The Open Group Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference in Chicago, IL, USA in the week of 21 July 2008 included:

• The Conference Plenary: Architecting Government Services & SOA on the Tuesday of the conference
• SOA-related conference streams:
  • SOA & Enterprise Architecture
  • SOA Deployment
  • SOA and the Boundaryless Enterprise
  • SOA TOGAF Workshop
• A meetings of the SOA Working Group that included:
  • An open session to enable all delegates interested in SOA to learn about what The Open Group is doing in this field
  • A meeting on the Friday and Saturday before the conference on the Practical Guide to Developing SOA Using TOGAF
  • A meeting on the Sunday before the conference on SOA Governance
  • A meeting on the Wednesday of the conference that made significant progress on The Open Group's SOA Reference Architecture
  • A meetingg on how to migrate legacy systems to SOA, which formed the basis for the formation of a new Working Group project
  • A joint meeting with the Security Forum to progress the work of the SOA and Security project
  • A joint meeting with the the Architecture Forum on Information Architecture.