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Willie Appel    Willie Appel
VP Intl
META Group

Willie Appel has 20 years of experience in the information technology industry. Before joining META Group in July 1998, he was chief technology architect for the information technology division of Nedcor Bank, one of the four leading banks in South Africa. In this capacity, he was co-responsible for driving the technical architecture strategy for the company and its many diverse business units. Internet/e-commerce development, a key focus area for Nedcor Bank, was his responsibility and is an area that has elevated the bank to the number-one position in South Africa. He began his career with the country's Department of Post and Telecommunications, where he specialized in development of teletext networks and related telecommunications. Willie received a B.S. degree in Computer Network Sciences from the University of Pretoria, South Africa.

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Nigel Austin   

Nigel Austin

Nigel Austin has worked on a number of General & Life Insurance systems at Royal & Sun Alliance over the last 10 years. Most recently working as Technical Architect to the Life and then central UK Architecture teams. During this time his focus has been around message based architectures – now service based architectures – that allow integration across a diverse range of platforms to enable systems to be used for internal and external web enabled applications.

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Trevor Bedeman    Trevor Bedeman
Head of Insurance Customer Data Management
Lloyds TSB Insurance

Trevor Bedeman has been developing Enterprise Architecture within LloydsTSB Insurance. Our maturity was assessed at the 2002 Conference by Meta, and found to be of a strong standard. That is partly because we have an easier job in a medium sized company than those in large groups in achieving business as well as IT engagement. He has run 3 yearly Architecture projects in LTSB Insurance, around customer systems, and together with the partner IT architect created this combined business and IT architecture function.

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Richard Buchanan    Richard Buchanan
VP & Director, Enterprise Planning & Architecture Strategies
META Group

Richard Buchanan 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 modeling. 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 that, he was an analyst in the Computing Strategy Service of Forrester Research. Mr. Buchanan'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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Brian Burke    Brian Burke
VP Intl Enterprise of Planning & Architecture Strategies
META Group

Brian Burke is a global thought leader in IT strategy and enterprise architecture. Brian’s groundbreaking work in the development of federated architectures has been implemented in hundreds of organisations in both the public and private sectors. He is also a prominent researcher and speaker in the areas of IT portfolio management, IT organisational structures, and business/IT alignment. Brian has a broad and diverse background in technology and strategy, gained over 18 years in the industry. Prior to joining META Group in 1998, he held senior management positions with responsibility for the development of IT strategy and architecture and the implementation of emerging technologies, including Internet, knowledge management, data warehouse, groupware, client/server, and LAN/desktop technology.

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David Christmas    David Christmas
The Open University

David Christmas is leading the Open University’s enterprise architecture planning team. He has 17 years IT experience in Higher Education and the motor industry. Recent responsibilities include e-business development, scenario planning and e-learning strategy.

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Anthony Chrumka    Anthony Chrumka
Senior Management Consultant
CMG

Anthony Chrumka: With 15 years consulting experience, Anthony has worked with a wide range of companies from large established financial institutions seeking renewal, to young start-ups in their pre-launch conceptual phase. He has gained experience working within a number of geographic markets, UK, Canada, USA, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy and South Africa. Anthony has defined eBusiness strategic solutions for a captive insurer, a large national IFA and a risk management portal. With a particular interest in virtual organisation business models, he has practical experience launching a virtual Motor Warranty company in the dual role as head of business integration and interim operations manager.

Anthony’s most recent transformation programme was for a large Life & Pensions provider. Anthony managed the model office to develop the processes, procedures and project framework required for a centralised project planning and resourcing system..

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Dr. Andreas Dietzsch    Dr. Andreas Dietzsch
Business Process Engineer
Swiss Mobiliar Insurance Company

Dr. Andreas Dietzsch is currently a Business Process Engineer at Swiss Mobiliar Insurance Company, Bern, Switzerland (Business process engineering, enterprise architecting). Prior to this he provided Consulting services for 1) the DST Dräxlmaier Systemtechnik GmbH Vilsbiburg, Germany (Project management, method engineering), 2) the Department of Finance of Saxony, Dresden, Germany (Project management, business process engineering, method engineering). 3) the city council of Dresden, Dresden, Germany (Business process engineering). From 1993 to 1997 he was a Software Engineer (part time) at Unilink Informationssysteme GmbH, Dresden, Germany (Development of groupware applications). Andreas is Scientific assistant at the Chair of Information Systems, esp. Systems Engineering at the University of Technology Dresden, Dresden, Germany.

