The Texas Rules User Group is organising a 3 day conference for Expert Systems starting October the 22nd – the October Rules Fest (ORF) . It’s a non-profit event costing only $150 for the three days. This is a “No Fluff, Just Stuff” conference and the idea is to keep it technical so people can actually learn. The sessions are listed here, the speakers bios here and the agenda here. The sessions and speakers are still fluid at the moment, but I’ve been sent a more up to date version, which I’ve pasted at the end of this blog. There is also a promotion PDF here. I know the organisers are still searching for sponsors, to help justify the low cost for the event, so if you can help please do.
The Drools team will arrive a week earlier on the 15th of October and will be doing a 7 day team meeting at the Best Western Hotel. This meeting is open to the public, so if you want some hard core hands on coding do try and come down and join in with the coding fest 🙂 This is a great opportunity to learn Drools at an indepth level and contribute back to the project, we can also assist helping you to solve any Drools extensions you are doing for your job – a great opportunity for you to get your managers time and budget approval 🙂 The Best Western is currently only $89 per night, so very affordable.
The current tentative agenda for ORF is pasted below:
| Wednesday AM | Tutorials | ||||
| 8:00 – 8:15 | Pete Carapetyn | Data Fundamentals | Welcome | ||
| 8:15 – 9:15 | Dr. Kappleman | North Texas Univ. | Rules: Essential But Only Part of the Puzzle | ||
| 9:30 – 10:20 | Rolando Hernandez | BizRules.Com | Introduction to Business Rules Architecture and Rulebase Technology | ||
| 10:30 – 11:20 | Larry Terril | EBDX | Declarative vs Procedural Programming | ||
| 11:30 – 12:30 | Greg Barton | Greg Stuff | Introduction to Evolvable Rules | ||
| 12:30 – 2:00 | Lunch | ||||
| Wednesday PM | Conference Begins | ||||
| 2:00 – 3:15 | Jason Morris | Morris Technical Solutions (Jess) | The Ontology of Rulebased Systems | ||
| 3:30 – 4:45 | Edson Tirelli | Drools | CEP – Complex Event Procesing Based on Rete | ||
| 5:00 – 6:15 | Michael Neale | Drools | “Guvnor” – A BRMS for Drools and Managing Other Asset Types | ||
| 6:15 – 8:00 | Pub Night 1 | ?? | |||
| Thursday AM | Vendor’s Day | ||||
| 8:00 – 9:00 | Dr. Levine | Unit Texas Arlington | Keynote 2: Brain mechanisms for Making, Breaking and Changing Rules | ||
| 9:00 – 10:00 | Art Torteloro | Visual Rules | Constraints and Integration of Methodology With Automation | ||
| 10:15 – 11:15 | Carlos Seranno-Morales and Carole Ann Berliotz-Matignon | Fair Isaac | TBD | ||
| 11:30 – 12:30 | Dr. Feldman | Open Rules | Using Constraing Programming in Business Rules Environment | ||
| 12:30 – 2:00 | Lunch | ||||
| Thursday PM | |||||
| 2:00 – 3:15 | ?? | Informavores | TBD | ||
| 3:30 – 4:45 | ?? | Haley Systems | TBD | ||
| 5:00 – 6:15 | Daniel Selman | ILOG | Sequential Rules and Their Applications | ||
| 6:15 – 8:00 | Pub Night 2 | ?? | |||
| Friday AM | The Future | ||||
| 8:00 – 9:00 | ?? | Countrywide | Keynote 3: Guest speaker | ||
| 9:00 – 10:00 | Dr. Hicks | Texas A&M, EZ-Xpert | Verification of Propositional Logic Systems and it’s Implications | ||
| 10:15 – 11:15 | Gary Riley | CLIPS | RE-architecting CLIPS: recent Changes to Improve Performance, Integration and Internationalization | ||
| 11:30 – 12:30 | Mark Proctor | Drools | Declarative Programming with Rules, Processes and CEP | ||
| 12:30 – 2:00 | Lunch | ||||
| Friday PM | Parallel and Conference Wrapup | ||||
| 2:00 – 3:15 | Dr. Forgy | PST, Rete, Rete 2 | Parallel Rulebase Technology (jco) – Parallel OPSJ, Rete, Rete 2, New Developments in Rulebase Theory | ||
| 3:30 – 5:30 | Everyone | Everyone | Conference Review | ||
| 5:15 – 8:00 | Pub Night 3 | Party Time | Billy Bob’s in Fort Worth | ||
