Event Timetable

Welcome and Opening Address

Enterprise Transformation and the Role of Open Standards

Allen Brown, President & CEO, The Open Group

 Enterprise transformation seems to be gathering momentum within the enterprise architecture community. The term, enterprise transformation, suggests the process of fundamentally changing an enterprise. Sometimes the transformation is dramatic but for most of us it is a steady process.

Key takeaways:

• Setting expectations and planning transformation
• The role of standards in enterprise transformation
• The work of the members of The Open Group.

Allen Brown is President and CEO, The Open Group – a global consortium that enables the achievement of business objectives through IT standards. 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.

Leadership, Systems Thinking and Complexity Management: Charting the Future of EA

Dr. Pallab Saha, Institute of Systems Science, National University of Singapore

Governments are changing, by design, necessity and compulsion. This change is being exacerbated and shaped by megaforces that interact in a complex labyrinth of evolving nodes and connections. As a result, today's government leaders and policy makers operate in the realm of confounding uncertainties and astounding complexities. These lead to incomplete and often non-actionable information that make decisions increasingly speculative. To unlock the grid and move forward, it is being acknowledged that governments of the future have to be connected. Connected government is no utopia. It is simply a pragmatic approach to capitalize on complexity. Enterprise Architecture (EA) as a metadiscipline provides governments and leaders the means to address the twin challenges of dynamism and complexity. As governments become increasingly hyperconnected, they ought to be examined as systems, where holism, causality, heterarchy and interrelationships are crucial to ensuring overall coherence in a state of omnipresent flux. This contrasts with the traditional fixation on efficiency and cost. Going beyond the rhetoric, this session demonstrates the value of amalgamating the systems approach within EA methodology to address a national priority in Singapore, and provides insights to amplify the impact of EA by integrating creative thinking to tackle complex problems that enterprise transformation brings forth.

Intended audience: Chief Architects, Business Analysts;.Transformation Specialists; Consultants & Practitioners; CIOs, Chief Str Officers

Key takeaways:

1. Position management of organizational complexity as the primary raison d'être for enterprise architecture;
2. Highlight importance of blending systemic approach to enterprise architecture in tackling organizational complexity, and as an essential precursor to delivering business outcomes;
3. Disseminate current advancements in the area of enterprise architecture in the context of organizational complexity;
4. Provide organizations and business leaders with field tested and practical guidance in crafting their enterprise architectures aimed to tackle / manage complexity; and
5. Showcase a case study innovative adoption of enterprise architecture to achieve the goals of transformation.

Dr. Pallab Saha's current research, consulting and teaching interests include Enterprise Architecture (EA) and Governance. Dr. Saha has published four books: Handbook of Enterprise Systems Architecture in Practice; Advances in Government Enterprise Architecture; Coherency Management­ -- Architecting the Enterprise for Alignment, Agility and Assurance; and Enterprise Architecture for Connected eGovernment­ Practices and Innovations. His books are widely referred making it to the top seller list in 2008 and 2009.

Identified as a Technology Thought Leader by Forrester, Dr. Saha is the primary author of the Methodology for AGency ENTerprise Architecture (MAGENTA) and Government EA Guidebook for the Government of Singapore and has led them to international prominence.

Earlier, as Head of Development, Dr. Saha managed Baxter's offshore centre in Bangalore. He has had engagements in Fortune 100 organizations in various capacities. Dr. Saha holds a Ph.D in Management (Information Systems) from theIndian Institute of Science, Bangalore and has received the best research design and best thesis awards. He is an alumnus of the MIT Sloan Executive Program.

Transforming Business and Transforming India

Som Mittal, President, NASSCOM

In his session, Som Mittal will provide perspectives on the evolving landscape of the IT-BPM industry’s growth in India. In particular, he will focus on new business models, innovation, transformation and service delivery partnerships across the value chain

Compelling Reasons for Open and Collaborative IT

Sudin Apte, CEO and Managing Director, Offshore Insights Research & Solutions

Focus of IT organizations is shifting from underlying technology to business processes and business leaders are asking CIOs of organizations to transform and deliver industry leading business processes. But often the processes flow across various departments and functions that use diverse systems. Further, changes in business models, increasing penetration of technology in business delivery and rising adoption of emerging technologies like cloud and Mobility are making matters further complex. To deliver this requirement across functions and apps firms, and for assured connectivity across systems one needs standardization and better collaboration. The session will discuss:

• Why to deliver end to end business solutions, clients need to seamlessly stitch their legacy apps, ERP or Emerging Technologies?
• Why clients need more open systems to transform and modernize their heterogeneous applications?
• How open standards and certifications will help companies to achieve automation and increase efficiency and zero degree of delay?

The speaker will present latest client side data and examples to discuss above issues and how open standards forms one of the core pillar to achieve high performance collaborative IT.

