By Loren K. Baynes, Director, Global Marketing Communications
On Monday October 21st, The Open Group kicked off the first day of our Business Transformation conference in London! Over 275 guests attended many engaging presentations by subject matter experts in finance, healthcare and government. Attendees from around the globe represented 28 countries including those from as far away as Columbia, Philippines, Australia, Japan and South Africa.
Allen Brown, President and CEO of The Open Group, welcomed the prestigious group. Allen announced that The Open Group has 67 new member organizations so far this year!
The plenary launched with “Just Exactly What is Going On in Business and Technology?” by Andy Mulholland, Former Global CTO of Capgemini, who was named one of the top 25 influential CTOs by InfoWorld. Andy’s key topics regarding digital disruption included real drivers of change, some big and fundamental implications, business model innovation, TOGAF® and the Open Platform 3.0™ initiative.
Next up was Judith Jones, CEO, Architecting the Enterprise Ltd., with a presentation entitled “One World EA Framework for Governments – The Way Forward”. Judith shared findings from the World Economic Forum, posing the question “what keeps 1000 global leaders awake at night”? Many stats were presented with over 50 global risks – economical, societal, environmental, geopolitical and technological.
Jim Hietala, VP, Security of The Open Group announced the launch of the Open FAIR Certification for People Program. The new program brings a much-needed certification to the market which focuses on risk analysis. Key partners include CXOWARE, Architecting the Enterprise, SNA Technologies and The Unit bv.
Richard Shreeve, Consultancy Director, IPL and Angela Parratt, Head of Transformation and joint CIO, Bath and North East Somerset Council presented “Using EA to Inform Business Transformation”. Their case study addressed the challenges of modeling complexity in diverse organizations and the EA-led approach to driving out cost and complexity while maintaining the quality of service delivery.
Allen Brown announced that the Jericho Forum® leaders together with The Open Group management have concluded that the Jericho Forum has achieved its original mission – to establish “de-perimeterization” that touches all areas of modern business. In declaring this mission achieved, we are now in the happy position to celebrate a decade of success and move to ensuring that the legacy of the Jericho Forum is both maintained within The Open Group and continues to be built upon. (See photo below.)
Following the plenary, the sessions were divided into tracks – Finance/Commerce, Healthcare and Tutorials/Workshops.
During the Healthcare track, one of the presenters, Larry Schmidt, Chief Technologist with HP, discussed “Challenges and Opportunities for Big Data in Healthcare”. Larry elaborated on the 4 Vs of Big Data – value, velocity, variety and voracity.
Among the many presenters in the Finance/Commerce track, Omkhar Arasaratnam, Chief Security Architect, TD Bank Group, Canada, featured “Enterprise Architecture – We Do That?: How (not) to do Enterprise Architecture at a Bank”. Omkhar provided insight as to how he took traditional, top down, center-based architectural methodologies and applied it to a highly federated environment.
Tutorials/workshops consisted of EA Practice and Architecture Methods and Techniques.
You can view all of the plenary and many of the track presentations at livestream.com. For those who attended, please stay tuned for the full conference proceedings.
The evening concluded with a networking reception at the beautiful and historic and Central Hall Westminster. What an interesting, insightful, collaborative day it was!
