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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.

November 20, 2025

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:

Enterprise Architecture Enabling Digital Business Transformation
An Enterprise Architecture Innovation Framework
Become Indispensable: Strengthen Your Enterprise Architecture Practice by Producing Valuable Business Outcomes
How to Modernize Your Architecture
EA Governance, Projects Management and Continuous Improvement – How to get it right?
Creating a Value Proposition for a Business-Outcome-Driven EA Program

Conference Price: $349.00 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: Fireside Chat: CIO-Centric EA vs. CEO-Centric EA — Evolving the Enterprise Architecture Mandate

As enterprises transform, so too does the role of Enterprise Architecture. Is EA’s true north rooted in IT enablement or enterprise value creation? In this opening fireside chat, senior IT and business leaders will explore how shifting from a CIO-centric to a CEO-centric EA approach redefines priorities, outcomes, and influence. Attendees will gain insights into aligning architecture strategy with business leadership and vision.

Areas that will covered include:

Understanding the difference between CIO-driven and CEO-driven EA models
How CEO-centric EA aligns architecture to enterprise growth and transformation
Reframing EA from technology governance to business enablement
The evolving partnership between Enterprise Architecture, IT, and the C-suite
Steps to reposition EA as a strategic business discipline

Participants include:

Carl Gruber, Sr. Enterprise Technical Architect, R&D, CDW
Rakesh K Singh, Enterprise Architecture Director, IT-EMC, OneAmerica Financial

Gruber Singh

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

10:30am – 11:30am: From Roadmaps to Results: Building Adaptive Architectures for Change

In today’s rapidly evolving environment, static architecture roadmaps quickly become obsolete. This session examines how to design adaptive architectures that evolve in sync with business priorities. Learn how to combine architecture principles, agile delivery methods, and scenario planning to ensure your EA practice delivers sustained value over time.

Strategies for evolving architectures in fast-changing ecosystems
Integrating agile practices into enterprise architecture governance
Leveraging capability modeling and continuous roadmapping
Lessons from enterprises that have made adaptability a core competency

11:30am – 12:30pm: The Human Side of Architecture: Driving Organizational Change Through EA

Even the best-designed architectures fail without alignment across people, processes, and culture. This session explores the critical role Enterprise Architects play as change leaders—translating strategy into action, influencing stakeholders, and ensuring adoption across the enterprise. Attendees will learn proven methods for managing change, communicating vision, and building trust as EA evolves from a technical discipline to a business transformation partner.

Frameworks for integrating change management into architecture initiatives
Techniques for influencing business and IT stakeholders
How to communicate architecture vision and business value effectively
Building a culture of architecture thinking across the enterprise

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

1:30pm – 2:30pm: The Telemetry Time Bomb – How You Can Architect an Approach to Defuse it

Bill Emmett is the Senior Director of Technical Product Marketing at Cribl

Traditional approaches to managing telemetry – the metrics, logs, and traces your infrastructure and applications constantly generate – is hitting its limits under the scale and complexity of today’s infrastructure and applications. Exploding data volumes, fragmented observability and security tools, and pressure for teams to handle 30% more telemetry on flat budgets is no longer sustainable.

In this session, we’ll look at new architecture patterns to elevate telemetry from reactive monitoring to proactive insight – while reducing administrative effort, infrastructure resources and observability costs. In this session, you’ll learn:

Why building a control plane for your Telemetry is a “must-have”
The role of Agentic AI in adding value for your telemetry

Emmett

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

3:00pm – 4:00pm: Measuring the Maturity and Impact of Your Enterprise Architecture Practice

To gain executive support and investment, EA leaders must demonstrate measurable value. This session outlines approaches for assessing EA maturity, defining KPIs, and communicating impact in business terms. Attendees will leave with tools to benchmark their current state and define actionable improvement plans.

Areas that will covered include:

Common EA maturity models and assessment approaches
How to define success metrics that resonate with business stakeholders
Communicating EA value through dashboards and outcomes
Practical next steps for evolving your architecture practice

4:00pm – 5:00pm: How to Evaluate New Technologies for Your Enterprise Architecture (Panel Discussion)

With new tools, platforms, and capabilities emerging at record pace, enterprise architects must determine which technologies align with strategic goals—and which to avoid. In this panel discussion, Chief Enterprise Architects and Directors will share their frameworks and real-world approaches for evaluating, piloting, and scaling new technologies responsibly within the enterprise.

Areas that will covered include:

Building evaluation frameworks that align technology to business strategy
Balancing innovation and risk in emerging tech adoption
Establishing criteria for proof of concepts and pilot success
Avoiding technology sprawl and integration pitfalls
Lessons learned from adopting (or rejecting) trending technologies

Moderator: Brian Rogan, Executive Sales & Digital Transformation Leader, LeverageHub; LG CNS

Panelists will include:

Csaba Bendel, Enterprise Architect, Abbvie
Sergey Chernov, Segment IT Director, ITW
Anandbabu Padmanaban, Director – Architecture & Technology Services, Abbvie
Amit Seth, Enterprise Architect, Medline
Jeremy Treague, Enterprise Architect Leader, Global IT, Schreiber Foods
Additional EA executives sharing experiences and lessons learned

Rogan Bendel Chernov Padamaban Seth Treague

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.