IT Architecture Practitioners Conference - Barcelona, Spain, January 23-27 2006

IT Architecture Practitioners Conference Europe 2006, Barcelona, Spain

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Introduction

Program

Sponsors

Exhibitors

The Open Group's Platinum Members

This highly practical three-day conference and series of workshops will address the key issues and challenges that face enterprise architects today. The conference is aimed specifically at enterprise architecture practitioners and those directly involved in the management and oversight of enterprise architecture.

Conference Proceedings
Summaries are can be accessed by everyone, Access to presentations is restricted to members of The Open Group and conference attendees.
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Photographs
Photographs from the first two days of this event are available here

Who Should Attend

•	Enterprise architecture practitioners
•	Chief information officers and senior management responsible for IT and enterprise architecture oversight
•	Designers and managers of IT infrastructures
•	Product managers and engineering managers of architecture tools
•	Systems integrators
•	Procurement professionals responsible for selecting IT products and services

What You'll Experience

•	Participation in highly practical workshops teaching best practices in the enterprise architecture process
•	Review of in-depth case studies from organizations which put theory into practice, learning from them what works and what doesn't
•	Demonstrations and presentations on leading tools supporting open methods for enterprise architecture
•	Networking with leading architecture experts, vendors, and peers in the enterprise architecture field

Conference Outline

·Workshops

•	Making the business case for enterprise architecture
•	Value-based best practices at each stage of the EA process:
	•	How to create and sell a compelling architecture vision
	•	Effective strategies for architecture implementation and compliance
	•	How to manage architecture change

·Tutorials

•	Introducing Architecture to the enterprise - the business case for Architecture
•	Setting up and Running an Architecture Practice
•	Assessing Architecture competence
•	Operating the Architecture function as a business unit
•	Architect certification efforts within the industry
•	Enterprise architecture development
•	Effective architecture governance strategies
•	Enterprise architecture and business transformation

Case Studies

•	Enterprise architecture frameworks in practice - understanding what different frameworks have to offer, and how to use the best of each
•	Tools for enterprise architecture -- the capabilities of existing tools for enterprise architecture, and innovative approaches to tool interoperability
•	Enterprise architecture in specific vertical sectors: government, commercial and finance

Exhibitions

•	Throughout the event there will be exhibitions from leading architecture tools vendors, providing opportunities for hands-on, one-on-one discussions and demonstrations

More About the Conference

Enterprise architecture is the discipline that provides the strategic business context for the evolution of information technology within the extended enterprise. An effective enterprise architecture is also the key to managed innovation, by enabling the right balance between IT efficiency and business innovation within the enterprise. Individual business units can innovate safely in the pursuit of competitive advantage; at the same time, the needs of the organization for an integrated, business-driven IT strategy are addressed, permitting the closest possible synergy across the extended enterprise.

This event provides experience-based insight into the approaches and methods that have proven effective in developing enterprise architectures around the world.

Just as importantly, it aims to examine the core competencies that are required to enable the enterprise architect to view both the business need and the solution implementation side of a problem; to clarify the skill and experience requirements for developing and implementing enterprise architectures; and the limitations that still exist in this immature field.

In this event, The Open Group provides a forum for all key constituencies and stakeholders to come together and explore the emerging role of the enterprise architect, to find new ways to solve problems, and to share best practices and network with peers.

The conference will take a highly practical, hands-on approach, combining presentations and discussions on best practices with interactive workshops, case study reviews and demonstrations of the latest tools.

About the Organizer

The Open Group is uniquely qualified within the IT industry to bring together the buy side and the supply side to agree on the real requirements that the industry needs to address, and effective methods of addressing them.

Within the enterprise architecture domain, The Open Group has been active for over a decade, developing and making freely available an architecture framework and methodology - TOGAF. Developed by The Open Group's Architecture Forum, TOGAF is today accepted and used around the world as a genuinely open framework and method for enterprise architecture.