The Corporate Social Networking Forum

www.corporatesocialnetworking.net

Location: RIBA, London on the 8th of June 2009

The one day conference will look at how companies are deploying these networks in modern day business with case studies on best practices, step-by-step methodology, while building a solid business case for corporate networks. Social networking provides the ideal platform for employees to communicate, information share and discuss real issues affecting the business. Senior management can also use these platforms create healthy staff communities, provide interactive company news and bring together the resources from former colleagues.
We will also hear from experts on why companies need employee communities, learn about current employee behaviour while understanding the needs of the modern employee. We will evaluate how a positive working community can increase productivity and employee satisfaction and how a sound corporate network can support this.
The event has already attracted a range of global brands and communication companies to speak including: British Airways, Adidas, Frost & Sullivan, Headshift plus many more.
The evening will see a networking drinks reception hosted at Sugar Reef in London for everyone attending the event.
Delegates can register online at www.corporatesocialnetworking.net by fax +44 (0) 117 321 8301 or via our telephone booking hotline +44 (0) 117321 8303.

Enterprise Architecture Conference Europe 2009
Charting a Course through Complexity

Location: London, UK
The 10th Annual Enterprise Architecture Conference Europe 2009 attracts a wide range of experienced speakers and delegates from around the world and provides a unique opportunity to discover the approaches that work most effectively.

• Choose from 7 pre-conference seminars and 4 conference tracks.
• Explore what it takes to be a responsive business with agile processes, systems and technologies
• Evaluate what works best in different business environments, and what doesn’t, through practical case studies from organizations such as Visa Europe, Ministry of Defence, Shell, Accenture, The Cabinet Office, The Boeing Company, Capgemini, KLM, Detica, Department of Work and Pensions, Aviva, Yorkshire Water, AXA, Syngenta and Novartis Pharma.
• The event is structured to accommodate delegates at all levels and in all types of organizations. Whether you are just getting started in architecture, re-appraising your approach, or working to fine tune your performance, you will find sessions that address the issues that you are facing.
• Group Booking Discounts available for 2+ registrations<

Burton Group -Catalyst Europe

Burton Group Catalyst Conference is for enterprise technologists and executives working to drive change within their organisations. The conference brings IT leaders together to learn about and discuss today’s most significant technology topics and complex issues faced by enterprise organisations. An educational and often controversial forum, Catalyst Conference is an absolute must-attend event for enterprise IT leaders.
Location: Prague
Date: 19 – 22 July 2009

Burton Group Catalyst US

Date: 27 – 31 July 2009
Location: San Diego

Chief Marketing Officers (CMO)

Location: San Francisco, CA
The Annual Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Summit: Best-in-Class Marketing Insights is the premier best practices and networking event for global marketing executives. It provides an outstanding forum for leading-edge thinking on the key challenges that sales, marketing, and customer support organizations face today.

GIL 2009: North America

Phoenix, AZ
Growth, Innovation, & Leadership Congress – Designed to help you meet your growth objectives through thought leadership, real world case examples, best practices, and key strategies that you can implement immediately; join industry leaders to examine the dynamics of growth, and the tools and processes that will aid you in accelerating your company's trajectory

Mastering the Requirements Process

Location: London
Requirements are the most misunderstood part of systems development, and yet the most crucial. Requirements must be correct if the rest of the development effort is to succeed. This workshop presents a complete process for eliciting the real requirements, testing them for correctness, and recording them clearly, comprehensibly and unambiguously.
Delegates will learn:

• Determine your client's needs—exactly
• Write requirements that are complete, traceable, and testable
• Precisely define the scope of the project
• Discover all the stakeholders—and keep them involved
• Use up-to-date techniques such as storyboarding and e-collaboration
• Get the requirements quickly, and incrementally
• Make use of the popular Volere Requirements template, process and techniques for discovering requirements

Successful Master Data Management

Location: London
Master Data Management (MDM) is becoming an imperative for a majority of enterprises as their architectures evolve from silo-based to integration-based. Enterprise application integration, data warehousing, mergers and actuations, supply chain management, and regulatory reporting are all driving the integration paradigm at an accelerating speed. Yet, without adequate MDM all these initiatives are at risk. This seminar provides a practical guide to implementing successful MDM. It covers the entire spectrum of MDM, from developing logical architectures to establishing governance for physical data values. Modelling and design are covered, but strong emphasis is also placed on the physical layer, where content must be controlled to assure data quality, and services established to make master data useable and available. Data governance for master data is presented as the development as a set of services that support all MDM stakeholders, backed up by a permanent Enterprise Information Management function and an adequate set of supporting infrastructure. Practical steps are emphasized throughout the seminar.
Learning Objectives

• What Master Data is, and the unique management challenges it has
• How to organize for MDM in a programme-based approach
• Usable data architecture and data design patterns to apply to MDM
• How to map and monitor the physical data landscape, and how to implement information knowledge management for MDM
• How to implement data governance for MDM from the perspective of designing processes and building services
• Practical ways of enhancing data stewardship and data content management to support data quality goals
• Building a supportive metadata-based infrastructure for MDM.

