Keynotes and Featured Presentation

Tuesday
12 June
09:15 - 10:15

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KEYNOTE: The Past, Present and Future of Enterprise Architecture
George S. Paras, Managing Director, EAdirections

The enterprise architecture discipline has grown steadily over its relatively short life. While early EA activity focused on the creation of “architectures”, the discipline has recently evolved to become a holistic integration point, joining together management activities ranging from strategic planning to project enablement, asset analysis, portfolio management and IT governance. Today’s best EA programs occupy a leadership role in the management practices of the modern enterprise, driving major change in the way organizations embrace emerging concepts like BPM and SOA. The current state of the EA discipline did not come easily, nor did it progress linearly. It improved in parallel, across multiple fronts, based on the aggregate experiences of practitioners from enterprises with different needs, opportunities, and cultural behaviours. This trend will continue, giving EA practitioners a rich collection of mature practices as starting points to expand the EA role, delivering value deeper and broader across the enterprise.

• EA, the Early Years - forming the foundation
• Where we are today - the multiple aspects of today’s EA discipline, a core management practice
• EA is in the eye of the beholders -the EA discipline is greater than the sum of the practitioners
• What the future holds - The future of EA is tied to the future of IT
• Risks vs. Rewards - Is the EA discipline growing too complex? Or just right?
  

Featured Speaker

George S. Paras Managing Directo EA Directions To Speaker's Bio

Tuesday
12 June
14:00 - 15:00

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SOA is now as much reality as hype. Most organisations are designing or implementing one. But which ones are doing it right, and which ones are getting lost in too much technology? When designing a SOA, there are so many questions to ask. In this keynote ten important guidelines are discussed that will help you establish a successful SOA. These guidelines are based on experiences in various real life SOA projects and will address the following issues:

• Should we start with the business processes and design the SOA top down?
• Should we drown in small, little services?
• How do we manage and control this highly distributed environment?
• What about governance?

Featured Speaker

Rick van der Lans Industry Analyst R20/Consultancy To Speaker's Bio

Wednesday
13 June
09:00 - 10:00

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KEYNOTE: Managing Complexity and Change
John Zachman, President, Zachman International

Enterprise Architecture is a much misunderstood subject by General Management and the Information Technology community alike. Enterprise Architecture has everything to do with managing Enterprise complexity and Enterprise change and relates to information technology only in so far as information technology may be one choice that an Enterprise can make with regard to Enterprise operations. The Framework for Enterprise Architecture, the “Zachman Framework,” defines the set of descriptive representations that constitutes the knowledgebase required to manage Enterprises. This presentation will show, with examples, how these representations constitute the “raw material” for engineering the Enterprise for flexibility, integration, reusability, interoperability, alignment, etc.

• Enterprise Architecture - impact on Management
• Examples of descriptive representations of the Enterprise
• Making the Enterprise lean and mean

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John Zachman Zachman International To Speaker's Bio

Wednesday
13 June
09:00 - 10:00

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FEATURED PRESENTATION: Measuring the Contribution of Enterprise Architecture
Chris Potts, Director, Dominic Barrow

There can sometimes be a gap between knowing that Enterprise Architecture is an indispensable capability and being able to measure its actual value. The impact on Enterprise Architects is that they may underplay their potential, applying their skills and knowledge in a partial vacuum of knowing whether they are making the most telling contribution.

From his hands-on work with Enterprise Architects in industry-leading companies, both here in the UK and around the world, Chris will highlight how people target and measure EA’s contribution to business results.

• Where EA can most impact business results
• Who does EA benefit most?
• The Enterprise Architect’s dashboard
• Real stories: what works, and what doesn’t

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Chris Potts Director, Dominic Barrow To Speaker's Bio

Wednesday
13 June
13:45- 14:45

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KEYNOTE: Delivering Value with Architecture
Michael Rosen, Director of Enterprise Architecture, Cutter Consortium

To stay competitive today, enterprises must go beyond mere cost control and use IT to deliver business agility, flexibility and value. Yet too often, attempts with Enterprise Architecture or Service-Oriented Architecture fail to control costs, deliver value to the business, or affect change at the enterprise. But it doesn't have to be this way. We forget that the value of architecture comes not from creating it, but from applying it to applications. This keynote will describe trends and practices in IT architecture including:

• Best practices in SOA, governance, metrics and organizational structure
• Delivering value and results from your architecture activities
• Structuring EA to deliver services
• Enabling compliance, reducing exceptions, increasing adoption

Featured Speaker

Michael Rosen Director of Enterprise Architecture Cutter Consortium To Speaker's Bio