Join us May 3 - 8 in Las Vegas at the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino for the IMPACT 2009 SOA Conference.

Impact 2009 offers an exclusive opportunity to quickly gain practical knowledge about the IBM Smart SOA™ approach to help you prepare your action plan and achieve real, measurable business outcomes for your organization. Last year, Impact 2008 broke records for attendance - more than 6,000 - and praise from attendees, analysts and press.

Visit Nortel at booth S7 to learn about how we are extending the value of Unified Communication by using SOA and Web Services through our alliance with IBM .

Please come by the Nortel booth to see how Nortel is leveraging the power of SOA to integrate communications into business processes and accelerating ROI. The booth will feature examples from the Retail and Healthcare industries as well as other Unified Communications solutions you can deploy today.

As a Silver Sponsor of the event, Nortel will deliver 2 speaking engagements:

• Birds of a Feather Session
  Presenter: John Bednarek - Leader of Strategic Marketing & Alliances, Advanced Software
  Topic: Communication-Enabled Applications: an Agile Communication Environment
  
• Speaker Series Session
  Presenter: Jim Gutcher - Director, Enterprise Business Solutions
  Topic: Context-Aware Communications: Leveraging SOA & Portlets in Healthcare