7:30am - 8:00am

Registration & Continental Breakfast

8:00am - 8:15am

Welcoming Comments

• Steve Fox, Editor in Chief, InfoWorld

8:15am - 9:00am

Industry Keynote Address: The Government's SOA Roadmap
Join Dick Burk, chief architect of OMB, as he sets the scene for the introduction and implementation of SOA in government. Why is it important? What do government agencies need to know? How will SOA ultimately bolster and drives the EA process?

• Dick Burk, Chief Architect, OMB

9:00am - 9:45am

SOA - The Key to Transforming Government Services
The deployment of SOA is expected to help transform the way government services are delivered, breaking down silos and lowering costs. A representative of a leading technology and market research company will discuss how federal civilian agencies and state and local governments are making this happen - today - and how he sees these efforts bearing fruit in the future.

• Gene Leganza, Forrester Research

9:45am - 10:15am

Networking Break

10:15am - 11:00am

Keynote Address - Accelerating Your SOA Implementation
As entities increasingly look to make the promise of SOA a reality, the most common question asked is "how do I get started?" BEA has helped government agencies and private sector companies take practical first steps to transforming their IT vision into business value. Listen as BEA discusses real-world best practices for SOA adoption from some of these leading enterprises, and how you too can accelerate you SOA Implementation.

• Bruce Graham, VP, Worldwide Consulting, BEA Systems

11:00am - 12:00 noon

SOA Building Blocks - Civilian Case Studies
Early adopters representing a range of civilian agencies discuss their progress in implementing SOA, provide lessons learned and tips for navigating the challenging waters that lie ahead.

• Moderator: Eric Knorr, Executive Editor, InfoWorld
• Chris Fornecker, GSA
• Stephen Lowe, HUD
• Russell Kuehn, FMS, Treasury

12:00 - 1:15pm

Networking Lunch with Birds of a Feather Discussion
Join your peers, industry experts and InfoWorld editors for roundtable lunch discussions on a variety of topics including services definition, security issues, open source, application development, mainframe/legacy system issues and intergovernmental information sharing.

1:15pm - 2:00pm

SOA Implementation Update - DOD
In many respects, the military and intelligence community has jumped ahead of the civilian sector in the implementation and deployment of SOAs. Get a status report on SOA implementation and find out what special issues the military community faces in building and deploying SOAs.

• Joe Paiva, Business Enterprise Architecture Team, U.S. Army CIO/G-6

2:00pm - 2:30pm

Government SOA Adoption - Industry Perspectives
This panel of industry executives discusses government adoption of service-oriented architectures from the commercial prospective. What are the government customer's expectations? How quickly are they moving? What is industry's role in helping them develop an SOA strategy?

• Moderator: Neil McAllister, InfoWorld
• John Emerson, VP of Federal Business Group, AmberPoint
• Keith Hurwitz, Federal Platform Strategy Adviser, Microsoft

2:30pm - 3:00pm

Operationalizing SOA for Agency Use
Beyond the technology, agencies need to embrace a new business paradigm before successfully implementing an SOA. A former OMB executive addresses the challenges in making SOA "real" for government users.

• Mark Forman, Former U.S. Administrator for E-Government and IT

3:00pm - 3:15pm

Networking Break

3:15pm - 4:00pm

Reality Check - SOA & The Government Enterprise
Join David Linthicum, Application Integration and SOA Expert, as he engages a panel of government implementers for a forward-looking no-holds barred discussion on the realities of SOA. What kind of progress has the federal government made on SOA? Where can we expect to be a year from now? What are the true benefits of SOA? The costs? Bring your candid thoughts and questions for an entertaining and lively dialog.

• Moderator: David Linthicum, Application Integration and SOA Expert
• Brian Husted, Grants.gov, HHS
• Dan Thomas, Director, DC Stat, District of Columbia

4:00pm - 4:05pm

Closing Remarks & Conference Conclusion

• Steve Fox, Editor in Chief, InfoWorld

4:05pm - 5:00pm

Networking Reception