• Business Use and Applications of AI
• The AI-First Enterprise
• Architectural Enablers for AI
• An AI Reference Architecture
• AI Reference Implementations

The Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association (UCISA) is a member-led, open, impartial association that provides a national (UK) and international presence for those responsible for digital and information provision within the High and Further Education sector. The Association is made up of a number of groups (Network, IT Project Management, Information Systems etc.) whose aim is to help promote excellence in support of teaching, learning, research and administration. The UCISA Enterprise Architecture (EA) Community of Practice (CoP) is the newest member of the association and was created to offer support to the growing number of Business and IT Architects working within the sector.

However, while the role of domain architects is growing, EA as a practice, and its function of both acting as an ‘umbrella’ architecture and facilitating the link between business and IT still struggles to get established.

To help move this process forward the CoP has undertaken a yearlong project to develop a generic HE capability model. The main purpose of the exercise was to create a template designed to highlight all major capabilities required to run a UK university business; focusing on 3 main value streams 1) Teaching & Learning 2) Research 3) Commercial Activity, At which point the outputs are freely available to the sector and can be customised accordingly. The aim was to try and attempt to make the template 80% accurate for all UK universities. This presentation will discuss the process undertaken to produce this model including the use of the ArchiMate modelling language, identify the key learning points, the inputs from those in the sector and commercial contributors and how universities are already putting the outputs to use e.g. for planning, system development & integration etc. In addition, It will address similar experiences in developing reference architectures in higher education and other sectors, and how this differs from creating regular Enterprise Architectures.

Key takeaways:

• The lessons learned, and benefits achieved, from this type of undertaking.
• Understand the value of creating a common language between IT and the business
• See how defining capabilities and linking to concepts like POLDAT allows the business to quickly develop an architecture repository.

The Czech republic updated its ICT legislation in law no.365/2017, which sets up a mandatory standard for ICT strategy goals and principles and also a requirement for EA modelling for every ICT project. The main discussion is currently finishing - how to set up goals and principles in a National ICT strategy document. The next goal is how to de-compose these principles in ministry ICT strategy .

The Czech ministry of Industry and Trade is an offical pilot site for new ICT strategy implmentation, with responsibility to define sub-legislation principles. The Ministry implemented an EA model in the Archimate language and an advanced repository in early 2016, and is using it as the main input for the new ICT strategy version.

Key takeaways:

• How to set up EA as a standard in legislation
• How to specify key principles, their model structures and relationships
• How to define key goals and their relationships in 2-level strategy documents
• How to decompose goals to themes/areas
• How to define top-level migration plans and how this looks in an EA repository. 
  
  

Web-based services in Smart Cities and other domains are currently domain- and system-specific, which makes it impossible to discover and consume those services on-demand. A major objective of the EU-funded project bIoTope is to provide such on-demand interoperability. This presentation will focus on on-demand Smart Parking systems being implemented for several European cities and car manufacturers.

Current web service APIs don't allow interoperability without human intervention. Our new versions of the Open Group standards Open Messaging Interface (O-MI) and Open Data Format (O-DF) bring the necessary machine-readability by using standardised vocabularies such as the Open Data Element Framework (O-DEF). In addition to documenting the APIs in well-structured and standardised ways, it also provides means to annotate data collected in Data Lakes in meaningful ways for further processing and analysis.

Key takeaways:

• How to specify web service APIs in a way the makes them consumable on-demand
• How Smart City web services can be made interoperable over domains and systems

In 2017, IBM were engaged to review the current and future digital needs of Business in the Community (BITC), to inform the development of a digital strategy. BITC want to see responsible business become the norm for UK business and create healthy communities with successful business at their heart. Their business strategy set out ambitious targets for growth and impact: engaging 75% of FTSE 100 organisations, 10,000 SMEs and measurable regeneration in ten disadvantaged areas. It described the need to move into the digital age, developing an offering that brings responsible business online and enables BITC to service smaller businesses than is currently feasible.

In the second presentation, James Conway – Senior Technology Strategy & Innovation Consultant at IBM will discuss how the TOGAF ADM was applied, the development and use of a component business model to understand the organisation needs and use of complementary design thinking methods to better understand the users of BITC technology.

The world is becoming increasingly digital at an unprecedented pace. Starting from lifestyle, preference of consuming products and services, the way of working, interacting and doing business - every aspect has experienced fundamental shift, and the list is ever increasing. Almost each enterprise is on a transformation journey.

