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September 18, 2008
8:00 - 9:00	Registration / Networking / Continental breakfast
9:00 - 9:45	Keynote: Cultivating Sustainable IT Business Alignment Neil Ward-Dutton, Founder – MWD Neil Ward-Dutton is a highly sought after advisor on Business and IT Alignment. For his book -- The Technology Garden: Cultivating Sustainable IT Business Alignment, Neil interviewed dozens of CIOs and IT Directors to find out what works and what doesn’t. His keynote summarizes some of the key learning: Why many IT deployments fall short of delivering value to the business that pays for them. How business changes frequently outpace the ability of IT organizations to respond and what companies can do about it.
9:45 - 10:30	Why Strategic IT Planning and Control? Why now? David Hood, CEO – Troux Technologies EA as we have known it is dead. Gartner predicts that by 2012, 40% of today's enterprise architecture programs will be stopped. But in many organisations, EA lives, thrives and gets its proponents promoted – but only as an element of a Strategic IT Planning and Control program that encompasses IT Optimization, IT Standards and Reuse and Business/IT Alignment. The results are significant: better planning leads to an agile enterprise that can execute faster transformations. This session explores best practices in each of these disciplines, how they work together and where to start based upon your company’s maturity.
10:30 - 11:00	Break
11:00 - 12:00	Industry Panel: Strategic IT Planning and the IT Ecosystem Featuring panelists from: Bain and Company estimates that over 50% of growth transformations and over 75% of cost reduction transformations fail to meet expectations. A major contributor to this high failure rate is a lack of adequate planning and governance. Strategic IT Planning focuses on addressing this gap, but it must be implemented in a way that embraces and unlocks the value of information and processes that are already in place across the broader IT solution ecosystem. This panel pulls together some of Europe's leading experts from CA, HP, Oracle, Software AG and MicroFocus to share best practices and explore integrated planning in relation to SOA, Modernization and Project Portfolio Management.
12:00 - 13:30	Lunch / Stadium Tour
13:30 - 14:15	Case Study: Aligning Business and IT Capabilities at Merck Frank Malta, Executive Director Enterprise Architecture and Chief Architect – Merck Mr. Malta has been instrumental in driving business and IT alignment at this leading global pharmaceutical company. In his session, Frank shares some of the strategies and techniques that have made his program so successful.
14:15 - 14:45	Break
EXECUTIVE TRACK
14:45 - 15:45	Strategy – Business and IT Alignment - Maximizing business value from IT spending Bill Cason, CTO – Troux Technologies Much has been written and discussed regarding business and IT alignment. This session moves on from the conceptual and theoretic discussion to an effective and pragmatic approach to measuring and delivering value. A prescriptive approach to implementing your IT governance policies to deliver these insights will be discussed.
15:45 - 16:30	Using Troux Standards for Rapid IT Estimation Ray Renteria, Director, Solutions Products – Troux Technologies Taking too long to estimate the time and cost to implement a project can cause missed market opportunities and undermine business agility.  In this session, Troux will show how the Troux Standards product can help to reduce estimation time by as much as 75% while improving the technology compliance of architectural designs.
16:30 - 17:15	Enterprise IT Optimization - It’s All About Optimizing IT! Mark Bodman, Product Director – Troux Technologies Mark will share the latest innovations in Application optimization, including the latest leanings and visualizations.   Taking Optimization to the next level, he will demonstrate how other assets within IT such as services and contracts are optimized.  Along the way touching on multiple, real-life optimization examples from Mark’s EA experience at Dell.
PRACTITIONERS TRACK
14:45 - 15:45	Communicating to the Business with Compelling Visualizations & BI Amy Torri, Product Manager – Troux Technologies A picture is worth a thousand words - and Troux has many ways to visualize data in order to support the Strategic IT Planning process. In this session we will explore Capability Maps, Roadmaps, Landscapes, and other visualizations and discuss how they enable IT to more effectively communicate with the Business. We will also review how to configure the new web-based visualizations added in recent Troux releases.
15:45 - 16:30	Data: Collection, Quality and Enrichment Jes McPhee, Solution Engineer – Troux Technologies Quality data management collection and management is critical to successful Strategic IT Planning. This session will look at assessing and managing the quality of data from both the low level up to a higher. It will then look at various strategies for improving the quality of the data mix, as well as focusing on some of the recent tools to improve the spread and currency of data.
16:30 - 17:15	The Role of Modeling in Strategic IT Planning Jeff Ellerbee, Solution Engineer – Troux Technologies Is modeling an end in itself?  What is the value of a model?  Is the process of Enterprise Architecture primarily "to model?" If I manage to create a full suite of models of my Enterprise... what comes next?  In this session we will discover the answer to these questions and discuss the role that modeling, and a central repository has on Strategic IT Planning and how to apply the right focus and priority to ensure success in your Strategic Plans.
17:15 - 17:30	Closing remarks
17:30 - 19:00	Cocktail Reception Tambling Suite Sponsored by Glue: Ltd.

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