If anyone is interested the BCS is holding this event and is open to non BCS members too!!
http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.5826
2007 Lecture
'The promise, the limits, and the beauty of software'

Date: 25th January 2007
Venue: IET, Savoy Place, London, WC2R 0BL

The speaker will be Grady Booch. Grady is recognized internationally for his innovative work on software architecture, software engineering, and modeling.
Grady is one of the original authors of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and was also one of the original developers of several of Rational's products.