Mayor Chuck Reed says, "The people of San José and Silicon Valley have changed the world. The innovations that have come out of our collective efforts over the past few decades have helped raise the living standards for hundreds of millions of people around the world. We are at the epicenter of the transformation of society from the industrial age to the information age and into the knowledge age. What we do here is important and it must continue."

This area is home to some of the best known universities in the world - Stanford, University of California, Berkeley, and several others. It is also home to some of the most dynamic companies in the computer industry. Today, Google is the talk of the town. But this generation has already, probably forgotten, that relational databases were invented here at the IBM Research Labs in San Jose and then made truly a market reality, thanks to Oracle. The stories are endless. Come join us at ISSRE and reflect on where software reliability engineering can take the world tomorrow.