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Unisys Technology Forum 2007 Queenstown, New Zealand

Unisys Technology Forum 2007: Client Experience and Technology Update 1

AGENDA

Monday, 14 May 12:00 Lunch

Crowne Plaza Hotel ThreeSixty Restaurant

1:00 Opening Remarks and Introductions – Crowne II

Ian Arrighi, Unisys

1:20 Keynote - Visibility is Central to Success – Crowne II

Steve Parker , Managing Director, Unisys Australia and New Zealand

Unisys Australia and New Zealand, Managing Director, Steve Parker will address the audience on the changing nature of business and technology and the need for visibility in driving success. Organisations more than ever require the capability to see beyond the immediate, to align and integrate, to excel and innovate. All the while minimising risk, and delivering top-line growth with bottom-line profit. He will highlight trends, solutions and why this is so meaningful to Unisys and our customers.

2:00 Brief Intermission

CIO Stream – Crowne II Technical Stream – Crowne III

2:05 3D-VE Business Visibility

Gregor MacKenzie, Account Manager, Unisys

This presentation will help you make better decisions to grow a more responsive, efficient and effective IT organisation. Applying the framework of 3DVE (3 Dimensional Visible Enterprise) will make you more informed about the choices you have and take the uncertainty away from understanding the consequences of your decisions. This presentation will provide you with an overview of the 3DVE framework and provide you with examples of real-life CIO problems that have been solved through

2:05 AB Suite Status Update

LNV Samy, Director - Australian Centre for Unisys Software, Systems and Technology, Unisys

This presentation will cover a high level overview of the AB Suite, status update including a high level overview of the upcoming release. The presentation will also cover the status of the implementation / migration by some of the customers.



the visibility 3DVE provides.


2:50 Building the Road to a Real-Time Infrastructure

Jim Thompson, Vice President and General Manager, Open Source Development, Systems & Technology, Unisys

Industry analysts envision a world where IT infrastructures are autonomic, automatic, invisible, available, low cost, and totally responsive to the business needs of the enterprise. But the path to achieve this state of “IT Nirvana” is rarely articulated. Unfortunately, too many roadmaps to “IT Nirvana” offer a continuous cycle of incremental improvements to current product lines, when truly transformational steps are needed to achieve a new level of capabilities.

This presentation will discuss specific core innovations within a roadmap that will transform the current IT state-of-the-art – delivering Unisys Real-Time Infrastructure that provides cost effective, consistent, and predictable Business Quality of Service for the enterprise.

3:30 Break – Crowne I

Play TrackJack: Next-generation Blackjack live at the Unisys Technology Forum

Visibility allows you to manage people and goods more efficiently, predictably and securely. RFID can give your commercial operations visibility and create opportunities for new interfaces with suppliers, partners, customers and employees. Come and see visibility in action for yourself and play TrackJack: Next-generation Blackjack.

2:50 Demo on AB Suite capabilities

David Forrester, Senior Engineer – Australian Centre for Unisys Software, Systems and Technology, Unisys

This will give an overview of the AB Suite and cover some of the general AB Suite aspects

3:55 Is Virtualisation a Megatrend?

Ted Buiting, Director Infrastructure Optimisation Solutions, Systems & Technology, Unisys

Virtualisation is an enabling, paradigm shifting capability for the x86 environment, which, within a very short span of time, has grown in



Visibility allows you to manage people and goods more efficiently, predictably and securely. RFID can give your commercial operations



adoption and prominence to the point where it is being regarded as mainstream. The high level of satisfaction engendered by virtual machine technology at this stage is associated primarily with its ability to quickly deliver tactical, high ROI results focused on consolidation and provisioning. Its greatest potential however, may lie in its ability to act as a catalyst to drive transformative change, moving IT from a cost centre to a disciplined, rationalised, integrated component of an agile real time infrastructure. The challenge is in determining how to balance short term needs (and obvious benefits) with strategic potential.

visibility and create opportunities for new interfaces with suppliers, partners, customers and employees. Come and see visibility in action for yourself and play TrackJack: Next-generation Blackjack.

4:35 Responding to our Changing Global Environment

Chris Teeling, Account Manager, Unisys

This is an essential session to help leaders understand the lightning-fast IT and business changes occurring globally and how to respond. This session will discuss today’s drivers for change. The focus of this session is:

• What are the drivers of change today? • What impacts may we see on businesses, working environment,

colleagues, staff and families? • Opportunity or threat? How should we view these impacts? • Based on your view what is an appropriate response? And how do

you seize opportunities by setting the direction for people, processes and technology.


4:35 AB Suite Migration

Mike Heggen, Engineering Project Manager – Australian Centre for Unisys Software, Systems and Technology, Unisys

This presentation will cover a high level overview of the migration to AB Suite from EAE. The presentation will also cover some tips based on experiences from the field in migration to AB Suite.

5:20 CIO Dilemma … Risk vs. Revolution!

Marcel van den Assum, Professional Director and Independent Advisor

This presentation will discuss the tension between compliance and creativity, continuous improvement and transformation … typical challenges for the CIO and the governance structure that supports them.

