The Open Group has announced the talks for the the Real-time and Embedded Systems Forum which takes place on 25th-27th April, 2001, at the Maritim pro Arte Hotel in Berlin, Germany, co-located with The Open Group Quarterly Conference, the Wireless Enabled Enterprise. The Forum meeting takes the form of a general open plenary session on the Wednesday, followed by working group sessions all day Thursday,… with a wrap up session on the Friday morning.

Paolo Mantegazza, RTAI project leader, will make a presentation about the Real Time Application Interface (RTAI), and Manfred Hollstein will provide Red Hat's perspective on Embedded Linux standards, challenges, and obstacles.

The agenda for the open “plenary day” (Wednesday) is as follows . . .

0900-0915 Introduction — Andrew Josey, Director Server Platforms, The Open Group

0915-1000 Keynote Speaker — A speaker from the European Commission on European initiatives in Real-time and Embedded Systems.

1000-1030 The Distributed Real-Time Specification for Java — Member of DRTSJ Expert Group

1030 — Break

1100-1145 Embedded Linux – Standards, Challenges, Obstacles – A Red Hat Perspective — Manfred Hollstein, Red Hat

1145-1230 J Consortium Specification “Real-Time Data Access” — Wolfgang Hartmann, Siemens AG

1230-1400 — Lunch

1400 — 1445 Dependability of Information Infrastuctures — Marcelo Masera, Joint Research Centre – European Commission Institute for Systems, Informatics and Safety Dependable Software,

1445-1530 RTAI (Real-time Application Interface) for Linux, the Why's, what's and how's — Paolo Mantegazza, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Aerospaziale, Politecnico di Milano

1530 — 1600 Break

1600 — 1645 High reliability and safety critical real-time applications — The TETRA Transportation Radio Dispatch system — Vania Joloboff, Groupe Silicomp

1645 — 1715 Panel Session

 
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