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• Didier Lamouche
• Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Bull
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  Didier Lamouche is a Graduate of Ecole Centrale Lyon, he also holds a PhD in semi-conductor technology. He started his career in 1984 with the R&D department of Philips before joining IBM Microelectronics where he held several positions in France and the United States. In 1995, he became Director of Operations of Motorola’s Advanced Power IC unit in Toulouse (France). In 1998, he joined IBM to lead the turnaround of the semi-conductor site at Corbeil. Once restructuring and redeployment were achieved, Altis Semiconductor, a subsidiary with Infineon (Siemens Group) was created and managed by Didier Lamouche. The success of Altis Semiconductor enabled the development of a state-of-the-art technologies competence center in the region, and the creation in 2003 of an international research center in the field of magnetic effect memories. Before joining Bull, Didier Lamouche was Vice-President of worldwide semi-conductor manufacturing for IBM, based in the United States.
  
  

• Ian Pratt
• Xen^TM Project Lead/Chief Architect, Serial Entrepreneur
  Co-founder of XenSource
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  Ian Pratt has moved back and forth between academia and industry, working as a member of senior faculty at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, a consultant, and also a founder of a couple of successful start-up companies. Ian led the work on the Xen Hypervisor when it began life as a University research project in 2001, and remains leader and chief architect of the ever-growing Xen open source community today. In 2004 Ian founded XenSource Inc to help realize the commercial potential of Xen and drive his vision of "ubiquitous virtualization". XenSource was recently acquired by Citrix Systems Inc for $500 million.
  
  

• Thomas J. Bittman
• VP Distinguished Gartner Analyst
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  Thomas Bittman is a vice president and a Gartner Fellow with Gartner Research where he is the Chief of Research for Infrastructure and Operations. Mr. Bittman is also the lead analyst responsible for server virtualization and real-time infrastructure architectures. Since early 2000, Mr. Bittman has led the industry with research about the need for more-automated, virtualized and self-managed IT infrastructures. He has helped most leading industry vendors develop strategies and products based on Gartner's real-time infrastructure concepts, in addition to helping hundreds of clients develop strategic plans for their IT infrastructures.
  
  

• Bruce Robertson
• Research VP, Gartner
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  Bruce Robertson is a research vice president at Gartner, Enterprise Planning and Architecture Strategies (EPAS). Mr. Robertson focuses on integrated solution strategies to leverage technology appropriately for applications. He is a coordinator of and coach for Gartner’s EPAS, focusing on enterprise technology architecture and infrastructure planning process and applied technology models such as technical patterns and services. He is co-author of "The Adaptive Enterprise: IT Infrastructure Strategies to Manage Change and Enable Growth" and "Enriching the Value Chain: Infrastructure Strategies Beyond the Enterprise." His expertise covers enterprise technology architecture, infrastructure patterns, technical services, middleware, networking, and identity infrastructure. His project design process description work has proven effective in distinguishing a "not-just-technology" infrastructure planning methodology.
  
  

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