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IASA Worldwide Summit 2013 - IWS 2013 From September 11th to 13th in the city of Cartagena, Colombia, the IASA Worldwide Summit 2013 (IWS 2013) event will take place, organized by the University of the Andes and IASA. IWS 2013 is the most important event in terms of Enterprise Architecture worldwide. This year, and thanks to the effort from the Systems Enginnering Department from University of the Andes and IASA's Colombia chapter, Colombia will be the hosting country for the event. Enterprise Architecture can be seen as the discipline that seeks to maximize the usage of IT as an enabler of the bussiness vision and objectives of any organization. In fact, the main subject for IWS 2013 will be the importance of Enterprise Architecture as a competitive tool in the modern markets. The IASA Worldwide Summit 2013 will be the setting for the development of three main events: Architecture Tutorial with John Zachman (Wednesday, September 11th): This seminar is about the physics of the organization and the comprehension of itself in light of a methodology in such a way that it could be used by managers as a tool for differentiation and market positioning. IV Enterprise Architecture International Forum (Septmember 12th and 13th): It's a space for discussion and opinion which will count with the participation of the main experts from different types of industries worldwide in Enterprise Architecture related subjects, who will illustrate the subject based on success stories and panels in which the attendees will be able to exchange opinions directly with the special guests. |
1st National IT Architecture Contest: This event aims to create a space to acknowledge the work of the IT Architects from Colombia, as well as most important projects related to Enterprise Architecture and Solution Architecture. Projects that have finished over the last five years, either in a private or public sector level, will be taken into account. The following aspects of the project will be considered: Size of the project, strategic importance of the project within the organization, challenges the architecture team had to face, methodological and technical quality of the proposed solutions and the real world impact obtained by the organization in a business level. IWS 2013 will gather a select group of architects worldwide with different business profiles and a vast amount of experience. Between the main guests the event will feature John Zachman, originator and pioneer of one of the most renowned Enterprise Architecture methodologies, with around 35 years of work on the subject. Additionally, we will have architects and experts from organizations such as Costco, AstraZeneca, Lifeware, ATAM, IBM, Microsoft and Oracle. We will also have experts in investigation and consulting from Universidad de los Andes, the University of London and Carnegie Mellon. Without a doubt, IWS 2013 will be the most important technology event in Colombia, not only because of the level of its guests, but because of the presence of the main national players (the government, academic organizations, worldwide organizations and the industry sector): the IT and Communications Ministry, Universidad de los Andes, the Colombian Chamber for Informatics and Telecommunications (CCIT), IASA (An Association for all IT Architects), the Foreign Commerce Ministry, the Productive Transformation Program, FedeSoft, the Commerce Chamber's TI Cluster and various engineering associations. |