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The Open Forum

The Open Group's Open Forum session
focuses on The Open Group and its Forums.

Tuesday  23 October 2001 : 2 pm to 5.30 pm

The first session of the afternoon will provide information about the current activities of The Open Group. The second session provides the opportunity for participants to influence the future direction of the organization.

This session is open to Non Members. Decisions regarding acceptance of requirements and relative priorities are taken by voting members of The Open Group Customer Council.

Agenda
14:00
 The Open Group Update

This session, led by Mike Lambert, VP and Chief Technical Officer of The Open Group, will provide a succinct summary of recent events and achievements of The Open Group. The one hour session, which will also be available as a WEBcast, covers all aspects of The Open Group and will incorporate additional speakers from The Open Group team to provide more detailed information on a number of topics.

 
15:00
 EMA Forum Update

This session will provide status reports on two significant items brought forward in the July meeting of the EMA Forum.

1.  
The EMA Challenge

The goal of the EMA Challenge is to enable companies to exchange strongly encrypted email using a standards-based, vendor neutral architecture without the need for manual key exchange.

The objective is to demonstrate this at the January 2002 quarterly meeting of The Open Group in Anaheim, California.

The challenge team is in place and has already published the definition of the tasks to be performed in the demonstration, but it is not too late to join the challenge team.

There will be TWO opportunities to learn more during the upcoming Open Group conference in Amsterdam direct from the leader of this activity, Dean Sepstrup, Project Manager of the EMA Challenge and Dean Richardson, the Chair of The Open Group EMA Forum.

  • On Tuesday October 23rd, Dean Sepstrup will present a 30 minute summary update of EMA Challenge activities as part of The Open Group Open Forum afternoon session.
  • An additional session has been arranged on Sunday October 21st at 2pm, during which Dean Richardson will present detailed information on the EMA Forum, the EMA Challenge and how you can get involved.

Both of these sessions are open to all conference attendees. The session on Sunday afternoon will also be open to members of the EMA's peer organisations within the World Electronic Messaging Association (WEMA).

 
2.   EMA/EEMA Requirements Paper .. Enabling Agility and Manageability throughout the eBusiness lifecycle
15:30
 Break
16:00
 The Open Group Customer Council: The Open Systems Directive

This session, led by Carl Bunje, Chair, and Alan Doniger, Co-Chair, of The Open Group Customer Council, provides the opportunity for the membership of The Open Group to set out and progress the needs and priorities of IT buyers, keeping a focus on issues that may contribute to the current and future work of The Open Group.

The Open Group Customer Council provides members who are primarily buyers and users of Information Systems a platform to represent the customer perspective, in ways that will ensure their membership returns best value, both to them as Customer Members and to The Open Group as a whole.

During this session, the Customer Council will present:

  • Highlights on several active items from the Customer Council requirements journal .. a record of customer requirements recognized by the Customer Council and the current status of activities to clarify and address these.
  • A business scenario, developed using The Open Group TOGAF methodology, which addresses the customer requirements for interoperability.

The session will include a substantial allowance of time for discussion and interaction.

 
17:30 Close

 

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The Open Group 1995-2001 Updated on Wednesday, 29 August 2001