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Architecture Bootcamp
Presented Paul Preiss, President and Founder, IASA

IT Architecture is quickly becoming the differentiating factor in providing faster time to market, lower overall IT costs and greater business flexibility. As organizations try to align the business need with IT delivery and create sustainable solutions – IT architecture is becoming an accepted best practice. Paul Preiss is president and founder of IASA, the largest global architect professional association. Paul will answer the questions such as:

In the Architect Bootcamp we will develop your understanding and capabilities as an architect. Designed with both seasoned professionals and aspiring architects in mind, the bootcamp guides you through 6 years of experience and research in the architect profession.

By the time you leave the architect bootcamp you will have a map to your professional future, a clear mechanism to assess your skills against the industry average and a solid foundation for the value and benefit of architecture.

Paul Preiss is the President and Founder of the International Association of Software Architects (IASA). Prior to IASA, Paul was the Director of Engineering and Chief Architect of a digital asset management company. His global experience stems from the time he spent in Japan as an Applications Manager and Chief Architect at Dell. Paul has a bachelors degree in Japanese from the University of Texas at Austin.

SOA Assesssment, Planning and Reference
Chris Haddad, Burton Group

4 HOUR SESSION SOA Assessment and Planning Are you ready for SOA? Where should you start? How will you specify actionable steps that will move your organization away from project silos and towards a service-oriented mindset? What projects will bring you the most benefit? What areas of your organization, architecture, infrastructure, or development practices need the most work? This workshop provides guidance and practical advice to help an organization conduct a successful SOA initiative. Every SOA initiative should start with a self-assessment to gauge the organization's readiness for SOA and to recognize areas that need improvement, identify opportunities, and establish priorities. Once you know where you are, you can then plan a course to get to where you want to go. The workshop will describe the following tools that can be used to define and guide your SOA initiative:

• SOA maturity model framework
• Assessment surveys
• Recommendation templates
• Sample initiative roadmaps

Every SOA initiative should start with a readiness assessment and continuously track progress towards goals. This workshop will give you the tools you need to do so:

• What aspects of the organization should be evaluated?
• How do you measure readiness?
• How do you establish priorities?
• How do you increase organizational maturity?
• How do you measure maturity and demonstrate business value?

4 HOUR SESSION

SOA Infrastructure Reference Architecture You've been tasked with designing a SOA infrastructure. Where do you start? What infrastructure technology components must be procured? How will you host services? How will you control access to them? How will you manage them and ensure that service-level agreements are met? How will you ensure that services are properly secured and instrumented? This workshop will examine the requirements of a SOA infrastructure from a functional perspective and will discuss the various alternatives available to address those functional requirements. It will provide candid feature/benefit analysis of the various types of products, and discuss methods for upgrading your existing middleware environment.

• Is an ESB a prerequisite for SOA?
• What value does a BPEL engine provide?
• How do you support both SOAP and REST?
• What mechanisms are available to track SLAs and pinpoint failures in the system?
• When is it appropriate to use an XML gateway?
• Is a registry really necessary?
• What aspects of governance aren't optional?

Chris Haddad is Vice President and Service Director of Burton Group‘s Application Platform Strategies Service. He leads research teams that focus on infrastructure technologies used to design, develop, and deploy applications and services. Chris has established software development processes, product direction, and integration strategy of several successful software companies. He was granted committer status on the Apache Axis project in 2002. Author, editor, and contributor on numerous articles, technical publications, conference presentations, editorial boards, and podcasts.

UML For the Architect
Jim Rice, NoMagic

The UML course provides details on managing and delivering all of the design modules in the latest UML specification. You will get detailed guidance in UML diagramming, including tips and tricks from a seasoned UML professional.

Introductory UML 2 is a concise 24-hour course covering UML 2 notation and managing requirements using UML.
The course:
• Includes lectures and final exam
• Explains UML 2 notation;
• Shows how to use the UML to capture requirements with use cases and activity diagrams
• Shows how to create and relate analysis and design models;
• Evaluate UML model using Model Metrics
• How to use the analysis work products
• Help your team quickly improve UML 2 modeling skills
Audience: Analysts, Architects, Designers, Developers, Test Engineers, IT managers, Project Managers
Prerequisites: Understanding of Object-Oriented concepts
Methods: E-learning Lectures, Final Exam
Certificates: Each participant receives certificate from the International Association of Software Architects (IASA)

Jim Rice has extensive experience in Internet/Intranet development and management of Intranet and E-Commerce sites. • In-depth knowledge of Internet technologies and development life cycles of Distributed systems to include eliciting requirements and facilitating functional analysis sessions. • Solid communications skills at the CXX level. • Specialist in the design of business-to-business and business-to-consumer E-Commerce sites using J2EE technologies. • Experienced in enterprise integration using the IBM WebSphere family of technologies. • Experienced in Master Data Management within the Automotive Aftermarket and retail spaces.