5:20 Demo on AB Suite Migration


This will give an overview of the migration from EAE 3.3 to AB Suite 1.2 and some tips




6:05 User Experience

Richard Hutton, CIO, AMI Insurance Limited

6:00 Move to CIO Stream for 6:05 session

OR

Continue with Demo on AB Suite Migration

6:35 Drinks – Crowne I


7:40 Meet in hotel lobby to depart for Unisys Gala Dinner



Tuesday, 15 May 8:00 ”Kick-off” Day – Crowne II

Don't miss this important session. Logistics for the afternoon activities will be discussed. Also, come see the photos from yesterday.


CIO Stream – Crowne II Technical Stream – Crowne III

8:25 Security and Biometrics in Asia Pacific

Terry Hartman, Director and Global Solution Lead, Secure Identification & Biometrics, Unisys Asia Pacific

This session discusses the rapid shift in organisations approach to identity management since 11 September 2001. Why has this happened? What are biometrics all about? How has Government driven this shift? How is Unisys involved? What does the future hold?

8:25 Presentation on AB Suite Debugger

Paul Bourke, Senior Engineer - Australian Centre for Unisys Software, Systems and Technology, Unisys

This presentation will give an overview of the AB Suite Debugger followed by a demo of using the AB Suite 1.2 Debugger and some tips.

9:05 Unisys Security Index – Results, Trends and Implications

Graham Alston, Partner, Global Financial Services, Unisys

The Unisys Security Index is New Zealand’s first regular snapshot of community sentiment on issues such as identity theft, terrorism, health epidemics and credit card fraud. Developed in conjunction with Consumer Link, one of New Zealand’s leading market research companies, the Index provides a regular, statistically robust measure of perceptions towards four areas of security - National, Financial, Internet and Personal security. In addition to a standardised set of questions in each survey, specific, one-off questions are included alongside the Index to reflect key issues at that point in time. Launched in 2006 Unisys has now conducted three surveys in New Zealand. The Index is also conducted in each of Australia, Singapore, Malaysia and

9:10 Demo on AB Suite Debugger




Hong Kong.

This session will consider the Security Index structure and background, the latest NEW ZEALAND results, some of the trends we are seeing both nationally and internationally; and some of the implications arising from the survey results.



10:05 Application Management

Susan McLean, Manager - Application Management Services, Unisys

This presentation will discuss how Unisys Application Management Services can help you better align IT with your ever changing business requirements.

10:05 Join CIO Stream for 10:05 session

OR

Continue Demo

OR

Break


10:35 Modernising with Open Systems and Open Standards

Ali Shadman, Vice President and General Manager, Chief Technology Office, Systems & Technology, Unisys

Application modernisation can be complex. Drivers can include operational costs, lack of skills, architectural alignment (eg SOA,) compliance needs and competitive pressures.

We will discuss why a holistic approach to application modernisation is critical to successfully address a modernisation initiative and show you the many different solutions that we can offer for a specific business need.

We will also walk you through a proof-point on moving IBM COBOL

10:35 Presentation on Client Tools in EAE and AB Suite

John Papachristos, Senior Engineer - Australian Centre for Unisys Software, Systems and Technology, Unisys

This presentation will give an overview of the recent capabilities in Client Tools for EAE and AB Suite.



applications to a modern technology environment.

11:15 Brief Intermission 11:20 Brief Intermission

11:25 Sponsor Presentation – SMA - Crowne II

The Dynamics of IT Automation – Creating a Real Time Infrastructure - Bridging the IT Gap by Leveraging your Current IT Staff and Budget

Michael Taylor, President and CEO, SMA

This presentation will discuss the challenges facing today’s CIO as they encounter growing complexity, changing information technology, rapidly changing business needs, explosion of data and tools, growing regulatory compliance, increasing labour costs and turn over, decreasing skills, all while SLA’s are becoming more demanding. SMA will discuss how IT Automation plays a key role in gaining control, reducing costs yet providing a step towards a Real Time Infrastructure needed to rapidly respond to business requirements.

12:00 Lunch – ThreeSixty Restaurant

Sponsored by SMA

Afternoon Activities

12:15 Golf Departs – pickup box lunch in lobby

1:15 Wine Tasting Departs

1:45 Jet Boating – meet in lobby for short walk to Jet Boat pier

6:15 Drinks – ThreeSixty Bar

Also, in the ThreeSixty Bar, Play TrackJack: Next-generation Blackjack live at the Unisys Technology Forum

7:15 Dinner – ThreeSixty Restaurant

Sponsored by SMA



Wednesday, 16 May 8:15 “Kick-off” Day – Crowne II

Stream 1 – Crowne II Stream 2 – Crowne III

8:30 ClearPath Hardware and Software Update

Stuart Smith, Program Manager, Unisys

ClearPath solutions continue to provide significant new enhancements which provide superior business value. Our operating environments contain incredibly rich functionality with stability and security unavailable in other solutions. This session will provide an overview of the key developments in ClearPath MCP and OS2200 systems since the last conference including our Next Generation strategy. We will review the new ClearPath server offerings, including our new approach to EAE workloads and update you on the new ClearPath Release and Support policy changes.

