Call for SCF 2019 Keynote Panels

SCF 2018 Keynote Panel

Keynote Panel 1: Intelligent IoT

Moderator: Tony Shan, Chief Architect at CTS

Panelists (in alphabetic order of first name):

• Brian Gilmore, Chief Technology Evangelist for IoT at Splunk
• Charlie Isaacs, VP & CTO for IoT at Salesforce.com
• David Talby, CTO at Pacific AI
• Deanna Shaw, Director of Design on Watson IoT at IBM
• Roxy Stimpson, VP & CTO at IOT World Labs

Abstract:
Despite a challenging start, Internet of Things (IoT) is now becoming the foundation for all types of strategic transformation and digitization in organizations. Today the real opportunities for building business critical solutions with IoT are starting to move from prototypes to the mainstream. IoT spending will top $1 trillion in 2020. IoT also insects with Big Data Analytics and AI. As practitioners and technologists, what are the technical and business opportunities unlocked by IoT with ML? What are the current barriers and risks that you should be aware of, when you formulate and implement your holistic IoT strategy? And how can we effectively handle the blend of IT and OT for smart IoT?

This panel will drill down to the innovative uses of IoT from both a business and a technology perspective. We’ll look into what are the potential future roadblocks to Intelligent IoT adoption. We’ll also discuss best practices for integrating data science into IoT.

About the Moderator:

Tony Shan is a renowned thought leader and innovative visionary with decades of field experience and guru-level expertise on cutting-edge enterprise computing technologies. He leads incubating and nurturing interdisciplinary practice and enablement on emerging technologies like IoT, big data and AI. He drives award-winning innovation and transformation of most complex enterprise systems. He directs and advises the pragmatic lifecycle design of large-scale distributed solutions on diverse platforms in Fortune 500 companies and public  sector organizations.  He  is a  regular  speaker and organizer in preeminent conferences. As a book author and an editor/editorial advisory board member of IT research journals, he also founded several user groups/forums.

About the Panelists (in alphabetic order of first name):

Brian Gilmore is Splunk’s Chief Technology Evangelist for IoT. A former practitioner in mechanical systems automation, integration, and data analytics, he currently focuses on enabling Splunk’s partners and 13,000+ worldwide customers to increase asset performance and availability, improve service levels, reduce operations costs, mitigate security risks, enable compliance, and   create new  product  and  service  offerings  using insights from the  big data  generated by mechanical  systems     and connected devices. His broader technology interests include machine learning, artificial intelligence, and natural language processing.

Charlie Isaacs has a track record of R&D leadership, starting with GTE (Verizon) where he served as VP of Engineering. Following GTE, he held R&D leadership positions at Answer Systems (acquired by Computer Associates), Broad Daylight (sold to Primus Knowledge, then ATG and then Oracle), and CTO at Kana Software, Inc. Prior to joining Salesforce in 2012 Charlie spent 2 years in the Alcatel-Lucent/Genesys Global Innovations Group. Charlie is currently VP and CTO for Customer Connection and his primary role is to incubate IoT projects for Salesforce Customers; he evangelizes and speaks worldwide about IoT and Customer Service. Mr. Isaacs holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara and an MBA from California Lutheran University.

David Talby is a chief technology officer at Pacific AI, helping fast-growing companies apply big data and data science techniques to solve real-world problems in healthcare, life science, and related fields. David has extensive experience in building and operating web- scale data science and business platforms, as well as building world-class, Agile, distributed teams. Previously, he was with Microsoft’s Bing Group, where he led business operations for Bing Shopping in the US and Europe, and worked at Amazon both in Seattle and the UK, where he built and ran distributed teams that helped scale Amazon’s financial systems. David holds a PhD in computer science and master’s degrees in both   computer science and business administration.