Sudin Apte is a leading business and technology advisor. Sudin is a veteran industry analyst, and established thought leader. Over last 15 years he has been advising global corporations to build their IT strategy and helping them to extend IT’s value for their business benefits. He has founded his own research company Offshore Insights Research and Solutions, with its headquarters in Pune, India. This venture focuses on Business and Technology research and provides advice to top technology companies as well as Fortune 500 companies. One of his focus area is Outsourced/Offshore Product Development (OPD) and he is working with some of the top high-tech, software and manufacturing companies who are long term offshore clients (via partners or own facility) as well as few of focused OPD service providers. Recently he is working on OPD market trends (budget, post recession changes, adoption new/emerging technologies, trends related to hot themes like Cloud, Mobility, devices et al in high-tech or hybrid engines, telematics, infotainment et al in Auto/Tier 1, and so on), decision making about R&D/innovation partnering, and criteria for partner selection. Sudin regularly speaks at various prestigious national and international level conferences.

In the last two years he spoke at national level conferences arranged by Nasscom, CSI, Indo American Chamber of Commerce. In same period, he was interviewed and participated more than a twenty times in interviews and panels on CNBC, NDTV Profit, Times Now, and Bloomberg. His exclusive articles, interviews, and quotes appear on weekly basis in leading business press - Economic Times, Times of India, Business Standard, Business Today, Outlook, Hindu, Deccan Chronicle, Asian Age, and regularly in international publications like BusinessWeek, Economist, ComputingWorld, and Wall Street Journal. Sudin has also worked as visiting faculty at Judge Business School – Cambridge University and via Cambridge University’s Centre for India and Global Business, he recently conducted industry workshop in UK on Leveraging Global Innovation.

Prior to his current engagement, Sudin started Forrester’s operation in India and led it for nearly ten years. He has also worked as VP of business operations at another leading research company – Gartner - before Forrester.

Sudin Apte is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering, Post graduation in Management Science and has a qualification Cost & Works Accounting. Sudin has total 20 years of industry experience.

Is Enterprise Big Data Analytics for Real?

Dr. Gautam Shroff is Vice President & Chief Scientist, Tata Consultancy Services

Stories of web-­‐scale analytics on large (even petabytes) of data towards the cause of better search, social-­‐networking and of course, targeted online advertising, are legend, and for the most part, quite real. However, when it comes to more traditional enterprises, the story is quite different. The term ‘big-­‐data analytics’ is often overused, oversold, and interpreted at will to serve many purposes: “Big-­‐data = Hadoop”, traditional BI is too expensive; so use the ‘new’ open source stack”, “oh, we can actually do statistics in addition to slice-­‐and-­‐ dice”, “our business needs to be data-­‐driven”, “let’s exploit social-­‐media data” ... and the list can go on.

In this talk I’ll ask and attempt to answer, some basic questions:
(a) where data-­‐management technology is headed and why;
(b) what is ‘big-­‐data’ beyond the by now standard volume, variety, locity rgument; i.e., how does ‘big’ data make any difference, if at all, to how one analyses (or ‘mines’) one’s data; and finally
(c) the difference between a technology/data-­‐driven approach versus being ‘outcome driven’.

Dr. Gautam Shroff is Vice President & Chief Scientist, Tata Consultancy Services and heads TCS’ Innovation Lab in Delhi, India. As a member of TCS’ Corporate Technology Council, he is involved with recommending directions to existing R&D efforts, spawning new R&D efforts, sponsoring external research, and proliferating the resulting technology and intellectual property across TCS’ businesses. Prior to joining TCS in 1998, Dr. Shroff had been on the faculty of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA and thereafter of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India. He has also held visiting positions at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, CA, and at Argonne National Labs in Chicago. In 1994 he was conferred the "Young Scientist Award" from the Department of Atomic Energy (Govt. of India). Dr.
Shroff has published over 30 research papers in the areas of computational mathematics, parallel computing, distributed systems, software architecture, software engineering, and information fusion; and a book “Enterprise Cloud Computing” published by Cambridge University Press (UK), in 2010. Dr. Shroff completed his B.Tech (Electrical Engineering) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, in 1985 and Ph.D. (Computer Science) from RPI, NY, USA, in 1990.

Skill Development Landscape in India

Anita Rajan is a key member of the Office of the Advisor to the Prime Minister on Skill Development, supporting the office on development of strategy, policy analysis and facilitation of programs on skill development at the National level.

She leads specific initiatives on vocationalisation of education in partnership with multiple stakeholders including Government, Academia, Private sector and NGO’s. This includes design and development of youth focused training programs that meets student aspirations as well as needs of industry.

As a member of CII Manufacturing Council, she contributes to the work of industry associations bringing in greater industry connect into Skill initiatives. Her twenty years of experience both as an educator and subsequent transition into private sector, positions her uniquely to bring learner centric measures into programs as well as bring private sector efficiencies into large Government initiatives of scale and reach.

Anita is an expert resource on speech writing & public talks and supports the Advisor to Prime Minister on public talks and white papers on Skill Development. Credited with appreciation for numerous speeches written over past 10 years, her work was selected as sample training material for a Communications course in Singapore.

As a General Manager in Tata Consultancy Services, she manages external and internal communication for the Vice Chairman’s office. Several socially relevant initiatives in TCS have benefitted from her leadership. A highlight of her work is the research and contribution to the book ‘The TCS Story and Beyond’ by S Ramadorai released in 2011, which was a bestseller.

Prior to joining TCS, she was Head of Research and Training with ILFS - Schoolnet India an E-education company in India. Part of the training think tank of the company, she led the Research and Training team in developing a one year advanced training program for Educators, designed and published student course material books for IT enabled learning and trained over hundred teachers in IT enabled teaching learning practices.

