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Enterprise Architecture – Strategies That Enable Technology Trends: Chicago (Rosemont/O’Hare)

For businesses to adopt cloud computing in a way that aligns with their business strategy, enterprise architecture (EA) is an absolute necessity.

June 14, 2023

9:00am-5:00pm

7 CPE / 0.7 CEU / CISSP / 7 PDU Credits Awarded

Conference location: Donald E. Stephens Convention Center Rosemont (O’Hare) Illinois
   


Overview

For businesses to adopt cloud computing in a way that aligns with their business strategy, enterprise architecture (EA) is an absolute necessity.


What You Will Learn

In this one day conference, content that will be covered includes:

  • Enterprise Solution Architecture in Hybrid Cloud Environment
  • How Mature is Your Enterprise Architecture? 5 Steps to Maturity
  • 2023 Emerging Trends and Use Cases for Enterprise Architecture for Wireless 5G and Private 5G
  • Six Trends That Will ‘Make Or Break’ Your Data Strategy
  • The Future of Enterprise Architecture: Exploring the Role of ChatGPT in Automating Business Processes and Enhancing Decision-Making
  • Business Outcome Driven EA and Alignment: Lessons Learned from the Field (Panel Discussion)

Conference Price: $299.00 per person

Each attendee will receive a certificate awarding 7 CPE credits for CISSP continuing education, in addition to 0.7 CEUs and 7 PDUs. CISSP is a registered certification mark of (ISC)², Inc.


CONFERENCE AGENDA


8:00am – 9:00am: Registration and Continental Breakfast


9:00am – 9:50am: The Future of Enterprise Architecture: Exploring the Role of ChatGPT in Automating Business Processes and Enhancing Decision-Making

Andrew McGrath, VP, Digital Product Strategy, KeHE Distributors

In this presentation, we explore the transformative potential of the generative pertained transformer (GPT), a cutting-edge AI technology, and its impact across various industries. Executives seeking a deeper understanding of this revolutionary tool will gain insights into its technical workings, diverse use cases, and its role in unlocking a new phase of business intelligence.

Key Points:

1 – Technical Overview: Delve into the world of generative pre-trained transformers (GPT) at a high level, providing executives with a grasp of the underlying technology without overwhelming with technical details. Learn how GPT models leverage deep learning to generate human-like text responses, revolutionizing human-machine interactions. Concepts like vector space, embedding vectors, attention mechanisms, and backpropegation will be discussed in simple and understandable ways.

2 – ChatGPT Use Cases and Current Projects: We will explore a range of compelling use cases currently in use or in development of GPTs across industries, including technology services, financial services, and construction materials supply. Discover real-world projects that highlight the tangible benefits and positive impacts of ChatGPT.

3 – The Fourth Stage of Business Intelligence: Uncover how ChatGPT represents a pivotal shift in business intelligence, unlocking new capabilities and offering a groundbreaking user interface paradigm. Learn how this advanced AI technology can empower organizations to gain valuable insights, analyze vast volumes of data, and make data-driven decisions with unprecedented efficiency and accuracy.

McGrath


9:50am – 10:20am: Refreshment & Exhibit Break


10:20am – 11:10am: Six Trends That Will ‘Make Or Break’ Your Data Strategy

Mike Woods, Vice President, General Manager – Central, Evangelist, Denodo

Putting data to work in your business is changing rapidly and the challenge is growing exponentially. It’s hard to keep up with the demands of putting all of that data to work.

It seemed like only yesterday we only had to rely on moving data into our trusted data warehouse from which we could do our reporting and analytics. Nowadays, we have an alphabet soup of technologies that are supposed to help us meet the voracious data needs of the business but yet not much has changed in our success rate.

What if there was a better way?

What if we could futureproof our data and analytics capabilities today to keep from having to rebuild them in a few years’ time, as new technologies, approaches, methodologies and processes emerge?

In this session, we will look at six trends – and their underlying technologies – that should influence your future data strategy for long term success.

Woods


11:10am – 12:00pm: How Mature is Your Enterprise Architecture? 5 Steps to Maturity

Lee Bogner, Global Chief eCommerce Enterprise Architect – Senior Enterprise Architect Leader, Mars, Inc.

