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 2006,  8:30 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