Her research exposure began at the advertising firm Lintas India (Lowe) where she designed qualitative and quantitative advertising research programs. Her experience as an educator includes a specialization in Math education, including as Maharashtra State Government nominated resource person for Mathematics.

Her academic credentials include an MBA in Marketing from Sydenham Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai. She is an alumnus of the prestigious St Stephens College, Delhi University where she earned a BA Maths Honours degree. She also has to her credit a Bachelor in Education degree from Mumbai University.
 

How Is Enterprise Architecture Relevant to India Today? - A SWOT Analysis

Facilitator: Vish Viswanathan, CC&C Solutions

This will be an interactive session about global EA trends and lessons learned for India. Vish will present a structured planning method used to evaluate the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT analysis) from an Indian perspective. Stakeholders in India will include: corporations, government, IT service providers and IT/business professionals.

Vish Viswanathan is currently Managing Principal of CC&C Solutions, an organization in Asia/Pacific specializing in practical implementations of Enterprise Architecture based on a best-of-breed approach involving TOGAF® and other methodologies and tools. Recent assignments include Enterprise Architecture consultancy, specialized training and implementation assistance in the following sectors:

• University: Sydney and Monash Universities
• Government: Large Federal Government Departments such as Centrelink (Department of Social Security), Australian Taxation Office, Accident Compensation Corporation (New Zealand), Canberra local Government etc.
• Corporations: National Australia (Banking) TabCorp (Sydney Casino), Goodman Fielders (Food & Agriculture) etc.

Vish has had over 25 years of experience in IT & Telecommunications in technical, marketing and strategy positions as senior executive with IBM, Fujitsu and AAPT (Telecommunications) across Asia Pacific having been located in New Delhi, Bangalore, Sydney, Tokyo and Singapore.

During his career, Vish has successfully managed several new technology startup initiatives in Australia, India, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Singapore.

He is actively spearheading The Open Group activities through championing TOGAF® in Australia, New Zealand and ASEAN regions as the Regional Partner as well as in his capacity as the Vice Chair- Asia Pacific for The Open Group Architecture Forum.

IT Organization Models – Preparing for Disruptive Technologies

Prasanna Anantharamaiah, Business Value Consultant, Hewlett Packard India

The benefits from disruptive technologies are hard to ignore. It excites both the Business team and also the IT team.  These technologies bring change across one or more of People, Process, Technology, Partners and on Information. Secondly, the speed at which some of these technologies are being adopted by large organizations. A successful IT transformation to embrace these new technologies can only happen by understanding and managing the impact on the organization. This session discusses the impact of Cloud, Mobility and Big-Data have on the organization and explores how IT organizational models are being evolved to accept, adopt and maximize benefits from these disruptive technologies.

Prasanna Anantharamaiah is a Business Value consultant and IT Strategist with Hewlett Packard. He specializes in IT Strategy and Architecture, Business and Operational Process consulting, IT Service Management and Management of Organizational Change. Prasanna has worked extensively on IT solutions for large telecom service providers, enterprises in FSI vertical and Data center automation solutions.  His research interests include IT organizational model for hybrid cloud environment and Next generation networks. Prasanna serves on the OpenCA certification board for The Open Group. He has five patents to his credit.


 

AEA - Building a Professional Body for Enterprise Architects

Steve Nunn, CEO, Association of Enterprise Architects

Steve Nunn’s role as CEO of the Association of Enterprise Architects (AEA), is focused on creating and developing the definitive professional association for enterprise architects around the globe. To achieve this, Steve is dedicated to advancing professional excellence amongst AEA’s 20,000+ members, whilst raising the status of the profession as a whole.

In addition to his role of CEO of the AEA, Steve is the VP and COO of The Open Group. Steve's primary responsibility for The Open Group is to ensure the legal protection of its assets, particularly its intellectual property. This involves the development, maintenance and policing of the trademark portfolio of The Open Group, including the registered trade marks behind the Open Brand and, therefore, the various Open Group certification programs, including TOGAF®, Open CA, Open CITS, and UNIX® system certification. The licensing, protection and promotion of TOGAF also falls within his remit.

Steve is a lawyer by training and has an L.L.B. (Hons) in Law with French and retains a current legal practising certificate.

National Skill Development – An Enterprise Architecture Perspective

Harish Iyer, Lead Architect, Special Initiatives, TCS

Skill development is a key imperative for India to successfully leverage and capitalize on the demographic dividend that it will enjoy in the next few years. But vocational skill development is at a stage of infancy and fraught with challenges and issues. The government has set up a council to develop a strategy at the national level and develop an action plan for skill development to maximize job generation within the country and create human resources for global needs.
This presentation looks at this initiative from an enterprise architecture perspective and gives a mapping of various elements conceptualized for this initiative to the TOGAF® Content Meta Model. It depicts the various architecture views for this initiative in terms of the business architecture, application architecture and technology architecture as well as describing some architecture principles and KPIs.

Intended Audience: Chief Architects, Enterprise Architects, Solution Architects, Technical Architects, Program Leads,

Harish Iyer has an overall experience of about 18 years in the IT industry and has played a diverse set of roles in this duration. Harish, while currently managing a customer relationship for a large financial services organization, is also working with the Office of the Advisor to the Prime Minister on Skill Development. In this role, he is primarily looking at leveraging IT to enable the vocational education and employment in the country.

