THEODOROS VASSILIADIS    
Head of Unit, Directorate General for Informatics, European Commission

Biography
Born in Athens in 59. Studied in France (Toulouse) and obtained a doctorate in atomic physics in 85. He worked as project leader and as network manager in the private sector. Joined the European Commission in 91. He worked for 8 years in the taxation and customs area as project leader of the systems for taxation and anti-fraud. He implemented some large transeuropean information systems based on interoperability of the heterogeneous national computer infrastructures. He also managed the development of the distributed message broker employed by all transeuropean taxation, customs and anti-fraud systems which exchanges over 20.000.000 messages monthly among member state administrations. In 99 he was appointed head of unit responsible for IT in the antifraud area. His assignment for the last 3 years is head of unit responsible for architecture, methodology and interoperability in the Commission.

Presentation
The enterprise IT architecture activities in the European Commission
The European Commission decided in 2004 measures to favour the interoperability of its computer systems and the improvement of IT governance. These measures include the development of an enterprise architecture framework and its operational implementation. The presentation provides an outlook of the organisation of IT in the Commission, positions the enterprise architecture activities as part of the overall IT governance and presents the first version of the Commission enterprise architecture framework.

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