The SOA Symposium (October 7-8, 2008)

Welcome to the largest SOA event of the year! The First Annual International SOA Symposium is a conference dedicated to SOA practitioners, consisting of the top SOA experts and authors from around the world, providing a series of talks, demonstrations, panels, and SOA training and certification workshops.

The theme of the SOA Symposium is "substance only." A nine-person conference planning committee comprised of established SOA professionals from both the media and the practitioner community is committed to ensuring that each session provides in-depth coverage and true educational value for the most important SOA-related topics for SOA practitioners.

The conference sessions will be organized into the following tracks:

• SOA Architecture & Design
• Service Modeling & BPM

• SOA & Business
• SOA & REST
• SOA & Web 2.0
• SOA Governance
• SOA Programming
• SOA Innovations
• SOA Infrastructure & Technology
• SOA Project Delivery & Methodology

For complete descriptions of these tracks visit the Conference Tracks page. This event will be headlined with an opening keynote by Thomas Erl, the world's top-selling SOA author and editor of the Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series (www.soabooks.com).

Authors & Book Launches

Many of the speakers are published SOA authors. In fact, among the speakers there are 22 SOA books that have been published or are in development. A variety of contests will be held throughout the conference, during which over 100 books will be given away to attendees. The SOA Symposium is also proud to be the official event to launch the release of several new books, including 'SOA Design Patterns' and 'Web Service Contract Design & Versioning for SOA'. Many of the authors of these and other books will be speaking at this event and will be further present for book signings and to participate in the contests.

For more information regarding the book launches and other book-related events, visit the Books page.

Post-Conference Workshops (October 9-15, 2008)

The first two conference days are followed by three five-day workshops that are part of the SOA Certified Professional program from SOASchool.com. Registrants will have the opportunity to attain any of the following certifications by attending these credit courses and taking advantage of on-site testing:

• Certified SOA Consultant
• Certified SOA Architect
• Certified SOA Analyst

Note that when registering for both the conference and any one of the certification workshops, you are entitled to receive a 10% discount off both the conference and workshop registration fees. For more information regarding these certifications, the workshops, and for course descriptions, visit the Workshops page.

Venue

The SOA Symposium will be held at the Amsterdam Arena, a state-of-the-art facility that has hosted numerous large-scale IT conferences in addition to being the prime destination for concerts and sporting events in Amsterdam. Fore more information about the Amsterdam Arena, visit:

The entire Amsterdam Arena will be reserved for the SOA Symposium, allowing conference attendees to freely explore the facility.

Free guided tours of the arena will also be available to all conference registrants.

Hotel and Travel Information

Be sure to visit the Hotels and Visiting Amsterdam pages for the latest details regarding hotel information and special travel packages for those of you who can take a few extra days to explore beautiful Amsterdam. Note that the conference and the post-conference workshops are being held in different locations in Amsterdam for which different hotel recommendations are provided.

See You There!

Meet the world's leading SOA experts, get the latest insights on SOA technologies, techniques, and trends, get formal training and certification, win prizes, and tour Amsterdam while you're in the neighborhood. See you at the symposium!