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Paul Allen

Paul Allen
Principal Consultant
Everware-CBDI International


Paul Allen is a principal consultant, author, and educator 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.

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Adrian Apthorp

Adrian Apthorp
Head of Architecture
DHL Express Europe


Adrian Apthorp is currently Head of IT Architecture for DHL Express Europe. In his 19 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 designing enterprise-wide application architectures enabled through message based systems and 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).

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Daljit Banger

Daljit Banger
Practice Director
White Knight Management


Daljit Roy Banger is a London based principal consultant with White Knight Management Ltd (UK). Daljit has 25 years solid IT Industry experience, having undertaken assignments in the USA, Sweden, Switzerland, Finland, Hong Kong to name but a few, on behalf of large multi-national companies.

Daljits focus as practice director of White Knight Management is in the realisation of Enterprise Architecture and he specialises in turning around failing practices, rejuvenating, rescuing and delivering value from Enterprise Architecture teams embedded within blue chip organisations.

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Sally Bean

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.

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Alan Burnett

Alan Burnett
Director of EA Professional Services
Telelogic, An IBM Company


Alan Burnett, Director of EA Professional Services, has 12 years experience of implementing Enterprise Architecture projects for Telelogic’s clients. Alan is responsible for delivering solutions to large and small customers throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

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Khan Busby

Khan Busby
Director of Enterprise Architecture Services
Accenture


Mr. Khan Busby is the director of Accenture’s UK/Ireland Enterprise Architecture services. With 25 years of IT industry and consulting experience, Mr. Busby has lead major change initiatives in architecture and programme management roles with large financial services organizations including post-merger integration, IT strategy and governance, IT transformation, systems replatforming and SOA. Mr. Busby also served as interim CIO for a major UK-based financial services company.

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Alix Cheema

Alix Cheema
CTO
Group Central Functions
Lloyds TSB


Alix Cheema is currently CTO for Group Central Functions and has spent his career in strategy and architecture roles. He has held leadership roles in the public sector and was the Chief Architect at Smiths AeroSpace Defence where he successfully led a multi-million pound transformation programme across Finance, HR, Procurement and Manufacturing. Alix has also co-founded two technology start-up companies based in the US and UK. Early in his career, Alix held Software Engineering positions with Hitachi Europe and Sun Microsystems. He is currently authoring a book on Enterprise Architecture and is studying towards an MBA at Oxford University.

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Marion Eastmond

Marion Eastmond
Systems Architect
John Lewis



Marion Eastmond has worked in John Lewis' IT department for 17 years taking a variety of roles from cobol programmer to lead analyst and project manager. For the past 7 years she has been a Systems Architect with responsibilities including mentoring development teams, advising on the architectural impact of projects and investigating the potential impact of internal and external initiatives such as introducing the euro into the UK. For the last 3 years she has also been part of a small team developing enterprise architecture at John Lewis.

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Roger Evernden

Roger Evernden
Enterprise Architect


Roger Evernden has been working as an Enterprise Architect for more than 20 years. In the 1980s he developed concepts and principles for Westpac’s pioneering CS90 project – widely regarded as the prototype sense-and-respond architecture. Roger’s work on Westpac’s Enterprise Business Model laid a foundation for IBM’s financial service industry models. In the late 1980s he worked with IBM to develop key parts of the Financial Application Architecture, being responsible for the data and process dimensions.

Experiences at Westpac and with leading financial institutions in the USA resulted in the development of the Information FrameWork (IFW), which Roger developed for the exclusive use of IBM in 1990. [IFW is a 2nd generation architecture framework, populated by a set of industry reference models and templates. IBM’s Systems Journal published Roger’s seminal article on IFW - describing its evolution from the Zachman framework - in 1996.] Roger worked with IBM for 7 years, formulating practical architectural initiatives with major banks around the world.

From 1995 Roger became an EA mentor, advising leaders and organisations on effective architectural practice. His book “Information First”, published in 2003, has been described as “enterprise architecture for the information savvy”.

