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Bizzdesign Connect prepares architects and IT/business leaders to design an enterprise for tomorrow. Our collection of expert speakers and business influencers all have the same purpose: To help you gain knowledge on the latest capabilities in enterprise architecture design and show you how to leverage transformation analytics to make data-driven, strategic business decisions.
2023 speakers
Mo Gawdat
Former Chief Business Officer at Google [x]
Mo Gawdat is the former Chief Business Officer of Google [X]; host of the popular podcast, Slo Mo: A Podcast with Mo Gawdat; author of the international bestselling books Solve for Happy; Scary Smart; and That Little Voice in Your Head; and founder of One Billion Happy.
Throughout his career, Mo has been fascinated by the role that technology plays in empowering people in emerging communities. He has an impressive resume with previous positions at IBM, Microsoft, NCR Abu Dhabi to name a few, before joining Google to kick-start its business in Emerging Markets and later becoming Chief Business Officer of Google [X].
Under Mo's leadership, the business team designed innovative business models analogous to the disruptive technologies [X] creates, to build products fit for the real world. Projects included self-driving cars, Google Life Sciences and Project Loon - the use of high altitude hot-air balloons to provide affordable internet access to 5 billion people, amongst others.
Motivated by the tragic loss of his son – Ali, Mo began pouring his research findings on happiness to write his international bestselling book, “Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy (2017)”. The book’s happiness equation and its dedication to Ali serve as the pillar for a Mo’s personal moonshot: a mission to deliver his happiness message to one billion people around the world (#onebillionhappy).
DEepak Suresh
ENterprise ARchitect
at Ameren
Deepak Suresh
Enterprise Architect
at Ameren
Deepak is an IT professional with over 20 years of experience, primarily focusing on application development. He’s been with Ameren for five years. In his current role as a senior technical architect, he’s helped drive and shape Ameren's digital strategy to meet and introduce new business capabilities in its customer portfolio.
Leading the conversation at Bizzdesign Connect is a group of influencers, industry experts and the brightest minds in enterprise architecture.
Interactive sessions
Main Stage
Welcome & KeynotE I A Conversation with Mo Gawdat:
Designing for Success
09:00- 10:05 CDT I 16:00 - 17:05 CEST
BizzdesIGn VisIon & Roadmap
Chief Product Officer, Peter Matthijssen, is back on stage for this year's conference to talk about Bizzdesign's vision and product roadmap.
State of Enterprise ARchitecture 2023 Fireside Chat
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2023 speakers
DEepak Suresh
Enterprise ARchitec
At Ameren
Main
Stage
A Conversation with Mo Gawdat: Designing for Success
Mo Gawdat has an audacious “moonshot” mission to make a billion people happier. In this keynote, Mo shares his learnings from his business and personal life, drawing parallels between this mission and purposeful organizational change, to inspire and empower us with actionable insights.
ACCELERATING DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION FOR SERVICENOW CUSTOMERS WITH AGILE ARCHITECTURE
BizzdesIGn's VisIon & Roadmap
Daniel Waller
Lead Solution Architect at Ameren
Deepak Suresh
Enterprise Architect
at Ameren
Deepak is an IT professional with over 20 years of experience, primarily focusing on application development. He’s been with Ameren for five years. In his current role as a senior technical architect, he’s helped drive and shape Ameren's digital strategy to meet and introduce new business capabilities in its customer portfolio.
Paulo Marques
Global Principle ENterprise ARchitect
at HSBC
Daniel Waller
Lead Solution Architect
at Ameren
As the lead solution architect at Ameren, Dan supports the digital analytics and automation team with new products, tools and data integration pipelines. He also leads Bizzdesign projects which include solution architecture, portfolio architecture, and future enhancements. Previously, he worked as a network engineer designing and implementing high-speed fiber networks and building an optical character recognition system.
day 02
SAT 18.FEB
day 01
fri 17.FEB
ELEVATION THROUGH UX
16:00 - 17:00
Average contract value relationship business management customer journey governance compliance and privacy projects.
