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  • April 16, 2018
  • April 17, 2018
  • April 18, 2018
  • April 19, 2018
    • April 16, 2018
    •  

      Plenary - TOGAF® and EA

      9:00 AM  -  9:30 AM
      Welcome Address
      Keynote Speaker:
      • Steve Nunn 
      9:30 AM  -  10:10 AM
      Applying TOGAF® to Developing a Digital Strategy for a UK Charity - the Business Context

      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 first presentation, Oliver White – Transformation Director at BITC will discuss the business context and challenges faced, how the organisation found the experience of developing the digital strategy and how BITC have started to implement the digital strategy.

      Keynote Speaker:
      • Oliver White 
      10:10 AM  -  10:50 AM
      Soon All Your News Will Be Machine Generated - The Architecture
      Present use cases that are here and now and being implemented using Natural Language Processing, Natural Language Generation, and AI augmented analysis of human and machine generated content. Discuss the implications of trends we’ve seen over the past 24 months, and consider what’s on the horizon for the next 12 months and beyond. The discussion will include our experiences with machine writing, machine reading, machine thinking (decision making) and machine based content delivery.
      Keynote Speaker:
      • Steve Dock 
      10:50 AM  -  11:10 AM
      Coffee break
      11:10 AM  -  11:50 AM
      A Reference Architecture for Artificial Intelligence
      • Business Use and Applications of AI
      • The AI-First Enterprise
      • Architectural Enablers for AI
      • An AI Reference Architecture
      • AI Reference Implementations
      Keynote Speaker:
      • Ron Tolido 
      11:50 AM  -  12:30 PM
      Business Architecture for Strategic Transformation at Raytheon - The Business Argument
      This presentation will cover the strategic value and benefits of the business architecture methods integrated in the new TOGAF standard release. This will be followed on Tuesday, April 17, with a deep dive presentation into the specific architecture methods and artefacts used by Raytheon.
      Keynote Speakers:
      • J. Bryan Lail, 
      • Roy Donelson 
      12:30 PM  -  2:00 PM
      Lunch
       

      Partner Presentation (Mon)

      1:10 PM  -  1:25 PM
      Engaging the Next Generation of Users of the TOGAF® Standard, Millennials & their Growing Role in EA
      Presentation by Sam Skalla, Consultant, Orbus Software
      1:30 PM  -  1:45 PM
      Analysis of ArchiMate® Models: Real Life Examples
      Models are more than pretty pictures. In this presentation and demonstration, Marc Lankhorst will show how various kinds of analyses of ArchiMate models, ranging from capability heatmaps to application lifecycle analyses, from technology obsolescence maps to cyber security and data privacy analyses, and from project dependencies to cost aggregation and distribution, that help you extract more value from your architecture models.
      Speaker:
      • Marc Lankhorst 
       

      TRACK: Case Studies - EA in Action

      2:00 PM  -  2:45 PM
      Capability Modelling, EA for those who don’t like EA! – The UK HE Sector Story

      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.
      Speakers:
      • Ian Anderson, 
      • Marc Lankhorst 
      2:45 PM  -  3:30 PM
      Benefits oriented Journey through the EA Capability
      When establishing the EA Capability as part of the ADM Preliminary Phase at an energy provider, the EA team found it pretty straight forward to decide which Viewpoint to define to address which stakeholder concerns. The initial attempt of the EA team to define a communication plan helping the stakeholders to understand the “EA Offering” and when and how to use it became a nightmare. We have been asked to help the EA team to overcome this serious issue with respect to stakeholder acceptance. After analyzing the situation and comparing it with our “good practices” from 10 years of experience with establishing EA we defined an innovative communication concept with a “Stakeholder’s Concerns Map” as primary access point. This map shows all concerns being addressed by the EA capability, being clustered based on general benefit groups.
      From this starting point the stakeholders have been enabled to navigate toan overview of all available Viewpoints addressing a specific concern. All viewpoints are drawn on a Map of the EA structure (the EA domains) to get a better understanding on the different information being accessible by each of these viewpoints. From here on the stakeholders can navigate to a page showing an in depth description of each specific viewpoint including a description of the concrete information being delivered by this viewpoint and how it can help understand the addressed concern. If of interest the stakeholder could navigate further to see same sample views based on this viewpoint.

