After finishing his education in business informatics in 1979, Steven specialized in high-level information modeling and, later, in quality assurance. He is founder (1996) and former chair of the Dutch Professional Community for Architects (GIA) and he founded (2001) and chairs the independent international Society for the Certification of Information Architects (SCIA). In the years 1985-2001 he represented his country in international ISO/JTC1 activities on Open Distributed Processing, Application Portability and Conceptual Schema. Currently he is working on the independent standardization of information and IT professions in Europe.

Steven published many articles on architecture and architecture-related subjects and has written a monthly column on architecture-related subjects for many years. During the last 20 years, he has organized, presented and chaired many conferences.

Presentation
The Key Role of Information Architecture
The Open Group is a vendor-neutral and technology-neutral consortium of IT vendors and their enterprise and IT architecture framework, TOGAF, is an agreed view on how IT ought to fit within organizations.

However, the view of the customers of IT vendors, of their information as a corporate resource, is quite different. Knowledge of the information in the enterprise information architecture sets the stage for IT vendors to sell fitting and aligned IT.

Although IT vendors cannot be involved in the development of the knowledge of information in an information architecture (because they supply solutions) it is very important to know what an IT vendor wants to be able to supply in providing the right solutions. This presentation introduces this issue.

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