Application
Development Strategies:
Preparing for a 2.0 World
Chicago, IL | May 16, 2007
 What are your top strategies for application development and are they in sync with other top IT departments? Are you preparing for the shift to 2.0 type of applications? New application development strategies and technologies hold big promise for data integration, virtualization, business process alignment, measurement and security, to name a few. But are you investing in the right strategies to maximize your company's potential? Join leading development teams and industry experts to discover how you can chart your course with the best strategies for application development. Join us as we explore:
- Top strategies for application development from our keynote panel of executives from Hospira, CNA, Allstate, and Chicago Board Options Exchange
- The top 10 Application Development Trends
- Key Standards and Best Practices for adopting SOA
- Using Open standards in legacy modernization while keeping business logic intact
- Open Source collaboration and web services environments
- Why Top IT teams utilize Java as their platform of choice for Internet Applications
- How to achieve Consistency & Predictability in your application development efforts
- Moving toward's 2.0 Internet-based applications to improve your business processes and the customer experience
Call for Sponsors:
We still have a few select silver sponsorships available for this seminar. Contact Tina Sieben at 847-837-3900, x2 for information about speaking/sponsorships.
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Agenda |
Event Logistics |
| 1:00 |
Welcome & Introductions |
Rates:
$125 Members
$150 Nonmembers
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
1:00–5:15 PM
Union League Club
Crystal Room
65 W. Jackson Blvd.
Chicago, IL
Professional Business Casual Attire Required
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| 1:30–1:55 |
The Network’s Role in Enhancing Service-Oriented Architectures
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Prakash Sinha, Senior Manager - Product Management, Cisco Systems
Mr Sinha brings over 18 years experience in networking, messaging,
application integration and middleware to his current role leading
product management for Cisco's ACE XML Gateway product. He previously held senior positions in product management, product
marketing, architecture and engineering at leading technology companies such as Informatica, Redline Networks, IONA, and Tandem Computers. |
| 1:55–2:20 |
Top 10 Application Development Trends
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John Whyte, Vice President - Global Solutions, Interactive Business Systems
John heads a growing IT consulting practice, and previously was Vice President for North America at Planetasia, an IT consulting firm headquartered in India, as well as Vice President at Xpedior/Metamor and Workgroup Productivity Corporation. Over the past 10 years, John has been involved in Application Development projects with over 100 clients ranging in size from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies.
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| 2:20-2:45 |
Break |
| 2:45–3:10 |
Achieving Consistency & Predictability in Software Development thru Software Factories
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Mike Sawicki, Software Product Management, Compuware Corporation
With more than 25 years of experience in the application development industry, Mike's main focus is development trends and their impact on model-driven development and the software development lifecycle. A presenter at SD West (keynote), JavaOne, Gartner Application Development Summit, ITExpo, EclipseCon and EclipseWorld, he is an expert in development standards, best practices and the effects of model-driven development on organizational measurements of efficiency and automated development trends.
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| 3:10–3:35 |
Building Next Generation Applications with SOA and Web 2.0 Technologies
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Mohamad Afshar, Ph.D., Director of Product Management, Oracle Fusion Middleware
Dr. Ashfar has core product management responsibilities for Oracle's middleware portfolio and is a part of the team that is driving Oracle's vision and strategy for convergence of infrastructure, next generation business automation, and event driven architecture. He has particular expertise in Services-Oriented Architectures and works closely with customers and partners who are driving enterprise-wide SOA initiatives. |
| 3:35-4:00 |
Break |
| 4:00–4:50 |
Keynote Panel: Preparing for a 2.0 World
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Moderator: Scott Radeztsky, Ph.D., Principal Engineer, Chief Technologist, Americas Systems Engineering, Sun Microsystems
Scott responsibilities include close ties with other industry CTOs, and representing Sun's technical community to Sun's Engineering and Sales leadership.
In over 9 years with Sun, Scott has worked exclusively in customer facing organizations, focused on helping customers solve business problems using architecture and systems approaches.
He is the author of the Sun Blueprint Book N1 Grid: Preparing, Architecting and Implementing Service-centric Data Centers. |
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Jeff Wallk, Chief Architect, Hospira
Jeff Wallk is the Chief Architect at Hospira ($4B Healthcare company
supplying pharmaceuticals, injectables and devices to hospitals around
the world). He has worked there since 2006 outlining the future
business and technical architectures as well as numerous projects with
product development. He has spent the last 10-15 years with Fortune
1000 companies redesigning and rebuilding operations and
infrastructures. He is working on several white papers on linking
customer outcomes with execution management. More recent work has
involved working with SAP and partners on evolving the eSOA platform. |
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Joe Miller, Program Director - Information Technology, CNA
With over 20 years experience in technology, finance and marketing operations, Joe is intimately familiar with the value technology brings to enabling business strategies and transactions. He has worked within a diverse set of industries including financial services, entertainment and manufacturing companies. He has held positions with Radian Guaranty, Bally Entertainment Corporation and Duchossois Industries, Inc. His projects have spanned a wide variety of management challenges and objectives including business and technology strategy, systems integration, corporate restructuring and initial public offerings. |
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William Beshilas, Director, Chief Architect, Allstate Insurance
William Beshilas is a Director and Chief Architect for the Enterprise
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Allstate Insurance Company. He leads the Enterprise Architects
responsible for defining and implementing a consistent infrastructure
across Allstate. Prior to joining Allstate, William worked for
CapGemini, from the Ernst & Young side, Sun Microsystems's JavaSoft
Division, and Amoco.
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Paul Ciciora,
Director of Object Oriented Infrastructure, Chicago Board Options Exchange
Between 1983 and 1993, Paul was a BAL programmer working on real-time systems. In 1994, he moved into management but remained a developer. Three years later, Paul was retrained in Object Oriented technology, taught Java, and was tasked with leading a multi-million dollar remote development effort to build next-generation middleware for CBOE’s new trading systems.
In his 30 years in IT, Paul has experienced development trends from punch cards and paper tape to iterative/agile scrum based approaches.
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| 4:50-5:00 |
Closing Remarks |
| 5:00–5:45 |
Meet the Speakers Networking Reception
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