Speakers

Speakers

Afkham Azeez
Afkham Azeez
Director – Architecture, WSO2

Afkham’s key role is to drive efforts focused on the development and enhancement of WSO2 middleware.

He is an elected member of the Apache Software Foundation and a Project Management Committee member and a long-time committer for a number of projects. He specializes in distributed computing, highly available and scalable applications, Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE) technologies, and service-oriented architecture.

Session
Reference Architecture for IOT

Tutorial
IoT & Mobility with WSO2 EMM

Anjana Fernando
Anjana Fernando
Senior Technical Lead, WSO2

Anjana is a technical lead who focuses on the development of the WSO2 Data Services Server. He has carried out several onsite customer engagements, primarily focused on integration enabled by the WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus.

He is a contributor to Apache Axis2, and participated in the Google Summer of Code 2006 where we worked on the Apache Mirae project in implementing a multimedia messaging service transport. He also has experience in mobile computing, service-oriented architecture for the European Union’s Information Society Technologies, and Java enterprise Web development.

Session
Data Services: Getting Your Data into APIs

Tutorial
Big Data Analytics

Anthony Carlson
Anthony Carlson
Mobile Developer, Farm Credit Services Of America

Anthony Carlson has served in this technical role for 14 year career. His primary platform has been programming Microsoft Technologies. He has helped champion the use of open source products to be used in the enterprise of Farm Credit Services of America. Currently, Anthony is part of the Mobile Development Team where his focus is on the iOS and Android platform.

Session
Building upon existing infrastructure for Mobile Applications with WSO2

Asanka Abeysinghe
Asanka Abeysinghe
Vice President – Solutions Architecture, WSO2

Asanka spearheads the company’s customer facing technical tasks and oversees the solution architecture and technical sales functions. He also provides consulting to key WSO2 customer and conducts workshops specifically targeted at enterprise architects and technical managers.

Asanka has over 15 years of industry experience, which include implementing projects ranging from desktop and web applications through to highly scalable distributed systems and SOAs in the financial domain, mobile platforms, and business integration solutions. His areas of specialization include application architecture, development using Java technologies, C/C++ on Linux and Windows platforms.

Sessions
From Shadow IT to Empowered IT
Roadmap to Connected Business
Connected-Finance Reference Architecture

Panel Discussion
Building Tomorrow’s Enterprise: Reports from the Ground Wars

Ashok Murthy
Ashok Murthy
Platform Performance Team, eBay

Ashok has worked on developing JVMs with a deep and clear understanding of OS internals and JVM internals. He also has worked on improving performance of Java-based applications run on cloud, by making code changes, architectural modifications, JVM and OS tunings. He is currently working on enhancing cloud provisioning and deployments with instantaneous capacity flexing, geared towards increased resource utilization, and reducing operational cost.

Session
Overcoming-challenges-of-moving-ESB-to-the-Cloud

 Badri Sriraman
Badri Sriraman
Chief Architect, Karsun Solutions LLC

Badri is a Director at Karsun and oversees the company’s innovation center to aide development of solutions and new businesses through a culture of continued innovation. He drives innovative ideas and design thinking across the organization. He has helped GSA integrate cloud SaaS and PaaS with on-premise services to ensure seamless experience to users. He is currently helping DHS implement a enterprise wide attribute-based access control using WSO2. Prior to Karsun, Badri worked in Unisys, where he helped establish a successful global Identity & Credentialing practice and built large-scale systems for ID programs for the governments of Mexico, Angola, and Australia.

Session
A Case Study on Consolidation of Middleware Platform

Chamith Kumarage
Chamith Kumarage
Technical Lead, WSO2

Chamith, who is also Manager of Infrastructure, currently oversees WSO2’s overall system and network operations.

He has over five years of experience in systems and network administration. He was an original author of the Texplorer Project http://texplorer.sourceforge.net and has interests in platform and infrastructure virtualization, distributed computing, IT security, load balancing, cloud monitoring and backup systems.

Tutorials
Deploying for High Availability and Horizontal Scaling
WSO2 Public Cloud

Chintana Wilamuna
Chintana Wilamuna
Solutions Architect, WSO2

Chintana is a Solutions Architect at WSO2 and is a part of the Solution Architecture team. He also started the WSO2 Web Services Frameworks for Ruby and Perl.

In addition to his product development efforts, he has provided technology consulting on customer engagements including architectural guidance, integration of web services, print process automation and online management solutions. Chintana is a committer on the Apache Stonehenge project and also started WSF/Ruby and WSF/Perl.

