Rational Software Development Conference (RSDC) 2008

IBM Rational Software Development Conference 2008. 22-23 September 2008, Royal College of Physicians, London. Watch Grandy Booch and Erich Gamma recorded live at RSDC 2008

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Speakers

Sponsors of the conference

We are pleased to announce the presence of the following speakers and sponsors at
Rational Software Development Conference (RSDC) 2008.

Speakers

Graham Spittle - Software UKISA (UK, IE & ZA)

He was appointed to his present position in January 2008 and was previously VP, Integration Development and Director of the IBM Hursley Laboratory in the United Kingdom from 2001, prior to that Director of MQ Development and in June 2008 appointed as a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) for his services to industry on the recent Queen's Birthday Honours list.

Graham Spittle joined IBM in 1985 at the Hursley Laboratory and has held professional and managerial positions in Business Operations and Software Development. His roles have included development and strategy responsibility for major IBM products including CICS and Business Integration middleware (including the MQSeries family) as well as Business Development responsibilities. From 1995 to 1997 Graham was on international assignment in New York as a member of the Corporate Software Strategy Group. He has lectured and published on Software Contracting and Intellectual Property.

Graham received a Masters Degree in Geography from Edinburgh University and an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Southampton University. Graham is married with two children.

In addition to his IBM responsibilities, Graham holds a number of external positions:

• Chair of the UK Technology Strategy Board
• Director of The Foundation for Science and Technology
• Director Trustee of the IBM Pensions Fund
• Fellow of the British Computer Society
• Member of the Design London Advisory Group
• Member of the NHS Health Innovation Council
• Visiting Professor University of Bristol
• Visiting Professor University of Edinburgh
• Visiting Professor University of Southampton
• Member of the Court of Benefactors of Oxford University
• Member of the Informatics Advisory Board at Edinburgh University
• Member of the Council of Southampton University

Danny Sabbah - IBM Rational WW VP

As general manager of Rational Software, IBM Software Group, Danny Sabbah is leading IBM's efforts to advance the discipline of software development. Danny has mobilised more than 2,500 Rational Software employees to help organisations govern the creation of software and systems. In today's world, software development is moving to the forefront of business differentiation along with other key business processes within organisations of many sizes, across many industries, globally.

A developer at heart and in practice for almost 30 years, a founder of IBM's open source policy and Eclipse, Danny understands that development teams need to be empowered to establish and manage chains of responsibility, authority and communication. The evolving industry and open source communities have revealed a need for tools that facilitate collaborative development across locations, and Danny is leading Rational Software, in collaboration with IBM Research, in the charge to create technology that will improve collaboration and governance across the development lifecycle.

Before joining the Rational division in April 2005, Danny served as chief technology officer for IBM Software Group, overseeing strategic direction of the group's more than 22,000 developers across 57 research and development centres, and leading the evolution of IBM's middleware technology and architecture across all software brands including Rational, WebSphere, Information Management, Workplace, Portal and Collaboration Software (WPLC) and Tivoli. In the late 1990s, Danny led the team that delivered the IBM WebSphere Web Application Server, and was the vice president of development for the WebSphere brand. While in this role, Danny was responsible for the architecture and strategy for IBM's application development tools, as well as IBM's Web and business integration software.

Danny began his IBM career in 1974, focusing on telecommunications software (VTAM) in Kingston, New York. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Rochester in 1981, specialising in artificial intelligence and computer vision. After earning his degree, Danny returned to the IBM Research division, where he was responsible for artificial intelligence research, then programming languages, and finally for software technology.

Grady Booch - IBM Fellow

Grady Booch is recognised internationally for his innovative work on software architecture and software engineering. A renowned visionary, he has devoted his life's work to improving the effectiveness of software developers worldwide. Grady served as Chief Scientist of Rational Software Corporation since its founding in 1981 and continues to serve in that capacity within IBM. Grady is one of the original authors of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and was also one of the original developers of several of Rational's products. Grady is the author of six best-selling books, including the UML Users Guide and the seminal Object-Oriented Analysis with Applications. He has published several hundred articles on software engineering, including papers published in the early '80s that originated the term and practice of object-oriented design (OOD), plus papers published in the early 2000's that originated the term and practice of collaborative development environments (CDE).

Check out Grady's blog!

Erich Gamma - IBM Distinguished Engineer, Jazz Technical Lead

Erich has worked with IBM for nearly two decades and has been at the forefront of innovation in software development. Perhaps best known as the co-author of the landmark book "Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software", Erich has collaborated, with Kent Beck, to develop JUnit, the de facto standard in terms of unit testing tools for Java. He was the original lead of the Eclipse Java Development tools (JDT) and was on the Project Management Committee for the Eclipse project. Erich is currently an IBM Distinguished Engineer at the IBM Rational Zurich Research Lab in Zurich, Switzerland.

Mike O'Rourke - IBM Rational Development WW VP

Mike O'Rourke is Vice President, Rational Software Development. He is based in Lexington, Massachusetts, USA. In his current role, he is responsible for executive leadership over Rational's distributed software development business, including Architecture Management, Change and Release Management, Project and Portfolio Management and Quality Management. Previously, Mike was the Director of Rational Team Products where he was responsible for product development, product management and quality engineering. Mike came to Rational through the acquisition of BuildForge, where he was the VP of Development, IT, Product and Support. Mike has previous experience within IBM, as VP of Development at Tivoli when it was acquired in 1996.

Mike is a veteran of the software industry with over 25 years of development, customer support, and executive management experience for companies ranging from small start-ups to billion dollar industry leaders. He has a proven track record of successfully building some of the top technology companies in the software industry. Prior to BuildForge, he was Vice President of Engineering for Performance Retail, a provider of web-based merchandising and store operations software for the retail industry. Before joining PRI, Mike was VP of Customer Operations at BroadJump. He has also held key positions at Tivoli, Agillion, SupportSoft, Apollo Computer/HP, and Compugraphic Corporation/Agfa. Mike received his bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Vermont and his MBA from Boston College.

Ivar Jacobson - Chairman, Ivar Jacobson International

Dr. Ivar Jacobson is a father of components and component architecture, use cases, aspect-oriented software development, modern business engineering, the Unified Modeling Language and the Rational Unified Process.

He is the principal author of six influential and best-selling books. He is a keynote speaker at several large conferences around the world.

Mike Kuklenko - Business Executive, Rational UKISA (UK, IE & ZA)

Mike Kuklenko was appointed to his current position, Business Executive for Rational Software in the UK, Ireland and South Africa, in February 2006.

He joined IBM in 1994 as a Salesman in the Engineering Technology Solutions (ETS) Business. Since them he has held several Senior sales and Sales Management positions including Sales Manager for ETS (1997) and Sales Manager - Product Lifecycle Management Solutions (2000).

In 2001, he was appointed Business Director of Product Lifecycle Management Solutions.

Before Joining IBM, Mike worked in the IBM Business Partner community in Software Solutions sales and sales management.

Mike is an Indentured Mechanical Engineer and is qualified to Diploma level in Mechanical and Production Engineering. Before moving into the IT Industry, Mike worked as a Concept Design Engineer in both the UK and Germany.