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Enterprise Architecture – Strategies That Enable Technology Trends: Chicago (Rosemont/O’Hare)

For businesses to adopt new technologies in a way that aligns with their business strategy, enterprise architecture (EA) is an absolute necessity.

March 5, 2026

9:00am-5:00pm

7 CPE / 0.7 CEU / CISSP / 7 PDU Credits Awarded

Conference location: Donald E. Stephens Convention Center Rosemont (O’Hare) Illinois

  

Overview

For businesses to adopt next generation technologies in a way that aligns with their business strategy, enterprise architecture (EA) is an absolute necessity.

What You Will Learn

In this one day conference, content that will be covered includes:

  • Enterprise Architecture in the Age of AI: Driving Measurable Business Value
  • Human-AI Collaboration: Reimagining EA Workflows with Generative Intelligence
  • Architecting for Zero-Trust & Privacy-Centric Systems
  • Data Strategy Beyond Silos: Unified Semantic Layers & Mesh-Fabric Synergy
  • EA in Practice: Real World Architecture Case Studies & Pitfalls
  • Shaping the Future of Enterprise Architecture: Leadership, Strategy & Innovation

CONFERENCE AGENDA

8:00am – 9:00am: Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00am – 10:00 am: The Next Wave: Proven EA Success Augmented by AI 

Dan Hebda, Enterprise Architecture Evangelist, MEGA International 

AI is no longer experimental in Enterprise Architecture; the impact is already visible, measurable, and repeatable. In this session, Dan Hebda will share observations of real success patterns shaping EA today and reveals the next wave of AI-powered disruption to show how leading teams are applying AI, augmentation, and MCP to improve decision quality, accelerate roadmaps, and strengthen business alignment.

You will gain insight into:

    • Proven success patterns used by high-performing EA teams to influence strategy and deliver measurable results
    • How to apply AI, augmentation, and MCP in practice to uncover hidden opportunities, accelerate insights, and improve decision-making
    • Translating EA insight into business impact by shifting your practice from operational support to strategic influence

         Hebda

 

10:00am – 10:30am: Refreshment Break

10:30am – 11:30am: Three AI Shifts That Will Redefine Enterprise Architecture in 2026

Michael Jedamski, Senior Solutions Engineer, Ardoq

AI is already reshaping Enterprise Architecture, but the next phase will be transformative. In 2026, AI will move from automating tasks to shaping how architectural insight is created, governed, and applied to real business decisions.

This session explores three critical shifts. Enterprise Architects will become curators of context, guiding AI to surface the right insights without overwhelming decision-makers. Architectural governance will evolve into continuous, AI-driven guardrails embedded directly into delivery, replacing episodic review cycles. And AI will act as a precocious apprentice, helping EA teams overcome capacity constraints by accelerating analysis, insight generation, and benefit realization.

You will leave with a clear view of what is changing, why it matters now, and how EA leaders can stay ahead as AI becomes a core part of the EA operating model.

     Jedamski

 

11:30am – 12:30pm: Architecting for Agility — Bridging Enterprise Architecture, Operations, and Business Value- Fireside Chat

Patrick Kinard, Head of Cloud & Infrastructure, Chicago Public Schools

Dan Horwich, Executive Director, CAMP IT Conferences

Enterprise Architecture isn’t just about diagrams and frameworks — it’s about creating a living, evolving structure that enables real business outcomes. Join Patrick Kinard as he shares his perspectives on how architecture connects strategy to operations, why it must evolve with digital trends like cloud and AI, and how to ensure Enterprise Architecture delivers measurable organizational value.

Participants will come away understanding how to break down the silos between strategy, infrastructure, and operations — and how to build an architecture practice that enables teams to move faster, safer, and with greater business impact.

 

     Kinard               Horwich

12:30pm – 1:30pm: Lunch and Exhibit Break

1:30pm – 2:30pm: Data Strategy Beyond Silos: Unified Semantic Layers & Mesh-Fabric Synergy

This session tackles advanced data architecture practices where semantic layers unify business context with decentralized domains, and mesh-fabric models balance governance with domain autonomy. Attendees will learn practical patterns to improve data discoverability, analytics quality, and cross-enterprise insights.

2:30pm – 3:00pm: Refreshment & Exhibit Break

3:00pm – 4:00pm: EA in Practice: Real World Architecture Case Studies & Pitfalls

A hands-on, lessons-learned session where senior architects share pragmatic experiences: aligning architecture with business outcomes, handling legacy modernization, managing technical debt, and driving cross-functional adoption of architectural standards and artifacts.

4:00pm– 5:00pm: Innovation Without Disruption: De-risking Complex IT Transformations

As organizations accelerate digital modernization, executives face a critical challenge: how to innovate rapidly without putting core operations at risk. This panel examines how enterprise architecture enables disciplined transformation—balancing speed, stability, and business value.

Panelists will share practical approaches for reducing risk in large-scale initiatives, including incremental modernization, aligning technology investments to business outcomes, and governing change without slowing momentum. The discussion will focus on executive decision-making, prioritization, and accountability in complex IT environments.

Attendees will gain clear insights into how leaders can drive transformation with confidence—delivering innovation while safeguarding the systems the business relies on.

Session Co-Leads:
Jacob Mansfield, Solutions Architect, LG CNS

Brian Rogan, Executive Sales & Digital Transformation Leader, LG CNS

 

Panelists will include:

  • Mykhaylo Bulyk, Senior Director IT Security, ATI Physical Therapy
  • Sugato Bose, Sr. Director Enterprise Architecture, Medline
  • Grant Ecker, Vice President, Enterprise Architecture, Ecolab
  • Brandon Eichmeier, Associate Director, Mergers, Divestitures & Acquisitions, Kraft Heinz
  • Praveen Moturu, Vice President, Enterprise Digital Platforms, Mars Inc
  • Additional Enterprise Architecture Executives sharing experiences and lessons learned

            

Mansfield                   Rogan                  Bose                Bulyk                        Ecker                       Eichmeier                  Moturu                     

Conference Price: $349.00 per person

Each attendee will receive a certificate awarding 7 CPE credits for CISSP continuing education, in addition to 0.7 CEUs and 7 PDUs. CISSP is a registered certification mark of (ISC)², Inc.

Exhibits

As is always the case at CAMP IT Conferences events, the talks will not include product presentations. During the continental breakfast, coffee breaks, and the luncheon break you will have the opportunity to informally meet representatives from the following sponsoring companies, who have solutions in the area of the conference.