GigaWorld: Achieving Business Flexibility Through IT Innovation includes tracks on the future of IT, how to implement digital business architecture, the information workplace, IT management, computing systems, application development and infrastructure, and communication transformation and security. www.forrester.com/itforum2006

Service-Oriented Architecture

April 19-20, Chicago

Sponsor: Brainstorm Group Inc.

Topics at Strategies for Developing, Managing and Governing Service-Oriented Architectures include adoption rates, case studies and lessons learned; 12 steps to SOA; patterns of SOA; aligning existing enterprise architectures with business requirements; the macro and micro view; and making sense of the plethora of products available for SOA infrastructures. www.brainstorm-group.com