We’ve posted all the session titles and descriptions of the December Gartner Application Architecture, Development & Integration Summit, taking place Dec 8-10 at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas (co-located back to back with the Enterprise Architecture Summit).

For the 21st edition, we’ve revamped the agenda to provide even more relevant advice to our audience. There are two major themes this time: SOA and modernization. No big surprise there – SOA remains the elephant in the room for most architects and application teams today, and it is (or should be) part of a broader strategy to modernize legacy systems and bring on new generation application development practices that deliver value and competitive advantage.

What’s really new is that we’ve structured the SOA content according to the different levels of maturity. As SOA goes mainstream, there is a growing diversity in the level of experience and sophistication that our past attendees wanted us to address. So we created three dedicated tracks that essentially deliver SOA 101, 201 and 301.

The remaining two tracks cover modernization, either from the perspective of making the most of your legacy environments, or from the standpoint of building a 21st century application environment.

A few other new themes and “virtual tracks” include B2B & Multienterprise, Governance, and Web2.0/SaaS/Cloud.

More detail in later post as we highlight specific content, analysts, and give sneak previews of some of the presentations being developed. In the meantime, you can go to the event site and check out the PDF of the tracks and sessions or build your own agenda.