      In general we presented a navigation path with increasing level of detail. The stakeholders can decide at each position on the navigation path to get some more details or to go back. When realizing this concept we added some more navigation paths to the documentation of the EA Capability to enable the stakeholders to interactively navigate through the whole EA Framework.

      As the Stakeholders found this being fun and a great experience, they got an in-depth understanding of the EA Framework “on the fly” without huge effort just by navigating forth and back through the whole EA Framework.

      After this initial project we found this communication concept of an “benefits oriented journey” quite helpful at different customers addressing comparable issues with stakeholder acceptance.


      Speaker:
      • Rolf Knoll 
       

      TRACK: Open Platform 3.0™ / AI

      2:00 PM  -  2:45 PM
      Machine Learning Standards - Industrialising AI
      Firms trying to adopt AI within their enterprise face significant business and technological headwinds. At best, AI solutions tend to be experimental in nature, an area where business cases are typically hard to pin down and value cannot be reliably measured until after the money is spent and the product is launched. At the same time, technological issues make it risky to launch AI products. Going from experiment to production in a repeatable manner is hard, few companies have succeeded in doing so without establishing a separate part of the organisation to handle moving AI solutions from ideation into production. Microsoft Tay Bot, which became Racist and Misogynistic within 2 hours of its launch is a good example of what happens when business and technology don’t work together to enforce technological barriers to what a solution can and cannot do. Ethical considerations of AI, a hot topic in AI circles and the media, are another avenue where companies must spend time and effort determining the right thing to do, not just the most lucrative. Following standards around ethics, business value measurement, and technological adoption are very important to reduce the risk of adopting AI and increase the chances of successful AI based solutions.

      This talk will highlight the work being done to develop standards and highlight what is enterprise ready and where more work is needed. Mass individualisation, the ultimate promise of AI, which means finding the right product at the right price point for your customer and providing the right kind of customer experience, is the utopian AI destination that needs careful navigation for firms to reach.

      Key takeaways:
      1. Challenges in implementing AI at scale.
      2. Standards available to overcome the challenges.
      3. Key steps to take to make your AI implementation succeed.
      Speaker:
      • Syed Husain 
      2:45 PM  -  3:30 PM
      Panel Discussion: Artificial Intelligence in Enterprise Architecture

      Artificial intelligence (AI) technology has moved out of the laboratory and into the marketplace. Products are now offered for use in mainstream enterprise systems, and enterprises are starting to buy them. How should enterprise architects look to use this technology to deliver business value?

      Peter Haviland, Syed Hussein and Andras Szakal will discuss the approaches that enterprise architects should take in adding AI to enterprise systems, from the points of view of architects, integrators, and technology vendors. The discussion will be moderated by Ron Tolido.

      Panelist:
      • Syed Husain, 
      • Andras Szakal 
      Moderator:
      • Ron Tolido 
       

      Coffee (Mon afternoon)

      3:30 PM  -  4:00 PM
      Coffee break
       

      Case Studies - EA in Action

      4:00 PM  -  4:45 PM
      How EA is Standardized in Czech National ICT Strategy and Ministry of Industry and Trade

      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. 

      Speakers:
      • Miloslav Marcan, 
      • Martin Tax 
      4:45 PM  -  5:30 PM
      A Step-Wise Approach to Integration of EA Repositories with CMDBs

      The presentation will illustrate a step-wise approach to the integration of EA Repositories and CMDBs, and address the following key points.


      What should be the focus of an EA Repository?

      • The IT Portfolio View

      What should be the focus of an CMDB?

      • The Estate View

      Why are both required?

      • How to navigate politics

      Why do not data overlaps amount to functional redundancy?

      • Syntax VS Semantics

      What does it mean to integrate an EA Repository with a CMDB? What entities need to be consistent, and what don't?

      • Non versioned objects VS versioned objects
      • Classifications
      • Governance and roles

      Relationships: plain traceability VS 1:1 mappings

      • Entities in one inventory must be mapped to entities in the other inventory.
      • A journey from high entropy to isomorphism

      Lifecycle data:

      • Consistency of States - Mapped entities must be in consistent states.
      • Consistency of Dates - Actual production dates in CMDB must be compatible with planned production dates in EA Repository.
      • Consistency of Types - Mapped entities must have consistent types
      • Data consistency VS process integration
      • Integrating lifecycle processes - Lifecycle processes must keep the status of mapped entities consistent.

