SPEAKERS

Paul Allen Principal Consultant Everware-CBDI

Paul Allen is a principal consultant, author, educator and IT industry analyst with Everware-CBDI International. Paul is widely recognized for his innovative work in component-based development, business-IT alignment and service-oriented architecture. His detailed knowledge stems from over 30 years experience in the management and development of large-scale business systems, and combines with a uniquely practical understanding of the problems companies face as they apply new technologies in search of business value. Paul is a widely published author whose current focus of interest in helping organizations transition to service orientation is detailed in his most recent book - Service Orientation: Winning Strategies and Best Practices - published in April 2006.

Events

• Track 3: EA and SOA: A Marriage made in Heaven?

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Pascal Allouard Senior Associate Booz Allen Hamilton

Pascal Allouard is a management consultant working with Booz Allen Hamilton in London. His main areas of practice include enterprise architecture and business-IT alignment. Pascal has recently been involved in a CIO-level IT transformation programme to “get IT right” within a top five UK bank. Prior to this role, within City Practitioners and Detica, Pascal worked for Lloyds TSB on a CRM project and developed a global product architecture for Hutchison 3G. Pascal started his consulting career in France and the US with Ernst & Young Cap Gemini. Pascal has an engineering degree from Ecole Centrale de Lyon (France), completed by an MBA from the International University of Japan and the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

Events

• Track 1: World-class IT - A new approach to IT transformation

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Amitabh Apte Head of Enterprise Architecture Group SITA

Amitabh Apte, is the head of Enterprise Architecture Practice for SITA. He is a TOGAF certified Enterprise Architect with MS Computer Science degree. Prior to SITA, Amit was the Head Architect at Star Alliance in Germany for four years. Prior to this role, Amit has rich experience in software lifecycle, outsourcing, distributed architectures and had travelled globally to deliver solutions. SITA is the world's leading service provider of integrated IT business solutions and communication services for the air transport industry. SITA manages complex communication solutions for its airlines, airports, ground handlers, government and GDS customers over the world's most extensive communication network. SITA covers 220 countries and territories and the head office is in Geneva, Switzerland. SITA had aggregated revenues of US$ 1.554 billion in 2005 (€ 1.295 billion).

Events

• Track 2: Enterprise Architecture Roadblocks and Negotiation Strategies

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Adrian Apthorp Head of Architecture DHL Express Europe

Adrian Apthorp is currently head of IT Architecture for DHL Express Europe. In his 18 years with DHL, Adrian has played a number of IT Architecture roles in different parts of the world, including London, Singapore, Brussels and currently Prague. His experience has been mainly in highly distributed message based system and the application of service oriented techniques. He has also worked with leaders in the field of business process management, contributing to books such as Business Process Management - The Third Wave. Adrian is a Chartered Engineer and Member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (previously IEE).

Events

• Track 2: Joined-up Architecture, Aligning Business and IT Change

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Sohel Aziz Principal Architect Infosys Technologies

Sohel Aziz is a Principal Architect with Infosys Technologies, Ltd, France. Sohel received an MBA from INSEAD, France and a Bachelors degree in Information Systems and Computer Science from National University of Singapore, Singapore. He has over 14 years of experience as a technology architect and strategist, technology program manager and analyst. He has extensive experience in Enterprise and Technical Architecture Assessment and Definition, Technology Product Selection and Technology Business Case Development. His current focus areas are Enterprise Architecture and effective governance models for ensuring business-IT alignment through leveraging architecture.

Events

• Track 4: The Flat World: Implications on Enterprise Architecture

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Ian Bailey Managing Director Model Futures

Events

• Track 3: Ontology as an Enabler to Enterprise Architecture

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Sally Bean Independent Consultant

Sally Bean has over 15 years experience in Enterprise Architecture, mostly gained in British Airways. Here she worked on some major architectural projects, including Terminal 5, and helped to champion many successful initiatives to share data and systems more effectively across the organization. More recently, she has been working as a consultant, helping large organizations in the private and public sector to develop their architecture practice and implement architecture frameworks and methods.