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  Sandra Foster   Sandra Foster
Real-time Enterprise Practice Leader
Process Renewal Group

Since spending 13 years with Digital Equipment Corporation, most recently, as a regional manager, Sandy has been a senior practitioner in the Process Renewal Group for the past 8 years. For PRG clients she has led many strategic business process improvement projects. She also teaches innovative courses in Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling and Analysis, Project Management, and Customer Relationship Management. She is a thought leader in methods to architect real time enterprises using adaptable business processes as the glue that binds an enterprise's people, technology and physical infrastructure in order to achieve its desired outcomes.

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Simon Freeman    Simon Freeman
Head of Connective Technologies
Office of the e-Envoy, UK

Simon Freeman has worked most of his professional career in e-business. Working in the financial sector initially he moved to the public sector 3 years ago to start working with the Inland Revenue. The expansion of that project into the Government Gateway saw him move to the Office of the e-Envoy where he has been developing the architecture and products for Government to help meet the 2005 targets ever since.

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Dave Harrison    Dave Harrison
Senior Consultant
Popkin Software

Dave Harrison has worked in the IT Industry for over 30 years. During 22 years with IBM in programming, systems analysis and database administration on a variety of development projects, and latterly in technical support to the IBM sales force, he gained considerable experience in all aspects of the systems development life-cycle. More recently, David has worked for Ordnance Survey (OS) as a Senior Systems Development Consultant. In this role, he established the Design Authority and Enterprise Architecture Teams, and introduced the Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM). He was responsible for defining, promoting and advising on good design practice throughout OS, and acted as mentor in a number of DSDM projects. David is an experienced facilitator of JAD and modelling workshops; he has given many courses, bringing enthusiasm and a thorough and practical knowledge of modelling and systems development to his teaching; he is a strong presenter and frequently presents to groups such as the DSDM Consortium and the SA User Group; and he has long experience of using System Architect both in development projects and to support implementation of an Enterprise Architecture.

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Dale Kutnick    Dale Kutnick
Founder and Chairman, META Group

Dale Kutnick Beyond his responsibilities as META Group's chairman of the board, Mr. Kutnick directs all META Group research and analytic activities, which includes refining the research process and actively working with the research groups to develop Trend Teleconferences, Deltas, and Scenarios, and to manage quality control. Mr. Kutnick served as president and CEO of META Group from 1989 to 2002, and prior to co-founding META Group in January 1989, he was executive vice president of research at Gartner Group. Previously, he was executive director and a principal at Yankee Group, and a principal at Battery Ventures, a venture capital firm. Mr. Kutnick is a graduate of Yale University.

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Daniel Lange    Daniel Lange
IT Strategy
BMW

Daniel Lange is currently responsible for IT Strategy within the BMW Group. After a career in consulting he has held positions in Engineering, Logistics and IT leading international projects since he joined BMW in 1997. His broad background enables him to give valuable insight into industry best practices from strategic IT methodologies down to technical implementation details. He focussed on delivering business value from IT and has sound expertise in a number of 'hard-core' IT infrastructure topics. Daniel is also a highly regarded expert on IT security topics.

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Stuart Macgregor    Stuart Macgregor
CEO
Real IRM Solutions (Pty) Ltd

Stuart Macgregor participated in the development of the Microsoft Enterprise Computing Roadmap (Seattle). He was invited by John Zachman (the pioneer of enterprise architecture) to present a paper (Scottsdale Arizona) on using the Zachman framework to implement ERP systems. He is a member of the SAP AG Global Customer Council for Knowledge Management and a member of the expert panel that developed COBIT 3rd Edition management Guidelines

He co-author of “IT Control Practice Statement – PO9 Assess Risk” and “IT Control Practice Statement – M1 Monitor the Processes”. (Published – www.isaca.org) He assisted a global Life Sciences manufacturer to define their IT governance framework. He also helped a major financial institution to define Global, Regional and Local IT organisational design and strategy. He is also supporting a national electricity supplier on an Enterprise Architecture and Knowledge Management assignment – “the future towards Knowledge Management”.

