Enterprise Architecture Strategies
Strategies to design and build and business driven Enterprise Architecture
June 19-20, 2019
9:00am-5:00pm
14 CPE / 1.4 CEU / CISSP / 14 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?
Topics That Will Be Discussed
In this two day conference attendees will learn:
- Building a World Class Enterprise Architecture
- How to Leverage Your Architecture for Digital Transformation
- How to Build the Business Case for Cloud Computing
- How to EAs Can Become Trusted Advisor to the Business
- EA Governance, Projects and Agile Product Development
- Skills of Future EA Leaders
- The Role Security Plays in Enterprise Architecture
- How to Modernize Your Architecture
- Architectural Strategies of Containers, Kubernetes and Microservices
Early Confirmed Speakers from IT Organizations Include:
- Praveen Moturu, Chief Enterprise Architect, Mars, Inc.
- Shaye Robeson, Director, Enterprise Architecture, U.S. Cellular
- Michael Sisto, Sr. Infrastructure Architect, U.S. Cellular
- Arjun Valluri, Sr. Architect, US Cellular
- Keith Renouard, Chief Enterprise Architect, AVP, Blue Cross Blue Shield, IL, NM, TX
- Syed Asim, IT Infrastructure Manager, Tecta America
- Narendar Sundaram, Senior Director, Chief Architect, Technology, National Restaurant Association
- Tom Brooks, Enterprise Solutions Architect & Cloud Champion, Molex, Inc.
- Prajwal Deshpande, Director, Enterprise Architecture, NiSource
- Michael Conneen, Enterprise Architecture Consultant, NiSource
Conference Price: $799.00 per person
Each attendee will receive a certificate awarding 14 CPE credits for CISSP continuing education, in addition to 1.4 CEUs and 14 PDUs. CISSP is a registered certification mark of (ISC)², Inc.
Day 1 |
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| 8:30am-9:20am | Building a World Class Enterprise Architecture Luis Infanti, Sr. Director, Enterprise Architecture and Technology Strategy, Hitachi |
| 9:20am-10:10am | How to Leverage Your Architecture for Digital Transformation Praveen Moturu, Chief Enterprise Architect, Mars, Inc. |
| 10:10am-10:40am | Refreshment Break |
| 10:40am-11:30pm | Rethinking the Wide Area Network – Modernizing Network Architecture for the Edge, Hybrid Cloud and SD WAN Brian Cade, Sr. Solutions Architect, Digital Realty |
| 11:30pm-12:20pm | Securing Applications in a Hybrid Multi-Cloud Environment Faraz Aladin, Head of Technical Product Marketing, Illumio |
| 12:20pm-1:10pm | Lunch |
| 1:10pm-2:00pm | I Was Promised I Could Put 70% of My Workloads in the Cloud….. Now what? Tom McKowen, Cloud Computing Architecture, US Signal |
| 2:00pm-2:50pm | How to Plan for 5G Michael Sisto, Sr. Infrastructure Architect, U.S. Cellular Mallikharjuna Valluri, Sr. Architect, US Cellular |
| 2:50pm-3:20pm | Refreshment Break |
| 3:20pm-4:10pm | Machine Learning by Example: How to Use ML in Your Business Pat Ryan, Chief Architect, SPR |
| 4:10pm-5:00pm | The Role of Business Architecture in Enterprise Architecture Moderator: Annur Sumar, Chief Technology Officer, MaeTech Panelists: Dave Swierzynski, Vice President of Business Solutions Architecture, Gallagher Bassett Pradeep Parvathipuram, Chief Enterprise Architect, Country Financial and other professionals from IT departments sharing lessons learned |
Day 2 |
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| 8:30am-9:20am | Business Outcome Driven EA and Alignment: Technical Debt & Future State Velocity Keith Renouard, Chief Enterprise Architect, AVP, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma & Texas |
| 9:20am-10:10am | What We Learned from our Cloud Migration Tom Brooks, Enterprise Systems Architect, Molex |
| 10:10am-10:25am | Networking Break |
| 10:25am-11:15am | Why Can't We Be Friends? - Kubernetes in a Zone Based Architecture World Eddie Esquivel, Senior Solutions Engineer, Tigera |
| 11:15am-12:05pm | EA Governance, Projects Management and Continuous Improvement - How to get it right? Sergey Chernov, Senior Director Enterprise Architecture, Ensono |
