SOA Executive Forum recap

Update: copies of the keynote presentations are here.

Our SOA Executive Forum yesterday went extremely well. I would have blogged more of it, but it seemed like every session I went to was standing room only and I'm not very productive with a laptop standing up (note to self: another reason to get a Tablet PC). The only time my seat was guaranteed was when I moderated the CTO Reality Check panel at the end of the day (report from Ephraim Schwartz here).

Toby Redshaw, CTO of Motorola, was the star of the day in my book. Toby kicked off the day with a keynote (PowerPoint), and I was extremely fortunate to have him on my panel to close the day. You can read the summary of his keynote here, thanks to Phil Windley, and the InfoWorld story here. Toby's presentation style contained useful information, but I admired his delivery, which was peppered with truly funny impromptu asides and a broad range of references to politics, history, sports, and of course, technology. If you need a presenter who entertains and informs, Toby is your guy.

More on the conference:

Keynote (Mark Carges, BEA "Taking SOA from Pilot to Production with Service Infrastructure" (PowerPoint): Phil Windley, InfoWorld.com

"Defining the SOA Platform", "Building Applications on an SOA Platform": InfoWorld TechWatch

"Extending Your Business With SOA": InfoWorld TechWatch, Jeffrey McManus (one of the panelists)

"Defining Business Agility": InfoWorld TechWatch

"Pervasive SOA": InfoWorld TechWatch

"Opportunities and Challenges for the Agile Enterprise": InfoWorld.com

"Services and Contracts": InfoWorld.com, Phil Windley (who moderated the panel)

The SOA Executive Forum hits the east coast in two weeks -- May 17 in NY. Register here.