Event Timetable

Welcome Address and
Dependability Through Assuredness™ Standard

Allen Brown, President & CEO, The Open Group

State of the States – NASCIO on Enterprise Architecture
An Emphasis on Cross-Jurisdictional Collaboration across the States

Eric Sweden MSIH MBA, Program Director, Enterprise Architecture & Governance,
National Association of State CIOs (NASCIO)

This session will cover the subject of enterprise architecture from a state government perspective in the United States.  Current economic and social pressures are driving government toward the pursuit of  innovative delivery processes and organizational structures that involve “joining up” with other jurisdictions.  This presentation will include an emphasis on collaboratives within and across the states.  “Enterprise Architecture” provides an operating discipline for creating, operating, continual re-evaluation and transformation of an “Enterprise.”  In the United States, there is a new emphasis on cross-jurisdictional arrangements and consideration of “Inter-Enterprise” business and technology solutions that cut across agencies, divisions, and jurisdictions involving states, counties and cities.  This presentation includes the notion of enterprise architecture as a comprehensive business discipline that drives any investment.  This investment is not restricted to information technology investment only.

Mr. Eric Sweden, possesses 30 years of experience in senior technical and management positions within IT and business with substantial experience in business architecture, information architecture, business processes, data architecture and strategic planning.  He has experience in implementing over-arching enterprise information management strategies in large corporations. In addition, his experience includes the development of strategic business intent, capability management, and program leadership in banking, health care, manufacturing, public utilities, telecommunications, and government. He has experience and knowledge in the functions of accounting and finance, treasury, insurance, marketing, patent law, supply chain management, human resources, order management, customer service, manufacturing, R & D, health & safety, and occupational health. Eric is an experienced presenter, and author on the subjects of enterprise architecture, business analytics and industrial health. Eric currently leads the NASCIO Enterprise Architecture & Governance Program. Eric holds an MBA from the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota with a focus on Marketing and MIS Administration, and a Masters of Science from the School of Public Health, University of Michigan, with a focus on industrial and public health.
 

Spotlight: Real Time & Embedded Systems using ArchiMate®

Spotlight: Open Trusted Technology Forum (OTTF)

The Impact of Big Data on the Enterprise

Michael Cavaretta, Technical Lead, Predictive Analytics / Data Mining, Research and Advanced Engineering, Ford Motor Company

Changes in the cost of processing hardware and storage along with new algorithms has opened up opportunities for deriving value from data. Right now the focus is on social data, but the future is embedded sensors and the Internet of Things. But, Big Data is nothing unless it can support analytics that provide business insights. The challenge is for companies to move beyond tools and technologies, to skills and strategic vision. This talk will highlight Big Data technologies and how companies can use data and analytics across the enterprise with examples from marketing, manufacturing, or product development.

 Michael Cavaretta is Ford Motor Company’s Data Science leader. After receiving his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1995, he has spent nearly 20 years applying data analytics to business problems. Currently managing the Predictive Analytics Group at Ford's Research and Advanced Engineering division, he has led multiple analytic projects across all areas of the company, including sales and marketing, warranty and quality, manufacturing, and HR.

Spotlight: Healthcare Work Group

The Open Group has initiated a healthcare working group to drive the creation of Boundaryless Information Flow™ through open standards in healthcare. The Work Group is conducting a healthcare transformation workshop on Tuesday, July 16.

Fannie Mae Multifamily – Enabling Transformation Through Architecture

• The Fannie Mae Multifamily
• Why change?
• Our journey began with architecture
• Why TOGAF® ?
• Lessons Learned
• Questions

Lori Summers, Director of Technology, Fannie Mae Multifamily

Ms. Summers has over 20 years of success in the execution and management of advanced technol­ogies, systems/applications and organizational transformation initiatives for large enter­prises spanning the healthcare, hospitality, telecommunications and financial industries. She has a diverse tenure working for leading organizations such as Marriott and Fannie Mae, as well as consulting with Fortune 1000 companies and government agencies. In 2001, Ms. Summers was recruited to Fannie Mae to join the Information Technology management team and, is currently leading a multi-year transformation effort to redesign business and technology platforms supporting the Multifamily business and positioning Fannie Mae to support the housing finance system of the future.

Amit Mayabhate, Business Architect Manager, Fannie Mae Multifamily

Mr. Mayabhate has over 10 years of experience leading organizations through change. He has been a trusted advisor in the financial services and technology industries, working with large hedge funds, investment banks and government sponsored entities. He is a passionate strategist with an analytical mind set that enables him to grasp the big picture, determine actions, and ultimately drive the realization of business value. Since 2010, Mr. Mayabhate has been a Business Architect at Fannie Mae, and leads a team of architects that align strategy with execution across multiple business lines. Currently, Mr. Mayabhate is part of the leadership team on a multi-year transformation supporting the Multifamily business at Fannie Mae.

Using Big Data for improved analytics and actionable insights in Healthcare

Dipali Trivedi, Principal Architect, CloudFountain Inc., US

Big Data enables enterprises to process large amounts of data to drive valuable analytics and improved operations.This technical session will discuss big data use cases in the healthcare vertical and its application to provide better healthcare operations and insights. It will discuss enterprise architecture using big data technologies including HADOOP, Map Reduce, Hive and traditional data source. It will discuss advantages and challenges of the approach.

Key takeaways:

1. Application of big data technologies in health care domain would improve healthcare operations and actionable insights
2. Technical solution using big data technologies
 

Dipali Trivedi is a technologist specialized in building and delivering large scale, high volume transactional software products. For over 10 years, Dipali has been responsible for driving enterprise architecture using open source technologies and SOA patterns to deploy in public or private cloud infrastructure. She has led organizations to adopt big data technology to drive enterprise analytics to convert analytics into actions.

She is currently working as a Principal Architect at CloudFountain Inc. in Boston, MA.

Using Enterprise Architecture to support PCI practices in your organization

David Daniel, Enterprise Architecture Consultant, IBM, US

PCI Compliance can prove to be a tricky undertaking for some organizations. The complexity of the application landscape, as well as the inherent difficulties of data management, give this effort a pain level somewhere between "intense" and "excruciating".

Using the fundamental tenets of Enterprise Architecture, underpinned with concepts of Master Data Management (MDM), organizations can reduce that pain to tolerable levels

EA Support comes in several different forms:
--  In providing business context to understand data and its significance, EA provides scope for understanding the depth, breadth and location and flow of PCI-Related Data.
-- Governance is at the heart of an Enterprise Architecture practice. By providing a consolidated view of an organization's data, and overlaying standards and security driven approaches to data management, EA forms the core for controlling data throughout the enterprise.
--  EA gives form and presence to business related requirements. In doing so, EA provides the core for "Security by Design".

We will take a look at the ways that PCI Data is represented and managed in a typical repository. Those methods lend themselves to the type of analysis that gives actionable information in the management and give your organization a firm foundation for PCI compliance – and surviving a PCI Audit – by doing three things:

Understanding Data
By placing data into its business context, practitioners are able to understand when, where and how PCI-related data is generated, transmitted, stored, archived and destroyed. Traditional data silos can mask sensitive data. Enterprise Architecture, when properly developed, ferrets out those areas and brings them to the forefront.
One of the difficult areas of PCI Audits is establishing the scope of the audit. By bounding data within the payment-related areas, audits are more easily defined.

Controlling Data
In establishing a standard, centralized data mapping, Enterprise Architects build the foundation for strong data governance. Most organizations only think of EA as leading and defining application development and deployment. In fact, if properly designed, EA leads and defines a strong data governance model…just as it would for application solution architects, so it hands off standardized data sets to data developers and infrastructure architects. As requirements form the core of the TOGAF ADM model, so they filter and trace throughout the entire development model and highlight the areas of specific concern for PCI related data.

Protecting Data
By building a trace between the business processes, applications and networking, PCI-related security is not left to chance or interpretation. It is given proactivefront-and-center importance in the construction of the way your organization does business. Over 2/3 of the cost of a typical solution comes from revisions and updates to ensure security and functionality. By building security into solutions from the start, expensive remediation is not necessary.

By building and maintaining a culture of compliance, using EA as its core, you not only significantly reduce risk in your organization, audits become just another element in a successful day's work.

David Daniel is an Enterprise Architecture Consultant with IBM in the US. He has 18+ years experience in the systems engineering and enterprise architecture space, across industries including  defense, manufacturing, heavy-industry, banking, telecom and others. He is an active IBM industry consultant.

Determining High Value IT Initiatives

Majed Saadi, Director - Cloud Computing Practice, SRA International, US

As IT budgets shrink, enterprise architects must increasingly focus on identifying and achieving infrastructure cost savings based on quantified ROI and risk. Typically, the complexity and heterogeneity of infrastructure environments makes optimization difficult but budget pressures necessitate performance improvements. Utilizing portfolio management and enterprise architecture techniques, this presentation describes an approach to identify solutions with "high return" cost savings.

Key takeaways:

• Understanding of the key efficiency levers that can result in reduced costs
• Approach for prioritizing and selecting highest value initiatives

Majed Saadi is the Director of the Cloud Computing Practice at SRA International. His practice encompasses service areas from Cloud Strategy Development to Cloud Management and all areas in between Cloud Readiness, Cloud Engineering, and Cloud Modernization. He has served as a thought leader at many Federal Systems Integrators and he has over 16 years of experience in the areas of IT Strategy Development, Enterprise Architecture, and Enterprise Systems Management. Majed holds a master’s degree in IT Management from UVA and several industry certifications including TOGAF 9, ITIL Expert, ISO 20000 Certified Consultant, and Management of Risk (MoR ) Certified.

