With this in mind, WebLayers is hosting a series of free educational webinars designed to further enlighten architects, developers and IT managers about the importance of governance. 

In fact, there's quite an impressive line up of guest speakers for the fall series that includesZapThink's Ron Schmelzer, Interarbor Solutions's Dana Gardner, Joe McKendrick from eBizQ andEvans Data Research, and Software AG's Miko Matsumura. 

Here's a quick rundown of the schedule:

"Mitigating Business Risks and Accelerating I.T. Initiatives through Automated Governance." 
Date/Time: Wednesday, September 16, 2:00 p.m. ET/Registration

"Boosting the Effectiveness of Federal Enterprise Architecture through Automated Governance" led by ZapThink industry analyst Ronald Schmelzer. 
Date/Time: Wednesday, September 23, 1:00 p.m. ET/Registration 

"Governance Across the Cloud: From the Desktop to the Mainframe and Beyond" Date/Time: Wednesday, October 14, 2:00 p.m. ET - Registration

eBizQ's SOA in Action roundtable, "SOA Value is Unreachable Without Governance" with industry analyst, blogger and pundit Joe McKendrick, Software AG's vice president and deputy chief technology officer Miko Matsumura, and John Favazza, vice president of research and development, WebLayers. 
Date/Time: Wednesday, October 28, 12:00 p.m. ET/Registration

"How Governance Gets You More Mileage from Your Hybrid Computing Environment" led by Interarbor Solutions principal analyst, blogger and industry pundit Dana Gardner. 
Date/Time: Tuesday, November 10, 2:00 p.m. ET - Registration

If there's a particular topic you'd like us to cover, please drop me a line at jeff@weblayers.com and let me know.



Jeff