      How to balance technical purity and business value

      The human factor:

      • Implications of alignment in terms of harmonization of roles, and its impact on people
      • Enterprise Architects, CTOs, Integration Architects

      The audience will:

      • Learn what is the cost of inconsistency between strategic and operational inventories
      • Learn what should be the focus of an EA Repository VS a CMDB
      • Learn how to structure the alignment journey using a phased approach.

      Speakers:
      • Mauro Morelli 
       

      TRACK: Open Platform 3.0™ / IoT

      4:00 PM  -  4:45 PM
      Standards by The Open Group for Globally Interoperable APIs in Smart Cities

      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
      Speakers:
      • Kary Främling, 
      • Ron Schuldt 
      4:45 PM  -  5:30 PM
      Virtual Data Lakes and Microservices Architecture - a Platform for the Internet of Things
      Intelligent sensors and controls can contribute to our prosperity and improve our lives in many ways. Factory automation, traffic management, and food production are some of the examples. The advances are made possible by increases in computing power that are taken for granted in the world of IT but would be staggering in other fields. Good systems architecture is needed to deploy this power effectively and deliver its benefits.

      Software architectures based on microservices are becoming increasingly popular. The Open Group has produced a white paper on Microservices Architecture (https://publications.opengroup.org/w169) and is building on this with work on several microservices topics, including Microservices and the Internet of Things (IoT). The presentation uses a simple example to illustrate this application of microservices.

      The full benefits of the Internet of Things are achieved through information interoperability between intelligent devices and other systems. If the machines in a factory can share information with each other and with process control, stock control, and other systems, the factory as a whole can be made more efficient and productive. Virtual data lakes provide information interoperability that is easy to implement. The presentation will develop its IoT example further to explain this.

      Taken together, virtual data lakes and microservices are a powerful software platform for applications development for the Internet of Things.

      Speaker:
      • Chris Harding 
       

      Networking Reception

      5:30 PM  -  7:00 PM
      Networking Reception
       

      Open Sessions (Mon)

      2:00 PM  -  3:30 PM
      Healthcare Forum - History of HERA
      Full agenda information available on "Member Meetings" page.
      2:00 PM  -  2:30 PM
      State of the IT4IT™ Forum
      The IT4IT Forum Chair introduces work group chairs and recent activities and delivers an overview of the activities and publications of the IT4IT Forum
      2:30 PM  -  5:30 PM
      IT4IT™ Scenario Builder Workshop
      Authors of recent IT4IT Forum publications on Seamless Service Delivery and Service Brokering share highlights to inspire follow-on break-out sessions where participants collaborate to produce and share real world scenarios
       

      Members Only Meetings

      2:00 PM  -  3:30 PM
      Architecture / ArchiMate® Forums Joint Session
      Full agenda information available on "Member Meetings" page.
      2:00 PM  -  5:30 PM
      Digital Practitioners Work Group
      Full agenda information available on "Member Meetings" page.
      2:00 PM  -  5:30 PM
      Government EA Work Group
      Welcome & Introduction (10 minutes) / Jim Hietala About Gov’t EA Workgroup (15 minutes) / Dr. Pallab Saha Member Inputs (Activities, Priorities, Outreach, Timelines, Leaders) (2 - 2.5 hours) / Hietala & Pallab Election of WG Leaders and Responsibilities (~ 20 - 30 minutes) / Sonia Gonzales AOB (~ 5 - 15 minutes) / All
      4:00 PM  -  5:30 PM
      Architecture Forum
      Full agenda information available on "Member Meetings" page.
      4:00 PM  -  5:30 PM
      Healthcare Forum
      Full agenda information available on "Member Meetings" page.
    • April 17, 2018
    •  

      Plenary - TOGAF® and EA

      9:00 AM  -  9:10 AM
      Welcome Address & Discussion
      Keynote Speaker:
      • Steve Nunn 
      9:10 AM  -  9:40 AM
      Q&A Panel: The TOGAF® Standard, Version 9.2
      Moderator:
      • Steve Nunn 
      Panelists:
      • Andrew Josey, 
      • Mike Lambert 
      9:40 AM  -  10:20 AM
      Applying TOGAF® to Developing a Digital Strategy for a UK Charity - The Architecture

      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.

