PAST EVENTS

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 2, 2022

 

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, we’ll cover topics such as:

  • Business Driven Architecture: Leveraging the Cloud as Business Enabler
  • An Enterprise Architecture Innovation Framework
  • I Was Promised I Could Put 70% of My Workloads in the Cloud….. Now What?
  • How to Restart and Mature an EA Practice
  • Data-Driven Strategy to Execution – From Nearly Aligned to Really Aligned
  • How to Build an Innovation Framework that Delivers
  • 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 Program

8:00am – 9:00am: Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00am – 9:50am: Enterprise Architecture:  How to Build an Innovation Framework that Delivers

 

Lee Bogner, Global eCommerce + Food Chief Architect and Emerging Market and Innovations Strategist, MARS Inc.

 

Thought-leader Mr. Lee Bogner, expands his recognized guidance focusing on the Innovation-driven Enterprise Architecture leadership. He sharess approaches, and success factors – which help organizations lead in today’s business world!

 

 

As Enterprise Architects balance the traditional domain IT governance, and simultaneously embrace the dynamically changing worlds, and ecosystems of digital innovation – new skills, missions, and methods – will advance enterprise objectives to drive mature, while driving emerging markets growth. In today’s session, Mars Digital Venture Innovations Strategist, and Hofstra University thought-leader – Mr. Lee Bogner – shares inventive approaches which digital and traditional businesses may use to propel innovation benefitting the entire ecosystem of consumers, customers, and business and technology partners!

 

 

Bogner

9:50am – 10:20am: Refreshment Break

10:20am – 11:10am: I Was Promised I Could Put 70% of My Workloads in the Cloud….. Now What?

 

Lee Sobotkin, Enterprise Solutions Architect, Boomi

 

Migrating to the cloud provides organizations with many benefits. How do examples from our personal lives compare to the cloud journey? We will explore:

  • What challenges are preventing organizations to be fully cloud?
  • Are organizations maximizing cloud ROI?
  • How can organizations minimize risk, migrating their remaining workloads to cloud?
  • What future cloud benefits can we look forward to?

 

 

 

Sobotkin

11:10am – 12:00pm: Architect Your Future: Application Modernization

 

Priyank Desai, Sr. Solutions Engineer, Couchbase

 

Are your systems, technology platform, and architecture ready to propel your organization into the future? Make sure you and your company are prepared to quickly adjust, evolve, and accelerate past your competitors.

 

 

Desai

12:00pm – 12:50pm: Get Your Head in The Cloud – What Enterprise IT Leaders Need to Know About The Cloud

 

Chris Lamoureux, Chief Operating Officer, Veriday 

Christian Trujillo, Senior Solutions Architect – Partner Ecosystem, Red Hat

 

 

This interactive session will help you evaluate your Cloud readiness through facilitated discussion and problem-solving workshopping with fellow IT leaders facing similar challenges and working on synergistic initiatives, and through the structured C.A.K.E. assessment, guaranteed to produce a sweet and insightful forecast of your aptitude for Cloud integration.

 

To be covered:

  • A View from the C-Suite: The Past, Present, and Future of Cloud Growth
  • Ambitions and Ordeals: Unpack your organizational objectives along with the obstacles that keep you up at night
  • Make It or Break It: Tips and tricks to avoiding pitfalls and enabling success in Cloud integration
  • Take the C.A.K.E.! Find out if your business is cloud ready with this unique assessment
  • Let Them Eat C.A.K.E! Treat yourself to an assessment review… and a cupcake or two

 

Lamoureux                     Trujillo

12:50pm – 1:30pm: Luncheon and Exhibit Break

1:30pm – 2:20pm: Using Data-Driven Enterprise Architecture to Make Your CIO Happy

 

Deena Freed, Solution Specialist, Ardoq

 

As an enterprise architect, you know changes in enterprise IT are happening at lightning speed and initiatives are being set up to tackle all kinds of challenges. Ensuring the successful execution of your organization’s strategy is a two-part challenge: data complexity and people. In this session, understand how you can leverage the tenets of enterprise architecture to give your stakeholders views that ensure real alignment, control, and measurability.

 

 

 

Freed

 

2:20pm – 2:50pm Refreshment Break

2:50pm – 3:40pm: Is Security Still An Inhibitor of Cloud Adoption?

 

Ali Bidabadi, Senior Director, Global Cloud Consulting & Architecture, Fortinet

 

While cloud adoption is on the rise, it’s not without its challenges as security remains a top concern. How can organizations gain visibility into their cloud workloads and protect their sensitive data and traffic? We will discuss top cloud security challenges, cloud security best practices and the considerations organizations need to take into account as they design and build cloud solutions.

 

 

Bidabadi

3:40pm – 4:20pm: 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: Bob Ruf, President/Founder, ChiTech Resources

 

Panelists include:

  • Jarvis Ka, Enterprise Architect, Indiana Farm Bureau Insurance
  • Ed Vázquez, Principal & Head of IT Infrastructure, Adams Street Partners
  • Valeria Utsis, Director of Application Architecture, Discover Financial Services
  • Other Enterprise Architecture Executives sharing strategies, tactics and lessons learned

 

 

 
Ruf                                     Ka                     Vázquez                    Utsis

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 CO-SPONSORS