ITARC 2020
A conference for IT architects
The Future of Architecture
For the thirteenth year in a row, on October 19-20 2020, we will host Sweden’s biggest conference for IT architects – ITARC. This year’s theme is The Future of Architecture. Whilst we have been talking about digitalization and disruption for many years, we rarely stop to think about how the role of the architect will …
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Keynote
Dave Snowden divides his time between two roles: founder Chief Scientific Officer of Cognitive Edge and the founder and Director of the Centre for Applied Complexity at the University of Wales. His work is international in nature and covers government and industry looking at complex issues relating to strategy, organisational decision making and decision making. He has pioneered a science based approach to organisations drawing on anthropology, neuroscience and complex adaptive systems theory. He is a popular and passionate keynote speaker on a range of subjects, and is well known for his pragmatic cynicism and iconoclastic style.
Keynote
Dave Snowden divides his time between two roles: founder Chief Scientific Officer of Cognitive Edge and the founder and Director of the Centre for Applied Complexity at the University of Wales. His work is international in nature and covers government and industry looking at complex issues relating to strategy, organisational decision making and decision making. He has pioneered a science based approach to organisations drawing on anthropology, neuroscience and complex adaptive systems theory. He is a popular and passionate keynote speaker on a range of subjects, and is well known for his pragmatic cynicism and iconoclastic style.
Speaker (in Swedish)
År 2017 gav Emma Frans ut boken Larmrapporten – Att skilja vetenskap från trams. Samma år fick hon Stora Journalistpriset i kategorin Årets Röst och utsågs även till Årets folkbildare 2017. Emma utsågs till demokratiambassadör av regeringen, ett uppdrag som syftar till att arbeta för att främja, förankra och försvara demokratin i Sverige. Hon är aktuell med boken ”Sant, falskt eller mittemellan”.
Speaker (in Swedish)
År 2017 gav Emma Frans ut boken Larmrapporten – Att skilja vetenskap från trams. Samma år fick hon Stora Journalistpriset i kategorin Årets Röst och utsågs även till Årets folkbildare 2017. Emma utsågs till demokratiambassadör av regeringen, ett uppdrag som syftar till att arbeta för att främja, förankra och försvara demokratin i Sverige. Hon är aktuell med boken ”Sant, falskt eller mittemellan”.
Moderator and speaker
Barry O’Reilly is the founder of Black Tulip Technology and creator of ”Antifragile System Design”. He has held Chief Architect roles at Microsoft and IDesign, been Microsoft’s IOT TAP Lead for Western Europe, and Worldwide Lead for Microsoft’s Solution Architecture Community. He has also been a startup CTO, and was a founder of Sweden’s Azure User Group.
Moderator and speaker
Barry O’Reilly is the founder of Black Tulip Technology and creator of ”Antifragile System Design”. He has held Chief Architect roles at Microsoft and IDesign, been Microsoft’s IOT TAP Lead for Western Europe, and Worldwide Lead for Microsoft’s Solution Architecture Community. He has also been a startup CTO, and was a founder of Sweden’s Azure User Group.
Speaker
Simon Wardley is a researcher for the Leading Edge Forum focused on the intersection of IT strategy and new technologies. He is a passionate advocate and researcher in the fields of open source, commoditization, innovation, organizational structure, and cybernetics.
Speaker
Simon Wardley is a researcher for the Leading Edge Forum focused on the intersection of IT strategy and new technologies. He is a passionate advocate and researcher in the fields of open source, commoditization, innovation, organizational structure, and cybernetics.
Speaker (in Swedish)
Jan har arbetat som polis i 28 år och 12 år som expert inom bedrägerier. Han var med och startade upp Nationellt Bedrägericentrum 2013-2014 och är sedan 2 år tillbaka på Nationellt It-brotts Centrum (Noa) / Swedish CyberCrime Center SC3.
Jan har bland annat vunnit Stora Kreditpriset 2015, Stora Polisstipendiet 2018, SF:s förtjänstetecken 2020 och föreläser ett 70-tal gånger per år i både Sverige och i Europa/USA.
Under de senaste 12 åren har Jan medialt ansvar vilket har resulterat i flera tusen intervjuer. Han deltar i det internationella polissamarbetet inom Europol, Interpol, Ameripol osv. Utbildar internt och externt men även utanför Sverige under CEPOL:s paraply.
Speaker (in Swedish)
Jan har arbetat som polis i 28 år och 12 år som expert inom bedrägerier. Han var med och startade upp Nationellt Bedrägericentrum 2013-2014 och är sedan 2 år tillbaka på Nationellt It-brotts Centrum (Noa) / Swedish CyberCrime Center SC3.
