Cristina Woodbridge is the Worldwide IT Architect Profession Leader and an Executive IT Architect in IBM. Her responsibilities include managing the ongoing IT Architect professional development programs deployed worldwide in IBM, reviewing and approving skill and experience requirements, professional education, and certification programs to ensure geography and business unit consistency and maintenance of profession standards and vitality.

Cristina is an IBM Certified IT Architect and a member of the IBM Americas IT Architect Certification Review Board. She is an Open Group Master Certified IT Architect by and is the Certification Program Manager for IBM's Open Group Accredited IT Architect Certification program. She has also participated as a board member for The Open Group Direct Certification boards.

Cristina has more than twenty-five years experience in the IT industry. She began her IBM career in Argentina. Her background includes various technical and managerial roles in and outside of IBM. She was Lead Architect for the IBM Healthcare practice in the Western United States before assuming her current responsibilities. She has a strong background in the profession specializing in Application Architecture.

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Keynote: Community of Enterprise Architects
Enterprise Architects today play a key role in helping businesses be successful. Their ability to define solutions to business problems through the reasoned application of technology are vital in today's global and changing environment. How do we make these Enterprise Architects successful in what they do? What promotes the development of successful Enterprise Architects? Defining skills and experience requirements and providing a well-defined validation process are just part of the environment needed to develop successful Enterprise Architects. Providing an environment where Enterprise Architects can learn and network is equally important. A special focus on woman Enterprise Architects will be included .

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