13-14 AUGUST 2018 CROWNE PLAZA, AUCKLAND

ALIGNING WORLD-CLASS ARCHITECTURE WITH BUSINESS STRATEGY

STEFAN PRESTON Commercial Director

Meaningful Technology

MIKE NOONEY Head of Architecture

Air New Zealand

SAM ERRINGTON Chief Architect Vector Group

REGINE DELEU Digital Transformation Leader and

Strategic Enterprise Architect New Zealand Government

CHRIS TUOHY Enterprise Agile Coach

Westpac

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+ PRE-CONFERENCE BREAKFAST SESSION AND A SEPARATELY BOOKABLE FULL-DAY WORKSHOP

Featuring expert insights, best practice case studies and tablechallenges into the hottesttopics within IT Architecture

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DAY 1 1 3 AUGUST8.00 Registration opens

PRE-CONFERENCE BREAKFAST

8.20 Open Breakfast: Bringing it together - developing, designing and supporting growth

Whet your appetite with a breakfast presentation about emerging technologies that are key to increase business agility and support future growth. You will learn about cloud-native applications, CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration systems and service mesh. The presenter will also highlight other forum presentations you can attend to deepen your understanding of these technologies.

Bruno Lago, Managing Director & Solutions Architect, Catalyst Cloud

All conference delegates are invited to attend

9.00 Opening remarks from the Chair

Amanda Parkes, Senior Consulting Architect, Cyma

STRATEGY REALISATION

9.10 Opening Keynote: Exponential Business Models and Knowledge-Centric Architecture

• Exponential business models, zero marginal cost and the growing data domain

• How legacy businesses are trapped by application-centric technologies

• Knowing vs. doing - knowledge-centric architecture and the explicit knowledge frontier

• Building your own knowledge-centric enterprise cloud on a semantic graph

• Use cases and live demo

Stefan Preston, Commercial Director, Meaningful Technology

co-presenting with Dougal Watt, Technology Director, Meaningful Technology & Matt Clayton, Design Director, Meaningful Technology

9.50 Keynote: Continuous Transformation

• How continuous exploration, continuous integration, continuous delivery and release on demand play a critical role in digital transformation

• How the balance of intentional and emergent architecture changes over time as business is transformed

• How excellent technical practices support constant change in architecture supporting both intentional and emergent change

Paul Littlefair, CIO, Livestock Improvement Corporation (LIC)

Col Perks, Chief Architect, Livestock Improvement Corporation (LIC)

10.20 TABLE CHALLENGE: Designing a solution that reflects your organisational culture

10.30 Morning break

11.00 Customer-Focused EA

• EA’s survival in a fast-moving world

• Ensuring that EA is outward focused rather than an inward looking practice

• Delivering content that is of real value to stakeholders

• Alternatives to producing documents that no-one understands

Michael Tapp, Principal Architect, Cyma

11.30 Panel: Where does the IT architect fit in and adds value in 2018?

The shifts within technical and digital operating environments and the challenges of overhauling legacy projects, IT Architects are facing significant challenges and must innovate to provide to the organisation.

• Does enterprise architecture still have a place with new approaches to operations that have fundamentally changed how we approach architecture?

• Expectations of how the architects role changes in 2018 and beyond

• Selling the value of architecture to senior stakeholders

• What are the key services that an enterprise architect needs to focus on?

• The importance of TOGAF and other frameworks in the architecture development process

• The future is fast –keeping up with the pace of change in the modern business environment

Sam Errington, Chief Architect, Vector Group

Abhinabh Duffada, Principal Architect, Fletcher Building

Mike Nooney, Head of Architecture, Air New Zealand

Jim West, Enterprise Architect, Auckland Council

12.10 TABLE CHALLENGE: Dealing with a technologically-savvy workforce

12.20 Lunch break

13.20 Roundtable Challenge 1

1. Introducing a Common Language to discuss architecture across the organisation

2. Establishing a baseline for enterprise architecture to enable transformational change

3. Prioritising resource allocation of current and future business architecture needs

4. Recognising shortcomings of IT structure

5. Building scalable architecture models and systems

6. IT Architects role in driving technological and organisational transformation

14.00 Roundtable Challenge 2

14.40 Afternoon break

CASE STUDY SERIES – IMPLEMENTING TECHNOLOGY AND METHODOLOGIES

15.00 Case Study: The Auckland Council Enterprise Booking System

• Lessons learnt by (knowingly) moving away from customer insight to deliver faster

• How service design assisted with identifying human context and behaviours; both from a customer and employee perspective

• Lessons learnt about the process of developing requirements in a way that could easily link to customer experience and business benefit

Jason Borowicz, Customer Centric Improvement Lead, Auckland Council

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15.30 Case Study: Going digital means more than just using new technology - solving problems in new and different ways

This session explores where agencies need to collaborate and set up their enterprise architecture to be able to participate in digital transformation

• Changing how people work, how agencies collaborate, how citizens engage with government, and enhancing operations in a myriad of ways

• A citizen-driven digital government adapts itself to the needs and expectations of citizens, businesses, non-profits, and other partners.