Simplifying Data Integration in the Healthcare Sector

Ronald Schuldt, Senior Partner, UDEF-IT, US

This presentation highlights an evolving Open Group vocabulary integration standard that simplifies data integration between or within enterprises, within the Healthcare sector. Implementers follow a standardized structured process for harmonizing terms that promote normalization of data models, representing application integration. Adopters of the vocabulary integration standard leverage a language independent universal alias that is reusable for all future data integration efforts. The presentation includes applicable use cases.

Key takeaways:

--  Understand how an open vocabulary integration standard can assist the healthcare sector.
--  Understand the enhancements happening in the evolving standard and how they benefit the healthcare sector.

Ron Schuldt 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 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.

Target Architecture for Drastically Reducing PCI Scope within an Enterprise

Shankar Chebrolu, Enterprise Architect, Adobe Systems Inc., US

As enterprises move to software-as-a-service (SaaS)/cloud/ subscription model from traditional/perpetual licensing model, the volume of customer credit card transactions increases substantially and hence subjected to Level 1 PCI compliance. In this session, audience will learn about the enterprise target architecture that was put together to drastically reduce or minimize Adobe's PCI footprint/scope from their ecommerce and call center systems to achieve a scalable and sustainable solution without compromising on customer checkout experience. The target architecture separates tokenization and payment authorization services in order to allow flexibility in choosing service providers in future and to avoid vendor lock-in. Various target architecture options were explored and appropriate option was selected based on combined benefit of maximum scope reduction, highest level of PCI sustainability, lowest risk and industry direction. The target architecture supports continuation of current payment gateway and content delivery network vendors in order to minimize the business impact and vendor relationship risks, in addition to procuring additional services from the same vendors within a SOA framework.

Key takeaways:

1. How to define target architecture for an enterprise in order to drastically reduce PCI footprint/scope
2. How to define flexible target architecture to support different vendors and incorporate their services/solutions to meet enterprise PCI compliance

Shankar Chebrolu is an Enterprise Security Architect, part of Adobe's EA team, leading the effort of defining target architectures for several Enterprise Security programs including PCI Compliance, Enterprise Identity and Access Management, Secure Engineering Cloud, and Secure Web Services. Shankar holds a Doctoral degree in Information Technology from Capella University, MN and Masters degree in Computer Science & Engg from IIT Mumbai, India. His research interests include information security management, cloud computing, IT effectiveness and strategic alignment with business. Shankar's research and enterprise security work have been published in several peer-reviewed IT journals/books. He holds several security and architecture certifications including CISSP, PCIP, TOGAF9 and has been a speaker at multiple conferences including IEEE Cloud, Oracle Open World, OAUG, CA World, and The Open Group.

Enterprise Architecture Roadmap Development Demystified

Matthew Stuempfle, Enterprise Architect, Red Hat, US

You have the as-is architecture elucidated. You've developed the to-be architecture. You've even completed the gap analysis. Now we need the plan to get us there. We need... a Roadmap.

At the enterprise level, roadmaps can be complex and fraught with challenges of their own even before you begin to execute the work. In Federal and Defense spaces in particular, there is increasing demand to deliver and demonstrate business value quickly while you contain costs amidst seemingly ever-changing budgetary constraints.

In this session you will learn techniques for the development and execution of enterprise-level roadmaps. The specific techniques you will learn include:

-- Roadmap design that eliminates bias and ideology and focuses on delivery of value-added outcomes aligned to your agency's goals and objectives;

-- An outcomes-based roadmap approach to assist with budget-cycle and fiscal year planning;

-- How to asses the cost and impact of achieving specific outcomes as opposed to simply the cost of doing work packages that in of themselves may not deliver direct value to the organization;

-- How to drive roadmap adoption through artifacts that enable straight-forward conversations with stakeholders while taking into account specific business drivers;

-- And how to use these roadmaps as the foundation for budgeting and program management to achieve the desired state.

Note: This session is given by a member of the Enterprise Architecture Practice in the Red Hat IT department with no focus on tools or products that the company offers.

Key takeaways:

-- Proven approaches to roadmap development that reduce ambiguity and bias, allowing efforts to be focused on value added outcomes for the business.

-- Tools that can aid in roadmap development.

-- Alignment of Roadmaps to components of the enterprise architecture including the Performance Reference Model and Service Reference Model for your agency.

Matt Stuempfle has more than 15 years of experience in Information technology. Throughout his tenure he has developed technology strategy, executed large-scale transformation and modernization initiatives, architected technical solutions from inception to implementation, and supported technical sales. He regularly interfaces with client and industry executives. His experience spans multiple industries serving in the role of Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Chief Architect to drive client business and competitiveness. Matt is a regular speaker at industry conferences on topics such as meeting the future needs of business through the innovative use of technology.

Personalized Medicine, Pharmacogenomics, Healthcare IT and the Revolution in Healthcare as We Know it

Nikhil Kumar, President, ApTSi (Applied Technology Solutions, Inc.), US

Modern medicine, driven by changes in Healthcare IT, IT, genomics, economic factors and legal direction is undergoing the fastest change ever seen in the area. In this presentation Nikhil will provide an overview of the Healthcare Continuum, which includes the pharma, payer, provider, ACO and PBM sectors. He will also cover key drivers and disruptive advances in the space. Some of the topics covered will include a systemic model for pharmacogenmics and personalized medicine, the Healthcare Continuum and interoperability constraints and drivers, the impact of the Cloud, SOA and big data, M2M and wearable computing, security constraints and interoperability constraints. There will be a brief section on the application of the SOA RA to the derivation of architectures for the space.

Key takeaways:

--  Personalized Medicine and Healthcare
--  Healthcare interoperability (CDISC, HL7, Continuaa, etc.)
--  Advance and trends in Healthcare
--  Payer and provider trends, MITA and HCRA
--  Security in Healthcare and Pharma

Nikhil Kumar is a thought leader in Personalized Medicine, Genomics, SOA, Cloud Computing and Enterprise Architecture, with extensive experience in the payer, provider and PBM sectors. His accomplishments include co-chairing the SOA RA Project, large boards, authoring standards, books, and articles, and leading the development of a new PM platform.

Enterprise Architecture Applied in the Financial Sector using TOGAF® 9 as a Reference Framework

Sonia Gonzalez, EA Senior Consultant, Dux Diligens, Costa Rica

The presentation is about a real case application of TOGAF 9 as the base EA framework for the EA practice development in the financial sector in Costa Rica. The case shows the EA practice construction and capabilities development. The first iteration around the main organizational strategic drivers, how the Architecture Development Method (ADM) was applied for the development of the first iteration cycle focused in a high level strategic architecture. This set the basis for the second iteration more focused in a capability architecture that would deliver business benefits after the EA roadmap and migration planning conformance. It also shows the issues around applying TOGAF Architecture Content Framework in a real modeling case and how during the development of the second iteration cycle the model was leverage through the integration of the BIAN reference model.

Key takeaways:

--  Real case about TOGAF 9 adaptations in order to fulfill the organization culture and EA capability development
--  Study case about the whole ADM cycle implemented using an EA tool and integrations with operational tools
--  Reference models leverage and used for the business and service model definition

Sonia Gonzalez has been an Enterprise Architect for more than four years, working in TOGAF® 9 projects for banking and financial industries. She is a senior advisor in Enterprise Architecture, SOA, BPM , Management and Innovation, Information systems design and implementation and IT governance and management frameworks. She has  experience as a trainer and presenter. She has more than 20 year experience in Information systems, Project Management and information systems analysis, design and implementation.

Building an Enterprise Architecture Culture - Government of Canada Case Study

Bill Brierley, Partner and Senior Consultant, Conexiam, Canada

The Government of Canada has established enterprise architecture practice as a government-wide culture. This has been achieved through a series of incremental changes to management practice over the past two decades. The result is a management approach that has strong enterprise architectureunderpinnings. In this talk we will explore the initiatives that havecreated this culture and explore the impact both on governance, management,and the practice of enterprise architecture in the Government of Canada.

Key takeaways:

--  Not all enterprise architecture practice is done by enterprise architects.

--  Effective enterprise architecture practice is done, not talked about.

--  Enterprise architects must be bridge builders

Bill Brierley is a partner and senior consultant at Conexiam. Bill has been leading enterprise architecture teams for close to 20 years. Over the past decade, Bill has been focused on business transformation and developing enterprise architecture as a fundamental management tool. Based in Ottawa, the bulk of Bill's experience is with the Government of Canada. Bill has been deeply involved in the development of both policy and practice of enterprise architecture within the Government of Canada.

Meeting the Challenges in Healthcare by Applying Business Architecture Principles

Nilesh Chandra, US Business & Enterprise Architecture Lead, PA Consulting Group, US

The healthcare industry is at a cross-roads and facing monumental changes brought on by an aging population, significant changes in regulation as well as rapid advances in technology that enable new care regimens and improved health for people. As healthcare organizations look to respond to emerging challenges and opportunities, Business Architecture can play a critical role. In this presentation, we discuss real world examples where we have applied Business and Enterprise Architecture principles to address challenges faced by large healthcare organizations in the US.

