Harish Gaur has more than thirteen years of experience in the enterprise software industry, including more than seven years at Oracle. He is currently the Director of Product Management for Fusion Middleware at Oracle. In his current role, he works closely with strategic customers implementing SOA and BPM using Oracle Fusion Middleware. He is co-author of BPEL Cookbook (2007) and Fusion Middleware Patterns (September, 2010).

Before Oracle, he worked as a Solution Specialist with Vitria Technology, educating customers about the benefits of Business Process Management. Prior to that, he helped Fortune 500 companies architect scalable integration solutions using EAI tools like webMethods and CrossWorlds (now IBM).

Harish holds an engineering degree in Computer Science and has an MBA from Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley.

Clemens Utschig-Utschig works as Platform Architect for the SOA Product Management team at Oracle Headquarters, USA.

As a native Austrian, he started his career years back at the local consulting branch, helping customers designing their next generation JEE and SOAs, as well as doing crisis management for projects abroad.

Since his transfer almost five years ago into engineering, Clemens is responsible for cross-product integration and strategic standards, as well as being a member of Oracle's SOA platform steering committee. In his current role, he serves on the OASIS TC for Service Component Architecture (SCA) and supports customers all around the world on their journey towards implementing enterprise-wide SOA.

In 2006 Clemens co-founded the "Masons-of-SOA", an inter-company network founded by architects of Oracle Germany, Opitz, SOPEra (Eclipse Project Swordfish founders), and EDS, with the mission of spreading knowledge, fostering discussion, and supporting SOA programs across companies and borders.