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Mike Ferguson

Mike Ferguson
Managing Director
Intelligent Business Strategies Ltd


Mike Ferguson is Managing Director of Intelligent Business Strategies Limited. As an analyst and consultant he specialises in business intelligence and enterprise business integration. With over 26 years of IT experience, Mike has consulted for dozens of companies on enterprise architecture, business intelligence, technology selection, enterprise portals, business process integration, SOA, data integration and master data management. He has spoken at events all over the world and written numerous articles. Mike is a resident expert on the Business Intelligence Network, providing articles, blogs and his insights on the industry. Formerly he was a principal and co-founder of Codd and Date Europe Limited – the inventors of the Relational Model, a Chief Architect at NCR on the Teradata DBMS and European Managing Director of Database Associates. He teaches popular Enterprise 2.0 master classes in Service Oriented Architecture, Enterprise Portals, Operational Business Intelligence and Performance Management, and Master Data Management.

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David Ferré

David Ferré
Senior Product Manager
alfabet AG


David Ferré, 43, is the Senior Product Manager at alfabet AG, the international standard software provider for strategic IT planning and management based in Berlin. Mr. Ferré’s responsibilities include business development as well as market and competitive analysis. Before joining alfabet, he was a company officer and Vice President of the Data Centre business unit with Beta Systems Software AG, where he had P&L responsibility for Identity Management and Scheduling Portfolios. Previously, he also served as a Senior Product Manager for Document Management Solutions at Beta Systems Software AG. David Ferré was born in England and has lived in Berlin for the past 18 years. After completing his studies at Sheffield University, he held various positions as a developer, project manager and manager of software development before dedicating himself to Business Unit Management at Beta Systems Software AG.

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Simon Field

Simon Field
Chief Technology Officer
Office for National Statistics


Simon Field joined the Office for National Statistics in summer 2004. His responsibilities include Enterprise and Technical Architecture, IT Strategy and Information Assurance.

Prior to joining ONS, Simon spent six years leading the e-business research team at IBM's European Research Laboratory in Zurich. He has authored numerous patents, journal articles and a book chapter on the topics of distributed matching and electronic negotiations. Simon has also retained a long-standing interest in AI and machine learning, having contributed to the application of these technologies in the retail banking and insurance industries earlier in his career.

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Clive Finkelstein, MD

Clive Finkelstein, MD
Information Engineering Services


Clive Finkelstein is acknowledged worldwide as the "Father" of Information Engineering, and is Managing Director of Information Engineering Services Pty Ltd in Australia. He has published many books and papers. He provides training and consulting in all aspects of Enterprise Architecture, with rapid delivery of priority areas using Enterprise Engineering. During implementation he moves organizations to rapid implementation using XML, Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture, (SOA) Business Process Management (BPM) and Enterprise Portals. His application of these methods in large and medium Government, Defence and Commercial enterprises results in rapid delivery of Enterprise Architecture in 3-month increments, so enterprises can plan for and achieve rapid business change. This session is based on methods and technologies covered in his latest book: “Enterprise Architecture for Integration: Rapid Delivery Methods and Technologies”, by Clive Finkelstein, Artech House, Norwood MA (March 2006).

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Anthony Golledge

Anthony Golledge
Head of Enterprise Architecture, Government Division
Detica


Anthony Golledge is an experienced consultant advising Detica’s Government clients in enterprise architecture and IT strategy. He was the technical architect for the DTI’s Consumer Direct service and more recently the Home Office’s Single Non-Emergency Number programme, both large distributed programmes involving a wide range of stakeholder agencies and organisations. He heads Detica’s Technology Consulting profession and is currently supporting the e-Borders programme as Detica’s solution architect. Before joining Detica Anthony started his career as a software engineer at IBM’s Hursley Development Lab before moving on to Accenture as a technical architect in the financial services sector.

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John Good

John Good
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 delivered interoperability, data and information, applications and process architectures; has managed architecture services in outsourced environments; has defined major technology strategies and has had executive responsibility for information systems in a multinational corporate environment.

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Denis Hageman

Denis Hageman
Head of Strategy and Architecture IT Group Functions
ABN AMRO


After a ten years career in IT Infrastructure Engineering within KPN and ABN AMRO Netherlands, over the past 10 years Denis’ focus has been Strategy and Architecture in Information Technology. He introduced standardisation on a global level within ABN AMRO, to enable the implementation of integrated networks and systems. He researched Application Architecture and Software Engineering and started to explore Service Oriented concepts and infrastructures since 1999. More recently successful projects were done in which SOA was applied in various functional domains within ABN AMRO in Brazil. Since 2006 he is leading the architecture team responsible for all major corporate functions on Head Office like Finance, Risk Management, Compliance and HR.