ELEVATION THROUGH UX
14:00 - 15:00
Average contract value relationship business management customer journey governance compliance and privacy projects.
ELEVATION THROUGH UX
13:00 - 14:00
Average contract value relationship business management customer journey governance compliance and privacy projects.
ELEVATION THROUGH UX
12:00 - 13:00
Average contract value relationship business management customer journey governance compliance and privacy projects.
Virtual Event I Global Enterprise Architecture Conference
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Gain knowledge from influencers in enterprise architecture and learn how you can achieve more.
Join the breakout sessions hosted by Bizzdesign experts and customers.
Get inspiration from real-live scenarios on Bizzdesign Horizzon.
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TRack #2: Better Together: How Enterprise and
Solution Architects accelerate digital transformation
Don't miss Mo's keynote address: "A Conversation with Mo Gawdat: Designing for Success" to hear wisdom from one of the tech industry's icons.
Track #4: Quicker APM Insights and Guided Architecture improving decision-making for CIOs
TRack #1: From strategy to Execution: Delivering The TRansformation You Want
Closing Remarks
12:30 - 12:40 CDT I 19:30 - 19:40 CEST
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Head of Enterprise Architecture At Norsk Hydro ASA
Armin Auth
Armin Auth
Head of Enterprise Architecture
At Norsk Hydro ASA
Before taking on the role of Head of Enterprise Architecture, Armin held positions as Principal Lead Digital Projects, Head of Infrastructure and IS Director for one of Hydro´s business areas. Prior to joining Hydro, he held Senior IT Management roles in the Packaging and Industrial Gas industries. Armin has extensive experience in infrastructure and applications, management of outsourcing agreements and IS M&A.
János Alexa
Senior Enterprise Architect At Norsk Hydro ASA
János is responsible for enterprise architecture governance at Hydro. János joined Hydro in 2018. He has been working on shopfloor digitalization and cyber security projects. Before joining Hydro, he spent 12 years in the automotive industry working on ERP and MES implementation projects, leading an application development team, and working in other business roles.
János Alexa
Senior Enterprise Architect at Norsk Hydro ASA
Dave Armes
Area VP, EnterpRise ARchitecture, EMEA at ServiceNow
Dave Armes
Area VP, EnterPRise Architecture - EMEA at ServicenOw
Dave currently leads a team of 30+ experienced EAs at ServiceNow who collaborate and co-create with customers to identify new ways to fix significant business issues leveraging technology. Dave has a broad range of experiences across IT including; management, consulting, architecture and sales. With extensive experience of delivering Service Integration for large enterprise clients through experience, leadership and collaboration; Dave is the Lead author of "SIAM: Principles and Practices of Service Integration and Management" and has presented at numerous industry events.
Nick Reed
Chief Strategy Officer
at Bizzdesign
Nick
Reed
Chief Strategy Officer
at Bizzdesign
Nick is responsible for value proposition development, strategic partnerships and innovation topics, including executing Bizzdesign’s ‘buy & build’ acquisition strategy. He has over 25 years of experience in B2B enterprise software and SaaS, with 14 years focusing on enterprise architecture and portfolio management. Nick builds long-term relationships with customers, focusing on business value and customer success.
Peter MatthijsSen
ChieF Product Officer
at Bizzdesign
Peter Matthijssen
CHief Product officer
at bizzdesign
As Chief Product Officer, Peter drives innovation and leads product development at Bizzdesign. Peter has been with Bizzdesign for 15+ years, supporting organizations in change. As a consultant, trainer, presenter, author and leader, Peter supported and inspired organizations and people worldwide to work smarter and cope with the change challenges they face.
