The EPTS 4^th Event Processing Symposium (and first since the official EPTS launch) took place in September 17-19, 2008 at Stamford, CT, USA.

The attendance was high (even with some overflow on the designated slots due to demand), with participants from vendors, academic, customers, analysts, and independent consultants.  The presentations are available to registered users in the Downloads section of this website .

The program included four keynote addresses:

• A VC perspective on Event Processing
• The perspective of the value of Event Processing to a customer
• From the perspective of research directions
• From the perspective of Standards

The symposium contained a review and assessment of the event processing discipline from all aspects – where it is now, and where it is going, and encouraged discussions in various topics, which took the form of panels and discussions among the participants.  It was a great opportunity to network and engage in coopetition.

On the last day, the business meeting took place and resulted in proposals for a total of nine work-groups (two of them are continuation of work-groups that started in the pre-EPTS era).  These work-groups will proceed through an approval process so there is a chance that not all proposals will result in the formation of a work-group.  But I am hugely encouraged by the fact that nine work-groups have been proposed as this is a huge step-up in EPTS activities, and hopefully impact on the evolving EP discipline.

I would like to thank the participants, the panelists, the speakers, and especially the symposium sponsors:

• Gartner (main sponsor)
• Aleri and Event Zero for coffees and lunch
• IBM who handled the registration for the conference

Opher Etzion

EPTS Steering Committee Chair.

Event Processing Technical Society Announces First Public Event Processing Glossary of Industry Terms

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Event Processing Technical Society (EPTS) today publicly unveiled its glossary of event processing terms. The purpose of the EPTS glossary is to facilitate industry use of terms in event processing technology by providing a common language for developing applications and software infrastructure that use event processing concepts. The EPTS is a new industry consortium with more than 55 members representing enterprises using event processing including event processing software vendors, academia and industry analysts.

Event Processing Technical Society Aims to Set Guidelines for Future Technology Advancements and Development

ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Industry leaders from companies including Coral8, Inc., Gartner Research, IBM, Oracle, Progress Software, StreamBase and TIBCO Software Inc. today announced the formation of a new industry consortium named the Event Processing Technical Society (EPTS). The members of the EPTS have agreed to work together to facilitate the adoption and effective use of event processing in a wide range of applications across all industries.

The EPTS Members agreement is now available for download

The Event Processing Technical Society invites you to apply for membership.  A membership agreement will be made available for download shortly.