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Daniel
Abunu
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Daniel Abunu is an Enterprise Architecture Practitioner with over 15 years industry experience across Broadcast, Telecoms and Media. During this time Daniel has worked in variety of roles spanning Development to Management and Consulting.
As part of the BBC’s Enterprise Architecture Group, Daniel is responsible for providing thought Leadership in Interoperability and Integration; in addition to developing, assuring and delivering Technology Strategy and Architecture in other areas of the BBC.
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Elaine
Anderson
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Elaine Anderson is a principal consultant with Computer Sciences Corporation. Throughout her tenure with CSC and CSC Index, Elaine has focused on business process improvement and business transformation initiatives. She has significant expertise in the financial services industry, specifically in commercial banking, correspondent banking, retail lending, public finance, student loan finance and general insurance. Additionally, Ms. Anderson has worked with global and Fortune 500 companies in the pharmaceutical, petroleum, publishing, and chemical industries and Government Agencies in both the US and the UK.
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Christopher
Bradley
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Christopher Bradley has spent over 27 years in the data management field, working for several blue-chip organisations in data management strategy, MDM, metadata management, data warehouse and business intelligence implementations. In addition to his academic qualifications he holds a number of Professional ones including; BCS level 1 & 2; APM; ISEB; CDMP and Prince 2. Mr. Bradley’s post academic career started for the UK Ministry of Defence where he worked on several major naval database systems and on the development of the ICL Data Dictionary System (DDS). His career included Volvo as lead data base architect, Thorn EMI as Head of Data Management, Readers Digest Inc as European CIO, and Coopers and Lybrand’s Management Consultancy where he established and ran the international Data Management specialist practice. During this time he worked upon and led many major international assignments including data management strategies, data warehouse implementations and establishment of data governance structures. Currently, Mr. Bradley heads the Information Management practice at IPL, a UK based consultancy and has been working exclusively for the last 3 years with a British HQ’d super major energy company. Within their Enterprise Architecture group, he has established Data Modelling as a Service & has been developing a group-wide Data Management strategy to ensure that common business practices and use of master data and models are promoted throughout the group. These have involved establishing a data management framework, evangelising the message to management world wide, developing governance and new business processes for Data Management and developing and delivering training.
- TRACK 2: BPMN for Dummies
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Roger
Burlton
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Roger T Burlton is the founder of Process Renewal Group and the author of ‘Business Process Management: Profiting from Process’. He is considered an industry leader in the introduction of innovative approaches for organizational change. He is recognized internationally for his contributions in Business Process Management, Stakeholder Analysis, Strategic Architecture Alignment, Prototyping and people based Project Management Methodologies. He is regarded as a realistic practitioner, who delivers pragmatic solutions for his clients.
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Frits
Bussemaker
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Frits Bussemaker has been working in the IT industry for 20 years for companies including Logica, Cambridge Technology Partners and Tibco. In 2003 he was the founder of the BPM-Forum Netherlands (www.bpm-forum.org). A neutral expert platform for Business Process Management. He sits on the board of advice of a number of commercial and academic BPM organizations including the BPM-Forum Belgium and IPBPM Portugal. He is a regular speaker on BPM and makes regular contributions for Business Process Management Magazine and bptrends.com. He is a honorary fellow of Inholland University. He has an MSc from the University of Delft.
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Gopalakrishna
Bylahalli
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Gopalakrishna Bylahalli (Gopi) is General Manager and global head for the Integration and BPM Practice at Wipro. He has over 15 years of IT experience with over 12 years in EAI and BPM technologies. With a strong team force of more than 1200 people he has supported more than 500 Integration and BPM projects. In the early days of his career, he was involved in product development and has grown from development, presales, consulting to now managing and growing the practice at an astonishing growth rate of over 60% annually. He is one of the pioneers to have formulated the now famous “Integration Competency Center” concepts. He brings with him a rare blend of business acumen and technical expertise.
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Dee
Carri
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Dee Carri is an accomplished process and change management executive with 20+year’s business experience. Dee is passionate about quality and performance. By enabling others to realise their potential through process and quality methods she has developed a reputation for delivering real value through process-based methods, models and designs. Dee offers professional services as a consultant, facilitator, speaker and coach. Her company, Torque Management, is a strategic partner of BPTrends (www.BPTrends.com), providing their BPM Curriculum in Europe. During her career Dee has held a number of senior management positions: Gartner UK as Consulting Director, PA Consulting Group in Ireland as e-business development Director, Élan Corporation plc as Vice President Information Technology, and Member of the Board of Management of Elan Pharma Ltd. Dee established Torque Management in April 2002 to pursue her passion and interest in quality and performance.
