What's New in 2009

• New Web and Cloud track
• Advanced SOA track with a stronger focus on event processing and event-driven architecture
• Better coverage of governance and agility issues
• Visionary Guest Keynotes including John Seely Brown, Co-Chairman of Deloitte Center for Edge Innovation and Werner Vogels, Vice President & Chief Technology Officer of Amazon.com
• New Rapid-fire sessions - Need a change of rhythm after sitting through intense one-hour presentations? On Tuesday, at the halfway point of the conference, we're offering a new series of 20-minute "Rapid-Fire Sessions," where analysts will engage in short, interactive discussions around hot topics, with much more dialogue, participation or even debate!
• Six complementary workshops. Drill down into specific issues like agile development, AD productivity, mashups, SOA technology selection and much more.
• Six case study and end-user panel sessions featuring Intuit, ING, Pfizer, TransUnion, and more. Topics include cloud computing, SOA, governance, data integration and more.
• All-new facilitated networking opportunities, including a pre-conference power networking forum, LinkedIn group and Twitter, and live audience polling.

Summit Features

• Speakers: 50 Gartner analysts, industry visionaries and practitioners who will lay out clear strategies and share real world lessons learned
• Formats: keynotes, track sessions, case studies, workshops, roundtables, Analyst One-on-One meetings providing many different learning settings
• Maturity levels: virtual tracks will provide relevant advice whether you are just getting started or moving to a more sophisticated level
• Networking activities: you'll network with hundreds of architects, application and web leaders with the same issues, through many structured online and onsite networking activities

We will provide you with roadmaps and practical takeaways to help you deliver real business value:

• The real benefits and risks of adopting cloud computing and open source
• What works and what doesn't when architecting or developing services
• How to get the greatest bang for your applications budget dollars
• When and how to modernize your applications portfolio
• How to use event processing and event-driven architecture as part of an advanced SOA strategy
• How to build an effective application strategy and governance
• How to use web 2.0 techniques to change your web user experience
• What pitfalls to watch out for when adopting agile
• How do ESB, SOA governance, or cloud testing vendors stack up?

Agenda Tracks

Track 1: SOA and the New World of Application Architectures
Far from being "dead", SOA has become the "new normal" for application architecture. Service Oriented Architecture has enabled organizations around the world to gain enterprise leverage, build flexible applications and create agile businesses. As a result, organizations are employing information, process, event, context, and services architecture approaches to design robust business-oriented systems. This track explores the architecture disciplines and best practices for building the foundations of a successful SOA and accelerating successful systems delivery.

Track 2: Advanced Use of SOA and Events: Trends, Patterns & Practices
SOA has become the foundational architecture for enterprise computing, and the emerging cloud and social computing innovations cement its essential role in enterprise IT. Serious enterprise use of SOA goes far beyond the "low hanging fruit" of Web services. Event-driven SOA and complex event processing empower real-time business awareness, while federated SOA, extreme transaction processing and SOA governance disciplines complete a mature modern IT environment. In this track we examine the challenges, the best practices and the business empowerment of taking SOA from an IT experiment to the core enterprise IT model.

Track 3: Get Your Web House in Order and Prepare for the Cloud
Web computing is pervasive but still frequently stovepiped, with little cross-enterprise governance and integration. Web 2.0 is now mainstream, and new innovations like Google Wave feed an increasingly consumer-driven web experience. Cloud Computing is becoming a game changer for many enterprises and vendors, yet the novelty of the Cloud and immaturity of many Cloud vendors scares enterprise IT. This track will clarify the place of Cloud Computing in the bigger Web picture, and help you create a winning Web and cloud strategy that incorporates on-premise and cloud services for competitive advantage while protecting your process and data integrity.

Track 4: The "New Reality" of Application Development
AD is undergoing a rebirth and when it is over, you may not recognize it. The transition to this "new reality" will require careful planning and strong stewardship. This track examines the different faces of the new AD. It will help you better leverage Service-oriented development of applications (SODA), agile methods, and alternative models like cloud computing and open source. It will make you rethink how you manage your application lifecycle, migrate or modernize your legacy systems, and manage development roles, skills and collaboration. You'll take away a roadmap of the "new reality" and practical ways to deliver more nimble, effective, business-driven applications.

Track 5: Integration: The Essential Enabler for SOA and Cloud Computing
Initiatives such as SOA, BPM, Cloud computing, SaaS, and B2B are highly visible due to their direct business impact. But success with these initiatives is heavily dependent on integration, the "unsung hero". As the essential enabler for such visible IT initiatives, integration is evolving. New requirements - such as Cloud computing / SaaS integration, new opportunities - such as the proliferation of packaged integration - and new delivery models - such as appliances and integration as a service - make integration increasingly relevant and important to understand. This track will help you master the latest integration trends, technologies and practices that underpin the success of your critical SOA, Cloud and other IT initiatives in the "new reality".

Track 6: Organizations, Governance and Management in the "New Reality"
In the "new reality", Governance is no longer a nice to have, it's an imperative. You think applications organizations of the past were chaotic? Think again. Governance is a way to bound the upcoming chaos. When used well, it gives organizations a stability they can use to adapt - and to adopt new methods (Agile, Lean), engagement and deployment models (SOA, BPM, SaaS, Cloud) and technologies. This track provides insights and best practices on how to organize, govern and manage your applications resources - old and new - to deliver maximum business value.

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