8:30 Demo on AB Suite Client Tools


This will give an overview of the Client Tools and cover some of the new and exciting features of Client Tools and some tips.

9:15 Sponsor Presentation - Sun Microsystems

Data Security – Not Optional Anymore

Kurt Zimmerman, Sun Microsystems (home of StorageTek solutions)

This session begins with an overview of the direction of Sun Microsystems and moves on to how the data security threat landscape has shifted and why data security is one of the top 5 issues in IT today. Learn how Sun is addressing data security at all levels with a spotlight on data encryption as the last layer of defence in storage. But encryption is not new. So why doesn’t everyone use it? Learn how today’s storage technology reduces complexity and risk, is low cost, and has zero performance penalty. Implementing encryption takes planning so take action today to learn what you need to do to truly

9:10 Move to Stream 1 for 9:15 session OR continue with Demo on AB Suite Client Tools



protect your data.


9:50 Making the MOST of Automation

Jim Malnati, Unisys Automation Consultant, Unisys and Neville Kroeger, Senior Vice President of Technology, SMA

Maximum Operations and Systems Trust (MOST) is a suite of SMA and Unisys point products that synergistically solve data centre problems. After a brief introduction to MOST, this presentation will focus on how customers are using OpCon/xps, Operations Sentinel (SPO), and EOM (DEPCON) to reduce costs and improve quality. Each product solves different pieces of the Systems Management puzzle, and this presentation will describe how real-world sites continue to benefit years after implementation. Return On Investment is naturally high, but when these products are implemented together the returns are vast. This presentation will describe how companies have implemented MOST and exactly how they have benefited.

9:50 AB Suite Workshop #1 Version Control - Attendance limited to 6


You heard the presentations and saw the demonstrations on AB Suite Client Tools, Debugger and Migration Capabilities.

Get hands on experience with Agile Business Suite Version Control with Borland StarTeam. Learn to control and track development of your Agile Business Suite applications.



10:35 Break (optional) – Crowne I


10:50 That was Then and This is Now

Jim Malnati, Unisys Automation Consultant, Unisys, and Neville Kroeger, Senior Vice President of Technology, SMA

This will be a fun and interactive session which will be more of a game-show than a presentation!! There will be quiz questions on sport, music, movies and other topics which will all (amazingly) be linked to automation and IT-related topics. Be sure to bring your thinking caps to this session where Jim Malnati and Neville Kroeger will test your knowledge, and at the same time discuss the changing role that automation has had in IT over the past 20 years.

10:50 AB Suite Workshop #2 - Getting the most out of Debugger -Attendance limited to 6


Work through some examples to try some of the exciting features of the Agile Business Suite Debugger in Microsoft Visual Studio .Net 2005 to help get the most out of developing and testing your Agile Business Suite applications.



11:20 SOA Evolution – A high level Business Architecture View

Rudi Chati, Senior Architect, Unisys

This session will discuss the technology and strategic steps for IT modernisation of, integration with and transformational approaches for the ClearPath system. The technology building blocks and their positioning on the "road" to SOA will be shown embedded in the strategic steps of the application modernisation. This should allow high level conclusions on the business value and versatility of the ClearPath systems in the SOA environment.


Sponsored by Sun Microsystems


1:00 ClearPath Java Strategy and Directions


According to Gartner many new development projects will be implemented using Java/J2EE. Unisys has strongly embraced this market trend and incorporated support for Java a key strategic component in the future ClearPath servers and operating environments. Our Java strategy and deliverables are ongoing continuous improvements and we will discuss the current solutions coming up in 2007.

1:00 ES7000/one Update


We begin our 8th year of leadership in the scale up Intel sever market. We have had a busy year with major announcements, proof points, analyst feedback, new customers and more. Join us to learn about our latest ES7000/one including:

• Support for Intel dual core “Tulsa” Xeon 64 and “Montecito” Itanium 2 CPUs

• Analyst updates including IDC’s data for the “Big Windows server market

• Latest on our ES7000 client based availability study • Latest benchmarks and proof points with a comparison to your

ES7000s • New certification and availability for VMware’s latest product ESX 3.0 • Virtualisation Comparison of scale up ES7000s VS commodity



servers • Who’s using the ES7000 today and for what types of solutions • ... and more


1:50 ClearPath and SOA Evolution – the Technology Standards and Building Blocks Architecture View


This session will discuss the industry standard software available in the ClearPath portfolio for constructing the various service layers in a SOA – including segregation and abstraction of the business logic from data access logic. The re-usability of these service layers in the construction of a composite application is required for the modernisation transformation step and for execution. This understanding is important for Technology Officers and Application Modernisation Architects and will help in refining the IT modernisation, integration and transformation strategies. The versatility and agility of the ClearPath systems in SOA will be illustrated using various proof-of-concept scenarios.

1:50 AB Suite Workshop #3 - Using the .NET based Generators / Dynamic Presentation Properties - Attendance limited to 6


In this workshop, you will learn how to configure and generate with the .NET based Component Enabler generators in the Agile Business Suite environment (ASP.NET WebForms, ASP.NET Web Services and VB.NET). Also covered is the Dynamic Presentation Properties feature, which allows you to dynamically modify certain properties of the controls on a form, using host application logic. For example, change the background colour of a field in error to red.



