How does convergence manifest itself in the marketplace? What are the driving factors in providing solutions and how does it impact the Enterprise.

Bruce Anthony is an IBM distinguished engineer and chief technical officer for next generation networks in IBM system and technology group. He is responsible for strategy, technology selection, product definition and roadmaps for IBM NGN and telecommunication systems.

In addition, Anthony meets extensively with customers and partners to expand the capabilities and adoption of IBM’s system technologies and spearheads the efforts inside IBM to bring the technology and value of IBM’s systems to IP-based communication solutions. He has been a technical entrepreneur in IBM for more than twenty three years creating many successful products.

Mr. Heit has been with Research in Motion (RIM) since 2000. As a Senior Product Manager and Director David has concentrated on taking RIM’s Small to Medium Business and Enterprise solutions to the next level. As part of this activity he has established the BlackBerry extensibility strategy, succeeding in transforming BlackBerry into a premier wireless application platform. He has evangelized and led BlackBerry efforts in new markets including sales force and field service automation. Mr. Heit has also played an integral part in rounding out the product set including the BlackBerry enterprise solution for Novell GroupWise. His current activities include leading a team dedicated to taking BlackBerry deeper in to the Enterprise including multi-media data and voice applications.

Prior to his time at RIM, Mr. Heit spent 14 years with NCR Corporation and AT&T Global Information Solutions in Product Management, Sales Management and Consulting roles. He has experience developing solutions in a wide range of areas including document management and workflow, financial transaction processing, automatic handwriting recognition and high volume document image archives. Mr. Heit has worked with many organizations and government institutions assisting them in re-engineering their business processes for greater efficiency and improved services by applying new technology. This has ranged in areas from tax processing to wireless field data collection.

David continues to enjoy shaping technology to solve real business problems.

Vivek Khuller is the CEO and founder of DiVitas Networks. Prior to founding DiVitas, Vivek held the position of Venture Partner at Clearstone Venture Partners, where he incubated DiVitas. Vivek also was Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Matrix Partners. Before Matrix, he worked at Sycamore Networks in business development, leading strategic sales for the tier-1 carrier market and managing software business development worth several million dollars. Vivek worked at Verizon Communications in various roles, including Manager of the Internet Center of Excellence as well as in Network Systems Engineering. At Verizon, Vivek received the Spirit of Excellence Chairman’s award – the company’s highest honor – in recognition of his technical leadership.



Vivek earned an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School, an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park, and a BS with Distinction in Electrical Engineering from Mangalore University, India.