The Open Group London 2011
May 9-13, 2011

Objective of Meeting

The Open Group Conference London 2011 took place at Central Hall Westminster, Storey's Gate..

The conference gathered to focus on the following:

• Enterprise Architecture, Business Transformation, and EA Frameworks and Tools
• Cybersecurity
• Cloud Computing/SOA
• IT Skills Certification, including TOGAF®

Summary

Each day of the three-day conference included a mix of plenary presentations, with industry leaders from near and far sharing their insights on the day’s theme; and a set of parallel tracks examining specific areas in depth. The various tracks delivered presentations by enterprise architecture professionals from both vendor and customer organizations; and provided experience-based insight into the approaches and methods that have proved most effective for developing architectures around the world.

The presentations can be accessed from the links below under separate daily headings:

• Monday May 9
• Tuesday May 10
• Wednesday May 11

The presentations referenced below are freely available only to members of The Open Group and conference attendees.

Monday May 9

PLENARY: Evolving EA to Architect the Business

• Welcome and Introduction
  Allen Brown, President & CEO, The Open Group
• An Enterprise Architect in the Land of Architects and Civil Engineers
  Peter Edwards, Olympic Delivery Authority (Associate Director, IT & Communications Consulting, Arup)
• Bridging the Gap Between Architecture and Strategy
  Bill Brierley, Practice Director, Enterprise Architecture, TRM Technologies, Canada
• Leveraging Enterprise Architecture for Federal Strategy
  Hind Yousef Al Youha, Director, Strategic Planning & Performance, Ministry for the Economy, United Arab Emirates
• World Class EA
  Mick Adams, UK Leader, Global Architecture, Capgemini
  Chris Forde VP Enterprise Architecture & Membership Capabilities, The Open Group

SPOTLIGHTS

• Architecture Forum
• QLM
• Business Forum
• SOA
• Security Forum/Jericho Forum
• ACEML
• Cloud Computing Work Group
• Trusted Technology Forum

PARALLEL TRACKS

IT Professional Development (Hosted by Chris Greenslade)

• Competence Development @ Philips IT
  Paul Nijenhuis, Competence Group Manager, Philips IT, Netherlands
• Certifying as an Architect
  Paul Homan, IBM, UK
• Enterprise Architecture Education & Research in Higher Education
  Professor Brian Cameron, Penn State University, US
• CASE STUDY: Maturing Visa Europe's Architecture Practice
  Robin Meehan, CTO, Smart421, UK
  Mark Pettit, Head of Architecture, Visa Europe

EA and Business Strategy (Hosted by Len Fehskens)

• Using a Live Architecture Environment to Control and Optimize Decision-Making Across a Complex Portfolio
  Richard Whittington, CTO, The Salamander Organization, UK
  Jim Bennett, The Salamander Organization, UK
• Aligning Strategy and Execution using Enterprise Architecture
  Abdallah El Kadi, CEO, Shift Technologies, Dubai

EA in the Enterprise (Hosted by Len Fehskens)

• TOGAF for Transformation at Deutsche Telekom AG – a Five-Year Success Story
  Dr. Karsten Schweichhart, Executive Chief Enterprise Architect, Deutsche Telekom Group, Germany
  Uwe Weber, Managing Partner, Detecon International GmbH, Germany
• Extending EA to the Enterprise – How to Talk to your Audience and Stakeholders
  Roberto Severo, Enterprise Archtect, AOGEA Brazil Chapter

Cybersecurity and E-Crime

• The Fundamental Failures of End-point Security
  Stefan Frei, Research Analyst Director, Secunia, Denmark

Dependability and Trusted Technology

• The Open Group Trusted Technology Forum – Best Practices and Accreditation for a Secure Global Supply Chain
  Andras Szakal, CSSLP, IBM DE, Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, IBM US Federal IMT
• Architecture Enforcement: The Mils™ Framework
  Rance DeLong, Staff Scientist, LynuxWorks