Tutorial
Deploying for High Availability and Horizontal Scaling

Chris Haddad
Chris Haddad
Vice President – Platform Evangelism, WSO2

Chris is responsible for raising visibility, awareness, and knowledge of the unique advantages provided by WSO2’s lean, fully componentized, open source middleware for on-premise and in the cloud.

He works closely with developers, architects, and C-level executives to increase WSO2 technology adoption, improve the middleware platform, and maximize customer value. He also works with the engineering team to define the product roadmaps for WSO2’s Carbon and Cloud platforms.

Sessions
Establishing SOA-focused Enterprise Architecture
Connected Education Reference Architecture
Partner Sales Training-Identifying Opportunities for Integration, API Management and Enterprise Application Management
Partner Sales Training-Identifying Opportunities for Identity Management and Shadow IT

Coumara Radja
Coumara Radja
Director, Software Development, Cisco Systems

Coumara brings 30 years of experience in managing, architecting, leading and building technology solutions across multiple industries. At Cisco over the past 8 years he has led the development of solutions for Sports & Entertainment, Healthcare, Logistics, Smart Cities, and led initiatives for Application Oriented Networking, Application Networking Services and Internet of Things. Prior to Cisco he has worked at startups, Intel and Bell Laboratories.

Session
Solution patterns based approach to rapidly create IoE solutions across industries

Crishantha Nanayakkara
Crishantha Nanayakkara
Head of Technology, ICTA

Crishantha has been with ICTA since 2008 before becoming the Head of Technology in 2010. He was the project architect of the “Lanka Gate”, which is the SOA based middleware infrastructure for the Government of Sri Lanka. He is further involved in implementation aspects of the cloud based multi-tenant SOA infrastructure for the Local Government project (e-LG). Apart from his technical involvements to e-Government projects, he is a key member of countries new vision “OneGovernment 2020”.

Session
Cloud-based SOA e-Government infrastructure in Sri Lanka

Dave Gray
Dave Gray
Author of The Connected Company

Dave Gray is the founder of the business design consultancy XPLANE. His primary focus is the complex problem of driving innovation and change in large organizations.

Dave has authored two books on design, change and innovation. He also serves as a strategic adviser to a select group of clients.

His current project is Boardthing, a collaboration platform for distributed teams.

Dave delivers keynotes and hands-on workshops on topics related to innovation, culture and change.

Dmitry Sotnikov
Dmitry Sotnikov
Vice President – Cloud, WSO2

Dmitry, as Vice President – Cloud, oversees all projects related to WSO2’s cloud offerings.

Prior to WSO2, he worked at Quest Software (now a part of Dell) as Director of Cloud Solutions, and later co-founded Jelastic PaaS and led Jelastic’s sales, marketing, customer, and partner relationships. Dmitry has been a featured speaker at multiple industry events including Microsoft TechEd, VMware VMWorld, Parallels Summit, Quest Innovate, and Technology Experts Conference (TEC).

Sessions
WSO2 Public Cloud
Partner Panel Discussion: Expanding Solutions into the Cloud

Tutorial
WSO2 Public Cloud

Dimuthu Leelarathne
Dimuthu Leelarathne
Senior Software Architect, WSO2

Dimuthu focuses on cloud technologies, the WSO2 Carbon Framework, and WSO2 Identity Server at WSO2. She is an expert in Java and Java-related technologies, and was an initial team member of the Axis-Mora project, in which she oversaw the de-serialization process of the project. She is an Apache committer and a member of the Axis2 Project Management Committee; she has also contributed to the Apache Rampart and WSS4J projects.

In addition, Dimuthu has conducted several WSO2 technical webinars and has published numerous technical articles and tutorials.

Session
A Complete Platform for Applications in a Connected Enterprise

Tutorial
Application Development with WSO2 App Factory

Giovanni Carapelli
Giovanni Carapelli
Vice President Global Innovation & System Architecture, Gilbarco

In his role, Giovanni drives both ‘warp speed’ Innovation (across all products and regions) and strategic architecture coherence for all new platforms. He is also responsible for the GVR IP portfolio. Before moving to the US in 2013, he had been working since 19884 for Gilbarco Italy, in Florence, in many roles, ranging from Senior Software Engineer to Director for Global Innovation. He has designed the system architecture for many international breakthrough projects (Passport Europe, WISE, Mobile Payment, M3, and Vanguard). Giovanni holds more than 20 international patents. He is an active member of the Danaher Innovation community: Giovanni has chaired the DCI in 2010, and he has been awarded three times for the best presentation (2007, 2008, and 2013).

