AEA Hong Kong Chapter

Hong Kong’s Largest Enterprise Architecture Seminar

AEA-HK & HKCS EASIG Co-organising Event:

Business IT Architecture Series (BITAS) Hong Kong 2015

Architecting the Digital Business – A Breakthrough for Enterprise Transformation (3 July 2015)

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Event Details

Date: 3 July 2015 (Friday)
Time: 9:30am – 5:30pm
Venue: SCOPE Admiralty Learning Centre, 8/F United Centre, 95 Queensway, Admiralty, Hong Kong
Fee: Free of Charge
CPD Hour: 6

The following event has been postponed.

1:30 PM – 6:00 PM | Thursday | 11th June 2015 | Wan Chai, Hong Kong

MEGA International, Singapore in collaboration with Association of Enterprise Architects, Hong Kong (AEA-HK) hosting this half day seminar in HK to share its Return on Experience and Industry Best Practices on how to Simplify, Rationalize and Align your IT Landscape to Deliver Business Strategy.

During this event, MEGA will also share few real life examples of organizations leveraging on solutions to address the key challenges faced by their Business & IT Functions to support their transformation initiatives.

Agenda of the Event:

1:30 – 2:00 PM Registration and Refreshments
2:00 – 2:15 PM Introduction : Activities of HKCS EA SIG & AEA-HK Association to promote EA in Hong Kong
2:15 – 2:30 PM Key Note : Simplify, Rationalize and Align your IT to Deliver Business Strategy
2:30 – 3:15 PM Deliver your IT Strategy in line with Business, Risk and Compliance
3:15 – 3:30 PM Coffee Break
3:30 – 4:15 PM Leading Organizations Invested In EAM Solutions To Address Their Key IT Challenges
4:15 – 5:15 PM Create more business value with Enterprise Architecture Framework
5:15 – 5:30 PM Conclusion – Q & A

Key Speakers:

Nicolas Betbeder-Matibet – Managing Director – VP Asia-Pacific MEGA International
Mher Foudoulian – Pre-Sales Manager APAC, Sr. Solution Consultant at MEGA International
Dave Chen – Founder and Chairman, Association of Enterprise Architects, Hong Kong Chapter

What you will learn during this event:
Industry best practices to deliver your IT Strategy in line with Business, Risk and Compliance
How leading organizations leveraging on solutions to simply their IT landscape.
How to create more business value with Enterprise Architecture Framework

Who should attend:
Portfolio Management Leaders
Enterprise Architecture Stakeholders
IT Executive Steering Committee Members
IT Investment Review Board Members
IT Strategists & Planners & CIOs
IT Governance Executives

Please note that admission to this event is Free of Cost and subject to availablity. Please register to block your seat. Contact Reed Taneja at rtaneja@mega.com for any queries.

Venue:

4/F.CYMA Charity Fund Management Development Centre (HKMA Wanchai Training Centre)
Pico Tower, 66 Gloucester Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong

Register at: http://www.mega.com/en/inhouse-event/simplify-rationalize-and-align-your-it-deliver-business-strategy-0

HKCS Enterprise Architecture SIG Seminar:
Big Data in Enterprise Architecture & Data Driven Organization

Introduction
An emerging technology, Big Data analytics provides insights into phenomena and collective behaviours. This seminar explores the roles and values of Big Data in Enterprise Architecture, how to achieve a data driven organization with real life examples. A presentation on DATA.GOV.HK will also be given by OGCIO representative.
Speaker’s Profile

Event Details:
Date: 20 April 2015
Time: 4:00pm – 6:00 pm (registration starts at 3:30pm)
Venue: PQ306 HK Polytechnic University
Fee: Free of Charge

Held on 5^th Dec 2014, the EA SIG Half-Day Seminar, the largest EA event in Hong Kong attracted a large audience of over 100 IT managers, architects and practitioners. In this event, themed “Enterprise Architecture: Real-World Experience Sharing 2014”, Enterprise Architecture leaders from renowned organizations shared their business cases on establishing EA to deliver business values to their organization.

