Dave heads up the Voice and Multimedia design and development team within BT for its 21CN and PSTN-based offerings. 21CN is a network transformation project that evolves BT’s network to a global, software-driven customer network that introduces new next generation services, faster than ever before. An SDP is a key component of BT’s 21CN vision. Dave’s career of software development and data- and tele-communications across AT&T Bell Laboratories, US and UK telcos provide the unique combination necessary for successful SDP implementation.

Indu Kodukula is the Vice President of Product Management for the Oracle Service Delivery Platform and is responsible for overall product strategy and direction. In his role at Oracle, he has been a critical driver of Oracle's entry into the dynamic service delivery space, strategic acquisitions in this area and customer wins.

Kevin Twardus, manages the communications sector solutions architecture and standards for IBM’s software group. Currently, he is developing tools and methods in support of the OSS lifecycle. He also leads a working group within the Telemanagement Forum that is defining the NGOSS technology neutral architecture in terms of Web services specifications and technology.

John Gaffney is a Business Development Manager with Avaya’s Market Development Organization. Mr. Gaffney has the responsibility for working with Avaya’s Partners in achieving a high performance of business growth. Mr. Gaffney brings more than 20 years of industry, systems and solutions experience to Avaya, along with a proven track record in the enterprise solutions business.

Hari Subramanian is the Practice Head for NGN IP Services practice at Cognizant. He is responsible for providing thought leadership in NGN services and networks area. In this capacity, he gets to work with Cognizant’s existing as well as new customers in NGN related projects. Hari’s current responsibility is based on more than 18 years of broad experience in the Telecommunications industry.

Graduated 1999 at the University of Applied Sciences, Walter Maurer started within telecoms at the vendors end. Moved to mobilkom austria in 2001 he was responsible as project manager for strategic projects like Mobile Number Portability, IMS or Next Generation Intelligent Network. As Head of Network Service Platforms he is responsible for the NGIN Competence Centre within mobilkom austria group. There he is driving and supporting projects for innovative services to be delivered throughout the group since June 2007.

Torsten Dinsing is working as a Strategic Solution Manager for IMS and SDP. In his role he is supporting prioritized customer discussions and engagements globally. He contributes with his experience from the market to Ericsson Strategy. Previously Torsten Dinsing has been working in Ericsson Research on Service Layer Technologies.

Michel Burger serves as the service architect for the Server & Tools division at Microsoft. He is responsible for defining the long-term vision and architecture for software as a service and service delivery solutions.

Jim Warner is Vice Chairman of the TM Forum and Heads their Content, Media and Advertising practice where he is responsible for guiding the Forum’s activities as telecom, cable, media, entertainment and the Internet converge. Prior to this, Jim was the President of the Forum. He also heads The Westport Group, a marketing agency.

Rich Bennett is an Executive Director in the Architecture & Planning organization responsible for architecture strategies that enable new service applications. He has also been a major contributor to the TM Forum “Content Encounter” catalyst project providing a focus on where standards are needed. Mr. Bennett has experience in the computing and telecom industries leading software architecture and engineering teams on a broad range of leading edge projects that have spanned operations support systems, networking protocols, and service applications.

Vivek has over 20 years of experience in sales and marketing in the Telecom and Manufacturing industry. Prior to joining Tech Mahindra, Vivek has undertaken key leadership positions in companies like Hewlett Packard , Compaq. At Tech Mahindra, Vivek heads the US Business Development team and has been with Tech Mahindra for about 3 years. He has led Tech Mahindra to win engagements with various Telecommunication companies in their transformation journey in North America.

Ananda Subbiah is Worldwide Vice President, Solutions Organization in HP’s Communications, Entertainment and Media (CME), Ananda Subbiah is responsible for managing an estimated $4B solution portfolio, which encompasses HP’s Network Solutions, Service Delivery Platform, HP Services Market Place, OSS, BSS, IT Infrastructure Solutions and Broadband & Rich Media Solution, including IPTV.

Vaibhav Parmar, Accenture, Senior Manager, Wireless Technology Consulting practice. Mr. Parmar focuses on wireless networks/technologies and mobility projects. His experiences include technology design, infrastructure assessments, product development and business modeling. Mr. Parmar holds MS and BS degrees in Electrical Engineering, both from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Frank Korinek is Director of Technology Portfolio & Fellow of Technical Staff in Motorola's Chief Technology Office. Frank is responsible for driving driving Motorola's end-to-end Manageability vision & strategies, strategic asset definition & management, alignment of business, intellectual property & standards strategies, and commercialization of advanced technologies and innovation into Motorola’s E2E Manageability solutions.

Ron is Peak 8's CEO and Chairman of the Management Committee. He brings to Peak 8 over 24 years of experience in high technology including 18 years with IBM where he was the executive responsible for IBM's North American Telecommunications vertical for wireless, ISP and Clec providers. For the past 6 years Ron has successfully lead the sales efforts of a number of early stage software/services companies in the identity management, enterprise application integration and business process management spaces.

Kurt Scherf studies developments in home networks, residential gateways, digital entertainment, technology development in the housing market, and residential and building management and controls. Kurt is the sole author or contributing author/analyst to more than 50 research reports and studies produced by Parks Associates since 1998.

George Dobrowski has held positions in industry and standards organizations such as Chairman & President of the DSL Forum, President of The ATM Forum, and was Chairman of the ATM Forum Worldwide Technical Committee during the 1993-1998 timeframe. He is currently involved in technology and product planning at Conexant.

Heather Kirksey directs strategy and execution of Motive’s device management and digital home standards initiatives, including work within the DSL Forum, UPnP Forum, Digital Living Network Alliance and Home Gateway Initiative. She currently serves as co-chair of the DSLHome Technical working group within DSL Forum and DSL Forum liaison officer to the Home Gateway Initiative.

Greg Bathrick leads PMC Sierra's Carrier Product Strategy in the areas of broadband technologies. He also serves on the DSL Forum Board of Directors and is Co-chair of the Forum's DSLHome Technical working group. He has held past product management and development roles with Texas Instruments, Nokia, Alcatel, and Lucent; as well as earned a patent for improved techniques for video deployment. He also had leadership positions in the development of broadband networking standards with IETF and OpenView Forum.

Douglas Wiemer is Director of Service Risk Management for Alcatel-Lucent, where he manages the SAFER Alcatel-Lucent Venture (ALV). Mr. Wiermer joined Alcatel-Lucent in May 2000 and has filled several R&D roles. He also served as Communications Officer for 11 years in the Canadian Forces, specializing in data networks security.

Gus is a Lead Member of Technical Staff in the AT&T IP Services Security Group. This group is part of the AT&T Chief Security Office under Ed Amoroso. Gus has responsibility for defining the security architecture and security requirements for key AT&T IP Services such as AT&T Business VoIP Services and AT&T CallVantage. He also supports security for the AT&T U-verse Service.

MR. NADALIN is the chief security architect for IBM SWG. As Distinguished Engineer, I am responsible for security infrastructure design and development across IBM, Tivoli and Lotus. I serve as the primary security liaison to Sun Microsystems' JavaSoft Division for Java security design and development collaboration. In my 20-year career with IBM, I have covered the following positions, Lead Security architect for VM/SP, and Security architect for AS/400, Security architect for OS/2. I have authored and co-authored over thirty technical journal and conference articles. I have published a book on Java Security and the Internet. I have been on the technical committee of three major scientific journals and one conference, and have reviewed extensively work published by peers in the field. I made presentations and gave invited speeches at numerous technical security conferences.