During this talk, we will discuss two use cases:
1. How a leading healthcare provider took a Business Architecture approach to develop their strategy for establishing an enterprise-wide Shared Analytics function and platform, in place of silo'd Analytics programs spread across the organization
2. How another leading healthcare provider is applying Business and Enterprise Architecture principles in designing and deploying innovative models of care at a National level

Key takeaways: Healthcare faces significant changes andchallenges in the future. We will share case studies and examples to show how applying a Business Architecture approach can help how leaders in Healthcare can meet these challenges.

Nilesh Chandra is PA's lead Business Architect who works with senior leaders in the areas of IT Strategy, Business Architecture and Process Transformation across Healthcare and other industry sectors. Nilesh is also on PA's Digitization of Healthcare team in the US. Nilesh holds a MBA from Cornell University, NY and has a certification in Business and Enterprise Architecture from Henley Business School.

Managing and Recognizing Architecture Debt Within The Financial Services Industry

Wayne Filin-Matthews, Architect Role Owner, Microsoft Corporation, US; and Doug Alexander, Chief Enterprise Architect, XL Group, US

As Architecture shifts to reflect the global trends in IT, the correction is forcing the financial services industry to examine the role and the importance of consistency in Architectural rigor and delivery. The architectural debt and trades-offs an Architect will make may have increased longevity and serious consequences for the ability of organizations to exploit technology investments into the future.

Key takeaways:

1. Understanding the trade-off value system importance in both planning and commit through to exploit.

2. The risks to the organization of ignoring Architecture debt and waste

3. The impact to the readiness of roles involved in Enterprise Architecture today.

Wayne Filin-Matthews is the Microsoft Enterprise Services Architect and Consultant Role Owner - the driver and integral part of the Architect and Consultant role evolution which includes Architects and consultants being a key role in the success of Enterprise Services. Wayne is an Open Group Distinguished Architect (Profession Lead) with over 21 years in the industry working across an array of sectors including, public, commercial, finance, healthcare and government and across multiple geographies.

Doug Alexander has been at XL in a variety of senior IT roles for over 10 years. XL Group plc, through its subsidiaries, is a global insurance and reinsurance company providing property, casualty and specialty products to industrial, commercial and professional firms, insurance companies and other enterprises throughout the world. Doug is currently the Chief Enterprise Architect responsible for IT solutions, strategies, and roadmaps for the firm. Prior to his current role, he was responsible for IT Sourcing and IT Procurement, he led the North American Property and Casualty and Professional IT teams, led several large IT transformation initiatives and developed their Global Application Development discipline. Before XL, Doug worked at the Travelers, several Financial Accounting startups, and began his career in IT with a large Music Wholesaler over 2 decades ago. Doug has a proven ability to position and lead global firms through disruptive IT changes while minimizing the internal disturbance. He lives in the Hartford area with his wife and three young children.
 

Operational Effectiveness: How Many Tanks Do I Have?

Robert Weisman, CEO / Principal Consultant, Build The Vision Inc., Canada

Operational Effectiveness is a major concern in defence and simple questions as in the title are crucial, but the answer varied with respect to the system queried. The presentation discusses the EA required to address the semantic, cultural and technical challenges associated with the creation of an information sharing environment. The environment was rapidly created in part through the re-use of enterprise continuum artefacts and the effective delivery of capability increments by a joint defence/contractor team. It is a CGI top success story.

Key takeaways:
-- Taking a Capability Based Approach
-- Re-use artefacts to accelerate delivery and reduce risk
-- Identify and understand stakeholder concerns

Robert Weisman has spent more than 25 years in enterprise level planning and implementation for business and IM/IT capabilities, in both private and public sectors in North America, Europe and Australia.

For the past five years Bob has been an active member of the Open Group Architecture Forum, a significant contributor to TOGAF® 9 and President of the Ottawa/Gatineau Chapter of the Association Enterprise Architects (AEA).

As Principal Consultant and CEO of Build The Vision Inc., Bob both practices Enterprise Architecture and provides in-house training for Enterprise Architects leading to TOGAF 8 and 9 certification.

Robert has an MSc in Computer Science and is a Professional Engineer and Project Management Professional.

Welcome Address

Allen Brown, CEO, The Open Group

Managing the Health of the Nation

David Nash MD, MBA, Dean of Jefferson School of Population Health

We need to radically alter the health care delivery system by putting the patient at the center of all that we do. Through a new era of patient engagement, we can reduce waste, improve outcomes and actually break the cost curve. Dr Nash will explain how we can accomplish this goal through his strategy called DEMAND BETTER.

Bio

David Nash was named the Founding Dean of the Jefferson School of Population Health (JSPH) in 2008. This appointment caps a twenty-year tenure on the faculty of Thomas Jefferson University. He is also the Dr. Raymond C. and Doris N. Grandon Professor of Health Policy. JSPH provides innovative educational programming designed to develop healthcare leaders for the future. Its offerings include Masters Programs in Public Health, Healthcare Quality and Safety, Health Policy and Applied Health Economics. JSPH also offers a doctoral program in Population Health Science.

Dr. Nash is a board certified internist who is internationally recognized for his work in outcomes management, medical staff development and quality-of-care improvement. In 1995 he received the top recognition award from the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy. He received the Philadelphia Business Journal Healthcare Heroes Award in October 1997, and was named an honorary distinguished fellow of the American College of Physician Executives in 1998. In 2006 he received the Elliot Stone Award for leadership in public accountability for health data from NAHDO. In 2009 Dr. Nash received the Wharton Healthcare Alumni Achievement Award. In 2012, he received the Joseph Wharton award in recognition of his “social impact”.

Repeatedly named to Modern Healthcare’s list of Most Powerful Persons in Healthcare, his national activities cover a wide scope. He served as Chair of a National Quality Forum Technical Advisory Panel and is a member of the Board of Directors of The Care Continuum Alliance (formerly DMAA). Dr. Nash is a principal faculty member for quality of care programming for the American College of Physician Executives in Tampa, Florida, and is the developer of the ACPE Capstone Course on Quality. He also leads the academic joint venture between ACPE and the JSPH.

Dr. Nash is a consultant to organizations in both the public and private sectors. He has chaired the Technical Advisory Group of the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council for more than a decade and he is widely recognized as a pioneer in public reporting of outcomes. In December 2009 he was named to the Board of Directors for Humana Inc., one of the nation’s largest publicly traded healthcare companies. In March 2011 he joined the Board of Directors of Endo Health Solutions, a publicly traded pharmaceutical company headquartered in Malvern, PA. He recently was appointed to the Board of Main Line Health – a four hospital system in suburban Philadelphia, PA. From 1998–2008, he served on the Board of Trustees of Catholic Healthcare Partners in Cincinnati, Ohio where he chaired the Board Committee on Quality and Safety.

Health Administration (with honors) from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. While at Penn, he was a former Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar and Medical Director of a nine-physician faculty group practice in general internal medicine.

Dr. Nash lives in Lafayette Hill Pennsylvania, with his wife of more than thirty years, Esther J. Nash, MD. They have fraternal twin twenty-five-year old daughters and a twenty-two year old son. He is recovering from wrist surgery and hopes to return to the tennis court soon!

Please visit: http://Jefferson.edu/population_health/ and his blog at http://nashhealthpolicy.blogspot.com
 

Spotlight: Open Platform 3.0 Forum

Healthcare Transformation Panel

Moderator: Allen Brown, CEO, The Open Group

• Baljiwan Gina Uppal, Fulbright Fellow at American University Program, Intern at Center for Health Market Innovations, Results for Development Institute, Washington DC
  
• Rosemary Kennedy, Associate Professor and Associate Dean, Strategic Initiatives, Director, Nursing Informatics, Jefferson University
• Blaine Warkentine, MD, MPH, MBA, Founder of InnovationThrives, health opportunity architect
• Mike Lambert, CTO, Architecting the Enterprise with patient experience in UK health system
• Fran Charney, RN, MSHA, Director Educational Programs, Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority

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: Remixing Healthcare through Enterprise Architecture

Larry Schmidt, Chief Technologist - Americas Health and Life Sciences Industries, HP, US

The Healthcare industry is must undergoing radical change. There are many pressures fueling the demand for change including uncontrolled medical costs, demands through legislation, rapid increase in plan participation, retiring “baby boomers” and improved longevity of individuals. Further, healthcare systems are rooted in acute care delivery while the population health initiatives are focused on wellness and prevention. Advances in information technology have not been fully utilized. There exists no “big picture” view of this problem domain.

The Open Group is sponsoring the Population Health Working Group that has a vision to enable “boundryless information flow” between the stakeholders that participate in healthcare delivery. This presentation serves as the launch of this Working Group.

Key takeaways:  Upon completion of this presentation the participant will:
• Gain appreciation for several factors that are fueling the need for radical change in healthcare delivery
• Understand how the discipline of Enterprise Architecture facilitates the study of this problem domain
• Become aware of the intended “ scope” of the healthcare ecosystem to be included in this study
• Understand the Big Rules while engaged in the working group
• Determine how and where you can engage to be a part of this initiative

Larry Schmidt is the Chief Technologist for HP's Health and Life Sciences Industries for the Americas region. In this role, Larry sets the strategic direction on how technology enables innovation to occur within HP’s Healthcare ecosystem. Larry also serves HP – Enterprise Services as rep to The Open Group's governing board.