The event was started with the opening and welcome speech given by the Dave Chen, Chairperson of EA SIG & AEA-HK and Allen Brown, the CEO of Open Group.

-> think small:  using the VW bug to solve today’s IT problems, Mr. Jake Sims

As the first speaker, Mr. Jake Sims, Head of Technology and Architecture at Cathay Pacific Airways explored how the complexities of human behaviour, the overzealousness of enterprise architects, and the desire to “think big” consistently undermine IT.  He also discussed how some of these insights, including the simplicity and minimalism of the VW Bug’s “think small” campaign, are helping to drive the SOA strategy at Cathay Pacific Airways.

-> Enterprise Architecture (EA) adoption at CLP, Mr. Francis Chiu

With more than 20 years of IT experience and of those, 13 years were in the Utility sector, Francis Chui, Application Strategy and Architecture Manager at CLP shared his experience in the Utility industry as well as Enterprise Architecture knowledge. He outlined the benefits of EA and the reason of adopting it in CLP. He also concluded the presentation by 5 key takeaways on EA adoption.

-> Panel Discussion

After the coffee break, Mr. Chris Forde, VP Enterprise Architecture of Open Group, moderated a panel discussion with all speakers. Mr. KC Fung, Senior Manager, IT of HK Airport Authority and Mr. Nicolas Betbeder-Matibet, Managing Director, Vice President APJC of Mega International also joined the discussion. Panel discussion topic is “0 to 6 Months of an EA Journey – Milestones & Concrete Benefits” in which they have discussed on how to start an EA initiative in their organization and the future evolution of EA.

-> Architecting the Enterprise, Mr. Mark Carr

After the panel discussion, Mr. Mark Carr, Chief Architect of HK Jockey Club presented the HKJC’s view on Enterprise Architecture. He has highlighted the importance of the HKJC Enterprise Reference Architecture and its enterprise meta-model. He also outlined how the EA governance take place in HKJC with examples on governance structure and critical design review process, etc.

-> Enterprise Architecture – Delivering Value and Excellent IT Services to MTR, Mr. Eric Lui

Eric Lui is the Chief IT Strategy and Enterprise Architecture Manager of MTR Corporation Limited overseeing IT strategy development and implementation, business-IT alignment, IS/IT planning and enterprise architecture. He first highlighted the business challenges and impact on IT. He then presented how the Enterprise Architecture helps drive business values and how the Business-IT Engagement model operates in MTR.

It was our pleasure to have Mr. Damian Lum, Enterprise Architect from HK Jockey Club to speak with us on the Data Governance Experience Sharing on 18 September 2014 (7pm) in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Mr. Damian Lum has more that 20 years of Global IT experience, have strong and deep understanding of strategy and enterprise architecture, and have gone through several transformational programs to drive value change.

In this speaker session, Damian took a journey on the importance of data. It forms the very existence of organizations. Data needs to be managed in order to harness value, thus allowing organizations to grow, understand customers better, outperform competitors, and being productive.

The seminar was well received with over 30 IT architects and managers. We had a fruitful interactive Q&A session where Rico discussed with the audience on how to adopt data governance into real life examples.

Experience sharing by HK Jockey Club on Data Governance. Organization must create and sustain value of data through data governance.

Take a journey on the importance of data. It forms the very existence of organizations. Data needs to be managed in order to harness value, thus allowing organizations to grow, understand customers better, outperform competitors, and being productive. 

The reality is far from beautiful, since day-to-day priorities require organizations to have to worry about expanding their core business and operating efficiently. Information from mobile devices, big data, cloud services and social media are disrupting the way we do business.

