Sun Distinguished Engineer Dr. Hal Stern will present the Day 1 Keynote at the SOA World Conference & Expo 2007 East colocated with Virtualization Conference & Expo 2007 East in New York. Stern will make his presentation at 1:30 on Monday, June 25 at the Roosevelt Hotel.

In his more than 13 years with Sun, Stern has been Chief Technology Officer, Sun Services; Chief Architect of Sun Professional Services; CTO for the Sun ONE (iPlanet) infrastructure products division and the Chief Technologist of Sun's Northeast US Sales Area. He has done architecture, performance and reliability work for Major League Baseball, mlb.com, several financial information and transaction clearing networks, and defined next-generation interactive services as part of Sun's technology partnership with the National Hockey League.

He is listed as inventor or co-inventor on three networking technology patents and has co-authored technical books on networking and high availability techniques. Before joining Sun, Stern developed molecular modeling software for a Boston area start-up company and was on the research staff at Princeton University.