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Enterprise Architecture Strategies: Chicago

Strategies to design and build a business driven Enterprise Architecture.

October 25, 2018

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

Every decade we see massive changes in the IT industry. In the 80s we saw desktop computing flourish, and progressed to a client server model in the 90s. Mobile computing grew quickly in 2000 and beyond. 2017 presents a variety of technologies that may deliver IT efficiencies on a grand scale. Technologies and trends such as AI and Advanced Machine Learning, Intelligent Apps, Intelligent Things, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Digital Twin, Blockchain and Distributed Ledgers, Conversational System, Mesh App and Service Architecture, Digital Technology Platforms, Adaptive Security Architecture., and others may be game changers. How will you capitalize on these technologies, but more importantly how will your Enterprise Architecture embrace the digital world to support all the changes?

What You Will Learn

In this one day conference attendees will learn:

  • Agile, DevOps, and EA at a 150 Year Old Company
  • Cloud Native Software and its Impact on Enterprise Architecture
  • Digital Business Architecture: The Value and Trade-offs of Low Code and No Code
  • The Evolving Architecture for Secure Remote Access
  • IT Modernization and Cloud Migration Meet Up
  • What Serverless Means to Enterprise Apps
  • Business Outcome Driven EA and Alignment: Lessons Learned from the Field

Conference Price: $289.00 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: Agile, DevOps, and EA at a 150 Year Old Company

Firasat Hussain, VP, Enterprise Architecture, RR Donnelley

The focus of the talk would be to describe the evolutionary journey, challenges, approaches, and learnings at RRD over the past 4 years. Its scope would highlight key takeaways in people, processes, and technology/tools at a large Fortune 1000 corporation that has experienced years of M&A, silo development, and disruptive trends.


Hussain

9:50am -10:20am: Refreshment Break

10:20am-11:10am: Cloud Native Software and its Impact on Enterprise Architecture

Patrick Emmons, CEO, DragonSpears

All roads lead to the Cloud, that much is clear to everyone at this point. Cloud native software is how startups and some larger organizations are taking advantage of this new paradigm. How does this affect the Enterprise Architect? Patrick Emmons is going to share what EAs can do to embrace the upcoming challenges and opportunities…and make sure you don’t get stuck in Mode 1 purgatory.


Emmons

11:10am-12:00pm: Digital Business Architecture: The Value and Trade-offs of Low Code and No Code

Jason Urban, Principal Consultant, Spark Systems

The focus of this presentation is to review the explosive growth of Low-Code and No-Code Development platforms solutions across businesses today. The presentation will review unique features of both Low Code and No Code solutions, the current leaders in their respective market segments, and advantages (and disadvantages) of both development platforms.


Urban

12:00pm – 1:00pm Luncheon

1:00pm-1:50pm: The Evolving Architecture for Secure Remote Access

Dean Sharp, Global Network Architect, Manpower

Secure remote access is a critical component to doing business for most companies. Developing an architecture roadmap for secure remote access is an evolution as security pressures, better users experiences and moves to the cloud are fundamentally shifting the way organizations approach secure remote access globally. While roadmaps are a part of strategic planning and enterprise architecture, there also needs to be flexibility with the architecture to account for change without impacting end users or disrupting the business. Moving from the current to future state architecture can be challenging, especially when technologies are often times brought in out of sequence to address immediate business/security concerns. Communication, interoperability and new technology approaches are keys to a successful secure remote access architecture driven by the rapid adoption/disruption of moving applications, data and datacenters to the cloud.


Sharp

1:50pm – 2:40pm: IT Modernization and Cloud Migration Meet Up

Jeff Fraleigh, Global Head, CAST Highlight-CAST Software

In this highly interactive session, we will discuss the market forces that are driving modernization / migration efforts, the quickest way to get a baseline of your environment, and how to identify & prioritize next steps in a broader application to the rest of your IT landscape while reducing complexity and accelerating the migration process. This isn’t meant to be an academic exercise; rather, a mutual sharing of information from practitioners in the real world.


Fraleigh

2:40pm – 3:10pm: Refreshment Break

3:10pm-4:00pm: What Serverless Means to Enterprise Apps

Sumit Sarkar, Chief Research Officer, Progress

There’s a new approach to app development ripe with misconceptions and more buzzwords to translate to business sponsors. Industry analysts call it serverless, but it’s also known as backend as a service (BaaS), function as a service (FaaS), cloud-native architectures, or microservices—just to name a few. Whatever you call it, this approach is giving developers new freedom to focus on frontend functionality and deliver better, more innovative user experiences and ultimately establish value faster. Let’s discuss the pros and cons of serverless in enterprise architectures.


Sarkar

4:00pm-5:00pm: Business Outcome Driven EA and Alignment: Lessons Learned from the Field

Moderator:
Annur Sumar, CTO, Maetech; Microsoft MVP, Former Vice President of IT D&P
Panelists:
Nimrod Bareket, Senior Enterprise Architect, US Cellular
Yabing Wang, Chief Security Architect, Alight Solutions
Sudha Dhar, Director, Enterprise Architecture, Cummins
Steven Bramson, Enterprise Architect, Motorola Solutions
and other Chief Enterprise Architects sharing experiences and lessons learned

Old EA architectures focused on the needs of enterprise architects. To move the business forward, IT organizations must focus on creating a business outcome driven EA.

In this session, experienced EAs will shared their experiences adopting a business driven Enterprise Architecture.

Areas that will be covered include:

  • How this will improve business processes
  • Addressing specific business outcomes
  • How to work with other business and IT disciplines such as PPM, BI, Finance and HR
  • What is the ROI?
  • How to balance the right amount of resource investment

                    
Bareket     Dhar           Wang           Bramson     Sumar

Conference Price: $289.00 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