Himagiri Mukkamala
Himagiri Mukkamala
Executive Director of Software Engineering – Predix Platform, GE Global Research Center

Himagiri (Hima) Mukkamala is Executive Director of Software Engineering at GE Software. He is responsible for leading the Predix™ engineering organization to deliver high quality software iteratively using Agile & Scrum principles. Predix™ is GE’s software platform for Industrial Internet and includes horizontal components and application frameworks for building customer facing Industrial Internet solutions. In his previous role at Sybase, Hima led various groups in the Mobile Platform organization and played a significant part in the successful acquisition by SAP.

Keynote
Industrial Internet Platform – Enabling next phase of Industrial Revolution

Isabelle Mauny
Isabelle Mauny
Vice President – Product Management, WSO2

Isabelle brings to her role nearly 20 years of technology, consulting, and management experience in Java, application development, middleware and service-oriented architecture. She recently managed the API Manager beta program and has been helping customers around the globe to adopt this product. In her role, she works closely with the WSO2 engineering, sales, and marketing teams. She strongly believes that successful product management requires a great understanding of our customers and the problems they hope to resolve, as well as a strong understanding of the products themselves. Hence, Isabelle regularly participates in WSO2 QuickStart programs and services engagements.

Session
API Manager & API Cloud: Your Complete API Management Solution

Jeffrey S. Hammond
Jeffrey S. Hammond
VP, Principal Analyst Serving Application Development & Delivery Professionals, Forrester Research

Jeffrey is a software development veteran, with more than twenty years of experience in various development, product management, strategy, and marketing roles. He is a leading expert on mobile development, modern application architecture, application life-cycle management, and open source policies and projects. He helps Application Development & Delivery teams improve their productivity while building creative, high-performance cultures.

Jim Crabbe
Jim Crabbe
Sr. Product Manager, Boeing

Jim started with the Boeing Company in 2011 leading product strategy and development efforts for MyBoeingFleet.com, the world’s largest and most prolific aviation services portal. In that role he led the full product lifecycle for products and capabilities involving Identity and Access Management, Business Intelligence, and Portal technologies.

He currently leads a team of product managers at the Boeing Company to define and deliver a multitenant, cloud enabled Platform as a Service offering designed to power the next generation of aviation software products.

Prior to his work at the Boeing Company, Jim has actively developed innovative technology solutions and products for over 15 years. He has experience building solutions for companies ranging in size from his own startups to Fortune 500 enterprises.

Panel Discussion
Building Tomorrow’s Enterprise: Reports from the Ground Wars

Joan Protasio
Joan Protasio
Software Engineer, Barcelona Digital Technology Centre

Joan has a strong background in Big Data, Data Mining and Software development applied to the e-Health sector. He has collaborated on official EU projects and also from the Spanish Government. At present he is focused on the analysis of Big Data collected from eKauri: an e-Health & Smart Home Platform combining Map Reduce Paradigm and Hadoop/Sparks.

Session
Big Data at Home

Joe Stubbs
Joe Stubbs
Research Scientist Associate, TACC

Joe earned a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Michigan. Since then he has been at the University of Texas where he has built infrastructure software in various contexts. At TACC, he is a member of the Advanced Computing Interfaces group where he works on the Agave “science as a service” platform for enabling next generation science gateways. He has extensive experience building web services and development platforms for a wide variety of clients and applications.

Session
Building a Multi-tenant Computational Science as a Service Platform with API Manager

Johann Nallathamby
Johann Nallathamby
Associate Technical Lead, WSO2

Johann is an Associate Technical Lead at WSO2 and is the product lead of WSO2 Identity Server. In addition to his product development efforts he has provided Security and API Management solutions for numerous customers, during customer Quick Starts. He has also been a speaker at the WSO2 Conference 2013 USA. Johann holds a first class (Hons.) degree in B.Sc. in Engineering, specializing in Computer Science and Engineering, from the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Moratuwa. He is also a Sun Certified Java Programmer.

