The Open Group Conference, San Francisco, USA
January 30 – February 3, 2012

Objective of Meeting

The Open Group Conference San Francisco 2012 took place at the Intercontinental Mark Hopkins, San Francisco, USA.

The conference gathered to focus on the following:

• Enterprise Transformation
• Enterprise Architecture
• SOA
• Cloud Computing
• Security

Summary

Each day of the conference included a mix of plenary presentations, with industry leaders from near and far sharing their insights on the conference themes; and a set of parallel tracks examining specific areas in depth. The various tracks delivered presentations by Enterprise Architecture professionals from both vendor and customer organizations; and provided experience-based insight into the approaches and methods that have proved most effective for developing architectures around the world.

The presentations can be accessed from the links below under separate daily headings:

• Monday January 30
• Tuesday January 31
• Wednesday February 1

The presentations referenced below are freely available only to members of The Open Group and conference attendees.

Monday January 30

• Welcome Address
  Allen Brown, President & CEO, The Open Group

Enterprise Transformation Keynote Presentations

• The Enterprise Architect: Architecting Business Success
  Jeanne W. Ross, Director & Principal Research Scientist, MIT Center for Information Systems Research
• How Enterprise Architecture is Helping NISSAN IT Transformation
  Celso Guitoko, Corporate Vice President and CIO, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
  
• The Transformed Enterprise
  Andy Mulholland, Global Chief Technology Officer, Capgemini
• Making Business Drive IT Transformation Through Enterprise Architecture
  Lauren C. States, Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Cloud Computing and Growth Initiatives, IBM Corporation

PARALLEL TRACKS

EA & Enterprise Transformation

(Hosted by Judith Jones, CEO, Architecting-the-Enterprise Ltd., UK)

• Establishing Value-Driven EA as the Enterprise Embarks on Transformation
  Madhav Naidu, Lead Enterprise Architect, Ciena Corporation, US
• Utilizing Architecture Methods to Solve Common IT Transformation Pitfalls
  Jonathan Gibson, Distinguished Technologist
  Jaye Hicks, DSE, HP Enterprise Services, Architects Office

EA & Business Innovation

• Enterprise Portfolio Management: The Strategic Role of EA in Enterprise Transformations
  Dan Belville, Senior Practice Director, Troux Technologies, US
• Building an Enterprise Architecture Practice Foundation for Enterprise Transformation Execution
  Frank Chen, Senior Manager & Principal Enterprise Architect, Cognizant, US

Business Innovation & Technological Disruption: The Challenges to EA

• Business Innovators Lead IT Innovation – What does this Mean for EA?
  Stuart Boardman, Senior Business Consultant, KPN Consulting, Netherlands
• Death of IT; Rise of the Machines
  Mans Bhuller, Senior Director, Oracle Corporation, US

Professional Development

• Enterprise Architecture Education & Research in the US: ROI, Value Measurement, and Best Practices for the Enterprise
  Brian Cameron, Executive Director, Center for Enterprise Architecture, Pennsylvania State University, US
• How to Improve Productivity of Highly Mobile and Global Architecture Groups – An IBM Case Study
  Mark Palmer, IBM Distinguished Engineer
  Gwen Murphy, Manager, IBM BT/CIO Enterprise Architecture & Governance Organization

Setting up a Successful EA Practice

• Implementing Capabilities within an Architecture Practice
  Mike Jacobs, Director & Principal Architect, OptumInsight
• Gaining and Retaining Stakeholder Buy-In: The Key to a Successful EA Practice
  Russ Gibfried, Enterprise Architect, CareFusion Corporation, US

Nature and Role of the Enterprise Architect

• Zen and the Art of Modern Enterprise Architecture – Rethinking the Mess
  Alan Hakimi, Senior Enterprise Architect, Enterprise Strategy Services, Microsoft
• The Virtual Enterprise Architecture Team
  Nicholas Hill, Infosys, US
  Musharaf Mughal, Director of EA, Manulife Financials, Canada

TOGAF® 9 Tutorials

• Extending the TOGAF® 9 Content Metamodel
  William Estrem, President, Metaplexity Associates LLC, US
  Marc Walker, Enterprise Architect & Analyst, BT
• TOGAF 9.1 Briefing – The Best Just Got (a Little Bit) Better
  Mike Lambert, CTO, Architecting-the-Enterprise Ltd., UK
• Latin America Enterprise Transformation with TOGAF®
  Leonardo Ramirez, EA Iberoamerica Practice Director, Dux Diligens, Colombia
• A Tangible Implementation of TOGAF® Building Blocks
  Kyle Gabhart, Director of Architecture, Architecture Mentors, A Division of Web Age Solutions, US

