Day 1 morning: 8:00 a.m. - noon

Dress Code: Business Casual

Morning Presentations: 1) Vendor Strategies, a look at IBM, HP, Sun, Microsoft, Intel, and AMD - Where are these vendors trying to take you?
2) Future of Thin Clients
3) Future of the Open Source movement


Presenter: Bill Carico

Bill is President of ACTS Corp. a consulting and software firm. He specializes in IT strategic planning and technology forecasting. He lectures worldwide on a number of IT and management topics. He is an open source evangelist who runs his software business using Linux on the mainframe. His technical specialty areas include Enterprise Architecture, security, system internals and diagnostics, system performance, multi-processor design, automated operations, and server consolidation.




Day 1 Afternoon:
12:45 p.m. - 4:00p.m.

Special Presentation: " IT Architecture: Divining Truth out of Chaos"

Presenter: John Kirschner, Lockheed Martin

John is a technology specialist who has over 25 years experience in IT. He has worked for Lockheed Martin and IBM as a I/T architect, systems engineer, systems programmer, instructor, and as a consultant. He is a certified IT security specialist and helps establish US government security policies in regard to new technologies. John is a certified I/T architect, certified business manager and certified large systems specialist. John is the author of numerous white papers on systems architecture, availability, performance, and ADPE modernization.

Topics Covered on Day 1 (Afternoon) Include:

  • What is information technology architecture?
  • Why do we need an information technology architecture?
  • Enterprise architectures - Successes and Failures
  • Existent architectural models
  • Architecture-Based Design
  • DoD Architecture Framework (DoDAF)
  • IBM e-business Patterns
  • Microsoft Architectural Patterns
  • "Marketecture"
  • Business Examples
  • Lessons Learned
  • How to get started




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