Deanna Shaw builds and leads innovative and ground breaking Design teams for the Watson Internet of Things Business Unit at IBM. Currently she is working on leading such initiatives as Digital Twin, Intelligent Buildings, and IoT for Manufacturing. She is also the content leader for IBM Watson IoT Munich HQ. In the past Deanna has created, launched and matured programs for IBM focused on improving business at the executive level. As a Senior Design Director, she has led large scale design for the storage portfolio. Her role is one of extensive client championship.

Roxy Stimpson is a VP & CTO at IOT World Labs, a product, and integration company that provides a platform to enable enterprises to transform their business through data and IoT. She has 20+ years of experience in software development and design, specialized in Enterprise Applications and Systems Integration including ERP, Logistics, Warehouse Integration, Continuous Process Improvement, End-to- end Software Development to Operation, and R&D. Prior to IOT World Labs, Roxy participated in creating company vision and strategy; planning and building company technology and product roadmap with C-level executives and business stakeholders in various capacities, namely Enterprise Architect and Chief Technology Officer. Roxy enables enterprises to turn their data into a competitive advantage.

 

Keynote Panel 2: Services Rethinking – How to Effectively Help Digital Transformation with Evolving Services Technologies

Moderator: Dr. Min Luo, Huawei, USA

Panelists (in alphabetic order of first name):

• Ali Arsanjani, 8x8 Cloud Communications, USA
• I-Ling Yen, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
• John A. Miller, University of Georgia, USA
• Wu Chou, Essenlix Corpration, USA

Abstract: Service-orientation can bring agile business capabilities and sustainable cost savings for enterprises. However how to effectively utilize such technology for drastically different business environments, while making services open but adaptable to meet the ever changing business requirements remains a challenge. The evolution of service-oriented architecture to today’s microservices-based API-economy, has helped to alleviate some problems in certain aspects while deteriorating other important factors.

In this panel, we will review some fundamental concepts of SOA, what it was intended, how it was applied in reality, why many initiatives succeeded or failed, what micorservices is supposed to enhance SOA with more agility and scalability, and the reason that microservices alone won’t bring the ultimate benefits. Some future directions will also be discussed.

About the Moderator:

Dr. Min Luo has over 24+ years of successful professional career, including over 20 years of management position at Huawei, IBM Software Group and Global Services, and two of the Fortune 500 transportation companies. He is an established expert in the field of next negation software defined  networking  (SDN),  enterprise architecture and information systems, whole life cycle software application and product development, business intelligence, and business process optimization. He is also a pioneer and one of the recognized leading experts and educators in Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Model/business-driven architecture and development (MDA-D), business analytics and intelligence, and applied operations research with modern heuristics.  He  has  served as  SDN  Area  Editor  for Journal  of Computer Networks,
Elsevier since May 2015, and editor/guest editor for several other renown publications in service and cloud computing, business process management. He also served as program committee members, track chairs for many international conferences.

About the Panelists (in alphabetic order of first name):

Dr. Ali Arsanjani is Vice-president of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at 8x8, the cloud-native, Unified Communications, Collaboration, Contact Center company. He is responsible for a division focused on delivering practical research innovations to infuse AI in the UCaaS and CCaaS space, to create a delightful and proactive customer experience, Enhanced Context-Aware Communications.

Ali is also CTO of Analytics and Machine Learning at Deep Context, a deep learning startup focused on Amalgamation of data for deeper actionable insights. He is an advisor to startups and boards of larger companies.

In his previous role (1998-2018), he was an IBM Distinguished Engineer & CTO for IBM Analytics Hybrid Cloud and Machine Learning responsible for leading services teams in customized machine learning and analytics solutions. He builds teams of teams across multiple geos in large-scale agile solution development His career spans CTO responsibilities for SOA, BPM, Robotic Process Automation, Analytics, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence/Cognitive Systems.

He delivering actionable business insights thru' an amalgamation of structured and unstructured data using machine learning and artificial intelligence to augment traditional rule engines, custom/legacy systems. In past jobs he has been CTO for SOA, BPM, Decision Management, Analytics, Content Management.

