy. Since joining Microsoft in January 1988, Muglia has served in a variety of positions, including managing the development of the MSN network of Internet services and Microsoft Office family of business productivity applications, Windows Server applications, and productivity appliances such as Pocket PCs, eBooks and Tablet PCs. In addition, Muglia helped to bring together the Visual Studio family of developer tools and drive the Win32 API, customer requirements and product specification for the Microsoft Windows NT operating system. Before joining Microsoft, Muglia was a development manager at ROLM Co. Muglia holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Michigan.

Jayshree Ullal, Senior Vice President of Cisco's Data Center, Switching and Services Group, is a networking executive veteran with experience in engineering, marketing, and business positions. She has spent more than 15 years with Cisco and is currently responsible for driving the direction and execution of modular Cisco Catalyst 4000/6000 Series switching for campus, the new Nexus Data Center switching series, and the expansion into application networking, virtualization, and integrated security services. She is responsible for about $10 billion in direct and $15 billion of indirect revenue. Ullal previously was Senior Vice President of the Security Technology group, doubling the Self-Defending Networks portfolio to $2 billion and a market share greater than 40 percent across three years. Previously, as Senior Vice President of the Optical Networking Group, she streamlined the business to profitability. She served as coleader of the Service Provider Business Council for key initiatives in high-end routing. Earlier at Cisco, she grew the Cisco Catalyst switching business from its beginning in 1993 to a $5 billion business in 2000, leading its market. Prior to joining Cisco, Ullal was the Vice President of Marketing at Crescendo Communications, which was Cisco's first acquisition. There she helped pioneer CDDI 100-Mbps over copper and managed the first standards-based CDDI products and first-generation Ethernet switching. She was Director of Internetworking Products at Ungermann-Bass for four years and also held several engineering and strategy positions in Advanced Micro Devices and Fairchild Semiconductor. Ullal was named as one of the "50 Most Powerful People" in the 2005 Network World, was nominated one of the 20 powerful "Women to Watch in 2001" by Newsweek, and awarded 2001 Innovator and Influencer Award by Information Week.

Philip Winslow is a Vice President in the technology research group at Credit Suisse with coverage of the software industry. He originally joined Credit Suisse as an Associate, covering the Internet Infrastructure Software sector. Philip graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Roger Burkhardt serves as Ingres's president and chief operating officer. In this role, he is responsible for corporate strategy, development and engineering, and global field operations including marketing, sales and support, alliance and channels, and customer programs. Mr. Burkhardt also serves on the company's Board of Directors. Mr. Burkhardt joined Ingres from the New York Stock Exchange, where as Chief Technology Officer and EVP for the past six years, he led a global technology team of 2,000 colleagues through the most important business and technology transformation in the Exchange's history: the shift to electronic trading. Under his leadership, the NYSE embraced open source solutions, maintained world-class reliability standards, and increased transaction volumes seven-fold. Prior to the NYSE, Mr. Burkhardt was president of listed equities for OptiMark Technologies, a developer of electronic trading technology that was adopted by more than 80 percent of the top 200 trading firms in the United States. He had earlier served 15 years with IBM, where he held several leadership positions in engineering, sales and business development. Most recently, he served as director of capital markets, IBM Banking, Finance and Securities, where he ran a $250 million business unit serving the needs of the Wall Street banking community. Mr. Burkhardt holds an M.B.A. in finance from New York University and both a bachelor's and master's degree in Physics from Oxford University. A former member of the IBM Advisory Board, Mr. Burkhardt is recognized by Wall Street and technology innovators worldwide for his customer advocacy work and thought leadership.

Stephen J. Mellor is an internationally recognized pioneer in creating effective, engineering approaches to software development. In 1985, he published the widely read Ward-Mellor trilogy Structured Development for Real-Time Systems, and in 1988, the first books defining object-oriented analysis. Stephen also published Executable UML: A Foundation for Model-Driven Architecture in 2002. His latest book MDA Distilled: Principles of Model-Driven Architecture was published in 2004. He is active in the Object Management Group, chairing the consortium that added executable actions to the UML. He is is now working on the executable UML foundation standard at the OMG. Perhaps surprisingly, he is also a signatory to the Agile Manifesto. Stephen acts as Chair of the IEEE Software Advisory Board, and is an adjunct professor at the Australian National University.