Date:  October 20, 2010
Topic: What's New with WebSphere Application Infrastructure Products?
Time: 11:00 AM EDT

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On October 12th, IBM WebSphere is announcing new additions to its ever expanding product portfolio - products that can help your business run faster, more cost effectively and more efficiently.  Join this webcast to hear our WebSphere Technical Architects discuss how these new product announcements can enhance your current WebSphere investment.  You'll hear about new application infrastructure products including: WebSphere Application Server Migration Toolkit, WebSphere Application Server v7 Feature Pack for Modern Batch, and a sneak preview into WebSphere Application Server v8 beta!

Meet the Presenters

Sridhar Sudarsan is the Chief Architect for Batch processing Strategy in IBM.  He champions and leads the enterprise batch modernization and modern bulk Processing strategy in IBM and for customers.  In this role, Sridhar has architectural responsibility across products and platforms to deliver batch capability.  He has worked with numerous technical and business audiences to re-energize batch as a first class workload to achieve processing efficiency. Sridhar created the batch programming model in J2EE and IBM WebSphere Compute Grid - IBM's batch processing platform.

Savio Rodrigues is a product manager for WebSphere Application Server, responsible for V.next of WebSphere Application Server. He is also responsible for the WebSphere Application Server V7 Feature Pack for Communications Enabled Applications (CEA).  He has over a decade of experience in the software industry, with roles in market intelligence, strategy and product management.  Savio writes about open source for InfoWorld's Open Sources blog. 

Savio holds a Masters of Business Administration from the Rotman School of Management and a Masters of Industrial Engineering from the University of Toronto.

Dave Gilgen is a Senior Engineer responsible for the development the WebSphere Application Migration Toolkit.  He has been involved in the toolkit since the initial requirements gathering phase through the development of all 4 releases.  His previous responsibilities included development of the WebSphere Hypervisor Edition, WebSphere secure proxy server, and various core component of the WebSphere Application Server.

Date:  October 27, 2010
Topic: What's New with WebSphere BPM?
Time:  11:00 AM EDT

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A successful roadmap to agility leverages Business Process Management, business rules, and business events capabilities to optimize the processes and decisions across the dynamic business network.  The expanding WebSphere BPM portfolio now encompasses WebSphere Lombardi Edition, WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere ILOG JRules, WebSphere Business Monitor, SOA, Cloud, DataPower SOA Appliances, and more, all intended to accelerate your business’s process improvements.  Listen to one of the leading WebSphere architects describe the technical nuances of "what's new" in the product offerings that are at the heart of your business.

Meet the Presenter

Eric Herness is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and is the Chief Architect for Business Process Management (BPM) products in the AIM Division of the Software Group at IBM. His responsibilities include architecture for WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere Integration Developer, WebSphere Business Modeler, WebSphere Business Monitor, WebSphere Business Services Fabric, WebSphere Industry Content Packs and WebSphere Dynamic Process Edition.

Eric is a senior member of the WebSphere Foundation Architecture Board and a member of the Software Group Architecture Board Steering Committee.

Date:  November 3, 2010
Topic: What's New with WebSphere Connectivity and Integration?
Time:  11:00 AM EDT

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With recent acquisitions including Cast Iron and Sterling Commerce, it's an exciting time for IBM WebSphere Connectivity and Integration.  In today’s increasingly complex business environment, organizations need to have seamless integration and connection within the boundaries of the organization and across trading networks.
 
These acquisitions and new WebSphere offerings like WebSphere MQ Advanced Message Security, MQ Telemetry, and WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus Registry Edition, WebSphere Message Broker Hypervisor Edition, as well as enhancements to core products like WebSphere MQ LLM, WSRR Service Federation Management and Message Broker version 7.0 provide the agility that today's dynamic business networks require.  Come join Sid Bhatia, Program Director for WebSphere Connectivity Product Management, as he expounds upon these exciting new announcements!

Meet the Presenter

Sid Bhatia is the Program Director of Product Management for the WebSphere Connectivity products at IBM. He works at the Bay Area Lab in California.  In his prior role, Sid worked in the financial services industry, leading a messaging architecture and engineering organization for a large brokerage firm. He has over 20 years experience in the software engineering and consulting field.

Sid has an Executive MBA and a Master's in Software Engineering.