Introduction from the Chairs

Richard Buchanan Vice President, Enterprise Architecture Strategies, META Group

Brian Burke Vice President International, Enterprise Architecture Strategies, META Group

Both public and private sector organisations around the world are scrambling to respond to new, unsettling macro-economic, environmental and regulatory challenges. The weakening economy is forcing many CEOs and Boards to take radical steps to retrench their strategies and re-think investment programmes – including programmes for technology development. Governments are faced with the surging demand for citizen access to information – E-government – and they are struggling with the security and privacy issues this implies.

These and other issues are driving organisations to re-evaluate and refresh their visioning, planning and implementation mechanisms and to re-assess their control and management processes. Enterprise Architecture represents the most pragmatic and holistic mechanism for grappling with these waves of change, and the maturity of the architecture effort is proving to be a leading indicator of business health and organisational sustainability.

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 Who Should Attend

	Chief Architects responsible for translating business strategic vision into pragmatic IT delivery programmes
	Senior Business Strategists, Chief Operating Officers and LOB managers who demand efficient, pragmatic investment programmes and want to insure cross-functional integration.
	IT implementers, Project and Programme Managers and Systems Quality Engineers responsible for adhering to architecture guidelines and interested in influencing standard setting activities.

Whether you are responsible for business or IT success, this conference will provide you with pragmatic tools for thinking, models and frameworks for analysis and decision making, and insight into the real world best practices.

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What You Will Learn

This is the only international event completely dedicated to the concept of adaptive enterprise architecture. The conference includes full-day pre-conference workshop, as well as general sessions with world-class practitioners, commentators, and technology providers.

Workshop: The Core Ideas of adaptive Enterprise Architecture

Jumpstart your architecture efforts and eliminate the barriers to success by attending this rapid fire, highly interactive workshop conducted by META Group. You will learn how to define and implement enterprise architecture as a sustainable, creative strategy driven process which emphasises not only ‘how’ to create adaptive computing systems, but identifying ‘what’ needs to be architected to deliver true business strategic value.

Conference: Leveraging Digital Innovation, Adaptable Architecture and Enterprise Programme Management

Informative, thought provoking keynote presentations will be supplemented by breakout sessions as well as networking and vendor sponsored activities. Sessions will be organised across three general Tracks:

TRACK 1:	Aligning Business Strategy, Architecture and Technology Implementation
TRACK 2:	Pragmatic Problem Solving For Architects and IT Professionals
TRACK 3:	Enterprise Architecture and Business Management

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 CONFERENCE CO-PRODUCERS

META Group

META Group is a leading research and consulting firm, focusing on information technology and business transformation strategies. Delivering objective, consistent, and actionable guidance, META Group enables organisations to innovate more rapidly and effectively. Our unique collaborative models help clients succeed by building speed, agility, and value into their IT and business systems and processes.

Connect with http://www.metagroup.com for more details.

IRM UK

IRM UK is an international organisation that specialises in strategic IT training for IT & business professionals and managers. Our presenters have superior technical knowledge, teaching skills and a wide range of practical business experience. They are some of the most influential technologists, methodologists and original thinkers in IT and business today.

Noted for the participation of top level decision makers from both the corporate, user and vendor communities, and the lucid analysis of critical strategic and management issues, our events are condensed and rigorous combining technical explanations with management advice and discussions of future directions. Our world class speakers include Roger Burlton, Larry English, Mike Ferguson, Peter Hruschka, David Marco, Suzanne Robertson and John Zachman.

We are also running the following major conferences in London from 29-31 October 2001:

• INFORMATION QUALITY IMPROVEMENT
• META DATA
• DAMA INTERNATIONAL

For further detail on our events visit www.irmuk.co.uk

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