Draft Programme Released

The draft programme for IEA2012 can be downloaded here

Keynotes

Enterprise Architecture in NATO C3 Agency
David Burton, CTO of NC3A

The Golden Thread – enabling end to end transparency
David Lynam, CIO of AWE plc

Heading, Altitude & Airspeed: Service Orchestration, Cloud & Semantics – All or Nothing!
Dennis Wysnosky, CTO of DoD Business Mission Area

Niteworks Session

This year, IEA is running a parallel session in collaboration with Niteworks. The session will run in the afternoon of day 1. The presentations are as follows:

Embedding Architecture in the Enterprise
Wg Cdr Alex Hicks (Cap ISTAR DPD Plans SO1) & Luke Tucker (HIRA Technical Lead, Niteworks)

Architecture for Rapid Technology Insertion
Lt Cdr Fred Baxter RN (JMOD Joint Training, Evaluation and Simulation Capability) & Peter Waring (Niteworks Programme Manager TEST)

What does the ‘A’ in SOSA stand for ?
Kevin Wallis (Asst Head C4 Architectures, Network Technical Authority) & Nick Frall (Niteworks Chief Systems Engineer)

Architecture for the Front Line
Col Gary Jackson (Dep Hd Land ISTAR, TD, PTG, DE&S) & Trevor Milburn (Niteworks Training CCD Project Manager)

The Role of Architecture in the Acquisition Decision Process
Dave Camm (Dep Hd SEIG, DE&S) & David Evans (Niteworks Chief Architect)

Draft Programme

Confirmed presentations so far are:

The Defence Information Reference Model
Gp Capt Stu Jack, MOD CIO Information Standards & Policy

The Evolution of Enterprise Architecture and BPM in the Ministry of Defence, Singapore
Poon See Hong and Lt Col Edlin Tan, Ministry of Defence, Singapore
• Evolution and the 3 S-Curves
• Enterprise Approach towards Cost Savings and Enterprise Agility
− Ensuring Business – IT alignment
− Managing the complexities of IT
− Breaking the silo barriers
− Moving up the EA maturity ladder
• Operationalising BPM through Technology – the BPM Eco-System & “Sight-Seeing” Capabilities
• Case Study on MINDEF’s Personnel Command, the journey towards Process Excellence.

Nordic Battalion Task Force 2020 – Practical Experiences Using MODAF within a multi-national context
Björn Blondell, Business Developer & Facilitator, Swedish Defence Material Administration.
Anders Söderberg, Senior Consultant, Front End Strategy AB
Tommy Nordqvist, CEO, Front End Strategy AB

• Capability development from doctrine to fighting vehicle
• Harmonization of requirements and business development
• Architecture to bridge the gap between different national cultures and traditions
• Workshops and architecture as base and support for business development
• Commonality, and in some cases interchangeability, for operational effect and cost

Capability Architecture – Mind the Gap!
Jason Hill, Partner, Glue Reply
• Business and IT projects failing to achieve their goals – Why EA is not delivering the value to the business that it could
• The shortfall between what IT projects are delivering and what is required to achieve the business goals.
• Clarifying key business drivers and goals
• Capability architecture: Providing a common language and framework to describe the world in business terms
• Adopting a truly technology independent start point to bridge the gap between what IT delivers and what the business expects

MODEM – Reengineering the MODAF meta-model based on the IDEAS foundation model
LtCol Mikael Hagenbo, Supreme Commanders Staff, Head of architecture, frameworks and international co-operation, Swedish Armed Forces HQ
Lars-Olaf Kihlström, Senior Consultant, Generic Systems Sweden AB
Chris Partridge, BORO Solutions

• Issues with MODAF in its current form
• Semantic technology, the road ahead
MODEM, what was done, patterns and examples
• Relationship between this effort and other IDEAS foundation based models

Developing the Architecture for the Soldier of Tomorrow
Paul Sibson, Principal Consultant, Systems Engineering Lead, Systems Engineering & Assessment Ltd (SEA)
• Describes the development of the Soldier System Architecture (SSA) to define the support the MoD acquisition strategy for its future procurement approach.
• Explains the development of the MODAF model of the soldier from the top level operational views down to the system level views and detailed interfaces.
• How the human element of the soldier system has been captured as part of the overall architecture.
• How the development of the architecture, Use cases and operational context have become an integrated solution to defining the User Requirements.

The enterprise is a story: a narrative approach to enterprise-architecture
Tom Graves, Principal, Tetradian Consulting
• “What’s the story?” – Stories create emotional engagement in the aims of the architecture.
• “A cast of thousands!” – Great stories are made up of many interweaving smaller stories, each seen from the viewpoint of that individual narrator.
• “Every picture tells a story” – Using EA tools as aids to storytelling, as a visual canvas on which to unfold the story.
• “The plot thickens…” – Using structure to support the story, and story to support the structure.
• “To be continued…” – Hollywood-stories have an ending, business-stories don’t!

Enterprise Architecture as an Automated Instrument to support Enterprise Transformation – Approach and Practice
Pedro Sousa, Owner, Link Consulting and Associate Professor at IST – Technical University of Lisbon
• A Case development of an Enterprise Architecture project at Serasa Experian, the largest credit information institution in the South America
• The approach used to capture information, across the organization, regarding planned and effective changes from heterogeneous sources
• The ability to generate and maintain automatically all the architectural representations of the organization, covering both IT and Business
• The importance of a dynamic time-based visualization of the architectural artefacts and representations, providing the capacity to visualize the past, the present and the planned future

From today to tomorrow – an EA approach to managing Capability Transformations
Jennifer Mollett, Systems Engineer, BAE Systems, Mission Systems
• Practical experience of the application of Enterprise Architectures to support Capability Management decisions
• Discussion of the importance of aligning technical rigour with decision making processes
• Exemplar from UK Mine Hydrographic Patrol Capability programme in the use of TRAiDE (TLCM Robust Acquisition inclusive Decision Environment) to support the Capability Transformation



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