The Need for Semantic
Interoperability
Anthony H. Perry, Principal System Architect, Lockheed Martin
09:30 – 10:00
Semantic Interoperability: A Network-Centric
Operations Perspective
John A. Yanosy, Rockwell Collins
10:00 – 10:30
The US National Information Exchange Model
(NIEM).
Russell F. Moody,
NIEM Program Management Office (NIEM PMO)
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee
11:00 – 11:30
Semantic Interoperability - The Next Step
Toward Information Integration Patrick Ryan, Senior Software IT Architect,
IBM
11:30 – 12:00
Service Repository: The Foundation
for SOA Thiru Thangarathinam,
Intel
12:00 – 12:30
Semantically Enabled Web Services for More Effective Decision
Making in a Net Centric Environment
Julie DeMeester, Mitre
12:30 – 14:00
Lunch
14:00– 14:30
Vocabularies: Ontologies Specialized for Data Architecture
Dave Hollander, Chief Technology
Officer, Contivo, Inc.
14:30– 15:30
The Role of Ontologies Adam Pease, CEO, Articulate Software
15:30 – 16:00
Coffee
16:00 – 17:30
Semantic Interoperability: The Big Picture
Facilitated discussion to identify solution trends and major interoperability
models
moderated by Dave Lounsbury, The Open Group Vice President for Government
Operations, and Managing Director for US Research & Technology
An Introduction to the UDEF: Ron Schuldt, Senior Staff Systems Architect,
Lockheed Martin Enterprise Information Systems
09:45 – 10:30
Case Study – Defense Procurement Introduced
by Curt Garcia, Contracts Manager at Raytheon ,
this case study will demonstrate how the UDEF will help solve semantic problems,
using the example of the information exchanges required in the context of US
Government defense procurements.
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee
11:00 – 11:35
UDEF In The Enterprise
Alan N. Slater, Chief Executive Officer, Safyre Solutions
11:35 – 11:55
Potential Applications of UDEF in the US
Government
Patrick Ryan, Senior Software IT Architect, IBM
11:55 – 12:30
UDEF-Enabled Enterprise Operation
Loren Osborn, Federal Operations Manager, Unicorn
12:30 – 14:00
Lunch
14:00 – 14:45
Applying UDEF Principles to Enterprise Data Ron Schuldt, Senior Staff Systems Architect,
Lockheed Martin
14:45 – 15:30
The UDEF Registry Architecture Ron Schuldt, Schuldt, Senior Staff Systems
Architect at Lockheed Martin Enterprise
Information Systems and chair of the UDEF Forum, will describe the requirements
for
the Global UDEF Registry. Chris Harding, The Open
Group Forum Director for UDEFwill describe the implementation possibilities from an Open Group perspective.
Ron and Chris will then be joined by Patrick Ryan,
Senior Software IT Architect at IBM
and chair of the UDEF Forum's Architecture Working Group in a Panel discussion
of the
Global UDEF Registry implementation.
15:30 – 16:00
Coffee
16:00 – 16:45
UDEF as an enabler of Semantic Interoperability
A speakers’ panel
will answer questions arising from the conference and will discuss the
role of the UDEF in enabling semantic interoperability.
16:45 – 17:30
Next Steps:
The final session will discuss the
way forward, to be implemented by the UDEF Forum through its future work
plan.