Events

• Workshop 6: Achieving the Promise of Enterprise Architecture

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Frank Boterenbrood Information Architect Windesheim University

Frank Boterenbrood is Information Architect at the Windesheim University of professional education in the Netherlands. In the past, he was Information Architect at Wehkamp, the number one online retailer in the Netherlands, and Univé Insurance, a mid-sized Dutch insurance company. At Univé Insurance, Wehkamp and Windesheim Frank Boterenbrood introduced Information Architecture using the Alignment Chain as a means to establish a common view on the role information architecture has to play. At Windesheim, he developed a practical way to address stakeholder concerns and yet create a single set of easily maintainable architectural descriptions. Over the years, Frank perfected the use of architecture principles and published this approach in the Netherlands in the form of a book for higher education (ISBN 90 395 2336 3).

Events

• Track 3: The Alignment Chain: a Principle-based Approach to Architecture

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Phil Brennan ICT Strategy Manager Thames Valley Police

Events

• Track 2: Enterprise Architecture for the Police Service

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David Byrne Architecture Director Carphone Warehouse

Events

• Track 2: Shoeing the cobbler's children, using EA to build "ERP for IT"

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Andrew Cheshire Senior Business Analyst Schroders

Andrew Cheshire is a Senior Business Analyst at Schroders and has several years experience in the asset management industry. He has recently been leading system selection, business case development and design of a major portfolio accounting platform which is the basis for this case study.

Events

• Track 2: Effective use of EA in Project Delivery

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Lorne Clark Business Analysis Manager MEGA Intl.

Events

• Track 2: Light at the end of the Tunnel

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Sue Davison Information and Business Process Architect GlaxoSmithKline

Sue Davison completed a PhD in Radiobiology at the University of Leeds 20 years ago, and then joined Glaxo Group Research (later GlaxoWellcome then GlaxoSmithKline) in the Clinical Data Management Group in the Research and Development division. Having a high interest in IT she quickly moved into the group supporting and managing clinical applications.

She then worked as an ORACLE Application DBA developing and supporting an ORACLE repository to help applications share common data. This provided a very early exposure to Enterprise Architecture, although it was not called EA at the time. When the first formal Enterprise Architecture group was set up in 1999 her previous experience led her to be appointed to the Information Architect Role where she worked as part of a team implementing an EA top down following the Zachman Framework.

Events

• Track 2: Light at the end of the Tunnel

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Graham Doig Service Line Architect Microsoft

Graham Doig has worked in IT for over 30 years in roles such as developer, database administrator and enterprise architect. Today Graham works as a Service Line Architect in the Microsoft Strategy Consulting practice. In this role Graham works with business executives and technical influencers in customers, partners, and the IT industry, advising on innovative, high business value, mission critical solutions. Graham also provides comprehensive support for the identification of business value and the development of business cases for the solutions he develops. At present Graham is focused on the use of Microsoft Services Business Architecture (MSBA), a methodology developed by Microsoft to organize, measure, and evaluate business capabilities, as a means for establishing solid business foundations for the development of IT solutions.

Events

• Track 3: Capability Mapping - A Foundation for Service-Oriented Architecture

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Mike Edwards Senior Practice Director Troux Technologies Ltd

Mike Edwards is a Senior Practice Director for Troux Technologies, with over 17 years experience in Enterprise Architecture, Business Transformation & IT Governance, delivering value from architecture & bridging the Business to IT gap.

Mike began his EA career with TSB Bank plc in 1990. Following the merger of Lloyds and TSB Banks in 1997, Mike became Strategy and Infrastructure Manager for Swinton Insurance Group, followed by a period as an EA consultant for the DWP, HM Revenue and Customs and Unilever, before introducing the Metis solution set to the UK market in 2004. Over the years, Mike has acquired deep insight, not only in the implementation of business value-driven, automated tool solutions for EA and Governance, but also into the people science and methodologies for successful, pragmatic EA environments.

In his spare time, Mike flies his own aircraft and keeps his musical skills polished by playing bass guitar in a rock band.

Events

• Track 4: Troux Stories: The EA Teams Delivering Serious Business and IT Transformation Results

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Neil Fairhead Director, Enterprise Architecture Serco Consulting

Neil Fairhead is a senior IT professional with experience in both IT and business consulting. He has initiated the development of significant changes in large corporations including introducing office automation and new enterprise and technology architectures in major customers, the first service engineering program in DEC, and the Microsoft Operations Framework in Microsoft. He has a proven ability to lead enterprise architecture, technology strategy and implementation programmes. He combines deep knowledge of IT challenges with understanding of the business requirements that drive change.