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Lawrence Helm

Lawrence Helm
Director of Government Operations
Information Dynamics


Mr. Lawrence Helm is a practicing Certified Enterprise Architect at NASA with 15 years experience in strategic planning and management of complex IT projects. Early successes include launching the first mission internet sites at NASA Headquarters, in an age before web browsers, as well as the earliest web-based information systems. He has moved from leading cutting edge technology solutions teams to managing high-level strategic efforts. Mr. Helm established a Washington, DC Office for Information Dynamics to provide long-term business strategy for US Government clients. An evangelist for long-term strategic thinking, Mr. Helm is a CEA, PMP, published historian, and purveyor of common sense. He received his B.A.s in English Literature and Russian History; his M.A. is in East European History, from The George Washington University in Washington, DC, in 1994.

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Nigel Hughes

Nigel Hughes
Business Architect
British Energy


Nigel Hughes started work at British Energy in May 2004. He is a Business Architect for British Energy and has played a key role in raising the profile of EA within the business. He joined BE as a process analyst where he was responsible for driving out process improvements. Nigel also started the enterprise modelling work which is now the backbone of the EA. His main responsibilities include ensuring that all proposed changes align to the Business vision and architecture.

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Bob Jarvis

Bob Jarvis
Managing Director and Principal Consultant
Systems Advisers Ltd


Bob Jarvis has over 40 years IS/IT experience and formed his own consulting company, Systems Advisers Ltd in 1982. Since then he has worked in the UK, several European countries and the Americas, mostly with governments and major multi-national organisations. Bob has done most of the jobs in IT but in the last 20 years has mainly worked as a business architect advising organisations on their strategic use of IS/IT and subsequently managing the design and implementation programmes.

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Simon Jewell

Simon Jewell
Serco Consulting


Simon Jewell is a Senior IT professional with proven ability to lead a world-class architecture community and to apply a striking diversity of skills and technical knowledge to today’s key corporate issues. He is skilled at complex assignments involving business change, new technology infrastructures and systems integration and has extensive experience of working alongside programme managers as well as personally managing all aspects of the project life-cycle and business value realisation.

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John Keefe

John Keefe
MOD


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John Kenney

John Kenney
Business Architecture Consultant
Semeron Corporation


Partnering with their senior management, subject matter experts and IT professionals, John Kenney provides commercial and government organizations with the strategic and tactical disciplines, methods and techniques and hands-on experience they need to develop business architectures that conceptualize and define their future and how to achieve it.

Working round the world in multiple industry sectors, John has held senior positions with SRI International, Fujitsu, Battelle and Semeron as well as founding and managing consulting practices in the US and UK.

A chartered information technology professional, John actively supports the Business Architects Association and Institute of Management Consultants USA

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Mike Lambert

Mike Lambert
CTO Architecting-the-Enterprise, Fellow of The Open Group, Lecturer
University of Reading


Mike Lambert was Chief Technical Officer of The Open Group and responsible for the development of The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF). He is now CTO of Architecting-the-Enterprise and as a lecturer at The University of Reading was responsible for introducing Enterprise Architecture into the Academic Curriculum.

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Marc Lankhorst

Marc Lankhorst
Telematica Instituut


Marc Lankhorst is a senior member of scientific staff at Telematica Instituut, Enschede, The Netherlands, where he leads the expertise group on Service Architectures. His research interests range from enterprise architecture and business process management to service orientation and model-driven software development. He has managed several large R&D projects, most notably the ArchiMate project, a major cooperation between several partners from government, industry and academia, concerned with modelling, visualisation and analysis of enterprise architectures. Furthermore, he teaches several courses on architecture at universities and other institutes. Marc holds an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Twente (1991) and a PhD from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands (1996).

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Bob Leeming

Bob Leeming
Principal Consultant
Serco Consulting


Bob Leeming is a Principal Consultant with Serco Consulting and a leading advocate of Enterprise Architecting, MODAF and the adoption of a Service Oriented Approach to business management and delivery. A Chartered Engineer, his service in the Royal Navy saw promotion to Captain in 1999 and operational tours included Marine Engineer of the aircraft carrier HMS INVINCIBLE and he received a Mention in Despatches as a Lieutenant Commander. His recent work within the UK MOD included delivery of a highly successful SOA pilot featuring re-usable business effects-based services realised in a live environment using Enterprise Service Bus technology. He also led early work to establish a framework for the federation of ESBs, a key enabler to future large SOA implementation.

