Under the motto ” Technology & Innovation – supercharge business outcomes”, our speakers give presentations from science and practice.
Status: 23.05.2023 – Subject to change without notice
Track 1 |
Track 2 |
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| 8.30 am |
Chek-in | |
| 9 am |
Welcome Keynote – Become a Strategic IT Leader – Karsten Voges, Lean42CIO Advisory | |
| 9.30 am |
Transform
into a data-centric organization through a
data centric architecture Romina Pyplacz, E.ON Digital Technology |
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| 10 am |
Innovative
Design Technologies in Architecture and
Construction Michael Drobnik,Herzog & de Meuron |
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| 10.30 am |
30 minutes coffe break & networking | |
| 11 am |
From
Strategy to Execution at Allianz guided by
Business Architecture Juliane Berger, Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty SE |
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| 11.30 am |
EA
Governance – Do we really need it? But how? Dr. Thomas Meintrup, Mercedes Benz Group |
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| 12 pm |
Maturing
your EA practice with EA Services Alexander Gudenus; UNIQA Insurance Group AG |
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| 12.30 pm |
Transformed
people transform people Sylvia Scherer, Wegbegleiter für Wegbereiter / Former Sustainability Leader @ BMW Group |
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| 1 pm |
60 minutes lunch breack & networking | |
| 2 pm |
Sustainable
modernization of applications Leslie Robinet, MEGA International |
Welcome
to Sales! Getting your message across and
selling EA to stakeholders Tamara McMillen, CRO Connected |
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| 2.30 pm |
Business
and IT in Concert : Business IT Alignment at
Hermes Germany Dr. Marcel Morisse, Hermes Germany GmbH |
IT
Services Off the Rack! Future vision or pipe
dream? Mathias Hess – MHIM Interim Management |
| 3 pm |
Achieving
“project to product” transformations through
better collaboration of Digital Product
Managers and EAs Mark Bodman, ServiceNow Inc. |
Escape from
the brownfield Swamp – Digital
Transformation Strategy to enable
Flexibility and Speed Marlene Roth &Tobias Mohr, Lufthansa Technik Group |
| 3.30 pm |
30 minutes coffe break & networking | |
| 4 pm |
7
Steps to Mature Your EA Capability Jean Gehring, Lean42 CIO Advisory |
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| 4.30 pm |
Navigating
the AI Revolution: The Imperative Journey of
Enterprise Architecture Management and
Change Management Cristina Popa, Contractuo / Partner at Consistency & Tanja Konrad, Microsoft |
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| 5 pm |
From
idea to implementation – How to think in
processes helps to define a MVP Dr. Rainer Lorenz, Volkswagen Group Charging GmbH (“Elli”) |
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| 5.30 pm |
Closing Karsten Voges, Lean42 CIO Advisory |
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| 5.45 pm |
End of event | |
Conference 14th June 2023
08.30 am | FOYER | Check-In
TRACK 1
09.00 am | Welcome Keynote – Become a Strategic IT Leader
Learn how your personal growth enables high performance. What are high performance habits and how can you become a more strategic leader that uses innovation to transform teams?
Karsten Voges
Company: Lean42 CIO Advisory
Position: Managing Director
09.30 am | Transform into a data-centric organization through a data centric architecture
We as E.ON want to be a data-centric organization. Consequently we are implementing a data-centric architecture, that enables all our data ambassadors to quickly and safely work with their data. I would like to share with you the Big Picture that we are following with our approach and also some more insights on the tech stack as well as the key aspects you need to consider. Last but not least, we will share how we leveraged best practices and the power of communities to not only transform our technology but also the culture along the road.
Romina Pyplacz
Company: E.ON Digital Technology
Position: Global Head of Data Management & Governance and Program Lead E.ON Datahouse – Global Data Lake
10.00 am | Innovative Design Technologies in Architecture and Construction
Herzog & de Meuron’s Design Technologies team is an integral part of their architectural project teams, implementing the appropriate methodology from the start and providing support along the way. They are actively involved in the future of digital tools, working closely with leading universities on research projects, while exploring new possibilities in practice with software developers and other architectural offices. Michael Drobnik will give insights how XR or Software Development leverages the design process and allows new ways of experiencing and developing architecture.
Michael Drobnik
Company: Herzog & de Meuron
Position: Associate, Lead Design Technologies
10.30 am | 30 Minutes Coffee Break
11.00 am | From Strategy to Execution at Allianz guided by Business Architecture
Learn how Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty SE is using business architecture to contribute to strategic decisions and bridge the gap from strategy formulation through execution. Business architecture has been used to create a reusable structure that enables cross-initiative alignment and improve planning and decision making. Through big picture thinking, the business architecture team emphasized the importance of avoiding a siloed approach, executing a thorough capability assessment for each initiative, and highlighting impacts across common capabilities. Capability heat-mapping provided clarity as to which shared business areas should be prioritized for consideration.
Juliane Berger
Company: Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty SE
Position: Head of Business Architecture
11.30 am | EA Governance – Do we really need it? But how?
