Khawar Ahmed, Rational Software
Each evolutionary move in software engineering has lead to working at a higher level of abstraction and an enhanced level of productivity. Model Driven Development (MDD) is the next paradigm shift in this ongoing evolution and promises to be equally transformational. This session describes the MDD approach to software development and why it allows us to develop systems more rapidly, with fewer resources, and better quality.

Klaus Bergius, Senior Architect Mobility Technologies, Sun Technology and Architecture Office

Dave Chappell, Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist for Sonic Software Corporation
Gartner predicts that a new form of enterprise service bus (ESB) infrastructure will be running in most major enterprises by 2005. IDC compares the advent of the ESB to the invention of the steam engine or the telegraph. ESBs combine Web services, enterprise messaging, transformation and routing to provide an integration network that can span global enterprises and encompass potentially thousands of application end-points. Application integration is a top priority among CIOs, and as the current IT value center in the enterprise, IT organizations must shift their focus from application development, to application integration. The convergence of this IT spending trend and the availability of standards-based technology and tools for integration means IT developers are the next integration architects.What new skills and technologies are required in your new role as an integration architect? What is an enterprise service bus (ESB) infrastructure and how will it make integration more manageable? How will Java™, Web services, and reliable SOAP standards be leveraged for global business integration? What is role of the Java Message Service (JMS) in enterprise integration networks?

Wim Bast, Lead Architect Compuware's Application Development and Integration Centre
This presentation is a reflection on Model Driven Architecture. The speaker will define MDA based on the goals defined by the OMG who introduced MDA. Also a sketch of the current status of the standards and tools will be given. A framework for tool selection will be given based on practical requirements and the promised benefits of MDA.

Steve Muench Product Manager, Technical Evangelist, and Author Oracle JDeveloper Development Team
This talk explains the benefits of using existing J2EE application frameworks to speed up development. We'll explore scenarios involving web user interfaces built with Jakarta Struts and JSP pages, rich client user interfaces built with Swing, and web services interfaces, and describe how all of these can make use of the same, core business objects, query components, and business services. We'll see how, by using the right tools, framework-based J2EE development can add productivity throughout the entire software lifecycle, leaving you more time to focus on building the actual application logic.

Michael Faisst, Director of Product Management and Product Marketing Together Business Unit Borland Software Corporation
Everybody in software development today is challenged with doing more with less. Build more software, or the same with smaller teams, build it faster, respond faster to changes, and make it fast. As a developer or an architect I need to increase the quality of my software and I need the right tools to help me deliver, review and monitor the quality of what I deliver. I need to focus at the end goal rather then the process of getting there. In this session Michael Faisst will pick 10 pain points in the overall development process today and share ideas how Application Lifecycle Management software can help us address these pain points in order to help us build: Better Software Faster.