Bob lives in Bath with his wife Carol and their two children. He has a wide range of interests but coaching Rugby at youth level and providing the children’s social and sporting taxi service figure largely at the moment.

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Stan Locke

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. 

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Thomas Mannmeusel

Thomas Mannmeusel
Senior VP Information Systems
ADVA AG Optical Networking


Dr. Thomas Mannmeusel has over 8 years of experience in IT management. As Senior Vice President Information Systems, he is currently responsible for the information systems landscape at ADVA Optical Networking AG, a Germany based manufacturer of optical networking equipment. Prior to this he held the position of „Senior Director IT Strategy, Innovation and Architecture Management” at Infineon Technologies AG, a DAX30 semiconductor company. After his academic career in Business Information Systems where he focused on multi-agent based production planning systems he held several management positions in IT and Supply Chain Management at Infineon and Siemens AG.

Thomas holds a PhD in Business Information Systems and is a scholar of the Fulbright Commission.

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Toni McDerment

Toni McDerment
Enterprise Data Architect
Reuters


Toni McDerment is an Enterprise Data Architect with 12 years experience in the IT industry, with a record of achievement in data management and business analysis. At Reuters she is responsible for evolving the Enterprise Data Architecture and performing consultancy and governance in respect of that architecture.

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Graham Meaden

Graham Meaden
Director
Celestial Consulting


Graham Meaden is an Enterprise Architect with 17 years of experience of business and technical enterprise-scale architectures acquired in the Government, Finance, Air and Rail Transport, Retail and Energy industry sectors. Graham has provided architectural leadership on projects delivering to end-user, consultancy and consortium organisations. Graham is the CEO of Celestial Consulting, a consultancy specialising in Enterprise Architecture and the set up of Enterprise Architecture Practices. Since 2005, Graham has been actively involved in bringing Celestial’s experience to bear on the evolving TOGAF™ standard and the convergence of frameworks in general.

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Tim Murfet

Tim Murfet
Managing Director
Accenture Technology Consulting UK


Tim Murfet is the UK Managing Director of Accenture Technology Consulting (ATC). ATC is responsible for delivering Accenture’s client work in IT Strategy, IT Organization, Infrastructure Consulting, Security and Application Renewal. Tim’s primary skillset is in Enterprise Architecture (he was previously the global Enterprise Architecture lead for Accenture) with a focus on defining the 3-5 year IT Vision for his clients. His clients have been across industry but with an emphasis on Financial Services.

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Chris Potts

Chris Potts
Director
Dominic Barrow


Chris Potts is a world-leading specialist in strategies for exploiting IT and investing in change. With twenty-two years’ experience in corporate and business strategies, Enterprise Architecture, IT-related investments 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.

In the USA, Chris is an accredited Expert on CIO.com where he also has a column and a blog. In the UK he is a member of Computer Weekly’s panel of Strategy Clinic experts, and of the Strategic Planning Society. In Australia he has recently been described as the world’s leading thinker on IT investments. He has been addressing EA conferences since 2002 in both Europe and Australasia, including as keynote speaker.

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David Robertson

David Robertson
IMD International


David Robertson is a Professor at IMD International in Lausanne, Switzerland where he teaches IT, Innovation, and Technology Management to IMD’s executive and MBA programs. At IMD, David is currently directing executive programs for Credit Suisse, EMC2, GMAC, and HSBC. He was also co-Director of the Making Business Sense of IT program, a joint program between IMD and MIT. Prior to IMD, David was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, a consultant at McKinsey & Company for 5 years, and an executive at four enterprise software companies. In addition to his responsibilities at IMD, David serves as a consultant to companies on enterprise architecture, innovation, and technology management.

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Michael Rosen

Michael Rosen
Director, Enterprise Architecture
Cutter Consortium


Mike Rosen is Director of Cutter Consortium’s Enterprise Architecture Practice and Senior Consultant with its Business-IT Strategies Practice. He has more than 25 years of technical leadership experience architecting, designing, and developing software products and applications. Currently, he provides expert consulting services in the areas of EA and SOA, primarily to Fortune 1000 companies in Finance, Insurance and Telecom, Previously, Mr. Rosen was CTO at AZORA Technologies and M2VP, Inc., and Chief Enterprise Architect at IONA Technologies, PLC, and Genesis Development Corporation. Mr. Rosen was also a product architect, technical leader, and developer for commercial middleware products from BEA and Digital. His involvement in product development includes Web services, Java, CORBA, COM, messaging, transaction processing, DCE, networking, and operating systems.