3:10 The Realities of Virtualisation


This interactive session will provide a dialogue on the practical place of virtual machine technology in the IT infrastructure of today; surveying use cases, comparing competitive offerings, reviewing strengths and weaknesses, as well as discussing architectural choices – generally investigating the evolution of this fast changing capability. It is intended that discussion will be driven by the interests, circumstances, and goals of the

3:10 AB Suite Workshop #4 - WinForm & WebForm Renderers - Attendance limited to 6


This workshop introduces the capabilities of the WinForm and WebForm Renderers in the VB.NET and ASP.NET Client environments respectively. Learn how to add a Renderer to your client application project, and configure it to connect to your host system. Experiment with the flexibility provided by the Renderers to enhance your client



participants and will allow for the free flow and exchange of information to the benefit of all. A Unisys practitioner from our Worldwide Services Operations team will also join us to provide us with the benefit of his knowledge and experience.

application.


4:15 Credit Card Fraud and Security

Tom Trusty, Independent Banking Technology and Plastic Card Fraud Consultant

How secure is the PIN Select system at your bank? Can an outsider reverse engineer the bank's card base? What are all those programmers up to? This presentation explores the darker side of card processing systems used by many banks today, including topics such as merchant fraud, ‘carders’, customer select PIN systems, key management, insider risks and fraud detection.

Containing several real-life, first hand experiences and case studies, and with an emphasis on bank-threatening systemic fraud, this session will open your eyes to the risks present in the plastic card business.

4:15 Data Centre Automation Workshop

Jim Malnati, Unisys Automation Consultant, Unisys and Neville Kroeger, Senior Vice President of Technology, SMA and Andrew Wass, Business Development Manager, Systems & Technology - Asia Pacific, Unisys

Talk with the experts about automation. Discuss your data centre operations and learn if automation can assist in streamlining your business processes. Don't be bashful. This session is completely open and for your benefit. Bring us your dirty laundry and we’ll get it washed, pressed, and delivered. Just kidding! Ask the experts questions such as “We’ve always wanted to automate our file transfers: how can we do that robustly?” Or “We have stacks of consoles in our data centre: how can we make the operators feel comfortable running our mission-critical systems from a high-level, graphical interface?” Or “Our printed output is wasteful and legacy-looking: how can we transform it into a web-based solution?” We have the answers, but we need you to ask the questions. Come along and bring your data centre problems!” A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!

5:00 Break – Crown I




5:20 Smart Cards

Tim Hogan, Practice Director (Telecommunications), Unisys

Smart cards are now becoming a requirement in certain industries as increased security is required in the prevention of fraud and identity theft. Smart cards are not just for the replacement of credit cards, but also have many applications in your businesses today.

This presentation will cover the types of cards, how they can be used and where the future lies.

A live demonstration of the technology accompanies this presentation.

5:20 SOA Workshop #1


Talk with a leading Unisys expert on SOA, Rudi Chati. Let Rudi guide you in your transformation to a Service Oriented Architecture. This is an informal session exchanging ideas, brainstorming and even possibly laying the foundation for the "road to a Service Oriented Architecture."

6:05 Sponsor Presentation – Hitachi Data Systems

Storage Economics

Michael Cunningham, Director, Consulting & Solutions

According to Gartner "Purchase price of data storage is one seventh the total cost of ownership". This session has been designed to help identify costs savings within your organisation and save you money over your storage solutions lifetime. Hitachi will share with you its proven approach to defining a cost effective storage model for any organisation.

6:00 Move to Stream 1 for 6:05 session

OR

Continue with SOA Workshop #1

6:35 Drinks – Crowne I

Drinks Sponsored by Caritor


7:40 Meet in hotel lobby to depart for Dinner at Dux de Lux Restaurant and Pub

Sponsored by Hitachi Data Systems and Sun Microsystems



Thursday,17 May 8:15 “Kick-off” Day – Crowne II


8:30 From Blackjack to Business: RFID in the Enterprise

RFID Research Group (NZ)

You played the game, now hear the real story. RFID is playing a major role in global security and commerce by providing real-time visibility to key business processes. In 2007, industry leaders need to consider how RFID could form part of their overall business strategy. This presentation will include a basic introduction to the technology, a live demonstration and some key RFID success stories.

8:30

9:15 Metered Storage

Graeme Denne, Unisys

A new and exciting way to buy storage. Think about having storage capacity that can meet your requirements for the next several years addressed today, but you only pay when you use it, not when it’s delivered.

For companies whose storage requirements grow continually, you can now get all the storage you will need for the next 3, 4, or 5 years, today, and only pay for it when you actually need to use it.

Think about it - All your storage requirements for the next several years addressed today, but you only pay when you use it, not when it’s delivered. It’s not a purchase and it’s not a lease, it’s a usage model.

AB Suite Workshop #5 - Attendance limited to 6

This workshop will be a repeat of one of the previous Workshops according to popular demand. Get your preference in and we will happily go through one of the workshops again.





