Event Timetable

Introduction to TOGAF®

TOGAF®, an Open Group Standard, is a proven enterprise architecture methodology and framework used by the world's leading organizations to improve business efficiency. It is the most prominent and reliable enterprise architecture standard, ensuring consistent standards, methods, and communication among enterprise architecture professionals. Enterprise architecture professionals fluent in TOGAF standards enjoy greater industry credibility, job effectiveness, and career opportunities. TOGAF helps practitioners avoid being locked into proprietary methods, utilize resources more efficiently and effectively, and realize a greater return on investment.

First developed in 1995, TOGAF was based on the US Department of Defense Technical Architecture Framework for Information Management (TAFIM). From this sound foundation, The Open Group Architecture Forum has developed successive versions of TOGAF at regular intervals and published them on The Open Group public web site.

TOGAF Version 9.1 is a maintenance update to TOGAF 9, addressing comments raised since the introduction of TOGAF 9 in 2009. It retains the major features and structure of TOGAF 9, thereby preserving existing investment in TOGAF, and adds further detail and clarification to what is already proven.

The standard is divided into seven parts:

PART I (Introduction): This part provides a high-level introduction to the key concepts of enterprise architecture and in particular the TOGAF approach. It contains the definitions of terms used throughout TOGAF and release notes detailing the changes between this version and the previous version of TOGAF.
PART II (Architecture Development Method): This is the core of TOGAF. It describes the TOGAF Architecture Development Method (ADM) - a step-by-step approach to developing an enterprise architecture.
PART III (ADM Guidelines & Techniques): This part contains a collection of guidelines and techniques available for use in applying TOGAF and the TOGAF ADM.
PART IV (Architecture Content Framework): This part describes the TOGAF content framework, including a structured metamodel for architectural artifacts, the use of re-usable architecture building blocks, and an overview of typical architecture deliverables.
PART V (Enterprise Continuum & Tools): This part discusses appropriate taxonomies and tools to categorize and store the outputs of architecture activity within an enterprise.
PART VI (TOGAF Reference Models): This part provides a selection of architectural reference models, which includes the TOGAF Foundation Architecture, and the Integrated Information Infrastructure Reference Model (III-RM).
PART VII (Architecture Capability Framework): This part discusses the organization, processes, skills, roles, and responsibilities required to establish and operate an architecture function within an enterprise.

Suresh Done has more than 22 years of experience in IT and Engineering. Suresh is a TOGAF®9 certified Enterprise Architect, consulting and training on Enterprise Architecture. He has worked in many industries including Automotive, Health, Telecom, Banking, Retail and Government sector. Suresh Done is also the Co-Founder and Chairman since its inception of highly successful AEA Michigan Chapter.

Advanced Concepts in Applying TOGAF® 9

Over the years, the Enterprise Architect has evolved from IT Architecture to Business Transformation agent. In the recent past, most of the enterprises had realized that, to survive and thrive in the tough economic conditions and highly competitive global market, business transformation through innovation in a more agile manner is very much needed. They also realized that Enterprise Architecture is the only discipline that can make it happen. In this presentation, the audience will learn about

• How Enterprise Architecture can transform the business through strategic Innovation
• How Enterprise Architecture can simplify the complexities
• How Enterprise Architecture can be developed in an agile manner and howTOGAF® can help in the whole process

Intended audience: CxOs, Enterprise Architects, Program/Project Managers

Suresh Done has more than 22 years of experience in IT and Engineering. Suresh is a TOGAF®9 certified Enterprise Architect, consulting and training on Enterprise Architecture. He has worked in many industries including Automotive, Health, Telecom, Banking, Retail and Government sector. Suresh Done is also the Co-Founder and Chairman since its inception of highly successful AEA Michigan Chapter.

ArchiMate® for Better IT/Business Collaboration across the Enterprise

ArchiMate is an open and independent modeling language for Enterprise Architecture, supported by different tool vendors and consulting firms. ArchiMate provides instruments to support enterprise architects in describing, analyzing and visualizing the relationships among business domains in an unambiguous way.

Developed by the ArchiMate Forum of The Open Group, the latest technical standard is now more aligned with TOGAF®, the world’s most popular Enterprise Architecture framework. As a result, enterprise architects using the language can improve the way key business and IT stakeholders collaborate and adapt to change.

ArchiMate 2.0 improves collaboration through clearer understanding across multiple functions, including business executives, enterprise architects, systems analysts, software engineers, business process consultants and infrastructure engineers. The new standard enables the creation of fully integrated models of an organization’s Enterprise Architecture, the motivation behind it, and the programs, projects and migration paths to implement it. ArchiMate already follows terms defined in the TOGAF framework, and version 2.0 of the specification enables modeling through the TOGAF Architecture Development Method (ADM).

ArchiMate 2.0 includes the following features and benefits: 

• Improved business and IT alignment through Enterprise Architecture modeling aligned with the TOGAF ADM
• Ability to better support the preparation and management of business change, application rationalization, program and portfolio management and outsourcing scenarios
• Ability to perform cost analysis and business case calculations
• A Motivation extension to model stakeholders, drivers for change, business goals, principles and requirements
• Implementation and Migration extensions to support project portfolio management, gap analysis and transition and migration planning
• Improved consistency and examples, as well as additional clarification updates from the previous version

The following ArchiMate 2.0 certification programs will also be available:

• Individual Certification: Enables enterprise architects and trainers around the globe to demonstrate their knowledge of the ArchiMate Standard
• Open Group Training Accreditation: Provides an authoritative and independent assurance of the quality and relevance of training courses available
• Tool Certification Program: Ensures that architecture artifacts created with a certified tool are conformant to the ArchiMate language

For more information on ArchiMate 2.0, please visit: http://theopengroup.org/archimate/

The Open Group Certification Programs (Open CA, Open CTIS, TOGAF®, ArchiMate®)

Association of Enterprise Architects (AEA)

Speaker to be announced

New trends are transforming how companies extract insight and foresight from big data. Companies with analytics capabilities that incorporate user experience, outside-in thinking and rapid prototyping are differentiating themselves in the marketplace and with their customers. In this talk, Scott will highlight some of the newest business-led, design-influenced and technology-enabled approaches companies are using to extract business value from big data.

