Sixteenth British National Conference on Databases

Invited Speakers

Professor Malcolm Atkinson, University of Glasgow, UK

Malcolm Atkinson has led a campaign for orthogonal persistence to become part of application programmers' weaponry against complexity, since 1978. Twenty years on, he leads the PJama team at Glasgow, where he is a professor, in an alliance with Mick Jordan's team at SunLabs, California (where he is a visiting professor) in an attempt to build the world's first industrial strength orthogonally persistent programming language. He hopes to persuade industry and commerce to take advantage of its obvious benefits by the start of the next millennium.

Jeffrey Walker, TenFold Corporation, USA

Jeffrey Walker, Chairman, Senior Vice President Development, supervises TenFold's Development organisation and is responsible for all technology engineering and design. He has held numerous executive positions in the high-tech industry for over 20 years. Before founding TenFold, he served in several key positions at Oracle, including Executive Vice President, General Manager Applications Division, Chief Financial Officer, and Senior Vice President of Marketing. Under his direction, Oracle's Applications Division broke new ground creating advanced architectures for rapid development of enterprise-class, distributed applications. Before joining Oracle, he founded and served as Chief Executive Officer of Walker Interactive Products. Under his guidance, Walker Interactive grew to $30 million in annual revenues and reached third in worldwide market share of large-scale financial and accounting applications software. He is a graduate mathematician from Brown University.