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The Open Group Announces "All-User" Web Services Conference
Tim Berners-Lee To Keynote on July 22;
Theme of Sessions Reflects Consortium's Vision of "Boundaryless Information
Flow"
San Francisco, CA - May 28, 2002 - Spotlighting the user perspective
on Web Services, The Open Group has announced its roster of speakers and
agenda for "Boundaryless Information Flow:
The Role of Web Services", to be held in Boston July 22-26. Tim
Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and Director of W3C, will
open plenary sessions by discussing the rationale and progress towards
the Semantic Web.
Allen Brown, President and CEO of The Open Group, expressed the impetus
behind this major conference: "For many years, enterprises have worked
to create a boundaryless information flow that enables them to deliver
more products and services to their customers. The vision of The Open
Group is the achievement of Boundaryless Information Flow through global
interoperability in a secure, reliable, and timely manner. Web Services
have a critical part to play in realizing this vision, and The Open Group
is delighted to be working with other key consortia to allow us to combine
our key strengths in order to address the future challenges of Web Services."
Other highlights of the conference include:
- Simon Pugh, MasterCard International's Vice President of Standards
and Infrastructure, is among the senior executives from Fortune 500
companies who will share their experiences planning and integrating
Web Services into their extended enterprises. The presentations of these
case studies will be available to media immediately following the plenary
session.
- Ted Schadler, Group Director of Forrester Research, Inc. will give
a business analyst's view of "The Truth about Web Services."
His address will summarize the motivation for this new approach to applications
integration and review what is an appropriate approach to deployment.
- Consortia engaged in the evolution of a comprehensive set of standards
for Web Services will discuss their individual contributions and show
how their work fits together. Speakers include:
- Patrick Gannon, President, OASIS
- Steve Bratt, COO, World Wide Web Consortium
- Richard Soley, Chairman & CEO, Object Management Group
- Carl Reed, Director of Spec. Programs, Open GIS Consortium
- Ron Schmelzer, Founder and Senior Analyst, ZapThink, will outline
the Web Services standards and technology space in a talk entitled:
"Service-Oriented Integration: The Integration Zipper". This
will focus on the issue of technology deployment in the light of an
evolving set of standards.
- With security a central concern for deployment of Web Services outside
the corporate firewall, Daniel Geer, CTO of specialist security consultancy
@stake, will look at the areas of vulnerability and the current initiatives
and proposals that are addressing these.
For additional conference details, visit www.opengroup.org/boston2002
About The Open Group
The Open Group, a vendor-neutral and technology-neutral consortium, has
a vision of boundaryless information flow achieved through global interoperability
in a secure, reliable and timely manner. The Open Group's mission is to
drive the creation of boundaryless information flow by working with customers
to capture, understand and address current and emerging requirements,
establish policies, and share best practices; working with suppliers,
consortia and standards bodies to develop consensus and facilitate interoperability,
to evolve and integrate specifications and open source technologies; offering
a comprehensive set of services to enhance the operational efficiency
of consortia; and developing and operating the industry's premier certification
service and encouraging procurement of certified products.
More information on our organization can be found at here.
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