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Ronald G. Ross

Ronald G. Ross
Co-Founder and Principal
Business Rule Solutions, LLC
Executive Editor
www.BRCommunity.com


Ronald G. Ross is a Principal of Business Rule Solutions, LLC. Mr. Ross is also Co-Founder and Executive Editor of www.BRCommunity.com, home of the Business Rules Journal. Mr. Ross is the author of a half-dozen professional books. His newest work, Principles of the Business Rule Approach, is published by Addison-Wesley (2003). Other recent books on business rules include Business Rule Concepts (1998) and The Business Rule Book (Second Edition, 1997). He is the Co-Chair of the annual Business Rules Forum Conference. He was a charter member of the Business Rules Group in the 1980s, and was editor of its two landmark papers, "Business Motivation Model: Business Governance in a Volatile World" (2000, revised 2005) and the "Business Rules Manifesto" (2003). He is also active in the OMG Business Rules SIG and related standards development. Mr. Ross is internationally recognized as the "father of business rules." .

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Jeff Scott

Jeff Scott
Senior Analyst
Forrester Research


Jeff Scott is a Senior Analyst for Forrester Research primarily contributing to the Enterprise Architecture offerings. He is a leading expert in Enterprise Architecture program development, EA governance, and delivering EA value. Jeff’s current research focus is enterprise architecture program effectiveness, business architecture, EA leadership, and architects as innovators.

Prior to joining Forrester, Jeff managed his own consulting practice, Logical Leap, Inc., where he worked with Fortune 500 companies developing enterprise architecture and IT strategy. Before starting Logical Leap, Jeff was the Director of Advanced Technology for First Union National Bank (now Wachovia) where he created innovative organizational models for IT delivery, developed IT strategy, and implemented leading edge technologies.

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Alec Sharp

Alec Sharp
Senior Consultant
Clariteq Systems Consulting Ltd


Alec Sharp has managed his own consulting and education business, Clariteq Systems Consulting Ltd., for 25 years. Serving clients from Ireland to Illinois to India, Alec’s expertise includes facilitation, strategy development, enterprise architecture, application requirements specification, data management, and of course, business process improvement. His popular workshops and conference presentations on these topics, conducted globally, unfailingly receive “excellent” ratings. Alec is the principal author of “Workflow Modeling” (Artech House, 2001) which is widely used as a university text and is consistently a best-selling book in the field.

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Alistair Shearin

Alistair Shearin
Director of Information Technology and Telecommunications
Guy’s and St Thomas Hospital


As IT Director at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, Alistair Shearin has established a comprehensive programme of developments to deliver a set of IT solutions capable of supporting one of the world’s leading hospitals in delivering excellence in patient care, teaching and research. Prior roles include Diageo, where he was responsible for the Global Applications function and IS Architecture, and with consultants PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he had leading roles in the IS Strategy and IS Management Practices, and in the direction and management of major IS programmes. This combination of strategic planning and pragmatic execution experiences have shaped his views on the practice of IS and Enterprise Architecture.

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Colin Smart

Colin Smart
Lead Architect Retail IT
HBOS


Colin Smart has 20 years in IT with the last 5 in an Enterprise Architecture role. His roles within HBoS have included strategic and tactical direction and decision making, and architectural best practice development and coaching. He has also worked as the Head of Architecture for Intelligent Finance, Lead Architect for St. James's Place Bank, and now covers the Distribution, Fraud/Risk and Data domains for HBoS Retail. He is currently on the steering group of the Information Management Forum.

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David Sprott

David Sprott
CEO
Everware-CBDI International

David Sprott is CEO of Everware-CBDI International and Vice President of Everware-CBDI Inc responsible for technical direction and research. Since 1997 he founded and led the well known think tank CBDI Forum providing unique research and guidance around SOA technologies and practices. As editor and researcher for the CBDI Journal, a unique resource for architects, he has provided a constant stream of high grade, in-depth guidance that is used as a vital source of reference by tens of thousands of architects. Today David advises many major corporations and governments worldwide on architecture and business strategy and is considered an authority on all aspects of service oriented architecture.

