Event Timetable

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

Modeling Enterprise Architectures using Building Blocks and Patterns

Bill Estrem is the President of Metaplexity Associates LLC.  He is actively involved in the development of TOGAF and ArchiMate.  He is a past chair of the Architecture Forum and chairman of the Modeling and terminology committee in the Forum. He has also served a two year term on The Open Group board of Governors.

Introduction to ArchiMate®

This presentation will give a brief introduction to the Archimate standard, positioning ArchiMate with respect to other important EA standards such as TOGAF, and will provide statistics of its growth and adoption. It will also provide an overview of the practical benefits from use of Archimate, and give pointers to the conference tracks and panel sessions in which Archimate will be featured.

Henry Franken, MSc. PhD., is Chair of the ArchiMate Forum. In professional life he is Managing Director of BiZZdesign, a company offering complete and integrated solutions (tools, methods, consultancy and training) to design and improve organizations. At BiZZdesign, Henry is, amongst others, responsible for research and innovation. Alignment with and contribution to open standards are key. Henry has co-authored several international publications and Open Group whitepapers. Henry is co-founder of the BPM-Forum. Henry is a speaker at many conferences.

Iver Band is the Vice Chair of The Open Group ArchiMate Forum, and an Enterprise Architect at Standard Insurance Company, where he enthusiastically applies the TOGAF and ArchiMate standards to his daily responsibilities, which include guiding an application portfolio and chairing the Architecture Review Team.

Certification

This session will give an overview of The Open Group's certification programs.

Association of Enterprise Architects (AEA)

Thhis session will give an overview of the Association of Enterprise Architects.

Allen Brown is President and CEO of The Open Group – a global consortium that enables the achievement of business objectives through IT standards. He is also President of the Association of Enterprise Architects (AEA).

For over 10 years Allen has been responsible for driving The Open Group’s strategic plan and day-to-day operations, including extending its reach into new global markets, such as China, the Middle East, South Africa and India. In addition, he was instrumental in the creation of the AEA, which was formed to increase job opportunities for all of its members and elevate their market value by advancing professional excellence.

Prior to joining The Open Group, Allen Brown held a range of senior financial and general management roles both within his own consulting firm, which he founded in 1987, and other multi-national organizations.

Allen is TOGAF® 9 certified, an MBA alumnus of the London Business School and a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.

KEYNOTE: Big Data at NASA

Chris Gerty, Deputy Program Manager, Open Innovation Program, National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Chris is a member of NASA’s Open Innovation Program and is a leading voice on collaborative exploration and NASA's maker culture. He has fifteen years of experience working on complex, technology-intense projects at NASA.

Chris has a passion for technology both personally and professionally, and has worked on projects ranging from planning human missions to the Moon, to specializing in the operation of US and Russian space suit systems on the International Space Station. He is also an explorer and has first-hand experience working and surviving in extreme conditions. In 2007, he participated as a crew member on NASA's undersea mission aboard the NOAA Aquarius Underwater Laboratory off the coast of Florida, living underwater for 10 days to study the effects of long-duration spaceflight and test lunar exploration concepts.

Chris earned his Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from Clarkson University in Potsdam, NY, and currently lives in Houston, TX with his family.

KEYNOTE:  Big Data - Bringing Order to the Chaos

David Potter, Chief Technical Officer, Promise Innovation Oy
Ron Schuldt, Senior Partner, UDEF-IT, LLC

The “Internet of Things” is by its very nature, scope, and size one example of a Big Data source. This presentation will describe how The Open Group’s evolving Quantum Lifecycle Management (QLM) standard coupled with its complementary Universal Data Element Framework (UDEF) standard help to bring order to the terminology chaos that faces Big Data implementations. Together, the combined standards provide a consistent method for tagging and exchanging information about anything (the Internet of Things) that has a life cycle.

David Potter (top photo) is the Chief Technical Officer at Promise Innovation Oy, a Research Coordinator at the Politecnico di Milano and Chair of The Open Group’s Quantum Lifecycle Management (QLM) Work Group. He has a diverse skill set including technical, project management and consulting expertise. Based in the UK, David chaired the Project Steering Board of the EU PROMISE research project from which the principles of QLM emerged. With more than 40 years of experience in information systems, he has a broad range of expertise in logistics solutions, distributed architectures and enterprise systems management. David established his own consulting practice in 1997 after spending 27 years at IBM UK, latterly as an IT Architect in the IBM Consulting Group.

Ron Schuldt (bottom photo) has been involved with The Open Group’s Universal Data Element Framework (UDEF) standard since its inception. He has over twenty-eight years’ experience as a systems engineer for Lockheed Martin working in systems design and integration. He has been involved in multiple data interchange standards activities and is recognized as an expert on data standards. He is Chairman of The Open Group UDEF Interested Parties Project and previously served as Chairman of the Electronic Enterprise Integration Committee within the Aerospace Industries Association. Currently, he is a Senior Partner with UDEF-IT, LLC, providing data integration training and consulting services.

A Reference Architecture for the Big Data Ecosystem

Tom Plunkett and Janet Mostow, Oracle Corporation, US

This presentation will discuss efforts to create a reference architecture for the Big Data ecosystem. We describe the Big Data ecosystem as the broad view of the variety of data stores for different data structures, different methods of search and query, different algorithms and approaches to analyze, store, recombine both structure and unstructured data, and to report out results that are both descriptive and predictive and open new possibilities. We will discuss the main capabilities required for a more scoped view of Big Data, a reference architecture which shows the broad set of capabilities of the Big Data Ecosystem, technologies that meet these capabilities, and example use cases.

Tom Plunkett is a senior consultant with Oracle and is the lead author of the Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Handbook. Tom has spoken internationally at over thirty conferences. Previously, Tom worked for IBM, taught computer science for Virginia Tech, and practiced patent law.

Janet Mostow is an Enterprise Architect with Oracle Public Sector. She is an Open Group Certified Distinguished IT Architect with 29 years of experience in IT. Previously she was an Executive IT Architect at IBM. She was the profession leader for Sales & Distribution (S&D) for IT Architects in the Americas at IBM and served on the Americas S&D Women in Technology Board.   

The Architect's Journey: From Technical Superman to Business Architect

Jeff Scott, VP Business & Technology Strategy, Accelare, Inc., US

Enterprise architects struggle with legacy technologies, legacy systems, and legacy architectures. Have we also become legacy architects, applying our considerable skills and knowledge to the wrong problem? Is the architect’s dream of enterprise-wide, logical, and orderly business and technology systems even possible? Should that still be the architect’s goal or have the success parameters changed? Enterprise architects are rapidly approaching a cross-road where the path they take will affect their careers for years to come.
This session will present an outside-in perspective of the enterprise architect’s future: How past successes (and failures) will shape EA’s future. Why IT marginalization is creating a career dilemma for EAs. Why technical expertise is not enough. The future is just around the corner. Are you ready for it?