Ali Arsanjani has chaired standard bodies such as The Open Group and is responsible for co-leading the SOA Reference Architecture, SOA Maturity Model, and Cloud Computing Architecture standards. He & his team specialize in harvesting, developing best-practices for the microservices SOA and Web Services lifecycle on hundreds of projects WW across multiple industries, leading a community of practice of over 6000 people.

I-Ling Yen is a Professor of the Computer Science Department at the University of Texas at Dallas. She received her BS degree from Department of Physics, Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan, and her MS and PhD degrees from the Department of Computer Science, University of Houston. Her research interests include Service-Oriented Computing, Cloud Computing, Dependable Distributed Systems, High Assurance Systems, and Security. She had published over 200 technical papers and received many research awards in these areas.

John A. Miller is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Georgia. He has been the Graduate Coordinator for the department for 9 years and is currently the Associate Head. His research interests include (i) Modeling & Simulation, (ii) Web Services/Workflow, (iii) Database Systems, (iv) Big Data, and (v) Bioinformatics. Dr. Miller received a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from Northwestern University in 1980 and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Information and Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1982 and 1986, respectively. As part of his co-operative undergraduate education program, he worked as a Software Developer at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. In his areas of interest, Dr. Miller has authored of over 180 research papers. He is an Associate Editor for the ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, SIMULATION: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International,  and previously IEEE  Transactions  on  Systems,  Man  and
Cybernetics, as well as an Editorial Board Member for the Journal of Simulation and International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling. He has also served as General/Program Chair for four international research conferences: ANSS, WSC, ICWS and SCC, as well as one regional research conference ACM-SE.

Dr. Wu Chou is an IEEE Fellow and Vice President of AI & Software, Essenlix Corporation. Prior to joining Essenlix, he was VP and CTO of enterprise network at Huawei, with extensive experience and contributions in AI, data networking, services, and IoT (Internet-of-things). He published over 200 conference and journal papers with over 50 granted US and International patents.

 

Keynote Panel 3: What is the next Blockchain Killer Application?

Moderator: Prof. Shiping Chen, CSIRO Data61, Australia

Panelists:

• J. Leon Zhao, City University of Hong Kong, China

• Khaled Salah, Khalifa University of Science, Technology & Research (KUSTAR), UAE

• Liang-Jie Zhang, Kingdee, China

• Shiping Chen, CSIRO Data61, Austral

Abstract: As Bitcoin reached its peak price (nearly US$20,000), Blockchain as Bitcoin’s underlying core technology has been gradually recognized as a revolutionary software paradigm to build decentralized, no-need- pre-trusted, non-deniable, transparent and fair distributed systems. While there are still considerable challenges with Blockchain, people are enthusing to proposing new PoW machinimas and develop new applications to improve and leverage Blockchain technology. Like the other big technology ware, e.g., the Internet, one or a few killer applications are always expected to attract and convince people to adopt the technology and use it in their daily life, such as email and www for the Internet.

In this keynote panel, we are going to invite a number of Blockchain experts and researchers to share and discuss their insights to the very challenging question, i.e. in addition to the Bitcoin, what is the next Blockchain Killer Application?

About the Moderator:

Dr. Shiping Chen (Facilitator) is a principal research scientist in CSIRO Data61, Australia. He also holds a conjoint A/Professor title with the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and the University of Sydney. He has been working on distributed systems for over 20 years with focus on performance and security. He has published over 160+ research papers in these research areas and been heavily involved in industrial R&D projects and start-ups, including Blockchain technology research & Blockchain application development. He is also actively participating in computer research communities through publications, journal editorships  and  conference  TPC  services,  including  WWW,  EDOC, ICSOC, ICWS/SCC/CLOUD & ICBC. His R&D URL is https://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~z9195738/.

