Robert Cooney is President of eVision Partners, Inc. Robert has 32 years of management consulting experience, including 22 years of experience working with public sector organizations. Over the last six years, Robert has managed the development of strategic enterprise architecture designs for three state departments of transportation. Robert has a Bachelor of Arts in Finance from Ball State University and a Master of Business Administration from Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management. He is a certified Project Management Professional and is a Doctor of Business Administration candidate at the University of North Carolina Charlotte.

Tom Fishburne started drawing cartoons on the backs of business cases as a student at Harvard Business School. From a cartoon emailed to coworkers in 2002, Tom’s Marketoonist series has grown by word of mouth to reach a few hundred thousand readers every week and his cartoons have been featured by the Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, and the New York Times.

He is the founder of Marketoonist, a content marketing agency focused on the unique medium of cartoons. He draws literally and figuratively from 20 years in the marketing trenches in the US and Europe, including roles at HotelTonight, Method, General Mills, and Nestle. Tom is the author of “Your Ad Ignored Here: Cartoons from 15 Years of Marketing, Business, and Doodling in Meetings.”

Kary Främling is a Professor in Computer Science at Aalto University in Finland, as well as Professor in Data Science at Umeå University in Sweden. He is also a Founder and CEO of the company ControlThings that develops commercial Internet of Things (IoT) solutions. Kary is the current Chair of the IoT Work Group of The Open Group, as well as the main contributor to the IoT standards Open Messaging Interface (O-MI) and Open Data Format (O-DF), published by The Open Group in October 2014.

Kary is an author of over 100 articles published in scientific journals and conferences, including the (presumably) first article that mentions the IoT in 2002. That article presented a middleware implementation based on a "Digital Twin" architecture that was used in several industrial systems. Since then, Kary has been the main architect of IoT systems in various domains, such as buildings, HVAC equipment, vehicles, supply chain management etc. He has recently focused on Artificial Intelligence and Machines, which have been cornerstone technologies in his research since the 1990's.

Larry Liu is a passionate technical advisor with 32 years of IT consulting experience for digital transformation initiatives.

I am a collaborative and innovative executive known for building, and leading high-performance team. I work with client C-Suite and senior executives on digital transformation initiatives to deliver high satisfied, on time and on budget projects.

I have developed "best in breed" talent for the IBM Cognitive Process Automation practice focused on strategic goals, setting and planning for a cohesive go-to-market strategy, selling and building disruptive and innovative market-ready solutions to enable clients for a successful engagement.

I am consistently achieving my business targets. I have been awarded three times for the IBM Hundred Percent Club and numerous Services Excellence Awards.

I specialize in the following domain:

• Implement Robotic Process Automation, Business Process Management and Artificial Intelligence Solution
• Utilize Cloud Computing for Integration Platform as a Service (IPaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS)
• Design ETL, Data Lake, Data Warehouse and Advanced Analytics solution
• Conduct System and Application Integration, API and Microservices development
• Perform Enterprise Architecture Design and Implementation
• Deep industry knowledge and experience in Electronics industry,
• Provide strong executive leadership in the planning, executing and delivering global initiatives across domains and services lines.
• Have great communication and interpersonal skills to motivate others in achieving goals
• Specialize in agile development and design thinking using IBM Garage methodology
• Certified Distinguished Chief Architect by OpenGroup and a Certified Project Management Professional by the Project Management Institute

I received an MBA degree in Management Information Systems from the University of Dallas. I have a BS degree in Accounting from the Tamkang University. I am a frequent Keynote Speaker at the Global Conferences such as IEEE, Open Group and IBM Think Events. I also have many publications for IBM white paper and social media. I am an Adjunct Professor teaching at the University of Maryland University College.

Tony Mauro is Director of Consulting Services & Implementation, Enterprise Modeling, Management and Governance Solutions for erwin, Inc. He is an expert in enterprise architecture and systems/software engineering. Tony began his career working for Lockheed Martin Aeronautics and then Northrop Grumman on advanced technology development activities spanning multiple levels of system and software engineering. After a decade in the aeronautics industry, he moved to enterprise architecture and business process modeling company Casewise, which was acquired by erwin, where he served as a senior solution architect and pre-sales engineering leader for more than four years, working across numerous industries to help companies implement their transformation strategies. When he’s not helping erwin customers build data-driven enterprises, he enjoys spending time with his family, traveling and home-remodeling projects.

