Frank W. Schlier is a vice president and distinguished analyst with Gartner Research. Frank's areas of research include application architecture in financial services, business and information technology, and strategic planning in financial services. Prior to joining Gartner, Frank was president and CEO of WhiteWater Information Technologies, a software product development and marketing company serving the financial services industry. Previously, he served on the boards of directors for four technology companies. Less   View all posts

Mike was the Chief Enterprise Architect at U.S. Department of Treasury, and retired in November of last year. He served in that position for two years and presided over development of the architecture for the Department's $2.6 billion portfolio. As a part of his duties, he served on the Governance Sub-Committee of the Architecture and Infrastructure Committee (AIC) of the Federal CIO Council. In that capacity he is the Team Lead for the recently formed Chief Architects Forum (CAF) that serves as a government-wide platform for chief architects to explore the most pressing issues they face in developing enterprise architecture in their agencies. Prior to that, Mike served as the Director of the Center for eGovernance at the National Academy of Public Administration. Other notable experience includes service with the National Performance Review developing recommendations on use of IT resources within the Federal Government. Less   View all posts

Eliot advises governments on issues of architecture and information infrastructure. He is the architect of the Global Information Locator Service and led the ISO group that developed data element definition standards. He now has a key role in architecting the Global Earth Observation System of Systems. Eliot is also helping define the standards needed to realize all-media, all-hazards public warning. Less   View all posts