CLOUD-II 2009 Panel Program

Joint SERVICES-II, SCC 2009, and CLOUD-II 2009 Panels

Panel 1:

SaaS: The Second Decade

17:40-19:00, 9/23/2009, Wednesday, Palm and Olive

Moderator: Ephraim Feig, Innovations to Markets, Inc., USA

Panelists:

Sridhar Iyengar, IBM T.J. Watson Research Centre, USA

Yong-woo LEE, University of Seoul, Korea

J. Leon Zhao, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

 
Abstract:
The first decade of SaaS saw some notable successes and many more failures. What can we learn from the first decade that will help make SaaS more successful in the second decade? Will Cloud Computing be a driver for SaaS? Who are the new players, and what can we expect from the usual contenders? Are there new technological advances that give SaaS added advantage? Have the economic and business conditions changed so as to give SaaS a boost?

 
About the moderator:

Dr. Ephraim Feig is President of Innovations-to-Market. He was a Senior Director of Motorola (2006-2009) and Chief Technology Officer and Chief Marketing Officer of Kintera, Inc. (2000-2006) and a researcher and R&D manager at IBM (1980-2000). He was elected IEEE Fellow for contributions to signal processing, holds 27 US patents, and has published more than 100 technical articles. Dr. Feig has served as an adjunct professor at several universities, including Columbia University, The City College of New York and New York Polytechnic Institute. He is a founding member of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Services Computing and this year's Program Chair of IEEE SCC. He serves on advisory boards at CUNY, UCSD and USD, and is on the board of directors of the San Diego Symphony Orchestra.

 
About the panelists:

Sridhar Iyengar, an IBM Distinguished Engineer, leads the technical strategy for Software Tools & Methods at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Centre. Sridhar is also a member of the IBM Software Group Architecture Board Steering Committee helping drive software tools direction across IBM. His work focuses on the use of models, metadata and architectural frameworks that can be used to create an integrated software tools platform that makes it easy for systems integrators (specifically IBM's GBS) and customers to develop, optimize and deliver custom and packaged applications across the life cycle starting with Business Architecture thru BPM and Software design and implementation. Sridhar serves on the OMG Board of Directors and is working on the development and integration of Architecture, Business and IT Modeling standards.

 

Yong-woo LEE has been a professor at the school of ECE, the University of Seoul, Korea since 1999. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Dept. of Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Before joining the University of Seoul, he was a senior research scientist at KIST (Korea Institute of Science and Technology) under the Ministry of Science and Technology, Korea, during 1982-1998. He also worked as a principal researcher at KERIS (Korea Education and Research Information Service) under the Ministry of Education, Korea, during 1998-1999 and as an international engineer at Schlumberger Technical Services Inc. during 1981. Currently he is the president of the Korean National Standard Committee for ISO JTC1/SC22, supported by the Ministry of Industry and Resource, Korea. He is also the chairman of the Academic Activity Board of Directors at KSII (Korean Society of Internet Information). He has been the member of Board of Chairs for Grid computing in Korea since 2002. He served many international conferences as the general chair. As the president of the Ubiquitous (Smart) City Consortium, he has been leading the five million U-city project funded and operated by Seoul Metropolitan Government of Korea, since 2005 and receive the Korea Best Award, from the “Korea Herald” Newspaper in 2007. His current research interests include ubiquitous computing, cloud computing, grid computing, ubiquitous-city middleware, utilities and applications and high speed Internet and applications.

 

J. Leon Zhao is Head and Chair Professor in Information Systems, City University of Hong Kong. He was Eller Professor in the Department of Management Information Systems, University of Arizona before January 2009. He also taught previously at HKUST and College of William and Mary, respectively. He holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, M.S. degree from UC Davis, and B.S. degree from Beijing Institute of Agricultural Mechanization. His research is on information technology and management, with a particular focus on workflow technology and applications in knowledge distribution, e-learning, supply chain management, organizational performance management, and services computing. Leon's research has been supported by NSF, SAP, and other sponsors. He received an IBM Faculty Award in 2005 for his work in business process management and services computing. Leon has been associate editor of Information Systems Research, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, Decision Support Systems, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management, International Journal of Web and Grid Services, and International Journal of Web Services Research and is on the editorial board of Journal of Database Management. He has co-edited nine special issues in various IS journals. Leon has been chair or program chair for numerous conferences. He has also served on many program committees in international conferences.