Jan har bland annat vunnit Stora Kreditpriset 2015, Stora Polisstipendiet 2018, SF:s förtjänstetecken 2020 och föreläser ett 70-tal gånger per år i både Sverige och i Europa/USA.
Under de senaste 12 åren har Jan medialt ansvar vilket har resulterat i flera tusen intervjuer. Han deltar i det internationella polissamarbetet inom Europol, Interpol, Ameripol osv. Utbildar internt och externt men även utanför Sverige under CEPOL:s paraply.
Speaker (in Swedish)
Åsa Schwarz arbetar som affärsutvecklingschef på Knowit Cybersecurity & Law och blev 2017 utsedd till Sveriges säkerhetsprofil. Hon förekommer ofta som expert i media inom säkerhet och artificiell intelligens.
Hon är aktuell med kriminalromanen Dockfabriken som hon skrivit tillsammans med Lena Karlin och som har AI som tema.
Speaker (in Swedish)
Åsa Schwarz arbetar som affärsutvecklingschef på Knowit Cybersecurity & Law och blev 2017 utsedd till Sveriges säkerhetsprofil. Hon förekommer ofta som expert i media inom säkerhet och artificiell intelligens.
Hon är aktuell med kriminalromanen Dockfabriken som hon skrivit tillsammans med Lena Karlin och som har AI som tema.
Speaker
With a focus on modern management and cloud, Jakob has been following the big shift in the IT landscape where the demands and speed of business are outpacing IT operations. Jakob Knutsson has an extensive background in Microsoft technology and is a leading expert on Azure Cloud. He has over 19 years of experience in implementation and transformation projects as a consultant and now works at H&M as a Lead Cloud Architect and is responsible for Cloud Adoption.
Jakob is also a popular speaker in events like Microsoft Ignite, Techdays Sweden, Devops 2020 and Cloud Management Insights.
Speaker
With a focus on modern management and cloud, Jakob has been following the big shift in the IT landscape where the demands and speed of business are outpacing IT operations. Jakob Knutsson has an extensive background in Microsoft technology and is a leading expert on Azure Cloud. He has over 19 years of experience in implementation and transformation projects as a consultant and now works at H&M as a Lead Cloud Architect and is responsible for Cloud Adoption.
Jakob is also a popular speaker in events like Microsoft Ignite, Techdays Sweden, Devops 2020 and Cloud Management Insights.
Speaker
Gunnar is a Senior Developer Advocate at Amazon Web Services (AWS) based in Sweden. He has 20 years of experience in the IT industry and has previously worked as both a frontend and backend developer, as an operations engineer within cloud infrastructure, and as a technical trainer, in addition to several different management roles.
With a focus on building reliable and robust serverless applications, Gunnar has been one of the driving forces in creating techniques and tools for using chaos engineering in serverless. He regularly and passionately speaks at events on these and other serverless topics around the world.
Gunnar is also deeply involved in the developer community by organizing user groups and meetups in the Nordics, as well as being an organizer of technical conferences.
Speaker
Gunnar is a Senior Developer Advocate at Amazon Web Services (AWS) based in Sweden. He has 20 years of experience in the IT industry and has previously worked as both a frontend and backend developer, as an operations engineer within cloud infrastructure, and as a technical trainer, in addition to several different management roles.
With a focus on building reliable and robust serverless applications, Gunnar has been one of the driving forces in creating techniques and tools for using chaos engineering in serverless. He regularly and passionately speaks at events on these and other serverless topics around the world.
Gunnar is also deeply involved in the developer community by organizing user groups and meetups in the Nordics, as well as being an organizer of technical conferences.
Speaker
Thijmen works as IT architect at the Swedish Local Government Debt Office. He is technical lead for its digitalization initiative and grows its Agile, DevOps and architecture practices.
On the side, he is actively involved in the SEI SATURN software architecture conference. Previously, he worked for the ASSA ABLOY group in Sweden, and did applied research at ABB Corporate Research on worldwide projects.
Thijmen graduated cum-laude in software engineering with a double MSc degree from VU University in Amsterdam (the Netherlands) and Mälardalen University in Västerås (Sweden).
Speaker
Thijmen works as IT architect at the Swedish Local Government Debt Office. He is technical lead for its digitalization initiative and grows its Agile, DevOps and architecture practices.
On the side, he is actively involved in the SEI SATURN software architecture conference. Previously, he worked for the ASSA ABLOY group in Sweden, and did applied research at ABB Corporate Research on worldwide projects.
