Chair Address, Keynotes & Featured Presentation

Tuesday
8 June 2004
09:00 - 09:15

Tuesday
8 June
09:00 - 09:15

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• Embracing the opportunity for enterprise architecture
• Setting realistic expectations for enterprise architecture
• Balancing short term opportunity with the long view

Tuesday
8 June
9:15 - 10:30

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KEYNOTE: Enterprise Architecture Strategy: Defining the Build Sequence
John Zachman, President, Zachman International

Thousands of years of history establish that architecture is fundamental to accommodating complexity and managing change and yet those of us in the information community seem to be searching for some kind of technological magic to accommodate rapid expansion of enterprise complexity and dramatic escalation of the enterprise rate of change. There is no “silver bullet!” Actual work will have to take place. The framework for enterprise architecture defines the set of descriptive representations that constitute architecture for an enterprise. This presentation briefly sketches out the basic logic of the framework and then shows how to define the build sequence of subsystems in three-month increments to end up with an enterprise-wide, coherent, integrated implementation. This presentation is not for the faint of heart or for anyone who is looking for a “quick fix” or an “easy out!”

• Overview of the logic of the framework for enterprise architecture
• Description of the set of models that constitutes the knowledgebase of the enterprise
• Enterprise architecture strategy – defining the build sequence
• Renewed challenge - show me the models!

Featured Speaker

John A. Zachman President Zachman International To Speaker's Bio

Tuesday
8 June
13:15 - 14:30

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FEATURED PRESENTATION: Beyond Zachman: Process Management in the Enterprise
Howard Smith, CTO Europe, CSC

A new wave in business process management is beginning. Although the goals of business process management are ambitious, some of the promises are beginning to be realized. Pi calculus systems are evolving to become the new wave of software infrastructure to manage business processes. Pi calculus, providing a paradigm that is parallel, non-deterministic, and tolerant of change and ambiguity, enables systems to more closely resemble real life. This presentation describes an example of an EA based on the world's first transactional BPMS, taken from a Computer Sciences Corporation case study.

• Understanding the Pi Calculus foundation for process computing
• The evolution of Pi Calculus from past era relational and rules based models
• Process management in a real world example

Featured Speaker

Howard Smith CTO Europe CSC To Speaker's Bio

Tuesday
8 June
13:15 - 14:30

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KEYNOTE: Enterprise Service Oriented Architectures
James McGovern, Enterprise Architect, Hartford Financial Services Group

A Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an architecture that is made up of components and interconnections that stress interoperability, location transparency and platform independence. Service Oriented Architectures is not just about the technology used in Web Services. It is really about designing and building systems using software components. A service-oriented architecture contains services that provide behaviour for use by another component-based architecture based solely on its interface contract.
Many enterprises have incorporated service-oriented architectures as part of their enterprise architecture strategy as a means for solving for integration challenges. The paradigm of find, bind and execute allows organizations to conduct dynamic e-business. In this session, one will learn:

• Interoperability and the business challenges.
• Considerations for adopting a service oriented architecture as part of an organizational integration strategy.
• Using service-orientation to increase return on investment.
• Review the major decisions and changes made in how software development will be approached in the future.
• Perspectives on incorporating agile methods for enterprise development

Featured Speaker

James McGovern Enterprise Architect Hartford Financial Services Group To Speaker's Bio

Wednesday
9 June
9:00 - 10:30

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KEYNOTE: Enterprise Architecture in the Age of Transparency
Don Tapscott, President, New Paradigm Learning Corporation

Transparency is new force rising in business. Nascent for half a century, this force has quietly gained momentum through the last decade; it is now triggering profound changes across the corporate world. This is far more than the obligation to disclose basic financial information. People and institutions that interact with firms are gaining unprecedented access to all sorts of information about corporate behaviour, operations, and performance. Armed with new tools to find information about matters that affect their interests, stakeholders now scrutinize the firm as never before. The corporation is becoming naked. Corporations have no choice but to rethink their values and behaviours - to integrate corporate citizenship into their DNA. If you’re going to be naked, you’d better be buff!

Don Tapscott, almost 15 years ago, first explained the rise of a standards-based enterprise architecture in his book Paradigm Shift. He will discuss:

• The payoff for transparency and integrity -- engaged relationships, better quality and cost management, more innovation, and improved overall business performance
• The rise of “The Open Enterprise” - a new model of the corporation
• The implications of transparency for business and IT strategy - how leaders build transparency and integrity into their business strategy, products and services, brand and reputation, corporate character and enterprise architecture

Featured Speaker

Don Tapscott President New Paradigm Learning Corporation To Speaker's Bio

Wednesday
9 June
13:00 - 14:15

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KEYNOTE: Enterprise Architecture Hits and Misses
Gary Doucet, Executive Director, Architecture, Standards and Engineering, CIO, TBS, Government of Canada

The Government of Canada has been pursuing an aggressive IT program since the late 90's which has its roots in the Government of Canada's Common infrastructure Initiative, Secure Channel project, and Enterprise Architecture Program. The presentation will cover our progress and learning's from these beginnings and the evolution to support of business transformation.

• Key drivers for the Enterprise Architecture Programme
• Success stories and Lessons Learned
• Driving the Architecture Forward to the Future
  

Featured Speakers

Gary Doucet Executive Director Architecture, Standards and Engineering, CIO, TBS Government of Canada To Speaker's Bio