SYS-CON Events announced today that Sean Rhody was named the tech chair of SOA World Conference & Expo 2007 East. Rhody is the founding-editor and editor-in-chief of SOA World Magazine and a respected SOA industry expert and a consultant with a leading consulting services company.

The 11th International SOAWorld Conference & Expo 2007, colocated with the Second Annual Enterprise Open Source Conference, will take place on June 25-27, 2007 at the historical Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. SOAWorld Conference & Expo and Enterprise Open Source Conference together deliver the #1 i-technology educational and networking opportunity of the year.

Service-oriented architecture or SOA is a style of information systems architecture that enables the creation of applications that are built by combining loosely-coupled and interoperable services.

The interoperability element is key, as services need to work independent of the underlying platform and programming language, and at SOAWorld Conference & Expo 2007 accordingly, there's a dedicated Interoperability track, just as we have four other highly-targeted tracks, comprising 75+ top-notch technical sessions and presentations.

Another recent driver of SOA adoption is AJAX since AJAX, Rich Internet Applications, and SOA are conceptually joined when it comes to business productivity applications. Far more than just a pretty face, AJAX actually helps extends the benefits of SOA across the enterprise.

"Sometimes we spend more time arguing about IT trends than actually using them," says SOAWorld 2007 speaker John Evdemon, a Microsoft architect.

"In 2007," Evdemon continues, "the tools and specifications we need for enterprise-strength, loosely-coupled solutions have finally arrived - it's time to roll up our sleeves and get to work."