Past Events:

• June 23-24, 2008 - SOA World Conference & Expo - New York, NY USA
  
  Keynote: Service Oriented Architecture: Making the Leap
  Richard Soley, Executive Director, SOA Consortium
   

• February 26, 2008 - SHARE - Orlando, FL USA
  
  - Lessons on SOA Adoption - Merrill Lynch's SOA & Mainframe Story
  
    Speakers:
    Richard Soley, Executive Director, SOA Consortium
    Jim Crew, SOA Software
  
    - SOA Planning Framework - Key Activities for a Business-Driven SOA Journey
  
    Speakers:
    Brenda M. Michelson, Program Director, SOA Consortium
    Burc Oral, CellExchange
    Yogish Pai, Pai Systems, LLC
   

• January 23, 2008 - Insurance SOA Summit - New York, NY USA
  
  SOA Roundtable Dialogues:

  Peers discussed methods, tools and processes, and identify common challenges and potential solutions:
   

  • The initial stages: Beginning your SOA Journey

  • Integrating Business Intelligence and SOA

  • Using BPM to Drive SOA Business Value

  Discussion Leaders:
  Brenda M. Michelson, Program Director, SOA Consortium
  C. John Palmer, Senior Application Specialist, Penn National Insurance
  David Garner, Business Intelligence Manager, The Insurance House

• December 5, 2007 - SOA and Enterprise Architecture

  User Panel:
  EA practitioners will look at the links, synergies and differences between SOA and enterprise architecture. How does SOA fit into the EA picture? How can it help make EA more valuable? Does SOA need to be part of a broader EA? Hear from the panelists -- their firsthand experience and lessons learned.

  Moderators:
  Richard Soley, Executive Director, SOA Consortium; Chairman and CEO Object Management Group
  Nicholas Gall, VP Distinguished Analyst, Gartner

  Panelists:
  Todd Biske, Senior Enterprise Architect, Monsanto
  Bill Conroy, Head of Enteprise Architecture Division, Bank of America
  Sam Vetto, Enterprise Architect, The Hartford
   

• December 4, 2007 - Lessons Learned in Advanced SOA

  User Panel:
  End-user practitioners will share their firsthand experience of implementing SOA beyond the initial stages: what issues did they encounter and what approaches did they take as their SOA efforts expanded, scaled and intensified across their organization?

  Moderators:
  Richard Soley, Executive Director, SOA Consortium; Chairman and CEO Object Management Group
  Yefim Natis, Distinguished Analyst, Gartner

  Panelists:
  Jeff Adkins, ICC Integration Architect, Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation
  Siamak Amjadi, Vice President Head of SOA Centre of Excellence, Nordea
  Aleks Buterman, Enterprise Architecture, Lincoln Financial Group
  Ayan Mitra, Senior Enterprise Architect, Orange UK
   

• June 13, 2007 - Gartner Application Architecture, Development & Integration Summit

  User Panel:
  Best Practices in Advanced SOA for the Enterprise: Early Lessons from the SOA Consortium

  Moderators:
  Richard Soley, Executive Director, SOA Consortium; Chairman and CEO Object Management Group
  Yefim Natis, Distinguished Analyst, Gartner

  Panelists:
  Nida Davis Roemer, Chief Technology Officer, American Red Cross
  Surekha Durvasula, Manager, Enterprise Architecture Group, Kohl's Department Stores
  Yoav Intrator, Global Technology & Operations Chief Architect, Deutsche Bank
   

• June 12, 2007 - CIO Decisions Conference
  Richard Mark Soley Ph.D to speak about Adopting Service Oriented Architecture: Business Strategy for Business Agility.
   

• May 15, 2007 - 11AM EST - Creating an SOA Pipeline WebSummit - Brought to you by The Standish Group, Software Magazine, and Object Management Group™ (OMG™).
  
  Richard Soley of OMG and Jim Johnson of The Standish Group will provide a platform for discussion around using Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) in conjunction with creating a software pipeline.
  
  

• May 17, 2007 -  MIT CIO Symposium
  Richard Mark Soley Ph.D to speak about Adopting Service Oriented Architecture: Business Strategy for Business Agility.