Data Modelling Fundamentals

Location: London
This seminar and workshop contains a complete explanation of data modelling concepts and terminology, along with techniques for producing solid relational and dimensional data models. This course is designed to give you a practical understanding of data modelling that can be applied to your current projects. It is for anyone who needs formal data modelling training. This includes those new to data modelling or in need of a refresher who need to be able to understand, build, or implement data models as part of their job.

Delegates will learn:

• Data modelling concepts and terminology
• How to read a data model
• Steps to building a subject area model
• Logical data modelling techniques of normalization, abstraction, and dimensionality
• Physical data modelling techniques of denormalization, partitioning, views, and indexing

Working with the business: Consulting skills for data and IT professionals

Location: London
Being right isn't enough. One of the major challenges - often the greatest challenge - is engaging the client: understanding their requirements, winning their support, and meeting their expectations. Yet most IT professionals give far less attention to these consulting skills than they give to their technical expertise. If you are an experienced professional who has not previously studied consulting skills, this workshop is likely to be more valuable in improving your effectiveness than any technical course.
In this highly-interactive workshop, Graeme Simsion shares principles, techniques, and tips learned from 25 years of managing an internal data management function, establishing and managing a successful consultancy and working as an independent consultant. He uses a combination of formal material, stories, lectures, group exercises and case studies to share ideas and techniques that you will use throughout your professional life.
Learning Objectives

• A deeper understanding of consulting relationships - and how to make them work
• Practical techniques for establishing expectations - checklists and questions
• A set of practices to keep assignments on track
• Techniques for dealing with problems and difficult clients
• Practical approaches to writing reports and delivering presentations

Data Modelling Masterclass

Location: London
This interactive seminar and workshop is for anyone who already knows modelling fundamentals and is seeking more advanced techniques. In this Masterclass, delegates will first apply a best practices approach to building and validating data models through the Data Model Scorecard™, a tool for validating data model quality. Delegates will then focus on a collection of intermediate and advanced modelling techniques, including advanced normalization and enterprise data modelling. The final section contains guidelines used to gain consistency across data models in areas such as in abstraction and whether to star schema or snowflake.
Delegates will learn:

• How to apply the Data Model Scorecard™
• Advanced normalization rules and limitations of the logical data model
• A value-driven approach to building the enterprise data model
• Techniques for converting the logical into an physical design
• Factors to consider in deciding whether to Star Schema or Snowflake
• Three key questions to ask yourself before you abstract
• When to use a surrogate key

Business Process Management Conference Europe 2009

Location: London
Change with agility means getting the processes right before embarking on disjoint organizational or technology overhauls. This will be key as we emerge from current economic challenges in a world of more regulation, merged companies and a fickle marketplace that will not tolerate supplier dysfunctionality and low value products and services. The Business Process Management Conference Europe 2009 will provide a forum that will help enable you to align your business with winning strategies and capabilities, learn techniques for improved process performance and implement process insights through human and technological solutions that work. Special Features:

• The BPM conference will be co-located with the Business Analysis Conference. Delegates can attend sessions from both conferences
• Choose from 3 conference tracks plus 2 tracks from the Business Analysis Conference
• Includes 8 pre-conference workshops plus 4 pre-conference workshops from the Business Analysis Conference
• Sessions for both novice and advanced practitioners
• Access to the BPM community’s foremost industry practitioners, leaders and solution providers

Topics include:

• Process modeling, analysis and design techniques
• Reducing time and cost
• Business Architecture
• Integrating BPM, Six Sigma and Lean
• Human Change Management
• Making smarter decisions
• Business Rules discovery and Design
• Moving from process models to business requirements
• BPMN and other notations
• Realistic measurement
• Knowledge worker processes
• Process governance
• Becoming customer centric
• Accelerating projects with Industry Frameworks
• Getting management on board
• Practical use of standards
• Process Management as a Software Service
• BPM Centre of Expertise
• Business Process Management Systems (BPMS)

