Panel Discussion

Paul Preiss

CEO & Founder, IASA Global

Panel Discussion

Putting a Business Architecture Knowledge Base to Work: Use Cases beyond Business Architecture

Juliane Berger

Head of Business Architecture at Allianz Commercial

Amanda Bristow

Principal Business Architect

In this session, we will discuss using the BTABoK structured canvas approach to evaluate technology for its impact on our business and technology landscape.

Tools under discussion
– Using sensing and future casting in understanding emerging technology
– Using business cases and OKRs to evaluate investment prioritization
– Using Decision Records to understand product and pattern application in solution design

Ardoq hosts: Empowering Excellence Women in Architecture

Sarah Cornell, Managing Director, Technology Consulting Protiviti NYC

Miranda Mason, Managing Director, Technology Strategy and Enterprise Architecture Global Lead Slalom

Dina O’Donnell, National Leader, Enterprise Architecture KPMG Canada

Laurie Kelly, VP of Marketing, Ardor

Join us for an inspiring and informative conversation, “Empowering Excellence: Women in Architecture,” where Laurie Kelly, Vice President of Marketing at Ardoq, will lead a dynamic panel discussion featuring three remarkable women who have made significant strides in the field of architecture.

Our panelists represent a diverse range of backgrounds, experiences, and expertise within architecture. They will discuss how diversity enhances innovation and creativity in architectural practice.  This event is a celebration of the contributions of women in architecture and an exploration of the challenges women face and overcome.

Traceable Measurement Strategy

Claire Wybrow

Enterprise Business Architect, PMP, CBPP, BRMP

Across all industries, there is increased pressure to demonstrate the value delivered from technology investments. As the need to trace and report on “Strategy to Execution” increases, enterprises are focusing on OKRs and requiring technology to show the value they deliver and their alignment with the business strategy.

This session discusses both the simplicity and complexity of traceable measurement from enterprise strategy to product KPIs and how to take a first step towards this in your organization.

Why women in architecture matters and how we make it count

Lisa Woodall

Global Head of Discovery and Design of WPPIT.

The session will pose a hypothesis that gender doesn’t matter in architecture, what does matter is competency, skills and attitude and none of these things depend on gender… the session will go on to explore how we make our competencies, skills and attitude count with belief and conviction on what we do mattering for the organisations and enterprises we spend our time working in.. too often we revert to stereotypes and we need to not fuel them but dispel them and show the difference women can make.

Lisa A. Pratico

VP Global Enterprise Architect / Previously at HP, Inc.

This presentation covers the push by digital leaders to promote business composability. Due to the pressure to build business composability at speed there is now a tighter alignment and value of having collaboration across lines of business and Enterprise Architects including Business and Technology Architects. I will dive into how both BA and EA ensure proper business capabilities are designed and implemented in a digital era leveraging architectural artifacts that can identify “services” across an entire technology stack to ensure business composability, agilitly and velocity with reuse.

Pamela Wise-Martinez,

Senior Executive, Head of Whirlpool’s Global Enterprise Architecture practice

The evolution of EA continues, beyond enforcement of standards, portfolio strategist, internal consultancy, into the avengers of innovation and accelerator for business. Consider the role of EA the role of the Chief Architect, responsibilities across all pillars of strategy, demand, and innovation. The enterprise view point is typically looking outwards with knowledge of current state, and aligning the ambitions of the business.  Exploring research, development, methods, and experiences with leaders in tech, early adopter is the EA continuous improvement lifecycle, e.g., tech and business entanglements of data, customers and economic drivers. This talk will explore and discuss the actions and results.

Whynde Kuehn

Managing Director, S2E Transformation

Darryl Carr

Experienced Architect and Builder of Professional Communities

Grant Ecker

Founder of CAF

Cary Brown

Executive Director, Enterprise ArchitectureExecutive Director, Enterprise Architecture Charles River Laboratories

E.G Nadhan

Red Hat, Global Chief Architect Leader, Field CTO Organization

Driving the expansion of women in architecture roles is a movement that takes all of us, and both women and men play a critical role as allies, advocates, mentors, and change agents. In this panel, we will explore the power of diversity in architecture along with what it means to be an ally for women in architecture from leaders who walk the talk. Finally, we will discuss actionable steps that individuals and organizations can take to build a more diverse and inclusive architecture profession.

Gurpreet Bal

Chief Enterprise Architect, Head of Enterprise Architecture and Data Technology

How to close your data centers, modernize your stack in a phased manner.

