Meet the Speakers

CTO of Miwok Airways, Dr. Jim Herriot, was a founding member of DayJet, working with Dr. Bruce Sawhill for the last six years developing and deploying key enabling science and algorithms necessary for reliable on-demand air travel. Prior to DayJet, Jim was Vice President of Science for BiosGroup, a spin off of the Santa Fe Institute, and the world’s largest complexity science consulting company at the time. He was also a founder of JavaSoft at Sun Microsystems, head of marketing for Sun’s Unix OS, member of Sun Microsystems Labs and a world-wide speaker for Sun. Jim has testified before the US Senate Defense Appropriations committee, and has worked with Dr. Sawhill as a Principle Investigator for DARPA as well as many “three letter” US Gov’t agencies.

Miwok Airways Chief Scientist, Dr. Bruce Sawhill, is an on-demand aviation veteran, having been a founding member of DayJet Corp where he worked with Dr. Jim Herriot on modeling, analysis, and corporate strategy, together building the most detailed air transportation market model in aviation history. Bruce, originally trained as a theoretical physicist, has worked extensively in the field of complexity science and is an alumnus of both the Santa Fe Institute and Los Alamos National Laboratories. His expertise includes scheduling algorithms, agent-based modeling, market design, and social networks.

As CTO and Founder of GigaSpaces, Nati Shalom is responsible for defining the technology roadmap and the direction of GigaSpaces products as they relate to standards adaptations, architecture, and product design. He has 10 years of experience with distributed technology and architecture namely CORBA, Jini, J2EE, Grid and SOA. As the Head of the Israeli Grid consortium and a recognized a software visionary and industry leader, Mr. Shalom is a frequent presenter at industry conferences and is actively involved in evangelizing Space Based Architecture and Data Grid patterns.

Mike Culver joined the Developer Relations Group of Amazon Web Services in 2006. He brings with him fifteen years of technology leadership experience, including five years working as a Group Program Manager for Microsoft. Mr. Culver has a strong background running an IT organization, with over a decade of experience in the U.S. Electrical Wholesale Distribution industry. As a Web Services Evangelist at Amazon, he helps developers take advantage of disruptive technologies that change the way the industry thinks about computer applications, and the way that businesses compete.