Business Analysis Conference Europe 2009

Location: London
The business analysis profession has evolved significantly over the last couple of years in the UK. The valuable contributions made by Business Analysts are now becoming recognised at all levels of the organisation. Business Analysts now exist in a variety of roles at the heart of business change to ascertain problems or identify opportunity areas from a business or technology perspective. Business Analysts help organisations to better understand what they need and why, ensure better decision making, and enable successful business solutions to meet the challenging needs of companies today. The Business Analysis Conference London 2009 will provide an interactive forum to:

• Learn from leading industry experts about the role and future trends of business analysis
• Help you understand what you need to be a high performing and successful business analyst today
• Learn from the success stories from a range of industries
• Show you how to develop a business analyst community within your organisation.

Special Features:

• The Business Analysis conference will be co-located with the BPM Conference. Delegates can attend sessions from both conferences
• Choose from 2 conference tracks with topics focused on ‘The BA Role and How We Deliver Business Value’ and ‘Business Analysis Tools & Techniques’ plus tracks from the BPM Conference
• Includes 4 pre-conference workshops plus pre-conference workshops from the BPM Conference
• 2 panel discussions to maximise open discussions and learning with delegates and industry experts ‘The Role of the BA & Common Myths’ and ‘Creating a Business Analysis Community’

Topics include:

Business Rules From A to Z: Revitalising the Operational Decisions That Make Your Company Tick

Location: London, UK
If your organization has problems with change management, cross-channel consistency, compliance, process re-engineering or legacy modernization, this seminar is for you. The solution is a new, pragmatic approach to operational decisioning based on business rules. Find out what these techniques and tools are all about and how others have used them successfully to make business processes smarter, eliminate IT involvement in routine changes, and develop robust decision services for IT architectures. This seminar provides clear, authoritative insights.

Zachman Enterprise Architecture MasterClass™ Part 1: Framework Fundamentals

Location: London
This two day seminar, presented by John Zachman himself, Father of Enterprise Architecture, is designed for enterprise professionals of every discipline including non-information disciplines as well as information disciplines. Seminar topics include Business Drivers for Enterprise Architecture; The Zachman Framework™; Architecture versus Implementation; Enterprise Architecture Implementation Practicalities; Four Frameworks for Knowledge Management; Simplifying the Enterprise; Reducing I/S "Time-to-Market"; Federated Architecture.

Delegates will learn:

• A sense of urgency for aggressively pursuing Enterprise Architecture
• A comprehensive definition (description) of Enterprise Architecture
• A "language" (that is, a Framework) for improving enterprise communications about architecture issues
• An understanding of basic Enterprise "physics" - laws of nature that govern Enterprise implementations
• Differentiation of Enterprise Architecture from Systems Implementation
• A strategy for reducing "time-to-market" for systems implementations to virtually zero
• Some pragmatic approaches for implementing Enterprise-wide strategies
• Strategy for integration beyond jurisdiction (Interoperability)
• Architectural Principles for meeting enterprise requirements
• A list of resources to facilitate architectural work

Interop Mumbai

Location: Bombay Exhibition Center, Mumbai, India
Interop is the best place to learn how key technologies work together to drive your business.
Topics include:

• Enterprise 2.0
• Security
• Unified Communications
• Storage
• Telepresence
• Cloud Computing
• Application Delivery
• Data Center
• SOA
• Open Source
• Virtualization
• Wireless and Mobility
• Governance, Risk and Compliance
• Document Management
• Green IT
• Software as a Service (SaaS)
• IP Telephony
• Networking and Services

Zachman Enterprise Architecture MasterClass™ Part 2: Enterprise Implementation Strategy Examples

Location: London, UK
This seminar will show you how to strategically implement Enterprise Architecture in your organization. It will explain how the underlying constructs of the Zachman Framework™ support business agility and demonstrate this with real world examples of what to do and not to do when architecting an Enterprise.
Delegates will learn:

• To enable the participant to use the framework as a tool for thinking about business and technology
• To consider framework implications for integration when making enterprise design decisions
• To understand the underlying framework constructs of fractals and other frameworks
• To be able to select appropriate implementation strategies for the delegate’s organisation and explain the rationale for them
• To understand how implementation composites can be assembled from primitive cell elements
• To review framework implementations in business, not for profit and government situations

Chief Service Officers (CSO)

Location: Boston, MA
As evidenced by the 2008 event, the Chief Service Officer Summit has become the preeminent best practices and networking symposium for service, finance, supply chain, and operations executives – the next ‘Chief Service Officers’ – to accelerate strategies for post-sales service transformation. Executives from different industries and backgrounds gathered in San Francisco to discover innovative strategies that yield winning service strategies. The event offered world-renowned research, best practices, trends, ideas and strategies pertaining to topics relevant to post-sales service.

