Louis Lovas: Chief Architect and Fellow, Progress Software Corporation, Apama Division. Louis has been in the Enterprise software business for over 25 years. As an employee of Progress Software for the past 15 years he has been instrumental in the design and development of many of Progress' Enterprise infrastructure products -  database, application server and management platforms. For the past 6 years he has been devoted to Complex Event Processing technology, CEP languages and the Apama CEP platform.

Prior to joining Progress, John was the Co-Founder, President and Chief Technology Officer of Apama, the pioneering Complex Event Processing software vendor acquired by Progress in April 2005. In this role, John led Apama's technology and go-to-market strategy and was co-inventor of the patented technology that is now a key part of the Progress Apama platform. Prior to Apama, John was a tenured academic at Cambridge University in the UK where he led research into distributed computing systems.

John is a respected expert, frequent author and speaker in the areas of Capital Markets technology, with a specific focus on algorithmic trading, risk and surveillance, and distributed computing systems, with a specific focus on Complex Event Processing.