UPCOMING EVENTS
Enterprise Architecture – Strategies That Enable Technology Trends: Chicago (Rosemont/O’Hare)
Reimagining Enterprise Architecture for a Disruptive, AI-Powered Future
September 11, 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
Reimagining Enterprise Architecture for a Disruptive, AI-Powered Future
What You Will Learn
In this two day conference, content that will be covered includes:
- From Framework to Flow – Evolving EA for Dynamic Business Execution
- Integrating Generative AI into EA – Governance, Risk & Strategy
- Architecture for Business Capability Modeling – From Org Charts to Capability Maps
- EA’s Role in the Cloud Operating Model – Enabling FinOps, SecOps & DevOps Harmony
- Modernization Without Rebuilding – Smart Refactoring Strategies
- Panel – The Evolving Role of Enterprise Architecture: What’s Next?
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 and Continental Breakfast
9:00am – 10:00am: Leveraging IT Strategy and Digital Transformation to Drive Business Success
Jeff Roseman, CIO, Marmon Foodservice Technologies
In an era where technology is deeply interwoven with every facet of the enterprise, IT strategy and digital transformation have become core drivers of business success—not just enablers. In this keynote, Roseman will share how aligning IT strategy with business vision has helped the organization modernize operations, accelerate innovation, and create competitive advantage across its global portfolio.
10:00am – 10:30am: Refreshment & Exhibit Break
10:30am – 11:30am: Architecture Value: Observations of Successful EA Practices
Dan Hebda, Enterprise Architecture Evangelist, MEGA International
How is your EA practice perceived by the business? Is it seen as Noisy, Useful, Trusted, or Influential?
Understanding and communicating the value of your Enterprise Architecture program is key—but it’s just as important to engage the right stakeholders. Building a successful EA program takes more than frameworks and technical models; it requires consistent, high-impact delivery that earns trust and proves its relevance to business transformation.
In this session, we’ll explore how EA leaders can drive success by shifting their mindset, showing reliability through consistent delivery, and ensuring their work is visible and understood across the organization. You’ll hear real-world observations and strategies for elevating your EA practice—plus insights into what the future looks like for enterprise architecture in a rapidly evolving market.
Whether you’re looking to strengthen credibility, expand influence, or align more closely with strategic priorities, this session will show you how to lead with clarity, value, and impact.
11:30am – 12:30pm: IDPs: Backstage Pass or Enterprise Fast Track?
Brandon Phillips, Technical Director, nVisia
With cloud-native engineering and AI-driven automation on the rise, developer self-service is becoming table stakes. This has pushed internal developer platforms straight into the spotlight and brought back the “build vs buy” debate with a vengeance. In this talk, we take a deep dive into Alight’s journey in selecting and building an IDP (Internal Developer Platform). What started out as a hackathon project has now become a strategic initiative.
12:30pm – 1:30pm: Lunch & Exhibit Break
1:30pm – 2:30pm: Ay, ay, AI! What’s an EA to do?
Neal McWhorter, Senior Enterprise Architect, Central States Funds/Team Care
This presentation will focus on one of the hottest topics in EA right now, Artificial Intelligence. We’ll take a spirited journey through the myths and reality as well as what is happening today and what the future might be. As part of this journey we will take a look at the role that an Enterprise Architect has in demystifying the field and how EAs can help organizations prepare to take advantage of EA and avoid failing into the pit of despair that typifies the end of most technology hype-cycles.
2:30pm – 3:00pm: Refreshment & Exhibit Break
3:00pm – 4:00pm: Modernization Without Rebuilding – Smart Refactoring Strategies
Many enterprises are stuck between legacy systems and full cloud-native rebuilds. This session presents real-world approaches for modernization through targeted refactoring, re-platforming, and composable services—without blowing up existing systems or budgets.
4:00pm – 5:00pm: Panel – The Evolving Role of Enterprise Architecture: What’s Next?
Panelists will include Chief and Senior Enterprise Architects from Enterprise IT organizations
Topics include:
- How are EA teams retooling for agility and product thinking?
- What new skills and mindsets are needed for the AI era?
- What should EA stop doing — and what must it start doing?
- How do executives measure EA value today?
Moderated by: TBD
Panelists will include:
- Praveenkumar Ambhore, Senior Enterprise Architect, Panduit
- Jothylakshmy Busa, Senior Enterprise Architect, College of American Pathologists
- Dimitra Kane, Sr. Business Architect, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma & Texas
- Venkat Sunkara, Senior Enterprise Architect, Data & AI Leader, US Cellular (soon to merge with T-Mobile)
- Carissa Fay Wikstrom, Sr. Manager, Enterprise Architecture, Walgreen Co.
- Other Enterprise Architecture Executives sharing strategies, tactics, and lessons learned.
Ambhore Busa Kane Sunkara Wikstrom
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
