The vzw* BAEA (Belgian Association of Enterprise Architects) is a (legal) fact: we signed the bylaws document on Thursday. We hope to have it officialized very soon.

The nine people who signed the bylaws document of the vzw BAEA. Back row - left to right: Bart, Kristof, Jacques, Marc and Peter. Front row, left to right: Philippe, Inge, Ingrid and Patrick.

*vzw: non-profit organisation according to Belgian law.

Dear EA professional,

With spring coming up, it is time to present you the next Architect Café on Thursday 10th of May.

Ever wondered how EA can contribute to innovation? Also, how to bring innovation to existing EA practices? Or do you rather think of EA and innovation as a contradiction in itself?

Come and find out by participating in our interesting and fun workshop!

Deloitte Belgium has run for several years now “Innovation Weeks” for several clients. Our Deloitte innovation services assist and advise clients on their innovation journey, from ideation to implementation to assessment. The facilitators will bring these concepts now to EA.

This highly interactive session will be facilitated by 4 Deloitte EA practitioners: Philip Van Langenhove, Koert Declercq, Michel Dirkx and Thomas Olyslaegers.

AE will be the host of this Architect Café.

The Architect Café will be held in the AE offices in Haasrode. Doors are open as from 17h30 and the presentations will be held from 18h to 20h00 (with networking event after the presentations). If you would like to register, please click here.

We are always looking for interesting presentations, valuable case studies and possible hosting locations. Should you have any suggestions, please let us know.

BiZZdesign ArchiMate 2 EA Café Belgium 120322

ArchiMate® is the open standard modeling language for Enterprise Architecture, maintained by The Open Group. In this presentation, we explain the basics of the new 2.0 version of the ArchiMate language, including the two extensions (Motivation & Implementation and migration) that are part of the ArchiMate 2.0 standard.

In the presentation, we also show how it fully complements the TOGAF® method for EA development. Based on snapshots from case experiences from different companies, we illustrate the use and advantages of ArchiMate.

Intended audience: Enterprise architects, business architects, IT architects, (IT) managers, CIO’s, as well as everyone interested in TOGAF, ArchiMate and enterprise architecture

Key Takeaways

• Get a full introduction to the ArchiMate EA modeling language
• See how ArchiMate is fully aligned to TOGAF
• Understand snapshot examples of ArchiMate from daily practice

Speaker Biography

Dr. Harmen van den Berg is a director and co-founder of BiZZdesign. BiZZdesign offers complete and integrated solutions (tools, methods, consultancy and training) to design and improve organizations, from enterprise architecture to process management.

Harmen van den Berg studied mathematics at the Utrecht University, and did his PhD at Twente University. He was an assistent professor at Twente University, and scientific researcher at Telematica Instituut. At BiZZdesign, Harmen developed methods and techniques for business process engineering and enterprise architecture, and applied these as consultant at various organizations. Harmen is now responsible for Enterprise Architecture and training development. He has authored several publications on EA and BPM, and is chair of the Dutch ArchiMate Usage working group. He is ArchiMate-certified, and trainer of TOGAF and ArchiMate courses. Harmen is a speaker at many EA-conferences, like LAC, EAC, EAM, and The Open Group.

Practical

Date: March 22nd, 2012 Starts at 18h (doors open & networking from 17h30) Networking event from 19h30 onwards Place: Deloitte Berkenlaan 8A 1831 Diegem	You can also register by sending an email to:inge.lauwers@loqutus.com

please find the survey about our 13th EA cafe here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/RQXJTY6

Take a minute or two to fill in this survey: it helps us to adapt our future events to your needs and wishes. Thanks.

Dear EA professional,

We would like to invite you for our next Architect Café on November 30th. The following topic is covered: Cloud Computing will change the way we work with Enterprise Architecture.

Cloud Computing is one of the IT trends that has a huge impact on the IT industry. In his lecture Martin van den Berg will discuss the impact of Cloud Computing on Enterprise Architecture. He will answer the following questions:

• Is there more need for enterprise architecture if you would purchase services from the cloud?
• Will cloud computing lead to other kind of architectures?
• Will cloud computing lead to a different way we work with architecture?

Martin van den Berg is Architecture Service Line Manager at Sogeti Nederland B.V. and an expert in the area of Enterprise Architecture. He worked as lead architect in organizations like ABN AMRO, ING, Rabobank and Shell. Martin is one of the founders of DYA (Dynamic Architecture) and author of the books “Dynamic Enterprise Architecture, How to make it work”, “Building an Enterprise Architecture Practice”, “SOA for Profit” and “Seize the Cloud”.

Avertim will be the host of this Architect Café.

The Architect Café will be held in the Avertim offices in Brussels. Doors are open as from 17h30 and the presentations will be held from 18h to 20h00 (with networking event after the presentations). If you would like to register, please click here.

We are always looking for interesting presentations, valuable case studies and possible hosting locations. Should you have any suggestions, please let us know.

We are looking forward to meeting you in November!

Best regards,

The Belgian Chapter of a|EA

Proud sponsor of this event: Avertim

Update: the presentations can be found here:

Presentation Cloudsourcing with Architecture – Martin van den Berg

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