The 2nd International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC) will be held next week, November 15-18, in New York. I have two jobs at the conference. One is to serve as industrial co-chair, which means I will chair the industrial paper session on Wednesday.
I'm really looking forward to my second job, which is to moderate a panel on Thursday November 18, 2:00-3:30pm, about real-world service-oriented systems. We've assembled a panel of industry people, each of whom has significant experience in delivering real-life, actual, working, production-quality service-oriented systems. These guys will be able to talk about what actually works, what doesn't work, and lend us their perspective and advice on where they see things going. The panelists are Mark Davydov of Bank of America, Thomas P. Kozempel of Verizon, Ali Arsanjani from IBM Global Services, and either Mark Luppi or Hugh Grant from Credit Suisse First Boston. Maybe you've heard of them, maybe you haven't. If you haven't, it's likely because they're too busy actually building working stuff. Come along to the panel and bring your hard questions!