Details and registration here:

http://www.hkcs.org.hk/edm/20140919/easig_seminar/

It was our pleasure to have Mr. Rico Chiang, a freelance IT professional and special interest group (ArchiMate modeling language) leader of Association of Enterprise Architects, Hong Kong Chapter to speak with us on the Practicing Enterprise Architecture on 28 March 2014 (7pm) in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Rico has over 20 years of application systems development experience, 15 of which are from the real estate industry. Mr Chiang has assumed the role of head of IT department and application development teams of renowned NGO and listed property companies in Hong Kong.

In this speaker session, Rico gave a sharing on his Real Estate Industry EA Reference Model using the Archimate modeling language. The model was developed base on “traditional” real estate business scenario. In order to test Archimate’s ability to support TOGAF, Rico used the traditional model as “as-is” and tried to develop a “to-be” model to address some hypothetical business needs and issues.

The seminar was well received with over 30 IT architects and managers. We had a fruitful interactive Q&A session where Rico discussed with the audience on how to adopt Archimate and EA into real life examples. Our advisor, CK Wong also gave some insights on the EA adoption and the industry common challenges.

Practicing Enterprise Architecture experience sharing notes – click HERE to download.

We published a real estate Industry EA Reference Model in Jan 2014. (https://aea-hk.org/2014/01/27/real-estate-business-enterprise-architecture-reference-model/) Based on this original model, we posted a revised “to-be” model in Feb 2014 to address some hypothetical business strategies changes in order to demonstrate Archimate’s ability to support TOGAF method. (https://aea-hk.org/2014/02/17/real-estate-industry-enterprise-architecture-reference-mode-version-2/) In view of the latest rapid eCommerce boom and its impact on commercial properties, we again developed a “future” model based on the original models to show how ArchiMate can facilitate business and IT strategic planning to response to such external environmental trend.

Real Estate Business Reference Model (Future) – PDF

Comment and feedback are much welcome.

Rico Chiang, Archimate SIG, AEA HK Chapter

email: itmcimn@netvigator.com

Modeling is a very important element of TOGAF. Although TOGAF has been very well established as an enterprise architecture framework and methodology, by itself it does not provide any modeling tool. Until recently, we have relied on traditional business study or system development tools like strategy map, organization chart, workflow diagram, entity relationship diagram, matrix and list etc., which are not specifically designed for enterprise architecture modeling work. Open Group, the same organization who owns TOGAF, took over the modeling language ArchiMate in 2009 and has since developed it into a very comprehensive and easy to use architecture modeling language.p>

Details and registration here:

http://www.hkcs.org.hk/edm/20140328/easig_seminar/

We posted a Real Estate Industry EA Reference Model in Jan 14. (https://aea-hk.org/2014/01/27/real-estate-business-enterprise-architecture-reference-model/) The model was developed base on “traditional” real estate business scenario. In order to test Archimate’s ability to support TOGAF, We used the traditional model as “as-is” and tried to develop a “to-be” model to address some hypothetical business needs and issues:

Real Estate Business Reference Model (To-be) – PDF

Comment and feedback are much welcome.

Rico Chiang, Archimate SIG, AEA HK Chapter

email: itmcimn@netvigator.com

The half-day tour to GS1 HK IoT Center was held successfully on 9 Jan 2014. This IoT Center is around 2000 – 3000 square feet divided into 5 thematic zones including manufacturing, logistics, retail, healthcare and smart city with total 40 IoT solutions. It was our pleasure to have KK Suen, Chief Architect and Principal Consultant at GS1 HK giving us a very impressive introductory to IoT and its history. All of the audience feedback was good and learnt a lot.

In order to promote TOGAF enterprise architecture framework and Architmate modeling language, we developed a Real Estate Industry Enterprise Architecture Reference Model using Archimate for discussion and sharing. The model was based on the general business practice of real estate industry in Hong Kong and PRC. Any comments or idea on how to improve the model for better communication among IT, business analysts and users are much welcome.