| 12:05pm-1:05pm | Lunch |
| 1:05pm-1:55pm | How to Modernize Your Architecture Narendar Sundaram, Senior Director, Chief Architect, Technology, National Restaurant Association |
| 1:55pm-2:45pm | The New Architecture Skillset for Digital Business Shaye Robeson, Director Enterprise Architecture, U.S. Cellular |
| 2:45pm-3:00pm | Networking Break |
| 3:00pm-3:50pm | NiSource’s EA Journey… From TOGAF Adoption / Certification Through Creating Reference Architectures, Roadmaps and Managing Our Technology Reference Model Praj Deshpande, Director Enterprise Architecture NiSource, Inc. Michael L. Conneen, Architecture Consultant, NiSource, Inc. |
| 3:50pm-4:40pm | Driving Innovation Through Enterprise Architecture Dale Hsu, VP Enterprise Architecture, Tech Data |
DAY ONE SCHEDULE
8:00am – 8:30am: Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30am – 9:20am: Building a World Class Enterprise Architecture
Luis Infanti, Sr. Director, Enterprise Architecture and Technology Strategy, Hitachi
What is the real scope of Enterprise Architecture? Can Enterprise Architecture be a game changer? What happens when Enterprise Architecture is practiced as a holistic management discipline? From strategic goals to implementation plans, we will explore how an all-inclusive Enterprise Architecture drives big picture thinking, transformative change, and a world class strategic drive for the enterprise.
Infanti
9:20am – 10:10am: How to Leverage Your Architecture for Digital Transformation
Praveen Moturu, Chief Enterprise Architect, Mars, Inc.
Enterprise Architecture (EA) is the technical framework of an enterprise but it also transcends technology and integrates with the business. Therefore, the discussion and implementation of EA needs to done in an integrated, holistic manner. An integrated EA (business and technical) can provide the necessary support for a business transformation that makes the business ready for the variety of business and technological challenges it will face. For example, technologies such Big Data, mobile and cloud computing are all highly disruptive technologies that require a fine balance between their business and technical aspects as the organization moves forward.
In this session, attendees will learn how to they need to reinvent and/or refine their EA to embrace a digital transformation.
Content that will be covered:
- How to drive business agility
- An agile approach to drive business agility
- How to pull together Cloud, mobile, Agile development, and DevOps to drive rapid product development
Moturu
10:10am – 10:40am: Refreshment Break
10:40am – 11:30am: Rethinking the Wide Area Network – Modernizing Network Architecture for the Edge, Hybrid Cloud and SD WAN
Brian Cade, Sr. Solutions Architect, Digital Realty
The IT industry is currently undergoing a renaissance with respect to new networking technologies. Software and hardware are converging opening up a breadth of new options and features to enterprises. These enterprises are no longer limited to the routing capabilities and complexities of BGP. Technologies like SD WAN enable IT organizations to reduce their spend and increase application performance across the WAN. New carrier disruptors are driving down WAN pricing and combined with SD WAN are making distributed networking, aka the Edge, more cost effective. These Edge deployments can benefit organizations by putting end users closer to compute and cloud resources. This increases application and end user performance, enables multi-cloud connectivity and reduces costs. The Data Center provides the foundational platform to enable the Cloud, the Core and the Edge.
In this session your will learn:
- Demystify SD WAN and where it fits with your current network.
- What is a distributed architecture and what technologies are available to deploy it.
- What is the Edge and where does it sit.
- How this enables a Hybrid Multi-Cloud strategy.
