Enterprise 2.0 SUMMIT

James Governor is Principal Analyst and co-founder of RedMonk, the first analyst firm built on open source principles and license styles. He works with technology vendors and enterprises, advising on community development and platform selection strategies. Clients range from the biggest to the smallest firms- from IBM (350k employees) to Reductive Labs (4 employees).

James makes extensive use of social networks, notably Twitter, in driving and delivering his research agenda and supporting the community that makes it possible. James is also co-author of the forthcoming O’Reilly publication – Web 2.0 Architectures: What entrepreneurs and information architects need to know. James is also deeply interested in sustainability issues, and drove the formation of RedMonk’s new consulting and advisory service Greenmonk. He also acts as an advisor to Akvo.org, the open source for water knowledge.

So-called "enterprise architect" and self-appointed resident troublemaker, Mark has worked as a parasite of the financial services industry in Frankfurt and London for the last 20 years. He has spent the last year and half researching, and working with clients of all sizes on cloud computing and Enterprise 2.0. Other research interests and development experience are focused on BPM and distributed systems in enterprisey organisations, as well as systems management and performance engineering. In a previous life, Mark was a UNIX sys admin, and still has the vmstat scars to prove it.

Known for a lack of respect for the status quo, Mark is one of those people who spent their formative years being told that they have a "problem with authority figures", and he loathes bios.

Jamil Ouaj is responsible for the worldwide and cross-divisional online communication in the division Group Technology and Operation at Deutsche Bank. He is actively involved in the strategy around Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 at Deutsche Bank and leads on internal projects such as dbWiki, an online encyclopaedia and dbClub a social networking platform.

Two decades of professional experience in IT, starting with DEC, moving on to Siemens (face recognition) and now with T-Systems MMS, Dr. Frank Schönefeld is now responsible for innovation and technology development and deployment. He is one of the Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 drivers of the company.

Luis Suarez has been working for IBM for over 12 years and throughout all of that time he has specialised in the fields of Knowledge Management, Collaboration, Community Building and over the last six and a half years in Web 2.0 and Social Computing within the enterprise, i.e. Enterprise 2.0.

He is currently working for the IBM Software group as a Social Computing evangelist helping accelerate the adoption rate of social software within client facing teams as well as the rest of IBM and over the last few years he has developed a passion for this next wave of collaboration and knowledge sharing tools, known as social software, as the next wave of interactions that will rule the corporate world in the knowledge economy of the 21st century.

At the same time, and over a year ago, he started a new experiment where he has ditched corporate e-mail in favour of various social networking tools in order to hold conversations in an open, public and transparent manner. More details on this experiment can be found over at www.elsua.net or through this New York Times article he published

recently: www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/jobs/29pre.html

Thomas Vander Wal is a popular speaker, analyst, strategist, and advisor on social tagging/folksonomy, social web, social intranets/enterprise, and web applications around well structured information. He is often recognized as the person who coined the term ‘folksonomy’ in 2004, as well as some of his other terms and conceptual concepts: Elements of Social Software, Perceptions Matrix, Personal InfoCloud, Local InfoCloud, Come to Me Web, digital model of attraction etc. Thomas is principal, and senior consultant at InfoCloud Solutions, a social computing consulting firm. Thomas has been working professionally on the web since 1995 (with professional IT background beginning in 1988) and has breadth and depth across many roles and disciplines around web design, social web development & research and general web development.

Thomas is currently writing a book for O’Reilly Publishing on social bookmarking and folksonomy. He helped found the Information Architecture Institute and Boxes & Arrows web magazine.