      Keynote Speaker:
      • James Conway 
      10:30 AM  -  11:00 AM
      Coffee break
      11:00 AM  -  11:40 AM
      In Two Years, All Your News Will Be Machine Generated - The Architecture
      Present use cases that are here and now and being implemented using Natural Language Processing, Natural Language Generation, and AI augmented analysis of human and machine generated content. Discuss the implications of trends we’ve seen over the past 24 months, and consider what’s on the horizon for the next 12 months and beyond. The discussion will include our experiences with machine writing, machine reading, machine thinking (decision making) and machine based content delivery.
      Keynote Speaker:
      • Vincenzo Barrea 
      11:40 AM  -  12:20 PM
      Business Architecture for Strategic Transformation at Raytheon - The Architecture
      This presentation follows the business argument plenary presentation on Monday morning. It will cover in detail the specific architecture methods, concepts and artifacts used by Raytheon in this strategic transformation journey.
      Keynote Speaker:
      • J. Bryan Lail 
      12:30 PM  -  2:00 PM
      Lunch
       

      TRACK: Digital-First Enterprise Architecture

      2:00 PM  -  2:45 PM
      Architecting High-Impact, Transformative Digital Business
      Digital revolution has irrevocably shifted the business context, including the role and required skillsets for architects and strategists.

      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 
      • …
      This session will provide a viewpoint on how to make this real. Trishit will share the experience and learnings drawing from couple of large scale digital transformation journeys - especially focusing on the critical and most fruitful changes into architectural approach and perspectives., and will cover some of the key challenges encountered and approaches for resolution. Last but not least, Trishit will touch upon importance of method, model and machinery combination and how they have enabled easier / accelerated adoption.
      Speaker:
      • Trishit Sengupta 
      2:45 PM  -  3:30 PM
      Alignment of Enterprise Architecture Building Blocks to Open Standards and Measuring EA Maturity
      IBM’s Strategic Outsourcing business is structured around internal global standards for Enterprise Architecture, Solution- and Architecture- Building Blocks and a taxonomy that has evolved to reflect the technical towers and process streams involved in delivery. These standards continue to change to reflect the current thinking in best practices.

      In this session we look at how such internal taxonomies can be mapped to TOGAF™ and COBIT™ . We will then review a methodology to use those open standards to express the results of outcome-based Key Performance Indicators in terms of Enterprise Architecture maturity.

      The result is an Enterprise Architecture score card that is continuously updated from IT infrastructure operational measurements. The score card can be used to inform the Architecture Governance function about technical risk when making strategic and tactical prioritisations. The score card can then drive a cognitive interface to an unstructured knowledge base to obtain recommendations to improve the maturity and lower the technical risk.

      Key takeaways:
      - Measuring Enterprise Architecture maturity
      - Overlaying proprietary taxonomies with open standards for sharing data
      - Use of cognitive technologies to gain value from historical unstructured data.
      Speaker:
      • Jonathan Young 
       

      TRACK: Open Process Automation

      2:00 PM  -  2:45 PM
      Sensing and The Internet of Things: What it means to Industry

      “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.

      Speaker:
      • Don Clark 
      2:45 PM  -  3:30 PM
      View From The Top, Matching the Tool to the Job
      The Open Process Automation Forum (OPAF) work is intended to cover a broad set of activities in a process industry facility. The activities cover a wide range of time scales, from milliseconds to weeks. The activities also support a wide range of operational processes, from basic control to advanced control, to finite capacity scheduling, to big data analysis. The activities are usually supported by a Collection of 50 to 100 different applications, ranging from spreadsheets to multi-million dollar Distributed Control Systems, MES, LIMS, Warehouse Management, and maintenance management systems for production, quality, inventory, and maintenance operation. These differences make it difficult to pick a single communication protocol that matches all of the needs for integration.

      A dual communication model approach is proposed, using OPC-UA for real-time synchronous, tightly coupled communication needs, and B2MML/wsISBM, based on the ISA 95 Message Service Model, for the business/operations asynchronous, loosely coupled communication needs. This is consistent with the general industry use of XML messages via a message queueing system for upper-Level 3 programs, and OPC-UA for anything needed real time (including HMI). This best practice approach has led to significant reduction in integration efforts, long lifetimes for systems, and an easy ability to extend existing systems. In addition it is compatible with the SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) models and micro-service models.
      Speaker:
      • Dennis Brandl 
       

      Coffee (Tue morning)

      3:30 PM  -  4:00 PM
      Coffee break
       

      Digital-First Enterprise Architecture

      4:00 PM  -  4:45 PM
      Can we make Agile Architecture SAFe®?
      This is a presentation on harmonising the implementation of TOGAF® and the Scaled Agile Framework®.

