Management Developers Conference

DECEMBER 4 - 7, 2006 SANTA CLARA MARRIOTT, SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA

Schedule - Sunday, December 3

1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Registration & Badge Pick-Up
1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Demo + Interop Lab setup

Schedule - Monday, December 4

7:30 am – 5:00 pm
Registration & Badge Pick-Up
8:00 am – 11:00 pm
Demo + Interop Lab Plugfest
9:00 am – 5:00 pm
MDC University (Introductory)
9:00 am – 5:00 pm
MDC University (Advanced)

Schedule - Tuesday, December 5

07:00 am – 05:30 pm
Registration & Badge Pick-Up
08:00 am – 11:00 pm
Demo + Interop Lab
07:30 am – 08:20 am
General Session (Breakfast)

Track 1
Server Management
Track 2
Grid & Networking
Track 3
Developer
08:30 – 09:20 am
Implementing SMASH

Aaron Merkin, IBM
Jeff Hilland, Hewlett Packard
Using Information Models for Grid

Ellen Stokes
IBM
OpenWBEM

Dan Nuffer
Quest Software
09:30 – 10:20 am
Next Generation Network Management and Common Info

Alex Zhdankin
Harris Corporation
OpenPegasus

Karl Schopmeyer
Inova Development
10:20 – 10:40 am
Morning Break
10:40 – 11:30 am
SMASH Forum Overview and SMASH CLP Validation

Will Pagan, IBM
Fred Maciel, Hitachi America
SBLIM Data Gatherer - A CIM Metrics Model Implementation

Viktor Mihajlovski
IBM
WBEM Solutions J WBEM Server

Jim Davis
WBEM Solutions
11:40 – 12:30 pm
Application of Model Driven Architecture

Jennifer Hickey
Harris Corporation
SFCB - A Small Footprint CIM Broker

Viktor Mihajlovski
IBM
12:30 – 01:30 pm
Lunch - Sponsored by Symantec Corporation
01:30 – 02:20 pm
Open Management with CIM (OMC)

Norm Paxton
Novell
Grid Computing and Databases

Guru Bhat
Oracle Corporation
WBEM Server Panel

Moderator: Mark Carlson
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
02:30 – 03:20 pm
WBEM Security

Dan Nuffer, Quest
Bart Whiteley, Novell
03:20 – 03:40 pm
Afternoon Break
03:40 – 04:30 pm
OMC-CLP: Introduction and Implementation of the Systems Management Command-line Protocol

Brad Nicholes
Novell
CIM System Virtualization Model

Ron Goering
IBM
Security Profiles

George Ericson, EMC
Khachatur Papanyan, Dell
04:40 – 05:30 pm
Open Standards Meets Open Source : Bringing Systems Management Standards to Enterprise Linux

Robert Wipfel
Bart Whiteley
Novell
Introduction to Virtualization Profiles and the Xen-CIM project

James Fehlig
Novell
Gareth Bestor
IBM
05:30 - 08:00 pm
Networking Reception - Sponsored by WBEM Solutions, Inc.

Schedule - Wednesday, December 6

08:00 am – 5:30 pm
Registration & Badge Pick-Up
08:00 am – 11:00 pm
Demo + Interop Lab

Track 1
Storage Management
Track 2
Server Management
Developer
Track 3
Developer
08:30 – 09:20 am
SMI File System Profiles

Kamesh Aiyer
EMC
Desktop Management Initiative Technical Overview

Jeff Hilland, Hewlett Packard
Jon Hass, Dell
The CIM-API: a new way of using CIM

Andre Asselin
IBM
09:30 – 10:20 am
Using WS-Management in Oracle Enterprise Manager

Guru Bhat
Oracle Corporation
Common Manageability Programming Interface (CMPI)

David Sudlik
IBM
10:20 – 10:40 am
Morning Break
10:40 – 11:30 am
Client oriented overview of SMI-S 1.1 - 1.3

