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Web Services Interoperability Conference

Microsoft, IBM, HP, Oracle, and others are promoting a conference on interoperability. There is an All-Star line up of speakers from across the industry. The conference will be held January 31st in Santa Clara, California.

My good friend Anne Thomas Manes will be a keynote speaker and moderate a panel of industry experts. Anne and I worked together at DEC Databse Systems Group many years ago. She is an expert in databases, object oriented systems, and interoperability standards. You might remember a column she wrote for many years under the pen name Little Object Annie.

Here is the agenda and links to registration.

http://www.sdforum.org/interop06   [use this URL]

Interoperability-Are Vendors Listening?


Date of Event : Tuesday, January 31 20068:30 AM - 2:00 PM

Registration Time : 8:00 AM

Location :

Network

Meeting

Center

- Santa Clara



Program Overview

Join industry thought leaders from Deloitte, IBM, HP, Intel, Microsoft, Sun, and Oracle, along with Burton Group expert Ann Thomas Manes, on January 31st, for an open industry dialog on industry-wide initiatives for interoperability.

Do you want to streamline your business processes, get closer to customers and partners, and make mergers successful? Today IT must manage heterogeneous applications from multiple vendors to achieve these business goals. An area where IT continues to struggle is interoperability between diverse business applications. Many corporate executives recognize this challenge and list application interoperability high in their strategic business needs.

How can the industry solve this problem? Many companies have developed custom interoperability solutions that are often expensive and difficult to maintain; or could success be obtained by hardware and software vendors working together through open standards and cross-product testing to achieve true interoperability. Let’s find out…

Agenda

8:00 – 8:30am Registration/Continental Breakfast

8:30 – 9:00am Keynote: Anne Thomas Manes, Analyst, Burton Group
Why Interoperability is Key to Your Business Success

9:00 – 9:40am Web Services Interoperability
Andy Daecher, Partner, Technology Integration Services, Deloitte
Edward Cobb, VP, Architecture & Standards, BEA Systems, Inc.
Nick Kassem, Technology Director, Web Services Technology and Standards, Sun Microsystems
Weston W. Swenson, President/CEO, Forum Systems

9:40 – 9:50am Break

9:50- 10:30am Fireside Chat
Anne Thomas Manes, Analyst, Burton Group
Graham Hamilton, VP and Fellow, Java Platform Team, Sun Microsystems
Kelvin Lawrence, CTO and Distinguished Engineer, IBM
Robert Wahbe, General Manager XML Services, Microsoft

10:30 – 10:40am Break

10:40 –11:20am Identity Management
Brian Geffert, Partner, Identity Management Services, Deloitte
Prateek Mishra, Director, Security Standards, Oracle Corporation
Karen Wendel, CEO, Identrus
Kim Cameron, Chief Identity Architect and Strategist, Microsoft

11:20 – 11:30am Break

11:30 – 12:10pm

Enterprise

Systems Management
Magdy Assem, Marketing Director OpenView, Hewlett Packard
David Caddis, Director Market Management, IBM Tivoli Service Delivery Solutions
Tom Kemp, CEO, Centrify Corporation
Kaladar Rau (RK), Senior Manager, Systems Management Practice, Deloitte
Vijay Tewari, Senior Researcher and Software Architect, Intel

12:20—1:10pm CIOs: How Interop Matters to Their Business
Dean Lane
,CEO Varitools and former Sr. Director of IT at Symantec (Author of "The CIO Wisdom")
Vivek Asija, CIO, McGuire Real Estate
Jim Swartz, CIO, Sybase Inc

1:10 pm – 2:00pm Lunch Provided

Location

Network

Meeting

Center


5201 Great America Parkway

Santa Clara

,

CA

95054


Directions

Price*

$25 SDForum Members
$40 Non-SDForum members
*at the door add $10 to member and non-member prices

Published Monday, January 23, 2006 9:09 AM by Don Dodge

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About Don Dodge

I have been in the software business for more than 20 years. I started my software career with Digital Equipment Corp, aka DEC, in the database group. I worked with 5 software start-ups over the next 12 years. Forte Software was the first multiplatform object oriented development environment. AltaVista was the first search engine on the web. Napster was the first P2P file sharing network. Bowstreet was the first web services development environment. Groove Networks was the first secure P2P collaboration platform. Now I am at Microsoft...the biggest start-up in the world... working with VC's and start-ups in the greater Boston area. The goal is to help VC's and start-ups be successful with Microsoft, and together, provide great products for our customers.
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I have been in the software business for more than 20 years. I started my software career with Digital Equipment Corp, aka DEC, in the database group. I worked with 5 software start-ups over the next 12 years. Forte Software was the first multiplatform object oriented development environment. AltaVista was the first sear...

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