The Open Group conference Enterprise Architecture and Business Innovation in Lisbon, Portugal in the week of 23 October 2006 included:

• A Conference Stream on SOA. This stream had presentations from organizations using SOA, companies providing SOA solutions, and industry experts, on:
  • SOA Scalability;
  • SOA Case Studies,
  • How to Architect SOA,
  • SOA Modeling and Maturity Assessment,
  • SOA Governance and
  • The activities of The Open Group and other bodies in developing standards and best practices for SOA.
  In addition, there was a workshop session to progress the development of a formal ontology for SOA.
• A meeting of the SOA Working Group, in which the Group reviewed its whole work program and had specific sessions on:
  • SOA Governance,
  • SOA Maturity Modelng,
  • SOA and the Virtual Enterprise, and
  • Requirements for End Point Security and Architectures for De-Perimeterization (jointly with The Open Group's Security Forum).