The IBM System Architect Users Group meeting is this Monday, November 2nd, 2015 in DC, so please join us. We finalized the meeting agenda with various rich topics and great speakers.
To register for the FREE event, please navigate to the following URL: https://www.ibmevents.info/?action=evregister&event_id=150
Coffee and Continental Breakfast sponsored by Corso Technologies – corso3.com
Here's the final agenda and logistics
8:30 am – Doors Open, Registration
9 am to 10 am: Instance Modeling with DoDAF 2
Speaker: Chuck Faris, Senior Enterprise Architect IoT-Unleash the Labs
Summary: Chuck will discuss how to model instances of things in DoDAF 2. He will provide an overview of use cases and a design of Instance Modeling that IBM is are working on -- showing our preliminary work and looking for feedback and ideas from the group.
10 am to 10:45 am: “Publishing on a Shoestring”
Speaker: Kyle Kenney, Senior Enterprise Architect Consultant, Bay State
Summary: Are you a one person EA show? Don’t have the expertise, time, or authority to set-up/configure web servers? Is System Architect isolated by security boundaries? Can’t get the senior leadership to solve the information propagation problem? If you have System Architect and SharePoint (or something similar), you can still push the data to users. This is a technically uninspiring, but very doable approach to getting the data out there – with lots of room for simple-tech improvements for the more technically inclined and practical.
10:45 am to 11 am -- Break
11:00 am to 11:30 am: Architecting for the Cloud – Tales from the Dark Side
Speaker: Mike Clark, IBM
Summary: Considerations when moving current-state applications and application development processes into a cloud future state.
11:30 am to 12 noon: Use Case Example Utilizing the Business Motivation Model for Business Unit Planning
Speaker: John Jessup, Senior Enterprise Architect Consultant
Summary: In addition to a review of the Business Motivation Model (BMM) out-of-the-box artifacts, the use of a "Business Technology Plan" definition will introduced. An example of reporting on a Business Unit's "Business Technology Plan" using the System Architect Publisher and a refreshable Explorer Diagram will be demonstrated.
12 noon to 1:00 pm -- lunch
1:00 to 2:00 pm: Application Portfolio and IT Service Management
Speaker: Tolla Cherwenka, Solution Architect, ALM and Systems Engineer
Summary: Tolla has a unique view into the Enterprise Architect world, having traveled non-stop all over the US meeting with hundreds of customers in the commercial space doing or looking to do EA over the last 9 years. She will present on Application Portfolio and IT Service Management, and what the commercial world is doing and looking to do, in Enterprise Architecture.
2:00 to 2:15 pm: Intro to IBM's IT Service Management Reference Architecture - the Blueprint for Success
Speaker: Larry Smith, Sales Leader IT Operations, IBM Systems - Federal
Summary: Larry will follow up Tolla's presentation with a summary of IBM's IT Service Management Reference Architecture.
2:15 to 2:30 pm break
2:30 to 3:15 pm: What’s New in System Architect and SA Design Manager
Speaker: Lou Varveris, WW EA CoP Lead, IBM
Summary: Lou will demonstrate SA Design Manager – how to build reports, and new features in System Architect 11.4.3.5 just released in September 2015.
3:15 to 4:00 pm: System Architect Product Roadmap
Speaker: Joseph Londa, Senior Product Manager, IBM
Summary: Joe will present the product roadmap for the System Architect suite of products into 2016.
Cost
This event is offered free of charge. Participants are responsible for their own parking, food and business travel expenses.
Parking and Metro
There are several parking garages in the area. Most of them charge around $21.00 per day and require cash as a method of payment. The garage on F street between 14th and 15th accepts credit cards.
Metro Center is the closest metro station from the location (about 2 blocks away, walking distance).
Time and Location
The SA Users Group meeting will be held on November 2nd, 2015 from 8:30 AM EST - 4:30 PM EST at the IBM Institute for Electronic Government, 600 14th Street, NW, 2nd Floor, Hamilton Square, Washington, DC, DC 20005.
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