Welcome Address
Allen Brown, President and CEO, The Open Group
Alisha Ring, President, Austin Technology Council

SOA and Enterprise Architecture…Working Together
David Linthicum, CEO, Linthicum Group

The SOA Foundation; A Framework for Delivering Business Value
Rob High Jr., SOA Foundation Chief Architect, IBM Distinguished Engineer

SOA and Outsourcing
Joe R. Hill, EDS Fellow, EDS

A Future-Proof Architecture for Composite Application Development on an SOA
Ross Altman, CTO of SOA and Business Integration, Sun Microsystems

Adaptive and Collaborative SOA: Some case studies
James Odell, Consultant, OLSO Software
Mihai Moldovan, Product Manager, OLSO Software
Andy Mulholland, Global CTO, Capgemini

The Emerging Role of the Enterprise Architect
Allen Brown, President and CEO, The Open Group

SOA in the Energy Industry:-

Building an SOA to Power the Smart Grid
Andres E. Carvallo, Chief Information Officer, Austin Energy

The Value of Service Oriented Architecture - Chevron Upstream Prospective
Douglas Darner, Chevron

SOA Governance - A practical approach
Hans Eric Klumpen, Program Manager, Schlumberger Information Solutions

SOA – Why it is Important to Deutsche Bank
Abhijit Gupta, Chief Enterprise Architect for Personal & Corporate Banking IT & Operations (PCB IT/O), Global Technology & Operations Division, Deutsche Bank

The Future of SOA - Media Panel
Dana Gardner, President, Interabor Solutions/ZDNET Blogger (moderator)
Eric Knorr, Executive Editor at Large, InfoWorld
Tony Baer, Principal, onStrategies
Todd Biske, Principal Enterprise Architect, MomentumSI/Blogger
Beth Gold-Bernstein, ebizQ

Closing Address
Karla Norsworthy, Vice President, Software Standards, IBM

09:00 - 09:30
Adopting SOA - Aligning the business and IT
Sridhar Sudarsan, Executive IT Architect, IBM

09:30 - 10:00
How EA and SOA Connect
Mats Gejnevall, Enterprise Architect, Capgemini

10:00 - 10:30
Addressing Enterprise Business Needs through SOA and TOGAF
Awel Dico, Bank of Montreal

09:00 - 09:45
Applying TOGAF and the Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA) for IT Modernization
Jim Odrowski, Enterprise Architect, ComponentWave, Inc., US

09:45 - 10.30
Developing and Instantiating an Enterprise Architecture Framework based on TOGAF in a Large Government Department
Robert Weisman, Partner and Executive Consultant, Global Enterprise Architecture Practice Leader, CGI, Canada

09:00 - 09:30
Enterprise Architecture Blueprint Development - A Practitioner's Guide
Eng Tsze Tan, Institute of Systems Science, National University of Singapore

09:30 - 10:00
The Role of Standard Operating Environments in the Development of Enterprise IT Architecture
Pedro Gómez, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Venezuela

10:00 - 10:30
The role of Business Architecture in EA
Klaus Niemann, Managing Director, act! consulting GmbH, Germany

09:00 - 09:45
Top 10 Challenges in Enterprise Architecture
Dean Griffin, Senior Executive, Accenture Global Technology Consulting, US

09:45 - 10:30
Enterprise Architecture in the Real World: Managing Chaos
Carl Chilley, Executive Consultant, Xansa Limited, UK

11:00 - 11:30
Understanding Policy Management for Successful SOA Governance
Guy Loewy, CTO, Weblayers

11:30 - 12:00
Best Practices and Patterns from the field for SOA Governance
Stephen Bennett, Americas SOA Practice Lead, BEA Systems

12:00 - 12:30
Practical Approach to SOA Governance and SOA Governance Standards Update
Andrew Hately, IBM

11:00 - 11:45
The Open Group / OMG / Integration Consortium Synergy Project
Ed Harrington, EVP & COO, Model Driven Solutions, Inc., US;
and Chris Armstrong, Armstrong Process Group, Inc., US

