2008 Management Developers Conference Schedule

Schedule - Sunday, November 16

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Registration & Badge Pick-Up
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Demo Lab (setup only)

Schedule - Monday, November 17

08:30 am - 5:00 pm	Registration & Badge Pick-Up
10:00 am - 4:00 pm	MDC University (Introductory)
10:00 am - 4:00 pm	MDC University (Advanced)
05:00 pm - 7:00 pm	Demo Lab

   

Schedule - Tuesday, November 18

07:30 am - 05:00 pm	Registration & Badge Pick-Up
	Track 1 SMI	Track 2 CDM	Track 3 Developer
08:30 - 09:20 am	SMI-S: Using Jython with CIM client libraries Steve Quinn Hitachi Data Systems	CDM Standard Technical Overview Eric Tend Hewlett Packard Kevin Kuelbs Hewlett Packard	CMPI Provider Test Harness Chip Vincent IBM
09:30 -10:20 am	SMI-S: Scalability in the Real World Steve Quinn Hitachi Data Systems	CDM Forum Plans & Timeline Jerry Chin Hewlett Packard	Python CIM Providers Bart Whiteley Novell
10:20 -10:40 am	Morning Break
10:40 -11:30 am	SMI-S: Deployment Best Practices Duane Baldwin IBM Paul von Behren Symantec	CDM Development Tools Jeff Rose Dell	Java WBEM API (JSR48) Jim Davis WBEM Solutions
11:40 -12:30 pm	SMI-S: Best practices for Indications Paul von Behren Symantec	CDM Conformance Program and Birds of a Feather Session Rodney Brown IBM	Best Practices for Writing CMPI Providers Marek Szermutzky IBM
12:30 -01:30 pm	Lunch
01:30 -02:20 pm	The Multi-Tenant CIMOM: Fact or Fiction? Bart Whiteley Novell	Green - TBD	Testing Providers with PyWBEM Tim Potter Hewlett Packard
02:30 -03:20 pm		Green - TBD	cmpi-bindings - Compiler-free provider development Klaus Kämpf Bart Whiteley Novell
03:20 -03:40 pm	Afternoon Break
03:40 -04:30 pm	Managing User Accounts and Privileges Using DMTF Profiles Khachatur Papanyan Dell	CDM Demo **Demo Room	WBEM Solutions Development & Test Tools Carl Chan  WBEM Solutions, Inc
04:40 -05:30 pm	Managing Security Credentials Using DMTF Profiles Khachatur Papanyan Dell Hemal Shah Broadcom Corporation

Schedule - Wednesday, November 19

08:00 am - 5:00 pm	Registration & Badge Pick-Up
05:30 pm - 7:30 pm	Demo Lab (at Networking Reception)
	Track 1 CDMB, PMCI	Track 2 Virtualization	Track 3 Developer
08:30 - 09:20 am	CMDB Federation Overview Vince Kowalski BMC, Marv Waschke CA	Virtualization Initiaitve Overview Winston Bumpus VM Ware	Inova Development Tools Mike Brasher Inova Development
09:30 -10:20 am	CMDB Federation Technical Description Marv Waschke CA Mark Johnson IBM	Update on System Virtualization Resource Profiles Michael Johanssen IBM
10:20 -10:40 am	Morning Break
10:40 -11:30 am	CMDB Federation Demonstration Mark Johnson IBM, Dave Snelling Fujitsu	OVF Overview Steffen Graruo	WBEM Solutions J WBEM Server Jim Davis WBEM Solutions, Inc.
11:40 -12:30 pm	Platform Level Data Model (PLDM) Technical Overview Hemal Shah Broadcom Corporation	Virtual Switch Profile John Parchem Microsoft	OpenPegasus Overview Karl Schopmeyer Inova Development
12:30 -01:30 pm	Lunch - Sponsored by Novell
01:30 -02:20 pm	Platform Level Data Models for SMBIOS Data Transfer and BIOS Control/Configuration Hemal Shah Broadcom Corporation	Virtualization TBD	Griffin - a Multi-protocol Manageability Framework Tim Potter Hewlett Packard
02:30 -03:20 pm		Virtualization Panel Moderator: Larry Lamers VM Ware	ECUTE open source tooling overview and demo David Judkovics Andreas Maier IBM
03:20 -03:40 pm	Afternoon Break
03:40 -04:30 pm	Platform Level Data Model for Monitoring and Control Tom Slaight Intel Corporation	Virtualization Management Demo **Demo Room	OpenTestMan Update Akash Malhotra AMD
04:40 -05:30 pm			Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager and DASH. Bob Blair AMD
05:30 - 07:30 pm	Networking Reception - Sponsored by WBEM Solutions

Schedule - Thursday, November 20

08:00 am -1:00 pm	Registration & Badge Pick-Up
	Track 1 SMASH, DASH	Track 2 CIM	Track 3 Web Services
08:30 -09:20 am	SMASH and DASH Overview Jeff Hilland Hewlett Packard	CIM Schema Overview John Crandall Brocade	WS-Management Introduction Josh Cohen Microsoft
09:30 -10:20 am	SMASH and DASH Certification   Fred Maciel Hitachi	Profile Usage Guide 1.1 Michael Johanssen IBM Andreas Maier IBM	WS-Management Client in your Favorite Programming Language Anas Nashif Intel
10:20 -10:40 am	Morning Break
10:40 -11:30 am	Physical Platform Profiles (PPP) Overview: Part I David Hines Intel Hemal Shah Broadcom Corporation	Machine Readable Profiles overview Bob Blair AMD Andreas Maier IBM	Scripting openwsman server plugins Klaus Kämpf Novell
11:40 -12:30 pm		Using CIM for model driven management integration Guru Bhat SAP AG	DASH and Active Directory Prasad Ayyalasomayajula AMD
12:30 -01:30 pm	Lunch
01:30 -02:20 pm	Physical Platform Profiles (PPP) Overview: Part II David Hines Intel Hemal Shah Broadcom Corporation	Generic Operations overview and WG update Andreas Maier IBM	ActiveWsman - Applying the active record pattern to WS-Management Klaus Kämpf Novell
02:30 -03:20 pm		Using CIM for system landscape management Guru Bhat SAP AG	Resource Catalog Format Heather Kreger IBM
03:20 -03:40 pm	Afternoon Break
03:40 -04:30 pm	DASH & SMASH Demos **Demo Room	Metrics Profile overview Oliver Benke IBM	Windows Remote Management with WS-Management Past, Present and Future Wassim Fayed Microsoft
04:40 -05:30 pm		UML profile for CIM overview Andreas Maier IBM	Windows Management Instrumentation Introduction and Future Roadmap Nitin Bhat Microsoft
Conference End

*Speakers & schedule are subject to change without notice.