Events

• Workshop 1: Getting Started in Enterprise Architecture

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John Good Managing Consultant, Enterprise Architecture Serco Consulting

John Good is an enterprise architect with a wide range of experience in technology strategy, architecture, planning, delivery and procurement. He specialises in assisting major organisations establish Enterprise Architecture capability and in developing associated delivery strategies. He has direct experience of delivery of interoperability, data and information, applications and process architectures; has managed architecture services in outsourced environments; has managed and delivered major technology strategies and has operationally managed information systems in a multinational corporate environment.

Events

• Workshop 1: Getting Started in Enterprise Architecture

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Peter Haine Independent Consultant

Peter Haine has worked in Systems and Enterprise Architecture as a consultant, and in major corporations, for over 20 years. He has been responsible for project and architecture delivery in public and private sector organisations globally, including GlaxoSmithKline, the MOD, Pilkington Glass, Rolls Royce and Associates, the Post Office, and English Heritage. He also pioneered a Masters programme in Information Systems at Coventry University and has delivered executive and practitioner seminars with James Martin’s organisation and also with Codd and Date and Savant.

Events

• Workshop 6: Achieving the Promise of Enterprise Architecture

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John Hall Model Systems

I began using the Zachman Framework as a basis for enterprise architecture at AC Nielsen (Chicago) in 1989.I continued as a consultant to that project until mid 1992, also supervising up to 4 other Model Systems staff.

Since then, I have continued to use the Framework, both in Model Systems and the Business Rules Group.
My most recent major architecture assignment was mentoring and coaching Business Architecture and Technical Architecture groups in Swisscom Mobile (Bern), from 2002 - 2005, using the Zachman Framework.

In 2006 I have been heavily involved in standards work, particularly with OMG and W3C, and have not done much work with user companies. I am discussing an assignment scheduled for early 2007 to support setup of a new mobile phone company, using the BMM.

Events

• Track 3: Business Motivation and Business Architecture

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Michael Hu Enterprise Architecture Practise Accenture

Dr. Michael Hu is an enterprise strategist and architect at Accenture with over 15 year international development and project management experience in both the public and private sector. His core areas of competence include working with large-scale telecommunications, IT infrastructure, distributed IS systems, IT transformation and optimization, enterprise architecture and modeling and EA governance/planning.

Events

• Track 4: Enterprise Partnership/Operating Models for EAPlanning and Execution

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Judith Jones Principal Consultant Architecting the Enterprise

Events

• Track 2: TOGAF Case Studies

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Stan Locke Managing Director Zachman Framework Associates

Stan Locke is the Managing Director of Zachman Framework Associates and has provided consulting support to Canada’s leading organisations. He has vast experience in model management integration, software engineering and project implementation. 

Events

• Workshop 3: Bridging Zachman Theory with Implementation
• Track 1: Architecting Federated Businesses

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Andrew Manning Strategy Manager Centrica

Andrew Manning is an Enterprise Architect who has been developing process, data and functional architectures for nearly 20 years. He has worked in several blue chip companies, including international organisations and a dynamic e-commerce consultancy. He has used a range of architectural approaches, modelling techniques, methodologies and tools. His main focus is using models and architectures to achieve business benefit, support strategic alignment, integration, reuse and continuous improvement. This includes work on BPM, content management and portals. 

Events

• Track 3: Integrating Enterprise Architecture Tools in Large Companies

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John Mayall Director EAS

John Mayall is a director of EAS, an enterprise architecture consultancy, and has several years experience, across various industries and companies, of implementing enterprise architecture practices and processes. 

Events

• Track 2: Effective use of EA in Project Delivery

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Wesley McGregor CGI Inc.

Wesley McGregor, is Senior Advisor at CGI Inc., former Senior Advisor to the Federal CTO, Government of Canada, brings over 23 years of experience in the public and private sectors to lead the Government of Canada’s strategic efforts in the areas of Service Orientation and Application Design. His current focus is on formulating the Agile Vision and Design Framework for the public sector based on his recently published work, The Government of Canada Service Oriented Architecture (GC SOA) and his participation in the OASIS SOA Reference Model Technical Committee.

Previous to his engagement at Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, Mr. McGregor founded several consulting companies specializing in Web Technologies and Network Management. Prior to his foray into the consulting world, Mr. McGregor was employed at Cognos Inc and Bell-Northern Research.

