Yes! i am going to be there! Thanks Cristophe , David  and everyone in  Valtech !
The choice is hard, one hundred interesting sessions in 3 days! I am still making my choice.
Today I ll post here my schedule for wedensday, then thursday and friday later on.
I ll be doing a day-by-day coverage of the those session that i will assist, photos and headlines. So keep in touch!
all ideas or suggestions are accepted :)
My Schedule
| Schedule | Â .Net Enterprise Development | Â Java in Action | Â Qualities in Architecture | Â Software Usability for software developers | Â Solution Track 1 |
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| Host | Ted Neward | Simon Brown | Kevlin Henney | James Coplien | TBA |
| 09:00Â -Â 10:00 | Keynote and Opening: The Amazon.com Technology Platform: Building Blocks for Innovation Werner Vogels, Amazon.com CTO Location: Fleming Room |
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| 10:00Â -Â 10:15 | Break | ||||
| 10:15Â -Â 10:45 | Introduction .NET Enterprise Development Trackhost: Ted Neward, Author, Java/.NET Expert Location: St James’s Suite |
Introduction: Java in Action Trackhost: Simon Brown, Technical Architect, Detica Location: Elizabeth Windsor |
Introduction: Putting the Qualities into Architecture Trackhost: Kevlin Henney, Independent Consultant Location: Fleming Room |
10:15 – 10:25 Introduction: Software Usability for software developers Trackhost: James Coplien, Senior Agile Coach, Nordija Location: Westminster Suite 10:25 – 10:45 Introduction: Reflections of a Usability Team Gertrud Bjørnvig, Senior Consultant, TietoEnator Location: Westminster Suite |
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| 10:45Â -Â 11:00 | Break | ||||
| 11:00Â -Â 12:00 | Introduction to Microsoft Language Integrated Query (LINQ) Erik Meijer, Creator, LINQ Location: St James’s Suite |
Spring 2 and Beyond Rod Johnson, Creator, Spring Location: Elizabeth Windsor |
Modifiability: Or is there Design in Agility? Martin Fowler, Refactoring, Analysis Patterns Location: Fleming Room |
Bridging Usability Specialists with Developers: The link to the developer world Gertrud Bjørnvig, Senior Consultant, TietoEnator & Diana Velasco, Design Anthropologist & Susan Wiingaard, Independent consultant Location: Westminster Suite |
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| 12:00Â -Â 13:00 | lunch | ||||
| 13:00Â -Â 14:00 | Service-Oriented Communication with Windows Communication Foundation Christian Weyer, thinktecture, Microsoft MVP Location: St James’s Suite |
Next Generation Testing with TestNG Alexandru Popescu, Co-founder: TestNG, InfoQ & Cedric Beust, Co-founder, TestNG Location: Elizabeth Windsor |
Performance & Scalability Cameron Purdy, CEO, Tangosol Location: Fleming Room |
Activity Modeling: Understanding User Requirements Larry Constantine, Usage Centered Design Location: Westminster Suite |
Automated Web Application Testing with Selenium Erik Doernenburg Location: Wordsworth Room |
| 14:00Â -Â 14:30 | Break | ||||
| 14:30Â -Â 15:30 | Windows Presentation Foundation: Not Just a Pretty Face Ian Griffiths, Book Author, WPF, VS.NET Location: St James’s Suite |
AOP in the Enterprise Rod Johnson, Creator, Spring Location: Elizabeth Windsor |
Availability & Consistency Werner Vogels, Amazon.com CTO Location: Fleming Room |
Using Patterns to Guide Usability Ian Graham, CTO, Trireme.com Location: Westminster Suite |
Hibernate Nicolas Brasseur, JavaBlackBelt Location: Wordsworth Room |
| 15:30Â -Â 16:00 | Break | ||||
| 16:00Â -Â 17:00 | Building Better Apps with VSTS Kevin Jones Location: St James’s Suite |
An Overview of Desktop Java Technologies in Today’s RIA World Trackhost: Scott Delap, Author, Desktop Java Live Location: Elizabeth Windsor |
Patterns for Securing Architectures Peter Sommerlad Location: Fleming Room |
From Design Practice to Code Trackhost: James Coplien, Senior Agile Coach, Nordija Location: Westminster Suite |
Developing Graphics-Intensive Web Applications with AJAX Frederic Baumann, ILOG Location: Wordsworth Room |
| 17:00Â -Â 17:15 | Break | ||||
| 17:15Â -Â 18:15 | Java/.NET interop: The Best of Both Worlds Trackhost: Ted Neward, Author, Java/.NET Expert Location: St James’s Suite |
Java Persistence and EJB 3 Linda DeMichiel, Chief Architect: EJB spec Location: Elizabeth Windsor |
