Ismael Ghalimi is CEO of Intalio, the Open Source BPMS Company. Ismael has been referred to by many as a technology visionary and strategic industry leader. Having founded Intalio in 1999, Ismael put together the world-class engineering team that created the first standards-based business process management system (BPMS), defining the scope and functionality of this new breed of enterprise software. Ismael has spearheaded major partnerships and industry alliances, most notably the founding of the Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI.org), the standards body for BPM technologies. Ismael is the author of IT|Redux—a weblog covering the transformation of the IT industry and coined the term Office 2.0. Prior to Intalio, Ismael organized the first ExoLab Session—the open source software conference held in Nantes, France, that built the foundation for BPMS technology. He majored in computer science at the Ecole des Mines de Nancy (France) and studied parallel computing at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon (France).