Dr Chris Harding has been with The Open Group for ten years, and is currently responsible for managing and supporting its work on semantic interoperability and SOA. Before joining The Open Group, he was a consultant, and a designer and development manager of communications software. With a PhD in mathematical logic, he welcomes the current upsurge of interest in semantic technology, and the opportunity to apply logical theory to practical use. He has presented at Open Group and other conferences on a range of topics, and contributes regular articles to ebizQ. He is a certified TOGAF practitioner.

Workshop
Semantic Enterprise Architecture for SOA
This facilitated workshop will use practical examples to illustrate a semantic approach to enterprise architecture and show how this can provide automated generation of web service definitions. A major goal of SOA is to deliver enterprise agility by putting business people in control of service configuration and orchestration. The workshop will show how a semantic approach can contribute to this goal by enabling business and technical people to develop a common understanding that translates directly to service implementation.

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