Steve Nunn is President and CEO of The Open Group – a global consortium that enables the achievement of business objectives through IT standards. He is also President of the Association of Enterprise Architects (AEA).

Steve joined The Open Group in 1993, spending the majority of his time as Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel. He was also CEO of the AEA from 2010 until 2015.

Steve is a lawyer by training, has an L.L.B. (Hons) in Law with French and retains a current legal practicing certificate. Having spent most of his life in the UK, Steve has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2007. He enjoys spending time with his family, walking, playing golf, 80’s music, and is a lifelong West Ham United fan.

Trevor Cheung is Vice President of Strategy and Architecture Practice within Huawei Global Services. In this role, Trevor has a broad focus, including digital transformation, customer experience management, cloud, enterprise architecture, platform strategy, IT4IT™, Internet of Things and Design Thinking. Trevor is also founder of Huawei’s Customer Experience Transformation Center (CETC), which now has centers in Shenzhen and London.

Trevor has 20-years experience in technology and business leadership, specializing in providing thought leadership, creation of best practices and ecosystem development.

Prior to joining Huawei, Trevor served at Motorola between 1996 and 2011, successfully leading strategy, product management and engineering functions, culminating in his role as the Global Head of Services Strategy Alliance and Product Management.

Trevor has a B.Eng. from University College London, and M.B.A. from China Europe International Business School. He has attended Executive Education courses and seminars from Harvard Business School, Boston University and MIT Sloan. Trevor is a Certified Net Promoter Associate.

David Cannon leads consulting strategy at Forrester. He is the author of the ITIL v3 Service Operation (2007) and Service Strategy (2011) publications, and past president of itSMF USA, International and South Africa.

David is a Vice President leading Forrester’s consulting practice in EMEA.
His team provides consulting services to business and technology professionals, helping them utilize Forrester's proprietary research and expertise to meet the ever-changing needs and expectations of their stakeholders.

David specializes in helping clients transform their technology management operating models to meet the business demands for digital transformation and IT modernization.

He works with technology professionals to develop their business technology/information technology strategy, modern application development approaches (Agile, DevOps, microservice/product based architectures), service management/service delivery structure, the integration of cloud services, the workforce technology needs and improving the employee experience.

Prior to joining Forrester, David was the global lead of the HP Service Management Profession, HP Software Professional Services portfolio governance lead, and innovation lead. He has also led Professional Services teams implementing solutions across a large number of clients. He started his career in advanced robotics research, creating software for fully autonomous mobile robots.

David holds a B.A. in Computing and Artificial Intelligence from the University of Sussex. He also holds a managers' certificate in service management (ITIL).

Sonia Gonzalez Paredes has 20 years experience as a consultant in Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Governance of IT and IT Service Management, Information Systems design and analysis, Business Process Management, Service Oriented Architecture and Systematic Innovation. Sonia is certified in TOGAF®, ArchiMate® and Cobit 5, and has professional experience as a project manager and researcher.

Academic Degrees: Master Degree in Business Administration. Universidad de Costa Rica, Computer engineer. Universidad de Costa Rica.
Professional Training and Certifications:
The Open Group: TOGAF® 9 Certification (# 41961), ArchiMate® 2.0 Certification (# 634)
APMG: IT Governance and Management COBIT 5 Foundations Certification

I am a professional in Information Systems with more than twenty years experience. At present working as independent consultant for different clients in the areas of Enterprise Architecture, and Project Management. I conduct workshops in Enterprise Architecture, specifically TOGAF. Trained more than 400 professionals leading to TOGAF9 certification at certified level in India, Malaysia, Philippines and Singapore. I am an empanelled TOGAF trainer with Brain4ce Education Solutions Pvt. Ltd. My average rating among the participants of TOGAF workshop is consistently 4.5 out of 5. A partial list of organisations where the participants work is as follows. Microsoft, IBM, HP, Indra (Philippines), Intel Microelectronics (Malaysia), Vodafone (Singapore), Cisco, HSBC, Citibank, TCS, Maybank (Malaysia), PWC, Accenture.

Strive to balance between entrepreneurial spirit with enterprise capabilities for success. Innovative technology leader with proven ability to initiate, develop, and implement programs across a broad spectrum of industries including telecommunications, financial services, media, consultancy, education, and technology solutions.

Capable leader with demonstrated ability to enable global businesses to build performance-driven and quality focused services for world-class organizations. In 2003 Imran established LGL Solutions with primary focus on e-learning technology.

Since 2012 Imran helped establish Al Jazeera's Service Management practice, technology portfolio management, financial management, enterprise architecture, processes, risk, audit and business continuity function as it is transiting to a digital first organization.

Madhu Dharmarajan is an Enterprise Architect at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, The foundation of his experience is Enterprise Architecture in Banking and Financial Services, Public Services, Telecommunications, Professional Services and Corporate Functions. He has over 20 years of IT experience in various roles in the UK, Japan, India, and Singapore. He has been a TOGAF® certified Enterprise Architecture Practitioner for over 13 years.

