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Thomas
Braa Andersen
Senior Consultant, Strategic Management of IT
Novo Nordisk IT A/S
Thomas Braa Andersen, Senior Consultant, Strategic Management of IT, Novo Nordisk IT A/S
Thomas works as a Senior Consultant in Novo Nordisk IT, responsible for developing a range of tools for managing the comprehensive portfolio of IT projects and applications. Prior to joining Novo Nordisk, he worked with the largest Danish consultancy firm and holds a position as affiliate lecturer on Industrial Economics and Strategy at Copenhagen Business School.
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Henrik
Benthien
IT Chief Architect
The Danfoss Group
Henrik originally trained as a programmer holds a B.Com (Accounting) and APICS/CPIM. In his current position as Chief Architect in Danfoss Corporate IT, he is also responsible for M&A due diligence and integration planning activities. Prior to joining Corporate IT, he has held positions within Danfoss IT Services as manager of application development; EDI and ERP project management over a period of 15 years.
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Chris
Britton
Manager IT Architecture
Unisys
Chris joined Unisys in 1976 from the civil service, and has worked variously doing programming, technical support, system software design, program management, technical consultancy, marketing and sales support. His early speciality was in fixing very large, very broken databases. During the 1980s he spent some time in Californian working on the A Series SIM – Semantic Information Manager – product, the first and only commercial semantic database product.
His current main interest is middleware and IT architectures, in particular, how to turn a good application model into a good implementation design. On this subject he has written a book called "IT Architecture and Middleware: strategies for building larger, scalable systems" (Addison-Wesley) and often speaks on the subject.
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- Track 3: Design for Evolution
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Richard
Buchanan Vice President, Enterprise Architecture Strategies META Group |
Richard is a world-renowned expert on enterprise architecture and IT strategy. With 15 years of experience as a practitioner and consultant to Global 2000 companies, he has published numerous articles on topics as diverse as integrated logistics, electronic commerce, component-based software development, competitive intelligence and financial modelling. Prior to joining META Group in November 1996, Richard was the founder and principal of The Buchanan Group, an analysis and consulting firm responsible for enterprise architectural planning, market studies, competitive profiles, white papers, focus groups, scenario planning, and competitive war gaming. Prior to founding The Buchanan Group, he was an analyst in the Computing Strategy Service of Forrester Research. Richard’s experience also includes work at Digital Equipment Corp., where he managed product research and competitive intelligence activities and was a key member of its global strategy planning team.
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- Workshop: The Core Ideas of Adaptive Enterprise Architecture
- Chairs’ Address: The Evolution of Enterprise Architecture
- Guru Panel: Architecture as Change Vehicle
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Brian
Burke Vice President International, Enterprise Architecture Strategies META Group |
Brian has a broad and diverse background in technology and strategy, gained over 15 years in the industry. Prior to joining META Group in October 1998, he was chief architect and director of the architecture office for the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) in Toronto. Brian’s key focus is driving digital innovation strategy and business alignment to maximise the value contribution of IT. Being a technology innovator, he has held senior management positions with responsibility for the development of IT strategies and the implementation of emerging technologies, including Internet, knowledge management, data warehouse, groupware, client/server, and LAN/desktop technology.
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Roger is recognised internationally for his worldwide contributions in Business Architecture, Process Management, Prototyping, and people-based Project Management. He has chaired several high profile conferences on Advanced Knowledge, Information, Technology and Process Management around the world, including Process and Knowledge Management Europe 97 and 98, the National BPR Conference 97, DCI’s Knowledge Management Conferences 98 and 99 as well as Software World and the IBM Executive Summit. Roger is a working practitioner and is regarded as a world authority on the pragmatic issues associated with introducing integrated and multi dimensional change. He apologises in advance for his reliance on common sense.
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Bob
Dibb
EMEA Marketing Manager
IBM Global Business Intelligence Solutions
Having studied Electronics at Portsmouth University, Bob joined IBM in 1975 responsible for planning and implementing IBM’s own international data network. This involved travelling around the world installing network nodes and in training local technicians. During his time in IBM, Bob has managed many major projects including IBM’s first transatlantic satellite link, planning IT infrastructure in new building complexes etc. Bob then moved into a marketing role, first with IBM’s Networking business, and, three years ago into the Global Business Intelligence Solutions area responsible for marketing activities across Europe, Middle East and Africa.
