Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Five years to the first event processing symposium



Today we can mark five years to the first event processing symposium.  In the picture you can see from right to left - Roy Shculte, David Luckham and myself - all of us five years younger.  The fourth partner to organize this meeting was Mark Palmer, at that time from Progress, now in Streambase.    This was the first meeting of the community - before the meeting we did not know each other;  two months before the meeting the mood was quite pessimistic, since it seemed that we'll not have critical mass, as some of those we invited did not think that they are doing event processing, they thought that they are doing stream processing.  Roy Schulte was instrumental to convince everybody that they should participate, we thought of a meeting of 50-60 people and ended up with 72 people.  
The list of participants is here:

First Name
Last Name
Affiliation
1
Tom
Abraham
Xterprise
2
Asaf
Adi
IBM
3
Rohit
Agarwal
Digital Harbor
4
Rajan
Ahmad
Red Rabbit Sotware
5
Tim
Bass
TIBCO
6
Jerry
Baulier
Aleri Labs
7
Steve
Benfield
Agentis
8
Mikael
Berndtsson
University of Skovde
9
Robert
Berry
IBM
10
Richard
Brooks
ISO New England
11
David
Cameron
AptSoft
12
Mani
Chandy
Cal Tech
13
Henry
Chang
IBM
14
Norman
Cohen
IBM
15
Shlomi
Cohen
Actimize
16
Josiah
Collens
MITRE
17
Sanjay
Dalal
Streametics

18
Opher
Etzion
IBM
19
Tom
Fox
Wachovia
20
Bill
Gassman
Gartner
21
Dieter
Gawlick
Oracle
22
Rohn
Griggs
Wachovia
23
Helge
Hess
IDS-Scheer
24
Bill
Hobbib
StreamBase
25
Daniel
Jobst
CITT
26
Chris
Kaprielian
MITRE
27
Paul
Kim
MITRE
28
Harpal
Kochar
Oracle
29
Vaikom
Krishnan
Celequest
30
Chung-Sheng
Li
IBM
31
Tao
Lin
SAP
32
Eugene
Litvinov
ISO New England
33
Ling
Liu
Georgia Tech
34
Roger
Loeb
The MarTech Group
35
Anthony
Lopresti
Systar
36
Noah (Ed)
Loy
MITRE
37
David
Luckham
Stanford University
38
Alan
Lundberg
TIBCO
39
Susan
Malaika
IBM
40
Wolfgang
May
University of Goettingen
41
Shailendra
Mishra
Oracle
42
In K
Mun
MIT
43
Yefim
Natis
Gartner
43
Ido
Ophir
Actimize
45
Elan
Oren
Leanway
46
Mark
Palmer
Progress
47
Francis
Parr
IBM
48
Boaz
Peer
Actimize
49
Ronen
Perlmuter
Leanway
50
Nelson
Pertacek
TIBCO
51
Beth
Plale
Indiana University
52
Greg
Porpora
IBM
53
Arnold
Reinhold
Hurwitz
54
Harvey
Reed
MITRE
55
Jonathan
Rosenoer
IBM
56
Gunther
Rothermel
SAP
57
Aleksey
Sanin
Coral8
58
Roy
Schulte
Gartner
59
Karsten
Schwan
Georgia Tech
60
Marco
Seirio
RuleCore
61
Ed
Shea
FRS
62
John
Trigg
Progress
63
Mark
Tsimelzon
Coral8
64
G
Venkat
Red Rabbit Software
65
Hari
Verma
G4
66
Rainer
Von Ammon
University of Regensburg
67
Elvira
Wallis
SAP
68
Eric
Wayne
IBM
69
Robert
Wilson
Mitre
70
Jeff
Wooton
Aleri Labs
71
Jim
Zafrani
Synthean
72
Stan
Zdonik
Streambase

As you can see we have representatives of various vendors,  some of them do not exist any more,  some customers,  some academic people and some analysts.     

After some search, I found that David Luckham's site also had a page about it which is still there.  

The meeting started with several presentation about different view points on event processing, starting with David Luckham, and ended with Mani Chandy,  who played the devil's advocate.    Some of the speakers of the first day are still involved in the event processing universe like - Mike Palmer, Stan Zdonik who represented Streambase, and now back in Brown University, and the program chair of DEBS 2011;  some of them are not -- like Mark Tsimelzon, who was the brain behind Coral8, and now works for some VC, and Tim Bass, a colorful person represented TIBCO, who ran an opinionated blog for a while, both are not active in the community anymore.

The second day was the application days -  there were groups in parallel that discussed applications of EP in real-time (military) applications, BAM, BPM,  risk and compliance and RFID based applications.  It was interesting to note that the person who took upon himself to organize an algorithmic trading session notified us that due to the "top secret" nature of this application type, nobody agreed to present.  

The immediate action item was to start working on glossary, as we realized that different people are saying the same things in different terms.   I think this has been improved, not totally resolved.

The other consequence (eventually) was the establishment of the EPTS, and the event processing community, which is still there.     talking about the event processing community -  the DEBS conference submissions were closed yesterday, and there is a significant growth in number of submissions (statistics will be published after the review process will end), so the community is still growing.

Five years have passed - and many things happened since then,  but this will always be the first event of the community. .


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