Call for Participation SASO-biz 2008 2008 SASO Workshop on Business Applications and Potential of Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Venice, Italy, 21 October 2008 http://www.labunix.uqam.ca/%7Ejpmf/saso-biz2008/ Sponsored by Cisco and NetExpert The aim of this workshop is to gather people from industry to exchange information about current and future business applications of self-managing, self-adaptive and self-organizing systems, and to strive to anticipate the implications of their large-scale use for industry (providers and customers). How can we turn a technological potential into a mass-market reality? There will be no proceedings and no papers, just presentations and hopefully fruitful discussions. All speakers and panelists are invited by the Workshop Co-Chairs. Scope The main themes of this workshop are the following: * What is your company currently doing in the area of self-managing, self-adaptive and self-organizing systems? * What is the degree of maturity of this field? Does your company associate it with research or business? * Do you have a success story in this field that you would like to report on? Real-life examples of adoption of self-* technologies. * Is there a need for standardization in this field within 2 years (e.g., for interoperability purposes)? * Among all self-* technologies, which ones should lead to real business within 2 years and which ones do you expect to remain purely academic in your industrial sector? * What tough problems need to be solved in this field in the next 5 years? * Challenge to academics: Is there something extravagant (service, system, feature, etc.) that you would dream to offer to your customers, that you currently don't know how to engineer, and that academics could perhaps help you design? Audience We expect to attract CTOs, VPs Engineering, Innovation Directors, Project Managers, Consultants and Senior Engineers from corporations, mid-sized enterprises and startups in diverse industrial sectors. This workshop should benefit: * Solution Providers by helping them align their projects with what they perceive as business opportunities; * Customers by helping them decide whether time has come for them to adopt these new technologies because they now understand the gains they bring. Advance Program Keynote Seraphin Calo Manager, Policy Lifecycle Technologies Department IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA "Evolving Technologies for Autonomic Management: Virtualization, Ensembles, and Dynamic Communities" Session 1: IT Solution Providers' Interest in Self-* Systems (part 1) Pierre Glize CEO UPETEC, France "Reducing Complexity and Increasing Adaptivity by Engineering Self-Organizing Large-Scale Systems" Coffee Break Session 2: IT Solution Providers' Interest in Self-* Systems (part 2) David Breitgand Research Staff Member IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel "RESERVOIR: Integrating Virtualization and Grid Technologies for Federated Cloud Computing" Joe M. Butler EMEA Innovation Centre Technical Lead Intel, Ireland "SLA@SOI" Jerry Rolia Principal Scientist Hewlett-Packard Labs, Canada "Predictable, Longevous Application Services" Lunch Session 3: Telecom Solution Providers' Interest in Self-* Systems Monique Calisti Head of Innovation, Telecom Systems Whitestein Technologies, Switzerland "Autonomic Technology Platform: Engineering Next Generation Self-Managing Systems & Applications" José A. Lozano López Autonomic Communications Division Head Telefonica I+D, Spain "Self-Management: Beyond Automatic Business Processes" Geoffrey Canright Senior Researcher Telenor Research & Innovation, Norway "Connected Objects" Fabrice Saffre Principal Researcher, BT, UK "Energy-Aware Self-* Services" Coffee Break Session 4: Customers' Interest in Self-* Systems Bernhard Sendhoff CTO Honda Research Institute Europe, Germany "Evolutionary System Design" Christian Frei Principal Scientist ABB Corporate Research, Switzerland "Smart Self-* Features in Power Utilities and Grids: Trends, Prospects and Risks" Panel Panel Title: "Self-* Technologies in Industry: Niche Market Today, Mass Market Tomorrow?" Panel Chair: J.P. Martin-Flatin Senior Consultant NetExpert, Switzerland Panelists: * Giorgio Borri CIO Infracom/Multilink Toscana, Italy * Sven A. Brueckner Senior Systems Engineer NewVectors, USA * Stuart Parham Consulting Engineer Cisco, UK * Roberto Siagri CEO Eurotech, Italy * Mazin Yousif Chief Architect Numonyx Corporation, USA