Tracks & Sessions


BEA.Participate.08 offers something special for customers and partners, regardless of role or expertise. This fast-paced, collaborative conference delivers strategies and techniques to help accelerate deployments of AquaLogic User Interaction, AquaLogic Pathways, Pages and Ensemble and AquaLogic BPM.

60 action-packed sessions fill four thoughtfully organized tracks designed to cover a broad range of interests. Read below, and stay tuned for details.

Watch the BEA.Participate.08 General Session Presentations


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Customers & Excellence

This track highlights real-world customer implementation experiences, including triumphs, bloopers and hard-earned best practices. You'll hear from a broad range of organizations in a wide variety of industries. Topics include designing "sticky" intranets, optimizing business processes, expanding departmental projects to enterprise-wide deployments, establishing effective governance, and driving increased user adoption and joy.


Innovation & Ideation

Designed for business stakeholders, this track explores the tactics and strategies to foster greater innovation in your business. Topics include healthcare 2.0, using wikis/blogs to improve employee communication, dynamic business applications in action, innovating above and beyond traditional ERP, BPM & SOA, new UI design patterns, change management planning, reinventing business intelligence, and interactive panel discussions.


Planning & Operations

This track is designed for administrators, managers, analysts, and others wanting to expand their deployment knowledge of BPM, User Interaction or Enterprise Social Computing technologies and capabilities. Sessions will dive-deep into building ROI business cases, exploring future product roadmaps, cutting-edge process modeling & design techniques, product basics, upgrade best practices, service offerings and much more.


Propellers & Heads

Designed for developers, engineers, hands-on IT gurus, or just the technically curious, this track includes sessions that lift the hood on BEA's BPM, User Interaction and Enterprise Social Computing technologies. Topics include "owning" integration through introspection, code jockeying with Java and .NET development, mastering BPEL, building rich internet applications, managing widgets, mashups and architecting for participation, as well as sessions on configuration management, security, and migration tools.


Industry Roundtables

These informal roundtables will give you the opportunity to meet face-to-face with your peers to discuss current trends and issues, share lessons-learned, and create relationships for the future. An opportunity to mix and mingle with peers solving similar industry challenges.


Leadership Summit - Executive, C-Level Strategy (Invite-only)

This exclusive, invite-only summit is designed for top business and IT executives and will be held in conjunction with the main BEA.Participate.08 user conference. This intimate forum will include presentations and highly-interactive discussions amongst executive peers and BEA's senior management team.


Schedule is subject to change, please check back for session updates


Hands On BPM Labs

BPM is better when you try it hands-on. Our on-site lab will offer introductory, intermediate and advanced exercises for both business and technical people. We are bringing the brightest minds of our engineering team to give you the best opportunity to ask questions and get answers directly from the product experts. The labs will feature a number of 45 minute exercises that you can stop by and try out at your own pace.

We'll cover exercises ranging from modeling & simulation, business user workspace & dashboard, modeling best practices, testing & debugging processes, and much more