Thanks to my friend Jan I will be giving a seminar at SAI - the Belgian ‘Study Center for Information Processing’ - in the evening of October 10th. You can find details here - I am speaking on ‘Decision Services’: A pattern for business rules in Service Oriented Systems and Architectures.

As I said before I am speaking at the SOA Symposium in Amsterdam in October - “Decision Services: A Pattern for Smarter Service-Oriented Systems“. I think the conference will be great and I hope to meet some readers there but, if you are local, I have an even better offer. I can bring a couple [...]

There is a great conference coming up October 26-30 - not only are Neil and I Co-Chairs but readers of the blog can get a discount. We are presenting twice - A Pre-Conference Tutorial Succeeding as a Decision-Centric Organization and a Keynote Competing on Decisions. Because of this you can get [...]

Neil has a new speaking gig - he is going to be speaking at Brainstorm San Francisco on “Applying Decision Management to Make Process Simpler, Smarter and More Agile”, October 1st in the morning. You can find the agenda here and register here.

We have a number of speaking engagements in the next few months and I thought I would highlight them on the blog today. Arranged in date order…

August 6th, 10am Pacific Time, “How to leverage scorecards for accurate risk management”
Webinar, multiple speakers including James, sponsored by ILOG
August 19th, 8:30am Pacific Time, Reinventing BI with Real-Time Analytics: [...]

ILOG is running a webinar titled “How to Leverage Scorecards for Accurate Risk Management” on Wednesday, August 6 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific / 1:00 p.m. Eastern. Anthony Garritano, editor of Mortgage Technology magazine, me (James) and Janet Wall from ILOG will share presentation duties and give you a quick look at the mortgage industry, how [...]

Remember the 1st Enterprise Decision Management Summit and the 11th International Business Rules Forum ? October 26-30, 2008 at the Buena Vista Palace, Orlando FL. Don’t forget that as a reader of this blog we are able to offer you a special, one-time offer as an honorary member of the Friends and Family of the [...]

James Owen and others have been organizing what they bill as a technical rules event in Dallas this October. It’s the 22nd to the 24th (so it doesn’t clash with the EDM Summit) Here’s the agenda. They have some great speakers and some interesting experts participating so it should be worthwhile for those among [...]

Neil Raden, Co-Founder here at Smart (enough) Systems, is joining John Russell, Chief Scientist of  expressor software on June 19, 2008 at 2 p.m. ET
Here’s the blurb:
Today’s data integration (DI) tools claim to offer significant benefits in implementation and ongoing support. However, design and specification consume much of the effort in a DI project. [...]

1st Enterprise Decision Management Summit and the 11th International Business Rules Forum
October 26-30, 2008 at the Buena Vista Palace, Orlando FL.
I am pleased to announce that we have published the agenda for the Enterprise Decision Management Summit and Business Rules Forum. This is the first time we have run the EDM Summit and we have [...]