Cade
11:30am – 12:20pm: Securing Applications in a Hybrid Multi-Cloud Environment
Faraz Aladin, Head of Technical Product Marketing, Illumio
Enterprise networks are changing and changing fast. Hybrid Multi-Cloud deployments are becoming the new normal. At the same time, organizations are facing tremendous pressure to secure their assets and data from increased frequency and intensity of breaches which have prompted regulators to become more stringent. Customers want to leverage new technologies to innovate and create differentiation but want to do so in a secure manner. Microsegmentation has emerged as a very important tool to achieve the desired security posture. In this session we will discuss the guiding principles behind micro-segmentation and develop a strategy to successfully deploy it at enterprise scale.
Aladin
12:20pm – 1:10pm Luncheon
1:10pm – 2:00pm: I Was Promised I Could Put 70% of my Workloads in the Cloud….. Now What?
Tom McKowen, Cloud Computing Architecture, US Signal
Is your cloud strategy realistic? How to get started? How to create a flexible architecture that offers the best balance? Who makes the decisions? Where do you get started?
In this session we will discuss how to ground the strategy for a flexible architecture that incorporates cloud, and the need for a services portfolio.
McKowen
2:00pm – 2:50pm: How to Plan for 5G
Michael Sisto, Sr. Infrastructure Architect, U.S. Cellular
Mallikharjuna Valluri, Sr. Architect, US Cellular
This presentation provides valuable architectural insights when planning to deploy 5G, including impacts to business and operational support (B/OSS) systems. Details include a high level overview of 5G reference architectures and NSA/SA deployment options for enterprises to consider. Planning milestones and objectives for key 5G technology enablers including eMBB, uLLC and eM2M are outlined. Advanced design concepts including virtualization, network slicing, orchestration enablement, security, standards related to 3GPP/IEEE/IETF/ITU IMT-2020/NGMN and spectrum options will be covered.
Sisto Valluri
2:50pm – 3:20pm: Refreshment Break
3:20pm – 4:10pm: Machine Learning by Example: How to Use ML in Your Business
Pat Ryan, Chief Architect, SPR
As Machine Learning continues to creep into B2B, business leaders need a foundational understanding of the emerging technology to stay ahead of competitors. This session provides a basic understanding of ML concepts through interactive, understandable examples. We’ll show you firsthand how to create ML models for various scenarios, including:
- autonomous driving
- predictions based on data
- automatic image classification
- public sentiment based on social media
Finally, you will take away ideas on how these comprehensible examples can be applied to a real-world scenario in your own business. No programming skills are required.
Ryan
4:10pm – 5:00pm: The Role of Business Architecture in Enterprise Architecture
Moderator:
Annur Sumar, Chief Technology Officer, MaeTech
Panelists:
Dave Swierzynski, Vice President of Business Solutions Architecture, Gallagher Bassett
Pradeep Parvathipuram, Chief Enterprise Architect, Country Financial
and others professionals from IT departments sharing lessons learned
Swierzynski Parvathipuram Sumar
DAY TWO SCHEDULE
8:00am-8:30am: Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30am-9:20am: Business Outcome Driven EA and Alignment: Technical Debt & Future State Velocity
Keith Renouard, Chief Enterprise Architect, AVP, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma & Texas
While healthcare payers are known for legacy technology, HCSC is improving capability delivery speed adopting modern platforms and techniques. To highlight progress, drive business engagement and inspire strategic decisions HCSC’s Enterprise Architecture Services group developed an innovative measurement: Future State Architecture Velocity. In this session, Keith Renouard will tell the story of FSA Velocity and how an imperfect metric drives the right visibility and conversation with HCSC’s business portfolios.
Content that will be covered:
- Enterprise Architecture and Business Outcomes
- Future State Architecture Velocity: driving the right conversation
Renouard
9:20am-10:10am: What We Learned from Our Cloud Migration
Tom Brooks, Enterprise Systems Architect, Molex
Let me take you on a journey. We’ll start from our onsite, Tier 4 Data Center filled with legacy applications, staffed with certified ITIL Practitioners, and operationally a profit center. We’ll meet a business that wants IOT, Industry 4.0, Business Process Automation, Data Lakes, and Machine Learning, and wants them now. We’ll throw in IT Management that wants Dev/Ops Frameworks, Agile Methods, Collaborative Ecosystems, and Citizen Developers, all in the Public Cloud. And to keep it interesting, we’ll transition to a Managed Services Provider model along the way. Where we’ll end up is a Hybrid Multi Cloud that is adapting to address the needs of the business today, and evolving to drive the opportunities of tomorrow. It’s a trip filled with innovation, value capture, and fantastic people. But it has not always been a smooth ride, and I’ll share the successes, pitfalls, and lessons encountered during the migration.