Rico Chiang, Archimate SIG, AEA HK Chapter

email: itmcimn@netvigator.com

Real Estate Business Reference Model (As-is) – PDF

Cloud Computing and Enterprise Architecture SIG has organized a half-day tour to GS1 HK IoT Center. This IoT Center is around 2000 – 3000 square feet divided into 5 thematic zones including manufacturing, logistics, retail, healthcare and smart city with total 40 IoT solutions. In this tour, KK Suen, Chief Architect and Principal Consultant at GS1 HK will also give a presentation on what is IoT, application and trends.

Details and registration here:

http://www.hkcs.org.hk/edm/20131209/CCSIG_EASIG/

It was our pleasure to have Ms Claire Fulford, Group IT Manager – Cyber Security at CLP, speak with us on the Cyber Security strengthening through Cultural Change on 6 November 2013 (7pm) in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Claire has responsibility for governing the direction of policy, standards, and technologies for the protection of CLP’s critical infrastructure and information assets. Claire’s focus reaches beyond technology to the people and processes supporting CLP’s operations in China, India, Hong Kong and Australia.

In this speaker session, Claire gave a sharing on working with staff across the business and the region on initiatives focusing on a long term strategy for cyber security cultural change at CLP. She explained the journey of engaging leaders, understanding resistance points and the objectives of the program. She also presented key success factors, business benefits and finally the challenges faced in taking staff from awareness to commitment to a more cyber secure employee community.

The seminar was well received with over 30 IT architects and managers. We had a fruitful interactive Q&A session where Claire discussed with the audience on how to tackle the resistence from business stakeholders on adopting cyber security. She also provided her views on different aspects of cyber security awareness program and the importance of face-to-face conversations and training.

http://www.hkcs.org.hk/events/20131106/

AEA-HK and HKCS co-organized a seminar on “Cyber Security strengthening through Cultural Change”. In this session, Ms Claire Fulford, Group IT Manager – Cyber Security at CLP, will share with the audience the experience of working with staff across the business and the region on initiatives focussing on a long term strategy for cyber security cultural change at CLP. She will talk about the journey of engaging leaders, understanding resistance points and explain the objectives of the program. Attendees can learn of the key success factors, business benefits and finally the challenges faced in taking staff from awareness to commitment to a more cyber secure employee community.

AEA-HK members could join the event for FREE.

Date: 6 November 2013 (Wednesday)
Time: 7:00pm – 8:00pm (registration starts at 6:30pm)
Venue: PQ703, Mong Man Wai Building, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Speaker: Ms. Claire Fulford (Group IT Manager – Cyber Security for CLP Group)
Fee: FREE for AEA-HK members

See you there!

Details: http://www.hkcs.org.hk/edm/20131021/EASIG/

AEA-HK Annual General meeting 2013 has been held successfully on 4 Oct 2013 with executive committee members join in. We are pleased to see some new faces and EA enthusiast to join our EX-CO. In the meeting, we have reviewed our events organized in the last 2 years and also discussed the upcoming association’s direction and future events initiatives. In the end of the session, our new Ex-Co member and SIG of Archimate, Rico presented his EA framework in the property industry with the use of Archimate.

There are still some vacancies of the EX-CO, please do drop me a e-mail at dave@aea-hk.org for your interests within Oct 2013. Thanks.

This speaker session was a joint event by EASIG, CCSIG, and AEA HK. Dr Thomas Lee, Chairperson of EASIG and Application Architecture Manager of Airport Authority Hong Kong, shared his experience in serving on the Working Group on Cloud Computing Interoperability Standards under the Office of Government CIO. He believed cloud computing would become the next big Internet wave, bringing about another economic revolution when key interoperability issues could be resolved.

Dr Lee explained the fundamental concepts of cloud interoperability and portability, and talked about the reference architectures and architectural principles for designing interoperable cloud applications. In particular, he introduced the Open Group Guide on Cloud Computing Portability and Interoperability. He expressed that architects could develop enterprise architecture and standards for cloud adoption based on similar resources from many local and international cloud initiatives. He thought they could also make contributions by sharing their cloud adoption experience through these initiatives.

