November 19 – Architecting for Global Good

Using Business Architecture to Help Non-Profits Succeed The Twin Cities Business Architecture community is using their skills to help local non-profits. This session will introduce the Architecting for Good (A4G) program using their first engagement as a case study where experienced and aspiring business architects volunteered their time to bring tools and techniques that helped them clearly articulate their strategy, get a deeper understanding of their customers, define and assess the key capabilities needed to execute their strategy. As well, we will discuss lessons learned and how we are moving forward to reach additional non-profits. [...]

Sustainable Software Systems: Meeting the Challenge of the Future What does ‘sustainability’ mean and how can it be applied to creating software-driven systems? What are the challenges we face when we try to create a sustainable system? How can we reach sustainability in software without incurring needless cost and complexity? Is sustainability in software a worthwhile goal? In this talk, Amundsen introduces the three pillars of globally sustainable systems: Profit, People, Planet and shows how now, more than ever, we all have a role to play in the health and well-being of communities in which our companies live. See how [...]

Using Technology to Make Transportation Accessible for All Merlin Mobility and Easterseals are collaborating to use autonomous vehicle technology to increase accessibility to transportation for older adults and people with disabilities.

Growing the Business Using a Responsible AI In this session, Pablo will discuss why AI to grow your business, top uses cases by industry, sources of risks when using AI, six principles for a responsible AI, and office of responsible AI.

Change the World Together A global CPG company is on a mission to transform its packaging portfolio in support of a circular economy. They’re in the midst of a multi-year sustainable design journey in developing sustainable packaging. They wanted to answer a critical question on how they can increase consumer rates of appropriate package disposal of their products. In this session, Marc McLaughlin, will take you through how this global CPG firm got to this key moment and elaborate on the Sustainability Packathon, its purpose, outcomes, and impact. You’ll learn the key ingredients to successful strategic change through forming high [...]

Master or Servant? Are We Humans Still 'Top Dogs' in This Brave New World of Massive IT? IT used to be just a tool. Humans created the tool and humans used the tool. But some fundamental changes are happening. IT makes change of organizations harder, not easier. IT, by being a gatekeeper between us and reality, is starting to strongly influence what we believe, how we interact, and even what happens. Our freedom and our security are no longer purely physical things. We no longer seem to be the clear masters. We operate in a setting where our will and [...]

Sustainable Supply Chains and Blockchain Each year the world generates two billion tonnes of solid waste. Not even 50% of this waste is recycled, resulting in billions of tonnes disposed of in our oceans. Already some marine scientists claim that this waste has already killed off over 90% of marine life. How can we save our planet by moving the world toward 100% verifiable recycling? Brice and Misha will discuss how the blockchain decentralized ledger architecture is being used to enable recycling by ensuring that each stakeholder is accountable for recycling shipping waste. This discussion will share the architecture of [...]

Destabilizing the Global Human Trafficking Economy IBM's 3 year investment in the build of Traffik Analysis Hub using AI, IBM Cloud, and a range of technologies to offer every actor the analysis they need to undermine the errant economy of human trafficking, a $150bn / year global business. Incorporating partner offering, such as the IBM i2 + TAH virtual workbench, the Red Flag Accelerator of financial typologies and risk dashboards for business supply chain accountability. Partners from law enforcement, financial services, business, NGOs large and small and academic institutions all sharing what they know and using the analysis to do [...]

Circular Business Design with People’s Needs at the Core In a world of looming resource scarcity and rapid change in consumer behavior there is a strong need for existing business to transform, from linear to circular. At IKEA we are in a continuous dialogue with the many people in order to understand how we can stay relevant with our offers and how we best can be a partner in solving the challenges of the everyday life at home. We have learnt that people are increasingly interested in usership rather than ownership. They see value in things, and they don’t like [...]

The Facebook Phenomena: A Fireside Chat Facebook represents the controversies around Architecture for Global Good: The Role of Business and Technology. In this BILT opening fireside chat, Brice Ominski and Steven Levy (author of Facebook the Inside Story) will discuss “one of the most complicated, dramatic and polarizing stories” in our time: Facebook. Its unprecedented reach as a truly global platform, its idealism and audacious terrifying mission provide lessons for every aspiring organization. There is no story that is more central to everyone today: through the recent US election, the pandemic and almost every socially relevant issue we are facing. So [...]