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Enterprise Architecture – Strategies That Enable Technology Trends: Chicago (Rosemont/O’Hare)

For businesses to adopt cloud computing in a way that aligns with their business strategy, enterprise architecture (EA) is an absolute necessity.

September 12, 2024

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

For businesses to adopt cloud computing in a way that aligns with their business strategy, enterprise architecture (EA) is an absolute necessity.


What You Will Learn

In this two day conference, content that will be covered includes:

  • Putting Data at the Center of Your Enterprise Architecture
  • How to Modernize Your Architecture
  • Top Architecture Considerations for Highly Innovative Organizations (Fireside Chat)
  • Enterprise Architecture Strategies: Optimizing Applied Gen AI across Foundations, Methods and Use Cases
  • How to Evaluate New Technologies for Your Enterprise Architecture (Fireside Chat Panel)
  • Creating a Value Proposition for a Business Outcome Driven EA Program (Panel Discussion)

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 AGENDA


8:00am – 9:00am: Registration and Continental Breakfast


9:00am – 10:00am: Top Architecture Considerations for Highly Innovative Organizations (Fireside Chat)

Jerry Pancini, Vice President Information Technology, School Health Corporation

Your application architecture will make or break digital transformation efforts critical to innovation. As technology executives, we know we can’t simply start over, we have to leverage existing systems while transitioning to a cloud-native architecture. In this session, we will discuss five architecture considerations necessary to overcome digital complexity while mitigating cost, compliance and other major concerns.

Pancini


10:00am – 10:30am: Refreshment & Exhibit Break


10:30am – 11:30am: Putting Data at the Center of Your Enterprise Architecture

Tracey Barrett, SVP of Products & Services, nvisia

In most organizations, app dev and data groups are completely siloed from each other.  Transactional data is extracted from operational systems and that’s where the collaboration  ends. In an AI-enabled world, applications need access to cleansed and augmented data from across the entire enterprise. This talk will focus on the new strategies companies are using to make their data more available to the organization for real-time use.


11:30am – 12:30pm: How to Evaluate New Technologies for Your Enterprise Architecture (Fireside Chat Panel)

When evaluating new technologies for enterprise architecture, you can consider factors such as:

  • Alignment with business
    • Collaborate with business leaders to understand their goals and objectives, and develop a roadmap for using technology effectively
  • Application dependencies
    • Analyze how changes to your technology strategy will impact your complex IT infrastructure
  • Business capability maps
      • Develop maps that show what your business is currently doing and what it needs to do to implement its strategy
  • Business outcomes
    • Focus on initiatives that directly contribute to achieving strategic business outcomes
  • Collaboration
    • Prioritize continuous collaboration, especially between business functions and IT
  • Impact analysis
    • Assess IT investment by connecting technology spend to business impact
  • Lean approach
    • Apply lean principles to focus on what delivers the most value with the least effort
  • Objectives
    • Define specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART) objectives that outline how the technology will contribute to your business.

Moderated by: Ryan Shober, RSM, SnapLogic

  • Sujan Gautam, Technical Architecture Manager, Enterprise Architecture, Discover Financial Services
  • Dmitry Moiseev, Sr. Director of Engineering, Cambium Networks
  • Rustum Virani, Sr. Director of Cloud Systems, ZS
  • Aaron Wakefield, Vice President, Data and Digital Technology, Kuvare

       

Gautam                Moiseev                Virani                Wakefield


12:30pm – 1:30pm: Lunch & Exhibit Break


1:30pm – 2:30pm: How to Modernize Your Enterprise Architecture (Breakout Session)

In this session, attendees will break out into groups and brainstorm solutions to topics such as:

  • Adopting Microservices and Containerization
  • Implementing DevOps and CI/CD Pipelines
  • Ensuring Security and Compliance in a Modern Architecture
  • …and more!

2:30pm – 3:00pm: Refreshment & Exhibit Break


3:00pm – 4:00pm: Enterprise Architecture Strategies: Optimizing Gen AI across Foundations, Methods and Use Cases

Lee Bogner, Global Gen AI Architecture & Data Platform DevOps Leader , Mars, Inc.

 


4:00pm – 5:00pm: Creating a Value Proposition for a Business Outcome Driven EA Program (Panel Discussion)

Many enterprises are either starting, restarting, refocusing, or rebuilding their EA program. But how do you ensure that your EA program is business driven? How do you successfully develop and sell a value proposition to their organization?

Moderated by: Brenda Cowie, Sr. Vice President Strategic Growth, Orbus Software

 

Panelists include:

  • Judson Bender, Enterprise Architecture Director, OneAmerica Financial
  • Vijay Mandava, Sr. Director Enterprise Architecture, Data Analytics and AI, Colibri Group
  • Justin McDermott, VP IT Strategy and Enterprise Architecture, Wintrust Financial Corporation

   

Cowie                        Bender             Mandava                 McDermott

 


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 SPONSORS