Australasian Enterprise Architecture (EA) Summer School was organised at the DigiSAS Lab, School of Computer Science, University of Technology Sydney on 15-16 February 2021. This provided a neutral forum to academia, industry and government for discussing digital strategy, enterprise architecture and solutions.
Day 1
A/Professor Asif Gill and Professor Paul Kennedy welcomed participants to DigiSAS Lab, School of Computer Science, UTS. Dr. Christine Stephenson chaired and facilitated Day 1 activities.
Michelle Graham, Assistant Secretary, Digital Strategy and Architecture, Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) delivered the Day 1 opening keynote on leading digital transformations and government architecture ecosystem. Keynote highlighted the importance of considering Digital as a Capability.
Gayan Benedict, CIO, Reserve Bank of Australia discussed digital skills in the context of digital economy in his keynote. Keynote highlighted how to identify, incubate and deploy, embed and retrain digital skills in a systematic manner.
Dr. Terry Roach, Founder and CEO, Capsifi, discussed a knowledge engineering approach and platform for modelling digital business transformation architecture and journey.
James McPhillips and Fran Mether, Principal Consultants, Evolve and Amplify, discussed CX architecture, required skills and new role of the Customer eXperience architect.
Dr. Christine Stephenson, Principal, Penrod, discussed an integrated agile approach for delivering and governing transformational changes from strategy to execution and change enablement.
Glenn Cogar, Senior Enterprise Information Architect, discussed the data and information strategy, governance and architecture at the strategic level including the core underlying components: data models, role based access, definitions, metadata, business rules, ‘ity’ characteristics, patterns, principles and standards.
Andrew Smailes, Director, Raedan AI, discussed the core data competencies, application-driven data mindset challenges, data-centric architecture based on consistent semantics opportunities and immediate use cases for making all data actionable.
Dr. Brad McCusker, CEO, Surround Australia, discussed the dimensions of complexity in the context of semantic data modelling, AI/ML and future opportunities in near real-time metadata and data stream enhancement to leverage aggregated knowledge graphs. Simon Opper also provided the live demo.
Chris Hillman, CEO, Parametric Systems, discussed the parameter driven approach to creating small software programs for handling data.
Day 2
A/Professor Asif Gill welcomed participants to DigiSAS Lab, School of Computer Science, UTS. Tyson Fawcett chaired and facilitated Day 2 activities.
Mick Mioduszewski, Director Analytics, NSW Department of FSI – Revenue NSW, delivered Day 2 opening keynote on digital and data. Keynote highlighted the integrated views of SOR/SOE and Information Management environments for Prescriptive, Predictive, Diagnostic and Descriptive Analytics.
Sarv Girn, Senior CIO and CDO, Cuscal, discussed business transformations in his keynote. Keynote highlighted five transformation success factors: The Why, Mobilisation, Partnership, Talent and Delivery including leadership.
Rob Livingstone, Business Resilience Manager, Healthdirect Australia, discussed the risks and resilience for digital enterprises. In particular, he discussed the Healthdirect Australia’s COVID-19 services journey, Adaptive Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) frameworks and relevant insights.
Dr. Fawad Nazir, CTO Banking and Financial Services, Telstra, Business Resilience Manager, Healthdirect Australia, discussed 5G and edge computing for architecting distributed Clouds. This is to support the current and future needs of analytics at edge, application enhancement and resiliency, and hyper context aware personalisation.
Tony Fitzgibbon, CEO, Data Zoo, discussed the seamless and secure digital identity verification across the globe. This is an important work to facilitate the success of Australian government and private sector digital identity initiatives for digital economy.
Ejaz Rahman, Principal Security Architect, Reserve Bank of Australia, presented their approach to digital enterprise security strategy and architecture. A systematic 4-stage approach was discussed: (1) Understand the context, (2) Formulate the strategy, (3) Plan delivery and execution, and (4) Measure, optimise and communicate outcomes.
Alan Hsiao, MD, Cognitivo, discussed putting a lean digital innovation in practice. He shared a practical digital framework for digital strategy, domain architecture, operating model and its implementation. In particular, he highlighted the need for customer journey and value chain alignment.
A/Professor Asif Gill, Memoona Anwar and Nujud Alsufyani, UTS DigiSAS Lab, presented their recent innovative approaches and frameworks from their recent projects. It included: adaptive enterprise architecture for digital ecosystems, digital identity verification reference architecture, and digital maturity and performance assessment.
Day 2 was concluded with a panel discussion involving panel members Dr. Christine Stephenson (Penrod), Dr. Seyran Dehbokry (Telstra), Sarv Girn (Cuscal) and Andrew Blades (The Bridge Search). This was facilitated by Tyson Fawcett. Panel members shared their expertise around business architecture, architecture capability, leading transformations and skills in the current context of digitisation and beyond.
Finally, A/Professor Asif Gill made the closing remarks and thanked the research partners, sponsors, speakers and attendees.