Organizers of the First Annual Service Oriented Architecture Symposium announced they will be meeting in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 7-9, with workshops to follow.

ebizQ received the following:

For the first time in The Netherlands, an international SOA conference with leading SOA experts and authors. The First International SOA Symposium provides a combination of expert speakers from around the world together with on-site SOA training and certification workshops.

Organizers say the theme of the event is "substance only" and the conference committee is dedicated to ensuring that each session provides in-depth coverage and true educational value for the most important SOA-related topics for practitioners.