Featured Speakers

General Manager, IBM Information Management Software, IBM Software Group

Biography: Ambuj Goyal has been General Manager of Information Management Software at IBM since August 2005. There he has transformed and grown the division with a focus on Information on Demand. With key acquisitions such as FileNet and Cognos, the release of the Information Server to deliver the Trusted Information, customers are able to develop an Information Agenda enabling them to evolve from Business Automation to Business Optimisation.

His previous roles include General Manager, Workplace, Portal, and Collaboration Software (WPLC); General Manager, Solutions and Strategy, IBM Software Group; Chief Technology Officer, Application & Integration Middleware Division and executive roles within T.J. Watson Research Center, where he was responsible for setting IBM's long-term research direction in computer sciences, as well as ensuring that the best emerging technologies contribute to IBM's services offerings and software products.

Dr. Goyal is the author of over 25 articles in various fields and he has received five Outstanding Innovation awards from IBM for his work. He was elected an IEEE Fellow for his contributions to the theory and practice of highly dependable systems and elected an ACM Fellow in recognition of outstanding technical and professional achievements in the field of information technology.

General Session Topic: In a world with nearly a billion electronic components per human, organisations across the planet are quickly realising that information is critical to becoming smart, paving the way for business innovation. Business leaders and technologists are collaborating daily on information-intensive projects to optimise their business and gain competitive advantage. And while each project is highly successful in its own right, organisations are asking for more. You need to move fast and be flexible. You need to perform. You need a new intelligence for critical projects - such as understanding customer profitability or streamlining compliance processes or optimising a supply chain, dynamically.

To meet this challenge, leading organisations are adopting an information agenda. An information agenda approach helps you quickly transform information into a trusted, strategic, asset that can be leveraged across applications, processes and decisions for sustained competitive advantage.

Ambuj Goyal will outline investments and customer experiences that uniquely position IBM to help organisations accelerate their information agendas.

Entrepreneur, Thought-Leader and Author of "The Medici Effect"
The intersection of business and innovation

Biography: Frans Johansson is an entrepreneur and thought-leader. He is also a consultant and the managing director for a hedge fund. Frans previously co-founded and managed two companies, a Boston-based software company and a medical device company operating out of Baltimore, Maryland and Stockholm, Sweden.

Raised in Sweden by his African- American and Cherokee mother and Swedish father, Frans earned an MBA at Harvard Business School and a BS in environmental science at Brown University.

Frans is a successful author and has written on a variety of topics, from business management to healthcare to sport fishing to how to save our oceans. His bestselling book, The Medici Effect, has been translated into 17 languages and was named One of the Ten Best Business Books of 2004 by Amazon.com.

Frans will be signing copies of The Medici Effect on Thursday, 4 June during the Coffee Break at 15.45 – 16.15 in the Marketplace

General Session Topic: Individuals, teams and organisations can create an explosion of remarkable ideas at the intersection of different fields, cultures and industries.

In Frans Johansson's best selling book “The Medici Effect”, he refers to the multitude of new ideas and relates this to the remarkable burst of creativity enabled by the Medici banking family in Renaissance Italy.
Frans will reveal how we can find intersections in our own lives and turn the ideas we find there into groundbreaking innovations. He will explain that three driving forces - the movement of people, the convergence of scientific disciplines, and the leap in computational power - are increasing the number and types of intersections we can access and that IBM Information On Demand represents that leap in computational power.

Closing Panel Session: Frans Johansson will chair an exciting closing panel discussion where he will be joined by:

• William Pulleybank, Vice President of the Centre for Business Optimisation for IBM Business Consulting Services
• Dr. Peter Wagett, SWG Strategy Emerging Technology Programme Lead, Global Technology Outlook
• Dr. Arvind Krishna, IBM Data Management Vice President
• Top Analyst
• Leading EMEA Customer

Frans will challenge them on the evolutionary and future technologies that Information On Demand is going to take us to. This will be paralleled by how customers are seeing the evolution, where market demands are headed for and how IBM is responding to them.

Country General Manager, IBM Germany

Biography: Martin Jetter has been General Manager of IBM Germany since November 2006. Prior to this position, he was head of IBM Global Business Services for Northeastern Europe.