Mike Walker
IBM
Platform Interface/Protocol Standardization activities in DMTF

Ramkrishna Prakash
Dell
Hemal Shah
Broadcom
Tom Slaight
Intel
Java WBEM API (JSR48)

Jim Davis
WBEM Solutions
11:40 – 12:30 pm
Inside CTP

Matt Hamre
WBEM Solutions
Python Provider and WBEM Client Interfaces

Bart Whiteley
Novell
Tim Potter
Hewlett Packard
12:30 – 01:30 pm
Lunch - Sponsored by Novell, Inc.
01:30 – 02:20 pm
The SMI-S Client: A Birds Eye View

Kurt Krems
Tek-Tools, Inc.
Implementing a Profile: Advanced Provider Development using JSR48

Matt Hamre
Carl Chan
WBEM Solutions
WBEM Performance

Ying Zeng
Nortel Networks
02:30 – 03:20 pm
Management Frameworks

Mark Carlson
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Verifying WBEM Interoperability

Steve Hand
Symantec Corporation
03:20 – 03:40 pm
Afternoon Break
03:40 – 04:30 pm
Data Services in the Sun StorageTek 6920

Mark Vetter
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
OpenSLP - Due Process for the Service Location Protocol

John Calcote
Novell
An Interface for Managing Aggregations in CIM

Tim Potter
Hewlett Packard
04:40 – 05:30 pm
Development considerations for Provider deployment

Steven Peters
Hewlett Packard
CIM V3 Status

Jeff Piazza
Hewlett Packard
   

Schedule - Thursday, December 7

08:00 am – 1:00 pm
Registration & Badge Pick-Up
08:00 am – 5:00 pm
Demo + Interop Lab

Track 1
Web Services
Track 2
CDM
Track 3
Developer Tools
08:30 – 09:20 am
WS-CIM

Asad Faizi
Microsoft
CDM Technical Overview

Barbara Craig
Hewlett Packard
Using the CIMPLE Provider development Enviroment

Michael Brasher
Inova Development
09:30 – 10:20 am
WSDM tutorial

Kirk Wilson
CA, Inc.
UML Modeling for CIM

Andreas Maier
IBM
10:20 – 10:40 am
Morning Break
10:40 – 11:30 am
WSDM-CIM mapping concepts & features

Heather Kreger
IBM
CDM Form Plans & Timeline

Jerry Chin
Hewlett Packard
WBEM Solutions Development Tools

Carl Chan
WBEM Solutions
11:40 – 12:30 pm
WSDM-CIM Demo & Implementation architecture

Mark Weitzel
IBM
CDM Development Tools/Aids

Andre Asselin
IBM
12:30 – 01:30 pm
Lunch - Sponsored by EMC
01:30 – 02:20 pm
Heterogeneous management integration with WS-Management

Josh Cohen
Microsoft
CDM Profile and Conformance Testing

Jeff Rose
Dell, Inc.
CIM Provider Testing and Tools

JB Gill
Novell
02:30 – 03:20 pm
Leveraging OPMA to Quickly Support WS-Management

Valerie Kane, AMD
Dave Tobias, AMD
Steffen Hulegaard, Avocent
Barry Shilmover, Microsoft
CDM Birds of a Feather

Andre Asselin
IBM
Using Open Source in Your Management Strategy

Mark Weitzel
IBM
03:20 – 03:40 pm
Afternoon Break
03:40 – 04:30 pm
WS-Management for Free

Anas Nashif
Intel
Hands on Lab - Creating CDM Providers

Mateus Baur
Hewlett Packard
Techniques for Quickly and Easily Coding CIM Providers

Dan Nuffer
Quest Software, Inc.
04:40 – 05:30 pm
Wiseman: An Open Source Implementation of WS-CIM & WS-Management

William Reichardt
Oracle
Simeon Pinder
Hewlett Packard
Daniel Fuchs
Sun
OpenXDAS - An Open Source Distributed Auditing Service

John Calcote
Novell
Conference End

*Speakers & schedule are subject to change without notice.