SOA/ Web Services
Chicago, IL | May 17, 2006
 Service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Web services are gaining broad recognition from CIOs, vendors and analysts for enabling enterprise IT to build adaptiveness into their massive IT assets by approaching integration with open standards-based technologies. Many early adopters have found that SOA and Web services can deliver incremental value relatively quickly even while they build in flexibility for additional changes later. This is a welcome change from yesterday's massive proprietary IT projects, which required years of upfront investment before delivering value.
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Event Logistics |
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Welcome & Introductions |
 $95 Members
$125 Nonmembers
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
1:00–5:15 PM
410 Club
410 N Michigan Ave
Chicago, IL
(located in the Wrigley Bldg) |
| 1:30-2:00 |
R.L. Polk Case Study: Leveraging SOA & Web Services for Data Integration
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Norm Marks, VP Sales & Marketing,
R.L. Polk
Norm is responsible for directing all business development activities for RLPTechnologies (RLPT). Throughout his career, Norm has been a leader in the design and development of data-driven products for the automotive, manufacturing and consumer product goods industries.
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Joe Lafeir, VP Product Development,
R.L. Polk
Joe is responsible for the planning, design and development of RLPTechnologies’ software products. Joe has a proven track record delivering large scale software solutions in several industries for over fourteen years. He is a key technology leader at RLPT providing thought leadership and vision for the development of world-class data management solutions.
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| 2:00–2:30 |
What is Service Orientation and SOA, and Why is it Important To Your Business
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Kevin Kutzavitch, iGate Mastech
Kevin joined Mastech in 2000 as a business development executive focused on sales of ERP services and supporting the IBM relationship. Currently, he is the Managing Director for the (US) Government & Integrator Solutions Division within Mastech. Kevin is directly responsible for establishing Mastech’s presence in the public sector marketplace and building our integrator business which has grown to $20M in less than three years. |
| 2:30–3:00 |
ROI from SOA
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Pradipa Karbhari, National Practice Director - Web Services / SOA, SilverTrain
Pradipa specializes in Web Services, SOA, Systems Integration, and Leading Large Scale Applications Development efforts. She is an improvement catalyst who applies her vast knowledge, skill sets and past experience with Web
Services/Integrated Solutions and Service Oriented Architectures for
profit growth. Pradipa has over 16 years of IT experience on a broad range of technical platforms. |
| 3:00–3:30 |
Key Standards and Best Practices for Adopting SOA
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Manoj Das, Senior Manager of Product Management, Oracle
Manoj manages BPEL, Business Rules, and other products in Oracle’s SOA suite. He joins Oracle from its acquisition of Siebel Systems, where he worked on Siebel’s next generation SOA based application platform. He was responsible for ensuring that the platform enabled process-centric, predictive, proactive, and agile applications. |
| 3:30-3:45 |
Break |
| 3:45–4:15 |
Service Enabled future: SOA, Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web
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Nikhil Kumar, President/CEO, Applied Technology Solutions
Nikhil is responsible for defining corproate strategy, direction and business development, while providing consulting services to key ApTSi clients. His educational background includes graduate and postgraduate degrees in engineering and computer science, and he has been on the international who's who list in the 90's. Some engagements with ApTSi include oversight architect for GMAC's MIC subsidiary, an engagement with a major utility to establish an ESB/SOA/Eii framework and a major enterprise reuse initiative |
| 4:15-5:15 |
Keynote Panel
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Moderator:
Mohit Sen, Former, VP & Director New Technology Solutions, National Opinion Research Center
Mr. Sen was responsigble for NORC's strategic initiatives. NORC clients include government agencies, educational institutions, foundations, other nonprofit organizations, and private corporations. Although its national studies are its best known, NORC projects include complex survey and other data collection strategies, as well as sophisticated empirical analyses |
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Dee Waddell-Director eCommerce Product Strategy, United Airlines
Dee is responsible for all product strategy and development for
e-commerce initiatives within United Airlines, including united.com and
Mileage Plus properties which account for over $2 billion of sales.
Dee has pioneered the development and adoption of web
services within United Airlines, particularly for capturing external
(B2B), revenue-generating opportunities within the 100+ partner network
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Vince Kellen, CIO, DePaul University
Vince Kellen, an authority on customer relationship management (CRM) technologies, was appointed Acting Vice President for Information Services at DePaul University in July of 2003, after having served as a faculty member since 1999. Prior to joining DePaul, Kellen was a principal with Blue Wolf, Inc., a company focused on wireless and CRM strategies.
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Jeff Johnson, CIO, Baxter Credit Union
Jeff joined the organization in
1997. He is responsible for all aspects of BCU technology including
infrastructure, applications development, operations, and the PMO.
BCU's SOA is stable but evolving and has several mission critical
functions running through it. Prior to BCU, Jeff worked at Caremark,
Sara Lee, and Waste Management.
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| 5:15–5:45 |
Networking Reception
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