Antony Satyadas (senior member, IEEE) is a Program Director, driving On Demand Workplace industry solutions in IBM Corporation. His 19 years of consulting, marketing and research expertise includes Cognizant Enterprise, Smart Component Architectures, CAD/CAM, and large-scale e-business solutions. Antony conducts courses and "time-to-value" workshops worldwide in this area for IBM, KM World, IEEE, and AIAA. His prior IBM roles include Knowledge discovery business leader, Channels and offering execution leader for e-learning, Director for Lotus knowledge management initiatives, Director of Lotus consulting solution strategies, and Senior consulting IT architect for Americas. Before joining IBM, Antony provided technical leadership in corporations such as Perot Systems, Bellsouth, HCL, and OMC Computers; research innovations as Principle investigator in US Department of Energy and researcher at the University of Alabama. He also was the Chief Architect of Flexible Intelligence Group, an entrepreneur effort focused on soft computing software tools and intelligent agent technologies and applying them to solve prediction, control, and decision support problems in diverse industries.

Antony has more than 45 publications in books, international journals, industry magazines, and conference proceedings. Active with Industry Analysts and Press, Invited member of technical committees in international organizations including American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA); associate editor for Oxford University Press, Elsevier, Applied Technology in Business Journal; co-editor of special issues for IEEE SMC and Elsevier journals; invited keynote speaker to various conferences/organizations such as NASA, US Department of Treasury; member of international program/scientific committees. His current research interest is in applying Cognizant Enterprise capabilities (includes adaptive enterprise, KM, smart BPM, and HPC paradigms for soft computing) to address tactical and strategic business challenges and nurture change. His professional education is in Electrical Engineering (BS), Cognitive Science and Computer Science (MS, PhD-abd).