Keynotes
|
Air Vice-Marshal Jon Rigby Director, DCI3, UK MOD
|
TBC TBC
|
Speakers
 |
Adrian Apthorp Global Business Architect, DHL Express Adrian is currently Head of Enterprise Architecture for DHL Express Europe and Global Business Architect. In his 23 years with DHL, Adrian has played a number of Architecture roles in different parts of the world, including London, Singapore, Brussels, Prague and currently Bonn. His experience has been mainly in supporting business change and operations by designing enterprise-wide application architectures enabled through message based systems and service oriented techniques. He has also worked with leaders in the field of business process management, contributing to books such as Business Process Management – The Third Wave. Adrian is a Chartered Engineer and Member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (previously IEE). |
 |
Peder Blomqvist NORACON / SESAR Peder joined the SESAR JU 2010, responsible for running the AMAN Pilot -1 in order to support the Introduction of Architecture in the program, and since October 2011 the WP8 Leader for Information Management and SOA for the SWIM development for the whole SESAR Program. SOA Expert and CIO Strategist advisor in agencies and governments, national and international. Former CIO Strategist – CIO department – Swedish Armed Forces Supreme Commanders Staff, responsible for the CIO Strategy and directive program since 2007. Peder has a Civil background – educated within Computer Science (Technical High school) and University school of Management with over 25 years experiences in Information Technology. Peder have expert knowledge within areas like Networking and Information Infrastructure, IT standardization, Information Management, NEC centric and SOA and Architecture Framework development and practicing (FM AR, NAF, MODAF). Peder has long experience of developing, managing and running IT and CIO departments in a governmental (I.e. Swedish Defense Material Administration, Medical Product Agency) as well as in private sectors (I.e. Bank and Finance -SEB and as an IT infrastructure specialist consult). Peder has during the last 10 years been heavily involved in the Swedish Network Based Defense NEC program – responsible for the Architecture development, since 2005 Swedish rep in NATO OPEN SYSTEM WORKING GROUP developing the NISP (NATO Interoperability Standards and Profile) and NATO NEC (NNEC) related products, EDA (European Defense Agency) and the development of the EURONEC concept. |
 |
Stephen Challinor Director Enterprise Architecture, Department of National Defence, Canada Steve Challinor has worked as a civilian within the Headquarters of the Canadian Department of National Defence (DND) in Ottawa for the past 24 years. He has a broad background in project management, weapon system and equipment management, business and financial management, IM/IT systems and Alternate Service Delivery (ASD) initiatives. In 2009, Steve was appointed as the Director of Enterprise Architecture (EA) within the Information Management (IM) Group. In this role he has led a team dedicated to the establishment of a robust EA practice for the Department and the Canadian Forces. With the foundational elements of the EA capability now in place, starting in April 2013 he will lead a new team under the Chief of Force Development within the Vice Chief of Defence Staff’s office to elevate the use of EA to a strategic level. |
 |
Rory Cleland Precision Contracts |
 |
Dr Jonathan Cook Head of Engineering Group, MOD DE&S Jonathan was appointed in 2012 to the SCS and to his current post as head of the Engineering Group within the Technical Directorate, merging the previous Systems Engineering and Integration Group (SEIG) with the engineering skills and engineering strategy teams. In this role, he leads the MoD’s Systems of Systems Approach (SOSA) and a range of engineering functions including human factors integration, software supportability, tactical data links, spectrum management and electromagnetic integration. He has a first degree in physics, an MSc in maths, a PhD in mechanical engineering and a Defence MBA. He is just embarking on an MSc in Systems Engineering. His business cards are no size A3. |
 |
Andy Ellis Chief Architect, ATLAS Andy Ellis has been the ATLAS Consortium’s Chief Architect for DII since September 2010. He has been responsible for DII solution integrity through a period which has seen the DII partnering approach optimized into a combined MOD/ATLAS operating model, organizational restructuring in preparation for DCNS, cost structure and solution changes as a result of SDSR and Defence Transformation, ongoing delivery of capability tranches, the first stages of an estate-wide technology refresh, and changes in the technical solution to meet new business and operational requirements, whilst continuing to deliver against the DII Main Gate benefits case. He has over 20 year’s industry experience as an enterprise architecture practitioner working with information intensive organisations, has published research into the transformation and governance of complex IS-enabled organisations, and is a Fellow of the BCS. |
