The SOA Consortium has announced the agenda for its next general meeting to be held in Burlingame, CA, on December 12–13, 2007. To access the agenda and to register to attend, click here.

On Day One of the meeting, Sandy Carter, VP, SOA & WebSphere Strategy, Channels and Marketing, IBM, will give the presentation "IT needs SOA Skills," while Judith Hurwitz, President, Hurwitz & Associates, will present "Planning for SOA 2008 by learning from SOA 2007." Both featured speakers will join SOA Consortium Executive Director Dr. Richard Soley for a SOA Hot Topic Roundtable discussion on CIO SOA Concerns. Meeting attendees will have the opportunity to participate with comments and questions. The Roundtable will be recorded and made available after the meeting as an on-demand podcast. On Day Two of the meeting, featured speaker Amit Sinha, VP of Portfolio Marketing, SAP will present "The Business Case for Service Oriented Architecture - Business Network Transformation."

The two-day meeting will also feature an update on the US Army Adoption Project as well as meetings of the various strategy groups.

The SOA Consortium mission, strategies and tactics center on the following premises:

• Service-oriented architecture adoption is a key enabler for the 21st century enterprise
• Achieving the benefits of service-oriented architecture requires significant changes for both IT and business executives
• Service-oriented architecture is a business agility story, not just an IT integration story
• Enterprise SOA practitioners would greatly benefit from a vibrant practitioner community to drive local, business-driven, SOA success, and to spur broader enterprise, and industry-wide, SOA adoption.

The SOA Consortium meeting is December 12-13, 2007 in Burlingame, Calif., at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport hotel. Organizations interested in joining the SOA Consortium and attending the meeting should visit the website, http://www.soa-consortium.org for more information.