A round-up of the Service Oriented Architecture related themes & topics being discussed in NYC June 23-24, 2008 by the world-class speaker faculty at the 13th International Conference & Expo being held by SYS-CON Events in The Roosevelt Hotel, in midtown Manhattan.

Adding Social Features to SOA - Glen Daniels, Director of Java Platforms for WS02, will be giving a session on how adding a layer of social (or "Web 2.0") features - things like tags, comments and syndication feeds - to your SOA infrastructure can provide fertile ground to help grow a vibrant and connected community of developers.

AJAX - see SOA and the Internet

BPM - see SOA and BPM in Java

BPM & SOA Standards - see SOA & BPM Standards

B2B, SOA and BPM - This Power Panel will examine the 3-way coalescence of Business-to-Business, SOA, and Business Process Management in the direction of a more flexible enterprise.

Complex Event Processing - Nastel CTO Rich Schreiber is giving a session exploring Complex Event Processing (CEP) engines and offering practical insights into how CEP can be leveraged to enable rapid real-time problem correction and predictive problem prevention that is vital to successful SOA implementations.

Data Grids - In-Memory Data Grid (IMDG) technology can be easily integrated with existing enterprise grids to create data-aware grid applications and provide application performance acceleration while improving application scalability and reliability. Victoria Livschitz, a founder and CEO of Grid Dynamics, is giving a session on how the bottlenecks in application performance are moving from raw processing to searching, storing and retrieving the data.

Digital Identity - IBM's Ron Williams' session will examine the distinct business and technical identity management issues in both the commercial and user-centric spheres, and important catalysts to drive successful deployment.

Exploiting Heterogeneous Data - In his DataServices World keynote session, John Goodson of DataDirect technologies will review the technologies, best practices, and patterns that are shaping the way we utilize enterprise data as SOA rapidly becomes the standard for enterprise architectures.

Governance & Management - Paul Lipton of CA is giving a session on "Governance, Management, and Industry Standards in the Service-Oriented Enterprise."

Java  - see SOA and BPM in Java

Middleware - Eric Newcomer, CTO of IONA, will be giving a session showing how, when a SOA implementation costs too much, the culprit is often the old-fashioned, proprietary and expensive server or hub-based middleware. His title: "The End of Middleware As You Know It."

Moving To SOA - In this keynote address by SOA Consortium's executive director Richard Mark Soley, Dr Soley will share some of the experience gained from the SOA Consortium's Summit discussions with CIOs, CTOs and Chief Enterprise Architects who have results to share from refocusing their lines of business around recognizable, reusable and optimizable business processes.

Open Source & SOA - More and more, Pierre Fricke from Red Hat will show in this session, open source is being used to deliver the benefits of SOA and open source to the enterprise.

Overview of SOA - Joe McKendrick's session will look at the latest survey data on ways organizations are embracing service oriented architecture, and how far along the road most are from full-functioning SOA.

Real-Time Data-Centric SOA - SOA implementations are increasingly reliant on streams of data that are time-critical, reliably delivered and sourced from mixed infrastructures in a highly distributed environment. In his session Gordon Hunt, Chief Engineer of real-Time Innovations, will introduce several real-time data-centric technologies that specifically address the challenges of wide-scale, real-time data distribution

RIAs - see Rich Internet Applications & SOA

Rich Internet Applications & SOA - Enhancing the user experience of consumers of the services has become an important part in designing and implementing SOA, and this session by Yakov Fain of Farata Systems will talk about the pros and cons of using various techniques and technologies for the development of the front end for complex SOA distributed systems.

RUP - see Service Oriented Unified Process

SaaS - see SOA and the Internet

Service-Oriented Enterprise - Paul Lipton of CA is giving a session on "Governance, Management, and Industry Standards in the Service-Oriented Enterprise." 

Service-Oriented Supply-Chain Management - JP Morgenthal, Chief Architect of Avorcor, is giving a session on how service-orientation brings about the ability for organizations to see changes in business processes reflected quickly in their business systems by discussing real-world applications of SOA as applied to supply-chain management.

Service Oriented Unified Process - Chris Shyan's session will  demonstrate that SOA and RUP can be combined with each other to make a Service Oriented Unified Process.

Service Virtualization - see SOA and Virtualization

SOA and BPM in Java - Koen Aers,  a senior software developer at JBoss, has been part of the jBPM team since April 2004 and will be giving a session on how you can use the service oriented approach while staying inside the Java world, by using jBPM - a powerful lightweight framework.

SOA & BPM Standards -  Keith Swenson, Fujitsu's Chief Architect, is giving a session aimed at lending clarity to the fuzzy world of BPM and Web services standards and at explaining the benefits of investing in standards-driven solutions.

SOA and the Internet - Exploring the boundaries between the Enterprise and the Internet, Miko Matsumura's session will focus on architectual approaches from the service pattern, process pattern and event pattern to help SOA practitioners understand topics such as Web 2.0, AJAX, SaaS, Social Networks and how they connect with the Enterprise.

SOA and Virtualization - This session by Cisco's Tom Woteki will explain how implementing the right network architecture can make the most of both SOA and Virtualization, promoting agility and reducing complexity.

SOA Application Performance Management - Nastel CTO Rich Schreiber is giving a session exploring how Complex Event Processing (CEP) engines can be leveraged to enable rapid real-time problem correction and predictive problem prevention that is vital to successful SOA implementations.

SOA Management - In his session, the CTO of Managed Methods, Al Aghili, will explain how efficient management of loosely-coupled services requires implementing practices to enable visibility, flexibility and automation of service operations.

SOA Risk Factors - In his session Jacek Kruszelnicki, President of Numatica,  intends to show that while SOA can deliver dramatic cost reduction of an organization's business operations, it is a complex, multidisciplinary undertaking, and therefore introduces significant risk. The session will be of interest to anyone planning an SOA initative, primarily CIOs, Technical Managers, Project Directors and Technical Architects.

SOA Runtime Governance - Sonoa's Director of Product Management, Gregory Brail, will be giving a session discussing the management of web services in production, including: ensuring that services follow corporate security and SOA governance requirements, monitoring compliance with individual SLAs, preventing one client from degrading the performance of others and ensuring services built today will work in the future.

Social Networks - see SOA and the Internet

The End of Middleware - see Middleware

Virtualization - see SOA and Virtualization

Web 2.0 - see SOA and the Internet

Wireless Fringes of SOA - Sybase's Ian Thain's session will investigate what is happening out there in the world of Mobility that uses Services, some are calling this MOA (Mobile Oriented Architecture).