Mr. McGregor received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Mathematics at Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Events

• Track 3: From the OASIS to the Quicksand

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Stephen McIlroy Head of Matrix Architecture BT

Stephen McIlroy has over 15 years experience in the Telecoms and IT industry spanning Enterprise Architecture, Project Management and Systems and Software Development. Over the last 5 years he has been a significant contributor to BT Retail, and more recently all of BT’s IT Systems Architecture and Evolution strategy. Currently he is Head of BT’s Enterprise IT Architecture team, who are leading a significant architecture shift within BT to an SOA paradigm. 

Events

• Track 2: Realising an Enterprise SOA

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Stephanie McMahon ICT Architecture Manager Thames Valley Police

Stephanie McMahon has been at Thames Valley Police since November 2005. She started her technology career in a communications support role, moving onto project support and then spent several years in change and configuration management. Stephanie has spent the past four years working on enterprise architecture modelling projects and has a keen interest in architectural views and diagram notation. Stephanie has studied extensively with the Open University. 

Events

• Track 2: Enterprise Architecture for the Police Service

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Nigel Megitt Senior Technical Architect BBC

Nigel Megitt has over 10 years of experience in the broadcasting industry, having worked at the BBC’s Research & Development department for most of that time. While there he architected and lead development of a complex multi-tier application, gaining in-depth experience in the domains of integration, interoperability, business to business communication, data and workflow. More recently he has shifted focus into enterprise architecture, and has undertaken several architectural engagements for the BBC over the past year. 

Events

• Track 1: Working with Major Architectural Programmes in the BBC

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Geoff Morris Applications Portfolio Manager, R&M DCT BP

Events

• Track 4: Using the Enterprise Architecture to Operationalize IT Strategy

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Martin Owen VP Enterprise Architecture Products Telelogic

With 15 years of experience, Martin Owen has played a key role in elevating Telelogic (formerly Popkin) to the leader’s position in the Enterprise Architecture tools and services market.

Martin has experience of many methodologies and industry standard practices and has a wide range of programming, development and project management skills.

Martin was involved in the development of the Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN) with the BPMI.org (now part of the OMG) and has developed frameworks that allow Telelogic’s customers to model, design, and implement their Enterprise Architecture.

Events

• Track 4: Should EA and BPA coexist independently within an organization?

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Piyush Pant Managing Consultant Serco Consulting

Events

• Track 4: People-Led Enterprise Architecture: Keeping EA out of the Ivory Tower

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George S Paras Managing Director EAdirections

Mr. Paras is a widely recognized speaker, writer, coach and thought leader in Enterprise Architecture (EA), Strategy and Planning, Portfolio Management and IT Governance with more than 26 years of information technology and business experience. He has coached hundreds of IT leaders in the practical aspects of creating effective and successful EA programs at organizations as diverse as Canadian Pacific Railway, W.W. Grainger, United Airlines, Dow Chemical, State of Missouri, U.S. Navy, Bank of America, U.K. Federal Government, Allstate, and Sears Canada. His insights and perspectives have advanced the EA discipline through his positions as Chairman, featured speaker and EAC Thought Leadership Council member for the Enterprise Architectures Conferences (EAC) and as Editor-in-Chief of Architecture and Governance Magazine. Mr. Paras has also held positions as Vice President and Service Director of the Enterprise Planning and Architecture Strategies group at META Group, Vice President of Strategy at Troux Technologies, Senior Enterprise Architect at a major airline, and with IBM and several start-up technology companies. He is currently a Managing Director at EAdirections, which he founded with Larry R. DeBoever and Tim Westbrock. 

Events

• Workshop 5: Governance and Enterprise Architecture - Making Sense of the Enterprise Governance Ecosystem
• KEYNOTE: The Past, Present and Future of Enterprise Architecture

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Neil Peachey Head of Enterprise Architecture Royal & SunAlliance

Neil Peachey has 22 years experience in the IS industry, 13 of which have been as an architect. He has worked with R&SA for 19 years, during which he has completed projects encompassing all major UK business areas and channels. His roles at R&SA have included strategic and tactical direction and decision making, and architectural best practice development and coaching. He has also worked as the technical lead for propositions, technical architect for the Evita Strategy, technical architect for Programme Anthony, solutions architect for CR1, project manager for both Java Frameworks and Methodology Development, and has had design authority for single view. Between 1997 and 2007, he worked on most major of the R&SA UK initiatives including Monaco, Telematics, EMU and Merger Solution ITT MR1. Prior to this, he worked at Royal UK. There he was the project manager for technical architecture direct systems and led the Internet Systems project, where he was personally responsible for getting Royal to be the first UK Insurer on the web. He also led the Front-End Systems project, where he held the first role as architect and promoter of patterns and standards.