11:45 - 12:30
Project Manager and Architect: Working Together to Create a Shared Vision
Jason Uppal, Chief Architect, QR Systems Inc., Canada

11:00 - 11:30
Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise Integration
Eamonn J. McCormick, Chief Technology Officer, Dynamic Networks, US
and Stephen Kerr, PA Consulting

11:30 - 12:00
Enterprise Architecture for Applications Modernization
E.G.Nadhan, Chief Architect - Applications Modernization &Offering Engineering, EDS, US

12:00 - 12:30
Using Architecture to Exploit Constraints and Enable Innovation
Terence J. Blevins, The MITRE Corporation, US

11:00 - 11:30
Increasing the Scalability & Capability of an Enterprise Architecture Group Using Federated Networks, Virtual Teams and COEs
Ashok Vasa, Wipro Technologies, India

11:30 - 12:00
TBA
 

12:00 - 12:30
Key Results of the Enterprise Architecture Survey 2007
Jerry Larivee, Principal Architect, Infosys Technologies Limited

2:00 - 2:30
Critical Technologies for Automating SOA Governance
David Butler, Chief SOA Evangelist, HP Software

2:30 - 3:00
IT Governance and SOA
Tony Gullotta, Vice President of Technology, SOA Software

3:00 - 3:30
SOA Governance Panel
A panel of experts, moderated by Mats Gejnevall of Capgemini, co-chair of the SOA Working Group and also of its SOA Governance project, will answer questions on SOA Governance

TUTORIAL: Using the TOGAF Resource Base (TOGAF is More than Just the ADM)
Robert Weisman, Partner and Executive Consultant, Global Enterprise Architecture Practice Leader, CGI, Canada

1:30 - 2:00
Keynote - Information Architecture and SOA
Sam Ceccola, Chief Architect - BEA Government Systems

2:00 - 2:30
Implementing a Successful SOA MDM Solution
John Kalogirou, Information Management Director, MomentumSI

2:30 - 3:00
Enterprise Information Management - Fundamental to Quicker SOA Playback
Ram Konaje, Lead Consultant, Enterprise Architecture Consulting Practice, Wipro

3:00 - 3:30
The Open Group Ontology for SOA
Chris Harding, Forum Director, The Open Group

2:00 - 2:45
Current Developments in the IT Architect Certification (ITAC) Program
Andras Szakal, IBM, US

2:45 - 3:30
How Individuals Develop as IT Architects
Cristina Woodbridge, IBM, US

4:00 - 4:30
A Lightweight Approach to Service Design Specifications
Daniel Hughes, Systems Flow, Inc.

4:30 - 5:00
SOA Security Patterns
Sridhar Muppidi, Senior Security Architect, IBM

5:00 - 5:20
SOA Maturity Model
Raju Alluri and Srikanth Inaganti, Wipro

Setting up a TOGAF-Based Architecture Practice in Your Organization
Paul van der Merwe, Real IRM Solutions, South Africa

4:00 - 4:30
Information Architecture
Arnold Van Overeem, Global Architect, Sector Products, Architecture and Infrastructure, Capgemini

4:30 - 5:00
Information Architecture Reference Models
Ron Schuldt, Senior Staff Systems Architect, Lockheed Martin Enterprise Information Systems

5:00 - 5:30
Panel Discussion: Information Architecture and SOA
Moderated by Sam Ceccola, Chief Architect - BEA Government Systems

4:00 - 4:45
An Architecture Value Framework
Jay DiMare - Associate Partner, IBM Institute for Business Value, US

4:45 - 5:30
Sustaining the Business Value of SOA
Jatinder Prem, Liquidhub, US

09:00 - 09:30
Patterns in SOA
Nikhil Kumar, President, Applied Technology Solutions

09:30 - 10:00
SOA Reference Architecture: Concepts and Usage
Jorge Diaz, IBM

10:00 - 10:30
The State of standards for SOA
Ed Harrington, EVP & COO, Model Driven Solutions

09:00 - 09:30
Pragmatic SOA Adoption
Clay Cowdery, SOA Strategist, WebMethods SOA Solutions Group