Brooks
10:10am-10:25am: Networking Break
10:25am-11:15am: Why Can’t We Be Friends? – Kubernetes in a Zone Based Architecture World
Eddie Esquivel, Senior Solutions Engineer, Tigera
Throughout history Networks\Security professionals have grown to love and understand Network Zone Based architectures. With the evolving landscape, however, we have the opportunity to rethink some of these paradigms. Cloud and Kubernetes offer a ton of flexibility but how do we achieve security, visibility and compliance in these new areas? This talk will dive into how Calico can help us achieve these criterias and more in the new cloud native landscape.
Esquivel
11:15am-12:05pm: EA Governance, Projects Management and Continuous Improvement – How to get it right?
Sergey Chernov, Senior Director Enterprise Architecture, Ensono
Have you ever wondered if there is a better way to deliver projects while keeping PMO, Enterprise Architecture, Continuous Improvement and Business Relationship teams happy? If so, join this session for some practical ideas on how to make it happen.
Chernov
12:05pm-1:05pm: Lunch
1:05pm-1:55pm: How to Modernize Your Architecture
Narendar Sundaram, Senior Director, Chief Architect, Technology, National Restaurant Association
Digital Transformation may be overused as a catchphrase but it is a necessary disruption for most organizations to sustain their operations and continue to be successful let alone think of innovation or adding new revenue streams. There are 3 keys aspects to transformation – culture, business model and technology. While cultural and business process transformations are daunting and could be more challenging to execute, organizations need a strong technology foundation with modern capabilities that deliver better outcomes, speed to market and quality that is reflected in great customer experiences. How do you get there?
A few highlights of the content that will be covered:
- Business and Technology trends driving the need for modernization
- How to develop a clear vision, define a strategy and create roadmaps for execution
- Key strategies to adopt in your modernization journey across all technology domains
- Transition from monolithic legacy systems to a distributed architecture by applying modern technology solutions and practices
Sundaram
1:55pm-2:45pm: The New Architecture Skillset for Digital Business
Shaye Robeson, Director Enterprise Architecture, U.S. Cellular
Digitalization has driven the convergence of business strategy and technical strategy – more than anything we’ve ever seen before – and architects need to be ready for it. Many architects who have excelled in the past are finding themselves blindsided in this new business environment – because being a great Digital Architect requires a new set of critical skills (such as Business Acumen, Perspective Fluency and Executive Influence) that many EAs haven’t had to develop before. The good news is that EA is right at the heart of this digital business convergence, and architects who master these 12 critical skills are well-positioned to help lead their organizations through current digital transformations and into the future.
Robeson
2:45pm-3:00pm: Networking Break
3:00pm-3:50pm: NiSource’s EA Journey… From TOGAF Adoption / Certification Through Creating Reference Architectures, Roadmaps and Managing Our Technology Reference Model
Praj Deshpande, Director Enterprise Architecture NiSource, Inc.
Michael L. Conneen, Architecture Consultant, NiSource, Inc.
Enterprise Architecture (EA), hand in hand with business and IT strategies, provides the mechanisms necessary for NiSource to meet its IT modernization strategy. This discussion will cover our EA journey from
- creating architecture buildings blocks,
- populating the technology reference model,
- developing architecture component patterns and
- publishing capabilities reference architectures.
Deshpande Conneen
3:50pm-4:40pm: Driving Innovation Through Enterprise Architecture
Dale Hsu, Vice President, Enterprise Architecture, Tech Data
I have seen innovation been on everyone’s radar screen, business and IT for the organizations I have been in. In this session I intend to walk you through the why and how one can leverage Enterprise Architecture as the key to unlock that enterprise potential as well as examples from my past.
Hsu
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
