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

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

•	80 Expert Speaker Sessions
•	13 Conference Tracks
•	8 Expert Panels
•	6 Keynote Speeches

Participating Organizations Dozens of companies and organizations are participating in this year's symposium, including:  •  Accenture
 •  Amazon
 •  AmberPoint
 •  Approach
 •  Archimiddle
 •  BearingPoint
 •  Be Informed
 •  Booz Allen Hamilton
 •  Burton Group
 •  Capgemini
 •  CGI
 •  Collibra
 •  Cordial
 •  Dutch Tax and Customs
 •  EDSN
 •  Enable-U
 •  Enigmatec Corporation
 •  FedICT
 •  Fiorano
 •  GloMidCo
 •  HP
 •  IBM
 •  ICRIS
 •  IDS Scheer
 •  ionip
 •  Info Q
 •  InnoQ
 •  Layer 7
 •  Logica
 •  Merrill Lynch
 •  Microsoft
 •  Oracle
 •  Ordina
 •  Prentice Hall
 •  Progress Software
 •  Red Hat
 •  Salesforce.com
 •  Seed Technology Solutions
 •  SOA Park
 •  SOA Systems
 •  Software AG
 •  Sun Microsystems
 •  ThoughtWorks
 •  Tibco
 •  U.S. Department of Defense
 •  Verizon Business
 •  Wiley-Blackwell
 •  Wipro
 •  ZDNet Conference Tracks The 80 speaker sessions are organized into the following 14 conference tracks:

•	Next Generation SOA
•	SOA Architecture & Design
•	Service Modeling & BPM
•	The Business of Service-Orientation
•	SOA Project Delivery & Methodology
•	Real World SOA Case Studies
•	SOA Governance
•	SOA Design Patterns & Service Engineering
•	Modern ESB & SOA Middleware
•	Building Service-Oriented Solutions
•	SOA & REST
•	SOA & Cloud Computing
•	Cloud Computing

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?"
•	"Will the Open Cloud Become a Reality?"
•	"Modern Service Security: Do's, Don'ts and Never's"

To learn more, visit the Expert Panels page.

"Next Generation SOA:
A Web-Centric Perspective"
by Stefan Tilkov
Noted SOA editor/author and outspoken REST advocate Stefan Tilkov will be delivering for the first time his new talk "Next Generation SOA: A Web-Centric Perspective". This session will highlight the numerous Web-based implementation mediums, technologies, and architectural characteristics now being leveraged for the creation of modern service-oriented solutions. Stefan will emphasize opportunities for incorporating the fundamental architecture of the World Wide Web into inter-service communication frameworks. Stefan is also a member of the SOA Manifesto working group and co-founder of the German consulting firm innoQ.