SOA Tutorials

Monday, April 26, 2010

2.00 - 2.45 The Impact of SOA Chris Greenslade, Director & Principal Consultant, CLARS, UK Chris is currently Chair of The Open Group's Supplier Council and a member of the Specification Authority that specifies the policies, processes and conformance criteria of the ITAC program. He was a member of the first ever ITAC Certification Review Board and many subsequent ones at Levels 1, 2 and 3.

2.45 - 3.30 Assessing Your Service Integration Maturity Andras Szakal, Director Software Architecture, IBM US Federal Software Group Mr. Szakal is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and Chief Architect of IBM's Federal Software business unit. He is also an IBM Senior Certified Software IT Architect and an IBM Certified SOA Solution Designer. His responsibilities include developing e-Government software architectures using IBM middleware and leading the IBM federal government software IT architect team. Mr. Szakal holds undergraduate degrees in Biology and Computer Science and a Masters Degree in Computer Science from James Madison University. Mr. Szakal has been a driving force behind IBM's adoption of government IT standards and is a member of the IBM Software Group Strategy Team. The team he leads has been responsible for helping the federal government move e-Government into the On-Demand era through the application of SOA. His team has been directly involved with multiple, high-profile, successful government software and services engagements based on open standards and open source. Mr. Szakal represents IBM SWG on the Board of Directors of The Open Group. He currently holds the Chair of the IT Architect Profession Certification Standard (ITAC) within the Open Group.

3.30 - 4.00 Break

4.00 - 4.45 TUTORIAL: SOA Governance This is one of the series of five tutorials on SOA prepared by The Open Group's SOA Work Group. It builds on the first three tutorials: The Impact of SOA on Business and Assessing Your Service Integration Maturity. It explains: What SOA governance is How it relates to other governance structures in the business What high-level governance structures and procedures need to be put into place. An example of SOA Governance applied to the example company scenario This tutorial is designed for Business Executives, Business Managers, Business Strategists, Business Consultants, Business Analysts, Business Process Engineers, System Analysts, Enterprise Architects, IT Directors, IT Strategists, IT Operations Managers, IT Architects, IT Project Managers, System Designers, Software Architects, Software Engineers, and System Administrators. The SOA conference stream will include a further tutorial from the series, which builds on this one. Heather Kreger, IBM, US Heather Kreger is IBM’s lead architect for SOA Standards in the IBM Software Group, with 15 years of standards experience. She has led the development of standards for Web services, Management and Java in numerous standards organizations, including W3C, OASIS, DMTF, and The Open Group.Heather is currently co-chair for The Open Group’s SOA Work Group and liaison for The Open Group to ISO/IEC JTC1 SC7 SOA SG and INCITS DAPS38 (US TAG to ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC38).  Heather is also the author of numerous articles and specifications, as well as the book “Java and JMX, Building Manageable Systems,” and most recently was co-editor of “Navigating the SOA Open Standards Landscape Around Architecture.”

4.45 - 5.30 Architecting SOA This is the fourth of the series of six tutorials on SOA prepared by The Open Group's SOA Work Group. It builds on the first three tutorials: The Business Impact of SOA, Assessing Your Service Integration Maturity and SOA Governance. It explains: The Open Group's SOA Reference Architecture How The Open Group's SOA Reference Architecture relates to enterprise SOA reference architectures How enterprise SOA reference architectures in turn relate to SOA business solutions and infrastructure. This tutorial is designed for Business Process Engineers, System Analysts, Enterprise Architects, IT Directors, IT Strategists, IT Operations Managers, IT Architects, IT Project Managers, System Designers, Software Architects, Software Engineers, and System Administrators. The SOA conference stream will include a further two tutorials from the series, which build on this one: Developing an SOA with TOGAF and Implementing SOA. Ed Harrington, EVP & COO, Model Driven Solutions, US Mr. Harrington, a long time supporter of the Open Group, is EVP & COO of Model Driven Solutions, an Enterprise Architecture, SOA and Model Driven Architecture Consulting and Software Development company. He is also Vice Chair of the Supplier Council and Architecture Forum Strategy WG of the Open Group.

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

2.00 - 2.45 Developing an SOA With TOGAF Dave Hornford, Hornford Associates, Canada Dave Hornford has eighteen years continuous experience in information technology. His focus is aligning information technology strategy and architecture with business goals. Dave started a strategy & architecture consultancy in 2003, adopting TOGAF in 2004. Previously Dave worked as a Principal Consultant & Solution Architect for Digital, Compaq & Hewlett Packard, grew a boutique development shop & solution integrator He started aligning technology with business value working with Apple.

2.45 - 3.30 Implementing SOA Don Kavanagh, Capita IT Services, UK Don has over 27 years experience in distributed system architecture. With a Masters in Telecommunications and Software Engineering has worked extensively as a Senior Enterprise Architect and Process Methodologist. Don has managed and delivered a wide range of projects utilizing distributed component, BPM and SOA architectures, for blue chip organisations and Government in the UK and USA. Don is a member of the Open Group forum defining the TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework) standard for SOA development and governance. Operating across all the key disciplines of Enterprise Architecture Don is an expert in the Cultural and Technology change needed for successful Business and Enterprise process improvement in an agile and sustainable environment. Don Co-authored the Meta Meta Model to UML for the OMG. Don was Director of Global Process for Marconi Corp (across 17 Business Units)

3.30 - 4.00 Break

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