Dr. Scott Radeztsky is an innovator in Deloitte Consulting’s Technology, Strategy, and Architecture practice, delivering business results that leverage big data architectures, analytics, design thinking, and visualization.

As an executive strategy advisor, he helps traditional clients build new business capabilities that leverage next-generation technologies, and startup clients solidify capabilities that take advantage of their next-generation technology baselines.

Scott also serves as the Chief Technologist of the Deloitte Analytics Innovation Center, an innovation factory and executive business center where cutting edge visualization, design thinking and analytics help visitors explore the new business-led, design-influenced and technology-enabled approaches to extract business value from big data.
 

This presentation puts forward a framework to implement effective analytics using a wide range of common transformation tools, that when used in a coordinated fashion unlocks the promise of enterprise analytics. Topics covered include: business simulation and reference models, business intelligence vs. process information, analytics KPI determination, the role of architecture, and strategic roadmapping.

By way of case study material, the presenters will demonstrate that analytics can be fun and easy using SAP BI/HANA in the most complex corporate environments.

Peter Haviland is the Chief Architect and Head of Business Architecture within Ernst & Young's Advisory Services practice globally. In this role he works with a broad range of organizations to design and implement technology-aware business & operating models. He is the co-chair of the TOGAF® Next Generation Workgroup that is responsible for shaping the next version of TOGAF, and the vice-chair of the Value Realization Workgroup that is responsible for the "world-class" series of whitepapers. He was a key contributor to TOGAF 9 and is an Open CA Distinguished Chief Architect within The Open Group's Open CA scheme; as such he has extensive experience working with clients on how best to leverage TOGAF 9 within the enterprise, and set up architecture functions for success. Peter will also be joined on stage by specialists from Ernst & Young's global Enterprise Intelligence team.

Mick Adams is the Chief Business Architect at E&Y’s European ‘Centre of Excellence: Major Program Transformation’. He has over twenty years of experience in the IT services industry. Most recently he has been working in the number of sectors: Government, CPG, Financial services and Energy (Oil and Gas). He is an accomplished delivery executive and architect and has developed and delivered many end-end complex transformations. He holds the Open Group CA Distinguished Profession Leader certification and was vice chair of the Open Group architecture forum 2010. He continues to develop thought leadership material and has most recently published a whitepapers on Cloud services and AGILE via the Open Group.
 

For years, we’ve all complained about being inundated with data—and not knowing what to do with it. But companies have now started figuring it out, applying statistical models, analyzing Web logs, and mining internet content to deliver value to their businesses. The fabric of our information architectures continues to expand as businesses continue to demand more from the data they are collecting or not yet collecting. In this key note session, you'll gain an understanding on the key architecture patterns that Big Data adds to your information architecture capabilities. You will hear about how to recognize big data opportunities, decide which Big Data technologies to use, plan for high-volume, data-intensive applications, and blend historic and real-time analysis. Last but not least, use cases will be discussed to illustrate how Big Data enables new business capabilities and what impact an Information Architecture with the Big Data Capability has on other architecture domains including the application and the technology layer.

Helen Sun has fifteen years of business and technology leadership experience in a variety of industries including financial services, health care, market research, and supply chain management. Her main areas of experience include enterprise data management and information architecture including MDM, Data Integration, BI/DW, and Big Data.

At Oracle, Helen assists large organizations through complex business and IT transitions, leveraging Oracle best practices and reference architectures to help jumpstart a customer's architecture initiative, and taking proven and practical approaches to solve complex, enterprise-level issues and deliver value-driven roadmaps.

Helen is the lead author of Oracle Information Architecture Framework and Development Process and has published various white papers on Information Management, Data Governance, and Big Data. Helen has hosted a number of webinars on the same topics and was one of the thought-leaders who spoke at Oracle’s Big Data Online Forum and conferences including Open World.
 

It is clear that the business side of organizations see many tangible benefits in 'thriving on data': making real use of an abundance of internal and external data to improve results and drive change. With this, the concept of 'Big Data' seems to have become the common denominator for everything innovative around data and information management. The question however is what 'Big' exactly means: is it 'Big' as in 'Obese' or as in 'Size', 'Speed', 'Impact' or 'Importance'? Understanding 'How Big' Data really is, points us to the actual business change drivers. And once we have identified business change drivers, we start to understand what architectural patterns come into play to enable the change. After all: architecture is all about making change happen. Join us in exploring a few of the most typical architectural strategies in Business Information Management and get your hands around all that Big Data.

Ron Tolido is Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Application Services Continental Europe, Capgemini. Director, The Open Group. Blogger for Capgemini’s multiple award-winning CTO blog, NoProcess.org and SlowPlanet.com, the international hub of the Slow Movement. Lead author of Capgemini’s TechnoVision. Speaks and writes about IT strategy, innovation, applications and architecture. Based in the Netherlands, Mr. Tolido currently takes interest in apps rationalization, cloud, enterprise mobility, the power of open, Slow Tech and extreme simplification.

Manuel Sevilla is the Chief Technical Officer for the Global BIM TLI of Capgemini. Manuel monitors the Business Intelligence market, works closely with the vendors to understand their roadmap and to be able to advise Capgemini customers on their strategic investments. As Enterprise Architect, with a very strong expertise on Business Intelligence, Manuel is used to design Big Data and Business Intelligence solutions that are actively part of the customer information system.

Big data is nothing new, but the urgency to effectively manage all corporate information holdings is. The drivers in a knowledge-based economy are competitive advantage,effective service delivery and increasing legislation and regulatory requirements.

Enterprise Architecture has been used in many large public and private organizations to manage big data and
the resulting expensive lessons learned should be examined before starting a corporate information management strategy, architecture and plan. Several lessons learned are presented illustrating the need for EA, including the need for new legislation to address global information sharing and intellectual property.

