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Panel Discussion: Web 2.0 and SOA

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Web 2.0 is about enabling end users to easily access information from multiple sources, and use it in new and creative ways, including creating new applications, and customizing their interactive web experience. But will end users actually be able to create their own mash-up applications? How will IT control and manage this new breed of applications? Is SOA still a relevant part of this discussion? What are the implications for IT infrastructure requirements?

Featured Speakers:
Dan Woods, CTO and Editor, Evolved Media
Nathaniel Palmer, President, Transformation+Innovation; Executive Director, Workflow Management Coalition
Puneet Gupta, CEO and Founder, Connectbeam

Why you should attend:

• Understand the potential capabilities of enterprise mashups
• Learn how SOA can help provide widespread access to information
• Learn how other organizations are leveraging new Web 2.0 technologies within the enterprise

Speaker Bios

Dan Woods of Evolved Media, is also the author of SAP NetWeaver for Dummies and Wikis for Dummies, both published by John Wiley & Sons. He's also penned Enterprise SOA, which is being published by O'Reilly and Mashup Corporations, which is published by the Evolved Technologist Press.

Nathaniel Palmer is President of Transformation+Innovation and Executive Director of the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC). Previously he was Director, Business Consulting for Perot Systems Corp, and prior to that spent over a decade with Delphi Group as Vice President and Chief Analyst. There he built one of the fastest growing and best performing business units, and helped lead to the transformation of a small IT services provider into a global enterprise with offices across five continents.

Co-author of "The X-Economy" (Texere, 2001), a critically-acclaimed management text on business-to-business collaboration, Nathaniel is a widely-recognized industry expert who has been featured in numerous media ranging from Fortune to The New York Times, and has been featured as a guest expert on National Public Radio and World Business Review. For nearly two decades Nathaniel has worked in the area of business innovation and transformation, focusing on knowledge and process management, as well as the strategic leverage of social software and collaborative computing.

Puneet Gupta is a seasoned technology executive and entrepreneur with over 15 years of marketing and operations experience at companies including Selectica, PeopleSoft and Oracle. Most recently, he was CEO of CourseCafe, an online social collaboration application company. Puneet holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from Ohio State University, Management of Technology from UC Berkeley, and an MBA from Columbia University in New York.