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Prof.
Colin Coulson-Thomas
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Colin Coulson-Thomas, an active consultant and experienced chairman of award winning companies, is the author of ‘Developing Directors’, ‘The Knowledge Entrepreneur’, ‘Developing a Corporate Learning Strategy’ and ‘Winning Companies: Winning People’. He has reviewed the processes and practices of over 100 companies, helped over 100 boards to improve board and/or corporate performance, and spoken at over 200 national, international and corporate conferences in 35 countries. He is the principal author of approaches to re-engineering and transformation and editor of methodologies that have been used by over 400 major organisations and some 40,000 consultants worldwide.
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Dan
Crow
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Daniel Crow has spent most of his working life in Content Management and Business Process Management. He had previously been an BPM Consultant since 1997 where he managed, consulted and implemented many BPM projects from HR and Accounting solutions to corporate, Insurance and retail banking solutions. He has also been a best practice advisor around IBM ECM BPM Centre of Excellence.
- TRACK 3: Agile ECM - BPM For The Business
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Rob
Davis
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Rob Davis is the Principal Process Architect at British Telecom. He is tasked with forging closer integration between the IT design community and the strategic process design community. Rob works with the strategic business improvement team to create a set of process 'blueprints' that define the customer experience that should be delivered by detailed operational processes. He also works with the IT Architects to show how the blueprint processes can be implemented using a set of reusable IT components with their associated function and internal process definitions. The aim is to create a method of agile process design that can be quickly implemented using the existing BT IT infrastructure. Rob has consulted to the BT Group, major BT projects and external organisations and has been a contributor to the TeleManagement Forum.
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Doug
Drolett
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Doug Drolett is the Global Process Management Architect for the Shell Downstream One Programme, a global process and technology standardisation initiative. This role is focused on linking process performance to business strategies, advancing process maturity across the enterprise and developing the long-term process journey. Previous roles in Shell concentrated on managing projects that were aimed at developing and deploying processes to reduce costs and improve operational effectiveness. Prior to Shell, Doug worked in numerous process and ERP programmes across a variety of industries including: insurance, building materials, chemicals, healthcare, heavy manufacturing, and mining. Doug has spoken at several process programmes in the past, has a Masters degree in Industrial and Organisational Psychology and achieved numerous professional certifications throughout his career.
- KEYNOTE: The Shell Downstream Process Journey
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Ian
Gotts
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Ian Gotts is the author of ‘Common Approach, Uncommon Results: How adoption gives you the results you deserve’. The principles have been used by corporations around the world. It has been translated into Chinese and “adopted” by the Chinese Government for their e-Government programme, with over 30,000 copies sold. He is the founder and CEO of Nimbus, a 10 yr old and rapidly growing software company. Based on that experience, Ian’s second book, Why Killer Products Don’t Sell, explains how to sell innovative products to corporates and is available in September. Prior to Nimbus he spent 12 years with Accenture managing high profile programmes, including 2 years as IT Director of the DSS. He still represents Britain at an international level at sailing and was in the Olympic Squad in 1984.
- TRACK 2: Are
Your People, Process and Technology Delivering your Strategy?
The principles are covered in more detail in Ian’s book Common Approach, Uncommon Results, now in its second edition. BPM Conference Europe 2008 has agreed to make a FREE copy available to all attendees of this session.
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Paul
Harmon
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Paul Harmon is a Co-Founder, Executive Editor and Market Analyst at BPTrends, the most trusted source of information and analysis on trends, directions and best practices in business process management, (www.bptrends.com).
He is also a Co-Founder, Chief Methodologist and Principal Consultant of BPTrends Associates, a professional services company providing executive education, training and consulting services for organizations interested in understanding and implementing business process management.
Paul is the Co-Author and Editor of the BPTrends Product Reports, the most widely read reports available on BPM software products and the author of the best selling book, Business Process Change, 2nds edition: A Guide for Business Managers and BPM and Six Sigma Professionals. He is an acknowledged BPM thought leader and noted consultant, educator, author and market analyst concerned with applying new technologies and methodologies to real-world business problems. He is a widely respected keynote speaker and has developed and delivered executive seminars, workshops, briefings and keynote addresses on all aspects of BPM to conferences and major organizations throughout the world.