Mr. Jetter joined IBM in 1986 and he has held a variety of positions within the company, including Managing Director for IBM's customer Siemens, General Manager for Product Lifecycle Management in the USA, and Executive Assistant to IBM Chairman and CEO Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

General Session Topic: Organisations want more answers to discover and immediately address emerging business opportunities and determine the best strategy to react to the currently changing economic climate. Information is no longer just an important element it is a key differentiator. Embark on the Information On Demand journey to discover new ways to optimise your business using an Information Agenda strategy. In addition, you will be able to witness ‘Information On Demand At Work’ as Martin hosts a lively discussion between a customer and a senior Gartner analyst.

General Manager IBM Global Business Services, Northeast Europe

Biography: Based in London, Bridget is responsible for strategy execution and business results of the business consulting, systems integration and application services business across more than 50 countries in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. In addition to her European responsibilities, Bridget is the Executive Sponsor of 'Branchless Banking for the Masses', one of IBM's key innovation initiatives focusing on microfinance.

Bridget is a member of the IBM Chairman's Strategy Team, which makes strategic decisions for IBM and a member of IBM's Performance Team of senior executive leaders.

Before taking on her current role in 2006, Bridget was Global Managing Partner of the Financial Services Sector for IBM's Business Consulting Services, based in New York. She led a practice consisting of business and technology advisory work, systems integration, application development, and business process outsourcing across the Insurance, Financial Markets, and Banking Industries. Bridget has worked with clients that include JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse First Boston, and Morgan Stanley. In 2005, Bridget was named by Euromoney as one of the one hundred most influential people in Finance. In addition, she was named in Consulting Magazine's Top 25 Consultants for 2006.

Bridget joined IBM in April 2004 from Deloitte Consulting, where she led Financial Services, and has 20 years of consulting experience. Bridget has a Master of Commerce degree from the University of South Africa and Bachelors and Honours degrees in Commerce from the University of Witwatersrand. Bridget is a qualified Psychologist and began her career in research at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research.

General Session Topic: Almost anything can become digitally aware and interconnected. The Smart Planet initiative of IBM brings you a new level of smart to how the world works - how every person, business, organisation, government and man-made system interacts, where each interaction represents a chance to do things better, more efficiently and productively.

General Manager, Business Intelligence and Performance Management, IBM Software Group

Biography: As a veteran of the business intelligence and performance management industries, Rob is responsible for the strategic vision, direction and day-to-day operations of the Business Intelligence and Performance Management segment within the Information Management division of IBM's software group. He is a principal architect and evangelist of the company's vision for performance management, and is a driving force behind the implementation of a performance management strategy at IBM.

Rob joined Cognos, which was acquired by IBM in January of 2008, in 1984. During his tenure he served in numerous senior executive positions, including chief executive officer, chief operating officer, chief corporate officer, chief financial officer, senior vice president of research and development, and senior vice president of global customer services.

His senior leadership contributed to the growth of Cognos revenue by more than 355% and the transformation of Cognos from a specialised tools provider into a world-leading business intelligence and performance management company. This leadership continues at IBM as he directs the BI and Performance Management segment in delivering solutions that let corporations improve and manage business performance by enabling better decision-making across all of the key steps in the management cycle - from planning and budgeting, to measuring and monitoring, to reporting and analysis of performance.

Featured Keynote Presentation: IBM Cognos General Manager Rob Ashe will discuss how IBM is helping organisations of all sizes optimise business performance in the current economic environment and deliver better business results

Vice President, Sales Worldwide IBM Enterprise Content Management, IBM Software Group

Biography: Fred Monjazeb serves as Vice President of worldwide sales for IBM’s Enterprise Content Management (ECM) business group, where he is the senior field executive charged with promoting business growth through a strong customer-centric strategy. He is responsible for sales for the entire IBM ECM portfolio of products through both direct and indirect channels.

Prior to assuming his current position in 2008, Mr. Monjazeb served as the segment’s vice president of North American ECM sales. He joined IBM in 2006 as part of its acquisition of FileNet Corp., a leading provider of ECM solutions. At FileNet for nearly a decade, he held a number of increasingly senior positions. His last role was as vice president of sales, with responsibility for global accounts and managing a sales organisation with annual revenues in excess of $130 million.