Note: This session will extend to 11.45.  The introduction to the workshop sessions will commence at 11.45.

A Framework for Application Quality Measurement in Support of Financial Services Transformation

Chris Manuel, Worldwide Director of Partner Solutions, CAST, US

Leading successful business transformation in Financial Services is directly correlated to the ability of IT to fuel innovation, whether by introducing new systems or improving and enhancing existing ones. Yet, more so than any other industry, the application landscape of Financial Services organizations is a complex collection of heterogeneous technologies, legacy and contemporary systems, custom applications, and third party COTS. As a result, the impact that IT has on business transformation activities can be constrained by a lack of insight and control over the application portfolio. This session will present a framework for measuring structural quality and then leveraging the resulting data to better plan, execute, and maintain your IT systems in support of the transformation required by the business.

Key takeaways:
1. Understand the role application structural quality plays in either constraining or enabling transformation initiatives
2. A three-step program for leveraging a structural quality measurement program to:
    a. Plan and initiate transformation activities
    b. Prevent software risk during implementation
    c. Manage the TCO impact after the transformation
3. A real life case study of how a major financial services institution leveraged a structural quality measurement program to fuel transformation, taking application development activities from 70% maintenance to 70% innovation.

Chris Manuel, worldwide director of partner solutions at CAST, has 17 years of experience working for system integrators, specifically in the area of application services and outsourcing. He has held leadership positions with global system integrators including Wipro and Fujitsu. Chris is PMP, ITIL Practitioner, and ITIL Foundation certified.

Overcoming Legacy in Smarter Planet and Smarter City Transformation

Boris Vishnevsky, Distinguished ITA, IBM, US

Computing and IT legacy continues and pose substantial challenge to satisfying evolving business demands with modern IT capabilities. IT Legacy slows the progress. Addressing IT legacy challenges with a disciplined and well rationalized approach can accelerate the adoption of new technologies transforming the business into a smart business and planet into a smarter planet. Emerging technologies must be applied in a way that will prevent these capabilities becoming legacy in short or long term.

Key takeaways:

-- Computing and IT Legacy will continue and present substantial challenge to how modern IT Capabilities can be applied to support Business needs

-- These legacy challenges can not be ignored and must be addressed with a disciplined and well rationalized approach

-- Modern solution must be developed with long term vision to avoid becoming "a new legacy" in a short or long term.

Boris Vishnevsky is recognized and well respected within the IBM business and technical community, not only for his technical expertise and innovative technical solutions, but also for his ability to apply modern technology to solve complex business problems. Mr. Vishnevsky is presently leading IBM xBrand engagements with focus on Smarter Planet Transformation, software strategy, business process analysis and optimization, BigData Analytic. Mr. Vishnevsky is actively collaborating with NYU and IBM research.
 

Using TOGAF® to Establish a People Enablement Capability within a Strategic Transformation Project - A Banking Case Study

Louw Labuschagne, Managing Partner, CS Interactive Training, South Africa; and Elize  Labuschagne, Partner, CS Interactive Training, South Africa

The Client Challenge:

A major financial institution in South Africa initiated a Strategic Improvement Project to improve speed to market of new products and improve quality of systems developed within the institution by re-designing their Systems Development Lifecycle and adopting best practice methods and an integrated suite of tools.

We got involved in the project when the project came under pressure after tradition change management approaches failed due to specific constraints in the environment:
1. Tool vendors were used to provide tool training without specific method context.
2. The employees in the organisation have vastly different backgrounds and a lack of basic object-oriented principles prohibited the adoption of the method, which also require a practitioners to have a working knowledge of UML.
3. 1200 people were directly affected by the change in the method and tradition training and change management techniques could not be rolled out fast enough.
4. Internet bandwidth constraints prohibited the use of tradition cloud-based online training.
5. Limited budget were available to implement a solution due to the previous investment into the techniques that did not work.

The new SDLC method is updated on a regular basis to incorporate lessons learned on innovation projects and thus the organisation required a sustainable internal people enablement capability to continuously update and deliver the training curriculum.

Our Approach:

In the presentation we will explain how we used an architectural approach to design a capability within the constraints set by the project. We will explain how we applied TOGAF to analyse and design the curriculum, processes and tools required to create a people enablement capability in support of the Strategic Transformation Project that developed the new SDLC method for the Financial Institution.

The Result:

We will share the results of the project and show how it was possible to deliver 4500 training interventions in 9 months and how we combined technology with traditional approaches to create a blended learning approach using a Virtual Learning Environment that is supported by the internal HR team. Finally we will share lessons that we learned during the project.

Key takeaways:

1. The importance of including people enablement as part of the architecture design during transformation projects
2. How TOGAF can be used as to define and implement a capability within an organisation
3. Key lessons learned / pitfalls to avoid when tackling the people enablement component of a transformation project

Louw Labuschagne is currently the managing partner of CS Interactive Training, a niche training company specialising in the development of interactive learning material for professionals working in information intensive environments. He is passionate about all aspects of information management and had the opportunity to act as strategist, architect, speaker, trainer, analyst, modeller and developer within this field over the past 17 years within the Financial, Mining and Government Sectors.

Elize Labuschagne is a partner at CS Interactive Training, a niche training company specialising in the development of interactive learning material for professionals working in information intensive environments. Elize is a solutions architect & e-learning specialist with more that 15 years of experience within the financial and educational sectors. She is currently responsible for the design and rollout of CS Interactive Training's virtual learning environments within corporate environments.

EA and Enterprise Transformation in IBM Finance

Rajamanickam Ponmudi, IT Architect, IBM, US

Music is nothing but various sounds in synchronization with time. Enterprise Architecture (EA) is nothing but Information Technology in synchronization with Business priorities. Architecture Diagrams, Architecture Blueprints, Architecture Roadmaps etc., are like Musical Operas captured at a point in time. The Architecture lines are drawn with life. This needs to be absorbed, understood, critically analyzed, followed and challenged if necessary.

IBM's EA is built on the EPF (Enterprise Process Framework) wherein all the business processes of IBM are captured under 15 different process frameworks. APQC (American Productivity and Quality Center) guidelines have been extensively used in developing our process framework. Wherever possible, the guidelines have been taken from APQC and where there are differences, deviations have been accepted. If we step back and compare, one can say there is an 80-20 rule applied.

IBM's EA deals with Macro level entities of IT while prooviding enough details or links to drill down to Micros level details. Blueprint, Roadmap, Target Architecture, Current Architecture etc., are macro level entities of a typical EA. All these entities or components, on a need basis, can provide granular details like application details, information system details, data flows, Data Warehouse details, deployment details etc., This is achieved by using the powerful IBM Rational Systems Architect tool.

If IBM sneezes, they say, the World gets cold. In reality, it is the IBM Finance applications that sneeze. The Finance applications provide the windows to view the IBM's overall performance. The reveevenues, expenses, assets and liabilities of IBM with a market capitalization of more than $200 Billion, are captured, consolidated, maintained, analyzed and reported by a suite of applications in Finance. A periodic reporting to Wall Street has a significant influence on IBM's share price.

Several years ago a blueprint was developed for driving efficiency, developing Strategic solutions, supporting enterprise initiatives and setting directions in Finance applications portfolio. This architectural effort along with an Enterprise Initiative called "Blue Harmony" helped Finance IT achieve maximum benefits in terms of developing and adapting WW solutions in several business process areas, deploying package solutions in niche areas and in-house solutions wherever needed.

The Finance blueprint is the framework on which the Finance application architecture is developed supporting 12 detailed business processes like General Ledger, Fixed Assets, Treasury etc., In IBM's Finance Archithitecture (which is a part of EA in IBM), one can get a macro level picture of the vision of Finance five years from now as Target Architecture blueprint, a roadmap that provides details of how we plan to reach there. Number of applications, classification of an application (Strategic, Tactical or Legacy), Business Criticality (vital or non-vital etc.,), Support for WW business process, single instance or multi-instance, single code or Geo based code, Scalability, Reliability etc., are key parameters that are constantly monitored by proper Enterprise Governance processes at various stages of the life cycle of the application.

A complete transformation of entire Finance business process needs by a single packaged solution or by all in-house development is neither practical nor realistic. Based on the Enterprise Initiatives, availability of solutions, business priorities and the investment to be made, usually a mix and match of packaged solutions and in-house applications is not uncommon in the industry and IBM Finance is no exception to this. IBM Finance is being transitioned from in-house to SAP based solution for General Ledger under the Enterprise Initiative BH, is using WSS for all Treasury needs while Finance Planning has mixture of in-house and vendor solutions. Cognos Analytics are extensively used within Finance from basic reporting to complex Cube based (dimensional model) analysis. In fact, IBM Finance took a lead in this area and helped establishing a Center of Excellence for the Enterprise IBM for all Cognos related efforts.

Classification of applications is critical within our EA since numerous decisions are taken based on the application category. All IBM business applications have been classified as Strategic or Tactical or Legacy using very stringent criteria and there has been a consistent message across the enterprise that the Legacy applications should be sunset. No spending on legacy applications, exception approval requirements, no new development of non-strategic apps etc., are criteria that is rigorously applied within Finance to ensure Finance is in sync with our EA governance model.