He enables enterprises to transform to adopt emerging business models through technology transformation; resulting in sustainable business performance and improved business efficiency. Currently, he is helping customers in Financial Services and Insurance (FSI) and Communications, Media and Entertainment (CME) to Digitally Transform.

Shekhar is responsible for the design, development & delivery of world class Advanced Analytics solutions leveraging Machine learning, Cognitive & Big Data technologies. His current area of focus is development of cognitive solutions for the IT organization/function.

Rolf Knoll currently works as a Senior Managing Consultant and Head of Competence Area EAM at NovaTec Consulting GmbH.

He started to study architecture and city planning in the 1980s and finished his studies with computer science focusing on object oriented technology and software architecture.

From 1993 to 2000 he developed frameworks for large banking systems. From 2000 to 2006 he was a consultant for frameworks for high performant distributed and data-intense IT systems. Since more than 10 years he focuses as a consultant on the establishment and optimization of the EA capability at different customers across the industries.

He is lecturer for

• distributed systems at Cooperative State University of Baden-Württemberg
• EAM at University of Applied Sciences, Stuttgart

He is trainer for TOGAF, ArchiMate and EA (more than 250 training days in the last 6 years)

In several Working Groups of the Open Group he focuses on Improving TOGAF and Harmonizing TOGAF and ArchiMate.

Frédéric Lé is Technology Strategist working for DXC’s Corporate Technology Office. He is leading the development of DXC’s new Agile Architecture Framework and has over 25 years’ experience with significant expertise in Technology Strategy, Enterprise Architecture, Lean, Agile and Digital. Frédéric graduated from Audencia business school and holds a post-graduate degree in computer sciences from Paris Dauphine University.

Jean-Pierre Le Cam is a Change and Transformation leading expert at Société Générale (SG). He contributes to the development of change management and transformation skills and methodologies within the group. Jean-Pierre has over 30 years’ experience with significant expertise in Digital and Omnichannel banking. He holds a degree in engineering (Télécom Paris), and is change master at the ESSEC Change Management academy.

Antoine Lonjon is Chief Innovation Officer at MEGA International. He has contributed to the foundation of the HOPEX enterprise architecture toolset and is also involved in standard organizations, such as the OMG and the Open Group

Srikanth Narasimhan is a Distinguished IT Engineer at Cisco Systems. In his current role, he is responsible for architecting Cisco IT’s Autonomous Operations journey. He has 31 years of industry experience with significant expertise in enterprise architecture, distributed systems, autonomic systems, adaptive security, context-aware architecture, machine learning and cloud networking spanning telecom, banking, financial services and high tech industries.

Srikanth is the co-author of the book “Enterprise Digitization Patterns” published in January 2018. The book breaks down digital disruption enablers and delivers a cookbook across three key pillars – Digital Experience,

Enterprise IoT and Autonomous Systems. The book provides reference architectures, design patterns, maturity models and practical case studies to drive new forms of customer value, business outcomes and business models.

Paul is a TOGAF Certified Enterprise Architect that has a wealth of experience working across the organisational value stream to deliver tangible business outcomes. He has over 25 years experience in domains such as energy, manufacturing and government across the Philippines, Japan, Singaporeand Australia.

Paul works closely with senior stakeholders to establish strategic roadmaps for achieving the corporate strategy and also implements EA programs within organisations to build core Architecture capability. He is a subject matter expert in the fields of identity management, enterprise mobility and RFID.

Paul also delivers training to a wide variety of audiences across a number of Architecture disciplines including Business Architecture, Solution Design, ArchiMate and TOGAF certification.

Mr. Radhakrishnan is the Founder and Principal Consultant at Zygous LLC. The consulting company has three practice areas: 1) a digital business and IT strategy, architecture (different disciplines of architecture), innovation and governance (SAIG) consulting practice, 2) an IT strategy, architecture, innovation and governance custom training practice; and 3) IP development and management services, including invention development service (IDS), and an invention and innovation process design and management service, among others. Zygous clients include Fortune 500 companies such as Freddie Mac and EY (Ernst & Young) from the financial services industry, Shire Pharmaceuticals and CareFirst BC & BS in the health care and life sciences industry, and Cisco and others from the technology industry.

Mr. Radhakrishnan was previously a Senior Managing Consultant and Senior IT Architect for IBM Global Technology Services (GTS), an independent IT architect at Zygous LLC, a senior technical consultant at Sun Microsystems, and a senior technical staff member at Metamor Worldwide. He specializes in enterprise architecture and service management consulting, business continuance, high-availability, high-end systems, storage technologies, and technical project management.

