Conferences
Upcoming Conferences I Will Be Presenting Sessions For
This is a collection of conferences or meetups I’ve presented at in the software or business community. I usually try to share all my slides after I have presented the sessions. If something is missing or you want more information on something feel free to contact me.
2008 Calendar Year
BarCamp Seattle: FOAF and the Semantic Web
June 13th - 15th, 2008
Seattle, WA
My Session: I will be doing a presentation with Daniel Maycock, an Information Architect from Boeing, on FoaF, including my Semantic Maestro project and the results of using Google AppEngine if I can get the engine ported over to Python in time. Chances are it’ll just be the idea of FoaF, open social networks, users and tools out on the web.
2007 Calendar Year
ACORD LOMA Insurance Systems Forum
May 20 - 22nd 2007
Lake Buena Vista, FL
My Session: Future of ACORD: Using Data Standards In The Semantic Web
XML, as a describer and standardization of data and datatypes, are changing as we move in to a future where humans won’t be consuming data as much as other computers will. The Semantic web is about metadata, or “data about data” that tells computers what type of data it is, and it’s context. It is about a language for recording how the data relates to real world objects. This allows a person, or a machine, to start off in one database, and then move through an unending set of databases which are connected not by wires but by being about the same thing.
For the insurance industry, this transformation can bring incredible advances and solutions to the problems we are experiencing as an industry that XML and webservices alone can’t solve, including managing large amounts of data and customer information. In the Semantic Web, for instance, we can know what products may interest a customer through relationships built from their CLUE reports and their preferences or send self-describing products to agents without any upfront setup. Most importantly, it can be used in data warehousing applications to allow insurance companies to create their own meaning from their customer data for better rating by deploying reasoning systems to determine what risks are related to what datasets deeper than ever before.
ACORD standards will play the lead in this, and companies that are adopting ACORD standards in managing their business communications now, especially using ACORD in their webservices, will have a lead in this advancement. ACORD can become “richer” when paired with RDF documents that not only enforce the standards, but describe them as well.
In my presentation, I will demonstrate the future value of deploying these reasoning systems, demonstrate the work I’ve done with a future ACORD standard based website that will show a customer, the products they may like and the best rate; all from self-describing meta-data and without any code (only the data itself)
IBM Rational Software Development Conference 2007
10-14 Jun 2007
Orlando, FL
My Session:
BBT07 From Legacy to Service-Oriented Architecture: The Strategic Importance of Services in the Insurance Industry
Tuesday, June 12th, 11:00 am - 12:00/12:30 pm
The insurance industry is one of the most complicated industries to manage from an IT perspective. Its complex and highly regulated business rules, as well as its early adoption of mainframes in the 80s and 90s, has led to a significant hurdle in moving existing infrastructures to a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). This session shows how the use of IBM Rational tools and IBM(R) Websphere(R) Process Server can free the industry from the complexities of implementing state specific compliance and business workflows through modeling and mediation flows.
This session will run for 90 minutes
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