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 and an optional in-depth SOA workshop.
Enterprise SOA Architectures
The enterprise software architects are constantly confronted with changes to and expansion of funtionality 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 track different speakers will explain how they've approached a SOA project from an organizational point-of-view.
Real-world SOA
During this track different SOA case-studies (and related products) will get presented from both a top-down and bottum-up view point.
Dennis Sosnoski is an internationally recognized expert on SOA and Web services in Java. He's been helping organizations worldwide with their XML and Web services projects for the last 8 years, with a particular focus on solving performance issues. XML and Web services are at the core of most views of SOA, and for the last two years Dennis has been advising companies on how to best align their development efforts with the SOA approach. He's also active in the Java community, as a frequent speaker at conferences world-wide, a writer for IBM developer Works Java and SOA/Web services zones, a member of the expert groups that guided the development of the JAXB 2.0 and JAX-WS 2.0 Java standards, and an open source developer on both Apache Web services and independent projects (including his JiBX XML data binding framework for Java).
Dirk has been dealing with the challenges of enterprise IT and distributed software architectures throughout his entire working life. He devoted himself to SOA in 2001 when he joined Shinka Technologies, a start-up company and platform vendor in the early days of XML-based Web services. Since then, Dirk has acquired a rich set of real world experience with this upcoming new paradigm both from the view point of a platform vendor and from the perspective of software projects in different industry verticals.
Writing the book Enterprise SOA was an issue of personal concern to him as it provided the opportunity to share his experiences and many insights into the nature of enterprise IT with his readers.
Today, Dirk is designing enterprise applications and managing projects, applying the guiding principles outlined in this book. Dirk has a Ph.D. in Natural Science and an MSc in Computer Science. He lives in Düsseldorf, Germany, and is 40 years old, married, and the father of two children.
Presenting
Keynote
Anne Thomas Manes
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 prinicipal 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. Check out Stefan's blog
Presenting
TBA
Tom Baeyens
Tom Baeyens is the founder and lead developer of JBoss jBPM, the leading open source workflow management system. He represents JBoss in the expert groups JSR207 "process definition for java" and JSR208 "java business integration". Tom is a frequent speaker on Java and BPM at international conferences and he's the author of the articles "Graph Oriented Programming" "The State of Workflow" and "Open source workflow and the BPM-market".
Presenting
JBI and BPEL
Steve Jones
Steve Jones is Capgemini CTO for Application Development Transformation.
Check out Steve's Blog on Service Oriented Architectures.
Presenting
TBA
Guy Crets
After graduating as an Industrial Engineer from IHAM Antwerp in 1987, Guy started developing business applications with 4GLs such as Mapper and Informix 4GL. Next came document management, client/server and component based development. But for the last 8 years, Guy has been integrating applications and systems using all sorts of techniques: from screen-scraping and JMS to SAP Netweaver.
Guy Crets is Managing Partner of Apogado and a certified SonicMQ and Tibco BusinessWorks consultant.
Presenting
TBA
Arjen Poutsma
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.
Two years ago, Arjen started to specialise in Web Services and Service Oriented Architectures. During this period he has conducted trainings and has researched SOAs in large organisations.
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.
This is a unique chance to receive a one day in-depth SOA workshop from one of the thought leaders in the SOA space Dennis Sosnoski.
SOA is a great architectural concept, promoting organizational flexibility and code reuse within a framework that allows management and control over all parts of the operation. But moving your organization to SOA means IT developers need to change the way they address problems from a case-by-case, application-oriented, approach to one centred on interacting components.
In this one-day workshop you'll work through the "SOAfication" of a simple example enterprise from a developer's point of view, learning the practical issues that make the difference between a demonstration project and a successful component based enterprise architecture. Along the way you'll see why common XML formats need to be defined for your enterprise data, and learn how to define these formats for interoperability with existing Web service frameworks while also allowing for future enhancements.
At the design level, you'll explore decomposing applications into reusable components with clearly defined service contracts and granular interfaces.
Finally, you'll see why developers need to be aware of the potential communications costs and overheads associated with moving from monolithic applications to loosely-coupled distributed components, and the impact of these issues in component design.
This workshop is programming-language independent, and most of the concepts apply equally well regardless of whether you're developing on .Net, Java, or some other alternative.
