Liz Ryan is a former Fortune 500 executive, serial entrepreneur, and expert on the new-millennium workplace. Liz was VP of HR for U.S. Robotics throughout its period of rapid growth in the 90's, and co-founded software startup Ucentric Systems in 1999 (now a division of Motorola). Liz founded Liz Ryan Consulting in 1997 to advise large employers and startups (DDB Needham, NBCi, Looksmart, et al) on their HR and organizational strategy needs; and in 1999 she founded WorldWIT, now the world's largest online network for professional women.

Liz is the workplace columnist for Business Week online and a frequent CNN, CNBC and MSNBC columnist on the workplace, networking, and work/life topics. Liz writes on networking for the blog magazine New West (www.newwest.net) and on women and entrepreneurism for AllBusiness.com (www.allbusiness.com). She is a sought-after speaker and pundit, whom business guru Tom Peters called "a woman on a mission…..the right mission."

Barbara von Halle, Executive Editor of the upcoming KPI Business/IT Transformation Series, is the founder of Knowledge Partners, Inc. (KPI) and a business rules pioneer. She is responsible for evolving KPI’s business rule management methods and tools (KPI STEP ™ License) and well as evolving their rule maturity model (KPI RMM™).

She serves as the Chair Person for Brainstorm’s Business Rules Symposium, and sits on the editorial board of the Business Rules Bulletin (electronic publication) as well as the BPM Strategies Magazine. In 1996, she received the honored Outstanding Individual Achievement Award from the International Data Management Association.

She is co-author of The Handbook of Relational Database Design (Addison-Wesley), which is beyond its 20th printing, co-editor of The Handbook of Data Management (Auerbach), and co-author of Business Rules Applied (Jon Wiley & Sons). She served as the leading columnist for 5 years in Database Programming and Design Magazine and the publisher, Miller Freeman, often displays “The Best of Barbara von Halle” on their Website

Larry Goldberg, is Managing Partner of Knowledge Partners, Inc. with over thirty years of experience in building technology based companies on three continents, and in which the focus was rules-based technologies and applications. Commercial applications that he has sponsored, and in which he played a primary architectural role include such diverse domains as healthcare, supply chain, and property & casualty insurance.

Prior to joining KPI, Goldberg was Senior Vice President of Sapiens Americas, Inc., and was CEO and founder of PowerFlex Software Systems, which was acquired in 1999 by Sapiens.

Hung Nguyen is CEO, President, and Founder of LogiGear and is responsible for the company's strategic direction and executive business management. He's been a leading innovator in software testing, test automation, testing tool solutions and testing education programs for the last two decades.

Mr. Nguyen is coauthor of the top-selling book in the software testing field, Testing Computer Software (Wiley, 2nd ed. 2002) and other publications including Testing Applications on the Web (Wiley, 2nd ed. 2003). His experience over the past two decades includes leadership roles in software development, quality, product and business management at Spinnaker, PowerUp, Electronic Arts, Palm Computing and other leading companies. A frequent speaker at industry events and a contributor to many industry publications, Nguyen also teaches software testing at LogiGear University, and at the University of California Berkeley Extension and Santa Cruz Extension in San Francisco and Silicon Valley.

Michael Hackett is co-founded LogiGear in 1994 and leads the company's LogiGear University training operations division, setting the standard in software testing education programs for many of the world's leading software development organizations. Mr. Hackett is coauthor of the popular Testing Applications on the Web (Wiley, 2nd ed. 2003), and has helped many clients produce, test and deploy applications ranging from business productivity to educational multimedia across multiple platforms and multiple language editions. His clients have included Palm Computing, Oracle, CNET, Electronics for Imaging, The Learning Company, and PC World.

Prior to co-founding LogiGear, Mr. Hackett managed QA teams at The Well, Adobe Systems, and PowerUp Software. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University.

Brent K. Whitlock is currently a Program Manager at Digidesign, a division of Avid Technology, Inc. Prior to this, he was Director of Optical Systems Research and Business Development at RSoft Design Group, Inc., where he initiated and led the development and commercialization of several optical communication system simulation software packages including LinkSIM, ModeSYS, and OptSim 4, which won the Lightwave OFC/NFOEC 2005 Attendees Choice Award. He has also secured and served as Principal Investigator on federally funded SBIR, STTR, and NIST ATP research contracts.

Dr. Whitlock earned his BS, MS, and PhD all in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Whitlock has co-authored over 30 technical papers and articles. He is a Sr. Member of the IEEE and Chair of the Santa Clara Valley chapter of IEEE LEOS.

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Evelyn Preston - During the past twenty five years, Evelyn has held real estate, insurance and securities licenses generating clients through calls, seminars and referrals. Previously, she taught secondary education, wrote a series of personal articles for the Palo Alto Weekly, was a Redbook "Young Mother" and published/co-authored newspaper and magazine articles, most recently on financial issues. She has spoken professionally to large and small women's groups and led her own financial workshops, "Money Smarts for Women". Evelyn has also helped start a fresh soup business via store to store marketing.

Cheri Baumann is a Certified Master Life Coach and Trainer with over 25 years combined experience as a life coach and educator. She has degrees in both psychology and education, is an Associate Coach with the University of British Columbia, and is the Director of Training and Coach Development for the leading worldwide coaching organization: MyPrivateCoach. She specializes as a Life Strategist and a Personal Development Coach and has helped people from around the world develop successful life strategies that support who they are, what they want and where they want to go.

Her purpose in life is to create the space for people, just like you, to recognize who they really are and then BE that person. She believes that everyone is inherently capable of living a satisfying and successful life and strives to make a difference in the world by helping people unleash their own personal best.

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