This conference is designed to help today's organizations breakdown the stovepipes in their IT systems to enable integrated information to be accessed in a secure reliable and timely manner. In recognizing that no organization can afford to replace its legacy infrastructure, enterprise architecture has moved to center stage to address this challenge.

Attendees will share requirements and experiences of user organizations, understand the approaches being taken by suppliers, learn about the evolving industry standards and best practices, and network with leading practitioners and thought leaders.

About the event

Boundaryless Information Flow is the term that describes the vision that CIO's have for addressing the pressure they feel in their organizations to deliver integrated information and access to that information across the extended enterprise. The members of The Open Group are focused on a broad range of initiatives for achieving Boundaryless Information Flow for themselves, for their business partners, and for their customers. This conference is open to non-members and is focused on one aspect of the work of the members: Enterprise Architecture. Immediately following the conference, The Open Group member meeting will continue the work in each of its subject specific forums.

The conference is designed for enterprises at all stages of creating an enterprise architecture from developing the business scenarios, gaining buy-in, developing the architecture framework through to developing an architecture. Additional considerations brought about by the practical concerns of mobility, security, real-time and embedded systems and more will be presented.

What makes this event unique

The Open Group is a global, vendor neutral consortium that brings together customers and suppliers of IT products and services to discuss, address and resolve the barriers to Boundaryless Information Flow using open industry standards, best practices and methodologies, and the certification of conformance of products and services to open standards.

By combining this conference with our quarterly member meeting we are able to bring a large group of both customers and vendors, from around the world, who are working on these issues, both within The Open Group and inside their own enterprises, to create a much richer networking opportunity for non-member attendees than could be achieved by a stand-alone conference.

What you will experience

• Learn from the experiences of other organizations when embarking upon enterprise architecture activities.
• Understand the challenges shared by other organizations when addressing enterprise architecture and the strategies they have used for addressing those challenges.
• Discover the Open industry approaches.
• Hear about the models used by a broad range of vendors.

Keynote Speakers

John Gilligan, Air-Force Chief Information Officer and member of the Senior Executive Service, Washington D.C.
Brigadier General (P) Dennis C. Moran, Director of Information Operations, Networks and Space, Headquarters Department of The Army
Fred Riedl, Open Architecture, Program Executive Office, Integrated Warfare Systems, United States Navy
Dr. Fatma Dandashi, MITRE Corporation; Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration, DoD CIO
Michael Krieger, Director, Information Management Deputy CIO Office, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration
George S. Paras, Vice President, Enterprise Planning and Architecture Strategies, META Group, Inc.
Dr. Ron Ross, Senior Computer Scientist and Information Security Researcher, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Bret Greenstein, Director of Strategy, e-business on demand, IBM
Kazuo Hajikano, Director, TRIOLE Business Development Division, Fujitsu Ltd.
Jerry Wills, Vice President Global Innovations Center, Glovia International Inc. A Fujitsu Company
Dr. Mark W. Maier, Distinguished Engineer. The Aerospace Corporation
Ed Harrington, Principal Consultant & CEO, EPH Associates LLC
Andras Szakal, Chief Architect, Federal Software Sales Division, IBM
Leo Laverdure, Enterprise Architect, HP Adaptive Enterprise Program
Amy Wheelock, Office of the Chief Information Officer, Department of Homeland Security
Ed Harrington, Principal Consultant & CEO, EPH Associates LLC
Brian Breton, Senior Product Marketing Manager, RSA Security
Joseph Sprute, Founder, CyberRAVE
Mike Baker, Vice President & Chief Information Technology Officer, Hewlett-Packard

In addition, senior architecture experts from Sun Microsystems, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Fujitsu and Hitachi will outline vendor architectures that address the problems with Boundaryless Information Flow.

Benefits to your organization

• Improve the use of best practices in Enterprise Architecture.
• Minimize the time and cost of collecting industry information about Enterprise Architectures.
• Share your organization's concerns and needs with industry peers and vendors.

Benefits of attending

• Network with vendors and customers in a non-acquisition environment.
• Compare and contrast the approaches of different suppliers at one time.
• Understand the open industry tools and methodologies.
• Attend presentations focused on the specific issues arising from mobility, security, real-time and embedded systems and so forth.
• Network with leading practitioners and thought leaders in Enterprise Architecture.
• Learn about global issues.