Kevin Parker - Evangelist, Serena Software 
Date: May 25 - 11:00 AM  - KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Track: Open for Business
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Session Abstract:  Last year I took my Blackberry to 11 countries and had email delivered in every one. If the cell-phone industry can have global interoperability why can’t the software industry. Today’s tool-to-tool integrations are frail, fragile and frankly feeble. With no standards for interoperability and no regulator to enforce them how can the world of tool providers ever agree on a conformance protocol that will enable their tools to collaborate? The answer is the Eclipse Application Lifecycle Framework (ALF) Project that has recently delivered its first version of code.

In this presentation you will learn about why and how the project came into being and about the thriving ecosystem of vendors who have already committed themselves to supporting the framework and ALF-enabling their products. We will look at how the architecture will take today’s simplistic and fragile point-to-point integrations to sophisticated and robust multi-tool interoperability. We will also see the first public demonstration of the framework in action outside the Eclipse community.

There are many opportunities for you to participate in the project from defining requirements to specifying use-cases that will ultimately define the very vocabulary of the project.

We may even here a few words of wisdom about the technology from the project’s 1960’s alter-ego ALF!

Speaker Bio: As the ALF Evangelist Kevin has spoken to over 3,000 people about the Application Lifecycle Framework (ALF) project since the project proposal was made in April 2005. He is responsible for developing the ecosystem of tool consumers and tool providers who are shaping and delivering this critical industry initiative. As a 25 year industry veteran in applications development in Europe and the United States he is a sought after speaker for his engaging and fun style and his provocative and challenging approach to IT issues. He is Vice President of Market Development for Serena Software, the leading Change Governance provider, where he is part of the team that frames the company’s vision.