Enterprise Architecture Strategies
Strategies to design and build a business driven Enterprise Architecture.
March 5, 2020
9:00am-5:00pm
7 CPE / 0.7 CEU / CISSP / 7 PDU Credits Awarded
Conference location: Donald E. Stephens Convention Center Rosemont (O’Hare) Illinois
Overview
Every decade we see massive changes in the IT industry. In the 80s we saw desktop computing flourish, and progressed to a client server model in the 90s. Mobile computing grew quickly in 2000 and beyond. 2017 presents a variety of technologies that may deliver IT efficiencies on a grand scale. Technologies and trends such as AI and Advanced Machine Learning, Intelligent Apps, Intelligent Things, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Digital Twin, Blockchain and Distributed Ledgers, Conversational System, Mesh App and Service Architecture, Digital Technology Platforms, Adaptive Security Architecture., and others may be game changers. How will you capitalize on these technologies, but more importantly how will your Enterprise Architecture embrace the digital world to support all the changes?
What You Will Learn
In this one day conference attendees will learn:
- Enterprise Architecture Enabling Digital Business Transformation
- Moving Away from the Legacy Approach of Reactive Decision Making to Business Driven EA Strategy
- Technical Architecture: Containers, Kubernetes and Microservices
- Digitally Transform Your Customer Engagement Channels: A Journey That Starts with Enterprise Architecture
- EA Governance, Projects Management and Continuous Improvement – How to get it right?
- Cloud Services and Business Alignment: How to Gain Build Commitment And Engagement For Change
- Creating a Value Proposition for a Business-Outcome-Driven EA Program
Conference Price: $299.00 per person
Each attendee will receive a certificate awarding 7 CPE credits for CISSP continuing education, in addition to 0.7 CEUs and 7 PDUs. CISSP is a registered certification mark of (ISC)², Inc.
Conference Program
8:00am – 9:00am: Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00am-10:00am: Enterprise Architecture Enabling Digital Business Transformation
Dean Sharp, Global Network Architect, Manpower
Enterprise Architecture (EA) is the technical framework of an enterprise but it also transcends technology and integrates with the business. Therefore, the discussion and implementation of EA needs to done in an integrated, holistic manner. An integrated EA (business and technical) can provide the necessary support for a business transformation that makes the business ready for the variety of business and technological challenges it will face. For example, technologies such Big Data, mobile and cloud computing are all highly disruptive technologies that require a fine balance between their business and technical aspects as the organization moves forward.
In this session, attendees will learn how to they need to reinvent and/or refine their EA to embrace a digital transformation.
Content that will be covered:
- How to drive business agility
- An agile approach to drive business agility
- How to pull together Cloud, mobile, Agile development, and DevOps to drive rapid product development
Sharp
10:00am -10:30am: Refreshment Break
10:30am-11:30am: Moving Away from the Legacy Approach of Reactive Decision Making to Business Driven EA Strategy
Tim Hard, Senior Sales Engineer, Splunk Inc.
- The Legacy Approach: Build for what we don’t know and can’t understand
- How do we stop doing what we’ve always done and figure out how to not do it again?
- Bringing the Business and IT together : Where our commonalities are more valuable than our differences
- Predict, Prevent, Prove – Value that aligns back to the Business
Hard
11:30am-12:20pm: Technical Architecture: Containers, Kubernetes and Microservices
Jenny Fong, VP of Marketing, Diamanti
Containers enable the transition to a service-based architecture, which is scalable and agile. Kubernetes has emerged as the de facto standard for orchestrating these services.
This session will look at the business value of deploying microservices infrastructure.
Fong
12:30pm – 1:30pm Luncheon
1:30pm-2:30pm: EA Governance, Projects Management and Continuous Improvement – How to get it right?
Heidi Waterhouse, Senior Developer Advocate, LaunchDarkly
Have you ever wondered if there is a better way to deliver projects while keeping PMO, Enterprise Architecture, Continuous Improvement and Business Relationship teams happy? If so, join this session for some practical ideas on how to make it happen.
Waterhouse
2:30pm – 3:00pm: Refreshment Break
3:00pm-4:00pm: Cloud Services and Business Alignment: How to Gain Build Commitment And Engagement For Change
Annur Sumar, Chief Technology Officer, MaeTech
Real change is dependent on engaging colleagues and creating alignment. EAs can help drive change and foster engagement using tools that build the appetite for change, encourage ownership, and break through silos.
Sumar
4:00pm-5:00pm: Creating a Value Proposition for a Business-Outcome-Driven EA Program
Moderator:
Steve Shelton, RSM, Vertica
Panelists:
Sergey Chernov, VP, Information Technology & Enterprise Architecture, Ensono
Prashanth Yadagiri, IT Systems Architect, IT Global Compute & Cloud Services, Alight Solutions
Rajesh Thyagarajan, Manager, Enterprise Application Architecture & Solution Architecture, Cummins Enterprise Architecture
Kaushik Dutta, IT Enterprise Architect, Motorola Solutions
and other Enterprise Architecture Executives
Many enterprises are either starting, restarting, refocusing or rebuilding their EA program. But how do you insure that your EA program is business driven? How do you successfully develop and sell a value proposition to their organization?
In this session, attendees will learn from senior level enterprise architects:
- Why it’s important to create a value proposition
- What you should include in the value proposition
- How should sell the value prop
Chernov Yadagiri Thyagarajan Dutta Shelton
Conference Price: $299.00 per person
Each attendee will receive a certificate awarding 7 CPE credits for CISSP continuing education, in addition to 0.7 CEUs and 7 PDUs. CISSP is a registered certification mark of (ISC)², Inc.
Exhibits
As is always the case at CAMP IT Conferences events, the talks will not include product presentations. During the continental breakfast, coffee breaks, and the luncheon break you will have the opportunity to informally meet representatives from the following sponsoring companies, who have solutions in the area of the conference.
CONFERENCE CO-SPONSORS