Operational Manageability Dan Pritchett, Technical Fellow, eBay, Inc. Location: Fleming Room |
Panel and open discussion Speakers: TBA Location: Westminster Suite |
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| 18:15Â -Â 18:30 | Break | ||||
| 18:30Â -Â 19:30 | Pre Banquet Keynote: Meeting the Usability Challenge Larry Constantine, Usage Centered Design Location: Fleming Room |
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| Schedule | Â Agile Foundations | Â Banking Architectures | Â Java Emerging Technologies | Â SOA: Bridging business and technology | Â Solution Track 2 |
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| Host | Deborah Hartmann | Alexis Richardson & John Davies | Joe Walker | Stefan Tilkov | TBA |
| 09:00Â -Â 10:00 | Keynote: Democratizing The Cloud Erik Meijer, Creator, LINQ Location: Fleming Room |
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| 10:00Â -Â 10:15 | Break | ||||
| 10:15Â -Â 10:45 | Introduction to Agile Tracks Trackhost: Deborah Hartmann, InfoQ Agile Editor Location: Westminster Suite |
Introduction: Banking Architectures Trackhost: John Davies, Technical Director, IONA Location: Fleming Room |
Introduction: The Changing Shape of Java: What will Java look like in 5 years time? Trackhost: Joe Walker, Creator, DWR Location: Elizabeth Windsor |
SOA Between Business and Technology Trackhost: Stefan Tilkov, InfoQ SOA Editor & Miko Matsumura Location: St James’s Suite |
Learn to Scale your Tomcat Application with Terracotta: Faster and Easier Ari Zilka, Founder, Terracotta Location: Wordsworth Room |
| 10:45Â -Â 11:00 | Break | ||||
| 11:00Â -Â 12:00 | Agile Project Lifecycle: User Stories and Release Planning Rachel Davies, Agile Alliance Chair Location: Westminster Suite |
Business Drivers: Automatic trading, virtualization, SEPA, MiFID Chris Swan & Craig Heimark Location: Fleming Room |
Grails: Spring + Hibernate development re-invented Guilluame Laforge, Groovy project lead Location: Elizabeth Windsor |
The Business Value of SOA Anne Thomas-Manes, Burton Group Analyst Location: St James’s Suite |
Rich Internet Applications for the Enterprise w/ Flex and Apollo Christophe Coenraets, Flex Lead, Adobe Location: Wordsworth Room |
| 12:00Â -Â 13:00 | lunch | ||||
| 13:00Â -Â 14:00 | Test Driven Development: How do we know we’re done? Steve Freeman, Independent consultant, M3P Location: Westminster Suite |
The move to real time computing – what you need to know Ben Whittle, UBS Location: Fleming Room |
Java and Ruby: Practical Techniques for Using JRuby Rob Harrop, Lead, Spring Core Developer Location: Elizabeth Windsor |
Is the Web “Good Enough” for Web Services? Paul Downey Location: St James’s Suite |
EJB/JPA feedback with the expert group BOF Linda DeMichiel, Chief Architect: EJB spec & Mike Keith, EJB co-spec lead & Patrick Linskey, BEA Location: Wordsworth Room |
| 14:00Â -Â 14:30 | Break | ||||
| 14:30Â -Â 15:30 | Heartbeat Retrospectives to Amplify Team Effectiveness Boris Gloger, Founder of SPRINT-iT, Germany Location: Westminster Suite |
High Performance Enterprise Service Bus Trackhost: John Davies, Technical Director, IONA Location: Fleming Room |
SEAM Gavin King, Creator, Hibernate Location: Elizabeth Windsor |
SOA Driving IT from the business Steve Jones, CapGemini SOA lead Location: St James’s Suite |
Building multi-protocol open-source web-services using JAX-WS. Adrian Trenaman, Principal Consultant Location: Wordsworth Room |
| 15:30Â -Â 16:00 | Break | ||||
| 16:00Â -Â 17:00 | Agile Project Management: Lessons learned at Google Jeff Sutherland, Scrum co-founder Location: Westminster Suite |
Agile integration using standards – a reality check Sailesh Panchal Location: Fleming Room |
OSGi, the foundation Peter Kriens, OSGi Technical Director Location: Elizabeth Windsor |
Making XML and Web Services real for the enterprise – managing, monitoring and transforming Paul Fremantle, VP of Technology, WSO2 Location: St James’s Suite |
The Java Standards Advantage Corina Ulescu, Sun Microsystems Location: Wordsworth Room |
| 17:00Â -Â 17:15 | Break | ||||
| 17:15Â -Â 18:15 | Agile Architecture is not Fragile Architecture Trackhost: James Coplien, Senior Agile Coach, Nordija & Trackhost: Kevlin Henney, Independent Consultant Location: Westminster Suite |