Session
Identity and Access Management for the Next Decade

Tutorial
Introducing WSO2 Identity Server

John Mathon
John Mathon
Vice President – Enterprise Evangelism, WSO2

John Mathon joined WSO2 in 2013 and he currently serves as Vice President of Product Marketing. As a founder of TIBCO software and inventor of the publish/subscribe paradigm he helped establish TIBCO as the leading middleware provider in the world. He has spent more than 20 years working on enterprise software for corporations worldwide. Prior to joining WSO2, John started other companies, created numerous patents and has been a visionary for enterprise software. Besides TIBCO, he started Slam Dunk Networks now known as Cloud Prime, Mathon Systems in the DLP space and has helped CA Technologies move to the cloud and SaaS.

Sessions
Reference Architecture for EDA
Partner Sales Training-Identifying Opportunities for Integration, API Management and Enterprise Application Management
Partner Sales Training-Identifying Opportunities for Identity Management and Shadow IT

Kasun Indrasiri
Kasun Indrasiri
Software Architect, WSO2

Kasun focuses on the WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus. In addition to his product development efforts, he has provided technology consulting on customer engagements, helping to successfully implement solutions for integrating Web services, SAP, FIX, and mobile services.

He is an elected member of the Apache Software Foundation and a Project Management Committee member and committer for the Apache Synapse open source ESB project. He took part in the Google Summer of Code for 2007, working on the Apache Axis2/C project. He also contributed to the Apache Rampart/C project, having implemented WS-Trust specification for its federated identity framework for Web services. He is proficient in C/C++, specializing in Web services, information retrieval systems, and enterprise search platforms, focusing primarily on indexing components.

Sessions
ESB: The Backbone of Integration
Connected-Retail Reference Architecture

Tutorial
ESB

Lakmal Warusawithana
Lakmal Warusawithana
Director – Cloud Architecture, WSO2

Lakmal works with the Cloud Technology team, focusing on the WSO2 Stratos platform as a service.

He has more than 11 years of industry experience. In 2005, Lakmal co-founded thinkCube, the pioneers in developing the next generation of collaborative cloud computing products that are tailored towards telecom operators. He oversaw the overall engineering process and focused special attention to scalability and service delivery of thinkCube solutions.

Session
Deep Dive into Apache Stratos & Private PaaS

Tutorial
Apache Stratos/WSO2 Private PaaS with Docker Integration

Lindsey Anderson
Lindsey Anderson
Vice President – Enterprise and Channel Sales, WSO2

Bringing more than 15 years experience in enterprise middleware, Lindsey has built rapidly scaling sales organizations across both direct and indirect channels. Prior to joining WSO2 she was responsible for building the Intelligent Business Operation and Big Data revenue for Software AG in North America. At Progress Software she was VP and Managing Director for Indirect Channels at Progress Software and built a worldwide OEM business. At DataDirect Technologies Lindsey held many key positions, including VP Sales for North America.

Session
WSO2 Partner Program Update: Better Enabling Your Business

Madhu Sasidhar
Madhu Sasidhar, MD, FCCP
Head, Section of Respiratory Therapy | Respiratory Institute: A90, Cleveland Clinic

Madhu is a physician with board certifications in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine and Critical Care Medicine. He’s currently a Section Head in the Respiratory Institute at the Cleveland Clinic.

Session
Real Time Clinical Decision Support and Comparative Outcomes Analysis Using Big Data

Mifan Careem
Mifan Careem
Director – Solutions Architecture, WSO2

Mifan Careem is Director of Solutions Architecture at WSO2. He is experienced in SOA and industry specific solution architectures and specialises in spatial architectures and GIS, eGovernment cloud, emergency management and big data analytics. Mifan works closely with customers liaising with WSO2 Engineering and Sales teams to analyse and define domain specific solution architectures in client domains. He is also lead architect for many global projects, including the national initiative to build a cloud-based SOA platform for local government bodies in Sri Lanka. Mifan is a frequent speaker at events around the globe and was a founding member and board director of the Sahana Disaster Management Project. He is also a consultant spatial architect for many government initiatives in Sri Lanka.

Session
APIs: The Foundation of the Future Telco

Tutorial
Apache Stratos/WSO2 Private PaaS with Docker Integration

Nuwan Bandara
Nuwan Bandara
Senior Lead Solutions Engineer, WSO2

Nuwan is a Senior Lead Solutions Engineer who works closely with WSO2 customers on enterprise solutions. His experience spans across multiple verticals such as e-government, education, e-commerce and healthcare. Prior joining WSO2 solutions architecture team Nuwan worked as a product lead in WSO2 engineering team and have provided technical leadership for products such as User Engagement Server (UES), Enterprise Store (ES), Mashup Server (MS) and Jaggeryjs framework. Nuwan has also contributed to projects such as API Manager and Carbon within WSO2 and to the Apache Web Services and Shindig projects in Apache Software Foundation.

