Keynotes

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David Burton Chief Technology Officer, NATO C3 Agency

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Dennis Wisnosky Chief Technical Officer, US DoD Business Mission Area

Speakers



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Tom Graves Tetradian

Tom Graves has been an independent consultant for more than three decades, in business transformation, enterprise architecture and knowledge management. His clients in Europe, Australasia and the Americas cover a broad range of industries including banking, utilities, manufacturing, logistics, engineering, media, telecoms, research, defence and government. He has a broad academic background in arts, sciences and architectures, he initially trained as a typographer and graphic-designer, and was one of the pioneers of desktop-publishing, with extensive experience in the practical and human challenges in business innovation and change. He has a special interest in architecture for non-IT-centric enterprises and the human side of systems.

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Lt Col Mikael Hagenbo Swedish Armed Forces



Jason Hill Glue Reply

Jason Hill is Partner of Glue Reply. He covers strategy and development for the business as well as playing a key part of the growth of Reply in the UK.

With 18 years experience in enterprise architecture and solution delivery, Jason began his career in IT at the ‘back-end’ of the IT value chain working in manufacturing and industrial environments. Often literally on the ‘shop floor’ and at the end of the production line! Having picked up the pieces from several front-end architecture and design flaws, he is now committed to helping organisations drive genuine business value from IT investments and avoiding costly front end mistakes.

Jason has held senior positions within both software development companies and large system integration companies. Since Glue Reply became part of the wider Reply S.p.A network of Italy, Jason is a Partner within the Group responsible for architecture, technology and consulting.

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Gp Capt Stu Jack UK MOD CIO Information Policy & Standards

Gp Capt Stu Jack joined the Royal Air Force in 1984 as an apprentice technician at RAF Cosford. Following a degree at the Royal Military College of Science at Shrivenham he was posted as OC Ground Radio at RAF Cottesmore. After a number of operational and technical tours, Stu was promoted to Gp Capt in Sep 2009 and posted to the MOD, where he worked for the Defence Information Infrastructure (DII) Senior Responsible Owner. The DII programme is the largest defence IT programme of its type in the world and he was responsible for ensuring that the programme met the benefits that were set out in its business case in line with the OGC’s Managing Successful Programmes guidance.

In Jan 11 he was posted to the Chief Information Officers Organisation where he is responsible for Information Policy and Standards. The Policy and Standards organisation sets Information Management policy and co-ordinates all other Information policies across the Department. The team ensure data coherence and standards across all of MOD’s process owners and set Departmental Enterprise Architecture guidance and policy.

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Lars-Olof Kihlstrom Generic AB


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Beat Lang Swiss Armed Forces Command Support Organisation

Beat Lang, Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, received his Engineer Diploma from the Bern University of Applied Sciences in 1985. He is an information architect at the Swiss Armed Forces Command Support Organisation and leads the development of architecture methodologies and tools in the context of Network Enabled Information Systems.
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Chris Partridge BORO Solutions

Chris Partridge (partridgec@BOROGroup.co.uk) is Chief Ontologist at BORO Solutions (www.BOROSolutions.com). He has been developing his expertise in business ontology for a couple of decades – working primarily in the defence and financial sectors. He has also published a number of papers and a book – Business Object: Re-engineering for Re-use (Butterworth Heinemann 1996). He has developed an ontology framework – BORO – that is the foundation for the IDEAS (International Defence Enterprise Architecture Specification for exchange) which is the foundation for DODAF 2.0.
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André Sampaio Link Consulting

André Sampaio has participated and coordinated Enterprise Architecture projects in Portugal, Brazil and Luxemburg. He is also the responsible for the development of the Enterprise Architecture Management System (www.link.pt/eams) and has published work subject to the themes of Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Transformation, System Theory and Formal Viewpoint descriptions.
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Doug Sim DSTL

Doug Sim is the Senior Enterprise Architect within the Command and Information Systems group at Dstl and was the Deputy Chair of the IPT-F at MIP from 2009 to May of this year. He joined Dstl in 2005 and has worked in the Maritime and C4ISTAR domains in a variety of roles including information modeller, system engineer and architect. Prior to joining Dstl Doug worked in the financial sector using UML to capture user requirements and design software systems to help automate and integrate back and front office systems in UK, Europe and the Far East.
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Pedro Sousa Technical University of Lisbon

Pedro Sousa (PhD) is an Associate Professor at Technical University of Lisbon, where he teaches Enterprise Architecture (EA) courses and has more than fifty EA publications. He is also a researcher at Organizational Engineering group at Inov (www.inov.pt) and a Innovation Director at Link Consulting (www.link.pt) and has been responsible for more than twenty EA projects in real organizations for the past fifteen years.


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