Welcome and Introduction
David Rose, The Open Group

From Strategy to Technology – EA, Innovation and Change in Higher Education infrastructures
Bill Olivier, Development Director for Systems and Technology
JISC Innovation Group

Adopting the Enterprise Architecture is seen as a key element in delivering improved services and value for money throughout the UK public sector.  Bill will speak about JISC’s growing programme supporting early adopters of EA in UK Higher Education, some early conclusions and how this is addressing the challenges of change for Universities worldwide – funding, costs, competition for students, increasing demand for personalised learning among many

EA, business and IT alignment and the value of collaboration in the Netherlands
Ronald Ham, SURF Foundation

Enterprise architecture and working with services in general is becoming more commonplace in the Netherlands. SURFfoundation seeks to facilitate the HE institutions in their strategic dialogue regarding business and IT alignment.  Ronald describes how a national initiative is being translated into practical enterprise architecture development on the ground, how international collaboration provides value and what lessons have been learned.

First steps in Enterprise Architecture
Presentations from leaders of live projects in Netherlands and UK universities illustrating their experience in adopting the EA approach from a cold start.  They will be highlighting issues of understanding, implementation and governance – and how collaboration is pointing to new solutions to old problems, not least the involvement of technology functions in organisational change.

First steps in Enterprise Architecture
Session 1

Frank Boterenbrood
Lead Architect
Windesheim  University of Applied Sciences

Coffee

First steps in Enterprise Architecture
Session 2

Bert van Zomeren
Information Manager (CIO)
Technical University of Delft

First steps in Enterprise Architecture
Session 3

Paul Hobson
Associate Director – Information Services
Cardiff   University         

First steps in Enterprise Architecture
Session 4

John Townsend
Deputy Director (Corporate Information Systems)
Liverpool John Moores    University

Our panel of project leaders will draw their conclusions from the earlier presentations and invite the audience to share their own views.  We will conclude with the emerging picture of the main challenges facing higher education institutes in adopting EA methods.

Lunch

The afternoon sessions provide an opportunity to explore common challenges by sharing experience of what works, and what does not in a higher education context.  Our aim is identify knowledge,  understanding and techniques

You read the book – now what to do on Monday?  While there is plenty of information on what Enterprise Architecture is there is much less on how to apply it.  This session draws together ideas and experience on how to lead and do enterprise architecture yourself, alongside the ‘day job’, including the role TOGAF can play in providing a structured approach

EA Tools is emerging as critical capability in EA development, and in facilitating interaction with management.  Until now there has been little to guide users in which tools o use and how to apply them.  We invite participants to contribute their experience an analysis, including the powerful potential of Archimate as an emerging open standard.

Coffee

While governance is formally understood as the organisational structures and processes involved in managing information and technology infrastructures, this session addresses some new challenges How best to engage University leadership in enterprise architecture e initiatives that originate in the IT department.  How also to build collaboration across different schools and faculties, who value independence of thought and action.  Where is the effective balance lie between a uniform enterprise approach and local diversity

In this closing session our workshop leaders present a summary of their sessions and discuss with invited experts some conclusions and possible priorities for further work.  We will conclude with options and ideas (and volunteers please!) to continue exploring these issues beyond this event.