Events

• Track 4: Enterprise Partnership/Operating Models for EAPlanning and Execution

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Rob Poels Senior Consultant Twynstra

 Events

• Track 1: IT Architects and Organisational Change

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Chris Potts Director Dominic Barrow

Chris Potts is the leading expert in value-driven strategies for exploiting IT. With twenty years’ experience in business and IT strategies, Enterprise Architecture and hands-on delivery, he provides practical advice, hands-on support and skills transfer to blue-chip companies in a range of industries around the world. 

Events

• FEATURED PRESENTATION: Measuring the Contribution of Enterprise Architecture

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Keith Robinson Enterprise Information Systems Director SIL International

Events

• Track 1: The Challenge of Acceptance: Strategies for changing attitudes for successful EA Integration

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Michael Rosen Director of Enterprise Architecture Cutter Consortium

Michael Rosen is Director of Cutter Consortium’s Enterprise Architecture Practice and Senior Consultant with its Business-IT Strategies Practice. He has more than 20 years of technical leadership experience architecting, designing, and developing software products and applications. Currently, he provides expert consulting services in the areas of EA, SOA, and MDA. Previously, Mr. Rosen was CTO at M2VP, Inc., a consultancy concentrating in IT architecture, where he developed the company’s practice area using MDA to specify and implement EA. He also was Chief Enterprise Architect at IONA Technologies, PLC, where he was engaged in the development of the overall product architecture for IONA’s next-generation Web services platform and in the creation of the reference architecture for building applications on that platform. Prior to joining IONA, Mr. Rosen was Chief Enterprise Architect at Genesis Development Corporation, where he provided architecture consulting on large-scale applications and infrastructure for Global 1000 clients in insurance, finance, and telecommunications. While at Genesis, he led the development and formalization of a generic enterprise architecture and software development practices used throughout the company. Before joining Genesis, Mr. Rosen was a product architect, technical leader, and developer for numerous commercial middleware products for vendors including BEA and Digital. His involvement in product development includes Web services, Java, CORBA, COM, messaging, transaction processing, DCE, networking, and operating systems.

Events

• KEYNOTE: Delivering Value with Architecture

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Angelo Roxas Associate Director Barclays Capital

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• Track 1: World-class IT - A new approach to IT transformation

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Kathie Sowell FEAC Institute

Ms. Sowell was the technical lead and principal author of the C4ISR Architecture Framework, Versions 1.0, 2.0 and 2.1, and a consultant o the current version of the Framework, called the DoD Architecture Framework (DODAF), Version 1.0. This framework is mandated for use in the US Department of Defense and is being used and adapted by the US Intelligence Community, NATO, and many foreign countries.

Her main focus has been to harmonize, as much as practical and desirable, some of the architecture approaches used across the Federal Government. As a part of this effort, Ms. Sowell was instrumental in incorporating DoD architecture artifacts into other US Government frameworks

Ms. Sowell provides consultation and training to many organizations and is a frequent speaker at architecture forums. She provides consultation to tool vendors to ensure that their tools adequately support Government frameworks. She developed a DoD-focused curriculum for certification of architects for the Federal Enterprise Architecture Certification Institute (FEAC), resident at California State University, and is the Track Manager for the DoD track of the FEAC and a senior faculty member for both the DoD and Civilian tracks of the FEAC.

Events

• Track 1: A Reasonable Approach to Enterprise Architecture

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Andrew Spalding Director Dow Jones Consulting Services, EMEA DOW JONES

Andrew Spalding has more than 20 years experience in the electronic business information industry in a variety of technical development and consulting positions.

Andrew came to Reuters from Xerox in 1990 as a software developer working on Reuters Business Briefing products and then led the development team to adapt range for a new expanding market. In 1999, Andrew was seconded to the Reuters News group as Technical Manager for a business critical project to replace the Reuters Editorial System, after which he became development manager for Reuters PowerPlus Pro. In 2000, Andrew joined Factiva Consulting Services to build the consulting business in Europe. In January 2007 Andrew became Director of Dow Jones Consulting Services, EMEA.