Prior to this, Harish was heading the Solution Engineering Group at TCS and was instrumental in setting up this group for developing business solutions within TCS. Harish has been certified as a Distinguished Chief IT Architect by The Open Group and is also a certified TOGAF® architect. Harish has played key architecting roles across various large enterprise engagements across multiple industry domains and has been instrumental in creating key reusable frameworks in the java and integration space.

Harish Iyer is well regarded as a mentor in the architecture and technology space within the organization. His key aspiration is to bring a manufacturing rigour and automation to the area of software development.

Best Practices in Setting Up an Enterprise Architecture Organization within the Enterprise

Bala Prasad Peddigari, HiTech Innovative Solutions Lead, Tata Consultancy Services

"Excellence is a journey and not a destination”. In day to day operations of every enterprise - it is important to have a clear strategy defined to achieve the enterprise-wide business goals and objectives. After being associated with many enterprises to drive architecture functions and activities - I am trying to bring in to share the best practices in setting up an Enterprise Architecture Organization within the enterprise which leads to continuous improving in delivering business results with optimized investments. Some of this practices and initiatives which addresses the same are

1. EA Education Campaign and awareness
2. EA Tools usage and benefits
3. EA Practitioners views and applying rationale
4. EA Governance driving policies
5. EA Community carrying the passion and rigor

All this entailed to provide different needs of enterprise such as EA Strategy, EA Blueprint, EA Roadmap and EA Realization.

Bala Prasad Peddigari (Bala) is an Enterprise Architect and Business Value Consultant with Tata Consultancy Services Limited. Bala specializes in Enterprise Architecture, IT Strategies, Business Value consulting, Cloud based technology solutions and Scalable architectures. Bala has been instrumental in delivering IT Solutions for Finance, Insurance, Telecom and HiTech verticals. Bala currently heads the HiTech Innovative Solutions Technology Excellence Group with a focus on Cloud, Microsoft, Social Computing, Java and Open source technologies. He received accolades in Microsoft Tech Ed for his cloud architectural strengths and Won the Microsoft ALM Challenge. Bala published his papers in IEEE and regular speaker in Open Group conference and Microsoft events. Bala serves on the Open CA Certification board for The Open Group.

Certifications: Open Group Master Certified IT Architect, TOGAF Certified, MCTS - Windows Communication Foundation, SharePoint, Microsoft Delivering Business Value Planning Services

IBM's application of CITS & CA Certification programs for Client Success

Gautam Bhat, Lead Enterprise Architect, IBM India

Gautam K Bhat is an IBM Certified Senior IT Specialist (Thought Leader) with IBM and The Open Group Distinguished IT Specialist.  He has over 12 years of IT experience, and holds multiple roles such as Enterprise Architect and Global SME.

SOA in Future Enterprise Architecture

Manish Parikh, Senior Architect, Atos

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an excellent approach to building and deploying mission-critical applications. SOA is flexible & modular approach to delivering IT services, and is an essential foundation for emerging technologies. SOA is the only realistic direction to address today’s challenges while also preparing the way for the future using the Cloud

Manish Parikh is working with AtoS as Senior Architect in its Global Organization heading multiple Initiatives specialized in Cloud Computing & Enterprise Content Management. Manish carries over 17 years of IT experience and 6 years of Techno-functional experience. Before joining AtoS, Manish has worked with Siemens Information Systems Limited and was also consultant to multiple companies. Manish is tasked with Application Integration, Solution Architecture, helping customers to set Enterprise Architecture roadmap etc. and providing solutions across industries.

Manish is TOGAF 8.1 Certified Enterprise Architect and holds Masters of Business Administration in Finance. Manish is active member of Association of Enterprise Architects, IASA and many other technical communities.

EA is Critical to Large Transformation Programs

Suyog Shah, Lead Enterprise Architect, Deloitte & Touche Consulting India

 Business transformation is increasingly a key driver for many organizations in today's competitive environment where the focus is either on cost reduction by means of improving operational efficiency or on increasing the market share through innovation and other means of growth. Information Technology (IT) is looked upon as one of the key enablers for business innovation and competitive differentiation. As a result, many organizations identify a number of IT initiatives that enable business transformation and alignment of IT to business objectives and drivers. Such initiatives are often undertaken as part of large, multi-year business transformation programs that are aimed at changing and optimizing business processes and enhancing the IT capabilities that enable them. The initial effort and excitement of such changes often propel many transformational projects directly into an execution phase where focus is often on delivery without appropriate investments in program planning and further in planning and definition of the enterprise architecture. Such an approach often results in lack of appropriate guidance for the implementation projects and leads to large pitfalls. Organizations become unclear of what to deliver and how to deliver the change that can provide value to business and provide a return on the investment. Eventually this lack of planning leads to a failure to achieve the transformational objectives.

This presentation highlights the need for enterprise architecture definition in large transformation programs, key considerations for defining the enterprise architecture, key challenges involved, and concludes with the benefits enterprise architecture brings to various stakeholders involved in transformation programs

Intended audience:

CxO level executives, Business & IT leaders involved in transformation, Enterprise Architects, Program and Change Managers.