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Keith
Harrison-Broninski
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Keith Harrison-Broninski is a consultant, writer, researcher, and software developer who has pioneered understanding and support of collaborative human work processes across industry with his work on Human Interaction Management. Keith Harrison-Broninski is author of the landmark book "Human Interactions: The Heart And Soul Of Business Process Management" (Meghan-Kiffer Press, 2005), described by a BP Trends review as "the overarching framework for 21st century business technology," and by the BPM Group as "a must read for Process Professionals and Systems Analysts alike." He is also a contributing "thought leader" to the book "In Search Of BPM Excellence" (Meghan-Kiffer Press, 2005). He writes a regular column for bptrends.com, "Human Processes", and a popular blog for ebizq.net, “IT Directions”. Along with his research, writing and consulting work, Keith Harrison-Broninski is the CTO of Role Modellers, whose free software HumanEdj is the reference implementation of a Human Interaction Management System.
- TRACK 2: Dealing With Human-Driven Processes
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David
Hughes
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David Hughes is Vice President leading Amdocs Consulting for the UK & Ireland, with over 15 years of expertise complex transformations using business process lead methods. Having previously held positions with IBM, Cap Gemini, British Airways and BroadVision, with international experience of working in UK, US, Canada, France, Denmark and Belgium predominately in the telecommunications sector but also in consumer retail, high tech and financial services industries.
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John
Hunter
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John Hunter is Head of the IT Division of the European Court of Human rights where he is responsible for:
- devising and implementing the Court’s short and long term IT strategy with a view to improving the Court’s efficiency and optimising working conditions for judges and staff;
- ensuring the effective day-to-day running of the Court’s 900 client/server network, including maintenance and renewal of hardware and software and monitoring life cycle of systems;
- planning and advising on the Court’s IT budget and monitoring its execution;
- organising and running the IT unit within the Registry, as regards staff management and management of resources allocated to the unit;
- analysis of needs and evaluation of solutions in relation to the Court’s information, data collection and data dissemination systems;
- co-ordination and management of the Court’s IT projects;
- establishing computer training programmes for Court personnel;
- managing and monitoring maintenance contracts
- co-ordinating the integration of the Court’s information system with that of the Council of Europe’s system.
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Rick F. van der Lans is an independent consultant, author and lecturer specialising in XML, data warehousing, application integration, and information modelling. He is Managing Director of R20/Consultancy based in The Netherlands. Rick has advised many large companies worldwide on defining their data warehouse architectures. Rick van der Lans is an internationally acclaimed lecturer. For the last fifteen years, he has been presenting professionally, and has lectured in many of the European countries, South America, the USA, and in Australia. He has presented many keynote speeches at international events. He is chairman of the Database Systems Show (organised annually in The Netherlands since 1984), he is columnist for two major newspapers in the Benelux, called Computable and DataNews. Additionally, he is advisor for magazines such as Software Release Magazine and Database Magazine. His popular books, including 'Introduction to SQL' and 'The SQL Guide to Oracle', have been translated into many languages and have sold over 100,000 copies. Recently, he has published a very successful book on presentation skills.
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David
Le Brocquy
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David Le Brocquy is a Director of VISION UK, and holds a Joint Moderatorship in Economics and Administration from Trinity College, Dublin. He is also a Fellow of the Irish Computer Society, and has served on Council. He is a leading business and technology designer, using “Commitment-based Design” to deliver significant business benefit to his clients through the integrated design, build and mobilization of business propositions, processes and technology, and has a track record of creating double-digit increases in market share and / or in reduction of operating costs over the last 10 years in Ireland, the UK and the US.
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Michael
Lees
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Michael Lees is a Senior Director at Software AG responsible for the global product marketing of Software AG’s market-leading BPM product line. Prior to joining Software AG/webMethods, Michael was founder and CEO of Cerebra, Inc. a leader in metadata-driven solutions. Cerebra was acquired by webMethods in 2006.
Michael recently co-authored ‘BPM Basics for Dummies’ and maintains a busy speaking schedule across the globe. He has worked with many large corporate and federal organizations to develop strategies for agile information and process infrastructures. Before joining the enterprise software industry, Michael was a technology fund manager and is a fully qualified Chartered Accountant.
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Kathy
Long
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Kathy Long is a member of the Process Renewal Group.She has over seventeen years of experience. She has spoken at several conferences around the world, including the BPM Conference, Enterprise Architecture Conference, the Business Rules Forum and the European BPM Conference. To date she has conducted over 500 seminars and has presented to over 10,000 professionals around the globe.