Comparison of different governance models and a short introduction of our new model at Mercedes-Benz
- Actual challenges of our current architecture in the context of our 100% Digital strategy.
- What is architecture governance? Just a buzzword, a set of rules, a police department, boards and processes …?
An attempt to define architecture governance. - Different kind of governance models: From central and hierarchical organized governance to decentral and self-organized and community-based governance models.
- Requirements and principles for a new governance approach at Mercedes-Benz.
- Overview of our new lean EA governance model combining the best of both worlds: decentral and flexible expert groups and central decision councils and processes.
- Some highlights and lessons learned from our pilot.
- Summary of key takeaways.
Dr. Thomas Meintrup
Company: Mercedes Benz Grou AG
Position: Head of Enterprise Architecture
12.00 pm | Maturing your EA practice with EA Services
The Enterprise Architecture practice at UNIQA, a multinational insurance company serving more than 16 million customers in 18 countries, is driving the company’s digital transformation and standardization efforts. In this talk, Head of EA, Alexander Gudenus and CIO advisor Karsten Voges will describe UNIQA’s EA Service Catalogue and how maturing the EA practice through EA Services and Skill assessments helped with better decision making. Learn how using LeanIX combined with common templates, application portfolio information, diagrams and architecture artefacts drives standardization of service delivery.
Alexander Gudenus
Company: UNIQA Insurance Group AG
Position: Group Lead Enterprise Architecture UNIQA
12.30 pm | Transformed people transform people
Transformation. A word that is used more and more in our current times. Companies that aim to be successful in the future need to have their own transformation on the radar. Transformation of their business models, their processes, their structures, their systems.
But one element of a company is often neglected when it comes to transformation: Its workforce, the people, human beings. Who are more often than not unwilling to change, just because someone else wants them to.
There are innumerable tools and methods applied to foster the transformation of businesses. But somehow these tools and methods don’t seem to be effective when it comes to transforming people. So, what is needed to transform people?
Get an overview on the elements of an effective transformation. Learn what transformation really means and why leadership is of utmost importance. And get a glimpse into one of the key ingredients: Transformed people. Because “transformed people transform people”.
Sylvia Scherer
Company: Sylvia Scherer – Wegbegleiter für Wegbereiter / Former Sustainability Leader @ BMW Group
Position: Founder
01.00 pm | 60 Minutes Lunch Break & Networking
02.00 pm | Sustainable modernization of applications
The management and modernization of information systems requires the consideration of various aspects. These often overlap and require some management that can be supported by EA. Among these aspects is eco-design, which consists of developing useful, economical, sustainable, and scalable solutions. In this sense, this presentation focuses on the guiding principles for modernizing the information system in ecodesign mode.
Leslie Robinet
Company: MEGA International
Position: Services Director and CSR Ambassador
02.30 pm | Business and IT in Concert: Business IT Alignment at Hermes Germany
Orchestrating business and IT harmonized is one of the key success factors for companies to strive in challenging times. Although Business IT Alignment is long discussed in theory and practice, success stories seem to be rare as different cultures and mind sets are hard to intertwine. At Hermes Germany, we tested different approaches and methods to improve our Business IT Alignment. In this talk, we want to give insights in our actions and show how the combination of EAM tool LeanIX and business process management tool Signavio supported us to find the adequate rhythm.
Dr. Marcel Morisse
Company: Hermes Germany GmbH
Position: Enterprise Architect
03.30 pm | Achieving “project to product” transformations through better collaboration of Digital Product Managers and EAs
This session will highlight interactions and activities needed for Digital Product Managers and Enterprise architects to work together to achieve a “project to product” transformation.
For enterprises seeking to deliver value through digital products, the transformation to product-centric management, is an important organizational and operational change. Close cooperation between Digital Product Managers and Enterprise Architects can define the optimal approach and support delivery of effective product centricity at scale.
Working together they define the optimum roadmap for new organizational structures, ways of working, and IT financial management models, as well as new frameworks for team interaction and accountability.
This presentation summarizes key points on how Enterprise Architects, Digital Product Managers and practitioners can develop ways of working together using the Service Now platform, and by leveraging The Open Group standards including TOGAF®, the IT4IT™ Reference Architecture, O-AA™.
Mark Bodman
Company: ServiceNow Inc.
Position: Sr. Product Manager CSDM & CMDB
02.00 pm | Welcome to Sales! Getting your message across and selling EA to stakeholders
You are leading a transformation which will benefit the business and you understand what needs to be done – but how do you get the necessary traction and overcome push-backs?
Sell it! That’s right – you’ve just landed in sales. In this session long-time CRO Tamara will guide you: How you can approach engaging your stakeholders, overcome their objections, and get them to ‘buy’ in to the solution you need to implement with their help.
Tamara McMillen
Company: CRO Connected
Position: Board Advisor
02.30 pm | IT Services Off the Rack! Future vision or pipe dream?
