Drools & jBPM Walk in center @ Red Hat Summit (free and open for everyone)

There's a FREE opportunity if you are in the Boston area next week on Thursday.  A lot of us will be there for JUDCon and Red Hat Summit and we want to give you the opportunity to come and ask questions.

We have a dedicated room for community members to come and chat. The room should be open to all, not just those with Summit passes, although you'll need to tell security where you are going.  So whether you're already coming to Summit, or in the vicinity and want to join us, don't hesitate.

Day: Thursday, June 13th, 2013
Location: Boston, Hynes Convention Centre, Hynes Room 110

Time: 09.30 to 17.00

There will be chairs and tables, so you can spend as long as you like.  Mark Proctor, Edson Tirelli, Pedro Zapata and myself will be there all day, with probably other people dropping in as well.  No question too small, no task too big :) We can help you getting everything installed, give some mentoring on your current projects, or help you dive deep into Drools or jBPM code.

Feel free to drop in with quick questions on how to do something, or to check you're doing it right, or generic questions about Drools & jBPM itself, about the roadmap, etc.  There will be chairs and tables, so you can stay longer and hang out and code :)

IntelliFest conference with Drools & jBPM bootcamp

In 4 weeks, the IntelliFest 2012 conference will take place in San Diego (starting Monday October 22nd).  IntelliFest is the successor of RulesFest and as always brings a mix of presentations, both for managers and developers, and bootcamps to get the practical experience.  

As part of that, there will also be a FREE Drools & jBPM bootcamp and a healthcare day.  Tihomir will take care of the jBPM presentations there, giving an overview of jBPM, BPMN2 and human tasks.

Program Overview:
Monday - Healthcare focus for Rules, Workflow, Ontologies and Events (Free)
Tuesday - General Drools&jBPM session (Free)
Wed - Fri - General IntelliFest Sessions

There are limited spaces, so register soon here.

Monday - Healthcare focus for Rules, Workflow, Ontologies and Events (free)

0830-0920 Captain Emory Fry, MD
Socratic Grid : Open Source Distributed Decision Support for Healthcare

0930-1020  Dr Robert Greenes, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Arizona State University
Key Note : Embedding Decision Support in Clinical Systems

1030-1120 Dr Aziz Boxwala, Division of Biomedical Informatics, University of California
Clinical Decision Support Consortium

1130-1200 Dr Seong Ki Mun, President and CEO of OSEHRA
Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent 

1200:1300 Lunch

1300-1350  Dr Davide Sottara, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Arizona State University
Knowledge Representation Standards For Building Executable Clinical Processes Models

1400-1450 David Shields, Health ITS, University of Utah
OpenCDS: a Clinical Decision Support Infrastructure Based on Drools

1500-1520 Harold Solbring, Division of Biomedical Informatics, Mayo Clinic
Semantic Wiki

1530-1655 Conor Dowling, Caregraf
Semantic Terminology Services

1600-1620 Dr Xiao Hu, Department of Neurosurgery, University of California
Clinical Decision Support Driven Alarms

1630-1700
Panel Discussion - Collaboration Opportunities

Tuesday - General Drools&jBPM Workshop (free)

 

8.00 AM: Breakfast Social – pre-laptop setup, and QA time with solution Architects. 
-Key will be provided to setup your laptop, so you can view and run the examples used during the talks.

9.00 BRMS Product Overview (Prakash Aradhya 15min) 
How we turn the Drools and jBPM communtiy parts into a world class product. Supporting and harvesting all the innovation done in the open community, Red Hat delivers reliable, dependable and integrated solutions for enterprise customers.

9.15 Introduction to Drools Expert (Mark Proctor 45min) 
Drools Expert covers the business rule engine. A gentle, example driven, dive into the Drools technical rule language and engine features.

10.10 Introduction to Drools Fusion (Edson Tirelli 45min) 
Learn how Drools does CEP differently. Our unified approach extends Drools Expert with a series of language and sub-engine extensions to provide temporal reasoning and event correlation.

11.05 Introduction to jBPM and BPMN2 (Tihomir Surdilovic 45min) 
jBPM is a BPM engine designed for flexible processes, implementing and extending the BPMN2 spec. Built form the ground up to be part of a unified strategy for business automation and decision management. jBPM fully integrates with Drools Expert and Fusion.

11.45 Decision Modelling with Graphical Editors (Edson Tirelli 30min) 
Drools Expert provides sophisticated web based tooling, around decision tables, guided editors and templates. Our decision modelling approach draws from the very best research found at Dr Jan Vanthienien school of Decision Modelling.

12.30 Working Lunch – Experience Drools and jBPM – Hands on labs (Optional) (1hour)

13.30 Human Tasks up Close and Personal (Tihomir Surdilovic 40min) 
Human tasks are a central component of BPM. This example driven talk will build an example live, demonstrating what jBPM’s Human Task technology can do for you.

14.20 Building Games with Drools – Pong, Snake and Wumpus (Mark Proctor 40min) 
Time for some hard play, learn how to build classic computer games with Drools. These also provide interesting exercises in BA requirements gathering.

