Adayana's Shail Arora Serves as Conference Chair for OOPSLA 2009

INDIANAPOLIS, IN–The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is hosting its 24th annual conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA 2009), October 25-29, with Adayana’s Shail Arora, Healthcare Group Senior Vice President, serving as the Conference Chair.

“It’s an honor to be a part of such a thought-provoking, inspiring conference,” Arora said. “For years, OOPSLA has facilitated thought leadership among technology professionals worldwide, and I’m excited to see what happens this year."

Arora co-founded Gradepoint, Inc. in 1999, which was acquired by Adayana in 2008. He then became Senior Vice President of Adayana Healthcare Group and continues to support clients by improving their people’s performance and accelerating their organizational success through training and e-Learning.

“I’ve spent my career building solutions for clients that utilize the latest technology to improve their learning,” Arora said. “Applying that concept to a global, renowned conference has been quite an experience.”

Arora has been an active contributor to the OOPSLA community for the past 20 years. From its inception, OOPSLA has served as an incubator for advanced technologies and practices. Dynamic compilation and optimization, design patterns, refactoring, aspect-oriented software development, agile methods, Java, Wikis, Smalltalk, service-oriented architectures, and model-driven development—to name just a few—all have OOPSLA roots.

This year, OOPSLA topics include Cloud Computing, Scaling, Mashups and Social Networking. This year’s keynote speaker is 2008’s Turing Award Winner Barbara Liskov of MIT. Other invited speakers include; Tom Malone also from MIT, Brion Vibber of the Wikipedia Foundation, Jeannette Wing from CMU, Gerard Holzman from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Robert Johnson from Facebook.