Member Events Calendar

• February 13-16- Cloud Connect- Santa Clara, CA

Cloud Connect is the defining event of the year for anyone looking to set their strategy on the Cloud, and it's taking place in Santa Clara this February 13-16, 2012.

Cloud Connect is the leading conference and expo for enterprise IT managers and cloud providers to meet, set their cloud roadmap and explore the latest technologies, platforms and opportunities in the cloud. Come to this premier event to learn from thought leaders and top computing technology companies. Register with priority code CPMWCC16 to save 25% off the onsite price of passes or for a free expo pass.

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• February 16- Cloud/ Gov 2012- Washington, DC

Cloud/GOV 2012 is a collaboration between Deltek (formerly INPUT), the authority on government business, and the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), the nation's leading authority on Cloud Computing. Now in its sixth year, Cloud/GOV attendees will leave with key information, strategies and connections for selling SaaS and Cloud applications to the government.

Register now with promo code PRMOMG to save $50 and join an audience of government IT purchasers (Federal, State and Local), ISVs, system integrators, and other influencers at the 6th annual industry conference addressing the government's implementation of SaaS and Cloud Computing.

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• February 20-21-  Building and Using a Business Process Architecture- London

This seminar provides a comprehensive examination of Enterprise-level Business Process Architectures and their Alignment with other enterprise capabilities. It will deal with all the complexities of Business Process Management (BPM) at the strategic level of organizations. It emphasises the management of business processes as assets of the enterprise and focuses on the critical role that processes play in connecting the strategic objectives of the organization with its resources and with what people do every day.

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand what's new in strategic level BPM practices
2. Be able to apply enterprise-wide architecture and process-level techniques that are aligned
3. Be able to set up an internal pragmatic BPM Centre of Expertise that supports the models produced
4. Learn how to sell the enterprise process value proposition and gain cross-organization acceptance
5. Be able to develop a process architecture that is the foundation for planning, budgeting, organization design, compliance, change management, SOA and the introduction of breakthrough BPMS technologies
6. Be able to use the architecture to accelerate process change projects and model development
7. See how to institute day-today process asset management and governance frameworks for continued progress

For more information click here 

• February 20-22- Mastering the Requirements Process- 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:

1. Determine your client's needs-exactly
2. Write requirements that are complete, traceable, and testable
3. Precisely define the scope of the project
4. Discover all the stakeholders-and keep them involved
5. Use up-to-date techniques such as storyboarding and e-collaboration
6. Get the requirements quickly, and incrementally

For more information click here

• February 23-24- Working with Business Processes: Discovery, Mapping, Redesign and Requirements- London 

Business processes matter, because business processes are how value is delivered. Understanding how to work with business processes is now a core skill for business analysts, process and application architects, functional area managers, and even corporate executives. But too often, material on the topic either floats around in generalities and familiar case studies, or descends rapidly into technical details and incomprehensible models. This workshop shows how to discover and scope a business process, clarify its context, model its workflow with progressive detail, assess it, design a new process, and make the transition to other types of requirements. Everything is backed up with real-world examples, and clear, repeatable guidelines.

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify a "true" business process, and specify its boundaries and goals
2. Describe the key factors that differentiate process and functional approaches
3. Employ a variety of techniques to keep stakeholders involved, and promote "process orientation"
4. Establish the scope, issues, and goals for a business process
5. Model process workflow at progressive levels of detail using Swimlane Diagrams
6. Stop process modeling at the appropriate point, and move on to other techniques or phases
7. Conduct a structured assessment of a business process with respect to its environment
8. Design a new process while avoiding common (and serious!) pitfalls
9.  Smoothly make the transition to the specification of IT and other types of requirements

For more information click here 

• February 27-28- Gartner CIO Leadership Summit- Dubai

Amplifying the Enterprise: Leading World Class IT at the Next Level: The Gartner CIO Leadership Forum is designed for intensive C-level peer-to-peer exchange and collaborative problem-solving - all guided by the expertise of the Gartner analyst team. It will deliver the insight you need for the future, and actionable ideas you can use today. 

Register with code GPCIOME1 and receive $400 off!

