Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Richard Brath is senior director of business development with Oculus Info where he works with Fortune 500 and software companies to design and implement information visualization solutions to solve unique, high-value business problems in areas such as performance management dashboards, risk management, network security, customer segmentation and real-time monitoring. Brath has been actively involved in the design and development of 3-D visualization and design software over the past 16 years, a frequent speaker on the subject and author of numerous articles. You can reach him at Richard.brath@oculusinfo.com.

Timothy Beard, lead software engineer for the workplace solutions group at ChoicePoint Inc.

Matthew Doyel, senior director of marketing for Reflect �- True Custom Beauty.

Karl Beach, operations director for Infinite Campus, Inc.

Nikhil Behl, vice president, strategy and planning for HPshopping.com.

Mike White, Director of Financial Planning and Analysis for UGS.

Terri Kowalchuk, director of business intelligence for T-Mobile USA.

Dr. Hinrich Schuetze is the chief scientist at Enkata Technologies, Inc. (www.enkata.com), a leading provider of industry-specific software solutions that support the discovery of breakthrough improvement opportunities in core business processes. At Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Schuetze developed a scalable approach to semantic analysis of natural language based on associational analysis. Schuetze has taught information retrieval and natural language processing at Stanford University and is also a consultant to the school's Medical Informatics group. He has published two books on natural language processing using mathematical techniques and is the author of a dozen issued and pending patents.

Grant Fritchey has 15 years if experience in IT in support and development. He is currently the lead DBA for a major insurance company.

Rex Brooks, president of Stabourne Communications Design, has pursued an extensive and wide-ranging career in advertising art direction, corporate identity and graphic design. His ongoing interests have included the applications of computer technology in his field and applying concepts from the fields of psychology, sociology and advertising in the area of semantics and semiotics for the purposes of improving communications in digital information systems. This led to his involvement with OASIS in the HumanMarkup Technical Committee helping to create the Human Markup Language. He is the cofounder of the Content Development Working Group of the Web 3D Consortium and Humanmarkup.org, Inc. and serves as vice chair of the OASIS HumanMarkup Technical Committee. He is also actively serving on the OASIS Web Services for Remote Portlets and Emergency Management Technical Committees. You can reach him at rexb@starbourne.com.