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Due to the winter weather advisory and potential for significant snow and/or ice, which will result in difficult and potentially dangerous travel, the WSTA feels it is best to cancel the January 27th Application Development, Delivery & Modernization seminar. We truly regret having to do this, but after much consideration feel it is the best decision based on the current forecast. We regret any inconvenience and appreciate your interest in our events.

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Wall Street firms have invested for decades in creating complex custom applications that presently represent their core intellectual property. Maintaining these legacy applications, adopting changes to cope with dynamic business needs and delivering the speed required to maintain differentiating edges over competition are today’s major challenges. To solve these problems, application portfolio management has emerged as a discipline, leveraging tools to wrap legacy code into reusable services, intuitive graphic user interfaces, business-driven development models, iterative development lifecycles and access to alternative operating models for managing the applications assets. As firms launch modernization projects, multiple choices seem viable, but many are sub-optimal. Success relies on making informed and prudent business decisions.

Topics:

• SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) Transformations
• Business-Driven Development using BPM (Business Process Modeling)
• Portal Design
• Delivery of Applications using SaaS (Software as a Service)
• Application Outsourcing
• Mobile Delivery
• Package Integration
• Risk Management, Compliance, Security
• Model-Driven Architecture
• Model-Driven Development - Agile and Scrum
• CMDB (Configuration Management Database)
• SaaP (Software as a Product)

8:00-8:30AM Registration and Breakfast

8:30-8:35AM WSTA Introductions

Today’s presentations will be available online on the agenda page at http://www.wsta.org/events/event_archive_photos

8:35-9:20AM Keynote – “The Future Of Scalability, Performance, And Reliability”
Mike Gualtieri, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research
Massive scale! There is no end to increasing volumes of transactions, users, and data that your application and infrastructure architecture must support. You must find architectural and platform solutions that will handle this increasing scale while at the same time improve the performance and reliability of complex applications. But, you have to do it without ripping out everything that is already in place. The solution: Employ new technologies and design patterns to make your architecture elastic.
Key takeaways:

• The three dimensions of massive scale.
• Why the future of massive scale is elastic and the platforms that support it.
• How to boost your capacity, increase performance and improve reliability without major re-architecture.
• Why cloud computing is here to stay and how to take advantage of it

9:20-9:45AM “Using Full System Simulation to Accelerate Software Development”
David Seltz, Director of Field Engineering, Networking East, Wind River
Developing software for modern systems is becoming increasingly complex as system complexity increases. One increasingly difficult problem faced by today's developers is increasing time pressure caused by late delivery of hardware. In this session we will show how a full system simulator can free software development from the constraints of the hardware schedule. Additionally we will show how the advanced debugging capabilities inherent in full system simulation can dramatically improve debug productivity.

9:45-10:10AM “Break and Demo Area Visit”

10:10-10:35AM “Automating Application Deployment & Configuration”
Jody Hunt, Lead Solution Manager, Application Operations, BMC Software
Web-based applications, agile development, J2EE platforms and virtualized servers are a perfect storm that overwhelms conventional application release management processes. As the application release cycle turns faster, a single mistake can bring down mission-critical services and damage brands, reputations and revenues. Automating release processes enables consistently fast application deployments, error-free configurations and audit and compliance reporting. Attend this session to learn pragmatic best practices and solutions that dramatically improve service delivery.
Takeaways:
· Reduce application delivery times from weeks to hours
· Prevent business-crippling application outages
· Enable auditing and compliance reporting

10:35-11:00AM “Enabling Enterprise SaaS”
Warren Schuman, VP Sales, North America, GigaSpaces
Companies of all sizes and from all industries are trying to determine how they can adapt their IT models to realize the alluring benefits promised by leading cloud computing vendors such as Amazon. For large enterprises, the obstacles to leveraging public cloud computing models will take years to overcome, and in certain cases may be insurmountable. As a result, large enterprise IT organizations are implementing strategies to deliver similar benefits to their business by leveraging their own resources and operating behind their own firewalls, without compromising longer term strategies that may in fact enable them to eventually migrate to a public cloud model. GigaSpaces will discuss how they are working with these Enterprise SaaS providers to achieve these goals, discussing key considerations and best practices in the following areas:
Structuring your IT organization to support an Enterprise SaaS model
Key Technology Considerations for Enterprise SaaS
Building, Deploying and Managing Applications and Infrastructure for Enterprise SaaS
Integrating Enterprise SaaS with Business and Finance
Defining an approach to deliver incremental returns and minimal disruption

11:00AM Seminar Concludes

Agenda and times subject to change. Please check back frequently for updated agenda.

Westin New York at Times Square
270 West 43rd St., New York, NY 10036

2nd Floor - Ambassador Suites

Keynote
Mike Gualtieri, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research
Research Coverage: Application Development, Application Development Processes & Tools, Application Infrastructure Technologies, Application Security, Application Server Platforms, Architecture & Technology Strategy, Business Rules, Customer Experience, Design & Usability Processes, Enterprise Architecture, IT Management, IT Strategy, Planning & Governance, Programming Languages, Security & Risk, Web Development Tools
Research Focus: Mike serves Application Development & Delivery professionals. He researches blazing fast and massively scalable Web and application architectures (best practices, caching, browsers, Java, .NET, and platforms); data grid technologies; complex event processing (CEP) platforms; business rules platforms; user experience (UX) design; and the future of application development. Mike is also a leading expert on the intersection of user experience, application development, and architecture.
Previous Work Experience: Mike has more than 20 years experience in software development and architecture. Mike came to Forrester from Bank of America, where he worked in strategy and architecture for Web applications. Prior to Bank of America, he worked as a consultant, providing development, architecture, and strategy services for clients including Avery Dennison, eBay, EMC, Fleet Bank, H.J. Heinz, Liberty Mutual, NASA, and Thomas Publishing. Mike has also led teams to develop mission-critical applications in insurance, logistics, banking, manufacturing, healthcare, and Internet commerce.
Education: Mike earned a B.S. in computer science and management from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. While a student, Mike as awarded three patents for inventing an expert system for air traffic control that is used around the world to train air traffic controllers.

David Seltz, Director of Field Engineering, Networking East, Wind River
David Seltz has been working in the embedded computer industry for over 25 years. He started his Career working for CSPI in Billerica MA as a development engineer working in the Scanalytics division on their Electrophoresis products. In 1997 David went to work for Wind River Systems as a Field Application Engineer. Today Dave is the Regional Engineering Director for Wind River Systems covering the Network vertical in the Eastern United States. Dave went to Lehigh University in 81 where he received his Computer Engineering Degree. He received his Masters degree in Computer Engineering from Lowell University.

Jody Hunt, Lead Solution Manager, Application Operations, BMC Software
Jody Hunt is Lead Solution Manager at BMC for Application Operations. His career has spanned diverse roles in the software industry, including control flow analysis algorithm development at Language Technology, Inc., object database technical sales at Object Design, technical marketing at DAZEL Corporation, telecom industry marketing and partner management at IONA technologies, and partner sales at Progress Software. He received a BA in computer science from the University of Texas.

Warren Schuman, VP Sales, North America, GigaSpaces
Warren Schuman has been with the company since 2005. He has 20 years of experience in the technology industry, working predominantly with financial services customers, including Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Barclays Capital, and the NYSE. Prior to working at GigaSpaces, Warren worked in sales and sales management roles at IBM (FileNet), BMC (BladeLogic), and several Silicon Valley start-up technology firms.