PAST EVENTS

9:00am-10:00am: Building and Evolving a Customer Facing Business Solution

John Bartucci, VP, Connected Products, Master Lock

The collision of cloud, mobile, network and IOT technologies over the past several years has enabled older, very established companies to reinvent themselves for the 21st century. The merging of the physical and digital worlds comes with a unique set of challenges requiring successful companies to carefully navigate technology solutions, gain internal alignment and deliver to external customers.

In this session you will learn:

• Why It’s Important to Know Where You’re Going
• Why Brand is Critical
• Effectiveness Before Alignment
• Partner Ecosystem
• How Communicating Vision Enables Future Success
• Why the One True Way…Does Not Work

Bartucci

10:00am-10:30am: Refreshment Break

10:30am-11:30am: Fireside Chat: Building an Enterprise Architecture to Support 10x Growth 

Mani Gunasekaran, VP of Product Engineering, KeHE Distributors

Gunasekaran

11:30am-12:30pm: The Evolution of Low-Code

Zach Bastarache, Enterprise Consultant, Truewind

Bastarache

12:30pm-1:30pm: Lunch Break

1:30pm-2:30pm: How Enterprise Architects Can Identify and Optimize IT Resources to Focus Investments on Innovation and What Matters Most

Andrea Bach, Sr. Engineer, LeanIX

Enterprise Architecture (EA) practices have been around for decades – still, many companies still struggle to generate value with their EA practices. Based on LeanIX’s experience with over 650 EA journeys and partnerships with their customers, Andrea will share must do’s when starting (in most cases “restarting”) your EA practice. These insights will give you tangible ideas how to get off the starting block faster as well as how to generate continuous value with your EA practice.

Bach

2:30pm-3:00pm: Refreshment Break

3:00pm-4:00pm: How PMO and EA Work Together to Produce More Value

Claude Scher, Program Manager, Veolia North America

Scher

4:00pm-5:00 pm: 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?

Moderator: Phil Smith, Sales Director-Midwest, Puppet by Perforce

Panelists include:

• Faisal Ghauri, Vice President Information Technology, National Association of REALTORS
• Patrick Kinard, Senior Server Enterprise Operations Manager, Chicago Public Schools
• Justin McDermott, VP of IT Strategy and Special Projects, Wintrust Financial
• David Swierzynski, Vice President of Business Solutions Architecture, Gallagher Bassett Services
• Pratik Kulkarni, Director of Information Systems, CSI 3000
• Karthik Kandamuri, Enterprise Architecture Director, AbbVie

Smith                            Ghauri                       Kinard                 McDermott           Swierzynski          Kulkarni           Kandamuri

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