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.

Agenda - Day 1

Agenda - Day 2