ArchiMate® Tutorials

• Successfully Implementing EA with TOGAF® and ArchiMate®
  Henry Franken, CEO, BiZZdesign, Netherlands
• Implementing ArchiMate with ACORD
  Iver Band, Enterprise Architect, Standard Insurance Co.
  Cliff Chaney, Senior Architect, ACORD

Dependability

• Open Systems Dependability: A New Approach to Attain Dependability of Ever-Changing Huge and Complex Software Systems
  Dr. Mario Tokoro, President, Sony R&D
• DEOS and D-Case for Open Systems Dependability
  Dr. Yutaka Matsuno, University of Tokyo
• PANEL DISCUSSION: DEOS/Open Systems Dependability
• Policy Enforcement Using a MILS™ Architecture
  Dylan McNamee, Galois, Inc.
• Assurance Cases/Templates/Patterns
  Ed Roberts, Elparazim

Tuesday January 31

Enterprise Transformation Keynote Presentations

• Enterprise Transformation and the Role of Open Standards
  Allen Brown, President & CEO, The Open Group
• Enterprise Transformation: An Architecture-Based Approach
  William Rouse, Executive Director, Tennenbaum Institute at Georgia Institute of Technology
• Case Study: Continuing Devon's EA Journey – Evolving Toward Innovation
  Tim Barnes, Chief Architect, Devon Energy
• What You're Up Against: Mobsters, Nation-States, and Blurry Lines
  Joseph Menn, Author and Cybersecurity Correspondent for the Financial Times
  

PARALLEL TRACKS

Business Architecture

• CONVERGENCE!! Business Architecture
  Shatender Singh and Madhav Madaboosi, BP Plc., US
• Business Architecture Profession and Case Studies
  Peter Haviland, Ernst & Young

Agile Enterprise Architecture

• An Agile Approach to Building an Enterprise Architecture for a Health Insurance Exchange
  Maharshi Desai, Director, Enterprise Architecture & Hamza Jahangir, Oracle Corporation, US
• Constructing the Architecture of an Agile Enterprise using the MSBI Method
  Nick Malik, Senior Principal Enterprise Architect, Microsoft Corporation, US

Sustainable Enterprise Architecture

• There's a SEA Change in your Future: How Sustainable EA Enables Business Success in Times of Disruptive Change
  Leo Laverdure & Alex Conn, Managing Partners, SBSA Partners, LLC, US
• Governance and the Sustainability of the EA Discipline
  Eric A. Stephens, Enterprise Architecture Director, Oracle Corporation, US
  

Security Architectures

• The Open Group Security Survey Results
  Jim Hietala, The Open Group
• Overview of TOGAF® and SABSA Integration White Paper
  Dave Hornford, Chair, Architecture Forum
  

Surviving Cyber

• Information Security in the Internet Age
  Steve Whitlock, Chief Security Strategist, Boeing
• PANEL: Strategies for Data Protection, Trusted Environments, Identity Entitlement & Access Management, Resilience, and Security Intelligence/Management
  Moderated by Ann Mezzapelle, HP Strategist, Security Services with: Chirantan “CJ” Desai, Senior VP, Endpoint and Mobility Group, Symantec; Alan Kessler, VP and GM Development, Security Research and Support Enterprise Security Products, HP; and Greg Brown, VP Product Marketing Network Security, McAfee
• Surviving Cyber Security
  Mary Ann Mezzapelle, HP Strategist, Security Services

Trusted Technology

• The Global Supply Chain: Presentation and Discussion on The Open Group Trusted Technology Forum and the Challenges of Protecting Products Against Counterfeit and Tampering
  Mary Ann Davidson, Chief Security Officer, Oracle Corporation
• Overview of the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative on Supply Chain Risk Management (CNCI-SCRM), with an Additional Focus on Counterfeiting
  Don Davidson, Chief, Outreach, Science & Standards (CNCI-SCRM)

SOA

• SOA: A Recipe for the Agile Enterprise
  Hans Schoebach, HDS Enterprise Consulting, Canada
• Assessing your SOA Maturity with OSIMM
  Heather Kreger, CTO of International Standards and Andras Szakal, Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, IBM
• Using TOGAF® to Define & Govern Service Oriented Architectures – A New Technical Guide
  Ed Harrington, Architecting-the-Enterprise, Ltd., US
• Workshop – The Realization of SOAs using the SOA Reference Architecture
  Nikhil Kumar, President, Applied Technology Solutions, Inc.
  Dr Ali Arsanjani, Distinguished Engineer, IBM

SOA Governance and Cloud Strategy

• SOA Governance – Thinking Beyond Services
  Jed Maczuba, Senior Manager, Accenture, US
• Enterprise Architecture Must Lead Cloud Strategy and Planning
  Mike Walker, Chief IP Architect, Enterprise Strategy & Architecture Organization, Microsoft

