World's Largest SOA
Event for SOA Practitioners The International SOA Symposium is the largest and most comprehensive SOA event for practitioners. Following the success of last year’s International SOA Symposium in Amsterdam and the recently completed SOA Symposium held in Arlington, USA, this next edition will be largest and most ambitious event held so far. Located at the World Trade Center in beautiful Rotterdam, the main conference will be held on October 22-23, 2009 and will be followed by a series of SOA Certified Professional certification workshops during the week of October 26-30, 2009. This year's symposium is dedicated to the theme "Exploring Next Generation SOA" and will showcase the world's leading SOA experts and authors from around the world. Internationally recognized speakers such as Thomas Erl, Grady Booch, Anne Thomas Manes, David Chappell, Dirk Krafzig, Jim Webber, Nicolai Josuttis, Paul Brown, Mark Little, Clemens Utschig, Toufic Boubez, Ali Arsanjani, Brian Loesgen and many others will provide new and exclusive coverage of the most relevant and critical topics in the SOA industry today. To learn more, visit the Conference Overview page. Previous Symposiums Learn more about previous editions of the SOA Symposium by visiting the original conference Websites. "The 2008 International SOA Symposium was jam-packed full of informative sessions and discussions. It was inspiring to see so many well-informed experts and practitioners come together to learn and teach one another about the latest thinking and techniques in service-oriented architecture." - Joe McKendrick, SOA Journalist, ZDNet

New Expanded Conference
Program Agenda This year's program consists of:

•	70 Expert Speaker Sessions
•	14 Conference Tracks
•	8 Expert Panels
•	6 Keynote Speeches

To learn more about the speakers, visit the Speaker & Keynote Bios page. Conference Tracks The 70 speaker sessions are organized into the following 14 conference tracks:

•	Next Generation SOA
•	SOA Architecture & Design
•	SOA Governance
•	SOA Design Patterns & Service Engineering
•	SOA & Cloud Computing
•	Modern ESB & SOA Middleware
•	Service Modeling & BPM
•	The Business of Service-Orientation
•	Real World SOA Case Studies
•	Interactive Services & the Human Factor
•	Service Development with .NET
•	Service Development with Java
•	Project Delivery & Methodology
•	SOA & REST

For complete descriptions of these tracks, visit the Conference Tracks page. Expert Panels This year’s symposium features twice the amount of panels than last year. The 8 panel sessions currently scheduled include:

•	"SOA Trends: The Direction of the Next Generation"
•	"SOA in the Cloud: How Do Cloud-Based Services Change the Way We Build Service-Oriented Solutions?"
•	"Agile Development and Service-Orientation: Can They be Successfully Combined?"
•	"The Modern ESB: What's New? What's Old?"
•	"Today's SOA Governance Platforms: Are They Mature Enough?"
•	"The SOA Manifesto: After-thoughts and Discussion"
•	"Modern Service Security: Do's, Don'ts and Never's"

To learn more, visit the Expert Panels page.

"SOA as an
Architectural Pattern"
Keynote by Grady Booch Object-oriented guru, author, and design patterns advocate Grady Booch will be delivering a keynote speech entitled "SOA as an Architectural Pattern: Best Practices in Software Architecture" as part of the closing proceedings on the first conference day. Grady, who contributed the foreword for the SOA Design Patterns book, will be discussing how the service-oriented architectural model relates to and can be represented by design patterns and the relevance of software architecture best practices to service-orientation. This closing keynote on the first conference day will be delivered remotely via second life, live from San Francisco.

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