SOA Consortium Meeting in Washington DC - March 12-13

Time flies... This week, the SOA Consortium is in Washington DC for our first quarterly meeting of 2008.  We have a full agenda of invited speakers, roundtable sessions and working group time.  We are exploring two themes at this meeting, Public Sector SOA, and Centers of Excellence. 

To stimulate the public sector SOA conversations on Wednesday morning, we have two invited speaker talks, and a hot topics roundtable.  The first invited speaker talk features Bill Vass, President and COO, Sun Microsystems Federal and Ross Altman, CTO, SOA and Business Integration, Sun Microsystems, on Getting to the Service Oriented Enterprise.

The second invited speaker talk is Kshemendra Paul, Chief Architect, Office of Management & Budget (OMB) on the Practical Guide to Federal Service Oriented Architecture (PGFSOA).  Following the invited speakers, Victor Harrison of CSC will join Bill Vass and Kshemendra Paul in a Public Sector SOA Hot Topics Roundtable.

Thursday morning, we are focusing on SOA Centers of Excellence. We want to explore the mission, structure, skills, funding strategies and lifecycles of successful COEs. On lifecycle, we are looking to answer the question of how long a COE should exist and if/how it morphs over time. “Build to last, or build to blast?”

The COE morning starts with two 40-minute invited COE leader talks -- Melvin Greer of Lockheed Martin and Richard Reba of CSC -- followed by an hour-long roundtable discussion on Critical COE Skills.  Joining our COE leaders on the roundtable panel are David Butler of HP and Bruce Henderson of Savant.

During the afternoons, our working groups will meet to further their current activities on case studies, US Army project, business architecture, SOA-BPM connection and the SOA Planning Framework.

If you are in the DC area, please stop by.  For those unable to attend, we will be publishing podcasts of the public sector SOA invited speakers talks and the roundtables. 

On that note, all four podcasts from December have been published.  Check out our resource hub for the full podcast listing.