Speaker: Mary Beth Raven, IBM

Blog: http://www.marybethraven.com

Mary Beth Raven is on a mission. Her goal is to make the end users of Lotus Notes as passionate as the Notes application developers and Domino administrators are. She's on the way to accomplishing this mission with Lotus Notes 8. But she won't stop there.

Previous experience that helped her with this mission: She designed the first 5 versions of Lotus Sametime, before that managed a group of designers, and worked at several other hi-tech firms.

She's got a Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York.