From SOA buzzwords to WS-Confusion and back to Earth

Once again, as requested, I am posting info about the 12th of May:

The tentative topics (to be freely interpreted by the speakers and influenced by the audience):

• Business software and software business in London and beyond – corporate and personal views from The Square Mile (with SOA in the backdrop at all times).
• Web services on Rails – Building Web services application with Ruby on Rails. I chose an appetizer for this session… Amazon S3 is very SOA

The speakers are:

• Jonathan Briggs – Strategy Director, the OTHER media & Professor, Kingston University London
• Diana Svirskiene – Project & QA Manager, Merrill Lynch UK and beyond (previously BNP Paribas UK and Thoughtworks UK)
• Justas “The Chaser” Janauskas – Chief ERP Software Architect at Alna Business Solutions and a master-level computer science student here at Vilnius University, MIF

Working language of the session language will be English.

We will use the VU MIF channels to make this information available to a broader audience, please feel free to invite people who might be interested.