Dan Gisolfi
Mashup Enabler, Emerging Internet Technologies, IBM Software Group

As a proven high-energy technical leader with diverse lab and worldwide field experience, Dan is highly-regarded for his ability to match emerging technologies against customer business needs and how to be an intensely productive internal advocate for customers. He is currently focusing his efforts on the incubation of PHP frameworks and runtimes that will help to enable business professionals to create composite applications. Dan holds a Masters Degree in Artificial Intelligence from Polytechnic University, and BA in Computer Science from Manhanttanville College. Dan’s career with IBM has included software and product development projects in the areas of Expert Systems, OS/2, Secure Internet Payment Systems, Web Services and RIA Accessibility. Regardless of the technology domain, Dan’s forte is end-to-end solution consulting – including evangelism, architecture definition, contract negotiations, business development and product promotion – around emerging technologies. His current focus is on the adoption enablement of situational applications by driving customer engagements around IBM’s enterprise mashup technologies. Dan has a keen interest in topics that pertain to the validation of the evolving mashup ecosystem (widget standards, common vernacular, content copyright, monetization, etc) In his spare time Dan is an award wining winemaker and Joomla webmaster for a number of non-profit organizations.