Jeff Scott is an internationally recognized thought leader in the areas of business architecture, IT leadership, and organizational innovation. Prior to joining Accelare, Jeff was the principal analyst for business architecture with Forrester Research where he published over fifty research reports and provided strategic consulting to a wide variety of companies

Implementing TOGAF: Where to Start?

Sven van Dijk, BiZZdesign North America, Canada

 The power of Enterprise Architecture lies in its integrated nature. TOGAF supports EA by organizing people, processes, and technology in an integrated way. An integrated approach provides key stakeholders with greater insight and enables a common understanding of dealing with complexity at the enterprise level. This results in improved decision making in multiple areas including business IT-alignment, IT investment, risk management, outsourcing, etc.

BiZZdesign assists clients around the globe with establishing EA practices and implementing TOGAF. We have seen organizations encounter TOGAF’s “many faces” which can make its implementation a challenging and even daunting task. Many EA teams also struggle to communicate the business value of TOGAF effectively in order to gain the essential buy-in.

Implementing TOGAF is often much more a matter of evolution rather than revolution. BiZZdesign recommends to clients that successful initiatives are a result of EA teams approaching implementation as a journey that is broken down in a multitude of smaller initiatives that steadily lead to a more mature EA capability. BiZZdesign frequently advises clients to think big, but start small, and their next question often is: “Where do we start?”

This presentation will delve into the question of how to define and manage such a federated approach. Not only will the TOGAF mechanisms be discussed, this presentation will also introduce a very practical method to manage and govern the TOGAF implementation process. This method is based on balanced-score cards, and it gives change managers the grip they need to succeed in the process of implementation and embedding of TOGAF in the organization. The presentation features experiences from real-life cases on how to identify, gain buy-in, set up, and manage the initiatives that kick-start the development of an EA practice.

Topics covered will include:

1. Grow an EA capability using a federated TOGAF implementation approach
2. Method to keep grip on TOGAF implementation
3. Stakeholder communication: How to get buy-in?
4. TOGAF implementation case examples

Sven van Dijk is a consultant and trainer for BiZZdesign North America and has a decade of experience in working with methods and tools for BPM & EA in various project roles and industries such as utilities, finance, telecom. He studied Business Information Technology in Enschede, The Netherlands.

Who's Afraid of Big Data?

Jason Bloomberg, President, ZapThink

Just how big are Big Data anyway? The best answer -- data sets too large for existing or traditional tools to handle -- leads to some difficult questions. Sure, we can leverage Hadoop or NoSQL in the Cloud or some other modern approach to deal with today's Big Data problems, but what about tomorrow, when Hadoop and the Cloud move to the "existing tools" category?

The core problem is that the quantity of data we have to work with continues to explode exponentially, while our ability to deal with such Big Data grows linearly. No matter how good our tools are, eventually Big Data will outgrow them.

The solution is to take a governance-centric architectural approach to leveraging tools for solving Big Data problems that addresses change directly. The architectural focus shifts from the tools to human activity and behavior. The tools may never solve the Big Data problem over the long term, but human innovation and ingenuity can.

Attendees of this session will:

• Gain an understanding of the fundamental limitations of technology when dealing with continually exploding Big Data challenges
• Learn how a governance-centric architectural approach can enable data teams to deal with increasingly large data sets
• Gain an appreciation of how a properly architected human/technology system of systems can foster innovation sufficient for dealing with Big Data

Jason Bloomberg is President of ZapThink, a Dovel Technologies Company. He is a global thought leader in the areas of Cloud Computing, Enterprise Architecture, and Service-Oriented Architecture. He created the Licensed ZapThink Architect (LZA) SOA course and associated credential, and runs the LZA course as well as his Cloud Computing for Architects course around the world. He is a frequent conference speaker and prolific writer, including as a regular columnist on US Government IT for CIO Magazine and blogger for DevX.

Mr. Bloomberg is one of the original Managing Partners of ZapThink LLC, the leading SOA advisory and analysis firm, which was acquired by Dovel Technologies in August 2011. His book, Service Orient or Be Doomed! How Service Orientation Will Change Your Business (John Wiley & Sons, 2006, coauthored with Ron Schmelzer), is recognized as the leading business book on Service Orientation. His newest book, The Agile Architecture Revolution: How Cloud Computing, REST-based SOA, and Mobile Computing are Changing Enterprise IT (John Wiley & Sons), is due in the spring of 2013.

Mr. Bloomberg has a diverse background in eBusiness technology management and industry analysis, including serving as a senior analyst in IDC’s eBusiness Advisory group, as well as holding eBusiness management positions at USWeb/CKS (later marchFIRST) and WaveBend Solutions (now Hitachi Consulting). He also co-authored the books XML and Web Services Unleashed (SAMS Publishing, 2002), and Web Page Scripting Techniques (Hayden Books, 1996).

Business Storytelling 101

Nicklas Malik, Enterprise Strategy Architect, Microsoft Corporation, US

One of the most important skills of the Enterprise Architect is rarely taught in a training conference or university course: the ability to create and tell a clear, compelling, and memorable business story to leaders and managers in business settings. The ability to tell a compelling story can be the difference between a boring discussion of options and a memorable meeting that excites and motivates your audience to act. Nick Malik, co-author of "Stories That Move Mountains, Storytelling and Visual Design for Persuasive Presentations," will take you through a step-by-step process called CAST created by Nick and his co-authors Martin Sykes and Mark West. By following the CAST process, Nick will help you to create a memorable story, compose the visuals needed to tell it, and present it in a memorable way.

After 30 years in high tech, Nick Malik has emerged as a leading voice in the field of Enterprise Architecture and Business Architecture. Along the way, Nick has found that one of the core skills of the Enterprise Architect is the ability to communicate, motivate, and inspire an audience of leaders and managers to act. He is here to share that experience.

Building a Business Transformation Capability Using TOGAF®

Jason Uppal, Chief Architect, QRS, Canada

Learn how to:

Define the Enterprise Architecture skills supply and demand gap in your organization
Assess the impact of this gap on your organization’s business strategy
Build a practical business case for your Business Transformation Capability (TOGAF® Based EA Practice)

Background and Context:

“Discontinuities are often described as technological breakthroughs that help companies rewrite industry rules or create entirely new industries.”

So what do organizations need in order to pounce on opportunities created by discontinuities? They need to position their Business Transformation as an Enterprise capability. As Dr. John Kotter pointed out in the November 2012 Harvard Business Review: most organizations have an excellent model to run the day-to-day business of the enterprise, however, they lack a similar process maturity in their ability to transform their business. This session will define how to build a Business Transformation Capability by leveraging your investment in TOGAF®.

