Dr. John Bates is Founder and Managing Director of Progress Software's Apama Division. In this role, John is responsible for the management of sales, marketing, products and consulting services.

David Luckham is a Professor Emeritus in Stanford University; Professor Luckham's research and consulting activities in software technology include multi-processing and business processing languages, event-driven systems, complex event processing, commercial middleware, program verification, systems architecture modelling and simulation, and artificial intelligence (automated deduction and reasoning systems).

Alan Lundberg is senior manager, product marketing for TIBCO Software, Inc. He is responsible for worldwide outbound marketing functions for TIBCO Event Processing and Business Optimization software products.

Shailendra Mishra is Director of development for Complex Event processing at Oracle.  He has worked in several areas in Distributed Databases and middleware products contributing heavily to the Design, Development and Architecture of Oracle AQ, Oracle Data Streams and Oracle CEP.

John Morrell is the Director of Product and Solutions Marketing for Coral8, Inc. In his role, he leads Coral8's market development activities, and is the primary market evangelist for Coral8 products and key customer solution advocate.

W. Roy Schulte is Vice President and Distinguished Analyst at Gartner Inc. His work centers on SOA, event processing, application integration and business activity monitoring (BAM).

Richard Tibbetts is chief architect at Streambase. He brings an extensive and experienced engineering background to StreamBase Systems. Throughout his career, Tibbetts has concentrated on the design and development of database technologies, while also offering specialization in program analysis and distributed computing.