Sunil is practicing architect  & CEO of  iCMG. He is an architecture strategist who is influencing enterprise decisions for realizing systems worth $10 mn to $50 mn. As an architecture coach/mentor, have taught enterprise & software architecture classes to over 5,000 professionals (cumulative) throughout South America to South Asia.

He had chance to interact & work on some real complext IT systems including Air Traffic Control System, Water Leakage Management System (City/country), Shipping & Surveillence systems etc. He is instrumental in adoption of Component Architecture, Assembly and Reuse among Fortune 500 companies based on enterprise frameworks (such as Zachman etc .)and OMG standards such as UML 2.0, CCM & MDA. His system design skills include understanding of RM-ODP for distributed, multi-language based component systems. He is expert in Integrated Product Development (IPD) process based on SEI-CMM practices.

At iCMG, his technical leadership and guidance has resulted in the development of K2 Component Server which is the world's first industrial strength Application Server based on CORBA3.0 Component Model (CCM is superset of EJB) which supports component/container model for C++ and supports interworking with leading middleware including .NET & J2EE.

Currently, he is involved in guiding iCMG clients in developing architecture and design of mission critical applications (Aerospace, Energy & Power, Telecom, Trading) based on K2/CCM and manage technology transfer. He also provides the architecture support to CORBA2.x users (Orbacus, Orbix, VisiBroker) who are upgrading to CORBA3.0 components with "app server container" features of K2.

In addition, he has also conducted architecture assessment for large scale enterprise systems (e.g. Multi-channel Trading Platform, e-Banking Architecture) and tools development (Workflow, Business Process Automation, Assembly).

He is a technology strategist helping organization to adopt architecture-centric, component based IT asset as the key to cost savings and productivity enhancement.

He is an Aerospace Engineer from IIT Kharagpur.

An international speaker and has conducted several (70+) special sessions for senior technical managers on software components, architecture and IT assessment across the globe including Panama, UK, Singapore, Australia, France, Switzerland, Italy, Japan, Srilanka, Thailand.

He was also an invited speaker at Lockheed Martin (USA) - Mission Critical Enterprise Systems Symposium (2002) as well as CSSL (Sri Lanka), SEARCC'99 (Singapore) and SEARCC'00 (Philliphines).

Note: Sunil's presentation made during Architecture World '07- Bangalore summit
         Sunil's presentation made during IASA Architecture Symposium 2007, Malaysia summit

Klaus Niemann has more than 20 years experience with the design of complex IT-architectures in the telecommunication and financial sector. He worked as system designer, software architect, consultant, project manager and enterprise architect in several positions and for a wide range of clients. Klaus holds a diploma in computer science from the Technical University of Berlin. In the 80s his main focus was on distributed systems, telecommunication and banking networks in Europe as well as in the far east. In the 90s he worked on the introduction of object orientation to large organizations and then focused on client/server architectures. He frequently gave professional training sessions, published several articles and books, and also became a frequent speaker to conferences. He founded …act! consulting in 1998 with special emphasis on enterprise architecture management.

As enterprise architect and project manager he was involved in a variety of projects mainly in the financial sector. He developed the enterprise architecture framework t-eam (toolbox for enterprise architecture management) and is hosting the architecture management day, a series of events, where architecture managers from large German IT-organizations share their experience. Klaus is a member of the OpenGroup's Architecture Forum and works with the International Committee on EA Standards (Association of Enterprise Architects).