Topics Covered:

The Business Transformation Capability and its Performance Indicators – performance of the process and business outcomes
Role of the Enterprise Architecture and Support from TOGAF ® standards
The Business Transformation Value Chain
Enterprise Architecture Services and their Value
Enterprise Architecture Roles and Skills
Skills Demand and Supply Gap Analysis
Impact of the Gap on your Business Strategy
Business Case for Business Transformation – Template

Additional Material:

Three Position Papers that cover:
Enterprise Architecture Requirements
Enterprise Architecture as a Profession
Investment in ICT and Enterprise Value
The Business Transformation eBook
10 free copies

Jason Uppal, P.Eng. was the first Master IT Architect certified by The Open Group, by direct review, in October 2005. At that point, Jason had been chief architect of QR Systems Inc (www.quickresponse.ca) for six years and had been providing senior Enterprise Architecture services. He holds an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering, graduate degree in Economics and a post graduate diploma in Computer Science.

Jason’s commitment to Enterprise Architecture Life Cycle (EALC) has led him to focus on training (TOGAF®), education (UOIT) and mentoring services to his clients as well as being the responsible individual for both Architecture and Portfolio & Project Management for a number of major projects.

Jason has found that education is only beneficial to those companies who can industrialize the EALC process – staff must be able to implement what they have learned. To that end, he lead a team of java software developers to develop an end to end industrialization product which encapsulates Enterprise Architecture, Portfolio and Project Management, Project Management and IT Services Management processes. Implementing this software product, ITO, (www.itoProcesses.com.) permits companies to take full advantage of TOGAF® and any other custom processes which might already be in place within their organization

Data Architecture for Big Data

Robert Weisman, CEO, Build The Vision Inc., Canada

Big data can provide major competitive advantage or become a distraction reducing corporate productivity. A data architecture can focus, organize and make discoverable both internal and external data enabling its exploitation for analytics to enhance stakeholder decision quality and discover new knowledge. The workshop will present general big data architecture concepts as well as models that address both business and IT concerns, services, and techniques.

Robert Weisman MSc, PEng, PMP has a background in military/civil/environmental engineering as well as a graduate degree in Computer Science specializing in knowledge-based systems for crisis management and C4ISR. During 25 years in uniform and 12 years in the private sector he has been working in Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise Knowledge Management since 1993. Bob was a key contributor to TOGAF 9 and has chaired the Open Group Information Architecture Working Group since 2009.

ArchiMate Tutorial: Successful Enterprise Architecture Using the TOGAF® Framework and the ArchiMate® Modeling Language

Henry Franken, CEO, BIZZdesign, The Netherlands

A complete approach to Enterprise Architecture (EA) requires:

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

The TOGAF® 9 standard, 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 the TOGAF® standard 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.

Leveraging Big Data with Master Data

Don Dejewski, Executive IT Architect, IBM

Master Data Management (MDM) solutions are being designed in many industries to provide a single view of a (customer, citizen, etc) across an enterprise.  This presentation will cover MDM architectural patterns including Big Data use cases. There will also be a discussion on information life-cycle governance and why the quality of the data is such an important consideration when designing an MDM solution.

Don Dejewski is an Executive IT Architect in the NY Area. Don has thirty-six years experience in I/T. He has been a solutions architect since 2001He is the principal architect supporting a major financial account. He is also the principal architect for the NY/NJ territory. He has been the technical advisor to a large public sector territory, where he has designed first of a kind software solutions. These solutions included the Real Time Crime Center and a Single View of Citizen. Don is also a key technical advisor to many of his client’s executives where he bridges the gap between technology and business.

Rejuvenating Architecture Governance in a Redesigned Organization

Graeme Queen, Director of Solution Delivery, Standard Insurance Company, USA; and Iver Band, Enterprise Architect, Standard Insurance Company, USA

After a reorganization that distributed a formerly intact EA organization across multiple groups, architects at Standard Insurance Company had to re-establish architecture governance in a complex environment without dedicated resources. The speaker used the ArchiMate language in a TOGAF context to model and communicate the new virtual organization, process and deliverables. He did this while continuing to use and evangelize ArchiMate modeling for architecture deliverables. This presentation covers both the mechanics of establishing and conducting architecture governance as well as the use of the ArchiMate language for those purposes.

Intended audience: Enterprise Architects, their managers and colleagues. Anyone investigating EA approaches for their organization.

Key takeaways:
1. The essentials of effective architecture governance.
2. Use of the ArchiMate Business Layer to model organizational change.
3. Use of the Archimate Motivation Extension to model organizational strategy, tactics and politics.
 

Graeme Queen is Director of Solution Delivery at Standard Insurance Company, where his responsibilities span Asset Management, Benefits, Customer OnBoarding, CRM and Contact Center systems. He has been in IT management for ten years, with responsibilities spanning architecture, systems analysis, software engineering, middleware and applications. Previously, Graeme was a software engineer working on CRM systems.

Iver Band is the Vice Chair of The Open Group ArchiMate Forum, and an Enterprise Architect at Standard Insurance Company, where he enthusiastically applies the TOGAF and ArchiMate standards to his daily responsibilities, which include guiding an application portfolio and chairing the Architecture Review Team.

Allen Brown is President and CEO of The Open Group – a global consortium that enables the achievement of business objectives through IT standards. He is also President of the Association of Enterprise Architects (AEA).

For over 10 years Allen has been responsible for driving The Open Group’s strategic plan and day-to-day operations, including extending its reach into new global markets, such as China, the Middle East, South Africa and India. In addition, he was instrumental in the creation of the AEA, which was formed to increase job opportunities for all of its members and elevate their market value by advancing professional excellence.

Prior to joining The Open Group, Allen Brown held a range of senior financial and general management roles both within his own consulting firm, which he founded in 1987, and other multi-national organizations.

Allen is TOGAF® 9 certified, an MBA alumnus of the London Business School and a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.

KEYNOTE:  Big Data and the Cloud: We better get Security right

Mary Ann Mezzapelle, Security Strategist for HP Enterprise Services

With big data, cloud and the changing role of the CIO, security in the cloud in a complex matter. Information is the new business currency.  Have you been able to turn the massive volume, velocity, and variety of “big data” into practical knowledge? How will you proactively manage information-related business opportunity and risk?  Does your company have 'shadow IT' and have you assessed the exposure? With multiple providers, do you have the governance processes in place to understand the solutions and risk to the whole enterprise? In a hybrid environment, you'll be hard pressed to respond to business needs with necessary agility while minimizing the enterprise's risk posture. This requires managing the information explosion, understanding the changing services model, technology components, critical processes and taking an end-to-end view.

