Keynote Focus: Jon Ferraiolo
Jon Ferraiolo will present “The Power of Mashup Technology—Helping the Enterprise Meet the Promise of Web 2.0 and SOA” at DIALOG 08 on Monday Feb 25th, 11.30 am - 12.00 pm.
Web 2.0, Mashups, SOA: Probably the top three buzzwords around at the moment in enterprise IT. All credit to Jon Ferraiolo, then, for managing to squeeze all three of them into the title of his DIALOG 08 keynote presentation (just edging out fellow IBM colleague Sandy Carter who managed only two out of three for her “New Language of Business” keynote earlier the same morning!)
But nobody can accuse Jon Ferraiolo of jumping on the buzzword bandwagon. In fact, Jon is probably about as far as you can get from being an upstart fly-by-night, here-today-gone-tomorrow hipster.
As director of operations for the OpenAjax Alliance (the primary standards and advocacy group for Ajax), Jon has been working feverishly within IBM’s Emerging Technologies group and The OpenAjax Alliance since 2006 to help establish key mashup standards that will allow the industry to achieve the full benefits of Enterprise 2.0. Before joining IBM, Jon worked for Adobe for 13 years as product manager, architect, and engineering manager on products that included Adobe Acrobat, Illustrator, and Photoshop and was also principal architect for Adobe’s SVG product efforts.
In presenting mashups as a revolutionary new approach to application development, Jon will draw on his vast experience and knowledge of the field and provide a compelling argument as to why businesses must embrace Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 approaches if they hope to remain competitive.
Originally planned as part of the conference’s Visualization track, Jon’s session was deemed to have such broad appeal and relevance that it was promoted to a cross-track keynote - kind of appropriate for a presentation about mashups, I think :-).
I, for one, will be all ears.
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