Key takeaways:

Investing in enterprise architecture as part of a large transformation program helps address challenges faced during the transformation, and ensures alignment of implementation projects to the overall business and IT strategy of the organization. Enterprise architecture acts as a bridge between strategy and implementation by providing the necessary principles and standards, foundation in terms of current state, target state, and transition views, and guidance through governance control mechanisms.Enterprise architecture initiatives need to ensure continuous engagement of IT with business and effective communication across various stakeholders involved in the transformation program. It is important to produce architecture views in line with stakeholder expectations that can guide the transformation and enable timely and effective decision-making. Enterprise architecture frameworks and tools that enable creation of standardized views in a structured and timely manner may be adopted. Although enterprise architecture as a practice has been recognized for more than two decades now and despite its numerous known benefits, it is still often an ignored element in a transformation program until the needs are felt. The aim of this presentation is to re-emphasize the needs of enterprise architecture for large transformations.

Suyog Shah has extensive experience in managing and delivering technology advisory related consulting engagements for industry leading corporations across the globe. Suyog has lead and delivered multiple management consulting engagements on technology strategy, enterprise architecture and IT enabled business transformation.

Creating an Enterprise Architecture Ecosystem for your Organization

Suresh Cherusseri, Chief Architect, Tata Consultancy Services

The relevance of Enterprise Architecture has increase manifold over the last few decades. In India the IT spending and the industry demand for the skills have seen a tremendous uptake over the last few years. The creation of an Architecture ecosystem to build capability and practice architecture principles is essential for every organization to meet the ever changing business needs and market demands. Leveraging available frameworks like TOGAF, Open CA certifications to build competency as well as leveraging professional organizations like AEA is essential for practitioners to provide right solutions meet the business demands. The session illustrates with an example creation of an Architecture ecosystem and career path leveraging The Open Group frame work to enable architect and deliver solutions better. The session will also discuss how the support system in India comprising of The Open Group, AEA,CSI have come together in India to support the Enterprise Architecture profession and practice over the last 3 years

Intended Audience: CIO,CTO, Business Leads, Practice Leads, Chief Architects, Enterprise Architects, Solution Architects,Technical Architects,Program Leads

Key takeaways:

1. How to Create an Enterprise Architecture Ecosystem in your organization
2. How to effectively build competency on Architecture leveraging TOGAF, Open CA certifications
3. Where and How to reach out to The Open Group,AEA Chapters in India if you want to get help in setting up EA Practice or Competency

Suresh Cherusseri is the Chief Architect and Head of Solution Engineering Group at TCS. SEG as a group is a core engineering group that builds domain based products. He is himself a Distinguished IT Architect certified by The Open Group. He has more than 24 years of industry, research and innovation experience. In his current role as Head-SEG, Suresh has been single mindedly focusing on engineering world class products that are highly architecture centric and performance driven. He has a number of patents to his credit in this area. In his previous roles, Suresh has worked extensively in architecting complex business solutions and large transformation solutions. Suresh is very active in Open Group arena, is always looking to contribute to a best practice and absorb the best practices into the engineering group.

Policy Based SOA Governance in Enterprise Architecture Transformation

Anirban Chakrabarti, Senior Architect, Cognizant Technology Solutions

 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.

 Intended audience: Enterprise Architects, Solution Architects

Anirban Chakrabarti is an Enterprise Architect working in rchitecture transformation programs for various CTS customers. For the past 5 years, Anirban has been working on architecture governance.  He has created a service offering for design-time and run-time policy based SOA governance, unique in the industry.

Opening Address

Allen Brown, President & CEO, The Open Group

The Open Group Focus in India

James de Raeve, General Manager India and VP Certification, The Open Group

Security in Governance: Issues and Concerns

Lokanath Behera, Inspector General of Police (Operations and Coordination), National Investigation Agency

A 1985-batch IPS officer, Loknath Behera has been a recipient of President’s police medal for distinguished services. At present, he is Inspector General of Police (Operations and Coordination), National Investigation Agency (NIA), Government of India. Behera has been associated with computerisation in the police service since 1994.
 

DSCI Security and Privacy Frameworks and Certification

Dr. Kamlesh Bajaj, CEO, Data Security Council of India, a NASSCOM® Initiative

Dr. Kamlesh Bajaj is the CEO of the Data Security Council of India (DSCI). He was the founding Director of the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) at the Ministry of Communications and IT and served as Deputy Director General, National Informatics Centre (NIC). He was Deputy Controller of Certifying Authorities; and was the Global Head, Information Risk Management Practice, GCP, TCS.

At DSCI, Dr. Bajaj guided the development of best practices Frameworks for data security and privacy protection. He serves on various Government Committees on cyber security and ICT, and contributes to the activities of global bodies like OECD and EWI. He has published and lectured extensively on the IT Act 2000, cyber security and cyber crimes, e-commerce, emerging technologies, digital signatures, in national and international journals and conferences. Dr. Bajaj holds a Ph.D. (Physics) from McMaster University.

