This year's keynote speaker line-up features four of the best-known, best-spoken i-Technology industry executives including:

 

• Dr. Hal Stern, Distinguished Engineer and VP, Sun Microsystems (June 25)

• Jeff Nick, CTO and SVP, EMC (June 26)

• David Greschler, Director of Virtualization Strategy, Microsoft (June 26)

• Rob Levy, CTO and EVP, BEA Systems (June 27)

 

Conference attendees will be able to choose from seven great tracks including:

 

• Web 2.0 / AJAX and SOA

• Interop Standards and Services

• Real-World SOA

• SOA Technology

• Enterprise Open Source

• Virtualization

• i-Technology Hot Topics

 

More than 120 distinguished faculty members will teach at the conference, including: Danny Allan (WatchFire), Michael Baum (Splunk), Kadeer Beg (Prolifics), Jason Bloomberg (ZapThink), Toufic Boubez (Layer 7 Technologies), Arjé Cahn (Hippo), Dave Chappell (Oracle), Neelan Choksi (Interface21), Jonathan Clark (Thinstall), Frank Cohen (PushToTest), Dan Corsberg, John Crupi (JackBe), Cornelia Davis (EMC), Kevin Epstein (Scalent), Yakov Fain (Farata Systems), Chris Farrell (ClearApp), Patrick Felstead (Bandit), Pierre Fricke (Red Hat), Kyle Gabhart (Web Age Solutions), Alain Gendre (ILOG), David Greschler (Microsoft), Rajiv Gupta (Securent), Kevin Hakman (TIBCO), Søren Hartvig (Capgemini), Doug Hass (ImageStream), Andrew Hillier (CiRBA), Hideki Hiura (JustSystems), Fred Holahan (Active Endpoints), Wayne Hom (Augmentum), Sajindra Jayasena (Virtusa Corporation), Simon Laws (IBM), Doug Levin (Black Duck Software), Rob Levy (BEA Systems), David Linthicum, Paul Lipton (CA), Bob Lozano (Appistry), Doug MacEachern (Hyperic), Sastry Malladi (eBay), Javier Mariscal (TwoConnect), Frank Martinez (Intershop), Miko Matsumura (webMethods), David Mavashev (Nastel), Joe McKendrick (Evans Data), John Michelsen (iTKO), Laurence Moroney (Mainsoft), Debbie Moynihan (IONA), Diane Mueller (Justsystems), Jeff Nick (EMC), Dale Olds (Novell), Tim Pacileo, Alessandro Perilli (Virtualization Conference & Expo tech chair), Matt Quinn (TIBCO), Sean Rhody (SOA World editor-in-chief and conference tech chair),  Marc Rix (SAIC), Peter Roden (OASIS), Jesus Rodriguez (TwoConnect), Ajit Sagar (Infosys), Sekhar Sarukkai (Securent), Bill Soward (Adaptive Planning), Hal Stern (Sun Microsystems), Michael Stiefel (Reliable Software), Roger Strukhoff (SYS-CON.TV), Yuval Tarsi (Serendipity Technologies), Ian Thain (Sybase), Doug Tidwell (IBM), Mark Tsimelzon (Akamai), Hub Vandervoort (Progress Software), Alex Vasilevsky (Virtual Iron), Jeffrey Walker (Atlassian Software), John Mark Walker (Hyperic), Roland Wartenberg (SAP), Tony Wasserman (Carnegie Mellon), Coach Wei (Nexaweb), Michael Wheaton (Sun Microsystems), David Wood (BT), Raven Zachary (The 451 Group), Jack Zubarev (SWsoft).

This year's conference will also feature three SYS-CON.TV CEO Power Panels. The SOA Power Panel moderated by SOA tech chair Sean Rhody; Enterprise Open Source Power Panel, moderated by Conference chair Roger Strukhoff; and Virtualization Power Panel, moderated by Virtualization tech chair Allesandro Perilli.

 

The CEO Power Panels, which will take place as general sessions, are free to all delegates, and will be recorded for broadcast by SYS-CON.TV.

 

The best news for this year's conference delegates is that the "Golden Pass" registration now provides full access to all conference sessions.

 

Additionally, after the conference, delegates will receive the complete content from all of the conference sessions in seven convenient DVDs. This on-demand DVD archive set is sold separately for $995. The DVD set includes all sessions from the simultaneous tracks that attendees can't attend in person, thanks to SYS-CON.TV's on-demand Webcast archives!

 

The first international Virtualization Conference & Expo will be sponsored by leading Virtualization technology vendors. Information on sponsorship and exhibit opportunities can be obtained by e-mail at events(at)sys-con.com or by phone at 201 802-3021.