During The Open Group Edinburgh Summit in April 2024, Steve Nunn, President and CEO, The Open Group, proudly announced the winners of the President’s Awards.
This included Marc Lankhorst for ‘Most Valuable Contributor for an Individual’ and RTX (accepted by Rolf Siegers) for ‘Most Valuable Contribution as an Organization’.
Marc Lankhorst is managing consultant and chief technology evangelist at Bizzdesign. He contributes to Bizzdesign’s vision, market development, consulting, and coaching on digital business design and Enterprise Architecture, and for spreading the word on the ArchiMate® Language for Enterprise Architecture modeling, The Open Group standard of which he has managed the development.
RTX, the world’s largest aerospace and defense company, has been a key contributing member of The Open Group for over twenty years. Their participation started in the Architecture Forum, and extended to the Real-Time Embedded Systems Forum, Business Architecture Work Group, IT4IT™ Forum, Experience-based Professional Architect Certification program, Governing Board (Customer Representative), FACE® Consortium, and SOSA™ Consortium.
Recognize your Organization at the 2024 Enterprise Architecture Awards
We encourage all companies that have achieved success in outcome-driven EA practices to participate in the Enterprise Architecture Awards. We are looking forward to seeing the leading-edge cases that showcase the very best EA practices.
Click below to find out more information. Nominations are now open for the highly anticipated Forrester Enterprise Architecture (EA) Awards. Please stay tuned for info on the finalists. Award recipients will be announced at:
Technology & Innovation Summit APAC - Forrester(October 29, 2024)
Ecosystems Architecture & AI Standards, Edinburgh,
The recent Summit of The Open Group in Edinburgh featured a vast variety of leading subject matter experts, keynote speakers, Forum Members, Work Groups, and Consortia, who came together to start a conversation involving the following themes: Ecosystems Architecture & AI Standards, Sustainability / Enterprise Architecture / Digital Transformation, and much more. There were over 425 attendees from 30 countries.
Discover the Future: gain insights into cutting-edge EA strategies, such as Ecosystems Architecture, that will drive innovation and transform businesses.
AI Unleashed: learn from industry experts, and understand how AI is impacting the work of Enterprise Architects and how the development of industry standards for AI will be critical to the effective implementation and control of this technology.
Sustainable Tomorrow: explore the pivotal role of Sustainability in today's business landscape. Discover how companies are integrating sustainability practices and creating a positive impact on the environment.
You can reach the event agenda and the presentations when you login using The Open Group username and password.
◇The Open Group Summit, Edinburgh, UK
April 22-25, 2024
◇The Open Group January Virtual Event
January 29-31, 2024
July 31 (WED) 2024 -- August 2 (FRI) 2024<WebEx>
Certification Exam: August 23 (FRI) 2024 or August 24 (SAT) 2024
*Exam Center:Shinjukugyoen YAMADA Bldg. 8F Conference Room(ASAHI KOHSAN CORPORATION)
September 18(WED)2024 -- September 20(FRI)2024<WebEx>
Certification Exam: September 26(THU)2024 or September 27(FRI)2024
*Exam center:Shinjukugyoen YAMADA Bldg. 8F Conference Room(ASAHI KOHSAN CORPORATION)
Due to Covid-19, we have been conducting our Forum online since December 2019, but we held the in-person forum at Tokyo American Club in May 18th 2023 for the first time in almost 4 years.
Mr. Steve Nunn, President & CEO of The Open Group, visited Japan for the first time in 4 years, since April 2019. Mr. Steve Nunn said, "It is a great pleasure to be back in Japan and to be reunited with the people of Japan." and gave a presentation on The Open Group's activities. It was fantastic to hold [Open Summit 2023]-[GIS FORUM TOKYO 128] the in-person Forum Event.
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