Gene Phifer is a vice president, distinguished analyst in Gartner Research. Mr. Phifer covers a broad set of Internet- and e-business-related areas, including intranets, extranets, e-business infrastructures, e-business transformation and portals, as well as emerging trends like Smart Enterprise Suites, Application Platform Suites, Business Process Fusion and the Business Process Platform. Mr. Phifer is a 28-year IT veteran. Prior to joining Gartner, he held various management and executive roles in Fortune 100 IT departments, most notably Frito-Lay and Texas Instruments.

As CTO for Business Integration Platforms at Sun, Ross Altman is focused on the direction, development and communication of Sun’s Business Integration Division’s vision and strategy. Ross came to Sun through Sun's acquisition of SeeBeyond, the application integration and SOA development tools vendor. Prior to SeeBeyond, Ross was Director of Integration Technologies at EDS. Before that, Altman was a Vice President and Research Director with Gartner, where he focused on integration middleware. Altman has authored over 150 articles on application development and integration, and has delivered more than 80 presentations on these subjects at industry conferences and seminars.

James Taylor is vice president of product marketing for Fair Isaac’s Enterprise Decision Management Technologies where he is responsible for working with clients to identify and bring to market advanced decision management solutions that will better solve their business needs. Taylor is widely considered as one of the leading experts and visionaries in enterprise decision management, frequently speaks on the subject at industry events and authors a popular blog at http://edmblog.fairisaac.com. Taylor regularly contributes to decision management journals and IT publications and is featured by B-eye Networks and ebizQ with exclusive blogs.