Dependability

• IT for Mega Disasters
  Dr Jane Liu, Institute of Information Science & Dr Chi-Sheng (Daniel) Shih, Taiwan University
• Securing Our eCity®
  Liz Fraumann, Director Cybersecurity Awareness and Education ESET, North America/Securing Our eCity®
• PANEL: IT for Mega Disasters/eCity®
• TOGAF® to the Platform
  Ed Roberts, Elparazim
• Open Systems Architecture and Data Rights
  Nicholas Guertin, Director for Open Architecture, US Navy – DASN (RDT&E)

Wednesday February 1

PARALLEL TRACKS

Architecting the Cloud

• Architecting a RESTful Cloud: The Key to Elasticity
  Jason Bloomberg, President, ZapThink
• Architecting for Information Security in a Cloud Environment
  David J. W. Gilmour, Metaplexity Associates, US
• Un-Architecture: How a Fortune 25 Company Solved the Greatest IT Problem
  Chris Lockhart, Independent Consultant, blogger
• A Pragmatic Approach to Cloud Computing
  Stephen Bennett, Senior Enterprise Architect, Oracle

Cloud Deployment

• Measuring the Business Performance of Cloud Products
  Penelope Gordon, 1Plug Corporation, US
• EA and Cloud Computing – Taking Strategy to the Clouds
  Roberto Coelho, Chair, AEA Brazil Chapter

Cloud Portability and Interoperability

• The Benefits, Challenges, and Survey of Cloud Computing Interoperability and Portability
  Mark Skilton, Capgemini, US
  Kapil Bakshi, Cisco, US
  Chris Harding, The Open Group
• PANEL: Cloud Portability and Interoperability

ArchiMate®

• ArchiMate® 2: The New Version of The Open Group Modeling Language for Enterprise Architecture
  Henry Franken, BiZZdesign
• Standardization of Processes Using ArchiMate® and TOGAF®
  Dario Vargas, Research & Chief Enterprise Architect, Unycorp, Mexico

Architecture Methods and Techniques

• Effective Lightweight Approach to Enterprise Architecture Governance
  Ken Street, Knowledge Management Architect & Consultant, Conexiam Solutions, Inc.
• Exploring the White Space Between the ADM Phases F&G
  Steve Else, CEO, EA Principals, Inc., US
• Investigative Architecture: Understanding Systems in a Business Context
  Dan Hughes, Principal Architect/Practice Lead, Systems Flow, Inc., US

Enterprise IT Architecture

• Normalization: The Foundation for Effective Enterprise Architecture
  Walker White, CTO, BDNA, US
• The Enterprise Architecture – Solution Architecture Gulf
  Vish Viswanathan, CC&C Solutions Pty. Ltd., Sydney, Australia

EA and Business Strategy

• Capability-Driven IT Strategy
  William M. Sheleg, Senior Manager, Deloitte Consulting, US
• Integrating Enterprise Architecture into Business Planning
  Robert Weisman, CEO, Build the Vision, Inc., Canada
• Business-IT Alignment through Business Architecture
  Brian Cameron, Executive Director, Center for EA, Penn. State University
  Jeff Scott, VP, Business & Technology Strategy, Accelare
• Strategic Alignment of Business and IT
  Brian Cameron, Executive Director, Center for EA, Penn. State University
  Jeff Scott, VP, Business & Technology Strategy, Accelare

TOGAF® 9 Case Studies

• A Practical Use of TOGAF® in Enterprise Architecture for the Energy Services Industry
  Pradipa Karbhari, Director – SOA and Business Integration, Sogeti, US
• Case Study: Setting up an EA Function Based on TOGAF® 9 at Bank of Costa Rica
  Sonia Gonzalez, Enterprise Architect, Bank of Costa Rica, Costa Rica

TOGAF® 9 Camp

• TOGAF® 9 Camp

Outputs

The presentations, tutorials, and workshops at the conference, and the associated discussions and panel sessions, all provided participants with a wealth of experience-based insight into current best practice in architecture, security, and cloud computing, from leading experts and practitioners around the world.

Next Steps

The next Open Group Conference will be held in Cannes, France, April 23-27, 2012.

If you are interested in presenting at future Open Group Conferences, then please submit a Presentation Proposal.

Links

• More about The Open Group SOA Work Group
• More about The Open Group Cloud Computing Work Group
• More about The Open Group Architecture Forum
• More about The Open Group Security Forum
• More about TOGAF®
• More about TOGAF® Certification
• More about The Open Group Certified Architect (Open CA) Program (formerly ITAC)
• More about The Open Group Certified IT Specialist (Open CITS) Program (formerly ITSC)
• More about The Association of Enterprise Architects (AEA)