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- KEYNOTE: Flying High with Architecture
Dominique-Bernard
Guillemet
Enterprise Technical Architecture Manager
PSA Peugeot-Citroën
Dominique-Bernard has a scientific background (engineering qualification). He started his career in the IT Dept of Rank Xerox, in charge of technical support of on-line monitor software (mainframe environment). He then joined the IT department of a pharmaceutical wholesaler, in charge of IT operations.
Dominique-Bernard joined PSA Peugeot-Citroën 10 years ago, successively in charge of technical support teams (mainframe and distributed environment), lead infrastructure or operations projects (consolidation of data centre, merging environment etc.). He is currently in charge of the Enterprise Architecture entity, which was created in April 2000.
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Denis
Hageman
SVP Corporate IT, Architecture and Standards
ABN AMRO Bank NV
Denis has a PhD in Nuclear Physics. In 1981 he was System Engineer/Consultant for the Dutch Telecom Organisation. From 1984, ICT in Banking: distributed computing, early ATM networks, Dealing Rooms for Investment Banking, Branch Automation Networks, Global Networking/E-mail, Strategy Studies/Architecture in distributed computing, networking, global transaction services, Corporate ICT Strategy & Architecture (since 1997).
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Andy
Joss
Senior PreSales Consultant
CrossWorlds Software
Andy Joss is a Senior PreSales Consultant for CrossWorlds Software, and provides the technical backup and support to the UK & BeNeLux team. Andy has worked with many of the major European organisations in delivering integration solutions. Andy brings a wealth of practical knowledge of Component and Integration technologies to any business. Prior to CrossWorlds Software, Andy was with Software AG for nearly six years - as Chief Technologist and Senior Integration Consultant. In his role as a Consultant on Software AG's Middleware technologies for four years, Andy has seen the benefits that these technologies bring to an organisation and is a keen advocate of all Component and Integration technologies..
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Senior Advisor Strategy & Technology
Dutch Tax Authority
Allard has a background in theoretical physicist and got his university degree at the University of Amsterdam in 1985. After that he switched to the IT industry in which he has been working for the last 16 years. The first half of his career Allard worked as a programmer, consultant and architect for what is now Cap Gemini, the second half at the Dutch IRS as an IT-architect and IT-strategist.
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Corporate Scientific Officer
Cap Gemini Ernst & Young
prof. Rijsenbrij has worked at Cap Gemini for over 25 years both as a manager and top expert in a wide range of IT areas. He holds a professorship in business informatics at the Free University of Amsterdam. One of his other interests is the subject of the human measure in IT. He states that it is the architect that is ethically responsible for the IT solutions. According to prof. Rijsenbrij there are far to many software engineers that call themselves architect.
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- Track 2: Architecture, Tool to Survive
Architectural Consultant
Microsoft
Phil is an Architectural Consultant in Microsoft Consulting Services, whom he joined in February 2000. He has 25 years of IT experience, 16 of these with IBM. He has also worked for Standard Life in Edinburgh, TRW in Southern California and Bank of America in San Francisco. His international experience includes 9 years working in the USA, 3 years in Canada and 13 years in the UK. He is a large complex systems architect with specialisation in Data Warehousing and in Commercial Message-based application systems.
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Vice President International, Enterprise Architecture Strategies
META Group
Bjorn is a leading expert on enterprise architecture, IT strategy, and business alignment, with more than 20 years of practical international experience. Prior to joining META Group in June 1999, he was consulting and integration services manager (Europe, Middle East, and Asia) at Dell. Previously, he held senior management positions at various companies, including AT&T (Europe, Middle East, and Asia), Digital Equipment, and Hewlett-Packard. Bjorn also researched and promoted emerging network and object-oriented technologies on behalf of The Open Group, SPAG (Standard Promotion and Application Group), OSITOP (the premier user group in Europe), and EMUG (electronic messaging user group). As a business manager, he was formerly export manager at Rhone-Poulenc and consultant in franchising for a French restaurant company. Bjorn received his M.B.A. from University of Economics and Business Administration (St. Gallen, Switzerland).
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John is the originator of the "Framework for Enterprise Architecture" which has received broad acceptance around the world as an integrative framework, or "periodic table" of descriptive representations for Enterprises. He is not only known for this work on Enterprise Architecture, but is also known for his early contributions to IBM’s Information Strategy methodology as well as to their Executive team planning techniques.
He retired from IBM in 1990, having served them for 26 years. He is Chief Executive Officer of the Zachman Institute for Framework Advancement (ZIFA); an organisation dedicated to advancing the conceptual and implementation states of the art in Enterprise Architecture. He also operates his own education and consulting business, Zachman International.
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