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Mark McGregor    Mark McGregor
VP, Northern Europe
MEGA International

Mark McGregor works with MEGA International as Vice President responsible for their Northern European operations. Mark has been involved has been in the IT industry for over 20 years and operated in the Modelling and Architecture market for the last 8 years. He has previously held executive positions with Popkin Software and Adaptive Ltd. Mark has also worked in a consultative capacity with Winsoft Ltd (The UK representatives of Proforma Corp). Both in his role at MEGA and with other roles he has travelled widely and gained a great deal of international business experience, Mark has also been closely involved with Analyst relations and so has gained great insight into the views of the major analysts and their evolving views of the market. Throughout his time in the market Mark has written (and had published) numerous articles relating to modelling and Architecture, including “Data is King”, “Enterprise & Architecture”, “Modelling the Development Process” and “When UML is not enough”. Mark has also presented at many conferences over the years where audiences have regularly rated his presentations highly.

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Suzanne Robertson    Suzanne Robertson
Principal & Founder
The Atlantic Systems Guild Ltd

Suzanne Robertson is co-author of Mastering the Requirements Process (Addison-Wesley 1999) a book that provides guidance on finding requirements and writing them so that all stakeholders can understand them. She has more than 30 years experience in systems specification and building. Her courses on requirements, systems analysis, design and problem solving are well known for their innovative workshops and business games. She has varied experience as a manager, programmer, analyst, and designer. She has consulted, done research and taught in Europe, Australia, the Far East and the United States. Current work includes research and consulting on stakeholders’ rights and responsibilities, the specification and reuse of requirements and techniques for assessing requirements specifications. The product of this research is Volere, a complete requirements process and template for assessing requirements quality, and for specifying business requirements.

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Marc Schuuring    Marc Schuuring
Partner@Accenture
Manager of the KLM/ Accenture Partnership

Marc Schuuring presented enterprise architecture workshops, introduction sessions and trainings throughout multiple multinational clients and business divisions in more than 10 countries.

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Martin Sykes    Martin Sykes
Director, Global Applications Architecture
GlaxoSmithKline

Martin Sykes is responsible for identifying the appropriate architectures and technologies for IT solutions to reduce costs and add value across the global GSK organisation. Prior to taking on this role Martin has managed the IT Strategy for the Global Manufacturing & Supply IT group and many large projects in the Research & Development IT organisation. He has over 20 years experience with IT in many different business and technology arenas, including games software; multimedia authoring; robotics; knowledge management; image analysis; control systems and IT architecture.

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John Wells    John Wells
Head of Systems Strategy
Legal and General

John Wells has nearly 20 years experience of the IT industry. He has extensive experience in the delivery of Mainframe, Client Server and E-Commerce systems. He has worked as a process consultant specialising in Project Management and Estimating. He was closely involved in the development of several groundbreaking and award winning E-Commerce systems. In the last 5 years he has specialised in the development of Business System Strategies and Enterprise Architectures.

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Grazyna M Witkowska    Grazyna M Witkowska
Corporate Architect
South Australian Water Corporation


Grazyna M Witkowska combines her extensive information management practice with the depth of knowledge of organisational dynamics. Currently, Grazyna plays the role of corporate architect for SA Water. She sets the architecture goals, defines relevant architecture programs, resources and implements these programs.

Grazyna’s recent assignments include:

  • Strategy for aligning the spatial data for the Hong Kong Government;
  • Enterprise Architecture direction for NSW Health;
  • Promulgation of standards and Application Architectures;
  • Revision of technology architecture and technology standards (NSW Health);
  • Knowledge Management Audit (Optus)
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John Zachman    John Zachman
President
Zachman International

John Zachman 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 of Enterprises. He has been focusing on information strategy and architecture since 1970 and has written a number of articles on those subjects. John is retired from IBM, 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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     Hans Zwitzer
Manager, Strategy Architecture
KLM

Hans Zwitzer presented enterprise architecture training and workshops at KLM, presented a KLM case study of an integrated architecture approach at an Strategic e-Business Integration Seminar of the European Networking Group.

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