About the Panelists (in alphabetic order of first name):

Dr. J. Leon Zhao is Chair Professor and former Head (2009-2015) of the Department of Information Systems at City University of Hong Kong. He was Interim Head and Eller Professor in MIS, University of Arizona and taught previously at HKUST and College of William and Mary, respectively. He holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, M.S. degree from UC Davis, and B.S. degree from Beijing Institute of Agricultural Mechanization. His research is on information technology and management, with a particular focus on workflow technology and applications in knowledge distribution, e-learning, supply chain management, organizational performance management, and services computing. Leon's research has been supported by NSF, SAP, and other sponsors. Leon has been associate editor of ACM Transactions on MIS, Information Systems Research, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, Decision Support Systems, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management, International Journal of Web and Grid Services, and International Journal of Web Services Research and is on the editorial board of Journal of Database Management. He has co-edited over ten special issues in various IS journals. Leon has been a chair or program chair for numerous conferences including the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Service Economics, the 2011 CIO Symposium, International Conference  on  Information  Systems,  the  2010  International  Conference  on  Design  Science  Research in Information Systems and Technology, the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing, the 2008 IEEE Symposium on Advanced Management of Information for Globalized Enterprises (AMIGE'08), the 2008 Arizona Exposium on Frontiers of Information Technology and Applications (FITA'08), the 2007 China Summer Workshop on Information Management (CSWIM'07), the 2006 IEEE Conference on Services Computing (SCC'06), the 2005 Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS'05), and the 2003 Workshop on E-Business (WEB'03) among others. He received an IBM Faculty Award in 2005 for his work in business process management and services computing. He received IBM Faculty Award in 2005 and National "Chang Jiang Scholars" Chair Professorship at Tsinghua University in 2009.

Khaled Salah is a full professor and has extensive background and expertise in blockchain, cloud computing, IoT, cybersecurity, computer networks, and web application development. He has over 170 publications and 2 US patents. He is an active and engaged speaker and has given a number of keynote speeches, invited talks, and tutorials on topics related to Blockchain, IoT, cloud computing, embedded systems, and Cybersecurity. Currently, he is supervising a number of research projects on “Blockchain and IoT”, and also is teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in the areas IoT, Blockchain, Cloud, and Cybersecurity. A recent news story, dated Dec. 27, 2017, was published by KU on his teaching and research activities with regards to blockchain and IoT.

Dr. Liang-Jie (LJ) Zhang received his Ph.D. on Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Control from Tsinghua University. Currently, he is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Senior Vice President of Kingdee International Software Group Company Limited, which is a publicly listed company in Hong Kong Stock Market (0268). Currently he is leading the research and developments of blockchain and artificial intelligence for enterprise applications. Prior to this position, he was a research staff member and program manager of application architectures and realization at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center and Chief Architect of Industry Standards at IBM Software Group, where he led the R&D of the custom solution engagement cloud and service-oriented architecture  solutions.  Dr. Zhang  has published  more  than  160  technical papers  in journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings. He has 50 granted patents in the areas of e-commerce, Web services, rich media, data management, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and information appliances. He was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2011, and in the same year won the Technical Achievement Award "for pioneering contributions to Application Design Techniques in Services Computing" from the IEEE Computer Society. He has served as the President of Shenzhen Big Data Alliance since 2013. Dr. Zhang is the Editor-in- Chief of the International Journal of Web Services Research (IJWSR).

About the Services Society

The Services Society (S2) is a non-profit professional organization that has been created to promote worldwide research and technical collaboration in services innovations among academia and industrial professionals. Its members are volunteers from industry and academia with common interests. S2 is registered in the USA as a "501(c) organization", which means that it is an American tax-exempt nonprofit organization. S2 collaborates with other professional organizations to sponsor or co-sponsor conferences and to promote an effective services curriculum in colleges and universities. The S2 initiates and promotes a "Services University" program worldwide to bridge the gap between industrial needs and university instruction. The Services Society has formed 10 Special Interest Groups (SIGs) to support technology and domain specific professional activities.

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