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Dorthe
Mikkelsen
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Dorthe Mikkelsen works as a business architect in ATP and has been working with the change process in ATP from the start at 2004. Dorthe Mikkelsen has a background from both the business point of view as well as the IT perspective. These skills have been trained in several different companies, and she have worked her way from IT programming and analysing in 1987 to the business processes scope and business changes management since 2000.
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Colin
Mitchell
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Colin Mitchell is the Head of Business Design for Royal London Intermediary business (with a key focus on Scottish Life the pensions arm of the business). Colin has over 20 years experience in the Financial Services Industry and has held senior roles within Customer Service, Training & Development and IT. Colin has extensive experience in leading change intervention in the business deploying lean management methods and delivering a continuous improvement culture.
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John
Moe
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John Moe is currently Head of Business Consulting at Alphacourt Limited. Prior to Alphacourt has worked for Gartner, along with several other IT and business consultancies. John has been presenting on application development and business process improvement for over 20 years, most recently focusing on making BPM and SOA work for organisations..
- TRACK 2: Running Effective BPM Projects
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Willem
van Oppen
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Willem F van Oppen currently holds the position of Chief Procurement Officer of Royal KPN. In that Capacity he is also responsible for Supply Chain Optimization & Standardization. He joined KPN in 2003. Before that he spent two years at Royal Philips Electronics as Senior Vice President responsible for Procurement and Supply Chain Optimization. His roots are in the Process Industry where he spent the better part of his career (22 years). He held a host of senior Management positions with DSM, the Dutch Chemical multinational, at home and abroad (US: President North American Marketing & Sales Organization; and Japan: Executive VP and General Manager of JV manufacturing EPDM rubber for the automotive Industry.) His expertise is notably in Supply Chain Management, System Dynamics, Kaizen and Lean Procurement. Willem was educated at the Erasmus University and at Stanford University.
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Peter
O’Donoghue
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Peter O’Donoghue is a principal consultant with Computer Sciences Corporation. Peter has extensive experience leading business process reengineering and business rule programs throughout their lifecycle for high profile commercial and government clients. He is an enthusiastic speaker, and offers pragmatic insights based on real-life experience.
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Ronald
Ross
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Ronald G. Ross serves as Executive Editor of www.BRCommunity.com and its flagship publication, Business Rules Journal. He is a sought-after speaker at conferences world-wide. His gives popular public seminars through AttainingEdge (www.AttainingEdge.com) and in Europe though IRM-UK (www.IRMUK.co.uk). He is recognized internationally as the “father of business rules.” He has served as Co-Chair of the annual Business Rules Forum Conference (www.businessrulesforum.com) since 1997. He was a charter member of the Business Rules Group in the 1980s, and an editor of the two landmark BRG papers, “The Business Motivation Model: Business Governance in a Volatile World” and the “Business Rules Manifesto”. He is active in OMG standards development, with core involvement in SBVR. He is Co-Founder of Business Rule Solutions, LLC (www.BRSolutions.com). At BRS, Mr. Ross co-develops Proteus®, its landmark business requirements methodology, including the popular RuleSpeak®. Mr. Ross is the author of eight professional books. His newest are: Business Rule Concepts (2005), a 2nd edition of his popular, easy-to-read 1998 handbook, and Principles of the Business Rule Approach, Addison-Wesley (2003).
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Alec
Sharp
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Alec Sharp has managed his own consulting and education business, Clariteq Systems Consulting Ltd., for 25 years. Serving clients from Ireland to Illinois to India. Alec’s expertise includes facilitation, application requirements specification, data management, and of course, business process improvement. His popular workshops and conference presentations on these topics, conducted globally, consistently receive “excellent” ratings. Alec is the principal author of “Workflow Modeling” (Artech House, 2001) which is consistently a best-selling book in the field.
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Howard
Smith
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Howard Smith
is CTO at Computer Sciences Corporation in Europe. He led the development
of the company's BPM center of excellence, wrote the influential books
BPM - The Third Wave and IT Doesn't Matter - Business Processes Do. He
co-founded BPMI that developed standards for BPMS and BPMN and now leads
CSC's Collective Intelligence program - applying innovation methods to
solve critical business problems.
http://howardsmith.editme.com
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Dr.