Being the Lead Architect for IBM Finance IT in IBM, CHQ, I am the liaison between Finance community and Enterprise Architecture Community for the creation and maintenance of Target Architecture and Roadmap. I am also a voting member in the Enterprise Architecture Council.

With proper executive approval, I will also be able to share more details on the architecture diagrams, EA & Finance relations, statistics related to Application Portfolio Maintenance, etc.

In summary, IBM Finance being part of IBM EA, has transformed itself in a very impressive way over the last 7 years.

Key takeaways:
1.By embracing the IBM's Enterprise Architecture and following the principles, guidelines, metrics and the governance model of EA, IBM Finance Architecture has been extremely successful in its mission.
2.Creating a Target Architecture and a Roadmap to achieve the target are critical.
3.A strong Governance model at Enterprise level and a process that implements the Governance criteria is vital for the success of EA as well as Finance Architecture.

Rajamanickam Ponmudi has several years of experience in strategizinng, architecting, designing, and managing the development of very large enterprise-wide applications. He provides thought leadership in the area of technollogy strategy, development methodologies, quality assurance, complex system testing processes, application architecture, database design, application development, and performance tuning. His IT experience includes more than 10 years in IBM and more than 10 years with TOP 100 worldwide multinationals.
 

Case Study: Enterprise Architecture and Strategic Planning at Nationwide Insurance

Zahid Hossain, Director of Enterprise Architecture, Nationwide Insurance, US; and Chris Armstrong, President, Armstrong Process Group, Inc., US

 This session will review how Nationwide Insurance has continued implementing its TOGAF-based Enterprise Architecture (EA) practice to support business and IT strategic planning. The speakers will begin with a description of the context in which the EA practice was called to action to provide a fact-based and architecture-grounded position for performing strategic planning activities. The session will describe how Nationwide extended the TOGAF Architecture Content Metamodel to address key stakeholder viewpoints for the Board of Directors and Business/ IT Executive Management, including integrating the EA repository with the General Ledger for application financials. One essential feature is an enterprise-wide business capability reference model that is used as a foundation for board-level investment decision analysis: How much money do we spend in IT to support a particular business capability? Why does it cost more to support a particular capability than another? Are high levels of spending related to application complexity, application age, technical debt, process duplication, or business channel diversification? The session will also describe how Nationwide has exploited business intelligence/analytics to provide financially grounded executive EA dashboards. The speakers will also discuss their continuing success stories, challenges, and lessons learned. This session will provide new developments since presenting the initial case study in early 2012.

Key takeaways:
--  How to elevate EA to Board of Directors
--  TOGAF adoption best practices
--  EA tool implementation best practices

Zahid Hossain is Director of Enterprise Architecture at Nationwide Insurance.

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.

Mastering variances in data governance/architecture practices to incorporate Big Data

Neal Fishman, Program Director - Integration Forensics, IBM, US; Trinette Surles, Sr. Big Data Architect, IBM, US

Many data governance programs are established in order to bring people and projects into some form of alignment ­ a corporate singularity. The singularity may be perceived as necessary to support an internal or external standard, a regulation, a compliance need, or simply to support the notion that 'one' is better. From a pragmatic standpoint, a data governance program must also adopt policies and procedures to handle dispensations and waivers due to time constraints, cost, organizational geography, conflicting standards or objectives, etc. Offering to support waivers can prevent rogue and under-the-wire projects.

As organizations adopt projects involving big data, many data governance practices and data architectures are being disrupted. Managing waivers is one practice a data governance program or data architecture team can embrace to avoid a fragmented IT department.

Key takeaways:

-- The need to manage variances and waivers
-- Incorporating waivers into a Data Governance and Data Architecture practices
-- Expiring variances and long-term architectural planning

Neal Fishman is the program director for integration forensics within IBM's software group and leads a group of architects for the Big Data Industry Team. Neal is the author of "Viral Data in SOA: An Enterprise Pandemic" and the coauthor of "Enterprise Architecture Using the Zachman Framework".

Trinette Surles is a Senior Big Data Architect focused on the Public Sector. Trinette works worldwide helping government agencies manage complex data strategies and incorporate advanced analytics.

Cloud-Based CRM with On-Premises Integration at a Diversified Financial Services Company

Iver Band, Enterprise Architect, The Standard, US

Last year, The Standard, a diversified financial service company, delivered two phases of its enterprise CRM solution for its Employee Benefits Sales and Retirement Plans Service functions. However, many of the data sources and applications necessary for a complete solution remained on-premises, presenting significant application integration challenges. To develop and gain approval for the solution architecture, the project architects combined an internal architecture development method based on elements of the Eclipse Process Framework with the ArchiMate® language and a powerful viewpoint from the TOGAF® Architecture Content Framework. This presentation gives an overview of the solution architecture and the architecture development process, with a focus on application integration. It explores how IT organizations can provide business value by integrating cloud-based CRM with established line-of-business applications. This presentation illustrates how the ArchiMate language can be used to model business, application, technology and information architectures, and how it empowers architects, enhances communication between diverse stakeholders, and complements existing architecture methods.

Key takeaways:

1. Typical enterprise CRM architecture problems and solutions for financial services companies
2. Techniques for integrating cloud and on-premises applications
3. How the ArchiMate language is used to develop and communicate complex solution architectures

Iver Band is an Enterprise Architect at The Standard, a diversified financial services company based in Portland, Oregon, USA. At The Standard, he oversees a portfolio of insurance, asset management, CRM and contact center solutions, and provides leadership and oversight to strategic projects. He is both TOGAF and ArchiMate Certified, and applies these standards to his daily work. He is Vice Chair of The Open Group ArchiMate Forum, and has contributed to the ArchiMate standard and several related Open Group White Papers.

Developing Government & Defense Applications Securely

Tony Carrato, WW Solution Architect, IBM Industry Solution Engineering, IBM, US; and Mike Moomaw, Chief Architect for IBM Defense Solutions, IBM, US

Government and defense users depend on the systems they employ performing as intended, without surreptitious flaws having been introduced in the development process. Such software should be developed to meet appropriate security expectations. It should also undergo testing by a team which is independent of the programming team having inspected the application to ensure that it complies with those expectations and government customer requirements. However, it isn't simple to put in place the processes, education and tooling which are needed to meet those expectations. In this session, members of IBM's Industry Solutions Engineering team, which produces both platforms and applications for defense and government customers will share what their teams do, in educating their people, establishing processes for secure development and verification and what technology they use to support the people and process elements of development. Attendees will learn about education for architects and developers, to enable them to design and build secure applications. They will understand what are an appropriate set of criteria for secure applications and will learn about the technical tools used in IBM to enforce these processes.

Key takeaways:

Attendees will learn about education for architects and developers, to enable them to design and build secure applications. They will understand what are an appropriate set of criteria for secure applications and will learn about the technical tools used in IBM to enforce these processes.
 

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

Mike Moomaw is the Chief Architect for IBM Defense Solutions and for the Smarter Cities platform architecture. Previously Mr. Moomaw managed the Federal CTO Design team and lead the Federal Technical Affinity Group for Enterprise Service Management. Before joining IBM, Mr. Moomaw was a senior member of the management team at the Application Service Provider USi with roles including Chief Technical Architect, VP of Application Operations and VP of Advanced Engineering. Mr. Moomaw also had architecture roles working with US Federal clients at Silicon Graphics and the IBM Advanced Automation System for the FAA.

The Open Group Healthcare Workshop - Continued

ING and the Road to Cloud Services

Marc Halcrow, North America Regional Manager, ITpreneurs, US

Cloud computing promises a more flexible "services" model for IT systems that puts the business unit at the center of the process. However, this will not happen overnight as the people, processes, and technology need to support this change program.

ING Group, the global financial organization adopted a cloud strategy, resulting in substantial savings in cost while also providing for greater control of the IT Infrastructure, newer technology, improved stability, and making the organization more agile.

During this session will look at why ING focused on "Readying the workforce", a component in the adoption phase that many organizations seem to forget. ING chose an approach whereby they skilled staff to gain an understanding of the key principles of virtualization and cloud computing ensuring that the workforce has the right skill set and competencies to be able to grasp the benefits that cloud computing provides.

Former CTO, Tony Kerrison said that "Establishment of internal cloud competences is critical to be able to successfully leverage cloud services". And that's exactly what we'll be looking at during this session.

Key takeaways:

--  Understand the impact of cloud computing on the organization and on the various roles WITHIN the organization
--  Understand the importance of preparing the workforce for cloud computing
--  How to develop internal cloud competencies

Marc Halcrow is the North America Regional Manager at ITpreneurs, where he has overall responsibility for the ITpreneurs business in the region. His responsibilities include the strategic and operational direction for ITpreneurs in North America as well as providing guidance to organizations and partners to leverage the myriad of IT Best Practice Frameworks. In this capacity Marc works with organizations to develop solutions that will maximize an organizations IT investments and enable employees to best understand not only the latest trends in IT but also to leverage many of the IT Best Practice frameworks that are available.

Marc joined ITpreneurs in 2006 from CA, where he was responsible for engaging with clients to leverage the IT Service Management and Service Provider technologies in better enabling the IT organization to become a cost effective and efficient service provider to the business and other key stakeholders. He earned an MBA from the Erasmus University, Rotterdam School of Management, The Netherlands, and B.S in International Business and Finance from American University, Washington, DC.

