Milan has over 20 years' experience architecting IT solutions, defining IT strategies, and managing IT projects and teams across a broad range of industries and solution areas. For almost 10 years, his focus has been on Identity and Access Management, with an emphasis on Identity and Access Governance. At First Point Global, Milan oversees professional services and customer support teams. Previously he held Senior Architect roles at Allianz and Accenture/Andersen Consulting. Milan holds a BSc degree in Computer Science and a Master of Business & Technology degree from the Australian School of Business.

Theresa Ann Cullen, M.D., M.S., is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Director of The Office of Information Technology for the Indian Health Service (IHS), an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services as well as a practicing family physician. As CIO, Dr.Cullen oversees a diverse range of agency functions in health information systems planning, development, and management. She has overseen the successful development, implementation and deployment of multiple health information technology applications, including clinical quality reporting, population health management and bidirectional data sharing. These applications are part of RPMS, the health information system for Indian Health Service. The Clinical Reporting System won the HIMSS Davies Award for Public Health in 2005 and 2008. Prior to her current position, she served the IHS as the OIT Senior Medical Informatics Consultant from 1999-2006.

LTC(P) Nhan Do holds a Medical Doctorate from the George Washington University and is board certified in Internal Medicine. He completed his residency at Madigan Army Medical Center and later held the positions of Consult Service Chief and Assistant Clinic Chief at Madigan. After receiving his Masters of Science degree in Biomedical Informatics at Stanford University, he took a position of Chief Medical Informaticist in the Information Management Directorate at Tricare Management Activity (TMA). He served as advisor to the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Clinical and Program Policy on issues relating to the requirements, funding, and new development and prioritization of Military Health System clinical information systems. He also managed the portfolio for health data standards, VA-DOD data sharing, and personal health record. After 4 years at TMA, he became the Clinical Informatics Department Chief at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He led the department in providing services for project management, clinical system training, business process management, clinical software application development, electronic health record support, quality improvement, and research. He is now serving as the AMEDD deputy CMIO and Chief of the Business Process Management division in the Office of the Surgeon General.

Dennis Giokas is Chief Technology Officer for Canada Health Infoway. In that role he is responsible for the business and technical architecture for the iEHR, IT privacy and security, and standards for systems interoperability. Infoway is an independent, not-for-profit corporation responsible for leading and accelerating the deployment of health IT solutions in Canada. Infoway has been funded with $2.1B to invest in the iEHR, EMR deployment and innovation projects.

Stephen Hufnagel PhD, Architect and System Engineer is the Military Health System (MHS) representative to the Health and Human Services (HHS) Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP). In that capacity, he is the co-chair of the HITSP Provider Perspective Technical Committee responsible for the development of HITSP Interoperability Specifications.

Dr. Ivar Jacobson is a father of components and component architecture, use cases, the Unified Modeling Language and the Rational Unified Process. He has contributed to modern business modeling and aspect-oriented software development. However, all this is history. Lately he has been working on how to deal with methods and tools in a super-light and agile way. He has developed a practice concept that is now being adopted by both developers and tool vendors. Now he is one of the leaders of a worldwide network Semat, which has agreed to revolutionize software development.

He is also the principal author of six influential and best-selling books.

Ivar Jacobson is the chairman of Ivar Jacobson International which has subsidiaries in the US, UK, The Netherlands, China, Singapore, Sweden and Canada.

Don Jorgenson has more than twenty years of experience leading embedded system and software development projects in energy management, telecom and healthcare. Over the last nine years, his focus has been on healthcare information system interoperability, security and privacy. He is co-chair of the HL7 SOA work group and serves as lead of the HL7 Privacy, Access and Security Services (PASS) project. He has been active in IHE, HITSP and NHIN standards specification initiatives. Don holds a BS degree in Engineering Science and an MS degree in Electrical Engineering from Colorado State University.

Tony has 18 years of IT experience, of which 8 years is in the Enterprise Architecture space. He is instrumental in leading cross-agency teams in the development of the government-wide Technical and Information Reference Model, which forms the pillars of the Singapore Government Enterprise Architecture. A TOGAF certified architect, Tony has worked with a wide variety of public and private sector collaboration, including a cross sector/settings IHE XDS trial. Since moving into Healthcare space three years ago, he has been a core team member in the development of the National EHR blueprint and subsequent formulation of enterprise service bus/migration path.

Mr. Mancarella has over 10 years experience in software development, wireless communications and academia. His technical background includes extensive exposure to a variety of technologies, languages and tools in fields of software development, business process development, microelectronics and project management. Since 2003 he has been heavily involved in the development of Sparx Systems' flagship modeling tool Enterprise Architect.

