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The 2nd annual SOA Symposium brings together lessons learned and emerging topics from both government and industry SOA projects, practitioners and experts. The theme of this year's SOA Symposium is "Discipline, Teamwork & Semantic Technologies" to make SOA a successful reality.
The conference will host more than 30 presenters from federal agencies, industry and academia that cover the SOA lifecycle, technical issues, governance and policy aspects, as well as emerging innovations and issues of semantic integration and collaborative service-oriented solutions. The SOA Symposium is a premier conference services offering a forum for practitioners, analysts, and industry representatives to present and discuss experiences and trends. This conference sessions are directed at both business and technical architects, analysts, decision makers and IT practitioners.
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has embarked on a path to implement SOA as a primary means to deliver increased capability to the warfighter by improving the efficiency and effectiveness of business operations. Industry around the world has demonstrated that SOA can substantially reduce the cost of IT infrastructure while greatly improving business agility. Both the IT and the business communities must jointly own and manage a proven inclusive architecture to achieve SOA success. Teamwork and discipline are essential to the success of SOA. To be successful, SOA must be considered a team sport that involves all elements of people, process, technology, and especially trust.
In 2009, the DoD SOA Symposium demonstrated that SOA must be considered a Team Sport, involving all elements of people, process, technology, and especially Trust. This 2nd An-nual DoD SOA Symposium is focused on the Discipline necessary within each individual team member and the team as a whole to be successful. It will provide government and industry professionals with the experiences of individual and team's successes that are a result of best practice strategies for business intelligence, program management, information access, Discipline, and much more. Network with more than 500 Service Oriented Architecture leaders from across the U.S. Government and Industry.
The SOA Symposium will be held on April 21 and 22, 2010, at the Sheraton Crystal City in Arlington, VA, USA. This venue is in close proximity of Washington's Reagan National Airport and the WMATA subway system.
"Industry around the world has demonstrated that SOA can substantially reduce the cost of IT infrastructure while greatly improving business agility. The road to SOA must be traveled with a proven inclusive architecture that is jointly owned and managed by both the IT and the business communities in any organization. To be successful, SOA must be considered to be a team sport that involves all elements of people, process, technology and especially trust."
- Dennis Wisnosky, CTO, BMA,
US Department of Defense
The 2nd Annual SOA Symposium will highlight a "best of show" case study that excels in the theme of the conference - discipline and teamwork. Nominations are being sought for SOA projects that can highlight the role of collaboration and technical excellence in providing SOA-based solutions with significant business or mission value. Also, a general call for presentations is being issued. Please click on the links below for more information:
Call for Nominations
Call for Presentations
This event is being delivered in cooperation with CPS Professional Services, LLC, a Service-Disabled, Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) dedicated to facilitating strategic success through business transformation. For more information contact: soasymposium@cps-ps.com.
About SOA & Cloud Symposium Events
The theme of the SOA and Cloud Symposium conference series is "substance only". Conference planning committees are dedicated to ensuring that each scheduled session provides in-depth coverage and true educational value for the most important topics for SOA and Cloud Computing practitioners. To learn more about prior SOA Symposium events, visit the archived conference sites:
2nd International SOA Symposium
Rotterdam, October 22-23, 2009
www.soasymposium.com/summary3.php
1st International Cloud Symposium
Rotterdam, October 22-23, 2009
www.cloudsymposium.com
1st Annual SOA Symposium
(Government & Industry Best Practices)
Arlington, April 6-7, 2009
www.soasymposium.com/usa2009.php
1st International SOA Symposium
Amsterdam, October 6-7, 2008
www.soasymposium.com/home2008.php
For Students
There is no registration fee for students with a valid student ID and .edu e-mail account. Students should register as "government" using their .edu e-mail accounts and will need to present valid student IDs when attending the event.
Contact
If you have any questions or inquiries regarding the SOA Symposium conference or the post-conference workshops, please contact: info@soasymposium.com
Dennis Wisnosky The 2nd Annual SOA Symposium is hosted by Mr. Dennis Wisnosky, Chief Technical Officer & Chief Architect of the Business Mission Area, OSD DCMO
Cal Ripken Cal Ripken, Jr., Baseball Hall of Famer, embodies the concept of individual discipline to achieve team success. Although he holds many records in professional baseball, it is his breaking of Lou Gehrig's record of 2,130 consecutive games played that especially endears the "Iron Man" of baseball to his admirers.
Lynden Tennison Lynden Tennison, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Union Pacific Corporation, will describe how his company replaced a 40-year-old main frame with SOA systems. At Union Pacific, management discipline was the key to transformation success.