Those attending this session wil learn thatl:

• Select Enterprises have already managed Big Data and their lessons are valuable.
• Big Data cannot be managed in an ad hoc manner.
• Big Data includes all enterprise information holdings regardless of media.

Robert Weisman, MSc, PEng, PMP, CD, is CEO  of Build the Vision Inc. He is a civil engineer who specialized in plans and 
operations. In 1985 he was brought in as a business architect into a research facility and since then specialized in knowledge-based systems and their  applications in government and the private sector. From the outset, Robert  dealt with taming Big Data and making it a decisive business asset in numerous domains such as environment, healthcare and public safety.

A complete approach to Enterprise Architecture (EA) requires:

• A framework describing architectural viewpoints;
• A language for architectural descriptions;
• A method for constructing architectures.

TOGAF® 9, an Open Group standard, is the defacto global standard for Enterprise Architecture.  It is used by the world's leading organizations to improve business efficiency.  ArchiMate®, an open and independent modelling language for enterprise architecture, provides instruments to enable enterprise architects to describe, analyze and visualize the relationships among business domains in an unambiguous way. It is supported by different tool vendors and consulting firms.

Just as an architectural drawing in classical building architecture describes the various aspects of the construction and use of a building, ArchiMate offers a common language for describing the construction and operation of business processes, organizational structures, information flows, IT systems, and technical infrastructure. This insight helps stakeholders to design, assess, and communicate the consequences of decisions and changes within and between these business domains. standard is the leading language for integrated EA modelling, describing the business, application and technology layers and their relationships. In a recent update of the language, two extensions have been added for modelling the motivation for the architecture (e.g., goals, principles and business requirements) and implementation and migration planning.

Based on a comprehensive case study of application portfolio rationalization in a post-merger insurance company, this presentation will show how ArchiMate is used with TOGAF to improve business efficiency.

Key takeaways:

• Short introduction to TOGAF®  and the ArchiMate® EA modeling language
• Demonstration of a complete real life case study.

Henry Franken is chair of the ArchiMate Forum at The Open Group. Henry is co-founder of the BPM Forum Netherlands. He has co-authored several international publications and Open Group white papers.

At BiZZdesign, Henry is responsible for research and innovation. Alignment with and contribution to open standards are key. BiZZdesign has contributed to and edited the ArchiMate 2 specification. BiZZdesign is involved in the workgroup working towards the next version of TOGAF® and its alignment with ArchiMate®.

BiZZdesign offers native tooling, consultancy and training for TOGAF and ArchiMate. BiZZdesign offers complete and integrated solutions (tools, methods, consultancy and training) to design and improve organizations. Enterprise architecture, business requirements management and process business analysis and management are important ingredients in the solutions.

Dima Rekesh is part of the IBM Global Technology Services Advanced Cloud Solutions Team. In the past, he worked on a number of large-scale Web application platforms, emerging technologies, as well as leadership data centers and green data center strategies.

Tatra Bank as top three player on Slovak banking market has very strong ambition to promote and replace competitors at first place in more KPIs. Bank has formulated clear vision, strategy and differentiating aspect on the market. The bank formulated it into the "brand promise". However, achieving this promise needs many improvements in the bank behaviour. One of the changes that is helping to be better bank was the introduction of structured and corporate-wide adpotion of EA governance. The fact is, that EA is not the core business of the bank, so on the journey of EA implementation the bank has utilized many knowledge from outside of organization. One of two major sources of knowledge were open standards related to the EA.

The presentation therefore shares the experience how open standards contributed to successful implementation of EA within the organization. You 
will see the exact points where the standards can be utilized. At the end you will see the key lessons from the EA implementation activity.

Peter Filip has been working for last two years as Enterprise Architect responsible for reintroduction of EA governance in third largest bank in Slovakia. This activity includes changes in enterprise processes (SDLC, change management, demand management, release, etc.), positions and organization structure review and corrections, setup of KPIs, education of people, knowledge base setup, metamodel definition and tool selection and implementation. Most of these activities are done, working on stabilizing the culture now.

Previous career includes solution architect position in many key large bank projects (front end strategy and implementation, crm strategy and implementation, internetbanking, loan origination platform), project management role in various projects, leading department of IT analysts, designing SDLC processes. Majority of the professinal experience working on client side of the IT business, but with an experience from vendor side. Education background was finilized by master degree at faculty of theoretical informatics at Commenius University in Bratislava.

Challenges and Opportunities for “Big Data” in Healthcare

Most industries can leverage Big Data and the appropriate analytics to improve margins, predict results, reduce fraud and obtain competitive advantage. Metrics which reveal the business impact of Big Data often are tied to a financial performance. While the Healthcare industry can certainly measure Big Data’s value through financial impact, Healthcare also measures value through human impact. Big Data, and its’ surrounding information architecture is a technology enabler for improving the health of a population, discovering new treatments to disease and implementing best practice through evidence based protocol. In Healthcare, Big Data saves lives!

This session will cover some of the challenges the Healthcare industry faces when deploying Big Data solutions. It will feature how Big Data is being leveraged to improve Healthcare discovery and delivery.

Larry Schmidt, an HP Fellow, is the Chief Technologist for the Health & Life Sciences (HLS) industries within the Americas Office of the Chief Technologist (CT). Schmidt, an enterprise architect and Distinguished Systems Engineer (SE), provides innovation, thought leadership and architecture expertise to HP clients within the HLS and Financial Services industries.

4.00-4.30pm

In CARTV we use TOGAF® for the Enterprise Architecture. The Architecture Project Phases in CARTV are business planning, project
initiation, architecture development, transition planning and solution development. The deliverables in each phase are:

• In Project Initiation - Principles, Goals and Drivers. Architecture Principles, Architecture Vision an SoAW.
• In Architecture Developement - Architecture Definition Document and Architecture Requirements Specification
• In Transition Planning - Trnasition Architecture and Implementation and Migration Plan.

This Case Study will show these deliverables following TOGAF 9.1.

Santos Pardos, Enterprise Architect, workis in IT department for more than 15 years. For the last 6 years he has work in enterprise/IT management, working with Enterprise Architecture (TOGAF 9, 9.1).