The event was well received and attracted a large audience of IT architects, managers and consultants. Concluding the talk, Dr C.K. Wong, Advisor of EASIG and CCSIG, shared his views on how local IT vendors might capture new opportunities in the China market through developing cloud service components.

http://www.hkcs.org.hk/events/20130924/

AEA-HK and HKCS co-organized a seminar on “Architecture and Practices on Cloud Interoperability and Portability”. In this session, Dr Thomas Lee shares his experience in working in WGCCIS as a co-opt member and introduces the Open Group Guide on Cloud Computing Portability and Interoperability. He explains the fundamental concepts of cloud interoperability and portability and the reference architecture to design interoperable interfaces between on-premise and cloud application components. He also discusses the architectural principles for supporting cloud service providers to develop interoperable cloud services. From the enterprise user perspective, he also summarizes some good practices from the Open Group Guide that help cloud consumers to formulate their cloud strategy to manage vendor lock-in when selecting cloud services.

AEA-HK members could join the event for FREE.

Date: 24 September 2013 (Tuesday)
Time: 7:00pm – 8:00pm (registration starts at 6:30pm
Venue: PQ703, Mong Man Wai Building, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Speaker: Dr. Thomas Lee (Chairperson of HK Computer Society, Enterprise Architecture SIG)
Fee: FREE for AEA-HK members

See you there!

Details: http://www.hkcs.org.hk/edm/20130913/EASIG/

Dear AEA-HK Committee / Members / IT Architects,

Association of Enterprise Architect, HK Chapter was founded and formed in 2011 by a group of EA enthusiast in HK. In the past 2 years, we have organized over 6 events and supporting over 10 events worldwide. The EA half-day seminar event on 11 July 2012 co-organized with HK Computer Society have over 100 EA practioners to join.

In terms of popularity, we have over 170 members in our Linkedin group and 50 likes in our facebook page (as of 30 Aug 2013). We have kept a good image and connections with the HK companies currently adopting or interested in EA.

It is time to plan for the next 3 years 2014-2016. I understand that many of you may interest in joining us as committee members, please kindly join our annual general meeting (AGM) of AEA-HK and this is a very important meeting to us, so I recommend all of you joining.

Time/Date: 4 Oct 2013 (Fri) 19:00 – 20:00
Venue: Standard Life, 40/F Times Square, Tower 1, Causeway Bay, HK.

Rundown:
19:00 to 19:15 Registration & Gathering
19:15 to 19:30 Key Achievements in 2011-2013 – Dave
19:30 to 20:00 EXCO formation and going forward

If you cannot find/access the venue, please contact Manson Siu (+852 9642 3933)

Best Regards,
Dave Chen (+852 9121-5270)
Founder and Chairperson of Association of Enterprise Architect, HK Chapter (http://www.aea-hk.org / dave@aea-hk.org)

In this speaker session, Clarence gave a high-level comparison on the features among various Java and open source development frameworks in the market, such as JEE and Spring. He also shared a case study by reviewing a project that he had done before in a large-scale mission critical banking project. He explained the high-level application architecture, lessons learnt on the adoption of different open source technologies and the rationale behind some major architectural decisions.

The seminar was well received with a full house of over 50 IT architects and managers from more than 20 organizations. We had a fruitful interactive Q&A session where Clarence discussed with the audience on the criteria of choosing a good and suitable framework. He also addressed the concerns of open source framework support and provided his views on the differences between .NET and Java frameworks.

http://www.hkcs.org.hk/events/20130613/

Click to access presentation.pdf

AEA-HK and HKCS co-organized a seminar on “Framework Adoption for JAva Enterprise Application Development”. In this session, Clarence will share his view on the adoption of standard JEE and various popular open source frameworks for developing Enterprise Applications with Java. A high level comparison on the features offered by the official JEE standards and popular frameworks like Spring will be provided.

AEA-HK members could join the event for FREE.

