CEP Events this Summer 08

Here are some upcoming CEP-rich events:

1. DEBS’08
   Where: Rome, Italy
   When: July 1-4, 2008
   CEP content: Tutorials [*1][*2], Presentations
   Cost: €400 + discounts
2. OMG’s Workshop on Distributed Object Computing for Real-time and Embedded Systems
   Where: Washington, D.C. USA
   When: July 14-16, 2008
   CEP content: Tutorial, Presentations (by TIBCO Software, Naval Surface Warfare Center, RTI) [*3]
   Cost: US$795 + discounts

Further out we have the Gartner Event Processing Summit in Sept as well as various CEP topics at Business Rules Forum / RuleML 08 in Oct (kudos to the organisers for co-hosting, allowing both business and R&D interests to be shared), and the CEP-related (via Event-Decision Architecture) Real Time Decision Making Conference in Dec …

Notes:

[*1] The tutorial list is pretty interesting:

• Oracle has a marketing session on their proprietary extensions to SQL for event stream processing (CQL). Does this presentation imply that the CQL team has triumphed over the BEA-Esper team to be the Oracle CEP tool in the ongoing Oracle-BEA merger?
• Opher Etzion covers CEP architectures and and CEP patterns, which should be lively given all the various opinions and options on these topics …
• Prof Sharma Chakravarthy from The University of Texas covers “Complex event processing fundamentals, stream processing fundamentals …why their integration is needed…”. Couldn’t agree more!
• Lots of pub-sub middleware topics. Some look very interesting.

[*2] Disclaimer: TIBCO was represented on the Program Committee for DEBS.

[*3] Disclaimer: TIBCO is, er, teaching the CEP tutorial as well as presenting at OMG Washington.