Kelly Perdew Kelly Perdew is best known as the winner of the second season of NBC's The Apprentice. The author of "Take Command: 10 Leadership Principles I learned in the Military and Put to Work for Donald Trump" will discuss teamwork and discipline.
Thomas Erl Thomas Erl is the world's top-selling SOA author, Series Edi-tor of the "Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl", and Editor of The SOA Magazine. His internationally bestselling books have been formally endorsed by senior members of major software organizations.
The SOA Symposium is proud to present top SOA experts representing industry, government, and vendors.
The speakers presenting at this event include:
David Wennergren David Wennergren, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Information Management and Technology & Deputy CIO.
Paul Strassmann Paul Strassmann, President of The Information Economics Press, Former Director of Defense Information and NASA CIO.
...and many others.
The SOA Symposium is a two-day event with a conference agenda organized into four tracks, as follows:
Conference Day 1 (April 21, 2010)
Service Modeling and Analysis
Service Engineering and Refactoring
Applications of SOA reference models
SOA Design Patterns
SOA and BPM
SOA and the Semantic Web
Common Vocabularies and Ontologies
Semantic Platforms for Business Intelligence
Standards for Data Integration
Mediation Services and Targeted Transformation
SOA Analytics and Business Intelligence
Performance and Compliance Management
Service Performance Measurement
SOA and Complex Event Processing
Service Simulation and Quantitative Analysis
SOA Governance Planning, Strategy and Processes
SOA Compliance Management and Policy
SOA Maturity frameworks
Service Lifecycle Management
Measurable SOA Success Criteria
Relating Strategy, Processes, and Services
Various additional events are planned, including book giveaways and book signings.
Conference Day 2 (April 22, 2010)
Cloud-based Services and Virtualization
Modern Enterprise Service Bus Platforms
Service Scalability and Reliability Planning
Service Variability and Configuration
Monitoring SOA infrastructures
RESTful SOA
Domain Service Architectures and Inventories
Hybrid Cloud and Enterprise SOA
Service-oriented software architectures
Enterprise Architecture & SOA
Federated and distributed SOA
SOA Project Case Study
Security Architecture Patterns
Security Mechanisms for SOA Solutions
Security Extensions and Controls for the ESB
Security Risks in Cloud-based SOA
REST Security Controls and HTTP Security
Federation, Trust Brokering, and Security Policy Design
Service Technology Innovations
Service Flexibility and Evolution
Adaptive and context-aware Services
Service Grids and Grid-Enabled Middleware
SOA in Support of Business Networks
The SOA Manifesto for Government
SOA on the Tactical Edge
Additional events include breakout sessions and networking breaks.
Register for SOA Architect Workshop
Register for SOA Security Specialist Workshop
The SOA Certified Professional program from SOASchool.com provides vendor-neutral and industry-standard certifications specializing in the field of SOA, including:
•  Certified SOA Consultant
•  Certified SOA Architect
•  Certified SOA Analyst
•  Certified SOA Security Specialist
•  Certified Cloud Computing Specialist
Certified SOA Architect Workshop
April 26-30, 2010
The five-day certification workshop is comprised of the following course modules:
Workshop Day 1 (Monday, April 26, 2010)
Fundamental SOA & Service-Oriented Computing
An overview of key concepts and terminology associated with SOA, service-oriented computing and service-orientation, including a study of strategic benefits and impacts, and an overview of modern services-based technologies.
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Workshop Day 2 (Tuesday, April 27, 2010)
SOA Technology Concepts
A study of the primary technologies used to build service-oriented solutions, with an emphasis on XML and Web services-based technologies, including WS-* standards and REST services.
[view full course description]
Workshop Day 3 (Wednesday, April 28, 2010)
SOA Design & Architecture
An exploration of the service-oriented architectural model and the service-orientation design paradigm, including in-depth coverage of service compositions and related roles.
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Workshop Day 4 (Thursday, April 29, 2010)
Advanced SOA Design & Architecture
A comprehensive study of different types of service-oriented architectures and advanced topics associated with the application of SOA design patterns and principles.
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Workshop Day 5 (Friday, April 30, 2010)
SOA Design & Architecture Lab
A hands-on workshop enabling participants to apply the models, concepts, techniques, and principles covered previously in order to complete a series of architectural and service design exercises.
[view full course description]
Certified SOA Security Specialist Workshop
May 3-5, 2010
The three-day certification workshop is comprised of the following course modules:
Workshop Day 1 (Monday, May 3, 2010)
Fundamental SOA Security
Essential techniques, patterns, and industry technologies that pertain to establishing security controls and security architectures for service-oriented solutions
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Workshop Day 2 (Tuesday, May 4, 2010)
Advanced SOA Security
Technical and complex topics pertaining to security for contemporary service-oriented solutions, infrastructure, middleware, and cloud-based service technology.
