Make your plans NOW to attend the OASIS Annual General Meeting/Reception and the 'OASIS Forum on the Direction of Web Services' on Tuesday, 4 March at XML/Web Services One Conference, Santa Clara, California. OASIS has planned a full day of technical presentations followed by a keynote by OASIS President and CEO, Patrick Gannon. The day will conclude with an OASIS reception with a full year in review of OASIS growth with an eye towards the future. The OASIS AGM will begin at 7:30PM in the Seattle Room to be followed by the OASIS Reception to be held in the Portland Room. http://www.xmlconference.com/santaclara/special.asp

OASIS is cosponsoring this entire event and members are entitled to a conference discount. For more information, go to: http://www.oasis-open.org/events/.

OASIS Forum on the Direction of Web Services Agenda
4 March 2003, Santa Clara at the Web Services One Conference

8:30-9:00 Welcome, Introduction
(Karl Best, OASIS VP; Patrick Gannon, OASIS CEO)

9:00-9:45 Technical keynote: OASIS Activities as part of Web Services
(speaker: Eduardo Gutentag, Sun)

9:45-10:30 OASIS TAB conceptual model:
(speaker: Karl Best, OASIS)

10:45-2:00 XML WS One Opening keynote, exhibit hall, and lunch

2:00-3:00 Security and Web Services (Panel)
(chair: Tim Moses, Entrust)

Panelists:
Marc Chanliau, Netegrity
Eve L. Maler, Sun
Tim Moses, Entrust
Rob Philpott, RSA Security

3:00-4:00 Web Services and the e-Business Era (Panel)
(chair: Angel Diaz, IBM)

Panelists:
Angel Diaz, IBM
Michael Conner, IBM
Winston Bumpus, Novell
Rich Thompson, IBM
Uday Subbarayan, Sun

4:00-5:00 The Need for Useful Web Services
(speaker: Jon Bosak, Sun)

5:00-5:30 Wrapup
industry analyst (Shawn Willet, Current Analysis)

5:45-6:30 Conference keynote with Patrick Gannon