Philadelphia IT Architect Regional Conference 9/23-24 call for speakers

Stan Spotts — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:05:43 GMT

The Philadelphia chapter of the International Association of Software Architects (IASA) is pleased to announce the IT Architect Regional Conference, the largest event in the Philadelphia area to address the pressing needs of IT architects today. There are over 15 seminars and two tracks separated by specialty: Enterprise and Software Architecture. Architects of all levels can take their skills to the next level.

Enterprise Architecture Track:
Learn efficient strategies for linking your enterprise strategy to implementation, create and articulate sound ROI, prioritize your objectives, inspire employees to share your vision, dive in to governance concepts, and enhance your agile strategies.

Software Architecture Track:
Increase alignment between architecture, business and development, troubleshoot your software architecture, assess architecture and software maturity, drive architecture evolution by effectively selecting next generation technology through a rigorous evaluation process, integrate with dynamic management processes, governance for the successful software architect, and enhance design with realistic software architecture toolsets.

Call for Presentations
If you are in or near the Philadelphia area and would like to speak at our upcoming conference, please download the Presenter Form.

New Philadelphia chapter of International Association of Software Architects (IASA)

Stan Spotts — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:38:45 GMT

Mitch Ruebush, Don Urbanic, Brian Mitchell and I met a few months ago to initiate a local chapter of the IASA. and the time has now come to have our first meeting. Our chapter president, Mitch Ruebush, will be moderating the first meeting. Here are the particulars from his invitation e-mail:

You are invited to IASA - Philadelphia's first meeting on February 6th, 2008 at the Microsoft Malvern office. We have set up an official IASA Web site at http://www.iasahome.org/web/Philadelphia/home to provide more information on IASA and the Philly chapter. Please use this site to keep up with the Philadelphia IASA community.

Agenda:
Refreshments & Network
Introductions
What do you want from an architecture professional group?
How do you want to help?

Topic:
What is Architecture?
Join us for a moderated discussion on the practicality of what IT architecture is. We will discuss what is the meaning of IT architecture, roles and responsibilities, approaches to IT architecture, common architecture processes and artifacts and what should be in the architecture toolkit.

Moderator:
Mitch Ruebush is the Architecture Team Leader at ING DIRECT, fsb. He is responsible for defining and coordinating the architecture for the applications and infrastructure at ING DIRECT. He has written a number of books and articles on .NET and enjoys spending his time as a father of two great kids, a hobbyist film maker, playing piano and saxophone and trying to write a video game.

Date: Feb. 6th, 2008
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Location:
Microsoft Corporation
Great Valley Corporate Center
45 Liberty Blvd., Suite 210
Malvern, PA 19355

IASA (International Association of Software Architects) is the premier association focused on the IT architecture profession through education, advocacy, events, and the development of best practices.