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Object World UK 1995 - Olympia 2, 20-23 June '95

"Reaping the Benefits of Object Technology"

Object World Expositions has announced the third Object World UK
exhibition and conference, which will take place at Olympia 2, London,
20-23 June 1995. It is expected to open its doors to some 2000 visitors,
including 250 conference and tutorial delegates. Object World UK '95 is
one of a series of worldwide Object World events, which together make up
the world's largest all object oriented group of exhibitions. Sponsoring
the event, which combines conferences, tutorials, free product
demonstrations and a free exhibition, are The Object Management Group, IBM
and Andersen Consulting. 

The '95 show has been extended to four days. The first day will feature
Objects for Beginners tutorials (20th June), followed by two days of
conferences which are streamed as Infrastructure, Business and
Applications (21st/22nd June). The conferences run in parallel with a
free exhibition and free vendor seminars (21st/22nd June). The fourth day
features 2 full day and 4 half day Advanced Object Tutorials (23rd June). 

The Tutorials and Conferences for Object World UK '95 have been
extensively redesigned.  Samit Khosla of Andersen Consulting is the
Conference Chair. The conferences have been tailored to meet the
particular personal demands of different groups of potential delegates. 
However, all the conferences incorporate balanced, integrated mixtures of
technical presentations, case study presentations and panel sessions. 

Featured speakers will include Paddy Ashdown, Leader of the Liberal
Democratic Party, Thomas Atwood, founder of Object Design Inc, Christopher
Stone, President of OMG, Ivar Jacobson, founder of Objectory, Marco Emrich
of Cincom, Martin Fowler of Quoin, and Professor Tom Maibaum of Imperial
College London. End users have also been invited to share their
experiences and case studies will be explored to illustrate the real
impact OT is having on the business world. End users represented include
British Airways, British Gas, Credit Suisse, Dun & Bradstreet, Eagle Star,
European Space Agency, Industrial Bank of Japan, and Union Bank of
Switzerland. 

The exhibition, taking place on June 21st and 22nd, will feature over 50
Object Technology product and service suppliers selling class libraries,
languages, database management systems, methods, methods support and
client/server development tools, GUI Builders, C++ & Smalltalk compilers,
object oriented 4GLs, and OLE and CORBA conformant development
environments. Training and consulting services organisations will also be
exhibiting alongside product suppliers. 


Object Infrastructure Conference
--------------------------------

The Objects Infrastructure Conference, chaired by Ian Howells of
Documentum, features detailed presentations on the OMG Object Management
Architecture, Object Technology Development Infrastructure, Execution
Infrastructure, and Operation Infrastructure. Presentations include: 

"The Nature and Importance of the OMG's Object Management Architecture"
Andrew Watson
OMG ORB2 TaskForce Chair, APM

"Development Infrastructure: Overview of Repositories and Environments and
hints on how to get it right"
Roberto Zicari
Technical Director, GoodStep Project

"Execution Infrastructure: Overview of Architecture, Topology and Major
Trade Offs"
Andrew Watson
OMG ORB2 Task Force Chair, APM

"Distributed Systems Management"
Morris Sloman
Reader, Imperial College, Sysman Project

"Case Study: Development, Execution and Operation Infrastructures -
Lifecycle of an Object Technology System"
Tim Rhodes
Managing Director, Cumulus Systems

"Distributed Object Transaction Systems"
Iain Houston
Architect, Distributed Object Transaction Systems, IBM

"Compound Documents - Presenting Distributed Objects through Container
Objects"
Ian Howells
European Technical Director, Documentum &
Samit Khosla
European Head of Object Technology Practice Development, Andersen Consulting

"Implementing Distributed Object Technology Systems"
Chair: Andrew Watson, APM

Panel: Dr Keith Jones, Manager of Distributed Objects, Transaction Systems
       Department, IBM
       Jack Grimes, Taligent
       Tony Drahota, Distinguished Engineer, ICL

"Case Study: Implementing a Distributed Object Technology Environment -
approach rationale, benefits and choices"
Matthias Zingler
Project Manager, European Space Agency


Objects For Business Conference
-------------------------------

The Objects for Business Conference, chaired by Chris Carrigan of Andersen
Consulting, meets a wide range of management issues including Objects and
BPR, Business Frameworks and the OT Product Marketplace, as well as
management case studies. Presentations include:

"Business Imperative - why bother with OT?"
Panel: Samit Khosla, Andersen Consulting
       Kerry Williams, Systems Architect, IBJ
       Nick Mundy, Project Manager, Eagle Star