Thijmen graduated cum-laude in software engineering with a double MSc degree from VU University in Amsterdam (the Netherlands) and Mälardalen University in Västerås (Sweden).
Moderator
Johanna är mycket erfaren IT-arkitekt, som idag jobbar som konsult framförallt med agila förhållningssätt till utvecklingsarbete. Hon är aktiv medlem i styrelsen för Iasa Sverige.
Moderator
Johanna är mycket erfaren IT-arkitekt, som idag jobbar som konsult framförallt med agila förhållningssätt till utvecklingsarbete. Hon är aktiv medlem i styrelsen för Iasa Sverige.
Speaker
Gar Mac Críosta is an IASA certified architect and spends much of his time trying to figure out what being a sociotechnologist is; so he can be one. He regularly engages in humane human experiments and is very certain that he spends most of his time being uncertain. Currently (since March 2020) he is the Product Lead for the COVID Tracker App in the Health Service Executive (HSE) in Ireland (www.covidtracker.ie) a COVID-19 pandemic response app.
Gar has worked as a Digital Advisor to the CIO in the HSE since early 2019. Gar is the founder of Business Model Adventures and has been an active contributor to IASA Global since 2006, developing & delivering education and certification programs.
Gar has facilitated the development of change programs with C-level executives, senior managers, technology leaders, and executives in the areas of business model innovation, digital strategy, architecture, and design across various indus¬tries. Gar is a Certified Architect Professional (IASA CITAP), a Fellow of the Irish Computer Society, a LEGO Serious Play Practitioner (LSP) and in the process of becoming a Cynefin Practitioner.
Speaker
Gar Mac Críosta is an IASA certified architect and spends much of his time trying to figure out what being a sociotechnologist is; so he can be one. He regularly engages in humane human experiments and is very certain that he spends most of his time being uncertain. Currently (since March 2020) he is the Product Lead for the COVID Tracker App in the Health Service Executive (HSE) in Ireland (www.covidtracker.ie) a COVID-19 pandemic response app.
Gar has worked as a Digital Advisor to the CIO in the HSE since early 2019. Gar is the founder of Business Model Adventures and has been an active contributor to IASA Global since 2006, developing & delivering education and certification programs.
Gar has facilitated the development of change programs with C-level executives, senior managers, technology leaders, and executives in the areas of business model innovation, digital strategy, architecture, and design across various indus¬tries. Gar is a Certified Architect Professional (IASA CITAP), a Fellow of the Irish Computer Society, a LEGO Serious Play Practitioner (LSP) and in the process of becoming a Cynefin Practitioner.
Programme
October 19-20
- Day 1
- Day 2
- Sessions
For many years we’ve been telling the world about digital transformation, about disruption, about how to cope with and manage change. Now in 2020 we find ourselves in the midst of the most disruptive event of the last 70 years. In all of this, we have a duty to take a step back and ask what disruption means for architects and architecture. While we’ve been telling the rest of the world about disruption, we’ve ignored its impact on ourselves. Can architecture possibly remain the same, with the same old frameworks and ideas that have survived since the late 1960’s?
Dave Snowden divides his time between two roles: founder Chief Scientific Officer of Cognitive Edge and the founder and Director of the Centre for Applied Complexity at the University of Wales. His work is international in nature and covers government and industry looking at complex issues relating to strategy, organisational decision making and decision making. He has pioneered a science based approach to organisations drawing on anthropology, neuroscience and complex adaptive systems theory. He is a popular and passionate keynote speaker on a range of subjects, and is well known for his pragmatic cynicism and iconoclastic style.
Software is a young industry with high failure rates and few empirically established practices. The engineering that we describe as Software Architecture currently lacks a scientific basis. Residuality Theory is applied complexity science, and presents a new way to look at how we treat componentization and risk in the process of software design and links research to pragmatic engineering techniques. This session presents an introduction to an exciting, new, and potentially revolutionary topic.
Ett enda ögonblicks felbedömning blir totalkatastrof för företagen. Nästan alla sorters high tech crimes injiceras genom det mest banala analoga misstaget som existerar nämligen phishing. Varför-hur-skyddsmöjligheter likväl som case baserade exempel presenteras i ett högt tempo men också annat.
Serverless allows you to build and run applications and services without thinking about servers, and it promises automatic and flexible scaling as well as to provide built-in availability and fault tolerance. Is there even a need for skilled architects with this is place? Let’s dive into the world of serverless architecture and look at serverless patterns and practices, common weaknesses, and how we work to make our serverless applications more robust and reliable.
