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Dragos Manolescu, ThoughtWorks

 Dragos  Manolescu Dragos Manolescu is a software architect at ThoughtWorks where he works with Global 1000 companies on architecture and integration projects. Dragos' main professional interests include orchestration, object-oriented design and frameworks, software patterns and architecture evaluation. He is one of the authors of Integration Patterns (Microsoft Press, 2004), the lead editor of PLoPD (Addison-Wesley, 2005), and is currently working on a book on orchestration patterns (orchestrationpatterns.com). Prior to joining ThoughtWorks Dragos worked in a variety of environments, including research centers such as IMEC (Belgium), IMAG (France) and NCSA (USA), academia, and dot-coms. Dragos holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Presentation: "10 Years After: Developments and Trends in the Patterns World"

Track:   Patterns - Past, Present, and Future

Time: Monday 11:00 - 12:00

Location: SAS Suecia

Abstract: Most newcomers think that patterns are limited to the topics that made a big splash about 10 years ago. In fact many other patterns and pattern languages are quietly put to work, helping practitioners solve problems in a growing number of areas such as enterprise architectures, AOP, middleware and grid computing, embedded systems, performance tuning, and so on. In this session I tour some of the most interesting developments and trends in the patterns world based on my experience with editing the 5th volume of the Pattern Languages of Programs book series. This overview will give you insight into current patterns work, prepare you for finding patterns for the problems that you're interested in, as well as help you position in context patterns that you may consider authoring.

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Presentation: "Demystifying Orchestration with Patterns"

Track:   Service Oriented Computing (SOA)

Time: Monday 13:00 - 14:00

Location: Conference Hall 2

Abstract: Although orchestration represents one of the key components of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), few adopters of service orientation actually use it. In spite of available standards and tools, aggressive marketing has forced many users to jump on the bandwagon ill-prepared. In this session I give an overview of an orchestration pattern language that aims at helping practitioners embrace the state of the art. These patterns will prepare people to evaluate orchestration tools as well as to regard SOA as more than just an alternative to Enterprise Application Integration (EAI).

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Presentation: "Panel of experts on the future of patterns"

Track:   Patterns - Past, Present, and Future

Time: Monday 17:00 - 17:45

Location: SAS Suecia