In 2007 and 2008, Nuwan was involved in research and development for the European Union’s (EU) Information Society Technologies SOA and mobile computing projects. He also is a member of the British Computer Society.

Sessions
Run Your Own Mobile App Store
Governance for a Connected Ecosystem
Connected-Health Reference Architecture

Nuwan Dias
Nuwan Dias
Associate Technical Lead, WSO2

Nuwan is an Associate Technical Lead at WSO2. Hi main area of focus is on the architectural and research, and development aspects of WSO2 API Manager. He has also been involved in many customer engagements where he has assisted people in developing their solutions architecture. Prior to joining WSO2, he worked at Informatics International Limited as a Senior Software Engineer.

Session
Securing, Monitoring and Monetizing APIs

Tutorial
Introduction to API Management with WSO2

Paul Fremantle
Paul Fremantle
Co-founder & CTO, WSO2

Paul co-founded WSO2 in 2005 in order to reinvent the way enterprise middleware is developed, sold, delivered and supported through an open source model. In his current role as CTO, he spearheads WSO2′s overall product strategy. Previously, he served as WSO2 vice president of technical sales where he led the development of the groundbreaking WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus. In 2008, Paul was recognized by InfoWorld among the Top 25 CTOs.

Prior to WSO2, Paul was a senior technical staff member at IBM for nine years, where he created the Web Services Gateway and led the team that developed and shipped it as part of the WebSphere Application Server. He also was on the team that put the Service Integration Bus technology into WebSphere Application Server 6. Additionally, Paul was the key WebSphere technical sales lead for Europe, working closely with development to manage beta programs, develop training materials, and enable first-of-a-kind J2EE projects.

Keynote
Closing Keynote

Session
From Mobiles to Things: The WSO2 Device Cloud

Peter Morales
Peter Morales Ph. D
Global Lead for Educational Technology Innovation, NYU

Peter is currently Global Lead for Educational Technology Innovation at NYU. He has held roles of CIO, CTO, PMO Director, Program Director for NYU and member schools. Prior to NYU, worked in the financial services industry leading technology initiatives for the American and New York Stock Exchanges. He has consulted for the City of NY teaching project management to a broad group of managers in City government. He developed an experimental diagnostic system for a Pediatric Neurologist at North Shore University Hospital capturing digital Cognitive Evoked Potentials. Peter started his career in the Defense world developing Navy Avionics diagnostic and information systems for various platforms including the F18.

Peter holds a Doctorate in Computer Science, a Masters of Science in Management and Bachelors of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is PMI PMP certified and has taught graduate and undergraduate management classes as well as PMP certification classes. Peter also has an agile process Scrum Master certification.

Session
Agile Innovation – Reducing the Cost of Change

Prabath Siriwardena
Prabath Siriwardena
Director – Security Architecture, WSO2

Prabath focuses on application security and identity management. In addition to his product development efforts, he has provided technology consulting on customer engagements.

He is an Apache Project Management Committee member involved in the Apache Rampart and Axis projects. He also has more than three years of industry experience in Microsoft .NET technologies.

Session
Securing the Insecure

Tutorial
Introducing WSO2 Identity Server

Prakash Iyer
Prakash Iyer
Vice President – Software Architecture & Strategy, Trimble

Prakash is responsible for initiatives that are critical to Trimble’s software strategy, providing leadership to software-focused development activities. He is a software technologist with over 20 years of engineering and management experience. Prior to joining Trimble in 2007 through the acquisition of the then leader in Mobile Resource Management solutions, @Road Inc., Prakash co-founded Everypath, which pioneered the concept of Enterprise Mobile Task Automation in the early days of mobile computing. At Everypath, he managed distributed development teams in North America, Asia and Europe, managed professional services, and worked with the sales & marketing team to evangelize the company’s products. He has also contributed to successful companies like Prism Solutions, Informix, Hewlett-Packard, Texas Instruments, and Alltel Information Services in various engineering and management roles.