Sari leads the MOH Holdings' Enterprise Architecture team, and has over 20 years experience in health information and ICT management across hospital and community based services. Sari has led a number of large scale enterprise architecture development projects, developed ICT strategies and work programs, project managed major health ICT projects in the public and private sectors in Australia and internationally. International experience includes the development of strategies and cost models for electronic health records within the NHS and business cases to support the introduction of national terminologies and unique patient identifiers in Australia. Key expertise lies in developing and understanding required strategic directions, developing pragmatic approaches to architecture development and the implementation of ICT by establishing sustainable ICT work programs and ensuring supporting capacities are established.

Dr. Mead has over 35 years of experience in digital signal processing and algorithm development, complex software systems and architectures, and healthcare and life sciences informatics. Dr. Mead has experience in clinical trials methodologies and data management systems, application of the Unified Process, and fundamental healthcare and life sciences informatics issues including terminology management, application of the Health Level Seven (HL7) Reference Information Model (RIM), use of Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) standards such as SDTM and ODM, the JANUS data model, and Oracle's HTB development framework. Dr. Mead currently is Chair of the HL7 Architecture Board and a member of the CDISC Board of Directors.

Galen Mulrooney is the Vice President of J P Systems, and serves as the Lead Information Architect for the Veterans Health Administration under the auspices of the Chief Health Informatics Office. He served as the Lead Modeler for the VHA Health Information Model (VHIM), which is the authoritative semantic standard that will be used to guide all interactions within the VHA and with external partners. Mr. Mulrooney is co-chair of the HL7 SOA Work Group, and is leading modeling efforts at ASC X12 and NCPDP. Mr. Mulrooney's company, J P Systems, is an Information Technology consulting firm specializing in healthcare informatics and enterprise architecture. J P Systems is proud to be a founding member of the Open Health Tools (OHT) foundation.

Michael Rossman's experience with software development extends from the dark ages of punch cards and paper tape to distributed solution architectures and service-oriented computing. His solutions are used internationally in innovative power quality monitoring instruments and in event-pattern detection for monitoring security threats. For the past decade his interests have focused on semi-formal development methods for clinical informatics at Kaiser Permanente. His design team has concentrated on interoperability solutions for Kaiser Pemanente Health Connect ™ including the software architecture and development for the organization's gateway to the U. S. Nationwide Health Information Network. At Kaiser his group leads the creation of infrastructure and design solutions to drive the organization's adoption of the SOA paradigm.

Ken Rubin is the Chief Healthcare Architect for the [US] Federal Healthcare Portfolio for HP Enterprise Services. Primarily focused on healthcare enterprise architecture, informatics, and electronic health record interoperability, Mr. Rubin co-chairs and founded the HL7 SOA Workgroup, co-chairs the OMG Healthcare Domain Task Force, and established the Healthcare Services Specification Project (HSSP) - a collaboration between standards bodies to produce health industry SOA standards.

Mr. Solbrig has contributed to the field of terminology services through numerous engagements both within and outside of the standards community, including ISO/IEC JTC1 SC32 WG 2, ISO TC 37, ISO TC 215, HL7, and the OMG. He has served as editor and co-author on multiple international standards and is the architect of the LexGrid data model and LexEVS services and is currently working on integrating classifications, data models and ontologies through semi-structured authoring tools and semantic wikis.

Dr. Richard Mark Soley is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Object Management Group, Inc. (OMG) and Executive Director of the SOA Consortium. As Chairman and CEO of the OMG, Dr. Soley is responsible for the vision and direction of the world's largest consortium of its type. Dr. Soley joined the nascent OMG as Technical Director in 1989, leading the development of OMG's world-leading standardization process and the original CORBA specification. In 1996, he led the effort to move into vertical market standards (starting with healthcare, finance, telecommunications and manufacturing) and modeling, leading first to the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and later the Model Driven Architecture (MDA). He also led the effort to establish the SOA Consortium in January 2007. 

A native of Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A., Dr. Soley holds the bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Ming Fai is a TOGAF-certified architect with a special passion for data integration. A key lead in the Integration and Interoperability Architecture for Singapore's National Electronic Health Record (NEHR), Ming Fai is familiar with numerous integration styles-messaging, file transfer and Web Services-and with many data types, including HL7 v2, CDAs, unstructured documents and spatial data. Applying his expertise in data integration, he has helped uncovered key implementation risks in national IT initiatives by leading integration-focused proof-of-concepts. Ming Fai has been the product manager for an Oracle healthcare interoperability solution, and has also played a key role in developing the NEHR's technical design, including its Service Catalogue.