The Open Group Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference in San Diego, CA, USA in the week of 2 February 2009 included:

• Conference plenary presentations on:
  • BPM Blended with an SOA Approach, and
  • SOA Status in Japan and Future Direction.
• SOA-related conference streams:
  • Enterprise and Information Governance in SOA Environments, and
  • Standard SOA Reference Models and Architectures;
• An SOA Summit in which participants in OASIS, OMG and Open Group activities:
  • compared the standard SOA models and reference architectures being produced by the three bodies, and
  • considered how they can be harmonized for the benefit of the IT architecture community;
• A joint meeting of the SOA and Semantic Interoperability Working Groups on Data and Semantic Technology Architectures for SOA; and
• An SOA Working Group meeting that:
  • Reviewed the SOA Source Book;
  • Progressed work on the SOA Governance Framework and the SOA Reference Architecture; and
  • Discussed co-ordination of SOA work in English-speaking countries and Japan.