09:30 - 10:00
Choice of Pilot Project for SOA - A Real World View
Paul Kalin, Senior Principal Enterprise Architect, Keane, Inc

10:00 - 10:30
From Enterprise Architecture Concepts to SOA capabilities: A practical deployment method
Abdallah Kadi, Chief Architect, Shift Technologies

09:00 - 09:30
 Enterprise Architecture as context for Business Architecture. A report from the Business Architecture Working Group
Walter Stahlecker, Open Group Fellow

09:30 - 10:00
Linking Industrial Engineering and Enterprise Architecture to Create Business Value
Marne de Vries

10:00 - 10:30
Facilitated discussion
 

11:00 - 11:30
Model Driven Service Design for Service Providers
Patrick Alff, IT Architect, BT Global Services

11:30 - 12:00
Implementing an Open Source SOA based Financial Application in the US Federal Government
Ed Harrington, EVP & COO, Model Driven Solutions

12:00 - 12:30
Exposing Legacy-System Functionality as SOA-Compliant Business Logic without Programming
Jeff Walker - Founder and CEO, TenFold

11:00 - 11:45
Some Experiences with SOA Testing
Tony Carrato and Chuck Shriver, Lead Architect, Asia/Pacific, EIS SOA Advanced Technology, IBM and Test Architect, IBM Software Group

11:45 - 12:15
Improving Defence Agility through Directed Exploitation of Business Service Technologies
Simon Smith, The Salamander Organization

11:00 - 11:30
Boston University Research Program in Business Architecture
David K. Jackson, Senior Research Fellow, Boston University School of Management.

11:30 - 12:00
Brand Architecture as an Aspect of Business Architecture
John Bosma, Senior IT Architect and Master Inventor, Almaden Research Center, IBM Research

12:00 - 12:30
Facilitated Discussion about Business Architecture 

2:00 - 2:30
SOA and the Electricity Reliability Council of Texas
Stephen Kerr, PA Consulting
and Dr Jeyant Tamby, Director of Integration & Design Authority, ERCOT

2:30 - 3:00
Reusable SOA for Cross Industry solutions
Balu Ramachandran, Certified Senior Solution Architect, IBM Software Services for WebSphere

3:00 - 3:30
Applying Patterns, Platform Intelligence and Products to ESB Deployments
Jim Sides, Solution Architect, IBM

2:00 - 2:30
CASE STUDY: Envisioning your Enterprise -- Relationships & Lessons Learned from Projects
Dr. Leon G. Stucki, President, Future Tech Systems, Inc., US

2:30 - 3:00
Agile Enterprise Architecture
Chris Armstrong, Armstrong Process Group, Inc., US

3:00 - 3:30
How to Get Demonstrable Value from Your Enterprise Architecture Tool Deployment in a Day (and Beyond)
Bob Daniel - Practice Director for Enterprise Business Architecture, Troux Technologies

2:00 - 2:30
CASE STUDY: Architectural Governance in a Multi-Vendor Outsourcing Environment
Saverio Rinaldi, Chief Architect for EDS GMAC, EDS, US

2:30 - 3:00
CASE STUDY: Architecture Viewpoints – Different Strokes
Clive Hatton, Real IRM, South Africa

3:00 - 3:30
CASE STUDY: Enterprise Master Data Management Implementation for a Large Retailer / Distributor - Architectural Aspects
Alex Farcasiu, Infosys Technologies, US

4:00 - 4:30
Identity and Access Management in SOA
Stuart Boardman, Director of Consulting Services, CGI

4:30 - 5:00
Architecting SOA Securely
K. Scott Morrison, VP of Engineering and Chief Architect, Layer 7 Technologies

5:00 - 5:30
SOA Infrastructure - The Only Way to Secure Web Services
Tony Gullotta, Vice President of Technology, SOA Software

4:00 - 4:45
Applications of Enterprise Architecture Management in the Next Generation Network
James O'Neal, Detecon, Inc., US

4:45 - 5:30
Perspective Based Architecture - Understanding the Impact of Decisions on the Eco-System
George Cerborne, Microsoft Corporation, US