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Enterprise Architecture Strategies

Conference Chair: Randy Wimmer, IT Portfolio Manager, Walgreens

 

Wimmer

 

Strategies to design and build and business driven Enterprise Architecture

 

November 6-7, 2019

 

8:30am-5:00pm

 

14 CPE / 1.4 CEU / CISSP / 14 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?

 

Topics That Will Be Discussed

 

In this two day conference attendees will learn:

  • Building a World Class Enterprise Architecture
  • Enterprise Architecture In The Digital Landscape: The 5 Components Of Digital Strategy
  • Effectively Translating Business Requirements Into Technological Architecture Roadmaps
  • Owning “The What” – The Responsibilities Of Architects In A Digital Transformation
  • Machine Learning by Example: How to Use ML in Your Business
  • The Role of Business Architecture in Enterprise Architecture
  • The Enterprise Architect as the Role of the Pilot in Digital Transformation
  • What We Learned from our Cloud Migration
  • Employing TOGAF When Moving Away From a Traditional On-Premise Solution and Into the Cloud
  • I Was Promised I Could Put 70% of My Workloads in the Cloud….. Now what?
  • How to Modernize Your Architecture
  • Architectures for Advanced Data Analytics
  • Cultivating Business Capabilities To Weave EA Effectively Across The Business As A Value Added Service
  • Driving Innovation Through Enterprise Architecture

Early Confirmed Speakers from IT Organizations Include:

  • Michael Sisto, Sr. Infrastructure Architect, U.S. Cellular
  • Seth Morrell, Vice President – Innovation and Strategy, SynchroNet; former VP Enterprise Architecture & Design, HUB International
  • Anoop Verma, Leader, Custom Software & Emerging Technologies / IT Applications, Joint Commission
  • Peter Chen, Director, Enterprise Architecture, Stericycle
  • Qamber Mehdi, Director of DevOps & Cybersecurity, DAIS Technology
  • Dave Swierzynski, Vice President of Business Solutions Architecture, Gallagher Bassett

Conference Price: $499.00 per person

 

Each attendee will receive a certificate awarding 14 CPE credits for CISSP continuing education, in addition to 1.4 CEUs and 14 PDUs. CISSP is a registered certification mark of (ISC)², Inc.

Day 1
8:30am-9:20amGetting EA a seat at the C-Level Table

Gordon Cooper, Head of Customer Success, North Mega; Former VP Technology Risk/EA, AIG
9:20am-10:10am
How to Modernize Your Architecture

Akbar Sheik, Director, Application Modernization, Hitachi Vantara
10:10am-10:40am
Refreshment Break
10:40am-11:30amExplore the Business Impact of Latency in Applications

Joe Sherwin, Senior Solution Architect, Hazelcast
11:30am-12:20pm
Cloud First Strategies – How to Build a Business Driven Architecture

Moderator:
Brad Peterson, VP Marketing, Workspot
Panelists:
Qamber Mehdi, Director of DevOps & Cybersecurity, DAIS Technology
Dave Swierzynski, Vice President of Business Solutions Architecture, Gallagher Bassett
Seth Morrell, Vice President - Innovation and Strategy, SynchroNet; former VP Enterprise Architecture & Design, HUB International
and other CIOs/Chief Enterprise Architects sharing experiences and lessons learned
12:20pm-1:20pm
Lunch
1:20pm-2:10pmUse Case of EA Safeguarding Digital Transformation

Peter Chen, Director, Enterprise Architecture, Stericycle
2:10pm-2:40pm
Refreshment Break
2:40pm-3:30pm
Building an AWS Data Pipeline by Example

Patrick Ryan, Executive Vice President, Emerging Technologies, SPR Consulting
Kevin Young, Associate Cloud Consultant, SPR Consulting
3:30pm-4:30pmSecurity Architecture – In a Post VPN Landscape

Michael Tremante, Solutions Engineer, Cloudflare




Day 2
8:30am-9:30amWhat We Learned from our Cloud Migration

Seth Morrell, Vice President - Innovation and Strategy, SynchroNet; former VP Enterprise Architecture & Design, HUB International
9:30am-10:30amCloud Security Strategies

Anoop Verma, Leader, Custom Software & Emerging Technologies / IT Applications, Joint Commission
10:30am-10:45am
Networking Break
10:45am-11:45amTopGrading your Enterprise Architecture PowerPoint Presentations Utilizing Horizontal and Vertical Logic

Michael Sisto, Sr. Infrastructure Architect, U.S. Cellular
11:45am-12:45pm
Financial Outcomes of a Cloud Migration Journey

Annur Sumar, Chief Technology Officer, MaeTech
12:45pm-1:45pm
Lunch

DAY 1 SCHEDULE

8:00am – 8:30am: Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30am-9:20am: Getting EA a seat at the C-Level Table

 

Gordon Cooper, Head of Customer Success, North Mega; Former VP Technology Risk/EA, AIG

 

As the competition to attract customers becomes more intense, companies need to quickly increase the pace of innovation, putting them in a constant race to make the enterprise more agile, productive and efficient. According to Gartner, 70% of companies are restarting or renewing their Enterprise Architecture efforts. They are moving from a traditional EA role of building and documenting models, definitions, maps which have traditionally resulted in low value; to a more modern approach that focuses on business outcomes that result in high value. Gordon will share strategies and real world examples of how EA has gotten a seat at the C-Level table by moving their enterprise architecture efforts from noisy to useful to trusted to influential.

