Dr Chris Harding is Forum Director for SOA and Semantic Interoperability at The Open Group.

He 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.

Presentation
The State of SOA and the Standards that Support it
 This session describes the state of SOA as viewed from numerous perspectives including a number of analyst organizations (Gartner, Yankee Group, Forrester, etc.), and describes the state of the standards supporting SOA from the perspective of various standards development organizations.

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