SOA Symposium

The 2nd annual SOA Symposium brings together lessons learned and emerging topics from both government and industry SOA projects, practitioners and experts. The theme of this year's SOA Symposium is "Discipline, Teamwork & Semantic Technologies" to make SOA a successful reality.

The conference will host more than 30 presenters from federal agencies, industry and academia that cover the SOA lifecycle, technical issues, governance and policy aspects, as well as emerging innovations and issues of semantic integration and collaborative service-oriented solutions. The SOA Symposium is a premier conference services offering a forum for practitioners, analysts, and industry representatives to present and discuss experiences and trends. This conference sessions are directed at both business and technical architects, analysts, decision makers and IT practitioners.

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has embarked on a path to implement SOA as a primary means to deliver increased capability to the warfighter by improving the efficiency and effectiveness of business operations. Industry around the world has demonstrated that SOA can substantially reduce the cost of IT infrastructure while greatly improving business agility. Both the IT and the business communities must jointly own and manage a proven inclusive architecture to achieve SOA success. Teamwork and discipline are essential to the success of SOA. To be successful, SOA must be considered a team sport that involves all elements of people, process, technology, and especially trust.

In 2009, the DoD SOA Symposium demonstrated that SOA must be considered a Team Sport, involving all elements of people, process, technology, and especially Trust. This 2nd An-nual DoD SOA Symposium is focused on the Discipline necessary within each individual team member and the team as a whole to be successful. It will provide government and industry professionals with the experiences of individual and team's successes that are a result of best practice strategies for business intelligence, program management, information access, Discipline, and much more. Network with more than 500 Service Oriented Architecture leaders from across the U.S. Government and Industry.

The SOA Symposium will be held on April 21 and 22, 2010, at the Sheraton Crystal City in Arlington, VA, USA. This venue is in close proximity of Washington's Reagan National Airport and the WMATA subway system.