Panel Discussion
Building Tomorrow’s Enterprise: Reports from the Ground Wars

Sagara Gunathunge
Sagara Gunathunge
Senior Technical Lead, WSO2

Sagara is a Senior Technical Lead who focuses on the WSO2 Application Server. Sagara specializes in J2EE, Spring, Web Service and enterprise integration related technologies. In addition to his product development efforts at WSO2 he is also a PMC member of Apache Axis and Apache Web Services Projects and is an active contributor to the Apache Axis2, Woden, Web services and Nuvem projects. He currently serves as the Vice President of the Apache Web Services project.

Session
Application Monitoring with WSO2 App Server

Samisa Abeysinghe
Samisa Abeysinghe
Vice President – Delivery, WSO2

Samisa has more than a decade of experience working for systems integrators and software vendors with global exposure. In his current role, he leads the development of WSO2’s three open source platforms: the WSO2 Carbon enterprise middleware platform, WSO2 Stratos cloud middleware platform, and WSO2 StratosLive PaaS.

He has been a committer of the Apache Web services project since May 2004, and initiated the Apache Axis2/C project. He has published two books: RESTFul PHP Web Services, and PHP Team Development, in addition to several articles. Samisa is also a visiting lecturer at Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.

Tutorial
Apache Stratos & WSO2 Private PaaS

Sanjiva Weerawarana
Sanjiva Weerawarana Ph. D
Founder, Chairman & CEO, WSO2

Sanjiva has been involved with open source for many years and is an active member of the Apache Software Foundation. He was the original creator of Apache SOAP and has been part of Apache Axis, Apache Axis2 and most Apache Web services projects. He founded WSO2 after having spent nearly 8 years in IBM Research, where he was one of the founders of the Web services platform. During that time, he co-authored many Web services specifications including WSDL, BPEL4WS, WS-Addressing, WS-RF and WS-Eventing.

Keynote
Opening Keynote

Selvaratnam Uthaiyashankar
Selvaratnam Uthaiyashankar
Vice President – Engineering, WSO2

Selvaratnam Uthaiyashankar joined WSO2 in September 2007. He is the Vice president of engineering. Shankar focuses on the WSO2 cloud middleware platform and Carbon enterprise middleware kernel, and he has worked on the interoperability of Axis2/C and the WSO2 Web Services Framework (WSF). Additionally, Shankar has provided technology consulting on customer engagements, including cloud, enterprise service bus (ESB), governance, and mobile integration solutions.

Shankar is an Apache Software Foundation member and committer on the Axis2/C, Axis2, Rampart/C, and Rampart projects. With more than four years of industry experience, he has a strong background in telecommunication software development and after-sale support. Additionally, he is proficient in C++, Oracle and COM+ technologies.

Sessions
Cloud-to-Cloud and Cloud-to-Enterprise Integration
Connected Government Reference Architecture

Tutorial
Application Development with WSO2 App Factory

Senaka Fernando
Senaka Fernando
Solutions Architect, WSO2

Senaka Fernando is a Solutions Architect at WSO2. In addition to his product development efforts, Senaka has provided technology consulting on customer engagements, helping to successfully implement governance, enterprise application integration, SAP integration, and on-premise portal solutions. Senaka also founded the WSO2 Web Services Framework/C++ during his internship with WSO2 in 2008.

He is an elected member of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) and also a Project Management Committee (PMC) member and committer for a number of projects, which currently include Apache Web Services, Axis2, and several Apache incubator projects. He is also a member of the OASIS S-RAMP, WEMI, and TOSCA technical committees. As a participant of the Google Summer of Code for both 2008 and 2009, he worked on the Apache Harmony and Ptolemy II projects at the University of California, Berkeley.

Session
End-to-End Governance

Tutorial
Practical Governance Solution Patterns

Shammi Jayasinghe
Shammi Jayasinghe
Associate Technical Lead, WSO2

Shammi is an Associate Technical Lead who is the product lead of the WSO2 Message Broker team. He has participated in QSP’s and SAP Integrations for WSO2. Ha has also conducted a webinar on the WSO2 Message Broker.

Session
Scalable, Distributed Messaging with WSO2 Message Broker

Tutorial
ESB

Sinnathamby Shanmugarajah
Sinnathamby Shanmugarajah
Director – Mobile Architecture, WSO2

Shan specializes in mobile technology with over 10 years of experience in that field. He has a strong background in telecommunication software development and is a hardcore coder in Android and iOS platforms. He also lectures in advanced Android and iOS application development.

