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Object World UK 1995
Olympia 2, 20-23 June '95
"Reaping the Benefits of Object Technology"


Object World Expositions has announced the third Object World UK
exhibition and conference, which will take place at Olympia 2, London,
20-23 June 1995. It is expected to open its doors to some 2000 visitors,
including 250 conference and tutorial delegates. 

Object World UK '95 is one of a series of worldwide Object World events,
which together make up the world's largest all object oriented group of
exhibitions.  Sponsoring the event, which combines conferences, tutorials,
free product demonstrations and a free exhibition, are The Object
Management Group, IBM and Andersen Consulting. 

The '95 show has been extended to four days.  The first day will feature
Objects for Beginners tutorials (20th June), followed by two days of
conferences which are streamed as Management, Infrastructure and
Applications (21st/22nd June).  The conferences run in parallel with a
free exhibition and free vendor seminars (21st/22nd June).  The fourth day
features four streams of Advanced Object Tutorials (23rd June). 

The Tutorials and Conferences for Object World UK '95 have been
extensively redesigned.  Samit Khosla of Andersen Consulting is the
Conference Chair.  The conferences have been tailored to meet the
particular personal demands of different groups of potential delegates. 
However, all the conferences will incorporate balanced, integrated
mixtures of technical presentations, case study presentations and panel
sessions. 

Featured speakers will include Paddy Ashdown, Leader of the Liberal
Democratic Party, Thomas Atwood, founder of Object Design Inc, Christopher
Stone and Richard Soley of OMG, Ivar Jacobson, founder of Objectory, Won
Kim, founder of UniSQL, Martin Fowler of Quorn, and Professor Tom Maibaum
of Imperial College London.  End users have also been invited to share
their experiences and case studies will be explored to illustrate the real
impact OT is having on the business world.  End users represented include
British Airways, Credit Suisse, Dun & Bradstreet, Eagle Star, European
Space Agency, Industrial Bank of Japan, and Union Bank of Switzerland. 

The exhibition, taking place on June 21st and 22nd, will feature over 50
Object Technology product and service suppliers selling class libraries,
languages, database management systems, methods, methods support and
client/server development tools.  Training and consulting services
organisations will also be exhibiting alongside product suppliers. 


Object Infrastructure Conference
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The Objects Infrastructure Conference, chaired by Ian Howells of
Documentum, features detailed presentations on the OMG Object Management
Architecture, Object Technology Development Infrastructure, Execution
Infrastructure, and Operation Infrastructure. Presentations include: 

"The Nature and Importance of the OMG's Object Management Architecture"
Richard Soley, OMG

"Development Infrastructure: Overview of Repositories and Environments and
hints on how to get it right"
Roberto Zicari, Technical Director, GoodStep Project

"Execution Infrastructure: Overview of Architecture, Topology and Major
Trade Offs"
Andrew Watson, APM

"Distributed Systems Management"
Morris Sloman, Imperial College, Sysman Project

"Case Study: Development, Execution and Operation Infrastructures
- Lifecycle of an Object Technology System"
Tim Rhodes, Managing Director, Cumulus Systems

"Distributed Object Transaction Systems"
Iain Houston, IBM

"Compound Documents - Presenting Distributed Objects through Container
Objects"
Ian Howells, Documentum & Samit Khosla, Andersen Consulting

"Implementing Distributed Object Technology Systems"
Chair: Andrew Watson, APM & Panel: Dr Keith Jones, IBM, Jack Grimes, 
Taligent, Tony Drahota, ICL

"Case Study: Implementing a Distributed Object Technology Environment -
approach rationale, benefits and choices"
Matthias Zingler, European Space Agency


Objects For Business Conference
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The Objects for Business Conference, chaired by Chris Carrigan of Andersen
Consulting, meets a wide range of management issues including Objects and
BPR, Metrics and the "Virtual Software Factory". 