Panel: Advanced Message Queue Protocol Implementors and Adopters” – (NB! only 45 min.) John O’ Hara, Chairman – AMQP Working Group & Pieter Hintjens & Gordon Sim & Russell Acton, IONA & Trackhost: John Davies, Technical Director, IONA & Trackhost: Alexis Richardson, CohesiveFT Location: Fleming Room |
Clustering enterprise Java applications with Open Terracotta. Ari Zilka, Founder, Terracotta Location: Elizabeth Windsor |
Guerilla SOA Jim Webber, SOA Practice Lead Location: St James’s Suite |
Space Based Architecture – Scalable as Google, Simple as Spring Guy Nirpaz, VP of R&D, GigaSpaces. Location: Wordsworth Room |
| 18:15Â -Â 18:30 | Break | ||||
| 18:30Â -Â 19:15 | Keynote: The Yawning Crevasse of Doom Dan North, ThoughtWorks & Martin Fowler, Refactoring, Analysis Patterns Location: Fleming Room |
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| Schedule | Â Ajax & Browser-Based Applications | Â Architectures you always wondered about | Â Reflecting on our Agile Journey – How do we reach Mastery? | Â What makes Ruby Roll? |
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| Host | Scott Delap | James Govenor | Deborah Hartmann | Obie Fernandez |
| 09:00Â -Â 09:30 | Introduction: Ajax & Browser-Based Applications Trackhost: Scott Delap, Author, Desktop Java Live Location: Fleming Room |
Introduction: Case studies Trackhost: James Governor Location: St James’s Suite |
Agile Mastery Open Space opening Trackhost: Deborah Hartmann, InfoQ Agile Editor & Diana Larsen, FutureWorks Consulting |
Introduction: What makes Ruby Roll? Trackhost: Obie Fernandez, Rails Developer’s Guide Location: Elizabeth Windsor |
| 09:30Â -Â 09:45 | Break | |||
| 09:45Â -Â 10:45 | Ajax and design patterns : Do we need a client tier? Dave Crane, Author, Ajax Patterns Location: Fleming Room |
The eBay Architecture – Striking a balance between site stability, feature velocity, performance and cost Dan Pritchett, Technical Fellow, eBay, Inc. Location: St James’s Suite |
When Agile Hits The Wall: Dealing with the organizational challenges of Agile adoption Joseph Pelrine, CST, C*O of MetaProg |
Extending Rails with Plugins James Adam, Lead, Rails Engines Location: Elizabeth Windsor |
| 10:45Â -Â 11:00 | Break | |||
| 11:00Â -Â 12:00 | Google Web Toolkit: What, Why, and How Bruce Johnson, Google Web Toolkit Lead Location: Fleming Room |
Voca, UK’s largest payment processing engine running Spring William Soo, CTO, Voca Location: St James’s Suite |
Developing Expertise: Herding Racehorses, Racing Sheep Dave Thomas, The Pragmatic Programmers |
Mongrel, 2500 Lines, and Economics Zed Shaw, Creator, Mongrel Ruby HTTP Server Location: Elizabeth Windsor |
| 12:00Â -Â 13:00 | lunch | |||
| 13:00Â -Â 14:00 | Rich Internet Applications for the Enterprise with Flex and Apollo Christophe Coenraets, Flex Lead, Adobe Location: Fleming Room |
Why not to choose a relational database Philip Howard, Research Director Location: St James’s Suite |
Getting to Agile Quality Management Andreas Schliep, Scrum Master, SPRiNT iT |
MetaProgramming Ruby Dave Thomas, The Pragmatic Programmers Location: Elizabeth Windsor |
| 14:00Â -Â 14:30 | Break | |||
| 14:30Â -Â 15:30 | Modern web applications with Dojo: the cutting edge Eugene Lazutkin Location: Fleming Room |
Leveraging the Web for Services at Yahoo! Mark Nottingham Location: St James’s Suite |
Mock Roles, Not Objects Steve Freeman, Independent consultant, M3P & Nat Pryce, Independent consultant, B13 |
Managing a high performance rails app without tearing your hair out. James Cox Location: Elizabeth Windsor |
| 15:30Â -Â 16:00 | Break | |||
| 16:00Â -Â 17:00 | Prototype and script.aculo.us: Spending the weekends at home again Thomas Fuchs, Creator of Script.aculo.us Location: Fleming Room |
Casestudy: The design, architecture, and implementation of InfoQ.com Alexandru Popescu, Co-founder: TestNG, InfoQ & Floyd Marinescu Location: St James’s Suite |
Agile Mastery Open Space closing Diana Larsen, FutureWorks Consulting |
Ruby and the Art of Domain Specific Languages Rich Kilmer, RubyConf Founder Location: Elizabeth Windsor |
| 17:00Â -Â 17:15 | Break | |||
| 17:15Â -Â 18:45 | Keynote Panel Erik Meijer, Creator, LINQ & Jeff Sutherland, Scrum co-founder & Diana Larsen, FutureWorks Consulting & Dan North, ThoughtWorks & Martin Fowler, Refactoring, Analysis Patterns Location: Fleming Room |
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