Global Management Conference Time!

                Are you packing your bags for San Jose? The 2003 Global Management Conference is almost here, and it promises to be the most important distributed management event of the year! In this issue of Inside the DMTF, we give you a special preview of the Global Management Conference, being held June 16-19, so take the plunge and register (if you haven't done so already)! Also this month, DMTF talks about its new CIM-SOAP Sub-Team of the Interoperability Working Group, gives the keynote address at the Policy 2003 conference, and announces its End of Life plan for DMI. As we head into our most exciting time of year, we remind you to check back here in July for a recap of the breaking news coming out of this month's events. See you in San Jose!
 

Global Management Conference Breaks New Ground

Alan Ganek, Vice President of Autonomic Computing at IBM, Will Deliver Keynote

Interested in coming to the Global Management Conference, presented by DMTF, but haven't had a chance to register? There's still time to sign up online to attend this year's leading distributed management event, being held June 16-19, 2003, at the Silicon Valley Conference Center in San Jose, Calif.

Just announced: IBM's vice president of Autonomic Computing, Alan Ganek, will deliver Thursday's keynote address, offering his unique perspective on the role standards will play in the future of the enterprise.

Also just added: Fred van den Bosch - founder, EVP, CTO, and Board member of VERITAS - will deliver a keynote presentation on Wednesday, discussing the management dilemmas facing the industry.

"The Global Management Conference is the first event of its kind, delivering insights on all of the issues critical to distributed management in one conference schedule," says Winston Bumpus, president of DMTF. "With addresses from a wide range of industry leaders and information on the various management standards that impact computing and networking, this conference goes beyond other events - attendees will leave with a better understanding of the whole standards landscape."