Gartner AD Confrence Tracks

The Gartner Applicaiton Development confrence was devided into 4 primary tracks:

1. application life cycle for SOA
2. AD resource management
3. modernization and integration
4. AD governance and control

This is a pretty good deliniation of the industry if you accept the SOA pill. Specifically SOA presents new demands on application development both in how applications are developed and managed, how existing assets can be leveraged, new roles required, and environment challenges like SOX and ever increasing security threats.