IT Innovation Experts Forum

MATT EASTWOOD
Group Vice President, IDC Enterprise Platform Group
Matt leads a team of analysts responsible for identifying and analyzing vendor strategies, technology, market and customer trends affecting enterprise platforms worldwide. Frequently quoted in leading business and technology pubs, Matt also manages IDC's Enterprise IT Advisory Council, and speaks at events around the world.

GARY BARNETT
Partner & CTO, The Bathwick Group
Gary provides research services, marketing tools, and market consultancy to a range of IT, government, communications, and media clients in the U.K. Gary's current research interests include — Globalization, Green IT, Innovation, Business-focused IT Strategy, the Role of the CIO, Legacy Modernization and Infrastructure.

DR. JIA CHEN
Office of CTO and Strategic Alliances, IBM Systems & Technology Group
Jia holds both U.S. and foreign patents on molecular devices, memory storage devices, CMOS processes and devices, carbon nanotube electronic and optoelectronic devices. She is the author of over 50 professional publications, and a frequent invited/keynote speaker at professional conferences.

DR. CARL J. ANDERSON
IBM Fellow, Server Design, IBM Systems & Technology Group
Carl joined IBM Research in 1979 where he did circuit design, package design and test on the Josephson Superconducting Computer program. In 2003 he received an honorary Doctor of Science from the University of Wisconsin for his microprocessor accomplishments. He is responsible for physical design and tools in the IBM server division.

JIM RYMARCZYK
IBM Fellow, Chief Virtualization Technologist, IBM Systems & Technology Group
Jim is currently is leading the work on IBM's Virtualization Strategy. He does research on a broad range of future server technologies and designs, which predicts trends and disruptions of significance to the server business, and drives changes to the system-level design of future IBM servers.