Keynote Agenda at a Glance

VMworld Europe 2008 will include two keynote sessions by industry thought leaders on the Tuesday and Wednesday mornings of the conference. These sessions are definitely not to be missed!

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Diane Greene

President and Chief Executive Officer

VMware, Inc.

Diane Greene is President, CEO and co-founder of VMware. Under Diane's leadership, VMware created the market for mainstream virtualization and VMware definitively leads what is now a virtualization software industry. Diane has held technical leadership positions at Silicon Graphics, Tandem, and Sybase and was CEO of VXtreme. Diane's degrees include mechanical engineering, naval architecture and computer science from the University of Vermont, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of California Berkeley, respectively. Diane serves on the board of Intuit.

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Dr. Mendel Rosenblum

Chief Scientist

VMware, Inc.

Mendel Rosenblum is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, where he leads a group focused on operating systems research. Together with his students, he developed the Hive operating system, the SimOS machine simulator and the Disco virtual machine monitor. In 2002, he received the ACM SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award for his creativity, innovation and vision in operating systems research. He holds a doctorate and master's degree in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley and a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Virginia.