Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

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.

Dan Stanford is a director for McKnight Associates, Inc. Stanford has implemented numerous management information systems, decision support systems and data warehouses over his 22-year career. He was Oracle's director of the Data Warehousing Center of Excellence and has worked with all the major database platforms, many of the ETL tools and most of the OLAP and query tools in the marketplace today. Stanford can be reached at dstanford@mcknight-associates.com.

Jack Jia is a founder and CEO of Baynote, Inc. Earlier in his career, Jia served as a senior vice president and chief technology officer for Interwoven Inc. and was responsible for the long-term strategic technology direction of the company. Jia is a frequent speaker at major industry and financial conferences. Jia may be reached at jack@baynote.com.

Patrick Walker is the vice president of Operations at Prime Factors, Inc. Walker has worked in software development for more than 25 years, including 12 years in data security software development at Prime Factors (www.primefactors.com). You can contact Walker via e-mail at patrick.walker@primefactors.com.

James Smith is the president and CEO of Octigon, LLC, which is a Web-based technology company focusing on applications that improve corporate communication across the Internet. Octigon�s flagship product, Octane8, is the first Web platform that enables users of all skill levels to create, deploy and maintain large, database driven Web sites, intranets, extranets and portals. Company and product information can be found at www.octigon.com. Since moving to the United States from South Africa in 1990, Smith has masterminded the startup of four technology companies all specializing in the development of integrated business systems designed to streamline business processes.

Brian Hartlen is vice president of Geac Performance Management marketing.