Enterprise Business Architecture
Ralph Whittle, Consultant and Author

Presentation details and speaker bio coming soon!The Introduction to Enterprise Business Architecture (EBA) class describes an approach and method for building an architecture of the business. It explains how to build and integrate your core cross-functional processes, sometimes called value streams, with the IT architectures and the corporate strategy. It formally captures your intellectual capital in an "architectural type" blueprint or model of the business that is available for strategic and tactical analysis. Consequently, the business and IT teams can work in harmony with the insight gleaned from the Enterprise Business Architecture to create higher profits, superior customer service and a competitive advantage for their enterprise.

One can use the EBA to guide process improvement, software development, package configuration, and Enterprise Architecture initiatives, resulting in higher levels of efficiency and lower levels of rework in any software or systems life cycle. Guided by the strategy, this new and expanded view of the enterprise provides keen insight into innovative thinking, thereby improving enterprise performance.

This class is supported with a high level case study, illustrating all of the EBA models needed to derive and engineer the other enterprise architectures. The dominant theme of the EBA is a customer centric focus coupled with a holistic view of the enterprise, to deliver a value creating system.

Strategic Planners, C-level executives, Business/IT consultants, Operational managers and Technology managers will find the Enterprise Business Architecture a practical alternative to a "seat of the pants" approach for engineering their business and implementing its enabling technologies.

Course Outline:

• • Integrating the Enterprise Business Architecture with the Strategy
• Enterprise Business Architecture Innovation
• Enterprise Business Architecture – Modeling Language (EBA-ML)
• Understanding Value Streams
• Balancing and Leveling Enterprise Business Architecture Models
• Enterprise Business Architecture Case Study and Model Review Course Objectives:
• To understand the concepts of integrating enterprise architectures, specifically the Enterprise Business Architecture
• To understand the formal links and relationships of the Enterprise Business Architecture
• To get exposure to innovative thinking using the Enterprise Business Architecture
• To articulate the benefits of integrating enterprise architectures
• To review the Enterprise Business Architecture models from a case study

Ralph Whittle is co-author of a book titled, Enterprise Business Architecture: The Formal Link between Strategy and Results, CRC Press 2004. He is a Strategic Business/IT Consultant and subject matter expert in Enterprise Business Architecture development and implementation. He has built Enterprise Business Architectures in various industries, such as manufacturing, healthcare, financial, and technology. He has worked in the IT industry for over 26 years, conducting engagements in enterprise business process modeling, strategic/tactical business planning, enterprise business requirements analysis, Enterprise Business Architecture and IT architecture integration, strategic frameworks integration with systems development methodologies and IT service offering enhancement. He is a co-inventor of a patented Strategic Business/IT Planning framework. You can visit his web site at www.enterprisebusinessarchitecture.com.

Scaling Service-Oriented Architecture
Rob High, IBM Fellow

Let's assume for a moment, that the value of architecture in building information systems was obvious to everyone. Let's further assume that there was complete consensus on the merits of one architectural approach over any other. Let's even assume that IT professionals were universally skilled at communicating and reasoning using architectural lexicon and methods. Even in such a utopian setting, is it reasonable to expect that such practices would be leveraged across the enterprise? What are the consequences to our systems when they're not? And what's preventing such obvious benefits from being manifested? This age-old set of issues are now at the forefront for enterprises that have adopted SOA. This talk will explore some of the current trends and issues facing the practices of SOA, including the issue of scaling the use of SOA across larger segments of the enterprise, and suggesting ways to deal with them.

Rob High is the chief architect for the SOA Foundation, an IBM Fellow, and member of the IBM Academy of Technology. He is responsible for ensuring an open industry architectural definition of the principles of business and IT alignment enabled by SOA, as well as ensuring IBM's software and services portfolio is architecturally grounded to enable for efficient SOA-based solutions. This responsibility extends across the IBM software portfolio, including WebSphere, Rational, Tivoli, Lotus,and Information Management products relevant to enabling SOA. Rob has 30 years of programming experience and has worked with distributed, object-oriented, component-based transaction monitors for the last 16 years, including SOMObject Server, Component Broker, and most recently the WebSphere Application Server. Prior to his current responsibility, Rob was the chief architect for the WebSphere foundation with architectural responsibility for the WebSphere Application Server and the related products integrated on that core runtime.

Success with SOA from the Top Down and Bottom Up
Harvinder Kalsi, Cisco

By planning from the top down and building from the bottom up, Cisco's IT organization has successfully employed SOA for positive business outcomes. In this keynote, Harvinder Kalsi, an IT architect responsible for SOA across Cisco, will present a case study outlining Cisco IT's adoption of SOA, including tactics employed to improve business-IT alignment that have subsequently become internal best practices. Harvinder will also discuss actions taken along the way to overcome several enterprise-scale technical and operational issues. Instrumental in Cisco's successful use of SOA has been up-front consideration of available network services in order to ensure that security, performance, and scalability are maintained as application services are deployed globally. The outcome of this approach has resulted in solid improvements in efficiency and productivity throughout the company.