Storage Expo - Information Management and Infrastructure

Location: Olympia, London
Storage Expo 14th – 15th October, Olympia, London, is the UK’s definitive event for data storage, information and content management and provides the opportunity to compare the most comprehensive range of solutions and services from all the leading suppliers. With the increase in data growth, organisations have to look at how they store, manage and protect their information and data, from creation, through to archiving and final destruction. The unrivalled education programme will enable visitors to learn how to address today’s issues with advice from a range of industry experts and peers.

Register free to attend at www.storage-expo.com/etm and discover the most effective tools to meet your storage, information and content management needs.

Symposium/ITxpo 2009

Location: Orlando, FL

The World?s Most Important Gathering of CIOs and Senior IT Executives. Once a year the world?s leading independent IT analysts gather to deliver the insight, tools and relationships necessary to create, validate and execute transformative business technology strategies. 200+ sessions covering the hottest trends and technologies. A uniquely informed and intensive discussion among the leading minds in IT. A 5 day investment that will impact your next 12 months.

GIL 2009: Asia Pacific

Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Growth, Innovation, & Leadership Congress – Designed to help you meet your growth objectives through thought leadership, real world case examples, best practices, and key strategies that you can implement immediately; join industry leaders to examine the dynamics of growth, and the tools and processes that will aid you in accelerating your company's trajectory

GIL 2009: India

Location: Bangalore

Growth, Innovation, & Leadership Congress – Designed to help you meet your growth objectives through thought leadership, real world case examples, best practices, and key strategies that you can implement immediately; join industry leaders to examine the dynamics of growth, and the tools and processes that will aid you in accelerating your company's trajectory

GIL 2009: Middle East

Location: Dubai, UAE

Growth, Innovation, & Leadership Congress – Designed to help you meet your growth objectives through thought leadership, real world case examples, best practices, and key strategies that you can implement immediately; join industry leaders to examine the dynamics of growth, and the tools and processes that will aid you in accelerating your company's trajectory

Chief Information Security Officers (CISO)

Location: San Francisco, CA

Aberdeen Group’s Chief Information Security Officer’s Summit is a premier educational and networking event for global information security executives. Based on Aberdeen’s fact-based research of global best practices in deploying and managing IT security, this two-day event offers participants the unique opportunity to hear from and network with leading executives on topics such as Data Protection; Endpoint Security; Application Security; Network Security; Identity and Access Management; Security Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC); Emerging Technologies; and more.

Data Management & Information Quality Conference Europe 2009 11th Annual Conference

Location: London
This 11th Annual Conference will consist of 3 co-located conferences on Information Quality, Meta Data and Data Management plus a Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence track. There will be 7 conference tracks, pre-conference and post conference tutorials.

Interop New York

Location: Javits Convention Center
See all the latest IT solutions at Interop’s comprehensive Conference and Expo, Nov. 16-20. Learn about the latest innovations—including cloud computing, virtualization and data center—to position your organization for growth. Special Offer: Register for a FREE Expo Pass or Save 30%

Chief Procurement Officers (CPO)

Location: Boston, MA
The Annual Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) Summit has become the definitive meeting place for global procurement executives to learn, network, and discuss the strategies needed to extend the broad transformation of their organizations. “The CPO Summit is a culmination of a year’s worth of our research,” notes Andrew Bartolini, VP of Global Supply Management research. ”It is also a perfect reflection of our research process and the ongoing dialogue we have with leading procurement professionals to help them achieve operational excellence.”

Chief Procurement Officers (CPO)

Location: Boston, MA
The Annual Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) Summit has become the definitive meeting place for global procurement executives to learn, network, and discuss the strategies needed to extend the broad transformation of their organizations. “The CPO Summit is a culmination of a year’s worth of our research,” notes Andrew Bartolini, VP of Global Supply Management research. ”It is also a perfect reflection of our research process and the ongoing dialogue we have with leading procurement professionals to help them achieve operational excellence.”