Presentations include:

"Business Imperative - why bother with OT?"
Panel: Samit Khosla, Andersen Consulting, Kerry Williams, IBJ, Nick 
Mundy, Eagle Star

"Overview of Object Technology market"
Philip Carnelley, Ovum

"Managing the move to Objects"
 Barry McGibbon, Independent Consultant

"BPR & OT - The Vision"
Ivar Jacobson, Objectory

"Common Business Objects"
Trish Wooding, Object Interest Group, Paul May, Parallax Solutions & 
Graham Tigg, British Airways

"OT - Impact on the IT Process"
Professor Marty, Union Bank Switzerland Labs, Zurich

"Impacts and Benefits of OT in Financial Services Applications"
Andy Maier, Credit Suisse, Zurich.

	
Object Applications Conference
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 	
Chaired by Dai Clegg of Oracle, the Object Applications Conference
confronts some of the issues facing software developers.  It covers object
development language and persistence strategy choices - from theory to
practical case studies.  It also covers data interoperability issues at
the application and database levels. 

Presentations include:

"An Overview of Developing with Object Technology"
Dai Clegg, Oracle

"An OT Project Case Study"
David Norris, Head of Technology and Michel Gehler, Dun & Bradstreet

"Choosing an Object Development Language - Discussing the Trade-offs"
Panel: C++ -Francis Glassborow, ACCU, Smalltalk - Trevor Hopkins, IBM,
Object COBOL - Raymond Obin, MicroFocus

"Encapsulating OLE within Smalltalk"
Jean-Marie Sacre, Andersen Consulting

"Options for Object Oriented Persistence"
Panel: Thomas Atwood, Object Design, Won Kim, UniSQL

"The Culture of Object Development"
Jean-Marie Chauvet, Neuron Data

"Objects or Applications"
Trgve ReensKaug, Taskon AS

"Designing for reuse; in the small and the large"
Nick Mundy, Eagle Star


Objects For Beginners Tutorials
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The three Objects for Beginners Tutorials are Objects for Software
Developers, Objects for Database and Objects for Methodologies.  The chair
for Objects for Software Developers is Dai Clegg of Oracle; for Objects
for Database, Jim Beagle of Object Design; and for Objects for
Methodologies, independent consultant Martin Fowler. 

Presentations include:

"The Nature, Significance and claimed benefits of software development with
objects"
Dai Clegg, Oracle

"Object Technology history and overview of language choices"
Philip Carnelley, Ovum

"Design Approaches for Structuring Applications"
Martin Fowler, Quorn

"Overview of development environments/tools"
Thomas Curran

"Applications in the context of Architecture"
Nic Holt, ICL

"The history, nature and significance of objects in the database context"
Thomas Atwood, Founder Object Design Inc

"RDBMS Database choices"
Peter Thanisch, ButlerBloor

"OO Database choices"
Akmal B. Chaudhri, SARC, City University, London

"How to reuse your existing database technology"
Dr Mike Kay, ICL

"Migrating to an OO data warehouse structure.  Benefits and approaches"
Bob Rockwell, Softlab

"What is the nature and significance of objects re. Design & Analysis
Methodologies"
Martin Fowler, Quorn

"History - demonstration of evolution"
Nick Hopkins, CCTA

"Methodological Approaches"
Andrew Hutt, ICL

"Analysing Textual IT Requirements from an OT Perspective"
Patrich Austern, Andersen Consulting

"How to Choose a Method"
Martin Fowler, Quorn


Advanced Tutorials
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
						
Full and half day Advanced Object Tutorials are on offer which will
include CORBA 2.0 & ORB Application Development, Elements of Re-usable
Object-Oriented Design, Object Modelling and Design for C++, BPR with
Object Technology, and OO Analysis and Design Method for MIS. 

Presentations include:

"Corba & ORB Application Development"
Abstract: This full day tutorial provides an introduction to the OMG CORBA
specification, from the evolution of CORBA 1.1 to CORBA 2.0. It teaches
how to define and use object interfaces and write object implementations. 
It discusses ORB application design and development issues. Available ORB
products will be surveyed. The positioning of CORBA versus RPC (DCE) and
OLE will be explained;
		
"Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Designs"
Abstract: This tutorial describes a set of fundamental design patterns and
demonstrates how to build reusable object-oriented software based on them.
It discusses the many roles design patterns play: how they provide a
common vocabulary for design, reduce complexity by naming and defining
abstractions, constitute a base of experience for building reusable
software, and how they act as design building blocks from which more
complex designs can be built; 