As the domain architect, Harvinder leads the BPM/SOA domain at Cisco, and provides leadership in Service-Oriented Architectures across all Cisco IT business units. His role has paved the way for implementation of Cisco's world-class SOA platform, with significant innovations to support enterprise-class, agile business services. Additionally, Harvinder has over 15 years of software industry experience in designing and building business applications. He holds an MS in Computer Science from IIT Roorkee, India.

Architecture 2009: Trends and Opportunities
Presented Paul Preiss, President and Founder, IASA

The architecture profession is fast approaching a cusp. We will show our professional value to the world or we will begin losing our credibility. With architects divided almost evenly between six psuedo-religious perspectives on what it means to be an architect, we are limiting our ability to fashion this description.

Over the next year we will see many changes in this landscape, from certification to technology to training. In this session we will explore some of these coming changes and what they will mean to you as professionals.

Paul Preiss is the President and Founder of the International Association of Software Architects (IASA). Prior to IASA, Paul was the Director of Engineering and Chief Architect of a digital asset management company. His global experience stems from the time he spent in Japan as an Applications Manager and Architect. Paul has a bachelors degree in Japanese from the University of Texas at Austin.

Smithying in the 21st Century
Neal Ford, Thoughtworks

Blacksmiths in 1900 and PowerBuilder developers in 1996 have something in common: they thought their job was safe forever. Yet circumstances proved them wrong. One of the nagging concerns for developers is how do you predict the Next Big Thing, preferably before you find yourself dinosaurized. This keynote discusses why people are bad at predicting the future, and why picking the Next Big Thing is hard. Then, it foolishly does just that: tries to predict the future. I also provide some guidelines on how to polish your crystal ball, giving you tools to help ferret out upcoming trends. Don't get caught by the rising tide of the next major coolness: nothing's sadder than an unemployed farrier watching cars drive by.

Neal Ford is Software Architect and Meme Wrangler at ThoughtWorks, a global IT consultancy with an exclusive focus on end-to-end software development and delivery. He is also the designer and developer of applications, instructional materials, magazine articles, courseware, video/DVD presentations, and author and/or editor of 6 books spanning a variety of technologies, including the most recent The Productive Programmer. He focuses on designing and building of large-scale enterprise applications. He is also an internationally acclaimed speaker, speaking at over 100 developer conferences worldwide, delivering more than 600 talks. Check out his web site at http://www.nealford.com. He welcomes feedback and can be reached at nford@thoughtworks.com.

Changing B2B with Cloud Computing
Jack Greenfield, Microsoft

Cloud computing has the potential to transform B2B application design by significantly lowering the cost and risk of connecting business partners. In the next generation of B2B computing, hosted workflow services will be used to automate the enactment of shared business processes described by models. Claims based identity federation services will enable the levels of trust and privacy required to conduct business transactions over the Internet across corporate firewalls. Message routing services will provide the indirection required to make Internet based business partnerships robust. Together, these services make it possible to extend the Enterprise Service Bus pattern to the Internet, enabling a revolution in B2B computing. Come and hear Jack Greenfield, Sr. Director for the Platform Architecture Team at Microsoft, as he talks about the next generation of B2B computing.

Jack Greenfield is an Architect for Enterprise Frameworks and Tools at Microsoft. He was previously Chief Architect, Practitioner Desktop Group, at Rational Software Corporation, and Founder and CTO of InLine Software Corporation. At NeXT, he developed the Enterprise Objects Framework, now called Apple Web Objects. A well known speaker and writer, he also contributed to UML, J2EE and related OMG and JSP specifications. He holds a B.S. in Physics from George Mason University.

Standards Provide the Language for Enterprise Architecture
Presented by Robert Lario, Visumpoint

An enterprise is a dynamic, changing system responding to environmental and internal pressures. These systems are extremely complex and convoluted, making it difficult to truly understand how decisions will promulgate the enterprise, both positively and negatively impacting the organization.

An enterprise's architecture (EA) depicts / articulates the processes, policies, infrastructure, data and all their respective dependencies, that collectively define what makes the organization unique. With enterprise architecture, decision makers can better assess the risk and impact of their decisions and events impinging their organization. EA can be used as a means to guide business strategy both tactically and strategically.

Architectural frameworks provide guidance on the type of views necessary to address various stakeholder's viewpoints of the enterprise architecture. They provide a means to manage the complexity through partitioning the enterprise architecture into logical cohesive views. The challenge is how to represent the elements within the views in a repeatable consistent manner and further how to capture and manage cross-cutting relationships between elements related to each other across these views and abstractions.

In order to capture the EA, we need more than a means to break the problems into manageable chunks, we need a language that is rich enough to express elements and interdependencies across an organization's architecture. We need an EA that is actionable, providing the ability to perform impact analysis; showing how modification to a business policy can percolate into the interfaces of an implemented system half way around the world. The language needs to address the various stakeholders' needs - from the executives, to the developers, to the maintainers.