10:00 Core Business Transformation: Simplifying management complexity in ClearPath composite application development


Industry analysts such as Gartner, IDC, and Forrester are calling Software Configuration Management a "must have" solution. Increasing regulatory compliance, brittle and inflexible processes, missed deadlines and budget overruns are no longer just IT project issues but have the attention of senior executives as strategic business issues. SOA projects are now becoming mainstream and heterogeneous development projects for composite applications are the new business reality. Unisys has a progressive solution that uses a common, work flow enabled approach to managing the development of .NET, Unisys, and Unix/Linux based technologies in a single framework. We address the strategy and approach and then show how it is possible to manage Agile Business Suite, C++, COBOL, and Eclipse (Java or other Open source projects) development in an integrated fashion. A small demonstration will be part of the presentation.

10:00 SOA Workshop #2


Talk to Rudi about SOA. Let Rudi guide you in your transformation to a Service Oriented Architecture. This is an informal session exchanging ideas, brainstorming and even possibly laying the foundation for the "road to a Service Oriented Architecture"

11:00 Safeguard

Graeme Denne, Unisys

Server/Storage Agnostic Data Protection – from anywhere in the world – and now ClearPath too!

This presentation will discuss:

• SafeGuard 30m, delivering automated, cost-effective application failover and recover to operations (RTO) in 30 minutes or less through its capability to access data from a backup site anywhere in the world. In Microsoft SQL Server environments SafeGuard 30m can provide complete, cost-effective data protection using both data

11:00 AB Suite Workshop #6 - Attendance limited to 6

Last Chance Opportunity at the Unisys Technology Forum for a hands-on experience with AB Suite.

This workshop will be a repeat of one of the previous Workshops according to popular demand. Get your preference in and we will happily go through one of the workshops again.



replication and server clustering. • SafeGuard Duplex, a new, advanced capability providing data

protection by replicating critical data to a backup site. SafeGuard Duplex protects data associated with a wide range of operating systems, including HP-UX, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, Linux and Microsoft Windows, as well as storage systems from HP, IBM, EMC and Hitachi.

• SafeGuard CDP (Continuous Data Protection), Local data replication

11:30 ClearPath integration into SOA modernised applications – operational & practical aspects


This session will give a view of the various tools available for the development, run-time, monitoring and stress testing of a SOA environment. Practical experiences from various proof-of-concept scenarios will be discussed. Special emphasis will be placed on detecting potential issues with scalability and performance in the early modernisation stages.


12:15 Conference Closing – Crowne II

David Ireland, Unisys


Sponsored by Hitachi Data Systems



Unisys Technology Forum 2007 Presenters

Graham Alston Partner, Global Financial Services, Unisys

Graham is Partner for Unisys Global Financial Services in New Zealand and is responsible for all financial services projects and business in New Zealand. He is a member of the Unisys New Zealand executive management team.

Graham has over 23 years experience in information technology, the vast majority working in the financial services sector, and joined Unisys New Zealand in 1999 after ten years with Unisys in the United Kingdom. In the UK Graham held a number of senior positions including Technical Director for the UK Financial Services Practice, Chief Architect, Retail Banking UK and Europe and as European Operations Management Practice Manager.

Graham has worked with many major financial institutions in the UK and across Europe including in Portugal, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Netherlands and Belgium prior to working with all major banks in New Zealand and a 10 month secondment in Australia.

Whilst having a very strong technical background, and architectures in particular, his main focus has always been on delivery of business outcomes. He has worked at a senior level in many organisations assisting them in developing strategies and architectures to enable organisational change. Over his career Graham has gained a broad experience in a number of demanding systems integration projects.

With an interest in ‘the learning organisation’ and continuous improvement Graham established a European Estimating Centre of Excellence for Unisys and facilitates training in consultancy skills, estimation and risk management.

Graham holds an honours degree in computer science, is a Senior Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Banking and Finance and a member of the UK Association for Project Management. He is married with three young children.

Paul Bourke Senior Software Engineer - Australian Centre for Unisys Software, Systems and Technology, Unisys

Paul Bourke is the Technical Lead for the Agile Business Suite Debugger. Paul has been with ACUS for nearly 10 years working on the EAE and Agile Business Suite Development Environments, including EAE Version Control, Agile Business Suite Developer and Agile Business Suite Debugger.



Ted Buiting Director Infrastructure Optimisation Solutions, Systems & Technology, Unisys

Ted Buiting has been a prime developer of infrastructure optimisation solutions for Unisys on the x86 platform for several years. Most recently, he has spearheaded efforts to understand and demonstrate the significant operational and related ROI benefits, as well as the limitations, associated with the disciplined deployment of virtualisation technologies in a scale up, enterprise class environment. Prior to this work, Ted was involved in developing the ES7000 database server program and application integration and modernisation of the ClearPath environment. He also had a significant career in the financial management of the Systems & Technology business at Unisys, experience which he continues to call upon to inform his work in championing customer value.

