October Rules Fest is a three day gathering of the best and brightest in the rules engine industry, October 22nd-24th, 2008.  This conference on business rules technology features the inventors and scientists behind advanced rulebased technology and leading business rule management systems.


We will be bringing together, for the first time the founders and inventors of rules technologies and

methodologies.  Our panel of Business Rules Masterminds include:


  1. *Dr. Charles Forgy, Inventor of the Rete algorithm

  2. *David Butler, Countrywide

  3. *Dr. Jacob Feldman, Open Rules

  4. *Dr. Gopal Gupta, University of Texas at Dallas

  5. *Rolando Hernandez, BIZRULES

  6. *Dr. Richard Hicks, EZ-Xpert

  7. *Dr. Leon A. Kappelman, University of North Texas

  8. *Dr. Dan Levine, University of Texas at Arlington

  9. *Carole-Ann Matignon, Fair Isaac

  10. *John McQuary, Fluor Corporation

  11. *Jason Morris, Morris Technical Solutions

  12. *James Owen, Knowledge-Based Systems Corporation

  13. *Mark Proctor, Co-author of Drools, Drools / Red Hat

  14. *Gary Riley, creator of CLIPS

  15. *Daniel Selman, ILOG JRules Rule Studio Team Lead

  16. *Carlos Serrano-Morales, Fair Isaac

  17. *Lawrence Terrill, EBDX.com

  18. *Edson Tirelli, Drools / Red Hat

  19. *Kris Verlaenen, Drools / Red Hat


Please see the Agenda for the full view of all presentations, our flyer, and two brochures.

Conference Dates: October 22nd-24th, 2008

October Rules Fest will be a technical conference for technical people.  There will also be tutorials and introductions to business rules architecture, technologies, and methodologies for CIOs, managers, and analysts who want to learn why knowledge and rules matter.

  1. *Architects and Programmers who have or are interested in externalizing rules from enterprise programs into rulebases and rules engines

  2. *Students looking to further their understanding of rules as a part of their IT curriculum

  3. *Business Managers looking to learn more about rules and how it might work in other organizations

October Rules Fest is dedicated to:


  1. *Sharing knowledge, best practices and lessons learned with business rule architects, rulebase architects, knowledge engineers, and knowledge managers

  2. *Helping to advance the state-of-the-art of rulebased and knowledgebased systems

  3. *Presentations that describe how rulebased and knowledgebased systems were designed and developed

  4. *Understanding the technology risks and benefits, and any competitive edge gained by rulebased systems

  5. *Describing any obstacles overcome, lessons learned, and best practices

  6. *Showing how rules made it easier/better, especially if traditional approaches like C or Java were tried first, then the team tried the rules/knowledge based approach

  7. *Getting “under the hood” of the rule engines and rulebases to see how you made it work

  8. *Share knowledge about rules related technologies, methodologies, techniques, and approaches

  9. *Learning about techniques for optimization, architecture, integration and performance

  10. *Describing R&D efforts, future advancements, and directions for rulebased and knowledgebased technology

  11. *Being more like an academic or scientific conference (practical, not theoretical though) than a huge marketing trade show with booths and demos from 50 vendors

Only $200