Dr. Michael L. Brodie is Chief Scientist of Verizon Services Operations in Verizon Communications, one of the world's leading providers of communications services.

Dr. Brodie works on large-scale strategic Information Technology opportunities and challenges to deliver business value from advanced and emerging technologies and practices. He is concerned with the Big Picture, core technologies, and integration within a large scale, operational telecommunications environment.

Dr. Brodie holds a PhD in Databases from the University of Toronto and has active interests in the Semantic Technologies, Next Generation Web, SOA, and other advanced technologies to address secure, interoperable web-scale information systems, databases, infrastructure and application architectures. Dr. Brodie has authored over 150 books, chapters, and articles and has presented over 150 keynotes or invited lectures in over 30 countries.

Dr. Brodie is an Adjunct Professor, National University of Ireland, Galway (2006-present and an Adjunct Research Fellow, Digital Ecosystems Business Intelligence (DEBII) Institute, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia (January 2009-present). He chairs three Advisory Boards – Semantic Technology Institutes International, Vienna, Austria (January 2007 – present); Digital Enterprise Research Institute, National University of Ireland (2003-present); Semantic Technology Institute, Innsbrück, Austria (2003-present); and is a member of several advisory boards - The European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (2007 – present); School of Computer and Communication Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland (2001 – present); European Union’s Information Society Technologies 5th, 6th, and 7th Framework Programmes (2003-present); several European and Asian research projects; editorial board of several research journals; past Board member of research foundations including the VLDB (Very Large Databases) Endowment (1992 - 2004) and The Board of Clients, Forrester Research, Inc.(2006-2008) and was a member of the United States of America National Academies Committee on Technical and Privacy Dimensions of Information for Terrorism Prevention and other National Goals, co-chaired by Dr. Charles Vest, president of the National Academy of Engineering and Dr. William Perry, former Secretary of Defense, and commissioned by the Department of Homeland Security and the National Science Foundation.