|
Chris Fisher [TBC] Portfolio Director, Frontline Communications Portfolio, Information and Communication Systems, Department of Community Safety, Government of Queensland |
 |
Mark Foden Foden Grealy Mark Foden is a management consultant focusing on transformational change, typically in sophisticated IT environments. He is an ex-soldier and, since leaving the Royal Engineers in 1990, has had a diverse career working with entrepreneurial start-up companies, a range of plcs and latterly with UK central government departments. He works mainly on enabling Government organisations to move from design-led, programmatic approaches to change – to more incremental, collaborative ones. He was recently involved in the development of the change strategy for the Government’s G-Cloud Programme. He is one of the owners of the consulting firm Foden Grealy Ltd. |
 |
Michael Fuller, MBE, MBA SCC Global After holding a series of senior leadership and managerial roles during his successful 21-year career as a Commissioned Officer in the British Army, Michael Fuller, MBE, MBA, has been involved with project and programme planning and implementation within the defence, resilience and national security environments. Currently Director with SCC Global Ltd, Michael recently helped to set up the multi-agency National Olympic Co-ordination Centre in London’s New Scotland Yard during the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, and is currently working on high-level command, control and communication infrastructures around the globe. |
 |
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. |
 |
Niklas Häggström Lead Service Architect and Enterprise Architect in SESAR Niklas is an independent Enterprise and IT-Architect specialised in information management and collaboration within and between organisations. Niklas has more than 15 year experience from working with organisations to develop their people, processes, technology and information to align with their strategies and goals. Lately he has been mostly engaged in the Air Traffic Management (ATM) sector and the Single European ATM Research (SESAR) programme working with the transversal Enterprise Architecture and acting as the lead Service Architect. Through his commitment as a business area manager for Transport in Knowledge Agency Europe AB, he represents a wide range of world class specialists in the area of Information Management. |
 |
Gp Capt Stu Jack Deputy CTO, UK MOD 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. In Jan 2011 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. |
 |
Prof Sharm Manwani Executive Professor of IT Leadership, Henley Business School Professor Sharm Manwani specialises in business and IT integration encompassing strategy, architecture and business change. He leads the development of Business & Enterprise Architecture programmes at Henley which have been successfully delivered to large multinationals and the partners of a management consultancy. Previously, he held European CIO roles at Diageo and Electrolux, where he led international change programmes including mergers, restructuring, BPR and key account management, enabled by architectural transformation. Dr Manwani is the author of IT Enabled Business Change, a book that supports a BCS qualification and he is a regular judge at the UK IT Industry Awards. |
|
Larry Sears DHL Express Larry is currently Head of Portfolio Office for DHL Express Europe and has a background in finance and data management. Larry began his 26 year career with DHL in the US Finance office, where he moved in to IT as a programmer, before progressing through the ranks of project management. He successfully managed the IT integration of Pricing as a result of the acquisition of Airborne Express. In 2005, he transferred to Europe and took responsibility for building up a portfolio office for the newly create “Business IT demand” organization. The Portfolio Office is now responsible for managing transparency and governance processes on projects and applications for 50 countries. He is currently based in Bonn, Germany. |
|