Nowadays, standard software is chosen for the handling of most business processes and no more individual software is programmed.
However, the processes for the selection and implementation etc. are still roughly the same. The consequences are dramatic in terms of effort, cost, and time. Why is that? In his presentation, Mathias Hess explains the causes of this behavior and shows ways of overcoming it.
Mathias Hess
Company: MHIM Interim Management
Position: IT Interim- und Projektmanager
03.30 pm | Escape from the brownfield Swamp – Digital Transformation Strategy to enable Flexibility and Speed
Historically, IT departments were often seen as cost-centers, not uncommonly reporting to the CFO. As a consequence, the primary focus and culture of IT departments revolved around cost and efficiency increases. With the Digital Transformation, the role of IT has expanded to digitally transforming existing business models or even creating new ones. This drives the need for flexibility and speed.
Microservices, DevOps and the Cloud are commonly accepted enablers in this context, but most Architects, CIOs or IT Mangers do not share the privilege of launching on a green field. The real challenge relies on transforming the existing legacy landscapes full of tech debt, unintentional easter eggs and intertwined interfaces.
Thanks to tight coupling, it feels like playing Jenga. You touch one brick and are pretty lucky if you do not wreck the whole complex.
How do you find the ideal split between:
- state-of-the-art architectural patterns and stable monolithic architectures
- paying back tech debt and creating new business value
- reducing costs and increasing the speed of value creation
- precise estimation and experimentation
- separation of concerns and cross-functionality
- enterprise architecture governance and team autonomy
- upskilling and recruiting new talent
We offer our strategy to master the complexity of a brownfield approach, making software engineering a cutting-edge capability of our organization.
Marlene Roth
Company: Lufthansa Technik Group
Position: Enterprise Architect
Tobias Mohr
Company: Lufthansa Technik Group
Position: Head of IT Architecture & Production System
03.30 pm | 30 Minutes Coffee Break
04.00 pm | 7 Steps to Mature Your EA Capability
Mature & agile EA capabilities cannot be overstated.
With so many economic challenges unfolding—from world conflicts, energy shortages, & inflation—the importance of having a mature, responsive EA capability is fundamental for companies to make well-informed ‘change’ decisions.
A mature EA practice clearly demonstrates value in terms of IT & business goals. It delivers value propositions & achieves intended outcomes using repeatable services & efficient tools. A mature practice provides:
- Services that enable strategic decisions, ensure reusability, and increase development speed.
- Collaborative practices to improve architecture performance and operational agility.
- An EAM tool – a knowledge base – for everyone within an organization to ensure decision making is based upon the same information.
Sounds feasible, but is it really? Establishing a successful & sustainable EA practice requires a mix of factors – and most of all time. Leveraging 25 years of implementing EA programs across multiple industries Jean shares 7 proven steps that can accelerate your EA journey and mature your EA practice.
Jean Gehring
Company: Lean42 GmbH
Position: Global Managing Partner
04.30 pm | Navigating the AI Revolution: The Imperative Journey of Enterprise Architecture Management and Change Management
What role does creativity play in unlocking the best ideas in AI integration? How can organizations strike a balance between necessary rules and fostering a creative environment? We explore practical strategies to nurture creativity and encourage innovative thinking while ensuring a structured approach.
Time to market is crucial for success and competitiveness. How can organizations streamline processes and eliminate complexities to accelerate the development and deployment of AI solutions? We discuss agile methodologies, low-code or no-code platforms, and cross-functional collaboration to expedite time to market.
Implementing the right topics is key to achieving impactful AI integration. How can organizations align AI initiatives with strategic goals and continuously assess their relevance? We explore user-centric design, and change management frameworks to ensure AI solutions create meaningful impact and overcome resistance.
Join us as we unravel the imperative journey of enterprise architecture management and change management in the AI revolution. Discover how to unleash creativity, accelerate time to market, and maximize business impact, positioning your organization for success in the AI-driven world.
Cristina Popa
Company: Contractuo
Position: CEO
Company: Consistency
Position: Partner
Tanja Konrad
Company: Microsoft
Position: Microsoft Germany Data&AI Lead – Customer Success
05.00 pm | From idea to implementation – How thinking in processes helps to define a MVP (minimum viable product)
Everyone has new ideas for Business Models and wants to be the first on the market. Minimum viable product (MVP) is the magic word. What one often forgets – VIABLE is the crucial word. How do you design a new business model if you don`t want to fail during implementation, roll-out or due to European regulation? And how important are processes and compliance topics? My showcase is a B2B Wallbox product for the European Market. From idea to implementation – how to develop a high-level idea into an end-to-end process design for implementation. Which processes, pitfalls and compliance issues can emerge during such a project. Is the MVP approach with its agile methods in conflict with process management methods? My experience is that they complement one another.
Dr. Rainer Lorenz
Company: Volkswagen Group Charging GmbH (Elli)
Position: Senior Vice President
05.30 pm | Closing
Karsten Voges
Company: Lean42 CIO Advisory
Position: Managing Director