An Architecture for IT Literacy through Open Source Software and Spoken Tutorials

Dr. Kannan M Moudgalya, Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai

Bridging digital divide through Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and helping migration to Scilab from Matlab
http://spoken-tutorial.org/CSI.pdf
http://spoken-tutorial.org/What-is-a-Spoken-Tutorial-2-Minute-Video-English
http://spoken-tutorial.org/What_is_a_Spoken_Tutorial_English
http://scilab.in/Textbook_Companion_Project
http://scilab.in/Lab_Migration_Project

A spoken tutorial (http://spoken-tutorial.org) is a ten minute screencast of a computer session with a running commentary. By careful creation and use, it is effectively deployed for self learning and in volunteer organised SELF workshops. By dubbing only the audio, people who are weak in English can be made IT literate, while retaining the employment potential. Through the funding from National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, spoken tutorials and the SELF workshops are available free of cost to everyone. In the last one year, we trained 100,000 students. Through colleges, schools, cyber cafes and Aakash, we can empower everyone.

Dr. Kannan M. Moudgalya is a professor of Chemical Engineering, Systems and Control, and Education Technology at IIT Bombay. He has been with IIT Bombay for 25 years. He was a visiting professor at the University of Alberta. He received chemical and electrical engineering degrees from IIT Madras and Rice University.

Prof. Moudgalya has written two textbooks: (1) Digital Control, published by John Wiley & Sons, Chichester and (2) Optimization: theory and practice, jointly with Prof. M. C. Joshi, published by Narosa, New Delhi. He has published a large number of papers in refereed international journals and conferences in the areas of mathematical modelling, control and simulation.

Prof. Kannan is now devoting his time on spreading education on a massive scale, without quality dilution. He has been focusing on spoken tutorials, open source software systems, virtual labs and the low cost tablet, Aakash. He has held the posts of Associate Dean (R&D), Head of Oce Automation and Head of the Centre for Distance Engineering Education Programme, at IIT Bombay. He is a Member of the Standing Committee of the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Government of India.

Population Health: An Enterprise Architecture Approach

Jason Uppal, Chief Architect, QRS

The cost of health care in most developed countries has been growing faster than GDP and the result is that the healthcare system is unsustainable. Current strategies such as meaningful use, ACO, Pay for Performance require extensive investment in Health Information Technology (HIT) and current Electronic Health Record (EHR) centric HIT models have also proven costly, disruptive and with very little evidence of positive impact on population health.

As the general public in more and more countries start to expect basic healthcare as a human right, the pressure to build a healthcare system that can offer high quality affordable care will simply increase beyond what can be delivered. Leading organizations are starting to explore alternative HIT architectures and healthcare delivery models and this presentation will discuss:

• Challenges in Healthcare – top ten obstacles that healthcare systems need to overcome
• Healthcare system performance measures: measure what matters!
• Proposed solution direction
• The role of the Enterprise Architecture Professional

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
 

Case Study: Panchayat Enterprise Architecture Framework (PEAF) - A Framework for eGovernance in Rural Local Bodies (Panchayats) in India

Deepak Chandra Misra, Deputy Director General, National Informatics Centre, Government of India
Rama Hariharan, Senior Technical Director, NIC

Rural Local Governance is an important part of the federal governance of India. India has approximately 240,000 rural local governments called Panchayats. As part of its defined mandate, the Ministry has undertaken a massive project of introducing eGovernance in all the 240,000 Panchayats in the country, probably the most unique and largest eGovernance project in the world. It was desired that instead of building eGovernance solutions in silos, an Enterprise solution that covers all functional responsibilities of Panchayats should be built. However, Panchayats vary from state to state in terms of their organizational structure and roles and responsibilities assigned to them. An Enterprise Architecture Framework was developed with Panchayat as an Enterprise. The presentation mainly focuses on presenting the Panchayat Enterprise Architecture Framework.

Our team, at National Informatics Centre (NIC), a premier government organisation promoting & applying eGovernance in government sector, is engaged in introducing eGovernance in ePanchayat i.e. a national level Mission Mode Project. It is part of this conceptulisation, we read, learned and attempted to conceptualise 'Panchayat Enterprise Architecture Framework (PEAF)' based on TOGAF® approach. Panchayats are Rural local bodies in India. They are approximately 240,000 Panchayats in India and can be clustered in 30 types based on their business architecture. The entire study done during the conceptualisation has enhanced our understanding to design the elements and organise (relations) things better and can be further improved.

We have made a beginning and may be the first inside the government sector in India to do so and would like to share our expereince as a part of case study presentation to seek further guidance and feedback.

Intended audience: Policy makers, eGovernance Professionals, Enterprise Architects

Key takeaways:

1. How TOGAF® has been customized to meet the needs of an Enterprise Framework in the public sector
2. How a framework can be defined for local governments

Deepak Chandra Misra is the head of the Rural Development and Panchayat Informatics Divisions of National Informatics Centre which basically addresses the eGovernance consultancy & solution needs of Ministries of Rural Development, Drinking Water and Panchayati Raj of Government of India. I have extensive experience in providing consultancy to the Ministries in formulating eGovernance strategies and in guiding the team in architecting interoperable, generic solutions that can be used across the country. I have more than 25 years of experience in the area of eGovernance. I have published many papers in national and international conferences.

Rama Hariharan, Senior Technical Director, NIC, has been associated with NIC for more than 25 years and has extensive experience in architecting solutions for the Indian rural domain and the rural local governments of India viz., Panchayats. She is responsible for addressing the eGovernance solution needs of Ministry of Panchayat and the Panchayats.
 

