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Enterprise Architecture Conference & Expo : May 21, 2008
7:30
Registration Open
7:30
Exhibits Open
7:30AM - 3:00PM
8:30-9:15
Opening Panel: Enterprise Architecture: Where it Started, Where we Are, Where We're Headed
  • Bill McVay, G&B Solutions (Moderator)
  • Randy Hite, Director of EA & Systems, Government Accountability Office
  • Kim Nelson, Executive Director eGovernment, Microsoft
  • Anne Reed, President & CEO, Acquisition Solutions
9:15-10:15
Results Oriented Architecture: Federal Best Practices
  • Peter Bayer, Senior Manager, Enterprise Architecture & Data Strategy, BearingPoint, Inc.
Attendees will
  • Explore the benefits of EA analysis and development timelines
  • Look beyond the compliance issues and identify the true value EA can bring to the table
  • Discuss examples of where federal agencies are achieving real results from the use of Enterprise Architecture
  • Review case study examples including:
    • Legacy Modernization
    • Business Transformation
    • Capital Planning and Investment Control
    • Information Sharing
10:15
Break
10:30-11:15
Small Agency and Niche Scale Segment Architectures
  • Jim Rolfes, Chief Enterprise Architect, Manager, Enterprise Architecture and IT Portfolio Division, US Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
Attendees will:
  • Identify challenges small agencies face in architecting their business
  • Explore the differences – and similarities – small and large agencies face in developing and implementing segment architectures
  • Discuss lessons learned from a small agency, and how these lessons can have utility for large agencies with niche area segments or in a federated approach
  • Review how PBGC adapted its Enterprise Architecture and methodologies to serve its needs as a small and dynamic government agency
11:15-Noon
Case Study: Service-Oriented Approach to Realizing EA Program Results
  • Ronald Luycx , Chief Enterprise Architect, Federal Student Aid in the U.S. Department of Education (invited)
Attendees will:
  • Hear a case study of how the Federal Student Aid Enterprise Architecture program used a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) approach to restructure itself as a value-added service to business
  • Learn how EA techniques were used (on the EA program itself) to realize the program’s goals and align resources with the “to-be” vision
  • Learn how Federal Student Aid extended and applied SOA methods to collaborate with business users to define and improve business services provided by EA
  • Be presented with the current set of defined EA business services, reviewed in sufficient detail to facilitate discussion or for potential reuse consideration by other organizations
  • Hear lessons learned from using the SOA approach to align EA solutions to needed services, and dialog will be encouraged through a questions and answers session
Noon-1:00
Networking Lunch
1:00-2:00
Business Architecture to Generate Business Value
  • Diane Reeves, Department Business Architect, Department of Interior
Attendees will:
  • Learn how DOI has remained a leader of actionable Enterprise Architecture
  • Explore how the DOI Business Model, through an enterprise-wide focus, is helping the agency achieve greater performance results and implement cost effective technology enablers
  • Discuss how Business Architecture is the stabilizing force to generate business value using Enterprise Improvement and Business Process Management (BPM) strategies
2:00-3:00
EA Value Measurement
  • Peter Bayer, Senior Manager, Enterprise Architecture & Data Strategy, BearingPoint, Inc.
  • Tan Van Luong, Chief Enterprise Architect, US Mint, Department of the Treasury
  • John Zhao, CTO and Chief Architect of Lockheed Martin, and EA Project Manager, US Mint, Department of the Treasury
Attendees will:
  • Discuss the importance of measuring the “real” value of EA, versus metrics designed to appease OMB
  • Learn how to develop and quantify both explicit and implicit value measurements
  • Explore how to gain support and recognition of EA value that business stakeholders will recognize and support
  • Learn how the US Mint used an innovative approach to developing and quantifying the value delivered by many aspects of an EA program, with metrics that can be applied at any agency
3:00-3:30
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Conference Wrap-Up, Highlighting Key Take-Aways
  • Mike Dunham, Senior Principle Consultant, Keane Federal
  • Sonya Jain, President, Global Tech
  • Mike Tiemann, Senior Faculty and Program Director, FEAC Institute
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