Date: 13 June 2013 (Thursday)
Time: 7:00pm – 8:00pm (registration starts at 6:30pm
Venue: PQ703, Mong Man Wai Building, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Speaker: Mr. Clarence Ho (Senior Java Architect, SkywideSoft Technology Limited)
Fee: FREE for AEA-HK members

See you there!

Details: http://www.hkcs.org.hk/edm/20130521/EASIG/

On 10 Dec 2012, HKCS EA SIG and AEA-HK co-organized a seminar on the topic of “Archimate ~ an Open Group Standard Modeling Language for Enterprise Architecture”. It was our pleasure to have speaker, Serge, CIO at Architecting the Enterprise to give the speech and introduce the Archimate. We now have a tool and notation on describing EA or TOGAF. The event was great success and we had around 20 people attended the event. Keep in touch with us for the coming great EA events!

AEA-HK and HKCS co-organized a seminar on “ArchiMate – an Open Group Standard Modeling Language for Enterprise Architecture”. ArchiMate is an enterprise modeling tool for designing, communicating and managing architecture views. ArchiMate provides an unambiguous, integrated, and consistent modeling language for that purpose. AEA-HK members could join the event for FREE.

Date: 10 December 2012 (Monday)
Time: 7:00pm – 8:00pm (registration starts at 6:30pm)
Venue: PQ703, Mong Man Wai Building, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Speaker: Serge Thorn, CIO of Architecting the Enterprise
Fee: FREE for AEA-HK members

You have a chance to win a free Archimate training (certification exam not included)! See you there!

Details: http://www.hkcs.org.hk/edm/20121203/EASIG/

Chairman, Dave Chen presented at Cloud World Forum Asia 2012 on the topic of ”Cloud Computing and Enterprise Architecture”. Here is the presentation slide for those who have no time to join the event. Do keep in touch with us at Linkedin and we will be supporting and participating into more events in the future.

AEA-HK will be one of the speaker in the event of “Cloud World Forum Asia 2012” on the topic of “Enterprise Architecture & Cloud Computing”. AEA-HK members could have complimentary tickets and let us know if you are interested to participate in such great event.

Date/Time: 12-14th November 2012
Venue: Eaton Smart Hotel, Hong Kong
(AEA-HK session will be on 14th Nov 14:30)

http://www.cloudworldseries.com/asia

Mr. Dave Chen, the Chairman of AEA-HK would be the panelists of the “Cloud Security Forum 2012” on the topic of “Best Practices of Mitigating Risk in Cloudy Days”.

More information:

http://www.kornerstone.com.hk/Events/Cloud-Security-Forum-2012_computerworld/

Rundown: http://www.kornerstone.com.hk/Events/Cloud-Security-Forum-2012-rundown/

The Hong Kong Computer Society, in collaboration with The Open Group and with support from the AEA HK Chapter, is hosting The Open Group Certified Architect (Open CA) program board interviews at the HKCS on Friday 5th October 2012

About The Open Group Certified Architect (Open CA) Program
The Open CA program (formerly ITAC) was created in 2005 and now has over 3500 certified people from 160 companies in over 60 countries across the world. It is the market leading independent benchmark by which to identify the existence and validity of an IT or Enterprise Architect’s skills and experience. It is different to most IT certification programs in that there are no courses to attend or exams to take.

The Open CA certification requires a candidate to submit written evidence that demonstrates the candidate’s mastery of the necessary skills in real world situations. This evidence is reviewed by a board of three architects who have been certified by this process, and the board decides if the evidence provided meets the certification requirements. If it does, then the holder of this certification has demonstrated actual successful practice.

Applying for Open CA Certification

There are three levels to the Open CA program: Certified (Level 1), Master (Level 2), and Distinguished (Level 3). The program is made up of four parts:

– Core foundation skills
– Experience requirements
– Professional development
– Contributions to the architect community

Each level requires the candidate to complete a certification package, which contains a series of questions that map to the Conformance Requirements required by the program. Candidates need to answer each section and give a detailed account of how they dealt with each area. They will also need to provide a minimum of two (2) experience profiles for Level 1 (three (3) for Level 2 and 3) that describe how their skills were used in their particular IT projects.

