The Scientific Academy for Service Technology e.V. (ServTech) is a non-profit association of leading experts from industry and academia devoted to support innovation and progress in Service-Oriented Computing (SOC).

The purpose of the society is the promotion of science, research, development, application and qualification in the area of software system integration and service-oriented software engineering. The society's activities include:

• application oriented scientific research,
• development, planning and staging of scientific events like conferences and workshops,
• on-demand vocational education and training in software service engineering, and 
• consulting.

ServTech is the organization behind this flagship event on service oriented computing:

International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing

The Call for Papers and Workshops for CSOC 2012 in Shanghai, China, is out.