Anne Thomas Manes
Vice President & Research Director Application Platform Strategies, Burton Group
Anne Thomas Manes is the Vice President and research director for Burton Group's Application Platform Strategies service. She covers service-oriented architecture (SOA), web services, XML, governance, Java, application servers, superplatforms, and application security. Prior to joining Burton Group, Anne was former chief technology officer at Systinet, a SOA governance vendor (now part of HP) and director of market innovation in Sun Microsystems's software group. With 28 years of experience, Anne was named one of the 50 most powerful people in networking 2002 by Network World and among the "Power 100 IT Leaders," by Enterprise Systems Journal. Anne has authored "Web Services: A Manager's Guide," published by Addison-Wesley, 2003 and participated in Web services standards development efforts at W3C, OASIS, WS-I, and JCP.

David P Butler
Worldwide SOA Director and Chief Evangelist, HP
As the Chief SOA Evangelist, David is a leading contributor to the development and execution of HP's SOA strategy, positioning, and customer advocacy, working with product and marketing teams across HP Software, Services, and related TSG groups. David also chairs the SOA Customer Advisory Board, which supports the development of our SOA products. David was the VP of Marketing and SOA Evangelist for Systinet, where he established the product and marketing vision for Systinet's SOA Governance and Lifecycle Management solutions. David has more than 20 years' experience driving product strategy for enterprise software and systems companies such as Spotfire, Portera Systems, Netscape, NeXT Software, Cadre Technologies, and Data General. His experience spans the development and marketing of business intelligence analytic applications, web-hosted enterprise applications, industry-leading web application servers and application development tools, and distributed OLTP systems. David has a B.S. in computer science and marketing from Boston College.