One World EA Framework for Governments - the Value Proposition

Judith Jones, CEO, Architecting the Enterprise Ltd, UK

The world governments are developing their global thinking and harmony in working towards common goals for the environment, trading standards and economic stability and prosperity for all as set out outlined in the G7 & G8 Summits and many other collaborative networks. Governments are learning that they need effective Enterprise Architecture to make their policies reality and they need industry to support them in doing so. This year the UN awarded Korea a UN Public Service Award for their innovative use of Enterprise Architecture and savings of circa $400m. And it impacts on their trading capability too. As the UN Russian representative said "Korea can do in minutes what it takes other governments 2 or 3 months to do." This session describes the successful progress made by governments and their agencies with Enterprise Architecture and the role that EA Frameworks play. Also how do we build on this success and achieve the One World aspirations to effectively manage climate changes & impacts, global education, global e-commerce, global food challenges, healthcare challenges, tackle cybercrime and many other global issues? What is the value proposition for the One World EA framework to meet these challenges, and suggests ways forward that Enterprise Architects can make a difference in assisting governments to meet these future challenging goals.

Key takeaways:

1. Where Government EA Frameworks are successful
2. How to build on this success for future global challenges
3. The Value proposition for a One World

Judith Jones is CEO of Architecting the Enterprise, the global market leader in TOGAF Training and Consultancy. She is an experienced Business Manager and IT Consultant. Judith's prime experience includes business re-engineering, business architecture, enterprise architecture and governance, architecture practice management, business value engineering, IT strategy and management. Judith has worked with many Fortune 100 and Government agencies to develop architecture competencies and capabilities. Her background experience includes more than 20 years as a business manager with ICL, now Fujitsu Services.

Judith has been a champion and practitioner of Enterprise Architecture standards, including TOGAF and TOGAF certification, for over 20 years and was instrumental in the development of ICL’s OpenFramework. Judith is an active member of The Open Group and is a major contributor and an editor of TOGAF 7, 8 and 9 as well as leading TOGAF projects for localisation, case studies, ADML, synergy and collaboration projects.

The Open Group Healthcare Workshop - Continued

Establishing a Partnership with your Business

Matthew Daniels, SVP and Head of Strategy and Architecture, RBS Citizens Financial Group, US; and Dan Hughes, Partner, Systems Flow Inc., US

Enterprise Architects have been advocating for a seat at the business strategy table since the dawn of, well, enterprise architecture. In many cases even getting a clear understanding of the business strategy is a challenge, let alone participating in its formulation. By establishing partnership with the business, EA can better understand and even influence the business strategy, thus enabling IT to more effectively empower businesses goals and objectives. More importantly, EA can extend beyond the technology boundary and take an active role in transforming the business. This is a case study of a step by step approach for building such a partnership at a top 15 US bank.

Key takeaways:
1. Key success enablers
2. Strategies for engagement
3. A CxO Roadmap document
4. Lessons learned

Matt Daniels leads the Strategy and Architecture team at RBS Citizens. In his 13 years at RBS, he also managed both Business Continuity and Incident Management. Prior to RBS, Matt held senior technology positions with Alltel Information Systems, Gartner, and Eunetcom (Dun & Bradstreet) and has 15 years experience in technology management, specifically in network and data security, large-scale heterogeneous networking, technology integration, and application architecture.

Dan Hughes is a principal consultant and partner at Systems Flow, Inc., where he leads the technology services practice. He has decades of software engineering experience spanning a broad range of technologies and techniques. Startup to enterprise, he has launched, managed, and executed all aspects of both product and enterprise life cycle, delivering complex, enterprise-scale architectures for clients in the public and private sector, in industries ranging from banking, health care, and insurance to international development. Dan holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and blogs on architecture topics at  https://www.sysflow.com/author/daniel.hughes.

Shared Services in Government

Robert Weisman, CEO / Principal Consultant,  Build The Vision Inc., Canada

With robust networks and technology, the vision of Shared Services is now possible, and not a moment too soon as rust-out is a major concern. Surprisingly the major challenge is not technical. There is a huge business transformation opportunity and supporting effort required in the business as well as the CIO ranks. The presentation will discuss challenges faced by various governments from the business and IT perspectives on how to modernize the delivery of government services using techniques such as EA.

Key takeaways:

--  Shared Services have a major enterprise impact
--  Business and Information Interoperability are key
--  Retraining CIO personnel from platform to application services

Robert Weisman has spent more than 25 years in enterprise level planning and implementation for business and IM/IT capabilities, in both private and public sectors in North America, Europe and Australia.

For the past five years Bob has been an active member of the Open Group Architecture Forum, a significant contributor to TOGAF® 9 and President of the Ottawa/Gatineau Chapter of the Association Enterprise Architects (AEA).

As Principal Consultant and CEO of Build The Vision Inc., Bob both practices Enterprise Architecture and provides in-house training for Enterprise Architects leading to TOGAF 8 and 9 certification.

Robert has an MSc in Computer Science and is a Professional Engineer and Project Management Professional.

Business Architecture in TOGAF - Importance and Pitfalls

Mike Lambert, Chief Technical Officer, Architecting the Enterprise Ltd., UK

In the presentation, Mike Lambert, Chief Technical Officer of Architecting the Enterprise, will explain why getting Business Architecture right is so important in the overall context of Enterprise Architecture and TOGAF, and why so many Enterprise Architecture projects fail in this area. The presentation will highlight the importance of getting a realistic view of the likely challenges for architects and the importance of being able to communicate effectively with people in the business.

Mike Lambert was one of the pioneers of TOGAF. As Chief Technical Officer for The Open Group, he was the Technical Editor for the IEEE 1003.0 architecture standard in the late 1980s and responsible for the development of TOGAF with The Open Group until the publication of TOGAF 8.

Mike joined X/Open Company Limited (the predecessor of The Open Group) in 1994 from ICL, where he had a variety of roles leading up to Chief Architect for OMAC 29, ICL's flagship product for the Manufacturing Industry and Design Authority for all ICL's vertical application products.

As Chief Technical Officer, Mike was responsible for The Open Group's technical strategy and presided over the standardisation of UNIX.

On his retirement from The Open Group in April 2003, Mike was appointed as the first Fellow of The Open Group, in recognition of his extensive contribution to the development of Open Systems and Architecture.

Future Technologies Panel

Moderator: Dave Lounsbury, CTO, The Open Group

The objective of this track is to identify emerging business and technical trends that will shape enterprise IT, including:

• Perspectives on what business and technology trends will impact IT and EA in the next 5-10 years
• Points of potential disruption - what will change the way we do business
• What actions should we be taking now to prepare for this future? 

Speakers will be asked to give a presentation, and participate in a panel session to discuss conclusions.

Practical Risk Quantification -- It changes things

Jack Jones, Co-founder and President, CXOWARE, Inc., US

Ready for a paradigm shift? In this session Jack will discuss the basic concepts underlying the Open Group's Risk Taxonomy Standard and how they can be used to help "cross the bridge" between security and business leadership. Be forewarned though — some aspects of this approach will challenge conventional wisdom. So bring an Open mind (pun intended) and a healthy degree of skepticism (to make it fun).

Key takeaways:

--  Familiarity with The Open Group Risk Taxonomy Standard
--  An understanding of how the Taxonomy Standard can be used to communicate information security value to business executives
--  Dispelled myths regarding risk quantification

Jack Jones is a three-time CISO, specializing in security and risk management for twenty-two years. He received the 2006 ISSA Excellence in the Field of Security Practices award, and in 2012 was honored with the CSO Compass award for leadership in risk management. Author and creator of the Factor Analysis of Information Risk (FAIR) framework.

An Enterprise Architecture Framework for Education based on TOGAF®

Education and its impartation could be viewed broadly as an extended organization with common interests in learning and developing the personalities of an important set of stakeholders ­ those who study there. Constantly supporting and improving academic and non-academic outcomes is of great importance for a robust educational system. At SNA, we recognize this and have developed a methodology based on TOGAF® called TOPAgile for Education - TAFE.

TAFE aims to provide a solid foundation for the impartation of education by bringing about greater coordination among the members of the management, stakeholders, teachers, parents and students. It provides for a way to build a robust and agile platform for addressing key challenges in the field of education and build up a strong mechanism for developing integrated and sustainable response systems for each of these challenges.

TAFE supports greater agility across educational platforms by facilitating greater access to information while maintaining data privacy and security. TAFE ensures that all respective views and viewpoints of the principal stakeholders involved around an extended educational enterprise are kept in perspective. At heart is an attempt to leverage the best from cross-industry practices for deployment of business, technology, communications architectures.

We would like to present our experiences in developing such an agile architecture in terms of :

--  Recognizable architectures in the field of education(Indian context)
--  Importance of agility in education and how EA can develop this capability
--  How EA can contribute in enhancing performance metrics referred to in the student report cards

Suresh Done is President of SNA Technologies. He has more than 23 years of experience in IT and Engineering. Suresh is a TOGAF® 9 certified Enterprise Architect, consulting and training on Enterprise Architecture. He has worked in many industries including Automotive, Health, Telecom, Banking, Retail and Government sector. Suresh Done is also the Co-Founder and Chairman since its inception of the highly successful AEA Michigan Chapter.