Philip Neri is currently Marketing and Communications Manager for Energistics. He brings over 35 years of global geoscience, data management and marketing experience working for both energy companies and software vendors. He holds a B.Sc. in Geology and an M.Sc. in Geophysics and Computer Science, has worked for oil majors Shell and Total, service companies Schlumberger and CGG, software developers such as Paradigm and Ikon Science, as well as technology start-ups in Europe and the USA, in diverse fields such as Machine Learning, marine acquisition technology and software engineering; he is a member of SEG and EAGE.

Maureen Fitzgerald Norton, MBA, JD is co-author of “Analytics Across the Enterprise – How IBM Realizes Business Value from Big Data & Analytics” and a Distinguished Market Intelligence Professional in the Chief Analytics Office at IBM. Currently, she is the Global Data Scientist Profession Lead helping to grow the skills and expertise of Data Scientists. Previously, she led initiatives to bring more science to decision making. Maureen pioneered the development of an outcome-focused communications strategy to drive the culture change needed for analytics adoption. Maureen created analytics case studies and innovative learning exercises and taught big data and analytics workshops for MBA students in Europe, the Middle East and the US. Previously Maureen led analytic project teams in public safety, global social services, commerce, and merchandising, specializing in cost/benefit analysis and return on investment of analytic. She is also a dual citizen of the US and Ireland.

Steve Nunn is President and CEO of The Open Group – a global consortium that enables the achievement of business objectives through IT standards. He is also President of the Association of Enterprise Architects (AEA).

Steve joined The Open Group in 1993, spending the majority of his time as Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel. He was also CEO of the AEA from 2010 until 2015.

Steve is a lawyer by training, has an L.L.B. (Hons) in Law with French and retains a current legal practicing certificate. Having spent most of his life in the UK, Steve has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2007. He enjoys spending time with his family, walking, playing golf, 80’s music, and is a lifelong West Ham United fan.

Pat O'Sullivan is the Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) responsible for the evolution and development of the IBM Industry Models. Pat is responsible for various aspects of Industry Models integration with technology such as Artificial Intelligence, Hybrid Cloud, Data Warehouses and Data Lakes, ETL tools and Master Data Management. More recently Pat has been leading an initiative to redesign the current Industry Models to better exploit Ontology and Semantic Modelling patterns to address AI/ML related use cases across the Data Lake infrastructure. Previously Pat was involved for many years in the Banking Models development and was one of the original team that created the Banking Data Warehouse – a suite of Data Warehouse models that have been licenced by over 400 Financial Institutions worldwide. Pat has 25 years DW/Industry Models experience and holds a BSc in Computer Applications from Cork Institute of Technology.

Ross Philo is CEO of Energistics Consortium. He received first class honors with a B.Sc. (Eng.) from Imperial College (U.K.). He has over 35 years of experience in the oil and gas industry working for Maersk Oil, Halliburton and Schlumberger among others. He has held numerous executive management positions and technology leadership roles, working in over 30 countries worldwide. Currently he leads strategic planning, operations management and strategic alliances, building an inclusive global user community and facilitating a collaborative standards development environment. Ross is a member of the Energistics Board of Directors and a member of the Standards Leadership Council.

Ron Schuldt has been involved with The Open Group’s Universal Data Element Framework (UDEF) standard since its inception. The UDEF is the forerunner to the recently updated O-DEF standard. He has over twenty-eight years experience as a systems engineer for Lockheed Martin working systems design and integration. He has been involved in multiple data interchange standards activities and is recognised as an expert on data standards. He is Chairman of The Open Group Semantic Interoperability Work Group. Currently, he is Manager of Data-Harmonizing, LLC, providing data integration training and consulting services.

Mr. Szakal is Vice President and Chief Technology Officer IBM U.S. Federal.
He is responsible for IBM’s industry solution technology strategy in support of the U.S. Federal customer. Mr. Szakal’s team provides deep industry and technical expertise necessary to address complex government challenges such as cybersecurity and cloud computing. Mr. Szakal represents the IBM Software Group on the Board of Directors of The Open Group and AFEI. He currently holds the Vice Chair of the Trusted Technology Forum and Chairs the Open Certified Architect (Open CA) standard.

Mr. Szakal is Vice President and Chief Technology Officer IBM U.S. Federal. He is responsible for IBM’s industry solution technology strategy in support of the U.S. Federal customer. Mr. Szakal was appointed IBM Distinguished Engineer.

Teresa MacArthur has been a recognized assessor for the O-TTPS since 2013. She currently manages the O-TTPS Assessment program at Intertek EWA-Canada, and has been the lead assessor for a number of the Third-Party Assessed certifications listed on the O-TTPS Certification Register. She currently resides in Stockholm, Sweden where she is a Common Criteria Lab Manager at Intertek.