Conference Chairs

Ram Kumar
Sakthisoft

Ram Kumar is the director of Sakthisoft Pty Ltd, a company that provides strategic
consulting services to organisations in the areas of IT strategy and architecture,
SOA and Web Services, Open Standards, Interoperability and Integration, Information Management, and IT Governance that includes XML/SOA and Information Asset Governance.

Ram pioneered the concept of XML/SOA Governance Framework to industry in 2000. He has published over 100 articles in international journals and IT conferences and is a regularly invited speaker at various local and international conferences.

Nick Carr
Allette Systems

Nick Carr is the founder and general manager of Allette Systems, a 17 year old systems integrator specialising in XML design, training and implementations. Allette Systems has a long history of implementations using standards-oriented markup languages for such organisations as the Australian Stock Exchange, Sun Microsystems and the Singapore Attorney General’s Chambers.