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

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

November 16, 2023

9:00am-10:00pm

7 CPE / 0.7 CEU / CISSP / 7 PDU Credits Awarded

Conference location: Donald E. Stephens Convention Center Rosemont (O’Hare) Illinois

Overview

In today’s highly regulatory environment it is essential that you have a clear understanding of risk across the enterprise. A risk management framework can bring visibility to key business and compliance risks and enable a company to make decisions on where to prioritize its limited resources. It is through a risk management framework that real value to the business can be achieved.

With all of these challenges, how do you make this happen?

In this one day conference, attendees will be provided with examples of approaches to managing information and compliance risk through a risk management framework.

What You Will Learn

In this one day conference attendees, we will cover:

  • Enterprise Architecture – Optimizing Application Performance for Enterprise Cloud Cost Efficiency
  • Architecture Strategies for Accelerating Development in a Rapidly Changing World
  • Future Developer Experience Using Gen AI
  • Continuous Transformation, Enterprise Architecture, and Strategies for Success
  • Making (Gen)AI Practical
  • Taking a People First Approach to Digital Transformation
  • 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 – 9:50am: Taking a People First Approach to Digital Transformation

Grant Ecker, VP, Chief Architect & Executive Coach, Danaher Corporation

In this session, attendees will learn the following:

  • Codifying the change with knowledge and expertise while deepening our connection along the way
  • Leverage Architecture to help organizations codify and sustain their digital transformations
  • Build consistent structure & sustained collaboration to break down barriers
  • Map strategy to trends within architecture design teams to keep pace with relevant innovation

Ecker

9:50am – 10:20am: Refreshment & Exhibit Break

10:20am – 11:10am: Continuous Transformation, Enterprise Architecture, and Strategies for Success

Jason Taylor, Principal Enterprise Architect, LeanIX

As market dynamics force organizations down the path of continuous transformation what does it mean for Enterprise Architecture? If there is a belief that the benefits of Enterprise Architecture are clear then why do many organizations struggle to implement a successful Architecture Practice? We will discuss these topics as well as cover strategies to help you lead and promote successful EA in your organization.

 

Taylor

11:10am – 12:00pm: Future Developer Experience Using Gen AI

Pradeep Batchu, Director, Enterprise Architecture, CNA Insurance

In the evolving landscape of software development, the future developer experience is poised for a radical transformation. Developers will transition into expert prompt engineers, skillfully collaborating with AI to enhance productivity. The emergence of on-demand workspaces will revolutionize development environments, offering cloud-based solutions that foster collaboration and facilitate remote work. Alongside these technological advancements, the human element remains integral. Developers must hone soft skills like communication and problem-solving while embracing continuous learning to adapt to these changes. The integration of AI in automating mundane tasks, combined with innovations like quantum and edge computing, will redefine software engineering, opening up exciting new possibilities and challenges for developers in the future.

Batchu

12:00pm – 12:40pm: Lunch & Exhibit Break

12:40pm – 1:30pm: Enterprise Architecture – Optimizing Application Performance for Enterprise Cloud Cost Efficiency

Jay Patel, Senior Engineer, Azul

 

In an era where doing more with less is the new status quo, optimizing our IT spend without compromising security, stability and scalability is key to survival. Let’s talk about optimizations that may be hiding in legacy systems, how performance improvements can be measured as cost saving and how some of the exciting new architectures may not be the best fit for your business.

In this session, we’ll look at how companies are avoiding a potentially very costly land mine and using a faster, more efficient, and more scalable Java runtime to solve challenges – including:

  • A new way to measure – ‘Carrying capacity (throughput under SLA)’
  • Performance tuning in a CICD environment; and
  • Improving microsecond performance with concurrent GC

Learn how leading IT teams are succeeding in dealing with a tough budgetary environment and the need for high-performance applications.

Join us to learn practical tips in using optimized Java virtual runtimes for better performance and reduced total infrastructure costs.

 

Patel

1:30pm – 2:20pm:  Architecture Strategies for Accelerating Development in a Rapidly Changing World

Rashid Mohammad, Enterprise Architect, Fitch Group

In this session, we will cover:

  1. Microservice Orchestration with Kubernetes
  2. Event-Driven Architecture with Kafka
  3. Generative AI

Mohammad

2:20pm – 2:50pm: Refreshment & Exhibit Break

2:50pm – 3:40pm: Making (Gen)AI Practical

Michael Bachman, Head of Research Architecture and AI Strategy, Boomi

Nearly every organization wants to use AI — but the path to adoption isn’t always clear. To move from AI-curious to AI-infused, you need to first become AI-ready. That requires creating processes and pipelines that feed AI the proper data. To get it right, you have to understand your processes.

Join Bachman to learn about the good and bad processes that feed AI systems.

In this session, we will:

  • Discuss what it takes to be AI Ready
  • Provide an introduction to context pipelines and action pipelines and making gen AI practical with use case examples
  • Discuss Automating Manual Processes

Bachman

3:40pm – 4:30pm: 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 Ryan Shober, Great Lakes Regional Lead, SnapLogic

Panelists include:

  • Anand Ramakrishnan, Director – Enterprise Architecture and Data Engineering, Rotary International
  • Daniel Pumphrey, Sr. Director, Enterprise Domain Security Architect, Teradata
  • Justin McDermott, VP of IT Strategy and Special Projects, Wintrust Financial
  • Karthik Kandamuri, Enterprise Architecture Director, AbbVie
  • Paul Watzka, Manager, IS Enterprise Architecture, AptarGroup
  • Other EA leaders sharing their experiences, strategies, tactics, and lessons learned

 

Shober                   Ramakrishnan        Pumphrey          McDermott             Kandamuri                 Watzka

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