Richard Soley
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Dr. Richard
Soley is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Object Management Group, Inc. (OMG®) and Executive Director of the SOA Consortium. As Chairman
and CEO of the OMG, Dr. Soley is responsible for the vision and direction
of the world's largest consortium of its type. Dr. Soley joined the nascent
OMG as Technical Director in 1989, leading the development of OMG's world-leading
standardization process and the original CORBA®
specification. In 1996, he led the effort to move into vertical market
standards (starting with healthcare, finance, telecommunications and manufacturing)
and modeling, leading first to the Unified Modeling Language (UML®) and later the
Model Driven Architecture (MDA®).
He also led the effort to establish the SOA
Consortium in January 2007.
Previously, Dr. Soley was a cofounder and former Chairman/CEO of A. I.
Architects, Inc., maker of the 386 HummingBoard and other PC and workstation
hardware and software. Prior to that, he consulted for various technology
companies and venture firms on matters pertaining to software investment
opportunities. Dr. Soley has also consulted for IBM, Motorola, PictureTel,
Texas Instruments, Gold Hill Computer and others. He began his professional
life at Honeywell Computer Systems working on the Multics operating system.
A native of Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A., Dr. Soley holds the bachelor's,
master's and doctoral degrees in Computer Science and Engineering
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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James
Thomas
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James Thomas is Director of IT, University College London Hospitals (a NHS Trust). James has been working in the NHS since 2003 for London Acute Teaching hospitals, Primary care trusts and Metal Health Trust. He is currently the Director of ICT at University College London Hospital Foundation trust, a £540M seven hospital group in central London that is one of only 5 Biomedical Research Centres. James previously worked for Oracle Corporation for 7 years as a Consulting Practice Manager and Principal Consultant, in Technical Architecture, Server Technology and Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing. During this period he worked with clients such as Michelin, Barclays, British Energy, BAA, BA, and Railtrack. He set up the UK Security professional community, bring together project expertise from sectors as diverse as banking, MOD and eVoting. Earlier in his career he worked for the French Utilities Group Veolia, working for the Water group. He started his career in BP exploration working with Digital mapping and satellite imagery analysis.
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Roger
Tregear
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Roger Tregear began his involvement with the design and management of business processes, information, technology and communications some 32 years ago. He spends his working life talking, consulting, researching, thinking and writing about analysis, improvement and management of business processes. Often working as a “thinking partner” and mentor, Roger provides business process and problem analysis consulting services. Roger has delivered BPM courses and conference presentations in Abuja, Adelaide, Auckland, Bahrain, Boston, Brisbane, Canberra, Johannesburg, London, Malta, Melbourne, Perth, Riyadh, San Diego and Sydney. He is one of a handful of people accredited as a global BPTrends Associates Instructor. Roger works with small and large organisations helping them understand the potential, and realise the practical benefits, of process thinking and management.
- WORKSHOP: Principles of Business Process Management
- WORKSHOP: Principles of Business Process Management Continued
- TRACK 1: The BPM Tipping Point
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Neil
Ward-Dutton
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Neil Ward-Dutton is a co-founder of and Research Director at Macehiter Ward-Dutton, a specialist IT advisory firm which focuses exclusively on issues concerning IT-business alignment – including IT architecture, integration, management, organisation and culture. Neil is a highly accomplished and experienced IT industry analyst and public speaker. He advises clients on technology and management issues relating to enterprise architecture, IT governance, SOA, application development, business integration, and business process management. He currently acts as the lead analyst on Macehiter Ward-Dutton’s BPM continuous advisory service. Neil has acted as an advisor to large IT user organisations – particularly in financial services, government and telecommunications sectors – and also to many of the world’s major IT vendors. Along with his co-founder Neil Macehiter and MWD’s partners at Freeform Dynamics, Neil is the author of “The Technology Garden: Cultivating Sustainable IT-Business Alignment” (Wiley, 2007). Neil is a regular speaker and chairperson at conferences throughout Europe and is regularly quoted in mainstream and IT specialist media, including CNBC, Computerwoche, The FT, The Times, Computer Weekly, Computing, and CIO Magazine. He co-authors a blog on the ebizQ portal as well as co-authoring Macehiter Ward-Dutton’s own blog.
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Peter
Willaert
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Peter Willaert is senior researcher at the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School, an internationally accredited business school, located in Belgium. He is responsible for the Business Process Management Network, a research centre which aims at further developing the strategic importance of process management. As a manager within the Management & ICT cell, he is also responsible for executive and company specific education programmes in Business/ICT alignment, Process & Project Management and Business Intelligence. Peter holds a Master degree in Applied Economics and a Master degree in Operations and Technology Management (Ghent University).