Standards provide the language – the way we communicate within a specific domain. The Unified Profile for DoDAF and MODAF (UPDM) is the language for articulating complex enterprise architecture. OMG has been working on the UPDM standard with the support of almost 20 companies worldwide. This standard provides the means to describe a problem in a concise manner, as well as move towards automation. It provides the ability to produce artifacts that further increase the value of the architecture. Models produced from UPDM are both actionable and reusable. UPDM models can further be used with Model Driven Architecture creating further value for the organization.

Robert Lario is the Founder and Principal for visumpoint, an Atlanta-based enterprise architecture strategy group. With more than 25 years of experience helping Fortune 100 companies position their IT strategy to support their overall business strategy, he has repeatedly demonstrated his ability to plan, develop and deploy cutting edge solutions to address business needs. He is on the submission team and co-author of the Unified Profile for DoDAF and MODAF (UPDM).
Robert serves on the Board of Directors for the Object Management Group (OMG). He has contributed to or supported numerous standards development initiatives including SOA Modeling Language (SoaML), Unified Profile for DoDAF and MODAF (UPDM), Business Process Management (BPM), and Unified Modeling Language (UML). He was a contributing author to the OMG Certified Expert in BPM (OCEB) examination. In addition, he is TOGAF certified and SEI ATAM certified.
Robert has an MBA from The Wharton School of Business, a Masters in Systems Engineering from The University of Pennsylvania, and an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from Old Dominion University.

Agile Architecture: A practical approach for combining holistic design with process agility
Dan Davis, Cogentes

Are "agile" and "architecture" mutually exclusive? How can we combine the need for holistic, comprehensive design of complicated systems with the increasing emphasis on agile methodologies that are more linear in perspective? By focusing on essential baseline design activities rather than the up-front production of design artifacts, Agile Architecture enables us to integrate a global solution design perspective with agile principles like simplicity, continuous delivery, and embracing change. In an enterprise environment, this integration is essential if agile approaches are to scale.

Bio coming soon.

Emerging Composite Application Models for the Collaborative, Innovative Enterprise
Paul Liesenberg, Enterprise Architecture and Technology Manager, Cisco

As Web 2.0 and Unified Communications become mission critical business tools for enterprises, IT departments strive to ensure they do not simply roll these out as new application silos. Rather, these technologies need to be closely aligned with business goals and existing technology investment. This requires an enterprise architecture that enables faster development, deployment, and adoption of innovative application models. In this session, Paul Liesenberg will outline the importance of the network in today's enterprise architecture. The network provides a ubiquitous platform that delivers intelligent, secure services for communication and collaboration, transforming the IT architecture into a strategic business asset and enabling easier integration into business applications that enrich business processes and open the door to exciting new opportunities.

Paul Liesenberg develops methodologies that optimally align next-generation infrastructures and overarching business processes. Prior to Cisco, he was VP of Strategic Marketing for ZettaCom and Bivio Networks. Earlier, he was with StrataCom and Cisco post-acquisition, Nortel's Data Networks Division, and Siemens' Public Networks' R&D division. He holds two patents in the area of VoIP, and an M.Sc. from TUM (Technische Universitaet Muenchen).

Break silos with common architecture and frameworks
Presented by Hongwei Yan, Solutions Architect, Turner Broadcasting

In many corporations, development teams working in Silos. Different teams architect their own applications differently, resulting in each development team solving many common problems again and again. This presentation focuses on utilizing architecture standards and frameworks to break up silos, to reduce the cost of developing software system, improve maintainability and level the learning curve for developers to switch teams

Hongwei Yan is a solutions architect at Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. Since he joined Turner three and a half years ago, his work has been focused on developing architecture standards and frameworks to facilitate application development. His work includes service oriented architecture, monitoring and alerting, security and other areas. Before joining Turner, Hongwei worked at Delta Technology, the IT shop of Delta airlines. He holds a master’s degree in computer engineering from Syracuse University and an MBA degree from Georgia State University.

Architecture Enforcement and Governance Using Aspects and SonarJ
Presented by Srini Penchikala, Enterprise Architect, Flagstar Bank

Even though many companies have some kind of application architecture standards, they don't usually have a mechanism to enforce those standards. As a result of this lack of architecture governance, the Implementation (Code) often doesn't match the Requirements (Reference Architecture). Enforcing Reference Architecture guidelines promotes consistency and modularity in the System. It also helps in detecting structural complexity and preventing it earlier in the software development process. As a result, the application code is modifiable, portable, and testable.

