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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 7, 2023

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 one day conference, content that will be covered includes:

  • How to Modernize Your Architecture
  • Enterprise Architecture Enabling Digital Business Transformation
  • Considerations for Highly Innovative CIOs
  • Looking at EA as a Product: EA Governance, Projects Management and Continuous Improvement
  • Business Outcome Driven EA and Alignment: Technical Debt & Future State Velocity
  • The Role of Business Architecture in Enterprise Architecture (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 & Continental Breakfast

9:00am – 10:00am: Considerations for Innovative CIOs

James P. MacLennan, Managing Partner, Maker Turtle LLC

Your organization is going digital – whether they know it or not. New ideas and new tools are flooding in – and it’s your responsibility to make it fit with the tools and tech already in place.

There are ways to ride herd over this transformational change – and application architecture is only one of them. In this session, we will cover several topics that need to be on radar screen, if you want to be seen as the Innovative CIO that delivers. There are no silver bullets! But we will cover tested methods that address technology, as well as process, change, value, and people.

There is a way up this hill – and you are in a unique position to lead your organization to the summit. Join this session to learn more!

 

MacLennan

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

10:30am – 11:30am: How to Modernize Your Infrastructure – And Pick Your Right Architecture

Benjamin Fuller, Field CTO, Nasuni

Digital Transformation may be overused as a catchphrase but it is a necessary disruption for most organizations to grow and continue to be successful. New business models and cloud technology look to transform legacy architectures with modern capabilities that deliver better outcomes, speed to market and quality that is reflected in great customer experiences. How do you get there?

A few highlights of the content that will be covered:

  • Business and Technology trends driving the need for modernization
  • How to determine which cloud model makes the most sense for a given use-case or application?
  • How to develop a clear vision, define a strategy and create roadmaps for execution
  • Key strategies to adopt in your modernization journey across all technology domains
  • What to think about when transitioning from on-premises architectures to cloud-architectures?

 

Fuller

11:30am – 12:30pm: Making the Business Case for Enterprise Architecture, Enabling Enterprise Architecture in your Organization and Delivering Value as you Mature

Kurt Wysock, Head of Enterprise Architecture and Cloud Engineering, RCG Global Services

Join Kurt Wysock from RCG Global Servies as he focuses on several use cases that support the EA business case and deliver value to the organization. Some focus areas to be explored include Cloud Adoption and Modernization, Technical Risk Management, and Application Rationalization.

 

Wysock

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

1:30pm – 2:30pm: Looking at EA as a Product: EA Governance, Projects Management and Continuous Improvement

Teddy Strzetelski, Senior Solution Engineer, LeanIX

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.

 

Strzetelski

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

3:00pm – 4:00pm: Enterprise Architecture Enabling Digital Business Transformation

Mike Jones, GM Americas, Do It Lean

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

Jones

4:00pm – 5:00pm: The Role of Business Architecture in Enterprise Architecture (Panel Discussion)

 

Business Architecture provides an overall blueprint of the organization’s business, covering both the strategic and operational perspectives. Whereas Enterprise Architecture provides the overarching view of the of all the domains, including how the other domains align to the Business Architecture.

In this session we will learned from a group of senior EA executives as to how they are balancing the two.

Moderated by: John Marshall, Director, RCG Global Services

Panelists include:

  • Yaj Sabharwal, Vice President – Head of Architecture, Payments, Fiserv
  • Karen E. Semonson, Senior Advisor, FarWell
  • Nick Greazel, Enterprise Architect Director, CNA Insurance
  • Sergey Chernov, Segment IT Director, Classified Fortune 200 Company
  • Other EA Executives sharing strategies, tactics, and lessons learned

 

 

Marshall                   Sabharwal            Semonson                Greazel             Chernov

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