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• February 27- 29- Zachman Enterprise Architecture: Foundation for Certification- London 

This new and revised three day seminar, presented by John Zachman himself, will enable delegates to build an understanding of the concepts of Enterprise Architecture and develop a sense of urgency for implementing those concepts in a modern enterprise. It also serves as the foundation for the Zachman Certification Program. Upon completion of this 3 day seminar and passing the ICCP Zachman Framework Enterprise Architecture Test, which is taken at the end of the 3rd day of the seminar, the participant will receive the eZachman Certification (the Education Zachman Certification).

Learning Objectives:

1. A sense of urgency for aggressively pursuing Enterprise Architecture
2. A comprehensive definition (description) of Enterprise Architecture
3. A "language" (that is, a Framework) for improving enterprise communications about architecture issues
4. An understanding of basic Enterprise "physics" - laws of nature that govern Enterprise implementations
5. Differentiation of Enterprise Architecture from Systems Implementation
6. A strategy for reducing "time-to-market" for systems implementations to virtually zero
7. Some pragmatic approaches for implementing Enterprise-wide strategies
8. Strategy for integration beyond jurisdiction (Interoperability)
9. Architectural Principles for meeting enterprise requirements
10. A strategy for migrating out of the existing legacy environment into an Enterprise Architected environment

For more information click here 

• March 1-2- Defining and Executing Your Information Strategy- London

Information is becoming a cornerstone of many organisations. It has become a corporate asset. The business needs to take the lead and recognise the value of information and develop an information strategy. During this two day seminar you will learn how you can turn your organisation around and make it more information centric.
Learning Objectives:

1. Learn how to engage your business and have them take the lead and recognise the value of information.
2. Learn how to adapt the organisation to make information centric
3. Learn how to establish an information governance organisation
4. Learn how to manage speech communities and business vocabularies
5. Learn how to align your IT with your information strategy
6. Get more value out of your MDM projects
7. Select the proper Enterprise Information platform to support your information strategy

For more information click here

• March 6-7- Gartner CIO Leadership Forum- London

Amplifying with Technology: Customer Experience, Operational Efficiency, Strategic Leadership: The Gartner CIO Leadership Forum  is designed for intensive C-level peer-to-peer exchange and collaborative problem-solving - all guided by the expertise of the Gartner analyst team. It will deliver the insight you need for the future, and actionable ideas you can use today. 

Register with code GPCIO1 and get  €400 off!

For more information click  here 

• March 6-7- Data Modelling Fundamentals- 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:

1. Data modelling concepts and terminology
2. How to read a data model
3. Steps to building a subject area model
4. Logical data modelling techniques of normalization, abstraction, and dimensionality
5. Physical data modelling techniques of denormalization, partitioning, views, and indexing

For more information click here 

• March 8-9- Data Modelling Masterclass- 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:

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

For more information click here

• March 12-14- Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit 2012- Orlando, FL

Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit delivers the tools and insights needed to tap into unprecedented PCC opportunities. Disruptive trends such as mobile, social and context, are yielding an array of business-critical imperatives: Deliver secure access across a widening range of devices. Mine and leverage nontraditional content. Use social software to drive efficiency and innovation. Exploit context-aware computing. Twenty-four Gartner analysts will provide the insights and recommendations you need for 2012 and beyond.

Register with priority code GARTOMG12 and receive a special $300 discount.

For more information and to register click here

• March 12-14- Understanding Enterprise Architecture- London 

This workshop will give you an overall understanding of what enterprise architecture is, how programs are structured, the roles, responsibilities and skills of an enterprise architect, what enterprise architecture looks like, how to create architecture, how to apply it, and how to deliver value to your organization through EA. Topics will include EA principles and practices, EA domains of business, information, application, and technology architecture, and the architectural skills and thinking needed to be an enterprise architect. In this workshop, delegates will:

1. Get an overview of the principles, practices and structure of enterprise architecture
2. Understand the concepts, models and vocabularies of different architectural roles
3. Gain familiarity with the most common EA frameworks and methods
4. Learn architectural principles and skills that can immediately be applied to your current role
5. Understand the issues and techniques of business and information architecture
6. Understand application architectural styles, patterns, reference architectures and methodologies
7. Understand technology architecture and its relation to enabling applications and business

For more information click here 

• March 14-15- Gartner Business Process Management Summit 2012- London, UK 

People, Politics, Process: Breaking Down the Barriers to Enterprise Success

For those new to BPM, the Summit will help you to take the first steps, establish the skills required, and identify the right technologies. For those who are more experienced, the Summit will provide visibility into the future, identify the next generation of BPM and help you leverage new approaches such as Social BPM, Pace Layering and Intelligent Business Operations.