How do we enable cloud transformation within the enterprise? From strategy to execution – Listen to how H&M mobilized their cloud transformation to enable speed and innovation. How modern ways of working and DevOps created a customer obsessed value driven new focus and organization powered by people, data and tech.
Top highlights:
- Learn H&Ms experiences from the real world
- Enterprise adoption of cloud
- Enabling the organization maturity in Cloud, DevOps and Agile
Vi lever i en digital tidsålder där information och desinformation flödar snabbare än någonsin, och med en pandemi följer också en infodemi. Emma Frans hjälper er att förstå hur ni skiljer sanningen från lögn och hur man bör tänka när inte ens experterna är överens.
- Sessions
- Workshops
COVID-19 hit; country by country the world ground to a halt. We all became familiar with the headline stats, epidemiology became an interesting new profession. The R-number and contact tracing entered our lexicon as things we all knew about. One good if it’s low, the other something we needed to be able to do. March 21st Singapore released the TraceTogether app a Bluetooth, proximity-based digital contact tracing app. Many other countries had already started on similar journeys to build a system that could use technology to speed up and solve the problem of warning people when they became close contacts. The journey started on our national patron saints day March 17th – after 100 days (100 days in COVID time approximates to 3 years in the old world) an app was born (110 days there was a long labour).
This is the story of all the apps born or buried during COVID-19 crisis to-date. It’s a story of rapid decision making, global collaboration, intense external scrutiny and hopefully redemption.
Åsa berättar om morgondagens risker med artificiell intelligens med exempel från verkligheten och fiktion. Hon går igenom åtgärder som kan göras för att minska dessa, både för vårt samhälle men också i specifika projekt.
The Swedish Local Government Debt Office began implementing its digital strategy two years ago. It had few modern practices in place. Now the team consistently delivers value increments, and everyone is an architect. Our philosophy is ‘just enough’. Just enough Agile for continuous learning. Just enough architecture to manage risk and technical debt. Just enough DevOps to remove friction. We learned to take small steps towards mature practice. Our customers already use new services and did not wait in vain for a failed multi-million eurobig bang. The secret is to take small steps, implementing only the architecture practices that the organization and the team are ready for.
Join me for a retrospective on an architect’s agile journey and learn how to entrust your team with the architecture.
We live in a competitive world. That competition forces change. It has always forced change. Change is normal. The question is not whether our organizations will change, that’s a given, but can we see this change before it hits us, do we know where we’re heading or are we simply floating aimlessly being carried by a river? It certainly feels that way sometimes.
To answer the question, we need to understand our landscape, the economic forces at play, the context we operate within and our situational awareness of this. Can we navigate the waters, can we see a storm coming or are we being battered by rocks because we refuse to look?
Join our panel for a free form discussion on the future of architecture.
Panel: Ulrika Thor, Gar Mac Críosta, Barry O’Reilly, Paul Preiss, Johanna Värild, Eva Kammerfors
This is ITARC and there will be many opinions and perspectives in the room. This session gives the audience a chance to ask questions of the panel, present ideas that the panel might have missed, and conclude the event with the most important factor in the future of architecture: the architects!
Based loosely on the book ‘Anti-fragile’ by Nicholas Nassim Taleb, we look at how his theories on fragility and the ability to withstand shocks can be interpreted to help us design, produce, and manage better systems that can help us deal not only with failures, but also with rapidly changing markets and expectations in modern software development. The workshop will cover
- The role of Systems Engineering in architecting modern solutions
- Understanding volatility as the driver of complexity and as the major input to design
- Why we need to spend more time on System Behaviour and less time on System Functionality
- The role of architectural decision making in the resulting behaviour of a System
Dave Snowden divides his time between two roles: founder Chief Scientific Officer of Cognitive Edge and the founder and Director of the Centre for Applied Complexity at the University of Wales. His work is international in nature and covers government and industry looking at complex issues relating to strategy, organisational decision making and decision making. He has pioneered a science based approach to organisations drawing on anthropology, neuroscience and complex adaptive systems theory. He is a popular and passionate keynote speaker on a range of subjects, and is well known for his pragmatic cynicism and iconoclastic style.
Under hösten släpps Iasas nästa bok ”Att utvärdera arkitektur”. Workshopen inleds med bokens höjdpunkter presenterad av några av medförfattarna. Därefter kopplas boken till Iasas arkitektrollerna samt till ”Urverk”.
Under hösten kommer även ett whitepaper där en reflektion görs till arkitekten och dennes roll under corona-tiden. Detta ämne kommer även diskuteras i mindre grupper och avslutas med en diskussion vad gäller arkitektens roll i framtiden.