In this session, two experienced industry professionals will share their experience with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and provide us with a glimpse of the possibilities beyond the current incarnation of SOA.

• Lessons with SOA and the way forward - Mohamed Gani (slides) and Harry Lewis (slides)

Wednesday, 20 May 2009, 18h15
Bandwidth Barn
Cape Town

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Venue

Bandwidth Barn
125 Buitengracht Street
Cape Town
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Snacks are kindly sponsored by Factor10 (http://www.factor10.co.za)

Agenda

18:15 Welcoming and Introduction
   Aslam Khan
18:20 Lessons with SOA and the way forward
   Mohamed Gani
   Harry Lewis
19:50 Closing and Thanks
   Aslam Khan
19:55 Networking & Discussion

Abstracts

Lessons with SOA and the way forward

The phrase Service Oriented Architecture was first coined more than 10 years ago. Since then technology has evolved, as have some of the principles and architectures surrounding SOA. This session will look at where SOA has come from and what is in store beyond SOA as we know it today.

Speaker Profiles

Mohamed Gani

Mohamed has been in the IT Industry for 18 years starting off as a Cobol programmer at Iscor. He has worked across multiple organisations such as SASOL, NHFC, Healthbridge and Sanlam in positions ranging from technical to managerial. This has given him the opportunity to implement various IT strategies in the organisations. These strategies ranged from client/server to methodologies to repositories to legacy modernisation to integration technologies to language adoptions like JAVA and Microsoft. At Sanlam, he had the opportunity to implement the SOA, Common Front End and later the BPM strategies from a technical, people and process perspective. In his current role he needs to help move the IT Development critical mass from the current competency of COBOL & VB6 to a Service Oriented Java based competency. From an academic perspective, Mohamed has completed his MBA with his thesis on a Capability Maturity Model for Iscor.

Harry Lewis

Harry is a master certified IT Architect with the Open Group and has been in the IT industry for 23 years. He has been focusing on using the principles of SOA to successfully architect renewal initiatives within the insurance industry over the last 8 years. He is also the IT Architect profession lead with IBM South Africa and passionate about mentoring and guiding prospective IT Architects along their career paths and towards certification.