Jennifer Owens
Customer Success Director at Bizzdesign
Jennifer Owens
Customer Success Director
At Bizzdesign
Jennifer is based out of Denver, CO and is the Customer Success Director at Bizzdesign for the Central US and APAC regions. For the past 20 years, Jennifer has held various roles helping customers implement, rollout and achieve maximum results with software in banking, enterprise architecture, project portfolio management and data security industries. She has over 10 years of experience in enterprise architecture.
Matthijs ScholteN
Product & Innovation Manager at Bizzdesign
Matthijs Scholten
Product & Innovation Manager at Bizzdesign
Matthijs is a Product & Innovation Manager responsible for Bizzdesign's innovation portfolio, product vision, strategy, roadmap and product development. Leveraging his consulting experience in complex business transformation projects and his passion for people, design and technology, Matthijs puts his creativity into building and innovating Bizzdesign Horizzon, the company's enterprise architecture SaaS platform.
Joost Niehof
Product Manager
at Bizzdesign
Joost
Niehof
Product Manager
at Bizzdesign
Joost has been with Bizzdesign for over 20 years, focusing on projects that align business with IT. His involvement ranges from business process management to enterprise architecture. He has assisted in setting up and accelerating enterprise architecture practices by introducing standards. As Product Manager, Joost is developing Bizzdesign’s BPM solution and an initiative to focus on product-led growth.
Jeeps Rekhi
Customer Success Consultant at Bizzdeisgn
Jeeps
Rekhi
Jeeps is a Customer Success Consultant and senior enterprise-wide business architect with 25 years of experience specializing in data and digital transformation. He knows how to harness value across business, operations and technology. Jeeps helps customers gain maximum value from Bizzdesign Horizzon.
Customer Success Consultant at Bizzdesign
Bernd Ihnen
Senior Consultant
at Bizzdesign
Bernd
Ihnen
Senior Consultant
at Bizzdesign
Bernd has been with Bizzdesign for over eight years in various roles, from consultant, trainer and territory lead for the DACH region, global solutions manager to senior strategic consultant. Bernd has successfully guided many customers to get the most value from Bizzdesign Horizzon while aligning with their organization’s strategic business goals. He also initiated and led the development of Bizzdesign’s application portfolio management solution.
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Mo Gawdat
Former CHief Business Officer at Google [x]
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Session 1 I Norsk Hydro ASA: From Strategy to Implementation – Supported by Bizzdesign
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Daniel Waller
Lead Solution Architect
At Ameren
Daniel Waller
Lead Solution Architect
at Ameren
As the lead solution architect at Ameren, Dan supports the digital analytics and automation team with new products, tools and data integration pipelines. He also leads Bizzdesign projects which include solution architecture, portfolio architecture, and future enhancements. Previously, he worked as a network engineer designing and implementing high-speed fiber networks and building an optical character recognition system.
Michelle Supper
EMEA Enterprise ARchitecture Advisor at ServiceNow
Michelle Supper
EMEA Enterprise Architecture Advisor at ServicenOw
Michelle is a certified system, business and enterprise architect. She has guided the development of several major defense systems, won massive contracts for clients, and helped business and government departments to improve and transform their operations. She is a sought-after public speaker and an accomplished technical writer. Her clear diagrams, succinct writing, and consistent architecture designs are widely acknowledged.
Simon Bobbit
ConsultinG Director EMEA
at Bizzdesign
Simon
Bobbit
Head of Consultancy EMEA at Bizzdesign
Simon has over 10 years of experience in customer-facing roles in enterprise architecture and over five years in management consulting and IT project management across various European sectors. Simon and his team work closely to ensure customers get value from Bizzdesign Horizzon. He firmly believes value is realized through architectural alignment with business strategies to achieve customers’ objectives
Accelerating Digital Transformation for ServiceNow Customers with Agile Architecture
State of Enterprise Architecture 2023 Fireside Chat
Track #1: FROM STRATEGY TO EXECUTION: DELIVERING THE TRANSFORMATION YOU WANT
Track #2: BETTER TOGETHER: HOW ENTERPRISE AND SOLUTION ARCHITECTS ACCELERATE DIGITALTRANSFORMATION
TRack #4: Out-of-the-box APM Dashboards + Future Design with Bizzdesign
TRack #3: Pushing the boundaries of business strategies with architecture
Chief Product Officer, Peter Matthijssen, is back on stage for this year's conference to talk about Bizzdesign's vision and product roadmap.
