Peter W. Hallinan has over thirty years of hands-on experience in management, strategy and technology. He has led the creation of new products, services and ventures in a variety of spaces, including healthcare, communications, digital entertainment, energy and finance. In past years, he co-directed a course in biopharmaceutical innovation and entrepreneurship at Stanford, and served as a vice president at Analysis Group / Integral, helping multinationals solve problems in growth strategy, disruptive technologies and the management of innovation.

Dr. Hallinan holds A.B., S.M., and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University, where he did research in pattern recognition and artificial intelligence, and served as a teaching fellow in policy analysis and program evaluation at the Kennedy School of Government. His publications include a book on face recognition entitled “Two- and Three-Dimensional Patterns of the Face".

 

Ron Lichty, co-chair of the Emerging Tech SIG and founder of the Software Architecture and Modeling SIG, is Director of Publisher Services at HighWire Press. Ron, who recently consulted as an Interim VP Engineering to transform chaos to clarity, has been managing product development and technology change for 20 years at Apple, Fujitsu, Schwab, Berkeley Systems, Razorfish, Forensic Logic, Socialtext, and CheckPoint. While still a software developer, he wrote shrinkwrap applications in addition to compiler code generators and was awarded three patents for software embedded in microcontroller-based devices. From the context of a career that has spanned system software, multimedia, interface development, embedded devices, IT, professional services and data warehousing and analytics, Ron observes that the problems that plague software development have more in common than not. Ron is presently co-authoring the first of a two-book set on managing software development organizations. Ron has been a determined community builder at every point in his career.