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Enterprise Architecture – Strategies That Enable Technology Trends: Chicago (Rosemont/O’Hare)

For businesses to adopt new technologies in a way that aligns with their business strategy, enterprise architecture (EA) is an absolute necessity.

March 5, 2026

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 next generation technologies 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 in the Age of AI: Driving Measurable Business Value
  • Human-AI Collaboration: Reimagining EA Workflows with Generative Intelligence
  • Architecting for Zero-Trust & Privacy-Centric Systems
  • Data Strategy Beyond Silos: Unified Semantic Layers & Mesh-Fabric Synergy
  • EA in Practice: Real World Architecture Case Studies & Pitfalls
  • Shaping the Future of Enterprise Architecture: Leadership, Strategy & Innovation

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 – 9:50am: The Next Wave: Proven EA Success Augmented by AI 

Dan Hebda, Enterprise Architecture Evangelist, MEGA International 

AI is no longer experimental in Enterprise Architecture; the impact is already visible, measurable, and repeatable. In this session, Dan Hebda will share observations of real success patterns shaping EA today and reveals the next wave of AI-powered disruption to show how leading teams are applying AI, augmentation, and MCP to improve decision quality, accelerate roadmaps, and strengthen business alignment.

You will gain insight into:

    • Proven success patterns used by high-performing EA teams to influence strategy and deliver measurable results
    • How to apply AI, augmentation, and MCP in practice to uncover hidden opportunities, accelerate insights, and improve decision-making
    • Translating EA insight into business impact by shifting your practice from operational support to strategic influence

         Hebda

 

9:50am – 10:20am: Refreshment Break

10:20am – 11:10am: The Agentic Shift – The Critical Next 6 Months for Development

Generative AI can accelerate architectural decision-making, automate pattern discovery, and enhance artifact generation—but it also introduces risks like bias and opaque reasoning. This session covers real use cases of AI-assisted design, governance frameworks, and emerging skills like prompt engineering.

 

11:10am – 12:00pm: Architecting for Zero-Trust & Privacy-Centric Systems

As enterprises face expanding threat surfaces and stricter privacy mandates, EA leaders must design architectures that embed security and privacy into all layers. Topics include zero-trust models, secure data fabric design, encryption strategies, and privacy-by-design governance.

 

12:00pm – 1:00pm: Lunch and Exhibit Break

1:00pm – 1:50pm: Data Strategy Beyond Silos: Unified Semantic Layers & Mesh-Fabric Synergy

This session tackles advanced data architecture practices where semantic layers unify business context with decentralized domains, and mesh-fabric models balance governance with domain autonomy. Attendees will learn practical patterns to improve data discoverability, analytics quality, and cross-enterprise insights.

1:50pm – 2:20pm: EA in Practice: Real World Architecture Case Studies & Pitfalls

A hands-on, lessons-learned session where senior architects share pragmatic experiences: aligning architecture with business outcomes, handling legacy modernization, managing technical debt, and driving cross-functional adoption of architectural standards and artifacts.

2:20pm – 2:50pm: Refreshment Break

2:50pm – 3:40pm: Sustainability & ESG by Design: Embedding Environmental Goals into EA

With sustainability becoming a strategic priority, this session focuses on how EA leaders can embed ESG principles into architecture decisions. Learn approaches to model carbon footprint, align IT services with regulatory requirements, and leverage architectural frameworks to support responsible operations.

3:40pm– 4:30pm: Innovation Without Disruption: De-risking Complex IT Transformations

As organizations accelerate digital modernization, executives face a critical challenge: how to innovate rapidly without putting core operations at risk. This panel examines how enterprise architecture enables disciplined transformation—balancing speed, stability, and business value.

Panelists will share practical approaches for reducing risk in large-scale initiatives, including incremental modernization, aligning technology investments to business outcomes, and governing change without slowing momentum. The discussion will focus on executive decision-making, prioritization, and accountability in complex IT environments.

Attendees will gain clear insights into how leaders can drive transformation with confidence—delivering innovation while safeguarding the systems the business relies on.

Session Co-Leads:
Jacob Mansfield, Solutions Architect, LG CNS

Brian Rogan, Executive Sales & Digital Transformation Leader, LG CNS

 

Panelists will include:

  • Mykhaylo Bulyk, Senior Director IT Security, ATI Physical Therapy
  • Sugato Bose, Sr. Director Enterprise Architecture, Medline
  • Grant Ecker, Vice President, Enterprise Architecture, Ecolab
  • Brandon Eichmeier, Associate Director, Mergers, Divestitures & Acquisitions, Kraft Heinz
  • Praveen Moturu, Vice President, Enterprise Digital Platforms, Mars Inc
  • Additional Enterprise Architecture Executives sharing experiences and lessons learned

            

Mansfield                   Rogan                  Bose                Bulyk                        Ecker                       Eichmeier                  Moturu                     

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.