Keynote Speakers

Following the very successful previous conferences we will continue to have three very renowned keynote speakers.

Invited Speakers

There will be informative and vibrant invited speakers who will address the conference on a variety of topics relevant to the theme.


Stephen Macdonell

Stephen MacDonell is Professor of Software Engineering and Deputy Director of both the Software Engineering Research Lab (SERL) and the Knowledge Engineering and Discovery Research Institute (KEDRI) at the Auckland University of Technology (AUT). Prior to joining AUT, Stephen held several appointments at the University of Otago, after starting there as a Postdoctoral Fellow in 1993. He was Head of the Department of Information Science at Otago from 1999 to 2001.

Stephen teaches mainly in the areas of information systems development, project management, software engineering and software measurement, and information technology research methods. He undertakes research in software metrics and measurement, project planning, estimation and management, software forensics, and the application of statistical, machine learning and knowledge-based analysis methods to complex data sets, particularly those collected in relation to software engineering.

Stephen also has a strong interest in the form and nature of software engineering. With Andrew Gray, he recently authored a chapter on software engineering management in the Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK).

Stephen holds BCom(Hons) and MCom degrees in information science from the University of Otago and a PhD in software engineering from the University of Cambridge. He is a member of the ACM and the NZCS.


Carlos Scheel-Mayenberger

Professor, Information Technology and
Technological Innovation Strategies.
Director, Center for Performing Technological
Innovation.
EGADE (Graduate Business School)
Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM).
Sucursal J. Monterrey, 64849.
Nuevo Leon. MEXICO.
Tel: (52 81) 8625 6174, 8625 6190
cscheel@itesm.mx
 
 
Background
Dr. Scheel joined Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM) in 1973 as Assistant and Research Fellow appointed by Latin American Teaching Fellowships from Tufts Univ. Medford, Mass. He attained the rank of professor in 1989. At ITESM he has served as co-founder and director of the Computer Engineering carrier, founder of the Doctoral Program and several Master Programs, designer of distance education programs, responsible for research projects in IT and telecommunications and as head of the Graduate School of Computer Sciences and IT from 1985, and from 1998 to 2001, head of the Graduate School of the Division of Electronics, Computing, Information and Communications of the ITESM Campus Monterrey.
 
Dr. Scheel is Senior Research Fellow of the IC2 (Innovation, Creativity and Innovation) Institute of the University of Texas at Austin, and has been Consultant for UNIDO-Vienna, from 1985 in the areas of competitive strategy and industrial policy advice in several countries in Asia, Europe, Central and South America. He was the founder of a Program for the Development of Competitiveness Culture funded in part by UNIDO, India and other countries, with the purpose of achieving competitive standards among SME´s of developing countries. Has been visiting professor in Puerto Rico and other universities in the USA, Europe, Central and South America. He has been working as designer and developer of the technological infrastructure for economic development of regions in Asia (Republic of Armenia, India) and in LA (Ecuador, Colombia, Costa Rica, etc).
 
Dr Scheel has been Principal Investigator on several funded research and applied projects in the areas of application of digital technologies (information and telecommunications) for the leverage and implementation of competitive strategies and global positioning for industrial clusters for Latin American companies. Is the author of more than 50 papers and books. His most recent books are in organizational modeling: Systems Dynamics Modeling Ecosystems (1998), and technological innovation competitive strategy: Competing in Global Arenas (2000).
 
Areas of Expertise.
His research, teaching and consulting includes information technology, organizational modeling, strategic management of technological innovation, and knowledge management. He is currently working on models for the achievement of regional industrial competitiveness, and economic development leveraged by digital technologies, and other organizational structures (as industrial clusters).
 

Bob Roggio

Bob was born and raised in San Francisco
and received degrees as follows:  
B.S. from The University of Oklahoma, (mathematics)
M.S. from Purdue University, (computer science)
Ph.D. from Auburn University, computer engineering.

Having served in the U.S. Air Force for twenty years where he functioned in a number of locations (in the states and overseas) and capacities ranging from systems programmer, applications programmer, project manager, special projects team leader, etc. that embraced a wide range of application domains.  His last nine years were at the Air Force Data Systems Design Center (in Alabama) where he designed, developed and implemented standard systems for Air Force wide use.

Since that time, Bob has been a professor at Auburn University in Montgomery, AL (department of information systems and decision sciences); Auburn University (main campus)(department of computer science and engineering), CIS department chair in the School of Engineering at The University of Mississippi, and then dean of the College of Computing Sciences and Engineering at The University of North Florida (UNF), and since 1994, he has been a professor of computer and information sciences at UNF.  (no longer in administration - had about as much fun as he could stand.)

Bob has been on the Executive Council of Upsilson Pi Epsilon (UPE), the international computing sciences honor society, since 1986 and is in his third term as International President.  UPE's mission is to recognize excellent students in the computing sciences by offering scholarships, participating in the intercollegiate programming contest - Worlds Finals, and similar activities.  Executive council members evaluate new institutional applications for UPE chapters, and, if approved, travel and charter new chapters at these colleges and universities.

His primary areas of academic interest are in the areas of specification, design, and implementation of quality computer applications.  He is a strong advocate of 'process' and quality assurance who teaches software engineering at both the graduate and undergraduate levels for CS students, and teaches a senior project sequence to IS students.  Additionally, He teaches data structures, file structures, computer architecture, various languages, etc.

Bob very much likes to write papers, attend conferences, and network with colleagues with similar interests.  So, he tries to write (and get published) two to three papers each year - if possible.  Bob really enjoys meeting and talking with colleagues.
bob_roggio.jpg Bob is a member of the ACM, a senior member of the IEEE, a member of American Society for Quality, and a member of AITP.