In this presentation, I will talk about the significance of enforcing the architecture rules and standards and how to actually enforce them in software development projects. I will start off the discussion explaining various types of architecture rules that range from simple module dependencies to enforcing how APIs and specific idioms should be used. All these rules usually fall into categories such as Layered Architecture, Separation Of Concerns, Domain Driven Design, and Infrastructure. Some of the rules examples will include basic validations like DAO (Persistence) layer shouldn't depend on any other layers, Presentation layer should not use DAO classes directly, and Service layer should never call web layer. Separation of concerns rules are no transaction management in DAO classes and Service layer should be transactional. More sophisticated rules like that are used in a Domain Driven Design project such as Service object creation through a Factory object (i.e. no Service instantiation using the new keyword), No direct access to DAO's except from the Domain classes (go through Domain or Repository objects), and Business service that fails with a concurrency related failure can be retried.

Srini Penchikala currently works as an Enterprise Architect at a major financial organization in Metropolitan Detroit area. He has over 13 years of IT experience and has been working on Java projects since 1996 and J2EE technology since 2000. His main areas of interest are Agile Enterprise and Service Oriented Architectures, Domain Driven Design In Practice, Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP), Architecture Rules Enforcement, Enterprise Integration Patterns, and light-weight middleware frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate. Srini is one of the organizers of Detroit Java User Group (www.detroitjug.com). He has published numerous articles on J2EE topics on websites like InfoQ.com, ONJava, DevX Java, java.net and JavaWorld. He holds a master's degree in Engineering from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville (SIUE). Srini publishes a blog on Java, JEE, and other topics at http://srinip2007.blogspot.com/.

Social Computing in the Enterprise.
Presented by Joseph DeCarlo, Solution Architect, Turner Broadcasting

Most enterprises embraced email and instant messaging long ago. Many also leverage wikis and blogs. There is a new generation of social network computing upon us. With the growing popularity of networks like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter; and applications to bring them to anyone’s fingertips at any given time, there is an opportunity for enterprises to harness them as well.

We will explore how an enterprise can mimic the capabilities of these networking tools internally, why an enterprise may want to, and if they should, when? We will also explore what opportunities enterprises may have in leveraging the existing external networks.

Mixing System Engineer Requirements and Modeling - Finally software requirements that aren't lip service!
Presented by Daniel Brookshier, Chief Architect, NoMagic

Presentation details coming soon!

Enterprise Configuration Management Architecture: “More than just source control”
Jason Tapp, Principal Configuration Manager, Cogentes

A common misconception among many in the industry is that Configuration Management is mostly about source code control and build management. In this session, we provide insight regarding the benefits of an Enterprise level CM Architecture that addresses a much wider array of activities and artifacts. Among these are: linking architecture governance with change control, defining coding standards that aid Production troubleshooting, test data management, integrating technologies to enable end-to-end lifecycle traceability, effective measures for quality control, automating deployment processes, virtualizing hardware infrastructure, and how we can measure CM success.

Jason is a Principal Configuration Manager and is responsible for the successful delivery of configuration management services and software delivery solutions. He has over 13 years of experience in configuration management, quality assurance, build/deployment automation, release management, test automation, SDLC systems integration, enterprise tools implementation and administration, infrastructure management, and strategic planning for software development organizations. Jason has worked for and with a multitude of federal government agencies, contractors, and private sector companies alike spanning the Benefits, Human Resources, Payroll, Asset Management, Telecommunications, and Financial Services industries. His experience includes researching and evaluating cutting edge software/hardware technologies and making investment decisions on enterprise level solutions, then deploying them. Additional aptitudes include process design/implementation, programming/scripting, training/mentoring, and establishment of CMM compliant software development practices. Jason attended West Virginia University where he studied International Business & Economics and later at George Mason University where he specialized in Computer Science.

Storage Trends: The Emergence of Object Based Storage
Joey Kusky, Turner Broadcasting

There is an emerging trend in the storage industry to break away from the traditional file system and use more of an object based approach for storing files. This trend started with the emergence of Content Addressable Storage and has now spread to service providers and vendor offerings. This session will discuss the emerging trend and vendors in this space.

Bio coming soon.

The Future of the Datacenter
Lewis Curtis, Microsoft

The Economic situation is straining IT budgets significantly. Environmental accountability is rising faster than many IT organizations can adapt. New infrastructure architectural models are straining IT staff. Business pressures are motivating more IT services and capabilities beyond organizational IT environments. We are reaching an inflection point of many critical issues promoting significant transformation of the datacenter. As these pressures increase, IT organization will need to adapt or significantly loose operational competitive capabilities. This session focuses on those inflection points, what the market is doing and what new research is coming.

Data Architecture in Agile Age
Presented by Siva Gaddamanugu, Data Architect, Turner Broadcasting

Agile software development poses a unique challenge for data architects who have been traditionally more aligned with waterfall approach. The challenges are wide ranging and can create a maintenance nightmare if not managed properly during the development. Some of these challenges include managing a more evolving database model, maintaining model consistency in a short iterative environment, testing, deployment, avoiding performance bottlenecks and others.

