The Enterprise Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) conference will present an overview and in depth technical talks on how to leverage the principals of Service-Oriented Architectures to reduce cost and risk, improve efficiency and agility and liberate your organization from the unpredictable change of technology. The conference will focus on 3 parts: Architectural and Organizational roadmap and Real-world SOA experiences and is spread over a one day conference.
Enterprise SOA Architectures
The enterprise software architects are constantly confronted with changes to and expansion of functionality that increase system complexity and reduce efficiency.
During this track we'll evaluate how SOA can help us cope with the needs of an ongoing incremental process of optimization, but also list what choices architects have at their disposal within the SOA space.
Organizational Aspects
Most of the enterprise IT problems are not of a technical nature but can be found on the organizational level. During this conference different speakers will explain how they've approached a SOA project from an organizational point-of-view.
Anne Thomas Manes is Vice President and Research Director with Burton Group (http://www.burtongroup.com), a research and advisory firm. She leads research on application platform strategies, with a specific focus on web services and service-oriented architecture. Anne is the author of "Web Services: A Manager's Guide" (ISBN 0321185773). She is a member of the editorial board of Web Services Journal, a leading industry publication. She is a frequent speaker at trade shows and author of numerous articles. Anne has participated in web services standards development efforts at W3C, OASIS, WS-I, and JCP. Prior to her role at Burton Group, Anne was Chief Technology Officer at Systinet, a SOA governance company. Prior to joining Systinet, Anne was Director of Market Innovation at Sun Microsystems, where she led Sun's early web services strategy. Anne developed her expertise working at a number of the world's leading hardware and software companies. Her blog is at http://atmanes.blogspot.com.
Stefan Tilkov is co-founder and a principal consultant at innoQ, a consulting firm with offices in Germany and Switzerland. Stefan focuses on enterprise architecture consulting for Fortune 1000 companies, which currently translates to assessing SOA maturity and deriving appropriate steps for a road map towards a service-oriented enterprise.
Presenting
The state of SOA, Web Services and REST - keynote
Paul Fremantle
Paul Fremantle co-founded WSO2 after 9 years at IBM, where he was a Senior Technical Staff Member. While at IBM, Paul created the Web Services Gateway, and led the team that developed and shipped it as part of WebSphere Application Server. Paul was a member of the team that put the Service Integration Bus technology into WebSphere Application Server 6. Paul also co-created the Web Services Invocation Framework (WSIF) with Sanjiva Weerawarana, who is chairman and CEO of WSO2. Paul was co-lead of JSR 110: Java APIs for WSDL, which produced WSDL4J.
Paul is currently co-chair of the OASIS Web Services Reliable eXchange Technical Committee, which is charged with creating the industry standard for reliable message exchange over SOAP. Paul was a member of IBM's WebSphere Architecture Board and Messaging Architecture Board.
Presenting
[ESB Market]
Steve Jones
Steve Jones is currently CTO for Application Development Transformation at Capgemini and working within the Outsourcing business to understand how SOA will transform the way that Capgemini work within Outsourcing contracts. One of Capgemini's leading SOA practitioners and the author of the SOA methodology contributed to OASIS, the recent book "Enterprise SOA Adoption Strategies" and the IEEE Software article "Toward an acceptable definition of service".
His current focus is on how using SOA as a business driven exercise, rather than a technology one, can help organisations create IT estates that better represent the business. A member of several standards bodies including the OASIS SOA Reference Model, Java SE 6 and Java Business Integration (JBI), Steve is Capgemini's sponsor of their membership of both the OASIS and Java Community Process groups.
Steve is a regular presenter at industry events, including technical specialisation conferences from the IEEE, technology vendor events and this year was part of the keynote presentation at JavaOne. His blog is at http://service-architecture.blogspot.com.
Johan Kumps is a senior Java Developer/Analyst at Dolmen-JCS. He started his career in late 2000 and is engaged in developing and designing J2EE applications, mainly as a consultant. In this statute, he worked on several partner integration projects using web services in an SOA for the Belgian government.
He recently joined the JBoss ESB developer community.
Arjen Poutsma is a senior enterprise application architect with more than ten years' experience in commercial software environments. During this time he has worked with both J2EE and Microsoft .NET.
Three years ago, Arjen started to specialize in Web Services and Service Oriented Architectures. During this period he has conducted trainings and has researched SOAs in large organizations.
Arjen is the founder and the project lead for the Spring Web Services. This Spring project aims at facilitating development of document-driven web services. Arjen has also contributed to various other open source projects, including XFire, NEO and others.
Since early 2005, Arjen has been a consultant for Interface21 in The Netherlands. You can find his blog at http://blog.interface21.com/arjen.
Stijn is CTO at ACA IT-Solutions. His background skills include software architecture, designing & implementing enterprise class systems based on XML & WebServices, Enterprise Application Integration and B2B integration. Instructing Java, Patterns, Architecture & XML courses is another way of his involvement with the J2EE technology. He advises large, international customers with regards to their enterprise system blueprints while defining and maintaining the technical roadmap for ACA IT-Solutions.
Presenting
[JAX-WS 2.0]
Eddy Budgen
Presenting
BPEL4People and WS-HumanTask
Christophe De Melio
Christophe Joined IBM in 1997 as IT specialist for the eCommerce solutions and has since supported IBM Software products like WebSphere Portal, Lotus Workplace WebContent Management and Omnifind.
Since 2005, Christophe is Solution Architect for Master Data Management in SouthWest Europe. Christophe is an expert in Product Information Management, Customer Data Integration and Thread & Fraud Analysis solutions.