Featured Keynote Presentation: Fred Monjazeb will discuss how IBM is helping organisations optimise content-based operational and compliance processes to deliver higher employee productivity and cost savings with reduced environmental impact

Vice President, Enterprise Information Management Products, IBM Software Group

Biography: Arvind Krishna is the vice president for Enterprise Information Management Products and has responsibility for worldwide development for Information Management Software within IBM Software Group. Arvind defines the business & technical strategy, and is responsible for the development, delivery, sales, and ecosystem of the data management segment, a multibillion dollar market for IBM. Previously, Arvind was the vice president for technical and business strategy for IBM Software Group. In that role, he was responsible for setting the platform technical strategy, industry alliances, and defining the key growth opportunities for IBM software. Arvind has been in many other key roles within both IBM Software and IBM Research: defining and leading the security software segment within Tivoli Software, leading Internet infrastructure research at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center, and ensuring that the best emerging technologies contribute to IBM's software products.

Arvind is a member of IBM’s Technology Team, a selected set of senior technical executives who advise IBM’s Chairman on strategic technology, and IBM’s Integration and Values team (I&VT). I&VT members are the key executive leadership of IBM, selected by the Chairman to work as a team to integrate IBM based on our values. He has been active on the editorial boards and program committees of several IEEE and ACM technical journals and conferences. He has a Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, both degrees in electrical and computer engineering.

Featured Keynote Presentation: IBM Data Management General Manager Arvind Krishna will discuss how IBM is helping organisations lower the cost of managing data whilst addressing the explosive growth of data together with privacy, security and regulatory compliance issues

Vice President, Product Management, InfoSphere, IBM Software Group

Biography: Paraic Sweeney leads the product management team responsible for product strategy and roadmap for IBM's InfoSphere business. This portfolio features industry models, products for data quality, ETL and CDC based integration and Master Data Management. The portfolio includes technologies acquired over the last four years from software innovators including Ascential, DWL, DataMirror, SRD, Language Analytics, Trigo and Unicorn.

Paraic joined IBM in 1980 and has held a variety of international positions, which include managing product development, financial planning, product marketing, and consulting in Dublin Ireland, Paris France, and Somers, New York.

Prior to this role in the Information Management division he was responsible for marketing IBM's portfolio of industry integration solutions that exploit IBM's market leading middleware infrastructure and open industry standards leadership. In this role he had marketing responsibility for CrossWorlds Software and Holosofx technologies, key elements of the WebSphere Integration portfolio. In addition, he has worked in a range leadership roles with IBM's Software Group, including VP Marketing, Internet Technologies, where he launched the WebSphere brand, and prior to that as Director of Electronic Marketing and Commerce, IBM Software Group, where he was responsible for developing and implementing a range of electronic marketing, sales and distribution programs.

Featured Keynote Presentation: Paraic Sweeney will discuss how IBM is helping organisations establish, govern and deliver trusted information to drive greater operational efficiency and gain competitive advantage or to discover new business opportunities and higher revenue

Vice President, Information Management Solutions & InfoSphere Development, IBM Software Group

Biography: In this role, Harish Grama oversees worldwide development of IBM’s newly announced InfoSphere product portfolio that is a multi hundred million dollar a year investment.

In his 20 years as an IT professional, Harish has held a variety of technical and management positions. Prior to assuming his current role, he led the India Software Lab which develops middleware products for all 5 brands of Software Group. Over the years, Harish has been involved in defining and bringing key IBM software technologies to the market. He pioneered Workplace Client Technology, IBM’s client offering for a rich-desktop experience for large enterprises as well as Small and Medium businesses, and successfully launched the first IBM Workplace branded offering, Workplace Mail in the market in 2004.

Earlier, he spearheaded the development of IBM WebSphere Application Server – a critical offering for the IBM Software Strategy. The WebSphere Application Server went on to become the market leader in application integration area and helped establish WebSphere as the flagship brand for IBM middleware in the marketplace.

Harish is a technologist at heart and his early work on operating systems such as the Mach Kernel and the Unix Server on the Mach Kernel resulted in five U.S. Patents.

Featured Keynote Presentation:

• IOD Agenda Builder (delegates)
• IOD Agenda Builder Demo
• Information Management 2010 Innovation Awards
• Social Media and IOD EMEA
• Discover the Go Beyond Magazine
• Event Photos
• Review our Press Releases (US)
• Check our IOD EMEA- Event Blog
• Catch up on our Twitter stream paper
• Blog from Adam Gartenberg about day one
• Blog from Adam Gartenberg about the creation of the opening video
• Find out about IOD Global Conference (US)