Key topics:

1. Dealing with Politics and Silos
2. Organizational Change Management
3. BPM and Mobile
4. Cloud Impact on BPM
5. Intelligent Business Operations

OMG members can use code: MPBPME1 when registering and receive €300 on the standard conference rate. Register here.  For more information click here.

• March 15-16- Cloud Computing for Architects- London 

Cloud Computing presents a variety of operational and deployment models that can help enterprises reduce infrastructure costs, provide better customer value, and position themselves for the future. But organizations won't succeed with the Cloud unless they understand the strengths and weaknesses of Cloud Computing and have a carefully planned architectural approach that positions Cloud-based capabilities in the context of existing IT assets and challenges. In this workshop, delegates will get:

1. A clear, vendor-independent understanding of Cloud Computing.
2. A well-delineated conception of the strengths and weaknesses of Cloud's three service models: Software-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service, and Infrastructure-as-a-Service, as well as Cloud's four deployment models: public, private, community, and hybrid.
3. The tools and expertise necessary to put together a Cloud roadmap and migration plan for their organizations.
4. An understanding of how to place the Cloud into the context of their current Enterprise Architecture.
5. Practical intelligence and advice on securing the Cloud and putting together a robust Cloud governance framework

For more information click here 

• March 26-27- Business Rules and Decision Analysis Masterclass- London 

This hands-on workshop gives you the essential tools you need to achieve order-of-magnitude improvements in your company's capacity to manage decisions. The result is simpler, smarter process models and a huge boost in business agility. Learn applied techniques from the recognized world leader in the field, Ronald Ross.

Delegates will learn:

1. Conduct smarter, more effective business analysis
2.  Identify and analyze decisions in business processes
3. Capture business rules
4. Write clear, business-friendly rule statements
5. Create robust decision tables
6. Identify anomalies in decision logic and correct them early
7. Perform concept analysis and develop a structured business vocabulary
8. Develop a pragmatic rule management approach

For more information click here 

• March 28-30- Code Generation Conference- UK

The Code Generation conference is recognised as the leading event on Model-Driven Development, Domain-Specific Languages and Language Workbenches. The conference attracts an international audience of speakers, sponsors and participants from Europe, the Americas, Asia and Australasia. Participants come from organisations operating in a wide variety of industries and have a varying level of experience of Model-Driven Software Development from beginner to expert, but all share a passion for learning more about the tools, technologies, processes and practices that will make their organisations successful with these approaches.

OMG member companies are eligible for a 10% discount on participation in this year's Code Generation conference, taking place in Cambridge UK from March 28th-30th. Please add the discount code when booking OMG-CG2012

For more information go here 

• March 29-30- Successfully Aligning Business and IT- London

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.

Delegates will learn:

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

For more information click here 

• April 2-4- Gartner Business Intelligence Summit- Los Angeles, CA

The Gartner Business Intelligence Summit is the premier business analytics event that provides the must-have insights, frameworks and best practices for maximizing the business impact of information management and business analytics initiatives. The summit delivers insight on the latest hot topics, such as effective BI strategy, cloud and SaaS options for analytics, big data, predictive and prescriptive analytics, dashboard design, and more.

OMG members can save $300 off the standard registration rate using priority code GARTOMG12.

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• April 23-25- Data Governance Conference Europe 2012 and Master Data Management Summit Europe 2012- London 

This is Europe's only co-located conferences on MDM and Data Governance and are neither analyst led nor vendor led.

1. Learn from over 60 world renowned independent speakers and major users of MDM and Data Governance.
2. Understand the successes and challenges behind real-world MDM and Data Governance implementations, including Rolls-Royce, International Finance Corporation - World Bank, GlaxoSmithKline, Shell, ING Bank, British American Tobacco, Transport for London, TNT Express, Standard Life Assurance, Royal Mail, Bank of America, Volvo IT, Forrester, BBC Worldwide, Statoil, DNB ASA, UCB Pharma SA, United Healthcare Insurance, Arqiva, Premier Farnell, GDF Suez, CPP Group, Capgemini, West Midlands Police, KPN Corporate Market, Accenture, MTN South Africa, Flemish Government, Swedbank, LDS Church, IBM, Travis Perkins, PostNord, O'Neill, Printemps
3. Discuss your MDM and Data Governance challenges with the world's leading solution providers
4. Get up to speed with Data Governance and MDM essentials with our ten "fast track" pre-conference tutorials
5. The depth and breadth of this event means that delegates can choose their sessions from an excellent mix of theory, visions and practical implementations and network with an outstanding group of MDM and Data Governance professionals
6. Train your entire team by taking advantage of our Group Booking Discount:
7. 2-3 delegates - 10% 4-5 delegates- 20% 6+ delegates - 25%

This is a Must Attend Event for all MDM and Data Governance Professionals.

