Technical Program

Keynote Speaker: Frank Siebenlist (Argonne National Laboratory)

    Frank Siebenlist is a senior software architect in the Distributed Systems Laboratory (DSL), in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory, and is part of the Globus Alliance team. He spends his time on the development of the Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA), on the design of the Globus Toolkit, and on how to make all that work in real-world Grid applications.

    Frank has a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Amsterdam. He has extensive experience with distributed computing and security. He has worked for major financial institutions (VP at Citibank and Senior Consultant at J.P. Morgan) in Hong Kong and New York. He has also worked for a number of technology companies, including start-ups in Silicon Valley (Chief Architect at DASCOM and Chief Security Architect at Eazel), and at IBM as a Senior Security Architect.

    Furthermore, Frank authored a number of security related standards, and influenced and contributed to numerous others at X/Open (Open Group), the IETF, OMG and OASIS. Frank lives with his family in Los Gatos, California.




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