15.10 Drools Planner a Quick Overview (Geoffrey De Smet 40min) 
Whether it’s employee rostering, task scheduling, vehicle routing, bin packing or another planning problem: all organizations try to optimize their limited resources under constraints. Drools Planner optimizes business resources for normal Java programmers.

15.50 Drools Chance for Imperfect Reasoning (Davide Sottara 40min) 
Sometimes data quality is not perfect, so facts may not be known with precision and certainty. Likewise, crisp constraints such as hard thresholds might not be able to capture the complexity of a business policy. Drools Chance allows to apply gradual and/or probabilistic constraints to uncertain or vague data.

16.40 UberFire – Drools&jBPM Workbench framework (Mark Proctor 30min) 
UberFire is a new project that forms the foundation of our 6.0 web tooling. It’s standalone framework that provides a sophisticated workbench framework for the web; where everything is a plugin. Come learn about the Uberfire, and how you can use the workbench to build your own web applications.

17.10 Drools&jBPM 6.0 and Beyond (Optional : open as long as people remain) 
An open presentation and discussion about the design ideas, principles and goals that are driving the development of Drools & jBPM version 6.0. This will be an optional and informal session where attendees will have the opportunity to learn about what is coming, contribute ideas and provide feedback that will be taken in consideration by the development team.

17.10 Hands on Lab 
Run at the same time as "Drools&jBPM and Beyond" and Beyond. Solution Architects are on hand to help you with your coding problems, and running examples.

jBPM workshop June 19th New York

Here's the official invitation for the NY Drools & jBPM workshop on June 19th.  This is a workshop, including both presentations and hands on exercices.  More news on the one in Washington DC later that week will follow shortly.

JBoss BRMS Workshop You are invited to attend the JBoss Drools and jBPM workshop in New York City, on Tuesday, June 19th. The workshop will be led by Drools and jBPM Projects core development team including Mark Proctor its lead for 8+ years, Dr Kris Verlaenen, jBPM 5 project lead, Edison Tirelli the lead around Complex Event Processing, Prakash Aradhya, JBoss BRMS / BPM Product Manager and others. In this day long session we will explore Business Workflows, Complex Event Processing, Authoring rules, product road maps and much much more. Be prepared to work hands on with the technology and tools, meet the team behind the technology, and get your questions answered. This day long event will get you unparalleled access to industry recognized leaders in the business process and rules community. Join us for a complimentary one-day event where we will cover: The ecosystem that encompasses the Drools open source project and the JBoss BRMS The history of rules systems, where they are going and the current state of the art Various features of the BRMS via a hands on demo BPMN 2.0 and the future of Business Process Management To view a complete agenda, click here. Speakers: Jim Tyrrell, Principle JBoss Solution Architect, Red Hat Mark Proctor, Drools Project Lead and Founder, Red Hat Edson Tirelli, Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat Kris Verlaenen, jBPM Lead Engineer, Red Hat Prakash Aradhya, Senior Product Manager, Red Hat *Attendees are responsible for bringing their own laptop to this event. Please make sure your laptop has the ability to copy files from a USB, which will provide the software for the hands-on sessions, and have JDK 1.6 already installed. Register now as space is limited. We look forward to seeing you there! Sincerely, The JBoss Team

JAX 2012, April 16-20th, Germany

I'll be giving a presentation on the JAX conference this year in Germany. I'll be giving an overview of not just business processes, but also business rules and complex event processing, and how they all come together in the JBoss BRMS / BPMS product. So if you're already planning to go to that conference, make sure to add it to your time planner and I hope to see you there :)

Business Processes, Business Rules, Complex Event Processing with JBoss

Kris Verlaenen Red Hat

17.04.2012 | 11:45 - 12:45 Uhr

JBoss's Business Rules Management System, BRMS, integrates various community projects such as Drools and jBPM bringing together a unique combination of business processes, business rules and complex event processing, unavailable elsewhere in the industry. Delivered in a single open source distribution and accessible from a common set of authoring tools, with JBoss BRMS customers can combine business processes, business rules and event processing in support of a broad range of decision management and process driven applications. This session explores the use cases for the BRMS, the benefits for the customer, and we will walk through many of the new features now available to enterprise developers. The discussion will center around the many powerful solutions that can be built leveraging rules, complex events, business process automation and the combination of the three. A special focus will be on the new BPM features that are coming with the integration of jBPM5 / BPMN2.0 into version 5.3 of BRMS.

Drools & jBPM Workshops (May 2011) - New York and Washington DC

After JBoss World we have two Drools and jBPM5 workshops in May for New York and Washington. These are free events open to all in the public:

The events will be a mixture of talks with lots of time for questions and discussions.

Speakers:
Mark Proctor - Drools co-creator and Project Lead
Kris Verlaenen - jBPM Project Lead
Edson Tirelli - Drools technical lead.

Event: New York - Registration page and agenda
Date: Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Time: 8:30am – 5:30pm (breakfast, lunch, afternoon snack provided)
Cost: Free but register as seats are very limited.
Location: Affinia Manhattan Hotel
371 Seventh Avenue,
New York, NY 10001

Event: Washington - Registration page and agenda
Date: Thursday, May 12, 2011
Time: 8:30am – 4:00pm
Cost: Free but register as seats are very limited.
Location: Renaissance Washington
999 Ninth Street, NW
Washington, DC 2000