Tuesday May 10

PLENARY: Security (Jericho Forum® Conference) – The Critical Role of a Digital Identity Ecosystem to Improve Cybersecurity

• Welcome and Introduction
  Allen Brown, President & CEO, The Open Group
• Why the Need for an Effective Digital Ecosystem for Cyberspace/Cloud/Critical Infrastructures – Why should we care?
  James Whyte, Head of IT Service Delivery, UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office
• How is the Jericho Forum addressing them? (Identity Commandments, Identity Management, Entitlement Management, Access Management) and what to expect from the rest of the conference
  Paul Simmonds, Jericho Forum
• The UK Government's Aspirations for Managing Identity
  The Earl of Erroll
• The Consumerization Industry View from PayPal
  Andrew Nash, Senor Director of Identity Services, PayPal
• The Jericho Forum’s Identity Commandments – a Deeper Dive into how they Advance the Identity Ecosystem Debate (Seccombe; Arnold; Yeomans)
  Jericho Forum speakers: Adrian Seccombe, John Arnold, Andrew Yeomans, Steve Whitlock
• Independent External Assessment
  Robin Wilton, Identity Management Expert
• PANEL SESSION
  Moderated by Stuart Okin, CEO, Comsec Consulting
  Panelists included John Arnold, Guy Bunker, Andrew Yeomans, Steve Whitlock
  

PARALLEL TRACKS

Business Architecture (Hosted by Dave van Gelder)

• The Importance of Corporate Strategy for Business Architects
  S. Kevin Daley, Chief Architect, Business Architecture, IBM, US
• Business Architecture: Communication is 80% of the Work
  Dave van Gelder, Global Architect, Capgemini, Netherlands

EA as a Business Discipline (Hosted by Sarina Viljoen)

• How to CIO Right!?
  Andreas Slogar, Manager IT Project Management and Consulting, DB Systel GmbH, Germany
• Organizational Intelligence
  Richard Veryard, Director, Next Practice Research Initiative, UK

EA in Banking and Finance (Hosted by Eric Boulay)

• Building the Bad Bank
  Thomas Obitz, Senacor AG, Germany
• EA Management in the Context of Mergers & Acquisitions
  Andreas Freitag, Detecon International GmbH, Germany

SOA

• Using TOGAF to Define and Govern Service-Oriented Architectures – A New Technical Guide
  Ed Harrington, Principal Consultant, Architecting the Enterprise
  Dave Hornford, Co-chair of the SOA-TOGAF Practical Guide Work Group, and Chair of the Architecture Forum
• SOA Reference Architecture
  Heather Kreger, Lead Architect, SOA, Policy, and Smarter Planet Standards, IBM Software Group, US
• The Canonical Data Zone: Issues in Data Selection for Service-Oriented Architectures
  Gary Farrow, IT Architect/Director, Triari Consulting
• Innovation with SOA
  Judith Jones, CEO, Architecting the Enterprise
• A New Service-Oriented Approach to Solution Architecture
  Peter Kuppen, Enterprise Architecture Profession Lead, Deloitte Consulting BV,Netherlands

Wednesday May 11

PARALLEL TRACKS

Cloud Computing Architecture

• Architecting Cloud Computing: A Data-Driven Approach
  Daniel Spar, Technology Strategist, Deloitte Consulting LLP, US
• A Scenario-Driven Approach to Cloud Security Architecture
  Stuart Boardman, Senior Business Consultant, Getronics Consulting, Netherlands
• IBM's Cloud Computing Reference Architecture Applied
  [See also associated MP3]
  Julie Schuneman Global Lead Architect for Cloud Computing, IBM, US
  Heather Kreger, Lead Architect, SOA, Policy, and Smarter Planet Standards, IBM Software Group, US
• Reverse Impact of Cloud on Platforms and Architecture
  Shripadraj Mujumdar, Sr. Architect & Consultant, Cognizant Technology Solutions, India

