The more than 100 keynotes, talks, and seminars that I have given at conferences, universities, user groups, or to corporate audiences draw from my experience in the following areas:
The lively and interactive style assures that talks are consistently highly rated for making complex topics accessible without sacrificing technical accuracy. All talks and workshops can be delivered in English or German, also on site. If you are interested in having me speak at your event or company, feel free to contact me.
I like to travel and have spoken in: Aarhus, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Baltimore, Banff, Bangkok, Barcelona, Beijing, Berlin, Bonn, Boston, Calgary, Chicago, Colombo, Dallas, Dubai, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Karlsruhe, Las Vegas, London, Los Angeles, Melbourne, Montreal, Munich, Nice, Orlando, Oslo, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Shanghai, Sydney, Tokyo, Toronto, Vancouver, Vienna. Stay up-to-date via my feed. If you'd like to have a workshop conducted on your premises, please Contact me.
Interesting applications rarely live in isolation, but are integrated into an ecosystem of internal applications, external interfaces and cloud services. Asynchronous messaging offers distinct advantages for system integration, such as loose coupling, but designing such systems is not trivial. This seminar aids architects and developers in the design of distributed and integrated systems with a design vocabulary of almost 100 design patterns, including patterns for asynchronous messaging (channels, messages, routing, transformation, endpoints, systems management) and patterns for stateful conversations (discovery, initiation, intermediaries, resource management, reaching agreement).
As the digital economy changes the rules of the game for enterprises, the role of architects also fundamentally changes. They must connect the penthouse, where the business strategy is defined, with the engine room, where the enabling technologies are implemented. Making this connection by walking from floor to floor won’t work. Instead, modern architects bypass existing structures by taking the Architect Elevator. In this highly interactive workshop architects learn how to transcend organizational levels to better link business strategy, IT strategy, and implementation.
Cloud automation is much more than just eliminating manual steps - it should be an integral part of your software delivery lifecycle and actively influence your architecture choices.
We upgrade our technology all the time - shouldn’t we also update our role as architects?
A three-city circuit through Australia.
The highly interactive full-day workshop shows architects how to ride the "architect elevator" to the upper floors where they can align IT with business strategy. This is the first time this workshop is held in Germany in English - don't miss it!
This highly interactive full-day workshop teaches architects how to ride the "architect elevator" to the upper floors to align IT with business strategy and to instill lasting change into their organization. First time in Singapore!
Zum ersten mal live in der Schweiz mit einem Praxis-Training zum Schnittpunkt zwischen IT Architektur und Transformation. Super Angebot fuer CHF 200!
IT-Architekten spielen eine Schlüsselrolle bei der digitalen Transformation traditioneller Unternehmen, weil sie wissen, wie man Cloud Computing, Big Data, Mobile Apps, IoT, Microservices & Co gewinnbringend im Unternehmen einsetzt. Dazu bedarf es der Fähigkeit, sich auf allen Ebenen der Organisation zu bewegen, um die Firmenstrategie zu verstehen, zu beeinflussen, und durch Softwareentwicklung und IT-Infrastruktur voranzutreiben.
My full-day workshop is loosely based on my new book "37 Things One Architect Knows" to teach architects how to ride the elevator higher up towards the company leadership to provide more value with IT and to instill lasting change into the organization.
IT-Architekten spielen eine Schlüsselrolle bei der digitalen Transformation traditioneller Unternehmen, weil sie wissen, wie man Cloud Computing, Big Data, Mobile Apps, IoT, Microservices & Co gewinnbringend im Unternehmen einsetzt. Dazu bedarf es der Fähigkeit, sich auf allen Ebenen der Organisation zu bewegen, um die Firmenstrategie zu verstehen, zu beeinflussen, und durch Softwareentwicklung und IT-Infrastruktur voranzutreiben.
I will hold a full-day workshop based on by book-in-progress "37 Things One Architect Knows".
My NFC talk was the 2nd highest ranked at the conference.
I collected a set of design considerations for building widely distributed systems and show how they are used in some of Google's core systems, such as Bigtable, GFS, or MapReduce.
I was invited to give a 30 minute keynote at this event, which was organized by the CyberForum. I chose to give a high-level overview of some of the challenges inherent in programming distributed systems.
I am again running the cloud computing track at JAOO. My talk tries to extract common design patterns or themes from a variety of Google core systems, such as GFS, Bigtable, MapReduce, Sawzall.
I was finally able to speak about Google App Engine for Java.
I am track hosting the Cloud Computing track. We'll have speakers from Google, Yahoo, Salesforce, and John "ProgrammableWeb" Musser.