Rudi Chati Senior Architect, Unisys

Rudi Chati has worked for Unisys for over 30 years primarily in transaction and data base field support. Since 1994 Rudi has been focusing on products supporting the X/Open Distributed Transaction Processing standard. These products include Unisys Open DTP, Siemens Open UTM and the products, such as Tuxedo, from BEA. In addition, special attention has been placed on IBM MQSeries and JBoss Professional Open Source. Rudi has extensive experience using various adapter and connector technologies for transaction integration and for the building of Middleware Bus Architectures for integration with .Net and J2EE. These technologies form the ground work for IT evolution into EAI/ESB/BPM/SOA/MDA paradigms.

Rudi has extensive experience in helping clients assess appropriate middleware technologies and integration paths best suited for their specific business needs. He has conducted many jump-start integration workshops for many lines of business including airline, banking, insurance, and commercial around the world including Europe, Africa, North America, South America, Australia and New Zealand. The workshops focus on various technology scenarios including J2EE Open Source on Unisys mainframes and non-mainframe servers.

Michael Cunningham Director, Solutions and Consulting, Hitachi Data Systems

Michael Cunningham manages the Business Consulting practice for Hitachi Data Systems Australia and New Zealand. The focus of Business Consulting within Hitachi is value definition, business case development and analysis, process and business alignment, effective risk management and delivery of tangible return on storage investment.

Previously, Michael was the Director, Solution Services and Support at Hitachi where he was responsible for the Hitachi Data Systems Global Solution Services business and Customer Service workforce who implement the application of Hitachi storage technologies in some of Australia’s largest corporations. He assumed this role after managing the national pre-sales organisation for Hitachi.

Previous roles have included Program Marketing Manager for Business Continuity at EMC, Technical Director and Business Technologist for Computer Associates, Systems Management Consultant for Coles Myer Ltd and Pre Sales Consultant at Southmark Computer Systems. He has also held positions with PMP as well as the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF).



Graeme Denne Unisys

David Forrester Senior Software Engineer - Australian Centre for Unisys Software, Systems and Technology, Unisys

David Forrester has been with Unisys for 8 years developing and supporting the EAE and Agile Business Suite Developments, including EAE Developer, Agile Business Suite Developer and Agile Business Suite Version Control. David has 21 years of software development experience in mainframe and PC environments.

Terry Hartman Director and Global Solution Lead, Secure Identification & Biometrics, Unisys Asia Pacific

Terry Hartmann is Director and Global Solution Lead, for Secure Identification & Biometrics, for Unisys Corporation.

Based in Canberra Australia, Terry has overall responsibility for developing and implementing Unisys homeland security strategy, and since joining Unisys in 2004, Terry has built a vibrant enterprise security practice within the Asia-Pacific region.

Terry has over 20 years’ experience in the IT industry and is an internationally recognised authority on all aspects of homeland security and positive-identification technology, including briefing of foreign governments, the media, and many speaking engagements internationally.

Terry continues to play a major role in the development of biometrics standards for positive-identification, as a member of the International Civil Aviation Organisation’s (ICAO) New Technologies Working Group, as a technical expert to the International Standards Organisation (ISO) on biometrics, and as a Director of the Australian Biometrics Institute. ICAO is responsible for setting world standards for travel documents – Terry was Chairman of the ICAO ePassports Task Force for its duration, and in that context coined the term “ePassport” to describe more simply “contactless integrated circuit biometric passports”. Terry is Technical Editor for ISO SC37 Facial Recognition Interoperability standards, and he wrote the travel document Biometrics Deployment Technical Report endorsed by ICAO in May 2004.

Prior to joining Unisys, Terry was responsible for leading-edge research and development, strategic planning and implementation of business process transformation in his role as Information Technology Manager for Passports Australia - part of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. He played a key role in establishing the Australian public sector as a world leader in biometrics technologies.

Terry has a Bachelor of Science Honours level degree specialising in Computer Science and Pure Mathematics from Australian National University, in Canberra.



Tim Hogan Practice Director (Telecommunications), Unisys

Tim Hogan is the Practice Director in the telecommunications industry in New Zealand. His focus is on value added solutions in the telecommunications market.

Tim has over 25 years experience in Unisys, having worked in a variety of positions. He joined Unisys, formally Burroughs, as a Hardware Engineer specialising in mainframe engineering. As an engineer, he also became heavily involved in the emerging use of microprocessor and micro-controller technology.

After hardware engineering, Tim lead a team to support Asia Pacific on systems software and operating systems. During this time Tim became internationally recognised as a leading expert in specific mainframe software and solutions and was highly valued for his ability to diagnose and find the root causes to problems. During this time, Tim developed leading performance and benchmarking tools which were subsequently used around the world.

In 1991 Tim was one of the original three people who started the telecommunications integration and value-added services team within Unisys New Zealand. He was heavily involved in the architecture and design of the voice-mail system used today by Telecom New Zealand. Tim was a key innovator in the creation of new services for telecommunication companies worldwide, which saw recognition of the work New Zealand was doing, enabling it to become one of three worldwide centres of excellence in communications.

In 1997 Tim was assigned the roll as lead architect for the New Zealand COE and participated in the Unisys global architecture team, which consisted of representatives from the other COEs in the United States and France.