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• April 30- May 30 Department of Enterprise Architecture conference- Miami, FL

The conference provides an opportunity for attendees to learn about the DoD CIO Campaign Plan and the efforts of military Service and Combatant Commands to use architecture as an enabler for better decision making, improved operational effectiveness, increased efficiencies and interactions with all mission partners.

OMG members are eligible for the AFEI member rate. Email blauer@afei.org for information and rates.

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• May 3-4- Forrester's Enterprise Architecture Forum 2012- Las Vegas 

Enterprise Architecture (EA) programs struggle with business engagement, and executing on an approach that makes EA business-relevant. This Forum will show you how to infuse enterprise architecture into your business agility while streamlining costs and complexity.

Register for one forum and receive complimentary access to the other collocated event (Forrester's CIO Forum 2012).
Save $200 with OMG's exclusive discount codes: EA12OMG.

For more information please click here 

• May 3-4- Forrester's CIO Forum 2012- Las Vegas

CIOs today are tasked with both providing the technology and jointly owning the success and failure of business initiatives. Collaboration with business is not enough. This Event will tackle everything you need to be not just a technology manager but a business manager, and ultimately shape the future business vision.

Register for one forum and receive complimentary access to the other collocated event (Forrester's Enterprise Architecture Forum 2012). 
Save $200 with OMG's exclusive discount codes: CIO12OMG.

For more information please click here 

• May 21- Semantic Technology: Understanding the technology that is reshaping- London

Semantic Technologies are literally changing the way we think about our information systems. Most large progressive companies have semantic initiatives underway, and many more soon will have. This course will show you how to get underway with your semantic initiatives. By the end of this course, you will:

1. Understand and be able to articulate the differences between semantic and traditional technologies.
2. Recognize opportunities where semantic technology could be applied to great advantage.
3. Be able to develop and edit a simple ontology, and infer new information from existing information.
4. Appreciate the role of enterprise and upper ontologies in rationalizing the information ecosystem of your firm or industry.

For more information please click here 

• May 31- Data Virtualization for Agile Business Intelligence Systems- London

This one day seminar focuses on data virtualization when deployed in business intelligence systems. The advantages of data virtualization are explained; products are compared, application areas are discussed; and the relationship with related topics, such as MDM, data governance, and SOA are also discussed.

Learning Objectives:

1. How business intelligence systems could benefit from data virtualization
2. How to select the right business intelligence architecture
3. How to migrate to a more agile business intelligence system
4. How data virtualization products work
5. How to avoid well-known pitfalls
6. Learn from real-life experiences with data virtualization

For more inforamtion please click here

• May 21-23- Gartner PPM and IT Governance Summit- National Harbor, MD

The Gartner PPM & IT Governance Summit 2012 is the premier gathering of program and portfolio management executives focused on improving how organizations select, implement and manage IT initiatives and services. This year's summit delivers insight on the latest hot topics, such as IT program and portfolio governance, enterprise PPM issues beyond IT, organizational change management, agile project leadership, and PPM software and solutions.

OMG members can save $300 off the standard registration rate with priority code GARTOMG12.

For more information please click here

• June 3-7- Semantic Tech & Business Conference- San Francisco, CA

Semantic Tech & Business Conference (SemTechBiz) brings together today's industry thought leaders and practitioners to explore the challenges and opportunities jointly impacting both corporate business leaders and technologists. Packed with case studies and real-world perspectives, SemTechBiz offers five days of fresh insight and immersive learning from global experts in technology, Semantic Web, linked data, big data, financial services, insurance, healthcare, publishing, government, automotive and enterprise data.

Enter code OMG15 to recieve 15% off of a Gold Passport.

For more information please click here 

• June 11-14- 10th International Cloud Expo- New York City, NY

Globally, cloud computing is on course to become $120BN market. The surest way to get yourself and your company fully "Cloud-ready" is by attending Cloud Expo New York - at The Javits Convention Center In New York City.