Future Technologies Panel

Moderator: Dave Lounsbury, CTO, The Open Group

The objective of this track is to identify emerging business and technical trends that will shape enterprise IT, including:

• Perspectives on what business and technology trends will impact IT and EA in the next 5-10 years
• Points of potential disruption - what will change the way we do business
• What actions should we be taking now to prepare for this future? 

Speakers will be asked to give a presentation, and participate in a panel session to discuss conclusions.

Implementing a Successful EA Capability Using the TOGAF® Framework and the ArchiMate® Modeling Language - Theory, Practice, Tooling and Case Examples

Henry Franken, CEO, BizzDesign, Netherlands

A complete approach to enterprise architecture (EA) requires:
1) a method for implementing and governing the practice for constructing and using architectures.
2) a framework describing architectural viewpoints;
3) a language for architectural descriptions and communication;

The Open Group's TOGAF® 9 standard is the leading method for EA development, including a process, techniques and best practices. The Open Group's ArchiMate® standard is the leading graphical language for integrated EA modelling, describing the business, application and technology layers and their relationships. Moreover, ArchiMate provides strong features for modelling the motivation for the architecture (e.g., stakeholders, concerns, goals, principles and business requirements, etc.) and the implementation and migration planning (e.g. plateaus, gaps, workpackages, etc).

We show how TOGAF and ArchiMate provide and actionable EA capability:
--  TOGAF and ArchiMate together offer a comprehensive and complete approach to EA;
--  ArchiMate facilitates modeling the deliverables prescribed by TOGAF;
--  The ArchiMate core and its extensions cover all the aspects that TOGAF addresses.

We will demonstrate that TOGAF and ArchiMate are a perfect basis for a tool supported Enterprise Architecture practice. This will be done on the basis of a concrete example from the financial sector. The case concerns IT-legacy rationalization due to the merger of three previously independent insurance companies. The new company wanted to rationalize their IT applications portfolio, to simplify the application landscape, improve consistency and reduce maintenance costs. The demo shows elements of this case. 

Key take-aways:

-- To the point overview of TOGAF, ArchiMate, and its fitness for purpose for a tool supported Enterprise Architecture practice.
-- Example description of a transformation case in finances, the applicability of TOGAF and ArchiMate for rationalizing an IT applications portfolio

Henry Franken M.Sc. Ph.D, is CEO of BiZZdesign and chair of The ArchiMate Forum at The Open Group. Henry is a speaker at many conferences. Henry has co-authored several international journal and conference publications and Open Group whitepapers.

At BiZZdesign, Henry is also 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 further hand-in-pocket alignment with ArchiMate®.

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

Role of Enterprise Architecture in Innovation Management

Russ Trivedi, Consulting Partner, Tata Consultancy Services, US

This presentation will cover:

-- Trends in Innovation focus associated with IT investments
-- Enterprise Architecture role in Innovation management Lifecycle
-- Structure around EA Governance, Measurements and integrating architecture practices with Innovation (Ideation process and managing pool of ideas, prioritization with business case, POC and maturing it into a product)
-- How to identify patentable ideas and protect Intellectual property within the context of Enterprise Architecture best practices

Key takeaways:

-- Making Innovation Manamgement a part of EA is required for survival and is a necessity
-- Well known EA best practices, now used in new ways to apply them to measure success and provide competitive advantage for Innovation focused investments
 

Russ Trivedi is a senior management consulting executive with over twenty-five years of professional experience. He is a Consulting Partner with Tata Consultancy Services involved in IT transformation programs with clients in multiple industries, developing enterprise business solutions, and helping reduce TCO through proven Enterprise Architecture practices and Innovation Management.

Prior to joining TCS, he was with RCG Global Service, Ernst & Young, and PWC (Diamond) Consulting practices. Before that Russ spent number of years leading teams at UBS Investments. He did his MS in Computer Engineering from Boston University.

Risk and Enterprise Architecture

Chad Weinman, Director, Integration Services, CXOWARE, US

This presentation will explore how the Risk Analyst would use The Open Group's Risk Taxonomy (FAIR) standard to develop the Risk Management aspects needed in enterprise architecture projects.

Chad Weinman is Director, Integration Services with CXOWARE. Chad is a risk disciple and one of the foremost experts on FAIR and quantitative risk analysis. He is continuously working with organizations across industries with their risk management activities.

Modeling the Business Capabilities to Data Entities

Neil Sanford, Asst Director, Sanofi, US

Working on a convergence program to optimize our business processes and IT landscape, we found that a functional architecture has been extremely helpful. It allows us to link our Business Capabilities with our Applications and Data Entities. To do this modeling we utilized the ArchiMate® modeling language. This presentation will be a shared success story we had in modeling our architecture.

Key takeaways:

--  Modeling the functional architecture.
--  Modeling the Business Capabilities and connecting them to your IT landscape.

Neil Sanford is an Enterprise Architect in the Technology & Information Management team within Sanofi's R&D Group. He has been with Sanofi over 12 years, with experience in both IT and Business development and analysis. He is currently working on completing his Master's degree in Enterprise Architecture from Penn State.

Emerging Technology Insertions and Enterprise Architecture

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

The use of emerging technologies in business solutions is driving the enterprise transformation and has disrupted traditional business and IT practices of enterprises. While still striving for the overarching goal for reducing overall cost, enterprises are under increasing pressure to deliver enterprise business solutions rapidly to achieve business agility. To take advantage of emerging technologies, enterprises must transform their business and IT practices, roles, and skills to address the desire for nimble enterprise architecture. Enterprise must have an effective strategy, guidelines, and implementation approach to protect against business disruption.

This presentation provides a pragmatic approach of using TOGAF® to enable architecture for an enterprise ecosystem that delivers modular business capabilities and highlights ways to infuse emerging technologies. Enterprise ecosystem must provide an inherent built-support to enable effective business collaborations among the participants of enterprise ecosystem.

Key takeaways:

--  Impact of emerging technologies on architecture of enterprise ecosystem
--  A pragmatic approach of using TOGAF® to enable architecture for an enterprise ecosystem

Tejpal (TJ) Virdi works for The Boeing Company as Senior Enterprise IT Architect. TJ is primarily responsible for architectural leadership, aligning vision and strategy with enterprise information systems. Prior to joining Boeing, TJ worked in Healthcare IT industry for 15.5 years in creating and managing innovative solutions. TJ is co-chair of the Open Group Cloud Computing Work Group and regular speaker at conferences. TJ holds an MBA, Bachelor of Science degree and TOGAF 9.0 certified.

Using FAIR to Measure Public Policy Risks

Mike Jerbic, Adjunct Lecturer, San Jose State University; Information Security and Project Management Consultant; and Board Member, California Hydronics Corporation, US

As you know, FAIR is the industry standard for understanding information risk, but how robust to applications beyond information risk is the framework, really? Demonstrating FAIR's theoretic underpinnings, this talk applies the taxonomy and methodology to public policy by looking at gun control proposals that claim to manage the risk of children dying from assailants who use assault weapons. This talk will challenge how you look not only at information risk, but public policy as well.

Mike Jerbic has almost thirty years of experience in the high technology sector serving as an engineer, development manager, information security project management consultant, adjunct lecturer in economics at San Jose State University, and member of the California Hydronics Corporation’s board of directors. From 2003 through 2011 he chaired the Open Group’s Security Forum where he collaborated with the ABA’s Business Law Section to coauthor “Framework for Control over Electronic Chattel Paper” in the February 2006 edition of The Business Lawyer. He also coauthored Chapter 5 – The Security Rule in the ABA’s book A Guide to HIPAA Security and the Law. Mike’s interests concentrate on the crossroads of public policy, technology, and markets.

Mike holds an MA in economics from San Jose State University, and BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California at Berkeley.

FAIR Risk Analyst Certification Program

Jim Hietala, Vice President Security, The Open Group

 The Open Group is announcing the FAIR Risk Analyst certification program. This session will provide an overview of the program, and will provide details regarding test availability, and costs and procedures for risk analysts to obtain certification.

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.

Roadmapping Support for System Architect

Larry Wallendorff, Corso, US

Roadmapping is a fundamental part of strategic planning and enterprise architecture. It allows us to map out the set of actions that are required to move the business from where it is today, to where it wants to be tomorrow.  Those actions turn into plans.

Our roadmapping capabilities allow orgamizations to tie strategy to deliverables using enterprise architecture and to deliver on initiatives that have been prioritized.  We have extended both the ArchiMate® and TOGAF® metamodels to include concepts that support roadmapping. We have also provided viewpoints over and above traditional enyerprise architecture viewpoints.

Larry Wallendorff is a Carnegie Mellon certified, TOGAF® 9 certified enterprise architect and speaker in Application/Business Architecture and EA Management Best Practices. Previously EA Practice Area Lead for IBM Rational North America, Larry has over 20 years' experience providing architecture management solutions/methods, industry/custom EA frameworks and assessments for Fortune 500 companies across industry verticals. Larry has presented at several Open Group forums and shared the DAMA podium with John Zachman and Scott Ambler. Based in Colorado, Larry now manages the North America pre-sales team at Corso, the premier Enterprise Architecture Business Partner for IBM.

Big Data and Its Role in Information Management

Stephen G. Bennett, Executive Principal, Oracle, US

Big Data is a term applied to data sets whose size, structure, and acquisition speed is beyond the capability of conventional software tools used for capturing, ingesting, managing, and processing data. Combined with the complexity of analysis and commercial imperative to create value from it, Big Data has led to a new generation of technologies, tools, and architectures.