Mr. Radhakrishnan earned an MBA from Old Dominion University's Strome College of Business, an MS from the University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce, and a bachelor’s degree in Economics (First Class) from Loyola College (University of Madras, India). He is certified as a TOGAF® practitioner, ITIL-ITSM (v3) consultant (Expert Level), Six Sigma Black Belt, IBM Senior IT Architect, Open Group Master Architect, and as a Solaris Systems Administrator and Storage Architect. He has received multiple academic and industry awards.

You can find further details at https://www.commerce.virginia.edu/alumni/msmit-board/radhakrishnan.

Mayank is an experienced consultant in technology strategy, architecture and innovation. He brings with him experience performing different roles (architect, product owner, program, project and change manager) in different industry verticals (Banking, Retail, Manufacturing, Telecommunications, Technology, Defence & Aerospace, Oil Gas & Energy, Health Care, FMCG, and Financial Services/Payments) under various ownership structures (Public, Private, Family-owned and Start-up) in multiple geographies.

Alumni of Stanford Graduate School of Business (Executive Education) with a focus on Corporate Innovation, where he received recognition in Design Thinking, Leading Effective Teams, Change Management amongst other cohorts. Apart from that, he brings knowledge of building platform business models for the digital economy from MIT along with professional education in the fields of IoT, data science & machine learning. He holds a Masters and dual Bachelors in Technology.

Aaron Tan Dani has a strong passion in the area of EA related fields. He firmly believes that only with the proper practice of EA that maximum value of IT can be realized by the business. With this keen passion and selfless contribution, he has been actively involved as the Chairman of EA SIG with SCS. Aaron close connection with the industry leaders and government bodies in the respective APAC countries gives him the edge in the latest technology landscape.

Aaron is an Accredited Trainer for TOGAF 9 and ArchiMate 3 and he is also the co-author of 2 popular training courses i.e. 2-Days on Business Requirement Architecture and 3-days on Architecting Software with Object Oriented Analysis and Design. Since December 2009, Aaron has been actively delivering these courses across the globes.

As an industry thought leader in the EA arena, Aaron is a frequent public speaker and he speaks with passion and charisma and has been consistently ranked in the top 10% in speaker ratings in most of the international industry events. He has been public speaking frequently since 2004 across the globes presenting various strategic IT & Business related topics across Asia Pacific region. His charismatic, passionate and entertaining presentation style has been well received. In April 2013, Aaron has been officially appointed as an expert in the Community of Practice Enterprise Architecture (COP EA) for Malaysian public sector by MAMPU (Malaysia Administrative Modernization & Management Planning Unit under Prime Minister Office to assist in the formation of National Enterprise Architecture Frameworks and Practices.

He holds a Master of Technology from the National University of Singapore and a Bachelor of Computer and Mathematical Sciences from the University of Western Australia.

Since 2012, Aaron’s direct consulting engagements involved in Digital EA Implementation for various government agencies and Government Linked Companies (GLC) in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia.

Francis Uy is the CEO of Sinag Solutions, a consulting company in the Philippines for Enterprise Architecture. He has over 20 years of IT professional experience and is currently TOGAF and PMP certified.

Francis is the Enterprise Architect for several industry and government organizations. Francis is an active supporter in driving EA Maturity in the Philippines and along with like-minded individuals founded AEA Philippines. He is currently the organization's Chairman.

As Vice President, Client Solutions-Xavient Digital, Powered by TELUS International, Ravindran currently leads a terrific team committed to digital transformation of large enterprises.

Ravindran has partnered with illustrious leaders from Ford, Edison, Visa, Walgreens, 3M, eBay, Comcast, Cox, Dish, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, California and Montana State Governments and The World Bank to name a few. He has spent 23+ years handling a variety of IT engagements in Automotive, Banking, Financial Services, Insurance, Satellite, Broad band, Telecom, Healthcare, Utilities, and Retail and provided strategic technology directions. He actively participates in various Enterprise Architecture and Project Management forums, made significant contributions and shared his works in premier industry events worldwide. He has managed complex projects and programs and spearheaded thought leadership within the organizations and in global forums.

Ravindran is a keen long distance runner.

Prafull Verma has a bachelor's degree in electronics and communication engineering and has over thirty years' experience in the area of electronic data processing and information technology. During the past thirty years, he has worked on diversified areas in computer science and information technologies. Some of his key experience areas are the design and implementation of heterogeneous networks, midrange technical support management, end-user service management and design, and the implementation and management of process-driven ITSM systems.

Prafull has acquired a unique blend of expertise in integrated areas of tools, process, governance, operations, and technology. He is the author of seven books in the area of Enterprise IT Service Management. Additionally he has developed several methodologies and frameworks for IT service management that include multivendor ITIL frameworks, ITSM for Cloud computing, and Service Integration. He represents HCL Technology in The Open Group.

Greg Hunt is an Architect in Fujitsu’s Business Applications practice. He is continually engaged across a range of projects and problem domains in both full-time and visiting capacities. He leads or advises on architecture, technology and project issues, and participates in development of internal standards and technology approaches, focussing on the pragmatics of technology adoption and use.