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Bob Stauffer

Bob Stauffer
President
Information Dynamics


Mr. Bob Stauffer has 23 years of consulting experience to the US Government and commercial clients, specializing in Enterprise Architecture and strategic planning. He has a proven record using EA to help clients achieve a competitive advantage through the alignment of their business initiatives, processes, and enabling capabilities. Mr. Stauffer is the President of Information Dynamics and the Program Manager leading the design and implementation of NASA’s EA program. In 2006, Mr. Stauffer’s team with NASA won the E-Gov Institute's "Government Civilian Leadership in Government Transformation Award". The award was based on NASA's innovative Enterprise Architecture Review process that Information Dynamics helped pioneer to manage the NASA Information Technology portfolio.

Mr. Stauffer has been an invited speaker on EA at numerous US Government agencies, including the FBI, Customs Service, Postal Service, Defense Department, Immigration, and NASA. Mr. Stauffer teaches Enterprise Architecture at USDA Graduate School. He received his M.B.A. in Management Information Systems from the University of Maryland University College in 1991.

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Martin Sykes

Martin Sykes
Senior Programme Manager
Microsoft


Martin Sykes works for Microsoft Consulting with a focus on IT Architecture and Planning. This global team helps large organisations develop their IT Strategy & Architecture and accelerate the delivery of benefits from IT investments. Over the last 20 years Martin has worked for organisations in the public and private sector including the Cabinet Office, EDS, HM Prison Service and GlaxoSmithKline providing leading edge solutions and thought leadership in a variety of roles, including Enterprise Architect, Head of IT Strategy, Director Global Applications and Chief Technology Officer. What is common across these different engagements is a passion for the application of technology to solve problems and the delivery of value from investment in IT.

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Helen Townsend

Helen Townsend
Enterprise Data Architect
Reuters


Helen Townsend is an Enterprise Data Architect in the Chief Architecture Office at Reuters, with responsibility for evolving the Enterprise Data Architecture and for providing consultancy and governance to projects across the organisation. Prior to joining Reuters, she had a long and varied career in IT including periods in systems programming and university lecturing, but has predominately worked with commercial data management systems.

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Pim van der Horst

Pim van der Horst
Chief Information Officer
Kas Bank on behalf of BluePhoenix Solutions


Pim van der Horst is Chief Information Officer at KAS BANK, The Netherlands.

His day to day responsibilities include the direction and leadership of over one hundred people involved in information and communication technology services (ICT) for KAS BANK and its customers. He is also responsible for the transition of a mainframe-oriented architecture to an Intel and .NET environment, based on services.
Pim has an MBA from Henley (UK) and a Msc degree from Tilburg University (NL). He is a registered IT auditor and a registered IT specialist. His professional career is in the financial industry: Postbank (Amsterdam), Credit Lyonnais (Paris, Rotterdam), Generale Bank (Brussels), ABN AMRO (Amsterdam), NIBC Bank (The Hague). His expertise cover the following domains: IT, banking operations, architecture, risk management and (IT) audit.

Pim is a member of IBM’s Global Mid-Market Advisory Network. Pim was a nominee CIO of the Year 2007.

In his free time Pim likes scuba diving, boxing, shooting and racing cars.

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John Wailing

John Wailing
Office of the CIO
Home Office


Mr. John Wailing is Head of Architecture and Chief Technology Officer in the Office of the Chief Information Officer at the Home Office. He is seeking to get a common Enterprise Architecture Framework adopted across the department to enable a holistic view of Home Office business to be taken. His goal is to allow processes to be joined up, information to be shared and assets to be reused. Prior to returning to the Home Office he led the development of a Cross Government Enterprise Architecture at the Cabinet Office.

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Mark de Weger

Mark de Weger
Managing Consultant
BiZZdesign Consultancy on behalf of UWV


Mark de Weger is a Managing Consultant at BiZZdesign. He currently works for UWV, the Dutch Social Security Administration, as the Head of the Design Process Authority. The DPA is responsible for process and solution assurance with regard to architecture and design methodologies. Mark has over 15 years of experience in (enterprise) architecture and was the lead architect of major systems like the Schengen Information System. He holds a PhD in business process architecture from the University of Twente.

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Ceri Williams

Ceri Williams
Principal Consultant
Glue


Ceri Williams has over 24 years in Strategy, Enterprise Architecture & Systems Integration. He helps large private and public sector clients develop and realise their vision as well as shaping the IT function to position it as an effective business partner. He frequently works in complex political environments, typically where transformational change is required to bring together disparate parts of the business and technical communities to deliver on strategic aspirations. Ceri specialises in the joining up of Strategy with Realisation to turn the vision into reality, often driving organisational change as part of the process.

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John Zachman

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.

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