Transformational eGovernance Projects

K V Narayanan, Chief Architect, TCS

Technology has proven to be one of the key factors in ensuring that new generation public service delivery programmes to be successful. In this talk the author discusses the characteristics (and challenges) of end to end public service transformational projects and the architectural and governance models required to be implemented for such a project to be successful and for significant benefits to be realized.

KV Narayanan (KVN) is a Vice President and Head of Transformational projects for Government ISU in India.  Since 2004 he has been leading very large transformational e governance projects in India. He and his group are responsible for end to end delivery of major outcome based transformational projects such as MCA 21, Passport Seva, Projects for Ministry of Finance , other Government & Defense entities. Prior to this KVN was a key  member of TCS’ Banking & Financial Services practice for more than 15 years with substantial experience in India and International markets. He is a Masters in Computer Sciences from BITS Pilani and has been with TCS in various roles since 1984.

Security Issues in Supply Chain

Dr. Sundeep Oberoi, Head of Niche Technologies, TCS

Supply Chains are extensively globalized today. The significant advances in Transportation technologies and deployment of Information provided the essential drivers for this phenomenon. While trade in the 20th Century was largely about selling goods manufactured in one country to consumers in another, trade in the 21st Century is characterized more by multiway flow of intermediates, investment and training. While this globalization has delivered compelling benefits, it has also introduced significant risks that we must understand and deal with effectively. This talk outlines some of the key risks in the context of the Pharmaceutical Industry and the ICT equipment manufacturing Industry and how those risks can be addressed.

Dr. Sundeep Oberoi has more than 26 years of industry, research and entrepreneual experience in diverse areas of Information and Communication Technology. He has a wide spectrum of experience in Delivery Management of large and critical programmes, technology development, product development, business development, system integration and management of research laboratories. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from I.I.T Bombay, an M.Tech in Computer Science from I.I.T. Delhi and a B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from I.I.T. Kanpur.

Dr. Oberoi heads the Niche Technology Delivery Group which is a part of the Technology Excellence Group in TCS. The role of the group is to provide delivery in specialized technology like security, RFID sensors and NFC, Web 2.0 technologies, User experience, Collaboration and Unified Communication, Cloud Computing and Next Generation Networks. The group also runs operations of TCS Certifying Authority which is the largest licensed Certifying Authority in India. The group is responsible for supporting and evolving some of TCS flagship enterprise solutions (Dhruvam®, FormSigner®, Fortiora™, SSF) in the security area, which are widely deployed in Banking, Finance, Insurance, Government and Telecom sectors.

Prior to this Dr. Oberoi has been in a variety of roles including heading the security consulting practice within the TCS Global Consulting Group, heading the Systems Integration and Security Group and heading the language processing group.

Dr. Oberoi is the author of two books and several conference and journal publications, and holds the CISSP credential.

Architecting Technology Led Business Innovation: The TCS Experience

Shashi Bhushan, Global Head - Innovation Evangelization, Tata Consultancy Services

We live in times of extraordinary technology innovations. Mobility, Social networks, Cloud, Big Data and Internet of Things (IoT) are examples of technologies that are creating new ways of consuming services in every industry. Technological advance is at an inflection point where the consumer is ahead of the enterprise. Apart from keeping ahead of competitors, businesses must keep pace with customers. Innovations today have to fuse Business and IT, creating new business models. TCS works with its customers to enables them Analyze, Digitize, Optimize, De-Risk and Sustain their businesses.

Workforces in organization are growing younger. Internally too business and IT fuse, as tech savvy GenY demands newer technologies within the workplace.

Shashi Bhushan will share TCS experiences in empowering business innovations within the enterprise and for customers.

As Lead Innovation Evangelist in the Corporate Technology Office at TCS, Shashi Bhushan's main role is to:

• proliferate and commercialize Innovation, monetize Research that the TCS R&D Labs undertake, for broader and bigger business and societal impact
• “listen” to customers, businesses, partners (and the world at large !) and provide insights to our Researchers
• promote a culture of co-innovation within the organization by leveraging our Co-Innovation Network (COINTM)

Prior to this, Shashi was a Regional Manager for TCS in NY/NJ, USA.  He joined TCS in 1993 straight out of college and has grown with the company and the company has grown with him.  His overall experience includes: Innovation & Research commercialization, Business development & management, Project management, Consulting, System Programming, Strategy Formulation and Deployment, and Teaching.

Shashi has a Masters in Industrial Management from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India.He lives in Bangalore, India, with his wife and two children.

Getting EA Results Fast - A Retail Industry Case Study

Suresh Done, President, SNA Technologies Inc

Normally the perception on Enterprise Architecture is, it is long term and it takes long time to reap the benefits of EA.
In this presentation, Suresh will present a retail industry case study that shows how to get Enterprise Architecture results fast and gain the credibility of the business.

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

Key takeaways:

1. how to identify key initiatives
2. how to implement EnterpriseArchitecture in a more agile manner

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 andGovernment sector. Since the inception of highly successful AEA Michigan Chapter, Suresh has been the Chairman and Co-Founder.