APG Asset Management has over the last few years set up a new Enterprise Architecture function. It is modeled along two main principles: 'architecture is done by architects' and 'only one captain on each ship'. ArchiMate® plays an important role here. It is used for modeling the Current State Architecture (currently over 8000 objects in a single model), which is connected to other representations of the EA reality (e.g. a CMDB). Also Risks, Security & a part of IT Governance is modeled using ArchiMate. ArchiMate is also used for modeling an underlying model for Project Start Architectures.

Those attending this session will learn:

Big Data and Semantic Panel

Panelists:

• Bob Weisman, Principal Consultant and CEO at Build the Vision
• Ron Schuldt, UDEF-IT LLC, and chair of the UDEF project of our Semantic Interoperability Work Group
• Larry Schmidt, Chief Technologist, HP

Topics to be discussed include:

• Use Cases for Big Data Analytics. Review the use cases in the plenary and stream presentations. Are there any other important ones?
• The role of the data scientist.
• Can big data be treated semantically in the same way as traditional data?
• The role and importance of analytic tools.
• The semantics of the data produced by the tools.
• The need for standards to facilitate use and interoperation of data analytics tools.
• The importance of data quality and big data provenance
• The semantics of data quality and provenance
• Q & A

4.30-5.30pm

This presentation in an interactive workshop format will instruct and debate EA artifact building with attendees. A core set of artifacts for each major phase of TOGAF® will be introduced and leading practices for the construction and integration of each artifact will be presented, then debated with the group. Examples will include artifacts for stakeholders, capabilities,
processes, logical data, physical data, and distributed systems.

(Note: Creating artifacts is not yet part of TOGAF instruction and this ability is the missing piece in many peoples' skillsets)

Those attending this session will learn:

• Which EA artifacts are critical,
• How to create and integrate EA artifacts
• How to leverage defined modeling approaches such as UML, BPMN and IDEF for complex artifacts, wihtout losing the business stakeholders participation

Dan Spar is a Technology Strategy and Architecture specialist across Deloitte's federal and commercial practices. Dr. Spar has over 30 publication and presentation credits worldwide, across industry conferences, journals, textbooks, and standards.
Spar teaches enterprise architecture certification courses (including TOGAF) and graduate and undergraduate courses in IT and finance.

EA Management and Transformation Management: Should We Design and Engineer Methods Like Software?

Those attending this session will learn that:

Vicente Aceituno, CISA has 15 years experience in the field of IT and Information Security. Vicente started his career in the field of network and systems administration and moved into project management and security management. During his career in Spain and UK, he has worked for companies like Coopers & Lybrand, BBC News and DMR Consulting. He is the main Author of the Information Security Management Method ISM3 (Information Security Management Maturity Model)

Enterprises want to fully capitalise on the business value of mobility but still have significant concerns about the security implications. To address these challenges, mobile security needs to be viewed and understood holistically from securing the device and the data on the device to secure access to enterprise systems and application security. In this session we will highlight the spectrum of requirements that Mobile Security covers, describe how some organizations have gotten started and introduce the concept of mobile security intelligence. Given the innate dynamic nature of mobility, an intelligent, adaptable mobile security solution is required to provide an enterprise with the necessary visibility, and control in managing threats and risks without degrading user experience.

Those attending this session will learn about

• Protecting Data & Applications on the Device
• Protecting Enterprise Systems & Deliver Secure Access
• Building, Testing and Running Secure Mobile Apps.

Darren Argyle is an accomplished senior manager at IBM, over fifteen years of business information security experience, with broad expertise in providing hands-on leadership, strategic security direction and offering development. Darren is certified professional (CISSP, CISM) with a lively but disciplined approach to advancing secure business in global open-networked environments. He also represents IBM on a number of external security forums, including Open Group - Jericho Forum, as a member of the board.

TOGAF® and Enterprise Architecture are the foundation to support social investment moving electronic goverment to the next level, lets learn about real success stories in Latin America to manage minerals industries using emmmv, etom as a citizen approach service and togaf as the official support framework.

Those attending this session will about:

• TOGAF in the e goverment environment
• etom as a citizen approach service

Leonardo Octavio Ramirez Gonzalez, Dux Diligens, is a trusted Enterprise Architect with 15 years of successful experience applying Enterprise architecture, Industry Reference Models, SOA,BPM and Ontology Coaching to develop effective Business - IT Aligment Projects.

Skills to lead end-to-end implementations with effective leadership, define customer business directions, create solutions, integrate market trends and industry point of view on customer environment, going from assesments and business cases to final executive presentations to articulate IT portfolio into business strategy.

Experience in defining IT strategies and roadmaps, Application Portfolio Analysys, SOA strategies and Roadmaps, Process mapping using Industry Reference Models, Enterprise Architecture and cost-benefit cases for business-it converging conversations.

Software systems today are under ever increasing threats. Traditional defenses, such as firewalls, are still valuable but system implementers need to avoid the "crunchy shell with a soft chewy center" problem first described by Bill Cheswich, many years ago. Taking measures to make that center much tougher and resistant to attack is referred to as cyber-hardening. This session will describe what was done in cyber-hardening a set of complex IBM software products, based on lessons learned from many years of system development for, especially, defense customers, who are especially concerned about the issue. The speakers will contrast that hardening with the protection offered by network defenses, such as firewalls, and will also take on the question of air gaps as meaningful protection measures. Attendees will learn which areas were focused on, what was done, and how that could be applied to their own environments and solutions.

Tony Carrato is a Solution Architect in IBM Software Group's Industry Solutions team. He is responsible for working IBM customers, business partners and IBM Research on designing and implementing Smarter Cities solutions. Tony is a member of the Steering Committees of both the Security Forum and the SOA Work Group, as well as a member of the Cloud/SOA Security team. He is also an Open Group certified distinguished IT architect. Tony has over 30 years of IT experience, as a developer, network administrator, security architect and solution architect.

