The Open Group Toronto 2009 will feature two co-located conferences:

23rd Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference

The latest in our highly successful series of conferences expressly designed for enterprise architecture practitioners. Details and registration: http://www.opengroup.org/toronto2009-apc/

KEY SPEAKERS

• Allen Brown, President and CEO, The Open Group - Drinking Our Own Champagne: Using TOGAF™ to Architect The Open Group's Systems
• Richard Bryson, Chief Architect, Government of Canada - EA in the Canadian Government
• David Foote, Foote Partners LLC - Architecture Profession, Skills and Pay Trends
• Jane Varnus, Enterprise Architect, Bank of Montreal - EA Survey Results
• Dana Gardner, Pricipal Analyst, Interabour Solutions - Architecture's Scope Beyond the Enterprise
• Terry Blevins, Mitre; and Customer Council Board Representative, The Open Group - Cloud Computing: Introduction to Customer Requriements

CONFERENCE TRACKS

Holistic EA and the Role of Business EA Implementation and Business Transformation EA in Complex Organizations Enterprise Architecture Life Cycle Service Oriented Architecture

Building People, Process and Technology Capabilities Business Analysis Modelling Languages and Tools for EA EA and Cloud Computing EA and Professional Development Enterprise Information Architectures

 3rd Security Practitioners Conference

The third in a new series of conferences that have been developed for security practitioners. Details and registration: http://www.opengroup.org/toronto2009-spc/

KEY SPEAKERS

• Murray Rosenthal, CISA, Senior Policy Analyst - Security, Risk Management & Information Security, I&T Strategic Planning & Architecture, I&T Division, City of Toronto - Disciplines of Information Security
• Steve Whitlock, Chief Security Strategist, Boeing - New Approach to Architecting Security
• Alex Woda, Practice Director, Avient Solutions Group - Developing Corporate Security Architecture
• Manu Namboodiri, VP, BitArmor - Debunking the Doomed Approach to Virtualization Security
• Ajei Gopal, EVP Products and Technology Group, CA - Cloud Computing Privacy and Security Issues

KEY THEMES

Architecting Information Security Security and Identity Issues in Cloud Computing Cloud More Secure than the Enterprise?

Governance, Risk, Compliance and Audit Overview of Existing GRCA Standards, Tools & Methodologies

If you wish to participate in the Cloud Security Debate, please follow this link for further information:
http://groups.google.com/group/cloudforum/browse_thread/thread/d213798fe120cc8c