James Taylor
Principal and Co-Founder,
Smart (enough) Systems
James Taylor is a leading expert in Enterprise Decision Management. Prior to co-founding Smart (enough) Systems, Mr. Taylor was a Vice President at Fair Isaac Corporation where he developed and refined the concept of enterprise decision management or EDM. Widely credited with the invention of the term and the best known proponent of the approach, Mr Taylor helped create the emerging EDM market and is a passionate advocate of decision management. Mr. Taylor has 20 years experience in developing approaches and tools that others can use to build more effective information systems. He is an active consultant, speaker and author. He is a prolific blogger and writer and he has contributed to several books.
Paul Vincent
CTO Business Rules & CEP
TIBCO Software Inc.
Paul Vincent is CTO for Business Rules and Event Processing at TIBCO Software. Paul has been applying rule engine technologies for over 20 years in financial services, government, defense, and manufacturing, primarily in the US and Europe. He is a contributor to the OMG PRR and W3C RIF standards efforts on rule modeling and interchange, and to the Event Processing Technical Society, and blogs on complex event processing at tibcoblogs.com/cep. He has a Masters in Intelligent Systems and frequently lectures on real-time decisions, event processing and operational intelligence.
Alan Lundberg
Senior Product Marketing Manager for Business Optimization
TIBCO Software Inc.
Alan Lundberg is senior manager, product marketing for TIBCO Software, Inc. He is responsible for worldwide outbound marketing functions for TIBCO Event Processing and Business Optimization software products.
Alan is a well known author and speaker on Event Processing and has a long record of working with advanced enterprise software products. Prior to TIBCO, Mr. Lundberg was with Hewlett Packard in the HP E-services and HP OpenView software groups. Before HP, he was in product management roles at Inference Corporation, a leading provider of self-service and knowledge management tools for customer service and help desk industries, and at Neuron Data / Blaze Software, a leader in business rule automation software for application with advanced personalization needs. Mr. Lundberg received his M.B.A. from Loyola Marymount University.