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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.

 

March 7, 2024

 

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:

  • Transforming Enterprise Architecture Today to Embrace Generative AI Tomorrow
  • An Enterprise Architecture Innovation Framework
  • Modern Enterprise Architecture: Achieving Business Value and Future-Proofing Your Organization
  • Leadership for Enterprise Architects: How to Measure and Manage Technical Debt
  • How Mature is Your Enterprise Architecture? 5 Steps to Maturity
  • How to Measure the Value of Enterprise Architecture

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 – 10:00am: Blueprints to Success: Best Practices for High-Value Enterprise Architecture

Dan Hebda, Chief Strategy Officer, MEGA

 

In our fast-evolving digital world, agility and innovation are key to any business’s success. We’ll be exploring the role enterprise architects play in crafting modern, forward-thinking architecture that drives real business value and ensures sustainable success. We’ll cover both the theory and practical tactics needed to develop a responsive, efficient, and future-ready enterprise architecture, addressing the unique challenges, and seizing the opportunities of today’s enterprise architecture landscape. Join us to transform your approach and lead your organization to new heights.

 

Hebda

 

 


10:00am – 10:30am: Refreshment Break


10:30am – 11:30am:  How EA Leaders Build Robust Relationships with other Risk Partners like Security, Privacy, BCP, Audit (Fireside Chat)


Krista Miller, Senior Director Enterprise Architecture, Northwestern Mutual

Justin McDermott, VP, IT Strategy and Enterprise Architecture, Wintrust Financial Corporation

Grant Ecker, Founder and Chairman, Chief Architect Forum; F500 Chief Enterprise Architect

 

 

Miller                  McDermott               Ecker

 


11:30am – 12:30pm: Fireside Chat: An Overview of the IT and Business Transformation at NiSource

Prajwal Deshpande, Director Transformation Delivery, NiSource

Chris Johnson, Manager of Field Mobility, NiSource

 

 

 

Deshpande                     Johnson


1:30pm – 2:30pm: Transformative Data and Analytics Need a Solid Data Foundation

Saptarshi Sengupta, Sr. Director of Brand and Corporate Marketing, Denodo

 

It is impossible to think about modern enterprise architecture without the trends such as data fabric, data products and Generative AI. While many companies are in the early phases of embracing these technologies and architectures within their organizations, often they do not result in desired business outcomes, if they are not based on a solid data foundation.

In this session learn a bit about these trends and why the importance of a solid data foundation is paramount.

 

 

Sengupta

 


2:30pm – 3:00pm: Refreshment Break


 

 

3:00pm – 4:00pm: AI Use Cases – Breakout Session

 

Session Lead:
Matt Cammarata, Senior Solution Architect, OutSystems

 

Cammarata

 

 


 

4:00pm – 5:00pm: How to Measure the Value of Enterprise Architecture (Panel Discussion)

 

Moderator:

Ryan Shober, RSM, SnapLogic


Panelists include:

 

  • Chuck Lawton, Sr, Director, Enterprise Architecture, EVERSANA
  • Matt Jones,  Head of Enterprise Architecture and Technology Strategy, Sr. Director, The Fitch Group  
  • Karen Semonson, Senior Advisor, FarWell
  • Yuri Camargo, Application Architecture Director, Avanade
  • Todd Fontana, Microsoft 365 Architect & Collaboration Manager, John Bean Technologies Corporation
  • CJ Voss, Senior Manager Enterprise Architecture & Development, Pella Corporation
  • Additional EA executives sharing strategies, tactics and lessons learned

 

Lawton                    Jones                         Semonson                Camargo                 Fontana                    Voss                     Shober

 

One way to measure the success of enterprise architecture is by creating IT roadmaps that support business objectives. The more objectives the IT roadmap supports, the better we can conclude the success of EA within the business, and the higher quality of the end result can be.

 

 

 

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