Eric Nelson received a PhD in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Chicago before he discovered that software engineering was just as interesting and didn't require writing NSF grant proposals. Prior to joining IBM he designed and developed educational simulation software, a real time discrete event simulation framework and software for financial trading systems. With IBM he has led design and development projects for major clients in retail, banking, and manufacturing. In 2004 he joined IBM's US Federal team where he led the technical work in the Naval Open Architecture initiative, was IBM's chief architect on an R&D effort with the US Joint Forces Command, and led the certification and accreditation of an integrated SOA infrastructure for DISA and the US Navy. Currently he leading the integration of vulnerability remediation into the standard implementation and deployment of IBM products such as the Defense Operations Platform and the Intelligent Operations Center.

• What are Architecture requirements and how are they solicited, not collected, iterative
• How TOGAF ADM uses these requirements
• About sample list of Requirements for a Real-Life Business Strategy
• How to validate conformance of your architecture and test your architecture requirements
• What is the impact on role of the Enterprise Architect if we define architecture requirements in this fashion?

Jason Uppal, is a professional engineer registered in the province of Ontario, Canada. He holds an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering, a graduate degree in Economics and a post graduate diploma in Computer Science.

Jason is recognized expert in Business Process Re-Engineering, Continuous Improvement and Automation. His exceptional Value Delivery skills, both in industrial and service industries, helped him earn Master IT Architect certification by the Open Group in 2005. Since then he has successfully defended his certification in 2008 and was awarded Open CA Level 3 Chief Architect certification in 2012. Jason is an active member of Enterprise Architecture, Project Management and Service Management communities, a frequent speaker at many EA and IT governance related conferences and member of Architect Certification board since 2005.

Jason holds Chief Architect position with QRS (www.qrs3e.com ). QRS conducts research, education, training and consulting in IT Value Chain based on open standards such as TOGAF, CobiT, Val IT, Risk IT, PMI, ITIL, SDLC and OCM. To discuss his latest research “Bend Health care Cost Curve”, he can be reached at Jason.uppal@qrs3e.com

Recent developments in IT are transformative for the business, but highly disruptive to historical information security practices and security architectures. This presentation will explore the impact that new computing paradigms and technologies such as Cloud and mobile computing are having on information security. Specific focus areas will consider how two core security functions - identity management, and data protection - change significantly as a result of cloud and mobile computing. In addition, we'll highlight recent work from the Jericho Forum relating to these developments, including the Identity Commandments, and a new position paper describing requirements for Data Protection.

Steve Whitlock is chief strategist for Boeing IT Information Security. In this role, he provides strategic support for Boeing’s long term information security capabilities. This includes the tracking of emerging technologies and the changing threat landscape, as well as helping to influence the direction of the information security industry in support of Boeing’s global presence.

With more than twenty-five years of research in information security and cryptography, Whitlock has provided strategic input to numerous global agencies, and has served on writing and steering committees for the Intelligence and National Security Association, Internet Security Alliance, Defense Information Base Technology and Architecture Working Group, Trans-global Secure Collaboration Program, and Enduring Security Framework Activity.

He has served on the Program Committee for the annual ID Trust conference sponsored by NIST, ACM, OASIS and Internet 2 for eight years. He currently serves on the Jericho Forum Board of Management and is Vice Chair of the Open Group Security Forum.

Steve has a master’s degree in software engineering from Seattle University.

• Business drivers for an Enterprise Information Architecture
• Best practices on how to establish an Enterprise Information Architecture program in an Enterprise
• A structured approach to developing the key components associated with an Enterprise Information Architecture.

Rainer Gimnich is Executive Architect for IBM Software Group, Information Agenda Lead Architect Europe, He has 20+ years experience working on Enterprise Architecture with clients, primarily in Banking and Government, with a focus on Business Architecture, Information Strategy, SOA and Existing Systems Transformation.

He is also TOGAF® 9 Certified, and has given presentations at 2 The Open Group Conferences in 2008 (on SOA Migration and as a co-leader of the Legacy Evolution to SOA project at that time).

Steve Lockwood: Executive Information Architect, SWG Chief Technology Office, 20+ years experience working with large private and public sector bodies across diverge range of industries (Retail, Banking, Insurance, Defence)

Securing the supply chain demands diamond-standard Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) at the product instance level, and, because supply chains have lifecycles too, a high degree of integration between PLM and the supply chain is necessary to assure

Those who attend this session will learn:

• Why whole of Life PLM is needed to assure trusted technologies
• Why tight integration of Supply Chain and PLM is a must
• How Quantum Lifecycle Management (QLM) and Universal Data Element Framework (UDEF) standards can provide the information exchange that is needed.

Jacopo Cassina, CEO Holonix

The presentation is about a model and strategy used to leverage information management and governance using TOGAF 9 and COBIT as reference frameworks. The model is designed to improve IT Governance, setting the difference between IT Management and IT Governance and was applied in a real case for the banking sector in Costa Rica. The presentation structure is:

• Setting the context: Why information management, security and governance are so important?. Data and information: How are they related?. Information used as a business strategic asset and as a driver that led to the model definition for the bank.
• How Enterprise Architecture was applied to set the stage that allows the identification of information assets, information and data flows and data relations.
• Enterprise architecture holistic view used to identify the relations, differences and boundaries between IT governance and IT management. Relation with Cobit 5 and ISO 38500 as frameworks that can work together with TOGAF9 for the establishment of a good Information technology management and governance framework aligning IT operations and data processing as a medium to fulfill business needs and business drivers.
• Governance IT and EA Governance as integral part of Corporative Governance
• Cobit 4.1 processes and control objectives fulfilled with the information architecture model applied in the case. TOGAF9 information architecture metamodel extended to consider artifacts for the establishment of a data hierarchy, data dissemination, data classification and data critical requirement’s definitions and their relationships with security information requirements.
• Data Reference Model (DRM) adapted to fulfill data context, data description and data interchange requirements for data and information identification, management and governance.
• Final conclusions : how the model could be applied not only for the information management and control improvement but also to support the operational frameworks and lessons learned during the project.