Amy Browning

Strategic Business Architect | MPS Ent Arch & Bus Transformation | MBA Finance

In this session, the basic concept of a strategic control system will be explained to demonstrate why the utopian state for rich strategic insights is difficult to achieve. There also will be discussion on what the research participants disclosed as the various ways strategic divergence occurred in their organizations. Some humorous, some shocking. Attendees will take-away practical business architecture techniques—as supported by the subject research—to reduce strategy divergence in their environment.

Geeta Pyne

Chief Architect, TIAA

A Panel discussion with Women Chief Architects from leading industries around the world, discussing their super powers, unpacking what does it mean to be a Chief Architect, any their individual super powers have helped to provide the secret sauce of a successful CA!

Jess Tayel

Global Transformation thought leader and founder of People of Transformation Community

This session is about the connectedness and structure of the various architecture disciplines (technology, business, human-centred design..) and how leveraging those architectures in the right way and the right sequence would enable organizations to design and deliver change and transformation programs faster and better.

Darryl Carr

Experienced Architect and Builder of Professional Communities

Christine Stephenson

Co Chair Women in Architecture (Australia)

Heidi Alison

Suncorp Group

Executive Manager – Digital Insurer (Customer Migration)

Panel discussion

Fran Mether,

Arteri Partner, Strategic Design Advisor

In our swiftly changing digital landscape, the success of organisational transformation lies at the intersection of design, business acumen, and technological advancement. But at the core of these elements is the human experience — the users, the creators, the customers and the investors.

Fran Mether from Arteri will provide a deep dive into “Human-Centered Transformation”, a talk that illuminates the power of integrating human-centered design principles, robust business and IT architecture, and forward-thinking strategies. Together, these components can steer an organisation’s transformation journey, ensuring it remains adaptive, relevant, and above all, people-centric.

Sonia McDonald

CEO of LeadershipHQ, Courage Crusader, Award Winning Author & Global Keynote Speaker

Many leaders often wish they had more courage. This keynote is impactful and highly motivating based on Sonia’s book and explores the Courage Compass around Self, Kindness, Impact, Purpose and Resilience. Sonia will take your audience through the virtues and keys to courageous leadership. Are you ready to go on a journey of discovering the 5 rules of great courage and how they can change your life?

Christine Stephenson

The Enterprise Architect’s coach

Presenting a model for a Smart City Enterprise Architecture built for a local Cambodian Government. Showcasing the components of this Smart City design built to deliver a Smart and interoperable city.

Garima Singh Chief Architect,

Head of enterprise architecture , Sandvik Group

– “WHY” do we need data transformation?

– Different stages in data driven transformation

– Challenges

– How to Lead an effective data transformation

– Speed matters….how to get the ultimate value out of data/AI efforts.

Patty O’Callaghan

Tech Lead Charles River Laboratories | Google Developer Expert in Machine Learning

Technology is embedded in our lives, and Artificial Intelligence will have an ever greater impact on the development of humanity.

As creators of technology, are we prepared for the responsibility that this entails, as we try to create machines that emulate human reasoning and behaviour?

Let’s find out what Isaac Asimov, one of the greatest science fiction writers, had to said about it when he wrote the Three Laws of Robotics, considered by many to be the historical starting point of the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence.

Harry Blackburn

Enterprise Business Architecture

Target Operating Models are often seen as one-off consultancy led presentations that, whilst providing visibility and a view of the future, do not offer a way to be responsive to changing needs. By combining two methods, it is possible to create a view that provides a way to assess progress towards outcomes, manage customer experience and foster agility to respond to internally, or externally driven changes.
The approach involves combining two methods:
• Defining the Operating Model (MIT CISR – Jeanne Ross)
• Capability Deployment

Emma Askew

Managing Architect at Mosaic Island

Enterprise Architecture in the UK is “less diverse than the House of Lords.” Similar sentiment was expressed by Martha Lane Fox regarding UK IT professionals based on ONS and WISE statistics 2021. The truth is we don’t know the split for UK TOGAF-registered EAs as the Open Group doesn’t capture demographics, and no plans to do so. From US surveys in 2020, women make up 13% of the EA population.
I am often asked by clients and internal teams how to improve diversity in Technology and specifically in Architecture. As EAs we should also consider the why. In this session I aim to do both and demonstrate how we can strengthen and deepen EA offerings in our own practices through small changes.
Why? Aside from the obvious pursuit of equity, EA may be in danger of fishing from a ‘dwindling pool’. Where traditional development routes into EA are rarer with modern technology stacks and citizen technology where an individual may wear many hats already, the favoured T-shape EA is harder to source.