Optimizing Data Center Energy & IT Infrastructure  - Issues, Trends and Lessons Learned (title of talk) Presented by Kavita Chavda, Distinguished Engineer

• Global situation overview related to energy efficiency challenges in data centers
• Brief overview/background of IBM's Green initiatives and IT infrastructure optimization capability
• How Data center facilities management and IT management disciplines need to come together to resolve these energy and data center challenges
• Data Center Facilities related trends/opportunities/directions that global clients are pursuing
• Consolidation and Virtualization for IT infrastructure:
• IT systems management: what are some the new challenges and how clients are addressing these in the context of Green
• Lessons learned and recommendations for Data Center and IT infrastructure optimization based on global client experiences
• What more IBM is doing in the above space (cloud, smart planet, etc)

Kavita Chavda is a Distinguished Engineer and a certified IT Architect with Global Technology Services. She has more than nineteen years experience in Information Technology, and has specialized in infrastructure solutions. Kavita possesses a broad range of skills and is knowledgeable in a variety of technologies and platforms. Kavita's work experience has been gained mainly in the following multiple industries and sectors namely Insurance & Re-Insurance (data processing management), Electronics Wholesale (multiple technical leadership roles), Telecom (network consulting and architecture responsibilities), Retail & Distribution (technical leadership role and responsibility) Kavita Chavda's strength lies in her ability to identify the correct technical and business solutions to complex sets of problems in her projects by using integration architectures that cover the broad gambit of IGS development and delivery capabilities. Her peers, management and executives across the IBM units know her as a person with unique abilities to solve problems, innovate, implement creative solutions, positively grow revenue, and lead large teams. Kavita has successfully led large IT transformations throughout her career, with a keen focus on business results and client satisfaction. Her success comes through her innovative and straight forward approach to the creation of a flexible, adaptable and open standards based IT architecture for IBM, our clients, and with many of her employers prior to joining IBM. She possesses a broad range of skills and knowledge in different industries, business processes, technologies and platforms. Kavita has the ability to integrate various technologies with a key focus on Application Performance Engineering. Whether designing from the ground level up or consulting in crisis conditions, she is fully skilled in proactive problem management, translating client needs and pin pointing to important and valuable solutions.

Massive Messaging Infrastructures
Presented by Scott Anderson, Chair IASA Education

On a bad day last week a certain mailbox at Microsoft only received 3 million messages. Normally that mailbox receives more than 4 million messages a day. In this session we will dive into the design elements required for a large messaging infrastructure. How do you prepare for the overall storage requirements DAS vs SAN? How do you route your mail so that you do not have a gateway that limits both your inbound and outbound mail. What is the difference between a good administrator and a good operations person for your messaging system?

For most of my career at Microsoft I have been focused on helping customer's complete technology transformations. Primarily focusing on helping customer's migrate off of Lotus Notes/Lotus Domino. I am a leader in the architect community at Microsoft and was the first owner of the architect role for TechReady 1 and 2. Member of the Microsoft Certified Architect Board of Directors. Presenter Strategic Architect Forum 2008 Founder Dead Teachers Society Founder Dead Architects Society Founding Member of the Microsoft Certified Architect program Chairman IASA Board of Education Scott on the web: http://docandersen.spaces.live.com/?_c02_vws=1 http://docandersen.podbean.com/ http://docandersen.wordpress.com/ Scott Andersen's Specialties: Microsoft Certified Infrastructure Architect Chair IASA Board of Education Domino Migrations Messaging Sysstem Design and Implementations Directory services and planning Collaboration and team building

Using Threat Modeling to Design Secure Applications
Presented by Rohit Sethi, Director of Professional Services, Security Compass

As the sophistication of software and web application grows, so too does the landscape of threats and attacks.  How can we anticipate these threats?  This presentation discusses Threat Modeling, a powerful activity done during design that enumerates the unique threats an application might face and suggests countermeasures to defend ourselves.

The Layperson's Guide to Building Better User Experiences
Presented by Burkhardt Hufnagel

It's not enough to design systems that meet functional and non-functional requirements. Now we're expected to ensure the systems provide a compelling User Experience. This session explores the importance of User Experiences and will show you how to improve your User Experience design skills.

Burk Hufnagel has been creating positive User Experiences since 1978 and is a Lead Software Architect at LexisNexis. Burk has spent most of his life designing and crafting software, and has made a habit of developing practical solutions for difficult problems. He is also a bibliophile, a technophile, an intellectual neophile, and tends to appreciate esoteric subjects. Burk's recent achievements include speaking at JavaOne 2008 on building better User Experiences, speaking at the IASA's 2007 IT Architecture Regional Conference on API design, and authoring two of the topics in the soon-to-be-published book "97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know".

