OMG Releases Agenda for Essence in Practice: A Revolution in Software Engineering Special Event at Berlin Technical Meeting

The Object Management Group® (OMG)® announced today the full agenda for its special event: Essence in Practice: A Revolution in Software Engineering. This event will be held on June 18th at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Berlin, Germany.

The agenda of speakers and topics includes:

• Welcome and Introductions: June Sung Park, Professor, ISE & CS, KAIST, Chairman and President, SEMAT Inc.
• Morning Keynote Presentation - The ESSENCE of the Industrial Internet:Dr. Richard Soley, Chairman & CEO, Object Management Group
• Essence in Practice Foundation:
  • Essence-Powered Scrum - A Generic Approach to Describing Practices Using Essence Kernel and Language: June Sung Park, Professor, ISE & CS, KAIST, Chairman and President, SEMAT Inc.
  • Practices and Methods - Realizing the SEMAT Vision: Ian Spence, European CTO, Ivar Jacobson International and Roly Stimson, Principal Consultant, Ivar Jacobson International

• Essence in Practice – Industrial Examples, Tools and Training
  • We All Have Different Ways to do Things, And That's OK: Ed Seymour, Cloud Domain Architect, Red Hat
  • Essence in Practice Experiences from Fujitsu: Ste Nadin, Chief Architect, Business and Application Services, Fujitsu Services
  • Open Source Tool Support for Essence: Rick JinYoung Jang, CEO, uEngine Solutions
  • Minimal Educational Effort – Maximal Outcome!: Mira Kajko-Mattsson, Associate Professor, KTH, The Royal Institute of Technology
• Essence in Practice – Industrial Experiences and Extensions
  • Essence in Practice Experiences from MunichRe: Burkhard Perkens-Golomb, IT Architect, MunichRe
  • Experiences with the use of Essence at the Federal Government in Brazil: Vinicius Silva, Ministry of Planning, Budgeting and Management of Brazil
  • Software Engineering in the Systems Context: Harold "Bud" Lawson, Professor Emeritus
  • Extending Essence for Business and Service Engineering - with Symphonical Tool Support: Arne J. Berre, Chief Scientist, SINTEF and Brian Elvesæter, Research Scientist, SINTEF

• Future Perspectives
  Afternoon Keynote Presentation: The Future of Software Engineering - as Seen with SEMAT Glasse: Ivar Jacobson, Founder, Ivar Jacobson International

• Panel Discussion: Succeeding with Essence in Practice

Click here to learn more and register for this all day special event. Registration for this event is $175 US. This event is co-located with the Object Management Group Technical Meeting, which runs from June 15-19.

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