Those attending this session will about the:

• Differences and relations between IT management and governance
• Real information architecture model applied for management and governance
• Information seen as a business strategic asset.

Sonia González, Computer Engineer and Master in Business Administration. TOGAF9 certified level 1 and 2. Five year experience as Enterprise Architect as a chief officer and consultant using frameworks like TOGAF9, Zachman and FEA. Experience in BPM and SOA, IT Governance and Management. Cobit 4.1 and 5 experience. Experience and knowledge leading IT related projects mainly for the Finance and banking sector.

The leisure boat industry is an extremely complex not-so-micro cosmos, generating €23 billion in Europe alone. Several thousands of boat builders worldwide build dozens of boat types to little or no standard classification. Whilst 10 manufacturers dominate the stern-drive and inboard engine market and only 8 the outboard market, there are 50 others vying for position.

Sales and distribution mostly run via distributor and dealer organisations and the engine manufacturer’s authorized service organisation is called upon to deal with maintenance and repairs of systems that they are not qualified to deal with. Throughout the boat’s life, it undergoes multiple changes of ownership, refurbishments, equipment removal and retrofits.

Boat manufacturers generally lose contact with the boat once handover is achieved bar the occasional need for warranty work. Authorized service organisations have no idea how the boat was used apart from limited data available from the engine management system. Under these hostile conditions whole-of-life lifecycle management at the product instance level may seem impossible.

Those who attend this session will learn:

• How Quantum Lifecycle Management harnesses the wisdom within, delivering intrinsic value not only to manufacturing but also to the entire value chain.
• About building a data model and data collection module from scratch in a multi or zero standard environment using QLM principles.
• About implementing The Open Group vision of Boundaryless information flow using QLM and UDEF (Universal Data Element Framework)

Lion Benjamins, Chairman, Promise Innovation International Oy
 

Those attending this session will learn:

• About Business Strategy, IT Strategy and Cloud Computing must be aligned
• What not to do when planning to move to the cloud
• How to develop an Enterprise Cloud Strategy.

Dr Bernard Wong is a Director of Enterprise Strategy Consulting. He is responsible for developing the capabilities of Business Consultants and Enterprise Architects in client environments. In recent years, he has focused on the area of cloud computing and has worked with clients in ensuring their resources appreciate the many challenges faced in migrating to the cloud. As such, he specializes in developing Cloud Strategies that align to the business and IT strategies of the organization. Bernard has over 30 years of IT experience, is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and holds a PhD in Strategic IT Management.

EVRY is one of the leading IT service provider companies in the Nordics. Having grown through a large number of mergers and acquisitions, the operational architecture and portfolio is highly diverse and much of the operations is siloed and legacy driven with customization to meet the individual customer needs. This presentation addresses how Enterprise Architecture is being applied to drive consolidation and standardization across the company. Over the past year, the Operations Business Area of EVRY has established an Enterprise Architecture function, created and operationalized an Architecture Governance Model, and constructed a target architecture framework. The scope of this work can be compared to a 1,2 billion Euros IT department with 2500 employees serving several hundred different customers’ business needs.

The target business, information system, and technology architectures for an IT service provider will always depend on the customer base and their ever changing business requirements. EVRY Operations addresses this by describing the Target Architecture in terms of principles, standards, and roadmaps that provide steering to service development, commercial offerings and implementation work. Historically, EVRY Operations has a highly distributed practice spanning a large number of customer engagements and operational entities. In this context, the enterprise architecture function has introduced a comprehensive framework of architecture artifacts to assist and govern the architectural work. Key to success in doing so is to have strict focus on capabilities and requirements modeling as anchoring for design decisions.

The Enterprise Architecture practice in an IT Service Provider context is slightly different than doing Enterprise Architecture in a traditional enterprise. For an IT service provider, IT is not only supporting the business processes of the company, it is supporting the business processes of each of the individual customer’s businesses. Still, exactly this distinction makes it apparent how IT should be handled as a business enabler creating business value, rather than a cost center to be kept at a minimum. For an IT Service provider, IT is an asset for generating revenue – it is the end product that the organization brings to market, rather than support for the value chains generation a company’s revenue. Brought back into the context of a single enterprise, IT services should be traceable back to the business value created by the service offering.

Those who attend this session will learn:

• How the complexity of enterprise architecture can be managed by a pragmatic approach to governance and an opportunistic deployment of the ADM based on the ideal of “necessary and sufficient” coupled with traceability as a leading principle.
• How enterprise architects can learn from the mindset of an IT service provider to focus on IT as a business enabler rather than a cost center.

Holding a PhD in data modeling, Christian Holmboe specialises in simplification of complex information. With an early TOGAF® 8 practitioners certification, he established TOGAF support in the METIS EA tool in 2004, later acquired by Troux Technologies. Holmboe has recently built the Enterprise Architecture function of EVRY Operations inside out.

This presentation will highlight insights and observations gained in the two year NIST Cloud Computing program, and focus on examples of tangible progress and benefit gained through broad stakeholder collaboration.  The session will include an opportunity for interactive discussion to explore the practical reasons that the USG Cloud Computing Technology Roadmap priorities for US agency adoption are common requirements for the broader community of cloud computing stakeholders.

Dawn Leaf is a Senior Advisor in the National Institute of Standards and Technology Information Technology Laboratory and the NIST Senior Executive for Cloud Computing.

Under her stewardship, NIST has worked in a private and public sector partnership with over 30 USG agencies, academia, industry consortia, and standards organizations to achieve internationally recognized milestones in the arena of Cloud Computing. In February 2012, Ms. Leaf was honored as one of the “Top Women in Cloud” by the CloudNOW organization.

Prior to her appointment to NIST in March 2010, Ms. Leaf served as the Deputy Chief Information Officer/Chief Technology Officer for the United States Department of Commerce, the Chief Information Officer of the Bureau of Industry and Security, and the Chief Technology Officer of the Smithsonian Institution.

