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On the 4th Wednesday of each month Iasa hosts a Virtual Conference that runs on a real-time schedule. This month’s eSummit, occurring January 25th, features highly recognized subject matter experts in Architecture in 2017.
Interactive webcasts are offered in real-time, while presenter show visuals such as PowerPoint slides and desktop applications. Participants will have the opportunity to interact with the presenters in real time. See below for this month’s speakers and topics.
Speakers
Guiding Your Digital Transformation
Jim WiltThree Architecture Strategies for Digital Transformation
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Technical Disaster Response in the age of the cloud.
Lewis CurtisLessons learned from operations/missions, why most organizations are ill prepared
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People Change in Digital Transformation
Andy RuthQuickly grow internal tacit skill in assign organization
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Innovate is a verb
Scott AndersenWhat does it mean to be an innovator
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So you adopted Microservices?
Wayne Filin-MatthewsConsiderations when implementing this particular style
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Complex Multi-Platform Operations in the Digital World
Wayne AndersonKeeping business integrity means a focus on the continuum of contributions
Click HERE to learn moreLewis Curtis - Technical Disaster Response in the age of the cloud
While not well known, during times of man-made and natural disasters Microsoft provides a reactive technical response capabilities to communities during their time of need. In the last 5 years, MSDR has completed over 154 missions in over 30 countries with over 400 employees to help agencies reduce human suffering and stabilize areas. Lewis will cover lessons learned in real mobilizations and why most continuity of operations strategies fall short.
Lewis Curtis is the Director of Microsoft Services Disaster Response (MSDR) and is accountable for the success and safety of disaster relief missions to communities and organizations in need impacted by a major disaster all for free. Prior to MSDR at Microsoft, Lewis held roles as an Enterprise Architect, Infrastructure Architect and as a Program Manager in the Windows Server product team.
Jim Wilt: Three Architecture Strategies for Guiding Your Digital Transformation
Over 30 years of extensive experience leading teams as a Scientist, Architect, and Entrepreneur producing industry awarded innovations such as new OS & Robotic Communication Protocols, Aerospace Composites Automations, Innovation Knowledge Management/Brokering, and the Octahedral Hexapod.
Jim leverages proven Business Innovation & Strategy practices to trail blaze [b]leading edge Enterprise Technology and Digital Transformations focusing on cloud economics and near real-time content delivery.
With a passion for enabling others, Jim IASA-certifies architects in industry and teaches MBA graduate students at a major university with special topics such as Cloud Economics and The Internet-of-Things.
Andy Ruth: People Change in Digital Transformation
Most agree that business capability requires people, process, and technology. Digital transformation requires change across all three. Technology is the most fun and easiest to adopt and adapt. Process is next, easy enough to change but not nearly as fun as technology. Last and hardest is people change. In this session we will discuss what needs to change and how you can make the changes.
Andy Ruth has been chasing the leading edge of technology since the early 80s. For the last few decades he has practiced his trade at Ground Zero for the cloud – Seattle, and focused on driving growth and change in the workforce.
Scott Andersen: Innovate is a verb
The thing is, innovation has changed. What once was the purview of large companies with R&D budgets can now be found on web site. The opportunity for innovators to reach out and stretch their innovation dreams to the very edges of the art of the possible lies at our fingertips.
But with change comes, well more change.
Take Always:
- What and how has innovation changed in the past 10 years.
- What trends are easily seen what lies buried?
- How can you help change the course of innovation?
Scott Andersen lives on the US East coast. Because of that he has three great passions in life. The first is his friends and family (as well as Labradors). The second is boating and being out on the water. And the 3rd is to never discuss politics in public. Andersen has bene in the software world for more than 20 years. Author of a number of books and longtime IASA contributor as well as Member of the IASA Board of directors. Andersen watches for and loves be front of new products solutions and ideas.
Wayne Filin Matthews: So you adopted Microservices?
The term “Microservice Architecture” has sprung up over the last few years to describe a particular way of designing software applications as suites of independently deployable services. While there is no precise definition (at best it’s loose) of this architectural style, there are certain common characteristics around organization around business capability, automated deployment, intelligence in the endpoints, and decentralized control of languages and data. The session looks at some of the considerations when implementing this particular style.
Wayne has over 27 years of experience in Strategy, Technology, Research, Management, Development, and Delivery. In his 27 years of IT industry experience, Wayne has become a board-certified Enterprise IT Architect, and has earned an industry-wide reputation as a cloud and technology expert. Prior to joining Accenture’s CMT division, Wayne was the Microsoft engineering interface for Data Sciences as well as the consultancy services Architect and Consultant role owner where he drove the strategy for the role of the Architect within Microsoft.
In addition to his focus on client value delivery Wayne is also an active member of the British Computer Society (Fellow), helping to drive standards to members globally.