Tim has a private interest in Radio Frequency communications, being a licensed Amateur Radio operator since 1975. He has constructed and maintained his own radio equipment, and worked with the early data over radio communications. Tim also brought his computing and programming skills to enable noise compression techniques using Digital Signal Processing in this environment

Mike Heggen Engineering, Project Manager - Australian Centre for Unisys Software, Systems and Technology, Unisys

Mike is currently responsible for all ACUS project management activities including; project engineering processes, all deliverables from both development and product support groups, Integration Testing, Final Acceptance Testing, SQA, Product Information & Education, IT Services and Global Sourcing. His group manages ACUS project teams in Sydney, Bangalore and Shanghai.

Mike Heggen has been with Unisys for over 15 years and has been associated with the LINC, EAE and Agile Business Suite product line for much of that time. His involvement with LINC began in 1993 when ACUS assumed increasing responsibility for the development and support of the product. Prior to joining Unisys Mike worked with Price Waterhouse in their consulting practice.



Neville Kroeger Senior Vice President of Technology, SMA

Neville Kroeger joined SMA in Houston, Texas, in 1993 and was responsible for the design, development, and release of SMA’s enterprise-wide automation solution, OpCon/xps. Mr. Kroeger has been part of the IT industry since 1974, specialising in applications development and systems management in banking, manufacturing and government.

Neville has been a regular presenter at IT conferences around the world. His 20 years experience as a ‘customer’ allied with his current role as a Systems Management tool developer and ‘supplier’ enables him to share a balanced perspective on automation and systems management with his audiences.

Gregor MacKenzie Account Manager, Unisys

Gregor Mackenzie has been with Unisys for 10 years working as a consultant, project manager and managing outsourcing engagements. Gregor was a core member of the team that developed and rolled out the 3DVE Outsourcing framework and has worked with many clients to adopt the framework. Gregor has worked across various industries including airlines, utilities, government and retail. Prior to joining Unisys Gregor worked for Andersen Consulting in the strategy practice.

Susan McLean Manager - Application Management Services, Unisys

Susan McLean is the regional manager for Application Management Services.

Susan is responsible for the end to end delivery of the software development life cycle for Unisys clients. Susan has 15 years experience in the IT Industry with a majority of the experience in delivery operations. Susan has worked in the financial, telecommunication and public sectors in the Asia Pacific region.

Jim Malnati Unisys Automation Consultant, Unisys

Jim Malnati has been working in the data centre automation field for over 15 years. He has seen the internal workings of most data centres shift from one of highly staffed chaos to automated, efficient operation. Unisys Operations Sentinel (SPO), Enterprise Output Manager (EOM), and SMA OpCon/xps, have profoundly simplified the operation of world-class data centres around the globe. At the same time, these products have reduced costs while improving quality on a daily basis.



Steve Parker Managing Director for Unisys Australia and New Zealand

Steve Parker is the director of the local subsidiary responsible for the profitable growth of the business across the two countries and has held this role since 2005.

Prior to joining Unisys, Steve held a number of senior management roles in Sales, Marketing and Information Technology Outsourcing and Consulting Services for Hewlett Packard both in Australia and the USA with Worldwide responsibility. He has been accountable for multimillion dollar businesses for the past 15 years with considerable experience across remediation, merger and growth agendas.

Over the past 20 years Steve has had considerable engagement with a number of industries - most notably the Telecommunications, Financial Services and the Public Services sectors. For the first seven years of his career Steve was involved in the Public Health sector specialising in Biomedical Engineering – firstly in Cardio Vascular research and then in various Intensive Care clinical environments.

Steve holds a Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Electronics from the Royal Melbourne University of Technology and an MBA from the University of Melbourne. He is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

John Papachristos Senior Software Engineer - Australian Centre for Unisys Software, Systems and Technology, Unisys

John Papachristos has been with Unisys for 19 years developing and supporting numerous products on a variety of platforms. Part of that time was dedicated to the Graphical Interface Workbench software in the area of 3GL Modernisation using screen-scraping techniques. More recently, John has been a member of the Client Tools Team and has contributed to developing client applications using Component Enabler to interface with Enterprise Application Environment and Agile Business Suite systems.

Michael Taylor President and CEO, SMA

Michael Taylor has played an essential role in the ongoing evolution of SMA’s presence in the automated workload management, event management and job scheduling environments. He is actively involved in all aspects of the company’s business development and sales efforts in support of customers around the world. He joined SMA in 1981 and has held various computer operator and programming positions in the Houston office. In 1995, Mr. Taylor advanced to Vice President of Sales, in 1996, he became Executive Vice President and in 1997, he was named President of SMA. Mr. Taylor attended Texas A&M University in the computer science/information systems curriculum. Before SMA, he held positions of technical responsibility at the Port of Houston, Kestran, Inc. and Computer Sciences Corporation. Mr. Taylor serves on the Board of Directors for SMA.



Jim Thompson VP, Unisys

Jim Thompson is the Vice President and General Manager of the Open Source Development organisation within the Unisys Systems & Technology Group. Jim’s organisation is responsible for the development and integration of open source software products and technologies with Unisys enterprise server products as well as development and integration of database, middleware and 4GL application generation products for all Unisys platforms.

