Speaker: Mike Roche, IBM

Mike is chief architect for the Lotus development team in Dublin which numbers 250 developers working on Connections, Sametime, Quickr, Notes&Domino and Bluehouse. He has been with Lotus since 1989, hired by Kevin Cavanaugh as the first developer in Dublin and has worked on Notes development since release 2. He is currently leading the Connections and Quickr development teams in the lab where we have 50 developers creating the iWidget based Connections Homepage, the new Social Search features and the future of Feed Readers and Wikis for IBM products. Mike is also leading IBM's involvement in several Social Software research projects with SFI, IRCSET, UCD, NUIG, & DERI and IBM's technical partnering with other Social Software vendors. In a previous life Mike has also worked for Microsoft and Vault corp in Redmond, California and Dublin.