Our Seminars Are Taught By Experts.

Tom Debevoise, Business Knowledge Architects
Tom Debevoise is the Vice President of Technology for BKA. Tom has over 20 years of experience in developing operational systems, business process management, business rules, and data warehouse applications. He has served in many roles on many different application developments. Mr. Debevoise is the author of the 2005 text, "Business Process Management with a Business Rules approach". Mr. Debevoise is also the author of the 1999 Prentice-Hall text, "The Data Warehouse Method", one of the most comprehensive discussions of data warehousing methodology available. Tom has spoken at many conferences on the topics of Process Management, Business Rules, and the Service-Oriented Architecture. He has a BS and an MS in Engineering from George Washington University.

Jacques-Alexandre Gerber , Intalio Software
Jacques- Alexandre  Gerber is the OEM Directory of Intalio, the Open Source BPMS Company. Jacques has been part of the world-class engineering team that created the first standards-based business process management system (BPMS), defining the scope and functionality of this new bred of enterprise software. Jacques has participated in many major partnerships and industry alliances, most notably founding the Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI.org), the standards body for BPM technologies. He majored in engineering at the Ecole des Mine de Nancy (France).

Jon Graff, Business Knowledge Architects
Jon serves as the software development manager at BKA. He is an experienced designer and developer of advanced database-driven applications and graphical visualization technologies on the Web. He has 9 years of software engeering experience, much of it related to business rules application in Defence Department projects. Jon is a co-founder of OpenLexicon, an open-source business rules management project. Jon has a BS in computer engineering from Virginia Tech.