Wayne Anderson: Complex Multi-Platform Operations in the Digital World
Maintaining the end to end integrity of operations for a digital business means understanding key characteristics (“quality attributes”) required for business operations. Digital businesses often include service stacks which are more complex, involve more vendors, and may have entire outsourced (“cloud”) services. Keeping business integrity means a focus on the continuum of contributions from tactical service components to realized value.
Wayne Anderson (@NoCo_Architect) is the Global Client Information Security Lead for Avanade, a company that helps customers realize results in a digital world through business technology solutions and managed services that combine insight, innovation and expertise focused on Microsoft® technologies. He holds the Certified IT Architect – Professional credential from IASA alongside over 30 security and industry technology certifications.
Emergent Architecture Paul Preiss
Paul Preiss is the CEO and Founder of the Iasa, one of the largest Enterprise and IT architect associations in the world. Through his time at Iasa, Paul has taken the association from a single user group in Austin Tx to an international organization with chapters in over 25 countries. Paul’s vision is a unified architecture profession with effective education, credentials and ethics which fully supports corporate strategy and delivery. He is a tireless advocate for the field and speaks on topics ranging form architecture ethics to best the best setup and structure for architecture teams. Paul has spoken at hundreds of events as well as held conferences and training for architects all over the world. He is an expert software and enterprise architect in practice and continues to work with companies on optimizing their technology strategy.
Prior to developing Iasa, Paul was the chief architect for Dell Pan Asia where he helped to integrate the technology strategy across 14 countries. He also served as the chief architect for the Sears point of sale replacement in North America consisting of 2000 stores and thousands of suppliers as well as the chief architect for a digital asset management firm, Ancept.
Emerging Architectures
Emergent architecture and design have become deeply popular topics in Agile circles. From emergent in the since of coming into being to emergent in the sense of the hidden being made plain, the notion captures the basic principle of making decisions as late as possible. This concept leads to a natural question. What is emerging? A crocodile emerging from the water at your feet would not be considered a positive development. When we describe emerging architecture we are adding an aspect or an emotion to the concept. That of a positive outcome or additional value.
In this talk we will discuss techniques which bridge the narrowing gap between the architect and the team. Why the architect is absolutely necessary for a functioning agile team. Which elements of design should emerge and which should remain constraints on the delivery. We will look specifically at both framework and method and discuss the power of healthy tension in a team and how the appropriate roles can be filled to create it. After this talk you will have a sense of form, structure and function and their relationships to emergent architecture. More importantly you will be able to build better software and systems, faster without losing key to successful architecture; value.
Registration
So Many Reasons to Attend the eSummit
- Industry expert presenters
- A new, exciting topic every month
- Live Q&A with every presenter
- It’s totally FREE
- Attend from your office, phone, or wherever you have an internet connection
- Earn CEUs/PDUs for attending
- Did we mention that it is FREE
About Iasa
Formally known as the International Association for Software Architects, we have changed our name to be just Iasa Global, a non-profit association for ALL IT Architects. Iasa Global is headquartered in beautiful Austin, TX but our reach is global with multiple chapters around the world.
Established in 2002, the association is committed to improving the quality of the IT architecture industry by developing and delivering standards, education programs and developing accreditation programs and services that optimize the development of the architecture profession. Iasa membership consists of approximately 80,000 members located in over 50 countries.
It is the mission of Iasa to make architecture the most educated, capable, and recognized profession in the world. Iasa works to accomplish this by advancing proven standards and best practices that help architects in their daily jobs and help organizations to best utilize architects in executing their technology strategies.
Iasa exists to support the development of the architecture profession as a whole. Our association seeks to address several challenges that are present in the field of architecture today:
- A lack of organizational resources targeted at the architect in their daily role.
- A lack of common definition for fundamental architect skill sets.
- Variability of the architect role across organizations.
- Difficulty in finding like-minded and similarly skilled specialists to interact with on a peer-to-peer basis.
- The challenge of categorizing types of architects and evaluating competence.
Iasa was founded to address such uncertainty and strives to enable individual architects to set a career path and follow that career path across organizations in a way that other professions may take for granted.
Paul Preiss – Iasa Founder & CEO
During his tenure at Iasa, Paul has taken it from a single user group with 50 members to an influential global organization with over 80,000 in its professional network. He orchestrated the development of dozens of chapters and leaders in over 50 countries. He brought Iasa to the forefront of the architect profession and employs staff around the world in the growth of the organization. He led the development of the Iasa Board of Education, the Certified IT Architect Professional (CITA-P), the Iasa skills curriculum and is actively working with universities, governments and other professional bodies to stabilize the profession of IT architecture.
Prior to Iasa, Paul was the Director of Engineering and Chief Architect of a large digital asset management company. His global experience stems from the time he spent in Japan as the Chief Architect in Dell Pan Asia. He has worked for some of the largest companies and on many of the largest projects ever delivered including projects for DHL, Sears, IBM, and others. Paul has a bachelor’s degree in Japanese from the University of Texas at Austin.
