Large Practice

CAF QUARTERLY FINAL FINAL APRIL 2025

CAF Quarterly Meeting

I would like to invite you to the next CAF Quarterly Event, which will take place on April 4th at 16:00 CET.

Join us on 4th April at 16:00 CET for the CAF Quarterly Event organized by Lisa and Kacy. This event will focus on Sustainability in Action for IT, bringing together experts to discuss how IT can contribute to a more sustainable future.

Agenda:

🔹 Sustainable Architectures Overview

  • Facilitator: Lisa (15 min)

🔹 Speaker 1:

  • Gunnar Menzel, Master Architect at CapGemini (25 min + 5 min Q&A)

🔹 Panel: Sustainability in Action

  • Facilitator: Kacy
  • Speakers:
    • Wayne Filin-Matthews, Distinguished Chief Architect at AstraZeneca
    • James Hall, Head of GreenOps at Greenpixie
    • Katia Chaban, Global Head of the IT Sustainability Center of Expertise at NTT Data   (40 min)

🔹 Speaker 2:

  • Jody Elliott, National Grid (25 min + 5 min Q&A)

🔹 Wrap-Up & Upcoming Events

  • Facilitators: Lisa/Kacy

This is a great opportunity to learn from industry leaders and engage in meaningful discussions around sustainability in IT.

Emerging Practice

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CAF Emerging Quarterly Meeting

We’re excited to invite you to the next CAF Emerging Quarterly Event.

Stay tuned—our lineup of speakers will be announced soon! 📢

Looking forward to insightful discussions and great connections

Chief Architects Apply to Join Us!

Past Events

Recordings available to members

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April 2023

Date: Friday April 14th event at 9am CDT (2pm BST, 3pm CEST).

Agenda:
Jonas Denzel, JĂĽrgen Jung at Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences
* Enterprise Architecture Management Benefits: A Literature Analysis From and Beyond the Ivory Tower – Paper: https://lnkd.in/ggprCyhe

Pamela J. Wise-Martinez at Whirlpool Corporation
* Composable architecture and engineering alignment

Praveen Moturu at Mars
* Ecosystems

Grant Ecker at Danaher Corporation, Geeta Pyne at Intuit, Brian Letort at Digital Realty & Paul Preiss at Iasa Global (our CAF leadership Committee)
* Cross Company CA Collaboration workstreams for our aligned priorities

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July 2023

Randy Potter, Capgemini
Enterprise Observability and Digital Twins

Uli Homann, Microsoft
AI @ Microsoft

Grant Ecker Geeta Pyne, Brian Letort, Brian Chambers & Paul Preiss, Chief Architect Forum Board
CAF Collaboration Sub-Groups*, IASATeams Feedback, LinkedIn Social Progress

CloseIdeas for next quarter

 

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Jan 2023

Agenda: Edge computing, Streamlining Governance and welcome new leaders!
Speakers: Brian Chambers at Chik Fil A TS Sundar at Walgreens Boots Alliance, Grant Ecker at Danaher & Paul Preiss at IASA

October 2022

October 2022

Agenda: Leading with EQ, Small and Medium Practice, B-ILT CAF Conference Prep
Speakers: Bryan MacDonald at The Digital Board, Grant Ecker at Danaher, Paul Preiss at IASA, Jacques Domenie at Trivium Packaging and Steven Hemmings at Tevva Hydrogen Electric Trucks

July CAF

July 2022

Agenda: Metaverse and immersive experiences
Speakers: Grant Ecker & Paul Preiss

Events April 2022

April 2022

Agenda: EA Org Structures – 30 mins
Speaker: Matthew Daniels, Lincoln Financial Group

Agenda: Survey Insights & Forum update – 30 mins
Speakers: Grant Ecker, Mike Fortuna & Paul Preiss

Agenda: Open discussion on our key topics
Ideas for next quarter – 10 mins
Speakers: Grant Ecker, Mike Fortuna & Paul Preiss

Agenda: IASA Update – 10 mins
Speakers: Paul Preiss, IASA

January Events 2022

January 2022

Agenda: Architecture Foundations and Practices leveraging the BTABoK & Discussion
Speakers: Paul Preiss, IASA
Agenda: Influence of Minimum Viable Product (MVP) in Enterprise Architecture Decisions
Speakers: Sankar Ramakrishnan, Xtrident
Agenda: Business architecture, strategy
Speakers: Whynde Kuehn, S2E
Agenda: Composable platform architecture to boost reuse by Product Teams
Speakers: Arvy Rajasekaran, Ally
Agenda: Chief Architect Forum Evolution
Agenda: Open discussion on our key topics
Speakers: Grant Ecker, WBA
October 2021

October 2021

Agenda: Innovation and Leadership
Speakers: Mike Fortuna, Trane
Agenda: Enterprise Cloud
Speakers: Kiril Topalov, Kimberly Clark
Agenda: Mastering the Cloud
Speakers: Ulrich Homann, Microsoft
Agenda: Inaugural Event