Andrew Watson
Vice President and Technical Director, OMG
Andrew has overall responsibility for OMG's technology adoption process, and also chairs the Architecture Board, the group of distinguished technical contributors from OMG member organizations which oversees the technical consistency of OMG's specifications. From 1992 to 1996 he also chaired the OMG's Object Request Broker Task Force, which was responsible for the development and deployment of the CORBA 2 specification. Previously Andrew spent six years with the ANSA core team in Cambridge researching distributed object architectures, specialising in distributed object type systems.

David Frankel
Lead Standards Architect - Model Driven Systems, SAP Labs
David Frankel is Lead Standards Architect for Model-Driven Systems at SAP Labs. His career in the software industry spans over 25 years, during which he has had experience as a software developer, architect, and technical strategist. He is the author of many published articles and sole author of the book Model-Driven Architecture(r): Applying MDA(r) to Enterprise Computing, published by John Wiley & Sons in 2003. He also is lead editor of the book The MDA Journal: Model Driven Architecture Straight from the Masters, published by Meghan-Kiffer Press in 2004. He served several terms as an elected member of the OMG Architecture Board, and was intimately involved in the OMG's launch of Model Driven Architecture. He is the co-author of several industry standards, including COM-CORBA Interworking, the UML(r) Profile for CORBA(r), and the UML Profile for EJB. Recently he has been working on the role of model-driven systems in enterprise SOA.

Alan Hartman
Manager of the MDE technology group, IBM Haifa Research Lab
Alan Hartman is currently the manager of the model-driven engineering technology group at the IBM Haifa Research Lab, and a core management team member of the ModelWare project for the creation of methodologies, infrastructure and tools for model-based software engineering. Recently, he served as the coordinator of the EC Fifth Framework AGEDIS research project, which created a methodology and tools for automated test generation and execution of distributed software. After a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Waterloo in Canada, Alan joined the IBM Haifa Research Lab in 1983. Since then, his research has focused on storage technologies, mathematical optimization, and hardware and software verification. For three years, he served as the manager of the algorithms and optimization team, creating advanced tools for the solution of industrial problems and communications network design. 

Alan has a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Newcastle in Australia, an M.Sc. in mathematics from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and a B.Sc. in mathematics from Monash University in Australia. He has published over 50 research papers and holds nine patents.