Before joining the federal government in 1999, Ms. Leaf acquired broad experience in Information Technology management, advanced technology, and large scale distributed systems development and engineering. She served as the program manager for several National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) programs under contract. Ms. Leaf's foundation in IT came from her 1981-1995 tenure with the Westinghouse Electric Corporation (Northrop-Grumman). Dawn Leaf holds an M.S. in Systems Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University, Whiting School of Engineering, and is a cum laude graduate of McDaniel College.
 

Management in the energy industry face a number of complex issues that can make for difficult days and restless nights. From volatile commodity prices and skyrocketing E&P costs to increased nationalism, more regulatory compliance and global recessions, there is no shortage of challenges in the energy industry.

During poor market environments, some companies adopt an extremely conservative outlook that includes sharp reductions in capital outlays, across-the- board budget cuts, and significant cost reductions. While these moves may be necessary to weather short-term conditions, they have limited long-term value and, in fact, can hamper effectiveness down the road. Energy executives seeking a more flexible, competitive organization should start at
the company's foundation—enterprise-wide processes and the supporting systems. Robust processes and proper alignment of the systems support governance, reduce complexity, eliminate redundancy, and generate sustainable cost reductions
while providing employees with the proper tools and data.

These business facing processes and systems are built on and supported by the enterprise architecture. While companies typically focus on enterprise architecture from a back-office perspective, enterprise architecture should be viewed as enterprise wide, all encompassing, front and back office foundational element. Oil and gas companies should take a hard look at their investments starting with a thorough assessment of their enterprise process, systems, and architecture.

Visualizing the Cloud - How to Describe an Ecosystem of Cloud Services

Speaker: Mark Skilton, Director, Strategy Office, Capgemini

70% of IT projects fail to deliver the benefits on which their business case was predicated. Governance based on Enterprise Architecture artefacts can remediate this topical issue. This paper explores some of the tools which can be developed from familiar sources to develop a capability in Strategic Governance, Architecture Governance and Delivery Governance. The capability to deliver value is both a strategic and operational imperative.

Tools are derived from the following sources: TOGAF 9, COBIT 5, and MIT Sloan School of Management. Other references include published work by Colin Ashurst (Senior Fellow, Durham University) and Jeanne Ross (Director, Centre for Information Systems Research).

John Sanders, Enterprise Strategy Architect, Microsoft, has over 20 years as an EA and Head of Architecture Practice developing reference models and governance processes for multinationals, with global service companies like Dow Jones, Logica, EDS, CSC and Microsoft.

A major challenge for today’s Enterprise Architects is navigating the increasingly complex landscape of multisoucing – including various flavours of cloud offerings. Large enterprises are starting to address this challenge by outsourcing their sourcing coordination. That is, they are looking to have a service provider play an integrator role, functioning as a single point of contact for their sourcing agreements. The service provider functioning in such an integrator role will need to build an Enterprise Architecture repository comprising services delivered from a number of sourcing partners for each customer. The integrator should also be expected to offer proactive advice on architectural consequences of strategic sourcing choices, and to identify optimization potential. Supported by a federated enterprise architecture repository deployment, you get transparency across services delivered from different service providers are mapped to your business goals and processes, while maintaining internal governance control and insight.

The takeaway from this talk is how multisourcing introduces new governance structures for enterprise architecture. With your services managed and coordinated by a sourcing integrator, you will – in effect – be able to get Enterprise Architecture as a Service.

Those who attend this session will learn:

• How multisourcing introduces new governance structures for enterprise architecture.
• That with your services managed and coordinated by a sourcing integrator, you will – in effect – be able to get Enterprise Architecture as a Service.

Holding a PhD in data modeling, Christian Holmboe specialises in simplification of complex information. With an early TOGAF 8 practitioners certification, he established TOGAF support in the METIS EA tool in 2004, later acquired by Troux Technologies. Holmboe has recently built the Enterprise Architecture function of EVRY Operations inside out.

Mats Rygaard has more than 15 years of experience within Enterprise Architecture from companies like CAP Gemini, Toyota and Cisco Architecture Management Office.

Many companies operate ERP as an important part of their architecture. With some, ERP is simply their architecture. Implementations of ERP usually require a huge effort throughout the whole company to get the basics in place. After go-live, management is relieved that the application finally went live so they can now fully derive their attention to the day-to-day business.

In the years that passed, business has not stood still. The company is in the business of manufacturing large engines to power ships, and revenue has grown. Some plants were closed, concentrating manufacturing in fewer more efficient plants. Historically, technical service and maintenance always used to be a necessity, only costing money. Recently it was picked up that clients found service more and more important, and gradually service is becoming a key aspect in winning from competition. Sales people have received a ´blank cheque´ from the chief commercial officer to do whatever necessary to win deals. And there the trouble starts.

There are increasing claims from the business that opportunities are being missed because IT cannot keep up with the changing demands both in sales as well as in service delivery. The IT department is doing what it always does: asking the business to define their requirements. However,: the ERP solution has been heavily customized and there are areas no-one dares to touch. In the past years, additional applications have been added to the ERP in order to cover specific business needs. So, there is a bit of a challenge for the CIO.

To make things worse, the new CEO who joined has recently enrolled his vision in a video message. He will introduce a new business concept: we do not sell engines, we do not sell service - we provide ´motion´ to the ships of our clients, always, anywhere. It is the idea that this concept redefines the business and enables totally new pricing mechanisms. This should boost profits. Previously separated customer offerings such as ´design´, ´build´, ´maintain´, ´service´, ´replace´ will be offered in one integrated concept, thereby providing full service to the customer. Even providing ´finance´ is an option. This inspiring concept is an entirely different way of looking at the business, and requires capabilities far beyond current performance.

The CIO, CEO, CTO and CCO each have a challenge, individually but also collectively. The CIO has a key role to get things moving but also needs to manage expectations. Question is how the concepts of enterprise architecture can help him and his colleagues to crack the problem.