This session will cover the architecture of a Big Data initiative not as a standalone project but as a new and integral part of an overall information management architecture including Master Data Management (MDM), Data Warehousing (DW), and Information as a Service.

Key takeaways:

--  Big Data is not a silo-ed initiative
--  Big Data is part of an overall business analytics discipline
--  Big Data is a new and integral part of IM
 

Stephen G. Bennett is a 28-year experienced technologist focused on providing thought leadership, best practices, and architecture guidance around SOA, Information Management, and Cloud Computing.

Stephen is an Open Group board member, a published author and has spoken at several conferences. He has co-chaired a number of working groups including SOA Governance and TOGAF®.

He has delivered technology management and enterprise architecture consulting to many enterprise customers. Before becoming a consultant, Stephen was involved in delivering enterprise-wide mission critical systems within the investment banking industry.

How to Leverage the IBM Security Blueprint for the Development of a Security Architecture in Healthcare

Stefaan Van Daele, Senior Security Architect, IBM, Belgium

The IBM Security Blueprint is a technology agnostic approach to describe the security capabilities an organization needs to support its business. In the latest redbook about the IBM Security Blueprint, published in March 2013, we show how to evolve from this blueprint to an enterprise security architecture. In the provided example is the Open Enterprise Security Architecture from the Open Group leveraged to realize this. Also a practical use case for mobile devices in a healthcare environment has been worked out based on the earlier described approach.

In the presentation will be explained
* What is the IBM Security Blueprint and how organizations are using this to define their security strategy
* Short introduction to The Open Group's O-ESA
* How can we evolve from a blueprint to a enterprise security architecture
* Practical example for one use case: mobile devices in a healthcare environment

Stefaan Van Daele is a Senior Security Architect in a world wide security team at IBM. He is been active in IT since 1988 and from 2000 he's been active in the security domain, mostly IAM and security architectures.

Invisible & Negative Stakeholders

Dave Hornford, Principal Consultant, Conexiam, Canada

Limiting stakeholders to the visible, the supportive and those whose power you want to use is common. So are failed architecture projects. Effective enterprise architecture requires real stakeholders are identified and their real concerns are addressed. Even if they are hostile or indifferent. Business transformation, especially in Finance and Government, is filled with invisible, hostile & indifferent stakeholders ­ lets explore how we found and addressed them.

Key takeaways:
1 - spotting invisible & hostile stakeholders
2 - crafting an architecture that addresses the real set or real requirements
3 - when to wear body armour to meetings

Dave Hornford is a practicing enterprise architect - he focuses on assisting his clients develop their EA capability. Dave is a partner in Conexiam, which delivers EA and EA roadmaps, leads strategy-driven transformation projects and enhances clients' in-house EA capability. Dave is active in The Open Group, currently Chair of the Architecture Forum and co-chair of TOGAF® next release project.

Workshop: Big Data -- Impact and Survey on Architecture and Business

Kapil Bakshi, Senior Architect, Cisco Systems Inc., US

 Big Data refers to when data sets get so large and varied that traditional techniques of analytic just do not apply. This session will review the motivation for the study of Big Data and insertion into the third Platform. Including Definition, Taxonomy, Attributes, Use cases, Case study, technology Landscape and current standards. Also implication on current Enterprises and Business Value. This will be an interactive session to discussion impaction of large Data set and analytic on member base.

Key takeaways:

--  Attendees will be able to understand the basicsand underpinnings of Big Data, with a review Technology Tools for large Dataset technologies.

--  Attendees will also learn how to leverage Big Data architectures in their Enterprises.
 

Kapil Bakshi works for Cisco Public Sector, leading and setting strategic direction of solution spaces like Big Data, cloud computing and enterprise architecture. Kapil Bakshi is a native of the Washington, D.C., area, and holds bachelor's degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of Maryland, College Park; a master's degree in computer engineering from Johns Hopkins University and an MBA from the University of Maryland, College Park. Bakshi has held several positions within the IT industry, including at Cisco, Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard.

TOGAF® Viewpoint on Risk Management

Michael Grahovac, IT Architect, IBM, US

This presentation provides an understanding of Risk Management from the Architect perspective. It is intended for Enterprise, Business, and IT Architects.

Key takeaways:
1. Explain Risk Management objectives
2. Identify Risk Management elements in terms of the TOGAF Architecture Development Method (ADM)
    --  Business Architecture
    --  Information Systems Architectures
    --  Technology Architecture
3. Identify Potential Architectural Risk Management Tools and Techniques 

Michael Grahovac is a PMI Certified Project Management Professional with MBA and expertise aligning resources, business processes, and cultures to achieve strategic objectives across organizational and international boundaries. He has a successful track record of creating innovative solutions and proposing implementation plans; managing teams, vendors, politics & technology; and building relationships to ally the principals involved. He has excellent client management skills with a keen sense for new business and follow-on revenue development; and  international business skills with experience in London, England; Jeddeh, Saudi Arabia; Sydney, Australia; and Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. He also has Fortune One core industry experience in Retail, Fortune 500 core industry experience in Professional Services, Telecommunications, HealthCare, Insurance, and Finance.
 

Enterprise Architecture Certifications Distilled

Mike Walker, Enterprise Architect, Hewlett Packard

This presentation looks at the wide range of EA certifications -- including TOGAF®, Open CA, and Open CITS -- that are available and why it is important to choose the right certification for your career. Mike will examine why skills and experience-based certifications are becoming increasingly more important to both employers and employees as part of the professional development process.

Mike Walker is widely recognized as a Strategy and Enterprise Architecture thought leader, advisor, author and mentor. Mr. Walker has evolved mainstream architectural approaches and styles through his efforts in standards bodies, books, trade publications and published reference architectures.

Mr. Walker is a Senior Enterprise Architecture Advisor and Strategist at HP where he is responsible for aiding fortune 100 companies with their strategy and enterprise architecture delivery. Through his mix of unique experience and pragmatic approaches his clients hold him in high regard to deliver advice, out-of-the-box innovative thinking and architectural strategies.
 

Break Free of Data Clutter

Penelope Gordon, Co-founder and Chief Strategist, 1Plug Corporation, US

The rise of social media (the Too-Much-Information-Age) coincident with easy access to cloud storage is creating a data morass which is slowly drowning companies and individuals. The demise of the Storage Specialist and the rise of cloud-enabled data collection and analysis is exacerbating the deluge. Timely and relevant data analysis helps ensure good decisions; promiscuous processing of all incoming data (indiscriminately collected) helps ensure analysis paralysis. This session will explain breaking free of this data swamp by adapting physical organization techniques and best practices for archiving physical data to the exigencies of the data lifecycle. Less data clutter results in improved decision outcomes since decisions are based on a better balance of quantitative and qualitative analyses and intuition; disruptive innovation - and the long-term financial sustainability that it promises - is stymied by an over-reliance on quantitative analysis. In addition to a more sustainable data lifecycle, individuals no longer have virtual folders of emails and links saved "for later" generating guilt and anxiety and inhibiting productivity.

Key takeaways:

--  Reduce data clutter to ensure good decision-making, improve decision outcomes, and to increase the sustainability of the data lifecycle

--  Better balance quantitative analysis, intuition, and qualitative analysis and remove inhibitors to disruptive innovation

--  Improve personal productivity

Penelope Gordon specializes in emerging technology (including cloud) adoption strategies 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.

Risk Management as a Business Capability

William Estrem, President - Metaplexity Associates LLC, US

This presentation will examine how enterprise architects can define and implement business capabilities to manage risk in their organization. It will apply capability-based planning concepts as described in the TOGAF 9 standard. The approach will also incorporate the basic TOGAF 9 risk management framework with other risk management methods as described in The Open Group Risk Management Taxonomy.

Bill Estrem has been involved in the development of TOGAF since its inception in 1994. He has served as Architecture Forum Chair and was a technical contributor and editor for TOGAF 9. He is also involved in the development of the TOGAF 9 Certification program. His company, Metaplexity Associates LLC offers Accredited TOGAF 9 Training courses and related curriculum and professional services.

Building blocks of Cloud Interactive Ecosystem Language

Vladimir Baranek, Co-Chair of CIEL Project / Deloitte Consulting, US

This Presentation is focused on detail description of building blocks and associated hierarchy of symbols developed for Cloud Interactive Ecosystem Language (CIEL) aligned with Glossary proposed in new whitepaper for CIEL. Introduction is further extended to short definition of Infosymbolism as a semantic based, pattern oriented symbol sets, extending CIEL by pattern classes and symbols preference attributes.Key takeaways:

--  Fundamental understanding of CIEL layers and building elements
--  Recognition of Abstration points as Semantic based symbols encapsulated in Infosymbolism

Vladimir Baranek is a technology evangelist with more than 23 years of experience leading global professional services, consulting, and delivery organizations. He focuses on transformational change through translation of organization objectives into actionable plans. Results-oriented focus on organizational and operational efficiency and effectiveness to deliver bottom-line measurable results. As a customer engagement change advocate, Vladimir approaches transformation through technology sourcing, cloud computing, global shared services, enterprise systems, and optimization of IT as a Service as a result of infrastructure virtualization, application modernization, and reshaping end-user computing. Vladimir's extensive global experience includes work in 22 countries with projects spanning all over the world.