Dr Edwin Swidenbank Chief Engineer, Atkins Defence Dr. Swidenbank is currently Chief Engineer ISTAR within Atkins Defence where he is working with the SE and PM functions to develop the capability that meets the strategic goals of the Atkins Defence Board. He is also Chief Engineer of “Team Ensure” (Atkins, Jacobs Sula, Quintec and SCS) who are supporting MOD in the development of System of Systems Approach and systems engineering maturity to address the fundamental issues of coherence, interoperability and reuse in military capability. After completing his primary degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Edwin Swidenbank undertook and completed a doctorate in modelling and control research at the Queen’s University of Belfast. |
 |
Conrad Thompson PA Consulting Conrad specialises in bridging the gap between strategic business needs and delivery solutions with over 20 years’ experience in successfully architecting and delivering complex change for major organisations in the government and regulatory sectors. Conrad’s recent clients include the Civil Aviation Authority, European Patent Office, United Nations and Sussex Police helping them design and implement new operating models by focusing on integrating the business and IT components of the organisation. Conrad leads PA’s global business design service comprising over 300 architects. |
 |
Steve Winter Engineering Fellow, Raytheon Company Steve specializes in advanced Air Traffic Management (ATM) concepts, architectures and applications for future aviation initiatives, including NextGen and SESAR. He has more than 25 years of experience in ATM technology development. From 2006 to 2011, he was the Chief Technologist and Strategic Advisor for NATS, the UK’s main Air Traffic Control provider. Steve was responsible for developing the overall technology strategy for the company, as well as providing advice to executive and senior management on technology-related issues. Before joining NATS, Steve was the ATM Technology Director for Raytheon. He focused on advanced system architectures and enterprise architecture (EA), including the future U.S. air transportation system, NextGen. He was also the principal architect of Raytheon’s global Air Traffic Management systems product line. Steve has an MA in Mathematics from Cambridge University and is a member of ISACA, INCOSE, and the Air Traffic Control Association for which he has written a number of articles on NextGen and SESAR. |
Speakers from Previous Years
|
Brig Robin Bacon [KEYNOTE 2008] Director Strategy & Programmes Service Personnel and Veterans Agency, UK MOD Brigadier Bacon is the Strategy and Programmes Director for SPVA. His responsibilities include managing the competition for the Agency’s outsourcing contract in 2009 – the largest of its kind in Europe, and the Defence Recruiting and Individual Training Management (DRITM) programme. He joined the Agency in February 2006, having previously been in the policy arena as the Strategy Director for Deputy Chief of Defence Staff (Personnel) in MOD. He is a strong advocate of personnel delivery being IT-enabled rather than IT-driven and, as a non-technical officer, tries to avoid “IT Speak”. |
|
David Burton [KEYNOTE 2012] Chief Technology Officer, NATO C3 Agency |
|
Brig Alan Clacher [KEYNOTE 2011] Head of the Logistics NEC Programme, UK MOD As Head of the Logistics NEC Programme, Brig Clacher is responsible for the delivery of an operationally focussed Programme, underpinned by a commercial Delivery Partner, to provide agile and responsive information services in support of Defence logistics. This work ranges in scope from the logistic information required to support Tornado fast jets in the Air environment, Apache attack helicopters and heavy armour in the Land environment and warships in the Maritime environment – each bringing their own unique problems. |
|
Rear Admiral Thomas Engevall [KEYNOTE 2010] CIO, Swedish Armed Forces |
|
Alistair Murray [KEYNOTE 2010] Chief Systems Advisor, UK MOD Alistair Murray has been MOD’s Key Systems Advisor since August 2008, recruited to provide demonstrable, independent and highly capable expert advice to the NEC Senior Responsible Owner (SRO) in the execution of Defence Enterprise Planning. He brings 20 years experience in shaping, planning and delivering business, organisational and IT transformations in the Financial Services sector as a Senior Accenture Partner. |
|
Air Cdre Mark Neal [KEYNOTE 2011] Head of Information Policy and Strategy, UK MOD CIO Air Cdre Neal is the Head of Information, Strategy and Policy within the newly established Defence Chief Information Officer’s organisation where his main responsibilities include driving forward the MOD’s Information Strategy 2009 and associated sub-strategies on behalf of Defence. |
|
|
