SYS-CON Events announced today that Sean Rhody was named the tech chair of SOA World Conference & Expo 2007 East. Rhody is the founding-editor and editor-in-chief of SOA World Magazine and a respected SOA industry expert and a consultant with a leading consulting services company.

The 11th International SOAWorld Conference & Expo 2007, colocated with the Second Annual Enterprise Open Source Conference, will take place on June 25-27, 2007 at the historical Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. SOAWorld Conference & Expo and Enterprise Open Source Conference together deliver the #1 i-technology educational and networking opportunity of the year.

Service-oriented architecture or SOA is a style of information systems architecture that enables the creation of applications that are built by combining loosely-coupled and interoperable services.