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In3 – 2002 will bring together some of the key visionaries in the open systems, standards and certification world, and will seek to push forward the boundaries of business information provision, to achieve critical advantage through integration.

Access to integrated information through Integrated Information Infrastructures is the stated need of CIOs who are under pressure to justify what they are doing, to do a better job of providing information in ways that support the changing needs of business, and to keep within tighter budgets.

The In3 Conference will

  • examine the requirement for access to integrated information through Integrated Information Infrastructures
  • highlight some of the opportunities that exist today
  • identify the barriers that still exist in multi-vendor environments
  • consider some of the strategies for successful implementation, and
  • show the rewards for those who participate

Confirmed speakers include:

  • Harald Alvestrand Chair, Internet Engineering Task Force
  • Winston Bumpus, Director of Open Technologies and Standards at Novell, Inc
  • Ronald Dorman, Principal Director, Interoperability Directorate, DISA
  • Carl J. Jones, Director of Desktop, E-Mail & Internet Technologies, The Boeing Company
  • Jamie Lewis, CEO, Research Chair, The Burton Group
  • James M. McKinley, Hewlett-Packard
  • Ms Dawn Meyerriecks, CTO, Defense Information Systems Agency
  • Peter Sevcik, President, NetForecast, Inc.
  • Nancy J. Wong, Deputy Director, National Outreach and Awareness, U.S. Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office
  • Joanne Woytek, COTR & NASA SEWP Manager, NASA
  • John Zachman, Chief Executive Officer of the Zachman Institute for Framework Advancement (ZIFA)

In3 will bring together leaders from the customer as well as the supplier communities in the world of capturing business requirements, building architectural frameworks, managing and securing open systems, supporting mobile users, promoting and developing open standards, developing test suites, providing certification programs, and aiding procurement.

Who should attend

  • Executive management - CIOs
  • IT management - VPs and IT Directors, IT strategists and planners, program management officers and infrastructure owners
  • Line-of-Business management - quality officers, strategic planning officers, business system designers and owners
  • Vendors - marketing executives and strategists, product managers and VPs and Directors of Standards
  • Analysts

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Highlights

A full program of presentations and discussion of Integrated Information Infrastructures and how to achieve them:

customer vision and requirements
business scenarios
role of IT architecture
open standards
certification
procurement and the market

Sessions that focus on the contribution of The Open Group Customer Council and Forums to the delivery of In3:

EMA Challenge
presented by the EMA Forum
Customer Council's role in
understanding customer needs
Current Activities of the Forums
and much more

Identity Management
presented by the Directory Interoperability, EMA, Mobile Management, and  Security Forums
Common Information Model (CIM) and The Open Group's Open Source Implementation (Pegasus)
presented by the Enterprise Management Forum in joint session with the Quality of Service Task Force

Real-time and Embedded Systems
presented by the Real-time and Embedded Systems Forum
Quality of Service
presented by the Quality of Service Task Force in joint sessions with Real-time and Embedded Systems and Enterprise Management Forums

Architecture Briefing
presented by the Architecture Forum
Mobile Management - in support of the mobile worker
presented by the Mobile Management Forum

Networking opportunities - a chance to meet colleagues and follow up discussions:

networking reception
offsite event
first time attendees reception

Choose to come for a couple of days or for the whole week.  Review the week's agenda and register now!


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