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Century City, in Los Angeles, CA.

Hundreds of senior IT leaders and business strategists will gather this spring to tackle current challenges in integration & middleware, Web services, architecture, portals, open source, standards and more. In 2 and 1/2 intensive days, attendees will learn both practical solutions and strategies to validate current and long-term planning.

Gartner's focus: The Integrated Service-Oriented Enterprise: Strategies for Tomorrow, Best Practices for Today. The keynotes. The sessions. The solutions showcase. All will give you new solutions to your most pressing issues through the lens of integrating your enterprise — giving you the tools you need to benchmark your enterprise strategies on Web services security, SOA, EDA, ESB, application process and data integration, standards, and more.

Highlights of the program include:

• Over 50 sessions led by 40 leading experts including many end users
• Keynotes from guest visionaries: Tim O'Reilly, founder & CEO of O'Reilly Media, open source and standards advocate; Geoffrey Moore, industry consultant and best-selling author of Crossing the Chasm; David Luckham, professor emeritus of electrical engineering, Stanford University and Jeanne Ross, principal research scientist, MIT
• Pre-conference tutorials and post-conference workshops on drill-down topics
• A special day-and-a-half Enterprise Architect Summit
• A dedicated one-day program for CIOs, a CIO Day
• Solutions demonstrations from over 50 leading vendors
• Unique Networking opportunities: Vertical networking meals, Receptions, Hospitality Suites, Birds of a Feather sessions...
• Private One-on-One meetings with an analyst of your choice (for Gartner clients only)
• And much more...

To view the Summit Agenda-at-a-Glance, please click here.