Panel 2

Communication Cloud and Software Cloud: Technical Challenges and Business Implications

17:40-19:00, 9/24/2009, Thursday, Palm and Olive

Moderator: Wu Chou, Director, IEEE Fellow, Avaya Labs Research, USA

Panelists:

C.D. Anant, Wipro, India

Shankar Kalyana, IBM, India

Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA

 
Abstract:

Communication cloud is a new type of cloud computing paradigm to address real-time and near real-time communication needs that encompass various aspects of unified communication and web centric intelligent communication endpoints. One important development of communication cloud is Google’s Wave initiative. It offers many critical features in unified communication, e.g. social networking, federation, tagging, collaboration, etc., from a cloud computing and HTML5 based browser environment.

On the other hand, software cloud offers software-as-a-service (SaaS) that encompasses almost every aspect of software applications. The fast evolution of communication cloud and software cloud leads to various new technical challenges and the possibility of combining both computing clouds for better services.

 In this panel session, we invite industry technology experts and researchers to discuss technical challenges and business implications of communication cloud and software cloud to support business, personal, and enterprise applications in services computing. 

About the moderator:

Wu Chou is an IEEE Fellow, Director and Avaya Labs Fellow of Avaya Labs Research. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, USA. He is a leading expert working in the field of communication, computing and signal processing for over 20 years. He and his group develop advanced technologies in cloud and high availability computing, Web services, communication, software-as-a-service (SaaS), and services computing. He is a member of IEEE Computer Society, Signal Processing Society, and Communication Society. He served at numerous technical committees, industry standards bodies, and transaction/journal editorial boards. He has 22 granted US and International patents, authored or co-authored over 100 research paper publications.

About the panelists:

 
C.D. Anant is the Chief Technologist for Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT) group of Wipro Ltd - IT Service business. He has over 20 years of Embedded and Computing industry experience. He has been involved in managing development for Parallel Processing servers, WAN and LAN Communication products, Wireless Telco infrastructure products, Enterprise networking products, Data Centre storage network and more.

Shankar Kalyana is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and CTO for Global Business Services in India. In his current role, Shankar is responsible for advising IBM’s clients on the effective use of Technology to address complex business challenges, and aligning the internal organizational technology capability to enable IBM deliver to our Client needs effectively. He is equally responsible for driving the Technical Vitality programs in IBM India and enabling our professionals to pursue a fruitful technical career path. Shankar’s 24-year experience in IT, the last 9 in IBM, spans all phases of the software lifecycle and multiple customers in various roles.  He has architected, designed, developed, and implemented both custom and packaged software solutions, across various environments and platforms.  In his role as a technical advisor, he has counseled and assisted Senior Client Executives with I/T strategy and Enterprise Architecture. Shankar is the recipient of multiple awards, including two Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards in IBM. He holds a Master's degree in Information Science from The Pennsylvania State University.

 
Stephen S. Yau is the director of Information Assurance Center and a professor of computer science and engineering at Arizona State University.  His current research interests include service-based systems, trustworthy computing, software engineering and social computing. He has received many awards and recognition for his accomplishments, including the Tsutomu Kanai Award and Richard E. Merwin Award of the IEEE Computer Society, the IEEE Centennial and Third Millennium Medals, and the Outstanding Contributions Award of the Chinese Computer Federation. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He served as the president of IEEE Computer Society and the editor-in-chief of IEEE Computer magazine. He received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois, Urbana in electrical engineering.

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