Deploying Cloud Solutions

• Practical Experiences Architecting and Delivering Cloud to the Pharmaceutical Industry
  Rajiv Phougat , IBM Certified Sr. IT Architect, IBM, US
• Governing the Cloud – Fast-Track to a Mature Cloud Strategy
  Jerome Bugnet, Director of Technology, SOA Software, US

Gaining Business Value from Cloud Computing

• Cloud Vendor Selection: Picking the Right Combination of Better, Faster, and Cheaper
  [See also associated MP3]
  Penelope Gordon, Co-founder, 1Plug Corporation, US
  Mark Skilton, Global Director, Applications Outsourcing, Capgemini
• PANEL SESSION: Using the Cloud [MP3]
  Moderated by Ed Harrington, Architecting-the-Enterprise
  Panelists included Bala Prasad Peddigari, Consultant, Tata Consultancy Services

ArchiMate® (hosted by Henry Franken)

• TOGAF® and ArchiMate® for Successful Enterprise Architecture
  Henk Jonkers, Senior Research Consultant, BiZZdesign
• Modeling for Business Change – EA, ArchiMate®, and Transforming Universities
  David Rose, Enterprise Architecture Practice Group Lead, JISC CETIS
  Wilbert Kraan, Assistant Director, JISC CETIS
  Adam Watson, Portal Content Manager, Leeds Metropolitan University

EA Frameworks and Tools (hosted by Bill Estrem)

• Enterprise Architecture in the Cloud: EA Knowledge Management with a Federation of Semantic Wikis
  Remco de Boer, ArchiXL, Netherlands
• How to Keep Architectural Blueprints Up-to-Date with (Almost) Zero Effort
  Prof. Pedro Sousa, Technical University Lisbon and Link Consulting, Portugal

Architecture Methods and Techniques (hosted by Ken Street)

• Principles in an Enterprise Architecture Context
  Erik Proper, Senior Research Manager, Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg
  Danny Greefhorst, Principal Consultant and Director, ArchiXL, The Netherlands
  

Enterprise IT Architecture (hosted by Serge Thorn)

• Target Architectures: Creation, Communication, Visualization, and what it means in Terms of Business Change
  Steve Ross-Talbot, CTO Europe and Chief Architect, Cognizant
  Sanda Morar, Lead for Enterprise Architecture Practice, Cognizant

EA and Business/IT Alignment (hosted by Mike Lambert)

• Agile Architecture – Blazing a Trail through the Business/IT Alignment Jungle
  Peter Haviland, Chief Architect, Ernst & Young, US
• Enterprise Business Capability Map
  Santosh Mohanty, VP and Head of Components Engineering Group, Tata Consultancy Services, India

TOGAF® 9 Case Studies (hosted by Jason Uppal)

• Tailoring and Adopting the TOGAF ADM in BP
  Vincenzo Marchese, Head of Architecture Capability & Performance, BP Oil International, UK
• Optimizing Architecture Evolution – A Critical Addition to the TOGAF ADM
  Rajaram Venkataramani, Cognizant, UK
  Rob Oddy, Barclays, UK
• Driving Value from IT Procurement using Architecture
  Grant Brown, Senior Manager, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
• Solution Architecture and TOGAF 9
  Serge Thorn, CIO, Architecting the Enterprise, UK

TOGAF® Camp

• TOGAF® Camp
  Facilitated by Steve Nunn, CEO, Association of Open Group Architects

Outputs

The presentations, tutorials, and workshops at the meeting, and the associated discussions and panel sessions, all provided participants with a wealth of experience-based insight into current best practice in architecture, security, and cloud computing, from leading experts and practitioners around the world.

Next Steps

The next Enterprise Architecture Practitioners' Conference will be held in Austin, TX, US, July 18-22, 2011.

If you are interested in presenting at future Open Group Conferences, then please submit a Presentation Proposal.

Links

• More about The Open Group SOA Work Group
• More about The Open Group Architecture Forum
• More about TOGAF®
• More about TOGAF® Certification
• More about The Open Group IT Architect Certification Program (ITAC)
• More about The Association of Open Group Enterprise Architects (AOGEA