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New for 2005...

* Cabana Night Developer Exchange

* Application Server Shootout facilitated by Burton Group

* Hands On VS and .NET Labs

* Software Giveaway

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February 15-17, 2005 John B. Hynes Convention Center Boston, MA

The Largest iTechnology Event of the Year!

Who Should Attend

* Software Developers

* Software Engineers

* Application Developers

* Development Managers

* Technical Directors

* Analysts/Programmers

* IT Managers

* CEOs

* CTOs

* CIOs

* Technical Architects

* Team Leaders

* Software Consultants

* IT Directors

* Project Managers

Features & Attractions

* 3 Days Packed with Education and Training

* Keynotes & Panel Discussions from Industry Leaders

* 50+ Hard-hitting and Informative Seminars

* FREE Web Services Tutorial Presented by Novell

* FREE .NET Tutorial Presented by Microsoft

* FREE Web Services Security Tutorial Presented by Critical Sites

* Cabana Night Developer Exchange Presented by INETA

* Panel Discussions Presented by JCP

* Opening Night Welcome Reception

* Compelling Case Studies & Best Practices

* Hands-On Labs Featuring .NET and Visual Studio

* Presented by Microsoft Partners Featured Product Demonstrations

* Exhibit Floor featuring hundreds of products

* Real-time SYS-CON Radio Interviews

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Keynote Speakers

Tuesday, February 15, 11 a.m.

Matt Ackley

SENIOR DIRECTOR, EBAY

DEVELOPERS PROGRAM

Web Services for eCommerce

eBay, The World's Online Marketplace, has more than 114 million registered users, 10,000 developers, and over 700 live, third-party applications. Four years ago, eBay began allowing third parties to build applications that tap into eBay, and today eBay hosts one of the leading Web services platforms. Through its developer program, eBay enables third parties to create cutting-edge Web services applications that benefit the buyers and sellers on eBay. At present, 40% of eBay's listings come through its API, which handles more than a billion Web services calls a month. Ackley will discuss the rewards and challenges of building and maintaining one of the world's leading Web services platforms, and share insights and practical guidelines for others.

Matt Ackley is senior director of the eBay Developers Program. He supports eBay's vision to be the leading platform for global online commerce, and is chartered with creating a thriving ecosystem between eBay, its community of users, and third-party developers and solution providers. Ackley joined eBay in 2003 as part of eBay's acquisition of FairMarket, which provided technology solutions and services to online marketplaces.

Wednesday, February 16, 11 a.m.

Ari Bixhorn

DIRECTOR, WEB SERVICES STRATEGIES, MICROSOFT CORPORATION

Introducing Indigo: The Unified Programming Model for Building Service-Oriented Applications

Indigo is Microsoft's unified programming model for building service-oriented applications on the Windows platform. It enables developers to build secure, reliable, transacted solutions that integrate across platforms and interoperate with existing investments. Indigo combines and extends the capabilities of existing distributed application technologies, including .NET Enterprise Services, System.Messaging, Remoting, ASMX, and WSE to deliver a unified development experience spanning distance, topologies, hosting models, protocols, and security models. This keynote will provide an inside look at Indigo and show you how Indigo will radically simplify the development of distributed, service-oriented applications.

Ari Bixhorn is the director of Web Services Strategy in the Developer and Platform Division at Microsoft Corp. He is responsible for product planning and technical evangelism for Microsoft's Web services offerings, including "Indigo," the code name for a component of the next version of the Windows operating system, code-named Windows "Longhorn." Bixhorn has spent the past five years at Microsoft, driving product management efforts for the Visual Basic and Visual Studio development systems.

Thursday, February 17, 11 a.m.

Mike Milinkovich

ECLIPSE.ORG

An Open Development Platform for Web Services

Open source technology runs the Internet. Linux, Apache, PHP and Eclipse are highly successful open source communities that provide the backbone for today's Web applications. All indications point to a continued value proposition for organizations for leveraging open source when developing and deploying SOA-based applications. This keynote will examine the benefits of using open source technologies, the decision-making process used when adopting these solutions and the potential for contributing back to the open source community.

Mike Milinkovich has held key management positions at Oracle, WebGain, The Object People, and Object Technology International Inc. (which subsequently became a wholly owned subsidiary of IBM), assuming responsibility for development, product management, marketing, strategic planning, finance, and business development. Mike earned his MS degree in information and systems sciences and a bachelor of commerce degree from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.

WEB SERVICES TRACK

WS-1 Ensuring Web Services Interoperability

CHRIS FERRIS, IBM

Tuesday, February 15, 2005 9:00 A.M.-9:50 A.M.

Despite the open industry standards that underlie Web services, interoperability has been a key challenge for vendors and customers implementing Web services. One reason for this is that the relevant industry standards often permit multiple acceptable implementation alternatives. This presentation will discuss in detail the challenge of Web services interoperability and the role played by the premier industry organization formed to address it, the Web Services Interoperability Organization. In particular, the presentation will cover the critical importance of WS-I profiles to an organization's Web services initiatives, including the manner in which companies can put WS-I profiles immediately to work.

BIO: Chris Ferris is chair of the WS-I Basic Profile Working Group and a senior technical staff member with IBM's Emerging Technology Group. He has been actively engaged in open standards development for XML and Web services since 1999 and is an elected member of the OASIS Technical Advisory Board. Chris is also a coauthor and editor of the WS-Reliable Messaging specification.

WS-2 Web Services Standards: Going Behind the Mask

GLEN DANIELS, SONIC SOFTWARE

Tuesday, February 15, 2005 10:00 A.M.-10:50 A.M.

Web services and service-oriented architectures (SOAs) are emerging as an integral part of the enterprise IT strategy. According to a recent IDC study, Web services--related revenue is expected to triple from $1.1 billion worldwide in 2003, to $3.4 billion in 2004, and $16.6 billion by 2008. As SOAs proliferate and the number of Web services added to them increases, standards will play an increasingly significant role. This session will look at the state of key Web services standards such as WS-Choreography, WS-Reliability and WS-ReliableMessaging, SOAP/MTOM/XOP, WSDL, XPath, XQuery, and WS-Notification as well as related Java standards and open source efforts. It will also look at the organizational impact of standards adoption in the industry.

BIO: Glen Daniels is manager of standards and consortia at Sonic Software and coauthor of Building Web Services with Java. He has been working with Web services technologies since their inception in the late '90s, and in addition to developing products and helping to found Apache's Axis project, he has been an active participant in standards bodies such as the W3C, and a member of the SOAPBuilders interoperability group.

WS-2B Solving Complex Business Problems Though SOA

JOHN DALY, NETNUMINA

Tuesday, February 15, 2005 3:00 P.M.-3:50 P.M.

WS-3 The XML Data Challenge

NANCY VODICKA, DATADIRECT TECHNOLOGIES

Tuesday, February 15, 2005 4:00 P.M.-4:50 P.M.

Most businesses store and query data with relational databases but need to use Extensible Markup Language (XML) to exchange and display data on the Web and with vendors and partners. As a result, programmers need to deal with both relational and XML data, often at the same time. Emerging standards such as XQuery, XQJ, and SQL/XML, promise to revolutionize data exchange and the ways applications are developed, deployed, and utilized. Learn the key facts about these standards, including what they mean, when they will be available, and what you, the developer, can do to prepare.