As Enterprise Architecture (EA) practices balance the mature domain of traditional IT governance, while embracing the dynamically transforming worlds and ecosystems of digital business model innovation – new foundations, skills, missions, and methods – will enable enterprise objectives of capturing emerging and driving mature markets growth.

Today’s session showcases helpful steps with a common nomenclature and constructs for guiding and creating value-based innovation vision by EA teams and Partner organizations, and across internal and external ecosystems!!


12:00pm – 12:40pm:  Lunch & Exhibit Break


12:40pm – 1:30pm: Evaluating Low-Code and How it Changes Enterprise Architecture

Craig St. Jean, Chief Technology Architect, Low Code, Xebia

Low-code has been around for a long time, but for several years now, it has been a key player in disrupting how technology solutions are delivered. Low-code platforms have helped us to modernize our Enterprise Architecture, from development to deployment to monitoring. See what evaluations we made, and how our architecture has evolved over time since further adopting low-code.

St. Jean


1:30pm – 2:20pm: 2023 Emerging Trends and Use Cases for Enterprise Architecture for Wireless 5G and Private 5G 

Roger Billings, Director and Principal Architect – Emerging Technologies, Cradlepoint

Learn about wireless 5G trends for 2023 and 2024 and learn about real world use cases for 5G and emerging private 5G networking for the enterprise. This session will also cover how wireless 5G and private 5G are being utilized to improve network connectivity.

Billings


2:20pm – 2:50pm: Refreshment & Exhibit Break


2:50pm – 3:40pm: Enterprise Architecture – Optimizing Application Performance for Enterprise Cloud Cost Efficiency

Jay Patel, Senior Sales Engineer, Azul

Businesses need high-performance applications to retain customers and grow revenues. With IT budgets and inflationary pressures rising, companies are focused on delivering great digital customer experiences, while controlling cloud costs.

In this session, we’ll look at how companies are using a faster, more efficient, and more scalable Java runtime to solve challenges – including:

  • Carrying capacity (‘throughput under SLA’)
  • Performance tuning in a CICD environment; and
  • Improving microsecond performance

Learn how leading IT teams are succeeding in dealing with a tough budgetary environment and the need for high-performance applications.

Join us to learn practical tips in using optimized Java virtual runtimes for better performance and reduced total infrastructure costs.

Patel


3:40pm – 4:30pm: Business Outcome Driven EA and Alignment: Lessons Learned from the Field (Panel Discussion)

In this session, experienced EAs will shared their experiences adopting a business driven Enterprise Architecture.

Areas that will be covered include:

  • How this will improve business processes
  • Addressing specific business outcomes
  • How to work with other business and IT disciplines such as PPM, BI, Finance and HR
  • What is the ROI?
  • How to balance the right amount of resource investment

Moderated by Michael Bachman, Chief Architect, Boomi

Panelists include:

  • Ninos Gabriel, Executive Director, Enterprise Architecture, Cloud Transformation Leader, BCBS Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma & Texas
  • Victor Coglianese, Sr. Director, Infrastructure, Operations and Cloud Architecture, TransUnion
  • Rakesh K. Singh, Enterprise Architect, OneAmerica
  • Kirti Vaidya, Vice President, Business Architecture and Transformation, Gallagher Bassett
  • Dean Sharp, Global Director of Information Security Architecture and Engineering, ManpowerGroup
  • Other EA Executives sharing strategies, tactics, and lessons learned

 

Bachman               Gabriel                 Coglianese              Singh                         Vaidya                    Sharp


Conference Price: $299.00 per person

Each attendee will receive a certificate awarding 7 CPE credits for CISSP continuing education, in addition to 0.7 CEUs and 7 PDUs. CISSP is a registered certification mark of (ISC)², Inc.


Exhibits

As is always the case at CAMP IT Conferences events, the talks will not include product presentations. During the continental breakfast, coffee breaks, and the luncheon break you will have the opportunity to informally meet representatives from the following sponsoring companies, who have solutions in the area of the conference.


Conference Sponsors