Prior to joining WSO2Mobile, he was working as the CTO/Director of Microimage Mobile Media for almost 15 years. He played a key role in engineering products where Microimage has won many local and international awards. He is also a Typographist and a specialist in local languages and font technologies. He worked as an external consultant to Microsoft, Sri Lanka and ICTA, Sri Lanka.

Session
Managing Devices using EMM

Tutorial
IoT & Mobility with WSO2 EMM

Srinath Perera
Srinath Perera Ph. D
Director – Research, WSO2

Srinath oversees the overall WSO2 platform architecture alongside WSO2 CTO Paul Fremantle. He specializes in Web services and distributed systems, specifically working with aspects of data, scale, and performance.

He is a co-founder of Apache Axis2, an elected member of the Apache Software Foundation, and a Project Management Committee member. He has been involved with the Apache Web Services project since 2002, and is a committer on several Apache open-source projects, including Apache Axis, Axis2, and Geronimo.

Sessions
In-Memory Computing
Analyzing a Soccer Game with WSO2 CEP
Catch Them in the Act: CEP for Realtime Ecommerce Influence

Sriskandarajah Suhothayan
Sriskandarajah Suhothayan
Technical Lead, WSO2

Suho is an open source enthusiast, and has successfully completed two Google Summer of Code programs in 2010 and 2011. For GSOC 2010, he integrated OpenID Authentication and implemented Role Based Access Control for Apache PhotArk. For GSOC 2011, he implemented OpenMRS Notifiable Condition Detection (NCD) Module, a real time system that monitors patients’ lab results and notifies critical cases. He is now a committer on both Apache PhotArk and OpenMRS projects. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka where he specialized in Computer Science and Engineering. As project lead of his final year project, Suho drove the design and implementation of Siddhi-CEP – a high performance complex event processing engine.

Session
Big Data Analytics with BAM & CEP

Tutorial
Big Data Analytics

Sumedha Rubasinghe
Sumedha Rubasinghe
Director – API Architecture, WSO2

Sumedha focuses on development of the WSO2 Carbon Core, WSO2 Data Services, WSO2 Governance Registry, WSO2 Business Activity Monitor, and WSO2 API Manager. He has contributed to the successful implementation of data, SAP and repository-based integration projects, as well many WSO2 QuickStart development consulting engagements. He is an active committer with the Apache Axis2 project.

Sessions
Towards a Winning API Strategy
Managing All Your Apps with WSO2 App Manager

Tutorial
Introduction to API Management with WSO2

Tim O’Reilly
Tim O’Reilly
Founder, Chairman and CEO, O’Reilly Media

Tim is the founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media Inc. His original business plan was simply “interesting work for interesting people,” and that’s worked out pretty well. He publishes books, runs conferences, invests in early-stage startups, urges companies to create more value than they capture, and tries to change the world by spreading and amplifying the knowledge of innovators. Tim is also a partner at O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, O’Reilly’s early stage venture firm, and is on the board of Safari Books Online, PeerJ, Code for America, and Maker Media, which was recently spun out fromO’Reilly Media. Maker Media’s Maker Faire has been compared to the West Coast Computer Faire, which launched the personal computer revolution.

Keynote
#IoTH:The Internet of Things and Humans

Venura Mendis
Venura Mendis
Head of Product Service Innovation, Dialog Axiata

Venura leads the Product Service Innovation team at Dialog Axiata. He is responsible for evaluating new product and service concepts across all Dialog business verticals and also for the Dialog developer engagement program, Ideamart.

He graduated from University of Cambridge in 2001 with a Masters in Electronic Engineering. He subsequently completed an MBA at Cranfield University in 2011. He has over 10 years of experience in the IT and telecommunication industry.

Session
API Management Driving Product Innovation In Dialog Axiata

Yasith Tharindu
Yasith Tharindu
Manager of Infrastructure, WSO2

Yasith is the Manager of Infrastructure at WSO2. He has experience in Linux Systems Administration and Wide Area Network management in an ISP environment.

He also has hands-on experience in Network Designing, Server management (WEB, Mail, DNS, PROXY), network monitoring/management tools, traffic management tools, firewalls, routing environments (OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, Muticasting), VPNs and PHP/Shell scripting. His preference is to use FOSS solutions over proprietary products.

Yasith is Graduate from the University of Colombo School of Computing, Sri Lanka and is certified in Cisco Internetwork, Cisco Security and Java programming.

Session
Case Study: EMM for Wireless Provisioning for BYOD