The call for speakers for DataServices World 2008 is open until March 15, 2008. DataServices World is co-located with the SOAWorld 2008 conference in New York City.

DataServices World is about the confluence of databases, data warehousing, business intelligence, enterprise computing and Internet computing. Its focus is architectures and technologies for accessing data from heterogeneous data sources and providing that data to consumers such as components, services and applications.

Distributed processing, high-speed networks, powerful servers, components and collaboration define the landscape of 21st century computing. For building new systems and exploiting legacy applications and data, developers are looking to collaborative applications assembled from distributed components. The emergence of XML and web services spurred an increase in services-oriented architecture (SOA) adoption. SOA today can include web services, grid services, integration services, semantic web services, components and messaging systems.

Developers who've enjoyed success with component-based development are looking to new architectures with services as the new components. But even as the Service Component Architecture and other new technology gain tractions, some system characteristics remain consistent. Today's systems, like their predecessors, typically have a requirement for persistent information and databases.

.NET and Java developers involved in building, deploying, or maintaining Web services and IT/IS management involved in IT integration and related issues are also welcome.

If you have something substantive, challenging, and original to offer, you are encouraged to submit a proposal. In the proposal, please highlight previous speaking engagements including classroom or course work. Please provide at least three references with respect to speaking ability, as well as contact information that will allow us to reach you to evaluate presentation skills. Past speakers do not need to provide references.

Many organizations have a variety of persistent data stores, including SQL databases, geo-coded data files, spreadsheets, content management systems and XML. Services, applications, and mashups can consume and integrate data from disparate data sources. In an n-tier enterprise architecture and a service-oriented architecture, the logic for providing data from databases and other data sources resides in data access layers and data services layer.

Today's data services layers encapsulate logic for accessing data stores, typically using standards-based technology such as ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET and Service Data Objects. These specifications define solutions for uniformly accessing and manipulating data from heterogeneous data sources.

At DataServices World, we'll uncover architecture and technology solutions for accessing, integrating and processing data from multiple sources while guaranteeing security and scalability. These solutions include robust, high-performance data access middleware, optimized databases, efficient protocol handling, tuned queries and state of the art data services. We'll be looking at technology of interest to enterprise architects, system architects, information architects, developers and database administrators, gurus, consultants, analysts, planners, technical managers and CxOs,

When:	June 24, 2008
Where:	Roosevelt Hotel 45 E 45th St New York, New York 10017
Conference producer:	SYS-CON Events
Chairs:	Ken North
Web site:	www.dataservicesworld.sys-con.com/

If you are interested in speaking at DataServices World, send an e-mail to videoscribe21st-dsworld@yahoo.com. Please include:

• The presentation title and a brief abstract ( < 200 words).
• Your name, title, a brief biography and complete contact information.
• A summary of your speaking experience.

We are interested in technical presentations and cannot use a marketing session or product pitch.

Remember: The call for speakers closes March 15, 2008.