I'll be organizing the coud computing track for QCon. Hope to see you there!
My first live talk about Google products. Just to maintain the balance in the universe I work with both Yahoo! Pipes and Google Mashup Editor.
I will be leading the SOA track at JAOO this year. Is there anything left to say about SOA? I think so! I am looking to compile a series of insightful talks that are based on real experiences.
I have heard great things about JavaZone from many other speakers. This time I get to be part of it.
This one should be fun -- I get to hang out with my intellectual drinking buddies in Antwerp.
Agile development methods enjoy increasing popularity when it comes to building business applications. They promise flexibility, immediate customer feedback, and a high-quality solution. However, some of the basic mechanisms of service-oriented architectures can be perceived as a counterforce to agile development. For example, published interface contracts can bog down rapid iteration. Also, development tools that support an agile development style are not always available for Web-services based interactions. Can you have the best of both worlds?
I heard good things about this German conference from a number of people. This time I'll have an opportunity to speak. It'll be great to be in Munich during the winter but they make me work pretty hard for it: three talks in a row... I hope there will be some time left to party with Christian!
This 3 hour tutorial will allow me to expand on my popular talk on composable, event-driven systems.
A panel with Steve Swartz should be fun, especially on connected systems.
This talk is still in the planning phase. TechEd Europe will have quite a few Indigo talks because not everybody is going to be able to make it to PDC. I myself need to find a way to weazle a ticket to PDC out of someone ;-)
The SD Forum organizes local events in the Bay Area. This talk concludes an all day Web Services Conference organized by SD Forum. Admission is free to SD Members or 15ドル for others. This might be the cheapest way yet to see me speak :-)
I will be co-presenting with Ted Neward, which promises to be quite entertaining :-)
EAI Forum is the largest integration related event in the German speaking area. Luckily, I started to translate some of my material into German...
After missing the SD conference this year, I will explain how to leverage event-driven architectures inside a single virtual machine.
Keith Pleas organizes these summits in close collaboration with Microsoft. These events are smaller in scale but give attendees ample access to the speakers. Ward is coming as well, so this one should be good.
Well, Martin gets to go to the Gold Coast and I have to make do with rainy Seattle. Oh well, gotta write a few more books :-)
I am sure next year's TheServerSide Symposium will be as much fun and as content-rich as last year's. I look forward to more panels moderated by Ted Neward
Despite the apparent database focus in the title of this event, there is a definite emphasis on SOA and Web services. Frank Leymann and Satish Thatte (the two brainfathers of BPEL) will speak there as well so I am honored to have my name appear among all the BPEL celebrities. My talk will focus on what SOA means for developers, what kind of tools and skill sets we need etc. I think this is a topic that is too often ignored as we all love to dwell in the architectural benefits of SOA.
I jumped into this one at the last minute. Interesting line-up with lots of talks on SOA etc.
My ACM tutorials use C# examples, so for JavaPolis I am going to port these to JAX-RPC or JMS. The way I constructed the example components switching from one transport to the other should be very easy. Maybe BEA's new QuickSilver will be available by then. It would be cool to do the examples in that. Anyone from BEA feel free to e-mail me :-)
EAI Patterns for the first time in German! Jawohl...
At least one show close to home :-)
The most popular tutorial so far at OOPSLA 2004! Join us! This year we split the tutorial in two halves. Bobby does a half-day intro into the terminology and request-reply examples. My tutorial focuses on coupling, service-orientation, message flow architectures and conversations. I will use real running examples to show how to construct message flow architectures.
No reruns! This tutorial will feature more real, running examples. I am currently assembling a set of reusable components that implement the core patterns (Splitter, Router, Translator). During the tutorial I will use these components to show running versions of the examples discussed in the slides. I am also planning to post these components on this site once they are done.
A walk through application and integration patterns targeted at enterprise developers. By the time TechEd is held our new Microsoft PAG book on integration patterns should be available.
Finally a conference focused on EAI. I am very excited to present at an event dedicated to integration issues.
Hironori Washizaki and his team invited me to give a talk at the Tokyo Patterns Working Group. I had a great time and learned how to write my name in Katakana.
One of the biggest Java events in Europe, organized by the Belgian Java User's group - BeJUG.
Nexus is a neat computer bookstore and somewhat of a local institution. Sadly, I think they have gone out of business since.
A half-day tutorial showing how to use integration patterns to design integration solutions. Plus: Book Launch!!
This big conference in a small country continues to attract top-notch software development talent. JAOO really one of the best-run shows I know of. The speaker roster is first class and the general level is very high.
A quick (25 slide) introduction into EAI patterns.
A 90 minute journey through the world of EAI patterns.