Session 1 I Ameren’s Journey: Solution Architecture Foundations for a Digital Enterprise
Session 1 I HSBC: Building Data-driven Living Architecture to Influence Business Strategy
Session 1 I Out-of-the-box APM Dashboards + Future Design with Bizzdesign
TRack #3: Pushing the boundaries of business strategies with architecture
Paulo Marques
Global Principle Enterprise Architect at HSBC
Paulo Marques
Global Principal Enterprise ARchitect at HSBC
Paulo is the Global Principal Enterprise Architect at HSBC, where he evolves the global architecture frameworks and tooling across the Bank. He is a CIO advisor with extensive experience in large-scale transformation programs, defining architecture TOM and IT strategies while working closely with stakeholders at a CxO executive level.
Armin Auth
Head of Enterpise Architecture
At Hydro
Paulo Marques
Global Principle ENterprise ARchitect at HSBC
Paulo is the Global Principal Enterprise Architect at HSBC, where he evolves the global architecture frameworks and tooling across the Bank. He is a CIO advisor with extensive experience in large-scale transformation programs, defining architecture TOM and IT strategies while working closely with stakeholders at a CxO executive level.
János Alexa
Senior Enterprise Architect at Hydro Group
Armin Auth
Head of ENterprise Architecture
At Norsk Hydro ASA
Before taking on the role of Head of Enterprise Architecture, Armin held positions as Principal Lead Digital Projects, Head of Infrastructure and IS Director for one of Hydro´s business areas. Prior to joining Hydro, he held Senior IT Management roles in the Packaging and Industrial Gas industries. Armin has extensive experience in infrastructure and applications, management of outsourcing agreements and IS M&A.
Dave Armes
Area VP, Enterrpise A
ARchitecture, EMEA at ServiceNow
János Alexa
Senior Enterprise Architect
at Hydro Group
János is responsible for enterprise architecture governance at Hydro. János joined Hydro in 2018. He has been working on shopfloor digitalization and cyber security projects. Before joining Hydro, he spent 12 years in the automotive industry working on ERP and MES implementation projects, leading an application development team, and working in other business roles.
Michelle Supper
EMEA Enterprise ARchitecture Advisor at ServiceNow
DAve Armes
Area VP, Enterrpise ARchitecture, EMEA at ServiceNow
Dave currently leads a team of 30+ experienced EAs at ServiceNow who collaborate and co-create with customers to identify new ways to fix significant business issues leveraging technology. Dave is the Lead author of "SIAM: Principles and Practices of Service Integration and Management" and has presented at numerous industry events. Dave is passionate about the capabilities of technology and the ability of Enterprise Architects to fix the big problems.
Michelle Supper
EMEA ENterprise Architecture AdviSor at ServiceNow
Michelle is a certified system, business and enterprise architect. She has guided the development of several major defense systems, won massive contracts for clients, and helped business and government departments to improve and transform their operations. She is a sought-after public speaker and an accomplished technical writer. Her clear diagrams, succinct writing, and consistent architecture designs are widely acknowledged.