Events

• Track 4: Maximising Information Workflow - How to Make Information Accessible and Relevant

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Paul Teeuwen Senior Consultant Labyrint IT Strategy Solutions

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• Track 1: IT Architects and Organisational Change

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Guy Tozer Consulting Enterprise Architect dQ Consultancy

Guy Tozer is a senior consultant with over 25 years experience in IT. He has significant specialist knowledge in the areas of Enterprise Architecture and Information Management, reinforced by a wide experience in implementing these ideas in large-scale businesses.

In the Information management arena, Guy is a recognised thought leader on corporate data and information control practices, being one of the first to espouse the need for strong metadata-driven backbones to drive IT management activities. He draws on many years experience of helping large organisations migrate to well-architected approaches, through profound understanding of the issues involved, tempered with experience in dealing with the human and financial factors.

Events

• Track 1: Reuse and Reusability in Enterprise Architecture

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Rick van der Lans Industry Analyst R20/Consultancy

Rick F. van der Lans is an independent consultant, author and lecturer specialising in XML, data warehousing, application integration, and information modelling. He is Managing Director of R20/Consultancy based in The Netherlands. Rick has advised many large companies worldwide on defining their data warehouse architectures. Rick van der Lans is an internationally acclaimed lecturer. For the last fifteen years, he has been presenting professionally, and has lectured in many of the European countries, South America, the USA, and in Australia. He has presented many keynote speeches at international events. He is chairman of the Database Systems Show (organised annually in The Netherlands since 1984), he is columnist for two major newspapers in the Benelux, called Computable and DataNews. Additionally, he is advisor for magazines such as Software Release Magazine and Database Magazine. His popular books, including 'Introduction to SQL' and 'The SQL Guide to Oracle', have been translated into many languages and have sold over 100,000 copies. Recently, he has published a very successful book on presentation skills.

Events

• KEYNOTE: Ten golden rules for designing a SOA

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Marlies van Steenbergen Principal Consultant Sogeti Netherlands

Marlies van Steenbergen is principal consultant enterprise architecture at Sogeti Netherlands with more than 10 years experience as an enterprise architect. She now works as an advisor and coach in the field of enterprise architecture. As such she has guided many organizations in the implementation of an effective enterprise architecture practice. Marlies van Steenbergen is one of the founders of DYA® , an approach to developing and improving an effective architectural practice and co-author of the books Dynamic Enterprise Architecture, how to make it work and Building an enterprise architecture practice. She chairs Sogeti's Architectural Competence Network. Marlies has published several articles and is a frequent speaker at architecture seminars both at home and abroad. 

Events

• Track 3: The Alignment Chain: a Principle-based Approach to Architecture

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Peter Ward Enterprise Architect Fujitsu Services

Peter Ward is an experienced, respected and enthusiastic IT practitioner. His practical approach has successfully transformed applications development at many companies, in various industries and at all scales. Peter is skeptical of any “silver bullets” and believes in good people, good tools, good practice and hard work. He is currently Enterprise Architect with Fujitsu Services Ltd.

Events

• Track 1: Finding the EA Approach to Suit your Organisation

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Guest Speaker: Major Rob White Ministry of Defence

Events

• Track 4: Troux Stories: The EA Teams Delivering Serious Business and IT Transformation Results

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Lawrence Wilkes Director and Principle Consultant Everware-CBDI International

Events

• Workshop 4: SOA and Business Service Architecture Principles

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Eoin Woods Director, Technical Architect UBS Investment Bank

Eoin Woods has been working in the software engineering field since 1990 for companies including Ford, Groupe Bull, Sybase, InterTrust and Zuhlke Engineering, in applied research, server product development, consultancy and large-scale information systems implementation roles. Today, Eoin is employed as a software and enterprise architect by UBS Investment Bank, in the exchange traded derivatives IT area. His main technical interests are software architecture, distributed systems, computer security, and data management and he is co-author of the book "Software Systems Architecture: Working With Stakeholders Using Viewpoints and Perspectives", published by Addison Wesley. Eoin can be contacted via his web site at www.eoinwoods.info. 

Events

• Track 3: Agile Architecture - How much is enough?

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John Zachman President Zachman International

John A. 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 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.

Mr. Zachman 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 organization 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.

Events

• Workshop 2: Introduction to the Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture
• Introduction from the Chair
• KEYNOTE: Managing Complexity and Change

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