Cloud Expo New York offers a vast selection of technical and strategic Breakout Sessions, General Sessions, Industry Keynotes, our signature discussion "Power Panels" and a bustling 4-day Expo floor complete with a busy Demo Theater so that delegates can you can kick the tires of solutions and offerings.

Join your Cloud peers in June at 10th International Cloud Expo in New York, co-located with the 13th Virtualization Conference & Expo. It is the largest Cloud Computing event in the world!

To receive 20% off your registration enter discount code: omgdiscount when registering here 

For more information click here 

• June 12-14- Info360- New York, NY

info360 is an annual 3-day conference, exposition and executive-level buyers' event focused on enterprise content and information management technologies. It's about helping enterprise IT buyers find better ways to communicate and collaborate, make the right information available to the right people when and where they need it and making enterprise technology easier to buy, deploy and more productive to use. Topics and solution providers address Social Business, Enterprise Collaboration, Mobile Business, ECM, Big Data & Analytics, Cloud Infrastructure, Enterprise Apps, Web Content Management, SharePoint, Data Capture and Compliance/Information Governance. Join us June 12-14 at the Javits Center and learn how to incorporate new technology into your business and generate new revenue from these rapidly-growing areas. 

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•  July 9-12- INCOSE 2012 International Symposium- Rome, Italy

The INCOSE 2012 International Symposium will offer nearly 1,000 of the world's leading systems engineers opportunities to interact at the same time they learn of the latest developments in tools, methodologies and approaches. There is particularly excitement about the disciplines represented, including transportation -- notably high-speed rail
-- along with national security issues (including a keynote from one of the world's foremost cyber security experts), issues around efficient energy design, as well as project management.

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• August 27-29- The 6th International Symposium on Rules: Research Based and Industry Focused- Montpellier, France

The International Symposium on Rules, RuleML, has evolved from an annual series of international workshops since 2002, international conferences in 2005 and 2006, and international symposia since 2007. This year the RuleML Symposium will be held in conjunction with ECAI 2012, the 20th biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, in Montpellier, France, August 27-29, 2012. RuleML 2012 will include the RuleML Challenge Prize which awards the best two demos.

Topics:
We invite high-quality submissions related to (but not limited to) one or more of the following topics:

1. Rules and Automated Reasoning
2. Logic Programming and Non-monotonic Reasoning
3. Int'l Conference track on Pragmatic Web
4. Rule-Based Policies, Reputation and Trust
5. Rule-based Event Processing and Reaction Rules
6. Fuzzy Rules and Uncertainty
7. Rule Transformation, Extraction and Learning
8. Vocabularies, Ontologies, and Business rules
9. Rules in online-market research and online marketing
10. Rule Markup Languages and Rule Interchange
11.  General Rule Topics

Important Dates:
Abstract submission: March 25, 2012
Paper submission: April 1, 2012
Notification of acceptance/rejection: May 20, 2012
Camera-ready copy due: June 10, 2012
RuleML-2012 dates: August 27-29, 2012

For more information please click here

• An Introduction to MODAF and DoDAF with UPDM
• SysML Webinar
• Enterprise Architectures Webinar
• Artisan Studio v7.0 - Artisan Software Tools
• Managing Requirements with SysML Webinar - Artisan Software Tools
• Using Architectural Framework to Define the Enterprise Webinar - Artisan Software Tools
• CMMI and Modeling Webinar - Artisan Software Tools
• C# Code Generation using Artisan Studio Webinar - Artisan Software Tools
• Using SysML to Decrease Project Risk Webinar- Artisan Software Tools
• 5 Principles of Success with MDD Webinar - Pegasystems & OMG

• Building A Business Process Management Roadmap - Lombardi Software
• Lombardi in Action - Sprint Case Study: Billing Disputes and Adjustments - Lombardi Software
• Lombardi Launches Blueprint - Starting BPM the Right Way - Lombardi Software
• Are You Ready for On-Demand BPM? - Lombardi Software
• Integrating BPM and Lean Six Sigma - Lombardi Software
• Making Sense of BPM - Lombardi Software
• Manage Your Processes Proactively With Better Visibility - Lombardi Software
• Adding BPM to the Strategic IT Portfolio Webinar - Lombardi Software