Next International SOA + Cloud Symposium Scheduled for Spring, 2012 in Europe
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Background
In 2009, the DoD SOA Symposium demonstrated that SOA must be considered a Team Sport – involving all elements of people, process and technology, and highlighting the necessity of Trust. The 2010 Symposium highlighted that individual and team Discipline is critical to making SOA a successful reality. The theme was Discipline, Teamwork and Semantic Technologies.
This 3rd Annual SOA & Semantic Technology Symposium focuses on the technology and standards required to drive semantic interoperability and realize IT efficiencies within the Department of Defense and beyond. The Symposium addresses enterprise services that promote reuse, lessen redundancy and waste, and enable the Department to share knowledge and achieve enterprise business analytics. The theme for 2011 is Perseverance!
The Annual DoD SOA & Semantic Technology Symposium is a special event for government and industry IT decision makers, business and technology professionals; providing a forum to connect, share, strategize and educate one another on government and industry best practices and emerging technology.
Who Should Attend?
All of those wanting to develop a better understanding of the strategy and direction of SOA and semantic technology for the Department of Defense, and how these activities support attainment of mission objectives and IT acquisition reform goals mandated by Congress, driven by efficiency needs and being developed by the DCMO.
Symposium attendees will gain insight from inspiring Keynote Speakers, listening to papers and presentations on specific SOA & Semantic Technology projects, hearing case studies from the perspective of user organizations that address:
• Standards-based Approaches to Semantic Data
• Shared Understanding and Interoperable Business Operations
• SOA and Semantic Services
• Data Management
• Business Analytics Annual Award Nominations
3rd Annual SOA & Semantic Technology Symposium 2011 SOA Award – Call for Nominations is now open.
The 3rd annual SOA & Semantic Technology Award, sponsored by Mr. Dennis Wisnosky, CTO and Chief Architect, Office of the Deputy Chief Management Officer, DoD, brings together lessons learned and emerging topics from both government and industry SOA and Semantic Technology Projects.
About the Award
The SOA & Semantic Technology Symposium 2011 Award will highlight a "best of show" case study that excels in the theme of the conference – perseverance. We seek nominations of SOA and/or Semantic Technology projects that can highlight the role of collaboration and technical excellence in providing SOA and/or Semantic Technology-based solutions with significant business or mission value.
Nominations for the Award are open to organizations of all sizes, including government agencies, which have successfully delivered business or mission value using SOA and Semantic Technology. Nominations will be evaluated based on the quality of the problem they addressed, the value that they have generated, the exhibition of the Symposium theme (perseverance), and the sophistication of the solution presented.
Learn how to nominate here
Each day of the conference features three talks from recognized experts, authors and leaders from government and industry that set the tone for the day.
Ms. Elizabeth (Beth) A. McGrath is the Department's first Deputy Chief Management Officer and leads the Department's efforts to better synchronize, integrate and coordinate DoD business operations and serves as the Principal Staff Assistant (PSA) and advisor to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Defense for matters relating to management and improvement of business operations.
Mr. David M. Wennergren serves as the Department of Defense Assistant Deputy Chief Management Officer, where he is the principal deputy to the DoD Deputy Chief Management Officer and champions the Department's efforts to better synchronize, integrate, coordinate and improve DoD business operations. His efforts focus on achieving greater effectiveness, increased efficiency and improved performance in the Department's enterprise policies, processes, and systems.
Mr. Dennis Wisnosky is responsible for providing expert guidance and oversight in the design, development, and modification of the federated architectures supporting the Department's Business Mission Area. This role incorporates oversight of the DoD Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA) – the corporate level systems, processes, and data standards that are common across the DoD, in addition to the business architectures of the services and defense agencies.
Mr. Stephen Baker is the author of Final Jeopardy: Man vs Machine and the Quest to Know Everything and Numerati.
His book examines what is involved with creating a machine that can decipher complex and puzzling clues in English and provide the correct answer – within three seconds.
Mr. Baker was was recently invited to address the G-8 Summit in a panel on technology.
Mr. Thomas Erl is a best-selling IT author and founder of Arcitura Education Inc., SOASchool.com® and CloudSchool.com™. With over 140,000 copies in print world-wide, his seven published books have become international bestsellers and have been formally endorsed by senior members of major IT organizations, such as US Department of Defense, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Intel, Accenture, IEEE, HL7, MITRE, SAP, CISCO, HP, and others.
Track Sessions
The 3rd Annual SOA & Semantic Technology Symposium focuses on the technology and standards required to drive semantic interoperability and realize IT efficiencies within the Department of Defense and beyond. The Symposium addresses enterprise services that promote reuse, lessen redundancy and waste, and enable the Department to share knowledge and achieve enterprise business analytics. The theme of this year's symposium is Perseverance!
Track 1: Semantic Data Sharing using effective Standards-based Approaches.
This track focuses on the use of open standards such as OWL and RDF for the creation of common vocabularies, data integration and business intelligence efforts, and other semantic applications.
Track 2: Creating Competency for Shared Understanding and Interoperable Business Operations.
This track focuses on the development of knowledge and skills for SOA & Semantic projects, the handling of organizational change management, and the governance needed for and associated with such projects and initiatives.
Track 3: Case studies in SOA and Semantic Services, Data Management & Business Analytics.
This track focuses on real world case studies from the perspective of user organizations. Topics of interest for this track include SOA and Semantic Technology, semantic platforms for business intelligence, SOA and Semantic analytics, and performance and compliance management.
3rd Annual SOA & Semantic Technology Symposium
Theme
Perseverance: Interoperable Business Operations Through Shared Understanding
Event Number
1A03
Date
7/13/2011 to 7/14/2011
Location
Springfield, VA, USA
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.
The 5th Annual International SOA Symposium will be held in Spring 2012. This conference will be co-located with the 4th Annual International Cloud Symposium. Information regarding these events will be published on this Website in early October, 2011.
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