7:15am

Registration

8:30am - 8:45am

Welcoming Comments by InfoWorld's CEO & Editorial Director, Kevin McKean

8:45am - 9:20am

General Session: Customer Keynote Presentation: Dr. John Halamka, CIO, Harvard Medical School (East Coast only)

9:30am - 10:00am

General Session: Keynote Speaker: Mark Carges, CTO, BEA Systems - Club Regent

Business Track
Track Chairperson: Eric Knorr, Executive Editor, InfoWorld

Technology Track
Track Chairperson: Jon Udell, Lead Analyst, InfoWorld Test Center

10:15am - 11:00am

Defining Business Agility
An agile business can monitor itself in realtime, integrate acquisitions quickly, respond effectively to new compliance regulations, and federate easily with partner services. How and why does SOA enable all these forms of agility?

Defining the SOA Platform
Enterprise service bus, fabric, grid, and Internet operating system are some of the terms often used to describe this emerging platform. What are its key ingredients, and how do they work together?

11:00am - 11:50am

Services and Contracts
In a technical sense, contracts define interfaces and messages. But in a business sense, contracts govern legal relationships. How can SOA help us deal with these two kinds of contracts in a unified way?

Pervasive SOA
What new opportunities arise in a world where every purchase order, stock item, and item of luggage publishes events to the network? And how do we manage this flood of events?

12:00pm - 1:15pm

Executive Luncheon Served to All Attendees

1:30pm - 2:15pm

Opportunities and Challenges for the Agile Enterprise
SOA represents our best effort so far to align IT infrastructure with business reality. How does SOA enable the agile enterprise? What key challenges still thwart us, and how will we resolve them?

2:15pm - 2:45pm

Break and Sponsor Networking

2:45pm - 3:30pm

Extending Your Business with SOA
You probably already extend your business by consuming services from external partners. How (and why) can you also provide services to partners?

Building Applications on an SOA Platform
In a SOA ecosystem we "compose" applications. How will new tools, frameworks, and techniques support this compositional style?

3:45pm - 5:00pm

CTO Reality Check
CTOs discuss how Web services and SOA have (or haven't) improved business agility.

5:00pm - 5:15pm

Closing Comments: Next Steps Kevin McKean