Session 1 I Ameren’s Journey: Solution Architecture Foundations for a Digital Enterprise
Session 1 I HSBC: Building Data-driven Living Architecture to Influence Business Strategy
Session 1 I Out-of-the-box APM Dashboards + Future Design with Bizzdesign
Closing Remarks
CONFERENCE CLOSE: 12:40 CDT I 19:40 CET
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Mo Gawdat is the former Chief Business Officer of Google [X]; host of the popular podcast, Slo Mo: A Podcast with Mo Gawdat; author of the international bestselling books Solve for Happy; Scary Smart; and That Little Voice in Your Head; and founder of One Billion Happy. Throughout his career, Mo has been fascinated by the role that technology plays in empowering people in emerging communities. He has an impressive resume with previous positions at IBM, Microsoft, NCR Abu Dhabi to name a few, before joining Google to kick-start its business in Emerging Markets and later becoming Chief Business Officer of Google [X].
ServiceNow’s presales enterprise architecture team takes an architecture-led approach to accelerate customers’ digital transformation. They enable a strategic business-led perspective to guide and coordinate all transformation initiatives from initial discovery and execution to business operations.
Join Dave to learn about ServiceNow’s success. He’ll describe how they accelerate business value creation and ensure successful execution. They do this through an agile, iterative approach to capturing and enhancing customers’ enterprise architecture across multiple stakeholders and ServiceNow teams. This is done over several workshops to align priorities and roadmap complex transformations.
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Join Dave to learn about ServiceNow’s success. He’ll describe how they accelerate business value creation and ensure successful execution. They do this through an agile, iterative approach to capturing and enhancing customers’ enterprise architecture across multiple stakeholders and ServiceNow teams. This is done over several workshops to align priorities and roadmap complex transformations.
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Session 2 I How to Reliably Execute Your Strategy
Session 2 I How to Build Better Workflows for Enterprise and Solution Architects
Session 2 I Make Business Strategy Consumable for Everyone – with Architecture
Session 2 I ServiceNow: Guided Architecture with Bizzdesign
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Session 1 I Out-of-the-box APM Dashboards + Future Design with Bizzdesign
11:35 - 12:05 CDT I 18:35 - 19:05 CEST
The 2020s started with major disruptions to business as usual. The Corona pandemic, talent availability, political changes and ongoing digital transformation prevented organizations from spending up to 80% of their IT budget on legacy applications. Application rationalization helps CIOs and IT leaders get their IT portfolio under control and ready for the next big wave of innovations we already see - AI technologies. In this session, we’ll discuss the benefits of application rationalization, the relevance of supporting all phases of APM including future architecture design to improve decision-making, and how you can speed up the APM process. We’ll show you how to get quick insights from your portfolio and support future state design. Don’t miss this session where we’ll demonstrate how you can support ‘change by design’ to control and speed up business transformation!
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Session 1 I Norsk Hydro ASA: From Strategy to Implementation – Supported by Bizzdesign
11:35 - 12:05 CDT I 18:35 - 19:05 CEST
Hydro established a new I&T strategy in 2022. To follow up on the execution of the implementation of the strategy, they’ve used Bizzdesign to model the I&T strategy for socializing and communication. Furthermore, they also track initiatives and their
progress related to strategy implementation.
Session 2 I How to Reliably Execute Your Strategy
12:05 - 12:30 CDT I 19:05 - 19:30 CEST
Strategy is how organizations define and agree on their enterprise-wide transformation. Nonetheless, most organizations fail to achieve what they’ve outlined in their strategy.
In this session, we’ll show you how to execute your strategy in four simple steps to success. With our approach, you’ll get visibility and traceability from strategy through to implementation in a way that can be communicated to all stakeholders. The key to this approach is working with your organization's experts to get input and share the workload.
Session 1 I Ameren’s Journey: Solution Architecture Foundations for a Digital Enterprise
11:35 - 12:05 CDT I 18:35 - 19:05 CEST
Join lead solution architect Dan Waller from Ameren, a Midwest electric and gas utility located in the St. Louis area, on a journey beginning with an ad-hoc to a managed solution architecture team. In this presentation, he'll begin with common problems an enterprise faces with architecture and how solution architects add value by standardizing solution design. The Bizzdesign Coach processes and metamodel custom viewpoints combine to build a standard workflow for all solution architects. The standard set of views created allows for cohesive communication from architects to stakeholders across an organization. To conclude, he’ll talk about the future enhancements of Bizzdesign at Ameren.