Mary Ann Mezzapelle is a Security Strategist for HP Enterprise Services. In that role, she is responsible for integrating technology strategy and planning capabilities across HP. She has worked with HP for over 20 years serving as business transformation and technology advisor to major clients in industries such as financial, insurance, travel, energy, transportation, and manufacturing . She has CISSP, CSSLP and ITIL certifications. Currently, she is the Co-Chair for The Open Group Security Forum. She is also an author of HP viewpoint papers, frequent contributor to Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) board activities, and InfraGard programs. In her spare time, she is supporting the US troops at home and seeking a cure for Type 1 Diabetes.

KEYNOTE:  Securing Big Data - Recommendations for Hadoop & NoSQL environments

Adrian Lane, Analyst and CTO, Securosis

Adrian Lane is a Senior Security Strategist with 24 years of industry experience. He brings over a decade of C-level executive expertise to the Securosis team. Mr. Lane specializes in database architecture and data security. With extensive experience as a member of the vendor community (including positions at Ingres and Oracle), in addition to time as an IT customer in the CIO role, Adrian brings a business-oriented perspective to security implementations.

Prior to joining Securosis, Adrian was CTO at database security firm IPLocks, Vice President of Engineering at Touchpoint, and CTO of the secure payment and digital rights management firm Transactor/Brodia. Adrian also blogs for Dark Reading and is a regular contributor to Information Security Magazine. Mr. Lane is a Computer Science graduate of the University of California at Berkeley with post-graduate work in operating systems at Stanford University.

The Relevance/ Importance of Business Architecture in Health Care Reform

Eric Stephens, Oracle Corporation, US

Much energy and funding is being expended into health care reform (HCR) activities within the U.S. over the next two years. The funding levels are such that government agencies have the opportunity to not only transform technology portfolios but more importantly transform the way they "conduct business" with their citizens. This presentation will focus on the importance of business architecture in facilitation of this transformation based on the speaker's experiences with a state government project.

Intended audience: EA practitioners with emphasis on business architecture; LOB/Agency leaders.

Key takeaways:
* A (new?) view into what business architecture really is; splicing the tech from the business;
* Factors for consideration when implementing reform-based activities;
* Perspectives into what to capture (enhancements to a business architecture metamodel) for HCR-related efforts.

Eric Stephens has 25+ years of IT experience most of which in Enterprise and Solution/ Software Architecture. Within the EA discipline he focuses on IT/EA/SOA Governance, SOA blueprints, and Identity Management strategies. Vertical domains include insurance, healthcare, life sciences, finance & banking, mobile telecom, media & entertainment, public sector, and retail.

Opportunities for Doing Business in the Cloud within the Energy Utility Industry

Nilesh Chandra, PA Consulting, US; and Jonathan Cane, Project Manager, Washington Gas, US

Cloud Computing is one of the most hyped-up technologies of 2012 but based on our experience, utilities have a new number of opportunities for using cloud computing. These range from helping to ensure business continuity and improving desktop productivity through to providing support for outage management, customer experience and network management processes. In addition there are opportunities to use cloud technologies to introduce new and innovative ways of working and achieve regulatory compliance more cheaply.

During this talk we will look at the potential use cases for adopting the cloud within energy companies and share general trends that we have observed within the industry. For example evidence shows that Electric Utilities in the US have started to adopt Software-as-a-Service solutions for their business operations but that a greater number of electric utilities in Europe, and especially in the UK, have subscribed to the IaaS Service Model.

We will discuss some case studies where our clients have realized good results from their cloud initiatives and highlight some of the potential pitfalls for utilities to watch out for and the best ways to implement a transition to cloud services.

Intended audience: Enterprise Architects, CIOs, Energy Utilities, Solution Architects, Project Managers, IT and Business Strategists.

Key takeaways:
1) There are compelling use cases for cloud adoption within the energy utility industry within all areas of the business;
2) US utilities are investing in SaaS implementations while in Europe the focus has been on IaaS solutions;
3) When choosing a cloud provider and preparing for implementation there are many things to watch out for such as focusing on the 'small print' and developing a deep understanding of the overall strategic goals for the transformation.

Nilesh Chandra is one of PA Consulting’s leading experts in the area of Business Architecture in the US. He advises senior leaders from IT and Business on IT Strategy and Business Architecture for energy utilities and healthcare clients. Nilesh is also a frequent contributor to leading magazines and journals on a variety of business topics – from developing an aligned Business Architecture to process design and managing change initiatives.

Nilesh holds a MBA from Cornell University, NY with a focus on business strategy and operations. He also holds a Six Sigma Green Belt certification, is accredited as a Lean expert by the Lean Enterprise Research Centre at Cardiff Business School and has a certification in Business and Enterprise Architecture from Henley Business School
 

Why Risk It?

Jack Jones, CTO, CXOWARE, US

Risk has become a catchphrase in the information security industry over the past couple of years. So what's all the fuss about? How is this any different than what our profession has been doing all along? In this session, Jack will discuss a risk-based approach to information security and architecture and the potential benefits (and challenges) that can result. He'll also describe how it can complement current infosec practices rather than just replace them.

This session will also provide a high-level review of the Open Group Risk Taxonomy (based on FAIR), as well as some practical use-cases and real-world examples of where a risk-based approach made a difference.

Jack Jones, CISSP, CISM, CISA, has specialized in information security and risk management for twenty-one years. During this time, he has worked in the United States military, government intelligence, consulting, as well as the financial and insurance industries.

Jack has over eight years of experience as a CISO, with five of those years at a Fortune 100 financial services company. His work there was recognized in 2006 when he received the 2006 RSA/ISSA Excellence in the Field of Security Practices award. In 2007, he was selected as a finalist for the Information Security Executive of the Year, Central United States, and in 2012 was honored with the CSO Compass award for leadership in risk management.

He is also the author and creator of the Factor Analysis of Information Risk (FAIR) framework.
 

Developing a Business Architect Practice

Peter Haviland, Chief Architect, Ernst & Young

The Energy Ecosystem

Stuart Boardman, KPN, Netherlands
Louis Dietvorst, Enexis, Netherlands

 The energy market has undergone a transformation that would have been unthinkable 15 years ago. The new regulatory climate coupled with continuous innovation has led to the emergence of the smart grid. This in turn has created an ecosystem consisting of a large number of different types of contributors - larger probably than in any other market. It ranges from traditional players and wholesalers to consumer/producers. Distributed systems are seen as the key to continuity of service. Farmers emerge as key players in the local marketplace. Local government plays an increasingly active role in promoting sustainable energy solutions making it too a service provider. Nowhere is the internet of things as much a reality as in this market. And energy providers have an increasingly important role as information service providers. At the same time we see a timely awareness of ecosystems and extended enterprise developing in the world of enterprise architecture. How will this ecosystem manage itself? In our presentation we'll look at the market/ ecosystem from the perspective of several typical parties. We examine how enterprise architecture can help to ensure this new ecosystem is and remains viable and effective.

Intended audience: Enterprise Architects, Energy market specialists, Innovation Managers, anyone interested in innovation and emergence.

Key takeaways:
o An understanding of the major developments taking place in the energy market.
o A perspective on the challenges of complex ecosystems and what we can do to manage that complexity.
o Some insights into lesser known EA techniques.

Stuart Boardman (pictured) has been active in IT and enterprise architecture for 25 years after trying to make a career as a musician. His focus has always been on the effective adoption of innovation and on dealing with unpredictability and change. He currently represents KPN as an enterprise architect with energy sector clients and runs the EA development programme within KPN Consulting. He is a founding member of The Open Group's SOA and Cloud work groups and particularly active in the TOGAF For Cloud Ecosystems project. Stuart thinks EA should be challenging, business focused and above all fun. Fortunately he's not the only one.

Certification for Risk Analysts

Jim Hietala, VP Security, The Open Group

Risk analysis has grown to be a critical function in enterprises. As organizations are confronted with more threats, gaining a more precise understanding of which risks are the most serious ones to address is important. The Open Group published our Risk Taxonomy Standard, based upon FAIR (Factor Analysis for Information Risk) two years ago to address the need for a standardized taxonomy in risk analysis. To help further the risk analysis profession, The Open Group is launching a new risk analyst certification program.

This session will describe various types risk analysis frameworks and methods, and it will highlight the elements of risk analysis that the new Open Group certification will test competency in. It will also provide an overview of the certification program and the various testing options.
 

Jim Hietala, CISSP, GSEC, is Vice President, Security for The Open Group, where he manages all security and risk management programs and standards activities.

Jim is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, and he recently authored a comprehensive course on IT risk management. He participates in the SANS Analyst/Expert program, having written several research whitepapers and participated in several webcasts for SANS. He has also published numerous articles on information security, risk management, and compliance topics in publications including The ISSA Journal, Bank Accounting & Finance, Risk Factor, SC Magazine, and others.

An industry veteran, he has held leadership roles at ControlPath, Avail Networks, Alternative Technologies, eSoft, Qwest, Concentric Network, and Digital Pathways. He holds a B.S. in Marketing from Southern Illinois University.

Enterprise Architecture Agile Practice Framework for Transforming an Enterprise to Improve Execution Agility

Xijia (Frank) Chen, Associate Director & Principal Enterprise Architect, Cognizant Technology Solutions, US

A company needs execution agility to adapt to ever-changing market, and develop new strategic initiatives quickly and effectively to win in the competition and lead to the future. Many companies tried to transform themselves to agile enterprises through adopting agile development methodologies in project management to achieve execution agility. Although some companies can achieve certain project-level agility by gaining project speed at the cost of future development (i.e. ‘IT Debt’), most were not able to achieve the enterprise-level agility due to the lack of alignment among strategy, operation, organization and technology for agile enterprise execution. This presentation will illustrate an Enterprise Architecture Agile Practice Framework, which a company can utilize to develop its execution agility at both project and enterprise level, and fundamentally transform itself to an agile enterprise. A case discussion will show how a Fortune 100 company used the framework to successfully execute a strategic initiative by overcoming the challenges in time, budget and on-going requirement change.

Key takeaways:
1. What is Enterprise Architecture Agile Practice Framework
2. Why Enterprise Architecture Agile Practice Framework is critical for transforming a company to an agile enterprise
3. How to constructively build enterprise architecture agile practice for an enterprise agile execution across projects

Xijia (Frank) Chen is a value-driven principal enterprise architect, strategist, and Associate Director in Cognizant Technology Solutions. He provides technology and strategy thought leadership and solutions through consulting services for Fortune 500 companies. He has extensive experience and a proven track record in developing business-driven enterprise architecture and strategic solutions for a broad range of companies across various industries internationally. Utilizing emerging technologies and business/ management skills, he architected creative strategic enterprise solutions, which have enabled companies to create new business models or regenerate industry winning strategies to win in the present competition and lead to the future.

Frank is a TOGAF Certified Architect, a Sun Certified Enterprise Architect, and a Sun Certified Java Programmer, and a Principal Consultant when he worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers. Frank earned MBA from University of Southern California , and Masters in Computer Science from Louisiana Tech University.
 

Using ArchiMate to Define Service Oriented Architectures

Bill Poole, Enterprise Architect, JourneyOne, Australia

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has become extremely prevalent over the last decade. Properly defining a Service Oriented Architecture requires integrated models to be created in the business, application and technology layers, which makes ArchiMate very well suited to the task. This presentation covers a case study of how ArchiMate was used to define services, service components and endpoints based on the target business architecture, and how the integration architecture was to be realised in the technology layer on SOA infrastructure.

Key take-aways:
1. The use of business layer models as a basis for service oriented architecture
2. The construction of application layer models based on the business architecture to describe the integration architecture
3. Using the technology layer to represent the realization of the integration architecture on SOA infrastructure
 

Bill Poole is the practice lead of the Enterprise Architecture discipline within JourneyOne, providing support and guidance to JourneyOne's EA consultants on their client engagements. Bill has established EA practices, developed IT strategies, and planned and delivered major transformational programmes of work in the Insurance, Oil &
Gas and Mining industries.

A Systems Approach for Reliability Enhancement

Dr. Leila Meshkat, Senior Engineer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, US

This talk presents an overview of risk and reliability modeling efforts conducted during the various phases of space mission design and operations. The emphasis will be on recent efforts for considering human reliability during the spacecraft command generation process. A Command File Error during a space mission operations is often the symptom of some kind of imbalance or inadequacy within the system that comprises the hardware & software used for command generation and the human experts involved in this endeavour. We present a systems approach for modeling and managing these types of errors. The talk will end with a suggested vision for end to end systems and reliability modeling.

Dr. Leila Meshkat is a Senior Engineer in the Systems & Software Division at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and a part time faculty member at the University of Southern California (USC) School of Engineering. During the course of her career at JPL she has conducted and led numerous Risk and Systems engineering tasks. She created the Risk Chair in JPL’s Concurrent Engineering team and led the design and development of an associated distributed software system. She conducted the post-anomaly quantitative risk modeling for the MRO and ODY missions and built models for the assessment of the reliability of the Mars relay network. She has created new processes and rules for software development at JPL. She was a Lead Systems Engineers in the Special Analysis Team for the Flight Production Process Re-engineering project, based at the Johnson Space Center, which built a technological infrastructure for the rapid development of flight products.

She is currently the Principal Investigator for the JPL Command Process Modeling & Risk Analysis task Prior to joining JPL, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the USC Information Sciences Institute. She holds a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia, an M.S. in Operations Research from the George Washington University and a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from the Sharif University of Technology.

Realizing Strategic Breakthroughs – A Defence Case Study

Robert Weisman, CEO, Build The Vision Inc., Canada

A Business Strategy elaborates business goals but at times how to create the capabilities to achieve these goals are unknown. Additionally the risk of a competitor acquiring these capabilities earlier could result in a serious loss of competitiveness. This case study illustrates how the goal of harnessing a disruptive technology in defence was tackled by a team of business and technical staff in a research and development environment. They determined how and when to deploy a host of innovations that revolutionized the way that command and control was deployed. This necessitated the complete rewrite of business concepts, policies and processes, new skills and the deployment of new technology and supporting infrastructure. The lessons learned from this endeavour laid the foundation for capability based planning and capability engineering. The presenter spent three years as one of the three business requirements managers.

Robert Weisman, MSc, PEng, PMP, CD is CEO of Build The Vision Inc. (www.buildthevision.ca) and spent 30 years in defence and 10 years in CGI where he founded the Enterprise Architecture Practice before starting Build The Vision in 2008. An army staff college graduate and subject matter expert in plans and operations (command and control) he spent three years establishing, testing and refining business requirements for this $3B project in an applied R&D testbed. Subsequently he completed under-graduate (ULaval) and graduate studies (Royal Military College of Canada) in Computer Science specializing in knowledge-based command and control.

SOA in the German Health Information Technology Infrastructure

Stipe Tolj, CEO and Chief Systems Architect, Kannel Software Foundation (KSF), Germany

The German HIT infrastructure and electronic health insurance card (HIC) is one of the biggest IT projects currently enrolled in the G20 countries. It covers the whole spectrum of eHealth for over 80 Mio. citizen and over 100K HIT service points, including medical professionals, pharmacies, hospital, health care insurances etc. The core architecture of the German HIT infrastructure is based on the SOA paradigm, which we will introduce and co-notate in this case study. Presenting a real world case that presents the capabilities of distributed, inter-operable systems design based on SOA principles.

Key takeaways:
- SOA enables large scale service architectures (HIT infrastructure)
- well defined SOA architectural layouts provide a basis for decentralized deployment of such large scale systems

Stipe Tolj is Executive Officer and Chief System Architect of the Kannel Software Foundation (KSF). Previously being Chief Technology Officer of Wapme Systems AG, a German stock quoted pioneer company in mobile wireless application technologies, dedicated Platform Manager of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). He has been working throughout the last ten years in various strategic joint-ventures, including Nokia, Ericsson, Vodafone, T-Mobile and VeriSign for various mobile
applications and infrastructure architectures, including SMSC protocols, WAP, MMS, ENUM, mobile payment. He has been contributing as open source evangelist to various well-known projects, including the Apache HTTP Server, MySQL RDBMS, PHP and as working group member in various standardization bodies, including the IETF, W3C, WAP Forum, SMPP Forum, OMA. Throughout being involved in core IP and mobile infrastructure standards and technologies, he is focusing in integration aspects and unification strategies.

SSL Is Not a Secure Architecture

Greg Sternberg, Jeppesen, USA

Architects and Developers, under the time and cost gun, say that putting SSL into the project is better than doing noththing. Project managers are able to check the box which says "secured the system". Customers feel good when they see that padlocck on their browser because they know everything is safe. Malware writers, at whom this entire effort is aimed, are as concerned as the thief who knows the front door is locked but the back door isn't.

Securing our architectures is far more then just adding SSL near the end of a project. Security needs to start as far back as the customer and needs to be evaluated at every stage in the project. Securing an architecture means looking at ones architecture, not as a single architect or developer from an internal view point but as an group of extremely capable and devious developers from an external view point.

Intended audience: Architects & developers dealing with security

Key takeaways:

• The realization that SSL does not make a secure architecture
• How to look at an architecture from a malware point of view
• You can't secure your architecture but you can make it harder to crack than the architecture next door

Greg Sternberg is a Solutions/Security Architect at Jeppesen, a wholly owned subsidiary of Boeing. He works with all facets of software engineering, primarily addressing security, compliance and architectural issues. He chaired Jeppesen's Security and Software Engineering CoPs and developed the security and compliance processes for Jeppesen's standandardized software process. He has served as security consultant for a variety of groups and individuals and has taught classes. He is a published author and speaker, speaking at previous Open Group conferences. He currently holds a CISSP and is TOGAF certified. He is an active member of ISSA and former ISSA Connect Council.

Debates Are Irrelevant - Let Value Drive Your EA

Raman Johar, Director - Enterprise Architecture, Microsoft Services - Enterprise Strategy & Architecture

Enterprise Architecture programs often struggle to deliver value. Given the large breadth of topics that Enterprise Architecture discipline can cover results in EA teams getting caught up between tactical and strategic focus and fail to become relevant to IT and business. Many times, debates to use which framework or tools or architecture methods tends to take life of its own and takes the focus away from real-purpose and value of EA in an organization.

In this session we look at how EA teams can bring value focus and let value drive their EA programs. We discuss real life case studies and lessons learned so that attendees and their EA teams can avoid costly mistakes. We discuss how to strike right balance between strategic and tactical while staying relevant to business and IT. We show practical ways to utilize EA frameworks like TOGAF to develop EA capability, quickly become relevant to business and deliver value. We discuss effective techniques to drive success and support for Enterprise Architecture within IT and with business. Finally, we discuss a takeaway summary that you can use immediately in your organization to improve effectiveness of your EA program and better leverage TOGAF and other EA techniques in your organization.

Raman Johar is Director of EA, Americas Enterprise Strategy Services at Microsoft. Mr. Johar has over 22 years of IT consulting & Enterprise Architecture experience with proven ability to develop and implement IT strategy, enterprise architecture and establish EA function by working closely with executives in multiple industries.

Big Data Demystified - A review of the recommendations of the US Federal Big Data Commission

Andras Szakal, Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, IBM U.S. Federal IMT

Architecture governance is an important aspect in Enterprise Architecture transformation. A large number of organizations are moving from application oriented architecture to service oriented architecture. Many organizations are going to expose their services as API in near future. In this context, governance of services are very important for both design-time and run-time service enabled environments to comply with various strategies adopted by organizations. A suite of policies and processes are developed in platform independent manner to govern a service oriented environment, and its transformation to a complaint environment. Case studies will be presented for successful implementation in Banking and Media publishing industry vertical.

Andras Szakal is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and Chief Architect of IBM's Federal Software business unit. He is an IBM Distinguished Engineer, also an IBM Senior Certified Software IT certArchitect and an IBM Certified SOA Solution Designer. His responsibilities include developing e-Government software architectures using IBM middleware and leading the IBM federal government software IT architect team. Mr. Szakal holds undergraduate degrees in Biology and Computer Science and a Masters Degree in Computer Science from James Madison University.

Mr. Szakal has been a driving force behind IBM's adoption of government IT standards and is a member of the IBM Software Group Strategy Team. The team he leads has been responsible for helping the federal government move e-Government into the On-Demand era through the application of SOA. His team has been directly involved with multiple, high-profile, successful government software and services engagements based on open standards and open source.

Mr. Szakal represents IBM SWG on the Board of Directors of The Open Group. He currently holds the Chair of the IT Architect Profession Certification Standard (ITAC) within the Open Group.

Focusing on Value: Extending the TOGAF® Business Architecture Domain

Don Clasen, Enterprise Architect, Ernst & Young, US

Expressing business value in architecture projects continues to be difficult for architecture teams. This presentation looks at extending the business architecture domain to account for value realization in the business by looking at alternative models that complement TOGAF 9.

Don Clasen is a practicing architect with 20+ years experience working with architects, application development teams, and business analysts in several large-scale business transformation programs.

Don is TOGAF 9 Certified

Location Data Analytics - A case study

Arvind Sathi, World Wide Architect - Information Agenda, IBM, US

The case study shows analysis process and results from data collected from over 195,000 cell phones over a 4 week period. The location data has been used to identify a number of behavioral patterns. The presentation also includes a solution architecture that can analyze Big Data under high volume, velocity, variety and veracity and discusses applications that can use this architecture.

Key takeaways:
- There are significant privacy issues. The presentation shows how security can be a core theme of the architecture to address privacy issues.
- The data sources exhibit extreme velocity and volume. The architecture must provide a mechanism for dealing with both simultaneously.

Dr. Arvind Sathi is the World Wide Architect for the Information Agenda team at IBM®. Dr. Sathi received his Ph.D. in Business Administration from Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Sathi is a seasoned professional with more than 20 years of leadership in Information Management architecture and delivery. His primary focus has been in creating visions and roadmaps for Advanced Analytics at leading IBM clients in Telecommunications, Media & Entertainment, and Energy & Utilities organizations, worldwide. He has conducted a number of workshops on Big Data assessment and roadmap development.

At IBM, Dr. Sathi has led several Information Management programs in MDM, data security, business intelligence, and related areas and has provided strategic architecture oversight to IBM's strategic accounts. He has also delivered a nu number of workshops and presentations at industry conferences on technical subjects including MDM and data architecture, and he holds two patents in data masking.

His first book "Customer Experience Analytics" was was released by MC Press in October 2011, and his second book "Big Data Analytics" was released in October 2012.

Impact of heterogeneous Cloud Service Providers on the Cloud Ecosystem

TJ Virdi, Senior Enterprise Architect, The Boeing Company, US

Cloud computing is considered to be the latest technological evolution in the enablement of self-service information technology. Enterprises continue to invest into the use of Cloud Computing and leverage Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) to enable Cloud solutions. However, enterprises must build an effective Cloud strategy and implementation mechanism to protect against the volatile services provided by CSPs in order to avoid provider lock-in, liability, and disruption in Cloud services.

This presentation highlights an approach of using TOGAF® (The Open Group Architecture Framework) to create and manage enterprise architecture for Cloud ecosystem to achieve business agility.

TJ Virdi works for The Boeing Company as Senior Enterprise IT Architect in Commercial Aviation Services and Global Services & Support IT Architecture Group. TJ is primarily responsible for architectural leadership, aligning vision and strategy with enterprise information systems. Prior to joining The Boeing Company, TJ had worked in Healthcare IT for 15+ years in creating and managing innovative solutions.

TJ is TOGAF 9.0 certified and co-chair of The Open Group Cloud Computing Work Group, Cloud Computing Architecture and Using TOGAF® for Cloud Ecosystem projects.

Fact-Based, Architecture-Grounded Strategic Planning

Chris Armstrong, President, Armstrong Process Group, Inc., US

This session will discuss how to exploit enterprise architecture (EA) and portfolio management office (PMO) capabilities to deliver on executive management's strategic business plan. The presentation begins with a brief review of the strategic planning activities and how EA can help rationalize an enterprise business strategy and provide business/IT capability assessments to assist executives in identifying relevant strategic initiatives. PMO supports the definition of balanced project proposals capturing both resource/financial and architecture viewpoints, keeping line-of-sight with the business strategy. Executives then prioritize the proposals in the pipeline based on each proposal's relationship to business strategy, business processes, applications, and portfolio resources. PMO and EA work together to formulate an architecture roadmap the represents an executable plan for delivering against the business strategy. Project monitoring activities including architecture compliance reviews, project execution metrics, and executive dashboards will also be discussed.

Key takeaways:
- Understand how EA and PMO can effectively support strategic planning
- How to capture balanced proposal definitions
- Characteristics of an architecture roadmap

Chris Armstrong, President of Armstrong Process Group, Inc., is an internationally recognized thought leader in enterprise architecture, formal modeling, process improvement, systems and software engineering, requirements management, and iterative and agile development. Chris represents APG at The Open Group, the Object Management Group and the Eclipse Foundation.

Panel Discussion: Architecting for Big Data in the Cloud

Moderator:  Chris Harding, Director for Interoperability, The Open Group, UK

Panelists:  Tom Plunkett, Senior Consultant, Oracle, US;  Mark Skilton, Director, Strategy Office, Capgemini, UK;  and TJ Virdi, Senior Enterprise Architect, The Boeing Company, US

Big data is emerging as a new processing and data-storage power, driving growth and creating change through new business use patterns. Most existing IT architecture is not designed for massive data processing and storage, but cloud computing based on virtualization promises distributed, vast, cheap storage, with computational power to handle complex processing on demand. The question for architects is, how can this promise best be delivered for their enterprises?

The panel session will help architects to answer this question. It will discuss aspects such as the business drivers for big data, whether and when to use virtualization with big data, solution patterns, and tools.

Chris Harding is Director for Interoperability with The Open Group, UK.

Strategy to Execution: Translating Strategy into Results

Jeff Scott, VP Business & Technology Strategy, Accelare, Inc., US

Business and technology architects struggle because there is a vital business process that is being ignored in your company today. It is unnamed, poorly defined, largely unmanaged, and therefore rarely improved upon. Yet, it affects every other business process you operate. It is the strategy-to-execution process that clarifies executive intent, translates it into coordination action, measures value realization, and creates a feedback loop. When this process is sub-optimized the entire organization suffers.

Most organizations view strategy development as a one-time event intended to create focus and identify yearly projects. However, as strategies move across and down the organization they often become distorted resulting in diluted business impact and wasted resources. What is needed is a well-defined process to manage the translation of executive strategy into coordinated execution.

This session will provide a framework for a strategy-to-execution process that creates focused and coordinated action and case studies of how it has dramatically improved business performance.

