Drs. Ir. Marlies van Steenbergen has more than 10 years' experience as an enterprise architect. As principal consultant enterprise architecture with Sogeti she coaches organizations in improving their architectural function. She also gives workshops and courses, both in-company and for educational institutions. She chairs Sogeti's Architectural Competence Network. Marlies is co-author of two books on Dynamic Architecture and published several articles.

Experience:
The Open Group IT architect practitioners conference in Dublin (April 2005)
Software 2005 conference in Oslo (2005)
Enterprise Architecture Conference Europe (2006, 2007)
LAC 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 (The Dutch annual national architecture conference)
9th international conference on enterprise information systems (Portugal 2007)
Many seminars in The Netherlands

Presentation
Successful Enterprise Architecture: Getting Stakeholder Involvement
Achieving stakeholder involvement from the start is key to success in Enterprise Architecture. To get this involvement it is essential to distinguish between different kinds of stakeholders with different types of concerns as well as to bring these stakeholders together. In my presentation I will show how stakeholders can effectively be involved, illustrating my presentation with best practices from various cases.

Audience: Architects that are concerned with getting their architectural work accepted

Key takeaways:
1. The importance of distinguishing between various uses of architecture (strategic - operational)
2. How to actively, and effectively, involve stakeholders

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