Scheduled for October 15-16th, 2007, the ITARC 2007 conference is an event focused on the architecture topics in IT. The organizers at IASA (International Association of Software Architects) have arranged over 30 session in 4 concurrent tracks covering enterprise architecture, infrastructure architecture, software architecture, and architecture fundamentals.

Many notable speakers (just to list a few) are scheduled to present at the conference:

• Chris Haddad, VP, Burton Group - Infrastructure Architecture in the Business Domain
• Fred Waskiewicz, Director of Standards, OMB - Service Oriented Architecture: Making the Leap, Leveraging the Standards
• Scott Ambler, Practice Leader, Agile Development, IBM - Agile Strategies for Enterprise Architects
• Denise Cook, Rational Method Architect, IBM - Software Architecture Analysis Methods
• David Chappel, VP & Chief Technologist, Oracle - Next Generation Grid Enabled SOA
• Vince Casarez, VP, Portal Platform, Oracle - Web 2.0 for the Enterprise
• Simon Guest, Director, Microsoft - Putting the User back into Architecture
• Harry Pierson, Architect, Microsoft - Moving Beyond Industrial Software
• Lynn Langit, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft - SharePoint Architecture, Lessons from the Trenches
• David Chou (myself), Architect, Microsoft - Architecting Enterprise Security

The full agenda can be found at http://www.iasahome.org/web/itarc/socal/agenda

Also, it just so happens that Microsoft is sponsoring this conference as well. ;) As a result, we have a booth at the event. Looking forward to see you there!