George Wauer [KEYNOTE 2008] Director of the Architecture and Interoperability in the OSD, UD DoD Mr. Wauer is the Director of the Architecture and Interoperability (A&I) Directorate in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration (OSD[NII]) office. He has over 42 years of leadership and management experience, including 16 years of service in a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense position. He holds a Master’s Degree in Astronautics. |
|
Dennis Wisnosky [KEYNOTE 2012] Chief Technical Officer, US DoD Business Mission Area |
|
John Zachman [KEYNOTE 2010] Zachman InternationalJohn is the originator of the “Framework for Enterprise Architecture” which has received broad acceptance around the world as an integrative framework, or “periodic table” of descriptive representations for Enterprises. Mr. Zachman is not only known for this work on Enterprise Architecture, but is also known for his early contributions to IBM’s Information Strategy methodology (Business Systems Planning) as well as to their Executive team planning techniques (Intensive Planning). |
|
Mike Brownsword [2011] Atego Mike Brownsword gained his PhD in Risk management from Cardiff University in 2009 and his Masters degree in Electronics and Computer Science from Swansea University, since when he has spent over 10 years working as a systems engineer in a wide range of industries including rail, defence and aerospace. He has authored and presented numerous papers for conference and journal publication. Mike works full time as a lead consultant for Atego, an independent, standards-based company providing consultancy services and training to industry and academia. He is also a Chartered Engineer and Member of the IET. |
|
Caroline Gowing [2011] JA Consulting Caroline is a strategy and change consultant working with JA Consulting Ltd. After a period as an Officer in the British Army, Caroline has operated within the Defence consultancy space for over eight years, working across the spectrum from large multinational industry through to small innovative technological design companies and for several years as an embedded consultant within the MoD. Caroline holds a degree in Psychology and a Masters in Human-Computer Interaction and has led teams working in environments as diverse as Royal Navy frigates, ground based combat zones, multinational experiments, complex synthetic environments, Head Office change programmes and time-focused delivery projects. Caroline has worked within Niteworks for over a year as a project leader, benefits manager and capability modelling SME, supporting both core activity and a range of project activities. |
|
Tom Graves [2011-2012] 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. |
 |
Lt Col Mikael Hagenbo [2008-2012] Swedish Armed Forces |
|
Col Ian Harris [2012] UK MOD Ian is Colonel Battlespace Manoeuvre in the Equipment Strategy (Army) (ES(A)) branch of Chief of the General Staff’s staff in MoD London. This branch provides the Army User’s input to Defence Equipment Capability Planning. It develops and seeks to deliver, through the top level of the Army (including all members of the Army Board) and Defence, the Land Environment’s equipment capability requirements. |
|
Jason Hill [2012] 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. |
|
|
Gp Capt Stu Jack [2012] 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. |
|
Duncan Kemp [2011] UK Department for Transport |
 |
Lars-Olof Kihlstrom [2012] Generic AB |
|
Beat Lang [2012] 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. |
|
Alex Mitchell [2012] UK MOD ISTAR Alex is the Principal Engineer for intelligence systems within the UK Ministry of Defence. As part of this role he develops and maintains the ISTAR (Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance) enterprise architecture and also acts as the technical authority for the area. His previous positions include leading major intelligence integration programmes and working in electronic surveillance, naval combat systems and the nuclear submarine programme. |
|
Chris Partridge [2012] 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. |
|
Matthew Rapier [2011] Chief Technical Architect, VEGA Consulting Services Ltd Matthew Rapier is a member of the senior management team at VEGA specialising in Enterprise Architecture consultancy. He is supporting several projects for clients including DII Group, the Core Herrick team and MOD’s industry partners. Matthew leads VEGA’s work in Theatre Network and Service Assurance for Op Herrick, and is a driving force in VEGA’s growing roles in the delivery of highly secure ICT solutions to MOD and other government departments. |
|
André Sampaio [2012] 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. |
|
Doug Sim [2012] 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. |
|
Pedro Sousa [2012] 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. |
|
John Wailing [2008] Chief Technology Officer, UK Home Office |