Cloud Security - Addressing the Biggest Objection to Making Cloud Part of your IT Core

Sreekanth R Iyer, Executive IT Architect, IBM

Businesses like to rapidly adopt cloud computing for creating environments that scales effectively to meet their needs at reduced capital and operational costs. But as with most new technology paradigms, security is widely talked about as the top inhibitor for widespread usage. To gain the trust of organizations and meet security and privacy expectations, cloud security must exceed what is available in traditional IT environments. Our analysis indicates that with rapid growth of virtualized resources across multiple environments, expanded access, changed responsibilities & controls in cloud, the customer’s top concern is not so much about security as it is about transparency. Customers need better visibility to do governance and risk management to make cloud a core component of their IT infrastructure. Minimizing the risks of cloud computing and providing visibility into virtual environment requires a strategic approach.

This session helps you define your cloud and clod security strategy based on your cloud adoption patterns and workloads. The solution approach based on IBM Cloud Adoption Patterns & Security Framework goes beyond just considering basic security for infrastructure, applications and other elements to provide optimized security intelligence across the cloud environment.

Sreekanth Iyer is an Executive IT Architect in IBM Security Systems CTO office and works on developing IBM’s Cloud Security Technical Strategy. He is an Open Group Certified Distinguished Architect and the chair of the Bangalore Chapter of the Association of Enterprise Architects.

Sreekanth has nearly 18 years’ industry experience and has led several client solutions across multiple industries. His key areas of work include Information Security, Cloud Computing, SOA, Event Processing, and Business Process management. He has authored several technical articles and is a core contributor to multiple publications of The Open Group and IBM. He is an invited speaker at multiple IBM conferences like Software Universe, IMPACT and external events like CSI & Cloud Connect. He currently works at the IBM India Software Lab and you can follow the speaker on Twitter @sreek.

Relevance of EA in Addressing Contemporary CxO Challenges

Parthapratim Indra, Global Head of GCP-Integrated Consulting Services Group,TCS
Nagendra Kumar, Consultant, TCS Global Consulting Practice(GCP)

In contemporary business environment, organizations are facing new challenges in the form of increased global competition, new and changing regulations, shifting customer demand and continuously shifting technology paradigms. As a result, CxOs are forced to address multi-dimensional problems & challenges - entrenched within their complex market-specific, organizational and socio-economic context - with diverse Functional, Cultural and Technology implications. In such situations, considering IT only as an ad-hoc supporting mechanism and not as an organizational change enabler, may lead to additional complexity and sub-optimization.

• What is the most elegant way for Enterprise architecture to move away from its traditional IT-emphasis and shift its impact from the “IT silo” to the overall organizational space?
• How can Enterprise Architecture concept be elevated as the “scientific component” within enterprise-strategy and driver for embedded engineering towards “Business-IT Fusion”?

Parthapratim Indra is a Principal Consultant of TCS’ Global Consulting Practice with 24+ years of wide range of experience in multifarious disciplines of IT Industry. Has proven track record in various consulting, technical as well as leadership roles across diverse business domains and technology platforms.

At present Parthapratim is entrusted with the role of Global-Head of GCP-Integrated Consulting Solutions Group. Within the capacity of the current-role his prime responsibility is to drive solution- creation for addressing contemporary business challenges with Strategic, Functional and Technology Implications.

My current focus areas include Business-IT Alignment, Merger/Divestitures & Acquisitions, Business Value Realisation, Enterprise Digital Strategy, Enterprise Transformation and Various Globalisation Perspectives.

Nagendra Kumar is a Consultant with TCS Global Consulting Practice(GCP). Nagendra has over 13 years of wide-ranging IT experience across diverse business domains and technology platforms and a proven track record in designing and executing strategic IT solutions for major clients from Healthcare, Telecom and Media sectors.
In his current role as Innovation-lead for the GCP-ICSG (Integrated Consulting Solutions Group), Nagendra is responsible for conceptualizing innovative consulting solutions and services to address CxO priorities and challenges. As a consultant, Nagendra advises global businesses on Enterprise Architecture, Globalization and EA driven Strategic Transformation.

Nagendra holds a Masters degree in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India.

Business Transformation Challenges - TOGAF® to the Rescue!

Vish Viswanathan, Managing Principal, CC&C Solutions

EA can only succeed if it is clearly linked to a business transformation or a strategic business initiative. TOGAF® - the Enterprise Architecture standard used by the world’s leading organizations to improve business efficiency.

Here are a few sample case studies from global organizations of how an EA initiative can be successfully introduced as:

1. an enterprise modernization enabler
2. a strategic quality programme
3. the foundation for change of business direction or
4. the basis for right business information for decision making

• University: Sydney and Monash Universities
• Government: Large Federal Government Departments such as Centrelink (Department of Social Security), Australian Taxation Office, Accident Compensation Corporation (New Zealand), Canberra local Government etc.
• Corporations: National Australia (Banking) TabCorp (Sydney Casino), Goodman Fielders (Food & Agriculture) etc.

Vish has had over 25 years of experience in IT & Telecommunications in technical, marketing and strategy positions as senior executive with IBM, Fujitsu and AAPT (Telecommunications) across Asia Pacific having been located in New Delhi, Bangalore, Sydney, Tokyo and Singapore. During his career, Vish has successfully managed several new technology startup initiatives in Australia, India, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Singapore. He is actively spearheading The Open Group activities through championing TOGAF® in Australia, New Zealand and ASEAN regions as the Regional Partner as well as in his capacity as the Vice Chair- Asia Pacific for The Open Group Architecture Forum.