      Globalisation, digitalisation of services, artificial intelligence, and strong business demand to shorten time for delivering value to the market create challenges for enterprise architects. Dealing with complexity of enterprise ecosystems requires an extensive set of skills and often the application of different methods and techniques. That can require harmonisation between many different standards and frameworks e.g. TOGAF®, ArchiMate®, IT4IT™, veriSM®, SAFe®, and many others. To build an effective and agile management ecosystem, organisation leaders need to connect strategy and execution.

      In this presentation we will explain our approach to harmonising TOGAF® and the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®), to support evolution towards the Agile Enterprise.

      Our intention is to show how we can tailor the TOGAF® framework to enable lean, agile, and collaborative architecting for continuous delivery.
      Speakers:
      • Łukasz Wrześniewski, 
      • Aleksander Wyka 
       

      Open Process Automation

      4:00 PM  -  4:45 PM
      Human Factors and their Impact on Plant Safety
      History is full of technology breakthroughs, all striving to increase productivity and efficiency, from the steam engine and the telegraph; we’ve seen technology changing the way we get things done, sometimes in a disruptive way.

      Most recently mission critical computing systems have been introduced in manufacturing processes and automated tasks, resulting in increased safety and productivity during normal operation, but can these technologies help keep the plant safe during abnormal process conditions? That’s where technology can support but not replace humans. The industry relies on human ability to respond to the unexpected, to handle the odd conditions and ask the right questions to fix the problems at hand.

      Today, operators are loaded with numerous activities, is it reasonable to expect they’ll be able to respond appropriately to all conditions, what are the human elements that should be taken in to consideration in the design and implementation of modern automation systems? This presentation discusses some of the capabilities available in a modern automation system and how to apply technology and innovative control room planning to support decision making and help humans handle the abnormal situations in a safe and effective manner. Further the paper presents research with the increased focus on operator health, and how an intelligent and ergonomic workspace can both mitigate risk and increase ROI.

      Key takeaways:
       - Key Human Factors that impact plant safety and productivity
       - Emerging technology in support of Process Operations and Operators well being
       - Engineering processes to address human factors in engineering of products and projects
       - Human Centered Research.

      Speaker:
      • Luis Duran 
       

      Members Only Meetings

      1:00 PM  -  2:00 PM
      Architecture / ArchiMate® / IT4IT™ Forums Joint Session
      Full agenda information available on "Member Meetings" page.
      2:00 PM  -  5:15 PM
      ArchiMate® Forum
      Full agenda information available on "Member Meetings" page.
      2:00 PM  -  5:15 PM
      Architecture Forum
      Full agenda information available on "Member Meetings" page.
      2:00 PM  -  5:15 PM
      Digital Practitioners Work Group
      Full agenda information available on "Member Meetings" page.
      2:00 PM  -  5:00 PM
      Healthcare Forum
      Full agenda information available on "Member Meetings" page.
      2:00 PM  -  5:00 PM
      IT4IT™ Forum
      Full agenda information available on "Member Meetings" page.
       

      Networking Dinner Event (Tue)

      6:00 PM  -  10:30 PM
      Evening Networking Event
    • April 18, 2018
    •  

      TOGAF® User Group

      9:00 AM  -  12:30 PM
      TOGAF® User Group Meeting
      9:00 - 9:15 AM  Welcome and Introduction - Steve Nunn, President and CEO, The Open Group
      9:15 - 9:45 AM  The Open Group Architecture Forum and TOGAF® Standard Update - Sonia Gonzalez, Forum Director
      9:45 - 10:15 AM  The Value of TOGAF® Certification - Andrew Josey, VP Standards & Certification, The Open Group

      10:15 - 10:45 AM  Coffee Break

      10:45 - 12:30 PM  Ask the Experts: A panel of TOGAF® experts and practitioners will answer questions.

      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

       

      Lunch (Wed)

      12:30 PM  -  2:00 PM
      Lunch (Wed)
       

      Training Tutorial

      2:00 PM  -  5:30 PM
      The TOGAF® Standard 2018 Update
      The objective of this tutorial is to cover what’s new and what has changed in the updated TOGAF standard and in the TOGAF Library.

