9:00 am Plenary

10:30 am Break

TRACK SESSIONS

11:00 am
B2B Capability Stack
Marc Breissinger, Director, Product Strategy, webMethods, Inc.
This presentation examines a framework for creating business-to-business applications. Specifically, it walks through the application capabilities required of business to business applications and how those capabilities can be brought together to create effective, scalable and extensible solutions.

11:45 am
Transforming your Business with Application Framework for e-Business
Dave Allison, Program Director, IBM e-business Technology Innovation, IBM Corporation
IBM's e-business message is resonating in the marketplace and many types of customers, including government agencies, are anxious to create new markets for their products, to link their employees, customers and suppliers in a value net, or to just improve the productivity of their organization. IBM recently introduced the Application Framework for e-business to help customers build robust, manageable, scalable, secure e-business applications. This presentation shows how to leverage the Framework to help successfully transform your business.

12:30 pm Luncheon and Exposition

2:00 pm
Implementing Open Standards: The Value Proposition for B2B Exchanges
Steve Gantz, Manager, Roundarch
This presentation focuses on the open standards and architecture technologies applicable to B2B solutions, with a particular emphasis on the business justification for implementing standards.

2:45 pm
Aggregating and Syndicating Content—Leveraging the Internet to Establish a New Model for Revenue Generation
Adam Souzis, Chief Strategist, Kinecta Corporation
The next wave in high-tech innovation will come from the packaging and delivering of creative, sellable content—an area specifically addressed by new online content syndication and aggregation technologies. This presentation discusses the benefits for companies using content syndication and aggregation solutions and how the creation of a standards-based infrastructure is enabling new business models and providing new ways of increasing revenue.

3:30 pm Break

4:00 pm
Publishing Enterprise Resources using SOAP
Patrick Thompson, Lead Architect for XML Products, Rogue Wave Software
Mr. Thompson discusses using XML and SOAP to publish enterprise resources over the Internet in general, and then discusses two specific architectures for achieving this. In the process, he also addresses what SOAP is and how SOAP can work with a variety of transports and clients. Mr. Thompson further discusses CORBA and database access using SOAP and demonstrates its use with a real-world application.

4:45 pm
Forget XML! Implement B2B Solutions in the Virtual Transaction Layer™
Dianne Kennedy, CEO, XMLXperts Ltd.
This presentation gives the audience an alternative to the XML-only approach to B2B. While transforming legacy data into XML may be useful, it is far too costly and even with new XML middleware solutions, too technically challenging. The author does not believe that the warring XML vocabularies will find peaceful compromise quickly and provides an alternative, based on emerging knowledge management technology. Learn how in this session.

5:30 - 7:00 pm Welcome Reception and Exposition