In the presentation (provided there is enough time), the following three themes will be addressed:

• What symptoms tell you that a key discrepancy is emerging between business and IT? Individual signals are often not very explicit. It is only when you relate individual signals to each other and put them in the context of changing customer needs that the bigger picture becomes clear. This section of the presentation explains how to read the signals and what to do to identify if and what further actions are required.
• How can you use EA concepts and models to get a rich and shared understanding of the problem?
  This section explains how you can use architectural models such as TOGAF to capture the different dimension of the problem, get a common understanding between business and IT about the capabilities required to adapt to the new needs and the gap with the existing situation. This is also the basis for planning the route forward.
• How do you turn analyses into action and what do you need to achieve a successful turnaround?
  This section explains how to plan and realize the implementation, thereby using TOGAF and the capabilities as a continual reference point to check if the key aspects are being realized.

The presentation is based on a real case study.

Those who attend this session will learn:

• How to use Enterprise Architectural Concepts to turn around your ERP to meet key business needs
• About the changes in ERP landscape.

Hans Houmes joined PA in 2003 in the Netherlands and is working in IT Advisory. Hans has extensive experience in IT strategy, Business Blueprinting and IT enabled Transformation, with a focus on manufacturing. Over the past year Hans has delivered work in the area of IT strategy, Blueprinting and IT implementation.

This presentation will examine the relationships between TOGAF® Architecture Modeling Concepts such as Building Blocks and Architecture Patterns and the modeling capabilities of the ArchiMate 2 Enterprise Architecture modeling language. It will present a case study example that shows how TOGAF modeling concepts can be presented using the ArchiMate® language.

Those attending this session will learn:

• How to relate TOGAF Architecture Building Blocks, Solution Building Blocks and Architecture Patterns to ArchiMate modeling entities and relationships
• Similarities and differences between the underlying TOGAF and ArchiMate
  Metamodels
• Techniques for addressing issues caused by those differences.

Bill Estrem is the President of Metaplexity Associates LLC. He is actively involved in the development of TOGAF and ArchiMate.

Marc Walker is a Enterprise Architect at BT He is actively involved in the development of TOGAF. He has conducted significant research in the area of Ontologies and Metamodels for organizing Enterprise Architecture content including a TOGAF Content Metamodel extension for Cyber Defence.

Despite large investments, a high percentage of enterprise architecture (EA) initiatives fail to live up to expectations. Amongst the reasons are lack of stakeholder buy-in, bureaucratic processes, and silo thinking by the EA group and its main stakeholders. Under these circumstances, EA easily earns the reputation of being inefficient and time-consuming.

EA can be made more effective and flexible by leveraging practices from agile and lean management. These methodologies have proven their ability to streamline processes in software development and manufacturing. They are a pragmatic antidote against an “EA ivory tower”.

A lean and agile EA uses an iterative approach, broad participation across hierarchy levels, and stripped-down processes. Iteration cycles, compatible with TOGAF® ADM loops, ensure a timely result delivery and maximum involvement from all stakeholders. An EA Kanban method, derived from the TOGAF ADM phases, is used to structure task planning for architecture work.

Depending on the specific task (architecture creation, supervision of guideline conformance, etc.) we propose dedicated team structures (using the scrum approach) to leverage the power of self-organizing teams in EA work. The architecture view of complex IT transformations is organized as a custom-tailored “scrum of scrums” team pattern.

The lecture closes with a summary of potential risks and benefits of our lean and agile EA approach, structured according to the four dimensions viewpoint, governance, strategy orientation, and transformation pace.

Those who attend this session will understand that:

• The participants hear about thought-provoking new ideas and concepts, helping them to render their EA work more flexible
• They learn about concrete tools they can use in their daily practice
• The lecture provides the participants with arguments to use in discussions with their own management, why some processes should be restructured, and in what way.

Dr. Stefan Bente heads the Enterprise Architecture team at Cassini Consulting, Düsseldorf. He has a long experience himself as senior architect. His focus areas are enterprise architecture and large client-server applications, where he was exposed to lean and agile development methods. He is especially interested in process models for architectural work.

Future Ariborne Capability Environment (FACE™): Ask the Experts

Find out more about the FACE, gain insight into why we're succeeding in transforming the DoD Avionics Software Enterprise, and learn about our future plans and deliverables.

Chip Downing, is the Senior Director of Business Development for Aerospace and Defense at Wind River Systems, based out of the corporate office in Alameda, California USA. Mr. Downing also serves as the Chair of the FACE Consortium Outreach Committee. A 20-year veteran of the embedded systems industry and a pioneer in safety certification for commercial RTOSs, Chip previously was Vice-President of SCADE Global Sales for Esterel Technologies, selling a model-based design and development environment for DO-178B and IEC 61508 control systems. Mr. Downing has also lead sales, marketing, and consulting organizations at Validated Software, OnCore Systems, Mentor Graphics, Qualix Group, Ready Systems, and CENCO, now part of the Safran Group, selling and delivering DO-178B and other high reliability solutions.

Kirk Avery is a Chief Software Architect for Lockheed Martin Mission Systems and Sensors (MS2) with over 24 years experience in architecting, designing, developing, integrating, and deploying software solutions for military/commercial fixed and rotary wing aircraft systems and simulation systems. Over the course of his career, Kirk has developed and provided leadership in the creation and deployment of multiple modular, open, flexible, scalable, and portable complex software solutions and systems. Kirk is currently a chief engineer/architect with a responsibility for the implementation of the organization's software engineering product-line strategy. Kirk also serves as the FACE Consortium’s Technical Working Group Vice-Chair.

Judy Cerenzia is currently The Open Group’s Program Director for the Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE™) Consortium. Judy has 10+ years senior program management experience leading cross-functional and cross-organizational teams to reach consensus, define, and meet business and technical goals during project lifecycles. She is a TOGAF® 9 certified, DODAF 2.0 knowledgeable, and has led a variety of government/industry/academic collaborative activities. As a Research Engineer for Penn State’s Applied Research Lab she coordinated multiple, large projects for weapon technology development and performance evaluation for the Office of Naval Research (ONR), the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) and the Navy's Torpedo Program Office (PMS 404). She holds a BS in Mathematics and MS in Acoustics from Penn State University.