Technical
This year enjoy the new Tech Zone, delivering even more technical education! With 400+ Technical Sessions including SOA and Patterns, BPM Enabled by SOA, Process Integrity, Industry Services, Lessons learned and much more, it delivers real education value! Unique sessions targeted at developers, architects, administrators and integrators of IBM WebSphere® and IBM CICS® family of products. Sessions include current info, tips and techniques grounded on best practices for developing and managing the WebSphere and CICS enterprise environment.
IT Executive
Gain competitive advantage with actionable education and insight into the latest technology. This track will explore how SOA brings simplicity to the rock-solid technology you need to support mission-critical, enterprise-wide initiatives.
Business Executive
The Business Executive track is 2 days, April 7-8. Make the transformation across business and IT to become a globally integrated enterprise. This track features client examples and industry perspectives to help you align your business and IT with SOA to become more agile and embrace change efficiently.
Alignment of Business and IT
Gain insight into how IBM is helping customers deliver business process agility and integrity to meet the goals of the enterprise. This track will regroup around a single theme. It will feature some key sessions from the other conference tracks along with unique announcement-related sessions.
SOA Customer Feedback
Note: Limited Session Availability. This interactive feedback track focuses on understanding and addressing the usability and consumability requirements that end users need to do their jobs more efficiently. Engage in direct dialog with IBM designers and product managers, test drive new products and much more!.
Agenda Overview
Impact 2008 will be an action packed five-day event. Don't miss out on comprehensive education about how SOA can help you to overcome pressing business and IT challenges and make better use of existing investments to achieve strategic goals. If you're looking for ever new ways to innovate and transform your business, you'll enjoy the role and industry-based curricula in over 500 available sessions. And of course, there's more! Exciting evening events that take full advantage of the best Las Vegas has to offer are also on the agenda. Expect world-class guest speakers and entertainment that will make Impact 2008 an unforgettable experience.
New keynote speakers