Session 2 I How to Build Better Workflows for Enterprise and Solution Architects
12:05 - 12:30 CDT I 19:05 - 19:30 CEST
Solution architects design solutions to solve complex business problems and achieve business outcomes. This requires collaboration with business stakeholders, other architectural disciplines, change management and operations. So how can solution architects get their design work done faster while raising the quality and impact of their deliverables? How can they effectively collaborate with enterprise and other architects? How can enterprise and solution architects be ‘better together’ and accelerate digital transformation? Matthijs will share insights into how architects can improve their collaboration for digital transformation. He’ll demonstrate Bizzdesign’s Horizzon’s latest capabilities and best practices for Enterprise and Solution Architecture Management.
Session 1 I HSBC: Building Data-driven Living Architecture to Influence Business Strategy
11:35 - 12:05 CDT I 18:35 - 19:05 CEST
The ability to shape and steer the most complex and challenging change scenarios is vital for an organization that wants their transformations to succeed. To better inform decisions, you’ll need to generate compelling insights from your architecture. During this session, Paulo will show you how the team created insights from a real-life data-driven living architecture to support IT estate modernization and simplification. Moreover, how these insights support strategic decisions to ensure the technology estate supports business goals and manages the impact of planned change over a 5-year time horizon.
Session 2 I Make Business Strategy Consumable for Everyone – With Architecture
12:05 - 12:30 CDT I 19:05 - 19:30 CEST
A business strategy is the cornerstone of every organization. Putting a business strategy into action while demonstrating its positive impact is often challenging, especially when it is elaborate and complex. This session aims to show how architecture is the link between strategic goals and successful transformation initiatives. We'll showcase the outcome: a transformed organization driven by a solid business strategy, and backed by architecture.
Session 2 I ServiceNow: Guided Architecture with Bizzdesign
12:05 - 12:30 CDT I 19:05 - 19:30 CEST
ServiceNow has globally adopted a consultative enterprise architecture methodology called Guided Architecture to drive digital transformation for large and complex customers. It’s a light-touch Agile EA approach, loosely based on TOGAF and Design Thinking, that takes a customer from vague aspiration to a high-level transformation roadmap within 10 hours of contact time, connecting motivations, goals and current technology estate with target architecture and transformation plans. Guided Architecture and Bizzdesign together can support and accelerate the transformation journey with ServiceNow, ensuring that it’s on track to deliver value quickly. Find out how Bizzdesign has collaborated with ServiceNow to implement Guided Architecture templates, enabling the operationalization of the Guided Architecture approach to over 90 ServiceNow practitioners. See a demonstration of Guided Architecture views used with strategic ServiceNow customers.
Session 2 I How to Reliably Execute Your Strategy
Session 2 I How to Build Better Workflows for Enterprise and Solution Architects
Session 2 I Make business strategy consumable for everyone – with architecture
Session 2 I ServiceNow: Guided Architecture with Bizzdesign
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Start: 09:00 CDT I 10:00 EDT I 16:00 CET
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Mo Gawdat has an audacious “moonshot” mission to make a billion people happier. His approach is to help people purposefully design their path to happiness and act on it to achieve joy in their lives, by seeing the full picture of possible events and finding the right path to avoid unhappiness traps. In this keynote, Mo shares his learnings from his business and personal life, drawing parallels between this mission and purposeful organizational change, to inspire and empower us with actionable insights.
10:05- 10:25 CDT I 17:05 - 17:25 CEST
Break & Networking I Meet the Partners
10:25- 10:35 CDT I 17:25 - 17:35 CEST
WELCOME TO BIZZDESIGN CONNECT 2023
START: 9:00 CET I 16:00 CEST
Supported by our Global Partners: