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Keynote Speaker der DNUG Herbstkonferenz 2008

Bob Balaban
(Binary Tree)
Bob Balaban has been a prominent developer, article/book-writer, consultant and conference-speaker in the area of collaboration technology for many years. He worked at Lotus/Iris as a development engineer on Notes (and other, less well known products) for 10 years, developing, among other things, the Notes Object model for LotusScript and Java. He had his own consulting/development company (Looseleaf Software) for 8 years, focusing on Domino, Sametime and J2EE technologies. Bob pioneered technology roadshows/seminars for Notes/Domino audiences, and returned to IBM in 2005, where he once more did development work on Notes and Domino. He left IBM in early 2008 to join Binary Tree (a Lotus Premier Business Partner) as Vice President of R&D. Bob's blog can be found at http://www.bobzblog.com.

Kevin Cavanaugh
(IBM Corporation)
Kevin Cavanaugh is Lotus's Vice President for Business and Technical Strategy. He is responsible for the business and technical strategy of IBM's collaboration business. For the past 9 years as Vice President of the Notes and Domino business Cavanaugh has had engineering and business responsibility for the company's Notes and Domino products and for the client technologies that are used by those products. He has also managed the company's Advanced Collaboration product development teams and the International Product Development organization with development centers in Dublin, Tokyo, Beijing, Seoul, Taipei and Singapore. Cavanaugh's experience in the Far East also includes management positions as a consulting engineer and manager for Distributor Operations where he developed and supported new distributors in Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong. He is currently on the board of the Boston CyberArts Festival and was previously on the board of the Unicode Consortium.

Prof. Dr. Ludwig Nastansky
(Universität Paderborn)
Prof. Dr. Ludwig Nastansky ist Lehrstuhlinhaber für Wirtschaftsinformatik und Direktor des Groupware Competence Centers (GCC) an der Universität Paderborn. Derzeitige Arbeitsgebiete seiner Lehr-, Forschungs-, Entwicklungs-, Projekt- und Beratungstätigkeit im Bereich des computergestützten betrieblichen Informations- und Wissensmanagements liegen bei e-Business Anwendungen, mit Schwerpunkten bei kollaborativen Systemen. Der Autor von zahlreichen wissenschaftlichen Publikationen und Entwicklungsprojekten von Software-Frameworks ist Gründungsmitglied der DNUG. Prof. Nastansky hat die erste Lotus Notes-orientierte Unternehmung in Europa, die Pavosoft Informationssysteme GmbH, 1990 in Paderborn gegründet. 1994 erfolgte die Gründung der Pavone AG, in der er Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates ist. Er ist ständiger Gastprofessor am Chinesisch-Deutschen Hochschulkolleg der Tongji-Universität in Shanghai.

Brent Peters
(IBM Software Group)
Brent Peters is the Vice President with IBM Lotus. The portfolio of products that he is responsible for include: Notes/Domino, DWA, Lotus Symphony, Forms, DAMO, and Expeditor. Mr. Peters has been with the Lotus organization since February of 2005, starting as Director of Development for the Lotus Notes 8 client; engaging up front with the strategy and development of the Lotus Hannover (Notes 8) project. Prior to this position Mr. Peters held positions as Director of IBM's Corporate On Demand Software Development, as well as being the lead development manager over the WebSphere Application Server from releases 2.X through 5.X. Prior to his management roles, Mr Peters spent 10 years as a developer in Unix Operating Systems and Application Middleware (Component Broker/WebSphere). Mr. Peters is a graduate from the Texas Christian University in 1986 and has been with IBM since May 1991.