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Keynote Speakers Reflections on a Decade of Studying Global Software Engineering

Erran Carmel American University, USA Biography: Prof. Carmel’s area of expertise is global software development. He studies globally dispersed software teams, offshore sourcing of IT work, and national policy issues surrounding software. His 1999 book Global Software Teams was the first on this topic. His 2005 book, Offshoring Information Technology, covers the range of topics that managers need to know about offshore work.

He has written over 70 articles, reports, and manuscripts. He consults and speaks to industry and professional groups. He is the department chair and tenured Associate Professor at the Information Technology department, Kogod School of Business at American University. In the 1990s he co-founded and led the program in Management of Global Information Technology. He has been a Visiting Professor at Haifa University (Israel) and University College Dublin (Ireland).

He received his Ph.D., in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona; his MBA from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), and his B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley.

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Distributed Software Development: Rules and Tools for Success

Mihail Bykov Luxoft, Russia Biography: Mikhail Bykov has graduated and received PhD degree in Computer Science from Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology, specializing in web component-based platforms architecture. He started his career as software engineer, and held different technical and managerial positions in software development industry. He started his career with Luxoft in 2004 with managing mission critical projects for a large enterprise client in aerospace industry. Later he was appointed head of Project Services Group, responsible for delivering custom development projects for customers across various industries with global development teams. He was also responsible for internal automation systems development, in particular project management, and team collaboration systems. Mikhail now holds position of Luxoft Chief Technology Officer, responsible for technology leadership with the company, including core and new services roadmap, new platforms and solutions.