Jim’s organisation is global in nature with operations in Malvern, PA, USA; Roseville, MN, USA; Orange County CA, USA; Sydney, Australia as well as Bangalore, India and Shanghai, China. Jim also provides leadership in Unisys’ technology programs in the area of system architecture.

Jim’s career with Unisys spans more than 20 years in various customer facing and engineering roles. Jim also holds several technology patents in the areas of operating systems, storage and banking.

Prior to joining Unisys Jim held various technical positions in several financial institutions and commercial concerns as well as being an independent consultant.

Jim is located in Malvern, Pennsylvania where he lives with his wife and two teen age children.

LNV Samy Director – Applications Development Products, Australian Centre for Unisys Software, Unisys

LNV Samy heads up the Australian Centre for Unisys Software. He is responsible for research, development and plant level support for Enterprise Application Environment and Agile Business Suite products for Unisys globally.

LNV Samy holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) from University of Madras, India, Master of Technology in Software Engineering from Macquarie University, Australia and Master of Business Administration from Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Australia. Samy is a Senior Member of the Australian Computer Society, American Society for Quality and Member of IEEE. He has published many papers in Software Engineering.

Ali Shadman VP & GM Open Source Solutions, Systems & Technology, Unisys

Ali Shadman is Vice President and General Manager of Unisys’ Systems & Technologies Open Source Solutions group where he is responsible for program strategy and execution related to open source suites (stacks), value-add software, integrated offerings and related technology services. Ali has recently been named the Chief Technology Officer of Unisys’ Systems & Technology.

Prior to his current position, Ali was VP and GM of Innovative Programs Business in Systems & Technology group responsible for commercialising leading edge R&D efforts. Before that, Ali was the Vice President of Strategic Software Programs in Unisys Corp.’s Systems & Technology group responsible for various Unisys software products in areas of platform and application management, Java related technologies and application development tooling.



Ali has over 24 years of deep experience covering a broad spectrum of computing covering large systems development, Internet-centric computing and model-driven architectures in a variety of capacities including strategy, marketing, and business development.

In addition to helping leading companies such as Microsoft realise their vision of delivering unique products and services to their enterprise clients, Ali has also founded three companies in areas of database development, business transaction engines and model-based application development.

Ali remains active in helping early stage companies and is a member of the advisory group for University of California, Irvine’s Donald Bren School of Information and Computing Sciences.

Ali Studied Operations Research at London Metropolitan University graduate school after receiving a Double Major with Honours in Mathematics and Computer Sciences at the University of Essex, England.

Stuart Smith Program Manager, Unisys

Stuart Smith is currently Program Manager, ClearPath Solutions & Servers in the Unisys Enterprise Server Group of Systems and Technology focusing on product marketing. He has introduced many key innovations in ClearPath marketing programs and technology. Stuart also manages the Unisys corporate alliance relationship for Attachmate as well as many other ClearPath partners. Stuart holds a BSEE from the University of Virginia and has 3 US patents for "Method for Economic Valuation in Partitioned Computer Systems".

Chris Teeling Account Manager

Chris Teeling’s background is as a principal business consultant and account manager for Unisys supporting executives with the challenge of setting organisational strategy and delivering change. Chris has led ICT strategy practices within Cap Gemini and HP, delivering strategies for government and commercial organisations. His prior roles include the IT Strategy and Innovation Advisor for Fonterra (a $13 billion pa business) and during 5 years in London and New York, he was 2IC to the global head of the Fixed Interest for JP Morgan.

Tom Trusty Independent Banking Technology and Plastic Card Fraud Consultant

Tom Trusty is an independent banking technology and plastic card fraud consultant. Tom has over 20 years of banking technology experience gained in New Zealand, Australia, Thailand, China and the United States. He has been involved in uncovering several high profile fraud incidents in the United States and has first hand experience in both the discovery and the aftermath of technology-related bank fraud.

Tom is a Certified Information Systems Auditor and has a Mathematics degree from the University of Texas.



Marcel van den Assum Professional Director and Independent Advisor

Marcel van den Assum has been in executive leadership positions in Information Services with both supplier and customer, national and global experience. Prior to becoming the inaugural CIO at Fonterra, Marcel was Managing Principal and General Manager Global Outsourcing at Unisys New Zealand working with organisations in the private and public sector. Since handing over the reigns at Fonterra he has embarked on a governance career involving board and steering roles across a range from small startup businesses to large government agencies.

Kurt Zimmerman Strategic Accounts Manager, Sun Microsystems (home of StorageTek solutions)

Kurt has 40 years of experience in the IT industry after graduate degrees from UCLA (USA) in both engineering and business administration. Kurt joined Storage Technology Corporation, in1977 in the newly formed OEM organisation. Since that time he has held several positions devoted to managing relationships with the largest OEM partners for StorageTek (now Sun). Currently, Kurt and his team are responsible for the partner relationship with Unisys world wide. Kurt routinely speaks at technical conferences around the world, sharing his technical expertise and business solution skills with Unisys and their customers.

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