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Workshop Day 3 (Wednesday, May 5, 2010)
SOA Security Lab
A hands-on lab during which participants apply security patterns, practices, and technologies to counter threats and solve a set of complex security problems.
[view full course description]
Additional Public Workshops
SOA Certified Professional workshops are held on a regular basis in different cities across North America and Europe. Upcoming workshops currently scheduled include:
Certified SOA Architect (North Charleston, Feb. 15-19)
Certified SOA Security Specialist (North Charleston, Feb. 22-24)
Certified SOA Architect (Boston, Feb. 22-26)
Certified SOA Security Specialist (Boston, Mar. 1-3)
Certified SOA Architect (Bogota, Mar. 1-5)
Certified SOA Architect (Leeds, Mar. 22-26)
Certified SOA Security Specialist (Leeds, Mar. 29-31)
Certified SOA Architect (Quito, Apr. 5-9)
Certified SOA Architect (Hamburg, Apr. 12-16)
Certified SOA Architect (Arlington, Apr. 26-30)
Certified SOA Architect (Santiago, May 3-7)
Certified SOA Security Specialist (Arlington, May 3-5)
Certified SOA Architect (Falls Church, May 17-21)
Certified SOA Architect (Lima, May 31 - Jun. 4, 2010)
Certified SOA Analyst (Munich, Jun. 7-11, 2010)
Certified SOA Architect (Falls Church, Jun. 21-25, 2010)
Certified SOA Security Specialist (Falls Church, Jun. 28-30, 2010)
Certified SOA Architect (Buenos Aires, Jul. 5-9, 2010)
Certified SOA Analyst (Falls Church, Jul. 12-16, 2010)
Certified SOA Architect (Panama City, Aug. 2-6, 2010)
Certified SOA Architect (Mexico City, Aug. 30 - Sept. 3, 2010)
For event details and the latest schedule, visit: www.soaworkshop.com
Book Signing Event
Many of the speakers at the SOA Symposium are published authors. This event will pay special tribute to the upcoming book "Modern SOA Infrastructure: Technology, Design, and Governance". Several of the authors of this book will be speaking at the event on topics that relate to their contributions, which include new SOA design patterns that have been developed in relation to modern SOA infrastructure advances. To preview these patterns or to participate in the on-going development of the catalog, visit the community site at: www.soapatterns.org
The aim of this book is to explore modern infrastructure technologies and practices for mainstream service-oriented architectures and solutions. This book provides in-depth coverage of contemporary infrastructure technology components and further provides new design patterns that extend and build upon previously documented SOA design patterns. As part of the new content provided by this book is the definition of the Modern ESB pattern to represent how the enterprise service bus has evolved and grown. As a further supplement, this title introduces primitive reference architectures that, along with the patterns, are referenced by subsequent chapters that explore individual infrastructure technologies and practices.
Coming in 2010
Several new books are being released as part of the Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl. Authors from all of these new releases will be speaking at the 2nd Annual SOA Symposium. Prentice Hall will also be making advance galleys available in conjunction with book signing events.
"SOA with REST" is a new title that fulfills a critical need within the IT industry by documenting the convergence of REST and SOA and establishing how RESTful services can be realized in support of service-orientation.
"SOA with .NET & Azure" is a comprehensive tutorial that explains and demonstrates how to build and implement service-oriented solutions by combining established SOA principles, patterns, and practices with modern .NET and Azure services technology.
"SOA with Java" is a detailed technical reference guide that delves into how to build and implement service-oriented solutions by combining established SOA principles, patterns, and practices with modern Java services technology.
For more information about these titles, visit: www.soabooks.com
The books mentioned above are part of de facto library of titles dedicated to SOA, service-orientation, cloud computing and service-oriented computing in general. This book series is also home to the acclaimed titles "SOA Design Patterns" and "SOA Principles of Service Design." These books established SOA design patterns and service-orientation design principles that were adopted by the U.S. Department of Defense as part of the Business Operating Environment (BOE) strategy.
To learn more about this book series, visit: www.soabooks.com
To learn more about the BOE, visit: www.soamag.com/I25/0109-2.asp
For those of you interested in learning more about SOA activity at the US Department of Defense, a collection of documents, news items, articles, memos, and formal specifications has been published at SOADoD.org, a portal dedicated to SOA initiatives at the DoD. SOADoD.org is not associated with the SOA Symposium.
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