OMG Announces Program for BPM Think Tank 2006

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OMG Announces Program for BPM Think Tank 2006
Uniquely Interactive BPM Event to be held in Arlington, VA, May 23-25, 2006

Needham, MA, USA - March 20, 2006 - The Object Management Group™ (OMG™) and its BPMI Steering Committee today announced the program for BPM Think Tank 2006. The event, which is unique in its focus on interactive roundtable discussions, is sponsored by, Silver Sponsors Software AG (www.softwareagusa.com), Appian (www.appian.com), and Lombardi Software (www.lombardisoftware.com) as well as organizational sponsor WARIA and media sponsors BPTrends and BPM.com. BPM Think Tank 2006 will take place in Arlington, VA, U.S.A. May 23-25, 2006. For more information or to register, visit http://www.omg.org/think-tank/.

Companies are turning to BPM in order to implement their Service-Oriented Architectures, leveraging standards from W3C, WfMC, OASIS as well as OMG's Model-Driven Architecture® to integrate, consolidate, track and optimize their business processes within and between organizations. BPM Think Tank is a unique standards summit, bringing together representatives from all the major standards organizations involved in BPM. Attendees will be able to interact with these representatives as well as with business and technical industry experts during the roundtable discussions.

Like last year's event, BPM Think Tank will once again gather together the business and technology experts who have shaped the field of BPM for practical collaboration on the state of industry, notable best practices, and what's needed to evolve BPM to its next generation. The unique format, focused on interactive roundtable discussions, as well as case studies and experts panel sessions, will allow participants to gain uncommon insight into BPM in the real world, within the standards community, on the IT drawing board and in the executive board room.

Keynote:

Connie Moore, Vice President, Research Director, Forrester Information Delivery Research Group, will be giving the keynote address, "BPM Market Overview," as well as leading an executive roundtable and moderating the panel, "The Business Value of Process Standards."

Practitioner keynotes:

Greg Meyer, CTO, iJET on "Process and Risk Management"
Nancy Craft, Senior Business Consultant, Business Process Innovation, Volvo Group on "Process Integration in the Supply Chain"

Pre-conference workshops topics:

Business Process Specification Schema (BPSS)
Semantic Business Vocabulary and Rules (SBVR)
Business Process Definition Metamodel (BPDM)
BPM Best Practices
Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)
Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)
Featuring presentations from companies such as Sun Microsystems, Model Systems, EDS, Enix, Microsoft and Lombardi Software

Panels:

The Business Value of Process Standards, featuring representatives from OASIS, W3C, WfMC and OMG; moderated by Connie Moore, Forrester Research
What the Business Needs: Standards and Technology for BPM Success, featuring representatives from Volvo Group, iJET, Morgan Stanley and Bruce Silver Associates; moderated by Derek Miers, CEO/Founder, Enix

Executive Roundtable Topics:

Human-Centric BPM
Security Issues in Process Collaboration
Executing BPM across the Global Enterprise
Repeatable Process Discovery and Deployment
Business Process Maturity and Measurement
Adaptive Processes for the Agile Enterprise
The Business Value of BPMS
Sustaining BPM Momentum
Team Process Design
Collaborative BPM across Trading Communities
Moderated by representatives from Forrester Research, iJET, Volvo Group, Lombardi Software, Borland, SpryBiz, Bruce Silver Associates, WARIA/Enix, Stevens Institute, and Telelogic

Technical Roundtable Topics:

Business Process Choreography using BPSS
Modeling Processes using BPMN
Modeling Business Rules using PRR
Achieving Model Interoperability using BPDM
Modeling and Managing Web Services using BPEL
W3C Standards for Web Services Choreography
BPMN Process interchange using XPDL
Defining an Enterprise Vocabulary with SBVR
BPM and SOA
Articulating Business Strategy and Operations with BMM
Moderated by representatives from Sun Microsystems, Lombardi Software, Fair, Isaac and Co., EDS, Microsoft, Pi4 Technologies, Fujitsu, Business Semantics, Software AG, and Model Systems, Ltd.

The early-bird registration discount is available until May 1, 2006. For full program, hotel and registration information, visit http://www.omg.org/think-tank/. Exhibit space is available; for more information contact Kevin Loughry at loughry@omg.org, +1-781-444 0404. Sponsorship opportunities are available; contact Ken Berk at kenberk@omg.org, +1-781-444 0404.

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