Rich Internet Applications – Comparing YUI, Dojo, and ExtJS
Presented by Carol Shepherd, Instructor, Zo-Be Enterprises

RIA’s ( Rich Internet Applications ) are the hot new concept in web application user interface development. Open source libraries are a great way to get started, but I’ve found that not all of them are ready for your production project. At this presentation I’ll share my “one page RIA” coding technique for web applications. Learn from my experience and I’ll share the pitfalls and successes I found using Dojo, YUI, and ExtJS to write the same application. This is a (JavaScript ) code heavy presentation.

Enterprise Collaboration with Social Computing and Enterprise 2.0
Presented by Brendon Schwartz, Telligent

Social Computing is thrown around as a huge buzz word on the Internet these days. This session demonstrates how to architect real world social applications that will increase collaboration and social interaction in your enterprise. The concepts that will be covered will relate to one of the hottest topics on the web right now, Social Computing. This session will discuss what the topics of Enterprise 2.0 and Social Computing are, as well as how to use them in your enterprise. Demonstrations using Community Server and SharePoint will show you how to begin the process of hosting your own social applications. This session will show you how to effectively use Wikis, Blogs, RSS and much more in organizations, as well as advanced topics like Mashups and social metrics.Blogs, RSS and much more in organization as well as advanced topics like Mashups and social metrics.

Brendon Schwartz is a well respected software architect in Atlanta. He has helped companies such as the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, Manheim, AutoTrader.com, and Coca-Cola Enterprise build successful applications. Currently a Microsoft MVP for SharePoint, he has also been a Microsoft MVP for ASP.NET and past Vice President of Technology for INETA. Working for Telligent, Brendon spends time on collaborative applications and social computing with Microsoft technologies. Outside of work, he has presented at conferences such as the Microsoft Office Developers Conference, as well as code camps and local user groups. Brendon also created the Free Training 1,2,3! series www.freetraining123.com to help developers learn Microsoft technologies. He presented material at the first SharePoint 1,2,3! event www.sharepoint123.com hosted by the Atlanta Microsoft Professionals. Known around town as one of the Atlanta .Net Regular Guys (www.devcow.com), Brendon is very active in the community, being on the leadership team of five different user groups. His efforts have been acknowledged on podcasts with interviews on shows such as the ASP.NET Podcast, the SharePoint Show Podcast, and ".NET Rocks!" (Carl Franklin Road Show - Atlanta). Brendon is co-author of the Wrox books, "Social Computing with Microsoft SharePoint 2007: Implementing Applications for SharePoint to Enable Collaboration and Interaction in the Enterprise" and "Professional SharePoint 2007 Development". He enjoys spending time with his wonderful wife Heidi and relaxing at home.

Rocket Science
Presented by Domenick Branciforte, Family Dollar Store

Some Enterprise Architecture departments are disbanded, architectural recommendations are ignored and IT Architects burn out. It's easy to feel that Architecture is too unique, still unproven or so misunderstood that success will not happen.

So is architecture hard? Is it "rocket science"?

This session takes an offbeat look at our challenges of launching an architecture practice and compares it against the earliest days of the Space Program. They too were misunderstood, had unproven technology and even worked with monkeys but they were able to achieve the timeless dream of landing a man on the moon.

So what advances technology, allows teams to survive the daily challenges and delivers success? The deciding factor is not pure technical expertise, but a solid collection of interpersonal and business skills that need to be present if the architecture team is going to have impact.

Domenick Branciforte is the Enterprise Architecture Manager for Family Dollar Stores. Domenick has an extensive Information Technology background including the roles of Application Development Director, Strategy Consultant and IT Program Office Director. Recently, for a major US bank, Domenick authored a series of presentations titled "Technology Megatrends" that creatively looked at the future of technology and the need for innovation. His involvement in Architecture began 10 years ago as a representative to a multi-national Architecture board for a major global insurance company.

Capitalizing on Service Orientation
Presented by Don Browning, Director of Technology, Turner Broadcasting

The enterprise software development community needs to challenge traditional thinking regarding application development. Business sponsors are growing weary of writing big checks to IT organizations and are beginning to ask, “you keep telling me about services, but where’s the reuse”?  Now that Service Orientation is approaching it’s 6th anniversary, it’s time for us to begin to mine our existing service catalog in order to help the business solve problems in more affordable ways.  
 
Composite Applications allow us to do just that.  Composite Applications are rapidly developed, greenfield applications that leverage existing service oriented assets to solve new business problems. This natural evolution of Service Orientation allows us to leverage money spent on existing applications in new and different ways.  More importantly, it turns the tables on the traditional software development funding model; rather than waiting for the business to approach us with a check and problem to solve, we approach them and demonstrate how we can now affordably solve business problems for them.
 
While this notion is not new, the maturation of service oriented concepts and construction, and UI frameworks such as the Composite Application Block, Acropolis, or Prism, which allow for the rapid development of user interfaces, make the development of Composite Applications an attainable goal for teams of all skill levels.

