Ottawa 2017: Proceedings - Plenary

Making Standards Work® – e-Government

This event took place at the Shaw Centre, Ottawa.

Each day of the event included a mix of plenary presentations and a set of parallel tracks examining specific areas in depth.

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

Click here for the event Agenda where you will find synopses of the presentations.

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Monday, July 17, 2017

PLENARY

Case Study: How Agile EA Delivered Value in 7-Week Sprints
David Hornford, Managing Partner, Conexiam; and
Murali (Kris) Venkatesh, Director, Enterprise Architecture, CSC
Getting Government to Innovate and Transform
Robert Weisman, CEO & President, Build the Vision

Flaw of Averages: Why We Underestimate Risk in the Face of Uncertainty
Sam Savage, Executive Director, ProbabilityManagement.org; and
Marc Thibault, Project Planner, Systems Analyst, Modeler, Software Designer

TRACKS

e-Government

Canadian Federal Geospatial Platform – Leveraging Open Standards to Achieve Objectives
Bilyana Anicic, President & Principal Consultant, Aurora Consulting Corporation, Canada; and
Andrew Moore, Project Lead, Federal Geospatial Platform Initiative, Natural Resources Canada, Government of Canada
Uruguayan e-Government Architecture: Tip of the Iceberg
Laura Rodríguez Mendaro, Chief Architect, AGESIC – Uruguayan Government Agency for e-Government and Information Society

IT4IT™ in Practice

Transforming the Business of IT at Nationwide
Michael Fulton, Associate VP, IT Strategy & Innovation, Nationwide Mutual Assurance
IT4IT™ Leveraged by Business Capabilities Mapping
Ed Carmo, CTO, EAC BT & AooP
Taking your Own Medicine: An IT4IT™ Case Study
Lars Rossen, Fellow, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise
IT is too Important to Leave to IT
Mark Smalley, IT Paradigmologist, ASL BiSL, Foundation & APMG – International

Digital Transformation

Tuesday, July 18, 2017

PLENARY

European Interoperability Reference Architecture (EIRA) – State of Play
Raul Mario Abril Jimenez, Programme Manager – EU Policies, European Commission
NATO Architecture Framework, a Standard for Developing Enterprise Architectures
Kevin Wallis, Chief Architect, UK MoD
Providing Improved Capabilities to the Warfighter Faster through Reuse of Avionics Software
Terry Carlson, CIO/G-6, Chief Software Architect, PEO Aviation
Preparing for the Inevitable Cyber Disruption – Response Planning
Eric Sweden, Program Director, Enterprise Architecture & Governance, NASCIO

Workshop: Architecture Frameworks

Harmonizing Architecture Frameworks: NATO, UAF, TOGAF®, & FACE™
Facilitated by: David Lounsbury, Chief Technical Officer & Vice President, Services, The Open Group
Workshop Leader: Konstandin Ristani, Canadian Representative NATO Architecture Team/Senior Enterprise Architect Defence (Canadian) Directorate of Enterprise Architecture/DG Cyber
Speakers: Robert Weisman, CEO & President, Build the Vision;
Kevin Wallis, Chief Architect, UK MoD;
Lori MacRae, Staff Officer, NATO HQ; and
Steven Davidson, Director, Product Development & Open Systems Architecture, Raytheon

TRACKS

EA in Government

Business Architecture-Driven Risk-Based Audit Plan
Dean Shivji, Senior Advisor, Professional Practices, Employment and Social Development Canada; and
Stephanie Armstrong, Senior Consultant, MNP LLP
Toolkit for Starting the Client-Driven Government Service Transformation
Lily Au, Technical Advisor (Enterprise Architecture), Business Architect, Transport Canada

Open Process Automation™ – Session 1

Enterprise-Control System Integration Best Practices using the ISA-95/IEC 62264 Standard
Dave Emerson, Director, Yokogawa
Industry Collaboration in Developing Hardware Standards
Mark Grovak, Director of Avionics Business Development, Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions; and
Ivan Straznicky, Technical Fellow, Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions

Security and Risk Management

Security and the Internet of Things
Tony Carrato, Solution Architect, IBM Watson IoT; and
Jeff Katz, Chief Technology Officer, IBM Energy and Utilities Industry
Next Generation Auditing: Cyber Secured Business Assurance
Philip Elsas, R&D Director, Red Canari Information Security

Open Process Automation™ – Session 2

OPC-UA and Companion Specifications for Industry-Specific Deep Domain Knowledge
Dennis Brandl, Chief Consultant, BR&L Consulting
Merck IoT Platform for Predictive Analytics
Eugene Tung, Director of IT, Merck & Co.; and
Nitin Kaul, Associate Director of IT Architecture, Merck & Co. Inc.

Wednesday, July 19, 2017

TRACKS

Architecture Reference Models

Re-Emergence of Governments of Canada Strategic Reference Model (GSRM)
Neil Kemp, Independent Consultant/Enterprise Architect, most recently at Canada Treasury Board Secretariat; and
Gary Doucet, VP Practices & Chief Architect, D4iS Solutions
Mining in the 4th Industrial Revolution – The Role of the EMMM Architecture Reference Model
Roy Irvine, Forum Director, EMMM Forum, Real IRM

Open Platform 3.0™

Where Open Source Meets Open Standards
Mandy Chessell, Distinguished Engineer, IBM
Cloud Customer Reference Architecture for e-Commerce
Gopal Indurkhya, Executive IT Architect (IBM Cloud), IBM
The Open Business Data Lake (O-BDL) Standard Explained
Theo Elzinga, Enterprise Architect, Capgemini
Using the Open Business Data Lake Standard
Ken Street, Enterprise Architect, Conexiam

EA Practice

An Architecture of a Profession of Enterprise Architecture
Leonard Fehskens, Chief Editor, Journal of Enterprise Architecture, Association of Enterprise Architects