"Advanced Object Modelling and Design for C++"
Desmond D'Souza, ICON Computing
Abstract: Elegant techniques exist to implement powerful and commonly
needed object-oriented modelling constructs, and to circumvent language
limitations of C++. This talk will introduce a selection from the best of
these established techniques. Students learn to design and implement
unsupported constructs: meta-classes, recursive "name" object handles,
callbacks, multi-methods, exceptions, runtime type identification, dynamic
method invocation, and more. Too many C++ programmers overlook the wealth
of existing C++ experience and the advanced capabilities of the language; 

"Business Process Re-engineering with OT"
Ivar Jacobson, Objectory AB
Abstract: This tutorial explains effective techniques for capturing
customer driven business processes. Tangible results are identified in
terms of services or products, with clear relationships and
interdependencies. The tutorial describes a proven methodology
that incorporates use cases, streamlined business processes, object
technology, business objects, and a seamless transition from the business
model to the information system; 

"Developing an Object-Oriented Analysis and Design Method for MIS"
Martin Fowler, Quorn
Abstract: Although there is a wide range of OO analysis and design methods
currently available, most do not seem to be directed to the nature of
large corporate-wide MIS systems. Such systems are focused on the need to
share information around an organisation and yet present it in an
appropriate manner for each user. There is also a lack of a defined
process which can be used as a basis for quality management systems. This
tutorial shows how such a method can be developed by taking techniques
from current OOA&D methods. As well as being particularly useful for MIS
professionals it also acts as an example for other methodologists looking
to develop methods for particular kinds of systems; 

"Category Theory for the Object Technologist"
Jose L Fiadeiro, University of Lisbon & Tom Maibaum, Imperial College
Abstract: Perhaps the most striking aspect of OO is the important role
played by structural concepts and modularity.  The subject of CATEGORY
THEORY is the mathematical tool par excellence for formalising and
studying 'structure'. The tutorial will focus on the basic concepts and
techniques of category theory, amply illustrated by examples from OO.  We
introduce the concepts of category, morphism, functor, and natural
transformation.  Of particular interest will be universal properties and
constructions which give us control over the nature of the structuring
mechanisms available to us in any particular category.  Examples include
pushouts, pullbacks, co-limits, limits, and adjunctions. The mathematics
will be fully motivated by examples formalising standard concepts from OO. 
These include inheritance, aggregation, clientship, interfacing, and so
on.  Further, some deeper semantic issues will be formalised and studied,
including process semantics and OO specifications in temporal logic. 


Free Product Demonstrations and Exhibition
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Free product demonstrations will be on offer from a number of exhibitors,
including: IBM, ICL, Object Design, Integrated Object Systems, Cincom,
Cadre Technologies and SAS Software.  Other exhibitors include Arcona,
ButlerBloor, Cambridge Market Intelligence, DataViews, Easel,
Hewlett-Packard, IDE Europe, Imperial Software Technology, KISS, Liant,
Neuron Data, Object Design, Object Designers, Object Management Group,
SunSoft, Software Futures, Spikes Cavell, Texas Instruments, Verilog and
Westmount. 


Conference & Tutorials Delegate Rates
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

There are 3 available conference and tutorials attendance packages:

	4 Day -  995 Pounds Sterling (excluding Value Added Tax at 17.5%)
	3 Day -  795 Pounds Sterling (excluding Value Added Tax at 17.5%)
	2 Day -  570 Pounds Sterling (excluding Value Added Tax at 17.5%)

The Object Management Group (OMG) is a non-profit international consortium
of over 490 information system vendors, software developers and users
founded to promote the theory and practice of object technology in
software development. 

Object World UK is owned by Object World Expositions (OWE) and managed by
Eric Leach Marketing Ltd, which represents the interests of Object World
Expositions and the OMG in the UK.  OWE is itself a joint venture between
OMG and IDG World Expo, a world leader in IT event management. 

For a full conference and tutorials brochure or further information please
contact: 

Eric Leach
Eric Leach Marketing Ltd
Tel: 0181 570 2182 (international +44 181 570 2182)		
Fax: 0181 572 3163 (international +44 181 572 3163)
Internet:   100010.3012@CompuServe.com
CompuServe: 100010,3012