      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

       

      IT Management Professionals Day

      9:00 AM  -  9:15 AM
      Welcome Address
      9:15 AM  -  10:00 AM
      Forrester: Digital Reality for IT Management in 2018

      The industry is filled with the promises of Digital Transformation, but what is the reality for IT management professionals who have to balance the investments of the past with the innovation of the future? This presentation outlines explores the question from three perspectives:

      • Hype or Happening: How much of Digital Transformation is real and how much is hype?
      • Mind the Gap: The gap between industry leaders and laggards is growing. What strategies are available for those who need to catch up, and just how far and how fast should they move?
      • What does success mean? There isn't a choice - we have to embrace emerging technology, but that does not guarantee success. So what does? We have learned that the more things change the more they stay the same - but how exactly will that work in the context of Digital Transformation

      Key takeaways:

      • A perspective of how Digitization and Digital Transformation will impact the industry in general and IT Management professionals in particular
      • Some principals to assist in defining digitization strategies
      • A reinforcement of key management practices and capabilities that are essential to success in the industry as it changes
      Speakers:
      • David Cannon, 
      • David Wheable 
      10:00 AM  -  10:45 AM
      Customer Success Stories in IT Transformation
      Learn how several other IT organizations around the world have accelerated and focused their transformation initiatives and how The Open Group IT4IT standard helped.

      Hear examples from several customer case studies on how they achieved tangible results from leveraging the IT4IT standard in areas as diverse as the digital agenda, Cloud, DevOps and most recently GDPR and opportunities for the future.

      Three Key Takeaways

      • Value based thinking and delivery is key to the future success of IT
      • Why IT4IT is relevant to all organisations
      • There is a single reference architecture for running the business of IT (not multiple) and it works!
      Speakers:
      • Tony Price 
      10:45 AM  -  11:15 AM
      Coffee Break
      11:15 AM  -  12:00 PM
      Tata Steel Europe's Journey to a new IT Operating Model
      Tata Steel Europe is on a journey to create a new IT operating model. Gert-Jan Kamer will share the story of this journey, including some of its key drivers, such as a new multi-vendor sourcing ecosystem (SIAM), and the digital ambitions of Tata Steel. The Open Group IT4IT Reference Architecture standard has been used to develop the current and planned operating model as well as to define the future roadmap.

      Key takeaways:
      • 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
      Speaker:
      • Gert-Jan Kamer 
      12:00 PM  -  12:30 PM
      Panel Session
      12:30 PM  -  2:00 PM
      Lunch and Networking
      2:00 PM  -  2:45 PM
      How IT Standards and Frameworks Fit Together to Support IT Transformation and Automation

      Is your IT function’s way of working still based on one dominant standard or framework or have you adopted a multiple methods approach? Are you under-utilizing the potential that current standards and frameworks offer or are you expecting too much from them? How are they going to help you with transforming – and automating – your IT function to cope with the demands of the digital enterprise? How will your transformed IT operating model deliver better, cheaper and faster IT services that are aligned with your business goals? This presentation explores the potential value of standards and frameworks, and common pitfalls in their application. You’ll get a better grip on various standards and frameworks and other bodies of knowledge and movements, including Agile, BiSL Next, BRMBOK, Business Model Canvas, COBIT, Cynefin, DevOps, DPBOK, ISO 20000, ISO 38500, IT4IT, ITIL, Lean, Lean Product Development, Operating Model Canvas, Service Science, VeriSM and Wardley Mapping.

      Key takeaways:

      • Apply the principles over the method
      • Focus on core guidance
      • Understand the context of the cases before applying the practices
      • Select guidance that is suited to the degree of predictability in your organisation
      Speaker:
      • Mark Smalley 
      2:45 PM  -  3:30 PM
      Adapting to the Emergence of XaaS and Enabling Service Orchestration

      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.
      Speaker:
      • Mohan Kewalramani 
      3:30 PM  -  4:00 PM
      Coffee Break
      4:00 PM  -  4:45 PM
      Digital Professional Body of Knowledge

      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.

      Speaker:
      • Venkat Nambiyur 
      4:45 PM  -  5:30 PM
      Panel Session
       

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      Open Meeting – Creating an Application for the O-DEF Standard
      Come learn about the Open Data Element Framework (O-DEF) and how it can bring shipping towards the 21st century! In this workshop we will work through an example scenario outlining the value of O-DEF for shipping and an application outline for that scenario. If you are a tool vendor, you work in shipping, or are simply interested in how data can be classified, organised and managed so much better than it is now, please come along and share your thoughts.
       

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