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ABOUT THIS EVENT 

Business-centered EA practices can accelerate business agility while streamlining costs and complexity. Despite the potential impact of EA, EA programs continue to struggle. They struggle with business engagement with their integration into business and IT planning and governance, and with executing on an approach that makes EA business-relevant. Infusing enterprise architecture into your business is your goal — and infusing business into your EA program is the means to achieve it.

Forrester's Enterprise Architecture Forum 2012 will help you evolve toward this EA program and overcome the barriers of historical perceptions, process gaps, and cultural barriers that EA programs often face.

Tracks have been broken out into different types of sessions to best help you make business-focused, strategic, and pragmatic EA a reality.

Emerging Technology Insights. In these sessions, Forrester experts drill into emerging technology trends which you may not have heard of, but we believe these trends will be key components of your business technology roadmap.

Super-sessions. These sessions give attendees the opportunity to go deeper on a key need or opportunity and leave with the practical next steps for their organization. Each session will be highly interactive, featuring multiple analysts and attendee discussion.

KEY ISSUES THIS FORUM WILL ADDRESS 

• Boosting the business relevance of your enterprise architecture. EA leaders rate increasing the business focus and relevance of their program as their No. 1 challenge — knowing that this is a prerequisite for strategic influence. We'll describe how to build your architecture "from the business" and how to use this to drive greater engagement.
• Improving maturity and capacity. EA heads want to understand the maturity of their processes and deliverables, their staffing approach, and their place in the larger IT and business organization. We'll use Forrester's archetype-based maturity model to give you a 360-degree understanding.
• Integrating emerging technology. Business opportunities enabled by new technology are everywhere. But IT struggles with adoption and integration — too often creating silos of technology rather than strategic capabilities. We'll give you the best practices ranging from the initial "watch list" through to benefit realization.
• Connecting enterprise strategy to solution architecture. Business solution architecture is the most visible aspect of EA's value. But business solutions can just as easily become tactical, redundant point solutions. We'll provide you with the approach and practices to ensure the role is a vital extension of the larger EA program.

COLLOCATED EVENTS

Forrester's Enterprise Architecture Forum attendees receive complimentary access to Forrester's colocated CIO Forum. These Events are being held simultaneously to allow you to network with more business leaders, bring additional team members, and access valuable additional content relevant to your challenges and responsibilities.

NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES

Reception

Join us Thursday, May 3 from 5:00–6:15 p.m. to meet our sponsors and network with analysts, colleagues, and friends at a cocktail reception in the Solutions Showcase.

Forrester's Night Out In Vegas — The Bank

All Forum attendees are invited to join us on Thursday, May 3 from 6:30–9:30 p.m. at The Bank. Located within the Bellagio, The Bank is Las Vegas' premier nightlife destination. This private party will include beer and wine, music, and a buffet dinner. Special guest passes may be purchased by Forum attendees. Email events@forrester.com for more details.