• Creating interactions that are personalized, interactive, and easy to access

• New technologies relying on cloud computing

• Developing a cross-government architecture approach

Regine Deleu, Digital Transformation Leader and Strategic Enterprise Architect, New Zealand Government

16.10 Case Study: Maturing your Cloud strategy

• Improving Cloud governance frameworks

• Establishing clear and measurable business and IT goals

• Developing Cloud architectures which align to business vision and strategy

Wayne Bloem, Head of Operational Excellence, Kotahi

16.40 Extended Q & A on Case Studies

17.00 Summary remarks from the Chair and Networking drinks

DAY 2 1 4 AUGUST9.00 Welcome back from the Chair

EVOLVING ARCHITECTURE METHODOLOGIES

9.10 Opening Keynote: Successfully integrating into future-proofed architecture

• Dealing with integration with other systems and managing requirements

• Dismantling existing solutions while avoiding business interruption

• Recognising shortcomings of current architecture and future development

Pieter Bronkhorst, Chief Technology Officer, Hamilton City Council

9.50 Defining risk and security management: How it affects the IT Architect’s role in helping organisations

• Establishing a pragmatic risk management framework

• How IT Architects can better empower themselves about risk and risk management

• Improving existing skills base in risk management strategies

• Understanding culture and how it affects the perception of risk

David Middleton, Risk Manager, Panuka Development Auckland

10.30 Morning break

11.00 Free Your Data, adopting connectivity Microservices Learn about accelerating innovation by using microservices

to unlock core systems. This talk demystifies some of the high-level design considerations when making the transition to connectivity using microservices.

Niket Mohey, Principal Solutions Consultant, Mulesoft

11.30 Design thinking: Integrating stakeholders and users needs into the organisation

• Putting the customer in the centre of the design process

• Facilitating the expectations of multiple stakeholders and business needs

• Bridging the gap between business strategy, design and end users

• Co-creating, verifying and evaluating solutions

Peter Johnston, Enterprise Change Lead, Strategic Transformation Programme, Watercare Services

12.00 TABLE CHALLENGE: How can architects thrive in the digital era?

12.10 Lunch break

13.10 The role of the IT Architect in agile projects

• Managing project implementation with agility

• Adoptive / aIterative architectures

• Developing quickly – creating MVP and assessing response

• How to be more agile and responsive and managing organisational complexity

• Dealing with change – How to make adaptive decisions

Chris Tuohy, Enterprise Agile Coach, Westpac

13.50 Drawing session: Translating ideas into reality – the art of sketching

14.30 TABLE CHALLENGE: Looking ahead and preparing for the future of the EA and IT development

14.40 Afternoon break

SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

15.10 Masterclass: Defining facilitation techniques and frameworks - using an adaptive skill set for effective change

• The need to hone and refine an adaptive skillset is more important than ever in the future workplace and for IT architects to be effective in delivering workplace transformation.

• How neuroscience can help you strategically shape your approach

• Developing skills and strategies to maximise your negotiation and influencing ability

• Creating a vision and being able successfully get buy-in from stakeholders

• Tools to build confidence and resilience in your workforce

Samantha Patel, Director, Responsive Consulting

16.20 Closing remarks from the Chair and Close of Forum

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FACILITATION LEADERSHIP FOR IT ARCHITECTS

This full-day workshop aims to define facilitation techniques and frameworks to empower and grow an architect’s leadership and influence within their role and across the organisation. This workshop will provide you with the skills and confidence to facilitate innovative initiatives to your organisation.

• Discovering how you can build your credibility and confidence as a negotiator

• Building influence and identifying key working relationships

• Gain new frameworks in understanding the successful leading of change

• Maintaining a proactive approach to leadership and responding effectively to problems

• Communicating effectively through change with a diverse range of people and personalities across the organisation

• Why certain strategies work, and some don’t; the role of our unconscious bias

• Effectively communicating and building buy-in to work towards a vision

SEPARATELY BOOKABLE POST FORUM WORKSHOP

15 AUGUST 2018 9.00AM – 16.30PM

SAMANTHA PATEL Director, Responsive Consulting

Sam is a Registered and Forensic Psychologist with almost 20 years’ experience working in clinical and organisational settings covering very high risk, high pressure environments in NZ, Australia and the UK. Sam is an outstanding facilitator; her expertise and practical experience ensures very grounded and pragmatic training.

FACILITATOR

WHO SHOULD ATTENDEnterprise Architects • Business Architects

Solution Architects • Chief Technology Officer

Director of Technology • Enterprise Design

Analysts • Agile Coaches and Analysta

Data and Information Specialists IT Managers • Digital Transformation Leaders

THE 2018 IT ARCHITECTURE FORUM IS ONE OF NEW ZEALAND'S LEADING EVENTS FOR IT ARCHITECTURE PROFESSIONALS attracting experts from various industries to discuss the latest trends, challenges and opportunities facing the evolving architecture space.

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delivering world-class architecture align

with business strategy

5 Network with leading Enterprise

Architects and IT leaders across industries

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