Agile Architecture: A practical approach for combining holistic design with process agility
Presented by Dan Davis, Chief Architect, Cogentes

Are “agile” and “architecture” mutually exclusive? How can we combine the need for holistic, comprehensive design of complicated systems with the increasing emphasis on agile methodologies that are more linear in perspective? By focusing on essential baseline design activities rather than the up-front production of design artifacts, Agile Architecture enables us to integrate a global solution design perspective with agile principles like simplicity, continuous delivery, and embracing change. In an enterprise environment, this integration is essential if agile approaches are to scale.

What's UX Got to do with Architecture
Sean Gerety

Today's software, users, and usage patterns are becoming more sophisticated. With the influx of vast amounts of data in modern applications, the demand for better usability is greater than ever. Learn how to inject user experience (UX) into your architecture to meet these demands. Whether you build for enterprises or startups, I will reveal issues that are often missed and show you how to focus on business needs in a whole new way.

Thinking on Architecture
Grady Booch, IBM and IASA Fellow

Presentation details and speaker bio coming soon!

Grady is an IBM Fellow who has served as architect and architectural mentor for numerous complex software-intensive systems around the world in just about every domain imaginable. Grady is the author of six best-selling books and has published several hundred articles on software engineering, including papers published in the early '80s that originated the term and practice of object-oriented design. At random times, the laws of physics do not apply to him. He is not dead yet.

Cloud Now: Infrastructure, architecture, service providers, and cloud composition patterns
Chris Haddad, Burton Group

The Cloud focuses on re-creating IT into a more efficient and productive delivery organization by implementing cloud principles, infrastructure technology, architecture and composition patterns, and business models. In this presentation, Chris Haddad, Vice President of Burton Group's Application Platform team, will illustrate principles shaping the Cloud and how organizations adopting Cloud capabilities and composition patterns must navigate through competing tailwinds and headwinds to achieve business benefit and value. The session will answer the following questions:

Chris Haddad is Vice President and Service Director of Burton Group‘s Application Platform Strategies Service. He leads research teams that focus on infrastructure technologies used to design, develop, and deploy applications and services. Chris has established software development processes, product direction, and integration strategy of several successful software companies. He was granted committer status on the Apache Axis project in 2002. Author, editor, and contributor on numerous articles, technical publications, conference presentations, editorial boards, and podcasts.

Fixing Broken Projects
Presented by Mark Grand, Consulting Architect

This session will present an overview of a methodology under development for detecting and fixing at-risk projects, with the focus on involving technical leads in the process to promote early detection and resolution of technical and non-technical problems.

Architectural Certifications
Presented by Max Poliashenko, VP, Bank of America

Presentation details coming soon!

Enterprise Architects role in innovation
Presented by Lutful Khandker

The Architect role has been changing and it has been expanding globally more innovating and leadership Role. In recent years in our organization the role of an Enterprise Architects have gone from application architecture to more of a Solution architect role which focuses a lot more on the end solution and ROI based on the business needs. We no longer rely on our business customers with their needs. We work with them as we are a part of the business and we drive the needs for solution and then offer more strategic enabling capabilities that help us do our day to day business function more efficiently.

Lutful Khandker is a Senior Enterprise Application Architect for Coca Cola Enterprises (CCE). He is closely involved in CCE's current transition of their collaboration platform to the hosted computing with Microsoft Online. Prior to the Enterprise Architect role, Lutful was a Development Team Lead for Client System Applications. His area of interests are integration of various technology platforms to provide one solution to the enterprise (visualization strategy), Cloud computing and Geo Coding.

Beyond Fight or Flight: Meetings Don’t Have to be Gladiatorial Combat
Steven "Doc" List, Thoughtworks

Presentation details and speaker bio coming soon!

Steven List's entrepreneurial spirit has guided him in researching and implementing high performance leadership methods in leading early-stage businesses. His dynamic, customized and compelling programs are dead on. Your attendees will learn what to do and how to do it! Steven mixes wit, enthusiasm and humor with motivational stories to deliver hard-hitting messages that compel audiences to achieve astounding results in their life, work and relationships. Known for his passion and sincerity, Steven is an accomplished and exciting speaker who draws from real life experiences – not textbook theory. Attendees will find unexpected benefit from his extraordinary insights, benefits they can apply both at work and at home. Steven has delivered speeches and training to international, national and local industry, technical audiences, and non-profit groups. He has authored articles and columns in leading technical publications. Steven has founded and co-founded several product- and technology-oriented user groups. Contributing to List's experience in teaching and coaching, he holds a third-degree black belt in Shotokan karate, and is referred to with respect by his students as "Sensei."

What Does an Architect Need to Know
Jim Wilt, IASA ATC

What does an Architect Need to Know? The quest for conscious competence... Everything, of course! So what does Everything look like? How big is it? What shape is it? What colors are in there? This session will focus on discovering that which an architect doesn't know they don't know by revealing Everything. By examining the Total Solution Life Cycle and utilizing architectural community, architects can deliver increased value and improve their leadership by amplifying the breadth of their architectural knowledge.

Bio coming soon.