"Overview of Object Technology market"
Philip Carnelley
Ovum

"Case Studies"
Panel: John Daniels, Managing Director, Object Designers
       Phillipe Desfray, Director, Research & Development, Softeam
       Paul Chambers, Technology Development Analyst, British Gas

"Managing the move to Objects"
Barry McGibbon
Independent Consultant

"BPR & OT - The Vision"
Ivar Jacobson
Objectory

"Common Business Objects"
Trish Wooding, Object Interest Group
Paul May, Parallax Solutions
Graham Tigg, British Airways

"The Impact of Object Technology on both the IT Process and the IT
function"
Dr Patrick Gisel
Vice President, Departmental Head of Conception and Integration, Union 
Bank of Switzerland

"Impacts and Benefits of OT in Financial Services Applications"
Andy Maier
Associate, Credit Suisse, Zurich


Object Applications Conference
------------------------------

Chaired by Dai Clegg of Oracle, the Object Applications Conference
confronts some of the issues facing software developers.  It covers object
development language and persistence strategy choices - from theory to
practical case studies.  It also covers data interoperability issues at
the application and database levels. Presentations include: 

"An Overview of Developing with Object Technology"
Dai Clegg
Oracle

"An OT Project Case Study"
David Norris
Vice President
Technical Strategy and Quality and
Michel Gehler
Head of Development Environment Strategy
Dun & Bradstreet

"Choosing an Object Development Language - Discussing the Trade-offs",
Panel: C++ -Francis Glassborow, ACCU
       Smalltalk - Trevor Hopkins, Senior Consultant, OT Practice, IBM 
       Object COBOL - Raymond Obin, Object Technology Specialist, 
                      MicroFocus

"Encapsulating OLE within Smalltalk"
Jean-Marie Sacre
Lead Systems Architect
Andersen Consulting

"Options for Object Oriented Persistence"
Panel: Thomas Atwood, Object Design
       Marco Emrich, Senior Director, Cincom

"The Culture of Object Development"
Jean-Marie Chauvet
Neuron Data

"Objects or Applications"
Trgve ReensKaug
VP Research
Taskon AS

"Designing for reuse; in the small and the large"
Nick Mundy
Eagle Star


Objects For Beginners Tutorials
-------------------------------

The three Objects for Beginners Tutorials are Objects for Software
Developers, Objects for Database and Objects for Methodologies. The chair
for Objects for Software Developers is Dai Clegg of Oracle; for Objects
for Database, James Beagle of Object Design; and for Objects for
Methodologies, independent consultant Martin Fowler. Presentations
include: 


Objects For Software Developers
-------------------------------

"The Nature, Significance and claimed benefits of software development
with objects"
Dai Clegg
Oracle

"Object Technology history and overview of language choices"
Philip Carnelley
Ovum

"Design Approaches for Structuring Applications"
Mike Ackroyd
Atriom

"Overview of development environments/tools"
Thomas Curran

"Applications in the context of Architecture"
Nic Holt
ICL

"Case Study of a Development Project using OT"
Simon Stow
Oracle


Objects From A Database Perspective
-----------------------------------

"The history, nature and significance of objects in the database context"
Thomas Atwood
Founder
Object Design Inc

"RDBMS Database choices"
Tom Welsh
Writer & Consultant

"OO Database choices"
Akmal B. Chaudhri
The City University

"How to reuse your existing database technology"
Dr Mike Kay
ICL

"Migrating to an OO data warehouse structure. Benefits and approaches"
Bob Rockwell
Softlab


Objects For Methodologies
-------------------------

"What is the nature and significance of objects re. Design & Analysis
Methodologies"
Martin Fowler
Quoin

"From Information Engineering to Objects"
Nick Whitehead
Texas Instruments

"Methodological Approaches"
Andrew Hutt
ICL

"Analysing Textual IT Requirements from an OT Perspective"
Patrick Austern
Andersen Consulting

"How to Choose a Method"
Martin Fowler
Quoin


Advanced Tutorials
------------------

Full and half day Advanced Object Tutorials are on offer:

"CORBA & ORB Application Development"
Alan Ewald
President
Netlinks Technology
Abstract: This full day tutorial provides an introduction to the OMG CORBA
specification, from the evolution of CORBA 1.1 to CORBA 2.0. It teaches
how to define and use object interfaces and write object implementations. 
It discusses ORB application design and development issues. Available ORB
products will be surveyed. The positioning of CORBA versus RPC (DCE) and
OLE will be explained

"Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Designs"
Richard Helm
Senior Consultant
DMR Group
Abstract: This tutorial describes a set of fundamental design patterns and
demonstrates how to build reusable object-oriented software based on them.
It discusses the many roles design patterns play: how they provide a
common vocabulary for design, reduce complexity by naming and defining
abstractions, constitute a base of experience for building reusable
software, and how they act as design building blocks from which more
complex designs can be built

"Advanced Object Modelling and Design for C++"
Desmond D'Souza
President
ICON Computing
Abstract: Elegant techniques exist to implement powerful and commonly
needed object-oriented modelling constructs, and to circumvent language
limitations of C++. This talk will introduce a selection from the best of
these established techniques. Students learn to design and implement
unsupported constructs: meta-classes, recursive "name" object handles,
callbacks, multi-methods, exceptions, runtime type identification, dynamic
method invocation, and more. Too many C++ programmers overlook the wealth
of existing C++ experience and the advanced capabilities of the language; 

"Object Oriented Test Techniques"
Dorothy Graham
Managing Director
Grove Consultants
Abstract: The objectives of this tutorial are to help the audience
understand where traditional testing techniques fit in with an OO
development approach; and to describe new techniques for testing aspects
unique to OO development. 

"Developing an Object-Oriented Analysis and Design Method for MIS"
Martin Fowler
Quoin
Abstract: Although there is a wide range of OO analysis and design methods
currently available, most do not seem to be directed to the nature of
large corporate-wide MIS systems. Such systems are focused on the need to
share information around an organisation and yet present it in an
appropriate manner for each user. There is also a lack of a defined
process which can be used as a basis for quality management systems. This
tutorial shows how such a method can be developed by taking techniques
from current OOA&D methods. As well as being particularly useful for MIS
professionals it also acts as an example for other methodologists looking
to develop methods for particular kinds of systems; 

"Category Theory for the Object Technologist"
Jose L Fiadeiro
Associate Professor
University of Lisbon and
Tom Maibaum
Head
Department of Computing
Imperial College
Abstract: Perhaps the most striking aspect of OO is the important role
played by structural concepts and modularity. The subject of CATEGORY
THEORY is the mathematical tool par excellence for formalising and
studying 'structure'. The tutorial will focus on the basic concepts and
techniques of category theory, amply illustrated by examples from OO. We
introduce the concepts of category, morphism, functor, and natural
transformation. Of particular interest will be universal properties and
constructions which give us control over the nature of the structuring
mechanisms available to us in any particular category. Examples include
pushouts, pullbacks, colimits, limits, and adjunctions. The mathematics
will be fully motivated by examples formalising standard concepts from OO. 
These include inheritance, aggregation, clientship, interfacing, and so
on. Further, some deeper semantic issues will be formalised and studied,
including process semantics and OO specifications in temporal logic. 


Free Product Demonstrations and Exhibition
------------------------------------------

Free product demonstrations will be on offer from a number of exhibitors,
including: IBM, Object Design, Integrated Object Systems, Cincom, Cadre
Technologies and SAS Software. Other exhibitors include Arcona,
ButlerBloor, Cambridge Market Intelligence, DataViews, Easel, EDS,
Hewlett-Packard, IDE Europe, Imperial Software Technology, KISS, Liant,
Neuron Data, Object Design, Object Designers, Object Management Group,
SunSoft, Software Futures, Spikes Cavell, Texas Instruments, Verilog and
Westmount. 


Conference & Tutorials Delegate Rates
-------------------------------------

There are 3 available conference and tutorials attendance packages:

    4 Day - UKP 995 (excluding Value Added Tax @17.5%)
    3 Day - UKP 795 (excluding Value Added Tax @17.5%)
    2 Day - UKP 570 (excluding Value Added Tax @17.5%)

The Object Management Group (OMG) is a non-profit international consortium
of over 500 information system vendors, software developers and users
founded to promote the theory and practice of object technology in
software development. Object World UK is owned by Object World
Expositions (OWE) and managed by Eric Leach Marketing Ltd, which
represents the interests of Object World Expositions and the OMG in the
UK. OWE is itself a joint venture between OMG and IDG World Expo, a world
leader in IT event management.

For a full conference and tutorials brochure or further information please
contact: 

Eric Leach
Eric Leach Marketing Ltd
Tel: 0181 570 2182 (international +44 181 570 2182)
Fax: 0181 572 3163 (international +44 181 572 3163)
Internet:   100010.3012@CompuServe.com or eric_leach@omg.org
CompuServe: 100010,3012