Key takeaways:
• Why organizational silos prevail
• The strategy-to--execution framework
• How to manage the strategy-to-execution process
 

Jeff Scott is an internationally recognized thought leader in the areas of business architecture, IT leadership, and organizational innovation. Prior to joining Accelare, Jeff was the principal analyst for business architecture with Forrester Research where he published over fifty research reports and provided strategic consulting to a wide variety of companies.

Measuring XaaS Business Performance

Penelope Gordon, Cloud Strategist, 1Plug Corporation, US

The business performance targets used by savvy venture capitalists to guide their investments in XaaS start-ups are different from those guiding their investments in software, custom service, or Web application start-ups. Similarly, investors and other stakeholders of organizations shifting to a XaaS business model should adapt their business performance criteria. Through case studies, this session will describe a method for adapting the metrics and objectives used to measure the business performance of a non-XaaS organization for use in measuring the performance of a XaaS organization - where 'XaaS organization' refers to a government agency responsible for a community cloud, a group within an IT Department responsible for a private cloud, and to a XaaS business unit within an otherwise non-XaaS company as well as to a pure-play XaaS company.

Penelope Gordon specializes in adoption strategies for cloud and other emerging technologies and portfolio management of early stage innovation. While with IBM, she led innovation, strategy, and product development efforts for all of IBM's product and service divisions and helped to design, implement, and manage one of the world's first public clouds.

Five Challenges Implementing Enterprise Architecture

Dario Vargas, Chief Architect, Unycorp, Mexico

When a company decides to implement Enterprise Architecture, they have some challenges to face, a correct decision, a clear strategy, the necessary tools, the governance approach, and a continuous improvement are just some points I have noticed in different clients of different verticals such as health, oil and gases, energy and insurance, This case study raises all of these challenges, which help both those interested in starting an enterprise architecture, and enterprise architects facing these challenges every day.

Intended audience: Enterprise Architects, CIOs, CEOs, COOs using ArchiMate and TOGAF.

Key takeaways:
* Benefits of using ArchiMate and TOGAF to face the main challenges implementing enterprise architecture.
* How to answer questions such as "How can I start an EA project?" "What do we need to start our architecture?"
* How enterprise architecture work can change from a cottage industry to a profession with The Open Group standards.

Dario Vargas is Chief Architect at Unycorp, a BiZZdesign partner. Dario is an active member of several groups and forums, such as Archimate Forum, Beta Gamma Sigma, etc. He has written articles about Business Requirements Management and Business Innovation. Dario is certified as Six Sigma Black belt professional, ITIL, ArchiMate amongst others. Dario is currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program.

At Unycorp Dario is responsible for research, training and business innovation. Unycorp is specialized to bring new innovative principles, best practices and technology on the Mexican market. Unycorp offers integrated solutions in order to design, implement and continuous improvement.
 

Digital Transformation and the Role of Cloud Computing

Mark Skilton,  Director, Capgemini, UK

Details to be supplied.

Mark Skilton is Director for Capgemini, Strategy CTO Group , Global Infrastructure Services . His role includes strategy development, global delivery readiness and creation of Centers of Excellence. He is currently author of the Capgemini University Cloud Computing Course. Mark has published a number of articles on Cloud Computing through The Open Group including CIO.com, ZDnet.com , CloudComputingJournal.com and guests on iTunes Cloud Blogs and is co-chair of The Open Group Cloud Computing Workgroup, Cloud Business Artifacts Project. He is a regular conference speaker and panel member on Cloud Computing thought leadership.

Re-Usable EA Content Based on TOGAF® and ArchiMate®

Yves Cote, President, Versatil-i-T Consulting Inc., Canada

The successful development of enterprise architectures and implementation of tbe business improvements or business transformation is highly reliant on the successful engagement of stakeholders in the development and implementation of the implicit change agenda.

The development of a social/knowledge architecture could significantly enhance the capacity of those using TOGAF to more effectively and successfully develop EA artifacts and implement EA recommendations.

Yves Cote is Practice Leader for Strategy, Planning and Architecture, primarly involved in business architecture, business case and business change consulting to clients in government, education, justice, defence, utilities sectors

Architecture Modeling - Break Free from Boring

Russ Gibfried, HP Enterprise Services, US

Let's face it, not all of us made it past first grade finger-painting when it comes to visually appealing architecture models. In practical terms, creating models that lend themselves to multiples audiences is challenge that sometimes requires more artistic flare than hard technology facts. It is not a one-size-fits-all proposition, and demonstrating architecture value to various customers, partners, executives and implementation teams is a critical skill. Unfortunately, architecture tools often compound the problem by generating artifacts that resemble a cross between ancient Greek and Egyptian hieroglyphics.

The session will step through visually engaging architecture diagrams useful in linking and communicating business objectives to expected outcomes during the different TOGAF ADM phases. This is a session you do not want to miss. In other words, a picture is worth a thousand words.

Russ Gibfried is a TOGAF certified Enterprise Architect with HP’s State and Local Government group, where he leads the Architecture team for the County of San Diego. As an architect, Mr. Gibfried’s focus is standardizing the enterprise architecture processes, frameworks and viewpoints to promote better reuse between HP teams and quicker stakeholder adoption. Prior to HP, Mr. Gibfried was an architect at CareFusion and SAIC where he was instrumental in defining their EA practices. His expertise covers a range of technologies and development programs related to business collaboration, identity infrastructure and data integration patterns.

Zen and The Art of Enterprise Architecture - The Business Ecosystem

Alan Hakimi, Senior Enterprise Architect, Microsoft Corporation, US

This session focuses on applying the art of enterprise architecture with a focus on the concept of modeling a business as a living dynamic system. By taking a systems approach, we will explore how business architecture influences solution architecture in building compelling experiences and how this impacts technology workloads around devices, cloud computing, collaboration, and data management.

Alan Hakimi has over 20 years of experience in the information technology industry. He joined Microsoft in 1996 as a consultant within Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS). During his time within Microsoft's professional services organization, he has advised various industry executives from several Fortune 50 companies, delivering impactful innovative business solution using enterprise architecture. In his current role in Microsoft’s Enterprise Strategy Practice and is currently consulting with large oil and gas, retail, and high-tech manufacturing companies in improving business efficiency and effectiveness through the application of technology. Alan currently also is Microsoft’s Worldwide Enterprise Architecture Community lead help advance the discipline internally, and has architect certifications from Microsoft (MCA-Infrastructure) , International Association of Software Architects, (CITA-P), and Open Group as a Distinguished Enterprise IT Architect. He is currently a member of Association of Enterprise Architects (AEA) and Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) and also sits on certification boards for the Open Group and International Association of Software Architects (IASA). Alan and his wife and two children currently reside in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of California at Davis in Computer Engineering. In his spare time Alan enjoys cycling, hiking, making music, cooking, and studying philosophy.