 


Cooper

9:20am-10:10am:  How to Modernize Your Architecture

 

Akbar Sheik, Director, Application Modernization, Hitachi Vantara

 

 

 


Sheik

10:10am -10:40am: Refreshment Break

10:40am-11:30am: Explore the Business Impact of Latency in Applications 

 

Joe Sherwin, Senior Solution Architect, Hazelcast

 

Low latency is a gateway for the next generation of computing (aka data processing) and creating applications that were previously unimaginable.

 

Applications which incorporated AI construct, operate at the edge of the network, processing data in real time.

 

In this talk, we will discuss:

  • Application architecture for reducing Application Latency.
  • The business impact of latency in applications.

 


Schwin

11:30am-12:20pm: Cloud First Strategies – How to Build a Business Driven Architecture

 

Moderator:
Brad Peterson, VP Marketing, Workspot

Panelists:
Qamber Mehdi, Director of DevOps & Cybersecurity, DAIS Technology
Dave Swierzynski, Vice President of Business Solutions Architecture, Gallagher Bassett
Seth Morrell, Vice President – Innovation and Strategy, SynchroNet; former VP Enterprise Architecture & Design, HUB International
and other CIOs/Chief Enterprise Architects sharing experiences and lessons learned

 

 

 

                
Mehdi        Swierzynski   Morrell         Peterson

12:20pm – 1:20pm Luncheon

1:20pm-2:10pm: Use Case of EA Safeguarding Digital Transformation

 

Peter Chen, Director, Enterprise Architecture, Stericycle

 

Background:

  • Engaging the stakeholders, on “What to do, what not to do. What can be done better…”
  • EA worked through hurdles reaching for “repeatable” and “defined” process maturity levels
  • Enable and safeguard the ongoing digital transformation

 

Approach:

  • Define, simplify, and continuous improvement of existing EA processes, to streamline planning to execution
  • Prioritize business requirement, and architecture capabilities to deliver business outcome
  • Build and publicize EA artifacts, based on organizational and leadership strategy and vision
  • Create, Manage, and Govern the architecture roadmap. Facilitate architecture collaborations across disciplines

 


Chen

2:10pm – 2:40pm: Refreshment Break

2:40pm-3:30pm: Building an AWS Data Pipeline by Example

 

Patrick Ryan, Executive Vice President, Emerging Technologies, SPR Consulting
Kevin Young, Associate Cloud Consultant, SPR Consulting

 

Imagine you wake up tomorrow, and its 2025. By this time, 75% of the global population will be connected and interacting with data, and 49% of the world’s stored data will reside in the public cloud environment. By 2025, each connected person will have at least one data interaction every 18 seconds. Understanding how to create cloud-based data pipelines will be vital for any business. This presentation will demonstrate how to create a data pipeline with AWS Services from the ground up and show an example of ingesting data all the way to data visualization.

 

     
Ryan           Young

3:30pm-4:30pm: Security Architecture – In a Post VPN Landscape

 

Michael Tremante, Solutions Engineer, Cloudflare

 

What will be covered:

  • History of VPN as a security tool
  • VPNs transitioning from security tool to significant risk to an organization
  • Cloudflare’s journey deprecating our VPN
  • Zero trust solutions and how those address the security risk

 


Tremante

DAY 2 SCHEDULE

8:00am – 8:30am: Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30am-9:30am: What We Learned from our Cloud Migration

 

Seth Morrell, Vice President – Innovation and Strategy, SynchroNet; former VP Enterprise Architecture & Design, HUB International

 

This session will be a mix of practices based on experience and lessons learned, along with considerations that organizations and architects should reflect upon before, during, after, and ongoing when it comes to a cloud transformation and transition.

 

After this session, participants will be able to have handle on many of the architectural and technical considerations of a cloud transformation and transition, but an understanding of the “little things” that make a big difference.

 


Morrell

9:30am-10:30am:  Cloud Security Strategy with Machine Learning Use Case

 

Anoop Verma, Leader, Custom Software & Emerging Technologies / IT Applications, Joint Commission

 

While cloud enables organization to innovate at a dramatic pace, it also increase information security and privacy risk. Strong architecture discipline and enterprise perspective is critical for a successful security posture.

 

In this session, the participants will have take away strategy and approach to:

  • An integrated strategy
  • A comprehensive strategy, architecture, and solution
  • An enterprise perspective
  • With a use case of Machine Learning architecture

 

 


Verma

10:30am -10:45am: Networking Break

10:45am-11:45am: TopGrading your Enterprise Architecture PowerPoint Presentations Utilizing Horizontal and Vertical Logic

 

Michael Sisto, Sr. Infrastructure Architect, U.S. Cellular

 

In this CAMP IT Session you will learn some emerging communication best practices of how to present with excellence utilizing higher level thinking skills focused on analysis, synthesis and evaluative recommendations.

 


Sisto

11:45am-12:45pm: Financial Outcomes of a Cloud Migration Journey

 

Annur Sumar, Chief Technology Officer, MaeTech

 

 


Sumar

12:45pm – 1:45pm Luncheon

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