Customer behaviour and expectations have undergone dramatic changes too. For example: functional richness / completeness is considered as given with aspects like ease of interaction, simplicity of experience and personalised relevance takes over as differentiation.

Thus, architecting massively technology-enabled successful digital business is a pleasure and challenge at the same time. The role context, charter and expectation for architects and strategists have changed at pace:

• from expertise based complicated landscape management to emergent behaviour
• from minimising / avoiding complexity to constantly adapting complex capabilities
• from driving standardisation to delivering simple, intuitive yet differentiating customer experience, without shying away from complexity when required
• from massive masterplans to incremental, experimental adoption at pace
• from systematic portfolio rationalisation to wise and effective ecosystem integration
• from control focused governance to enabling design driven decisions 
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“The Internet of Things”: As more and more intelligence is pushed to the periphery – to the edge – with the expectation of greater performance to meet ever-growing needs, more reliance will be placed on sensing of what is going on “at the edge”. After all, “intelligence” can only act on the data and information it has, so a “smart” periphery means more sensing at the periphery. When it comes to “IoT”, this is considered a given. But, what exactly does that mean in an industrial context? How will this trend impact industrial process manufacturing plants? As the Open Process Automation Forum undertakes moving process automation into the future of open platforms, it will need to take on what this impact may be. This paper discusses industrial sensing from a historical, current-use, and future trends approach to address what sensing and the Internet of Things means to Industry.

Key takeaways:
1. What sensing means in a process industry setting
2. What role sensing will play in the IoT of industrial plants
3. Impact to the current developments in the Open Process Automation Forum to take under consideration.

Panelists:

• Andrew Josey, VP Standards & Certification, The Open Group
• Sonia Gonzalez, Architecture Forum Director, The Open Group
• Mike Lambert, Chair of The Open Group Architecture Forum
• Paul Homan, CTO Industrial Solutions, IBM and The Open Group Distinguished IT Architect
  

The TOGAF Essentials 2018 training course will allow attendees to gain up-to-date knowledge and an understanding of the changes introduced to the TOGAF Body of Knowledge in 2018. The session will cover both the updated standard and documents in the TOGAF Library.    

Attendees who are TOGAF 9 Certified will also be eligible to earn an Open Badge credential by taking an online examination after the event.

If you have a pass for The Open Group London then this session is free to attend. If you are just attending the tutorial then the price is £95.

3:30 - 4:00 PM  Coffee break

4:00 - 5:30    Tutorial continued

• The difference between a reference model and a framework
• The journey is as important as reaching the destination
• IT4IT processes and solutions are as important as in other areas

With the emergence of the “as a service delivery” model, increased consumption of cloud services, enterprise IT quickly needs to move to leveraging interlocking solutions across an ecosystem. The session discusses the issues and impact on service management practices due to the changing landscape and organisational capability required to successfully integrate and orchestrate services while providing a unified user experience.

Key takeaways:

• Understand what is the "as a service" delivery model, the issues, impact on service management and its relevance to enterprise IT
• The shift of traditional practices to a consumer-centric universe
• Changes and capability required by enterprise IT to adapt and facilitate request handling of any and all services and providing a unified experience.

Digital Transformation, fueled by new platform technologies and methodologies, results in a need to move beyond the traditional IT management consensus. This has created a need need for a new, more comprehensive body of knowledge and possibly standards intended for the new Digital Business Professional (both business and technology) who designs and delivers digital services and leads all aspects of Digital Transformation. The Open Group has met this need by publishing the Digital Professional Body of Knowledge (DPBOK) driven the Digital Practitioners' Workgroup. The DPBOK lays out the motivations for developing a Digital Professional Body of Knowledge (DPBOK) and the principles for integrating existing product, project, service, and data management, Enterprise Architecture, and IT governance guidance in the context of current digital practices.

Learn how DPBOK can be leveraged by C-level executives who are planning a Digital Transformation, and used by other organizations (e.g., consultants and trainers) to prepare and supply skilled people to drive a digital transformation.

Key takeaways:
1. Business stakeholders and practitioners understand how they can better understand the digital market drivers and learn how to effectively use it to define their processes and downstream requirements
2. IT stakeholders and practitioners understand the new Why's (a sum of business' why and how) that will drive IT as a business going forward and with this understanding how would IT as a business digitally transition people and skillwise to deliver value for a digital market.