The Corporate Strategy for IT

Location: London
This seminar and workshop provides a framework for deeply integrating IT with corporate and business strategies, and explores its impact on the organisation’s people, investments, operating costs, Enterprise Architecture, and sourcing decisions. It harnesses the energy of business-led strategies for exploiting IT, to create maximum total value. It also makes transparent the linkages between business decisions and IT costs – often with some very surprising results.

Delegates will learn:

• From the experiences of other companies
• Rapidly formulate the Corporate Strategy for IT in collaboration with business leaders
• Integrate IT with corporate and business strategies, and keep it that way
• Transform IT costs and budgets into a portfolio of investments in business change
• Maximise the contribution and influence of IT expertise at all stages of the investment process

Successfully Aligning Business and IT

Location: London
Business/IT alignment is about the relationship between Business and IT, the role IT plays in the business strategy and the added value IT can offer in achieving the company's mission. A lot of IT organisations today are trying to achieve better alignment. This seminar introduces the major alignment concerns that companies face today and aims at offering a pragmatic approach towards alignment, which is underpinned with rock solid models and real-life lessons learned from various companies and sectors who have achieved better Business/IT alignment.
Learning Objectives
This seminar will provide you with a sound framework and practical advice on how to align IT and business within your company.

• Alignment models and mechanisms for improving the relationship between business and IT
• Organisational concepts and impact towards alignment: what works and what does not?
• Positioning of IT, building trust and putting IT on the map
• Building a lasting relationship towards management and towards the board
• How to implement alignment, how to manage the change towards an aligned IT, and how to maintain alignment
• Best-Practice in alignment and how to avoid over-engineering of alignment structures

GIL 2009: Latin America

Location: São Palo, Brazil

Growth, Innovation, & Leadership Congress – Designed to help you meet your growth objectives through thought leadership, real world case examples, best practices, and key strategies that you can implement immediately; join industry leaders to examine the dynamics of growth, and the tools and processes that will aid you in accelerating your company's trajectory

Business Process Modelling, Analysis and Design

Location: London, UK
This workshop oriented session is like no other session of its type offered anywhere in the world. This course is unique in that it is built around a case study developed by the participants in team workshops. Consequently, participants leave with real world knowledge that can be used for accelerating their own projects. It is the longest running session on process modeling, analysis and design in the world. It specifically addresses the tactical aspects of process improvement project work. Topics include Introduction to Business Process Management; Define Process Project; Capturing Process Knowledge; Modelling Current Process; Measuring Processes; Analyzing Processes; Creating New Processes; Designing New Processes; Validating New Processes; Selection of Tools. Workshop will be featured throughout the course.
Delegates will learn:

• The importance of properly managing the "people" aspect of process redesign
• Critical Success Factors for process improvement
• Practical process modeling and analysis and design techniques
• How to avoid creeping project scope and analysis paralysis
• The recommended tools currently available
• Tips and Techniques for avoiding common pitfalls in process improvement projects

DW 2.0: Next Generation of Data Warehousing

Location: London, UK
In the two decades that data warehousing has been around, there has been much change. Older technologies have matured, there is new technology, and organizations have accepted Business Intelligence as a standard part of the infrastructure. Today there are many different renditions of what a data warehouse is - an active data warehouse, a federated data warehouse, a star schema data warehouse and so forth. Unfortunately none of these types of a data warehouse are the same. There is no integrity in the definition of what a data warehouse is. In addition, 1st generation data warehouses have failed to take into account many important requirements that are now recognized as legitimate aspects of data warehousing. Now there is DW 2.0 which is the definition of data warehouse architecture for the future of data warehousing. This two day seminar describes what DW 2.0 is and addresses what data warehousing for the future will look like.
Learning Objectives

• describe what the architecture for the future of data warehousing looks like,
• describe how metadata fits into DW 2.0,
• describe the levels of data of DW 2.0 - interactive, integrated, near line, archival,
• describe how unstructured data can be gathered and integrated into a data warehouse,
• describe the flow of data from outside of DW 2.0, into DW 2.0 and out of DW 2.0,
• understand why data warehouses do not have to cost a huge amount of money, even when they contain a lot of data and have lots of users,
• understand the fundamental transformation of data that takes place as data passes through ETL processing,
• examine the role of new data warehouse technologies such as Talend, Dataupia, SeaTab, Kalido, and others,
• understand the migration path from existing 1st generation data warehouses to DW 2.0,
• understand the issues of data base design in different parts of the DW 2.0 environment,
• understand the issues of building a data warehouse on a fluid foundation that can be changed as business requirements change.