Don’t miss this golden change and for details on the registration:

http://www.hkcs.org.hk/edm/20120717/Open_Group/
The Open Group Certified Architect (Open CA) Program web site

Thanks for all the support to the EA half-day seminar on 11 July 2012. The event was a great success and over 100 IT practitioners registered. The 4 world leader EA speakers share their real-world EA valuable experience. I am sure that all of us has learnt a lot especially the positioning of Enterprise Architect in Hong Kong enterprise. Please keep in touch with AEA-HK for the next great event.

It is my pleasure to meet the Association of Enterprise Architect, Toronto Chapter Chairman, Jason Uppal. A great chance to learn from world-class EA practitioners sharing their experience.

AEA-HK and HKCS co-organized a half-day seminar “Enterprise Architecture – Real-World Experience Sharing”. It is an exceptional opportunity where four EA leaders from CIO-Connect, CLP, HSBC, and Open Group will share their real-world experience. AEA-HK members could enjoy discount at $50 HKD.

Date: 11 July 2012 (Wednesday)
Time: 1:30pm – 6:00pm (registration starts at 1:30pm)
Venue: Lecture Theatre, 1/F., HKPC Building, 78 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong
Fee: $50 for AEA-HK members
Speakers:

– Regional Head of Architecture, HSBC
– Head of Group Technology and Architecture, CLP Power HK
– Vice President of Enterprise Architecture, Open Group
– Program Director, CIO-Connect

Details: http://www.hkcs.org.hk/edm/20120622/EASIG/

On 30 May 2012, HKCS EA SIG and AEA-HK co-organized a experience sharing event on the topic of “SOA Governance for the eHR Project”. It was our pleasure to have speaker, Clara, Senior System Manager at Hospital Authority to give the speech and share the SOA practical experience on their eHR project. She has highligted the design and runtime SOA governance in the project and also shared the vaulable tips on implementing SOA. The event was great success and we had over 50 people attended the event, full-house of a PolyU classroom. Keep in touch with us for the coming great EA events!

For those who miss the event, you may download the powerpoint at here.

AEA-HK and HKCS co-organized an event on the topic of “Experience Sharing on the SOA Governance for the eHR Project” on 30 Apr 2012.

Ms Clara Cheung, Senior Systems Manager of the Hospital Authority (HA), will share with the audience their experience on applying Service Oriented Architecture Governance (SOAG) in HA, particularly in the Electronic Health Record (eHR) project. She will talk about the journey of adopting SOA in HA, introduce the eHR project, and explain the principles and objectives of SOA Governance. She will discuss the SOAG workflow, repository, tools and libraries for maintaining robust and secure Web services in design-time and run-time. Lastly, she will discuss the key success factors for SOA to deliver business benefits.

AEA-HK members are eligible to join the event for free, seats are limited, please register at:

http://www.hkcs.org.hk/edm/20120328/EASIG/

On 3 Apr 2012, AEA-HK and Deloitte co-organized a speaker event on the topic of “Realizing the Business Value of Enterprise Architecture”. It was our pleasure to have speaker, Richard Suslick, Specialist Leader at Deloitte Consulting to give the speech and share EA practical experience. He has highligted the value of EA and EA assessment. The event was great success and we had over 20 people registered to the event. Hope we can put EA from awareness into adoption in HK.

Most of you may already know the benefits of Enterprise Architecture, but it is not easy to realize the business value of EA project. In addition, it requires top management support and sponsorship on its value and return.

AEA-HK and Deloitte Consulting Hong Kong has organized a seminar on the topic of “Realizing the Business Value of Enterprise Architecture“. This may give you some insight on the EA adoption and meet HK EA practioners for experience sharing.

It is FREE and seats are limited. Don’t miss the chance!

Date: 3 April 2012 (Tuesday)
Time: 7:00pm-8:30pm (registration starts at 6:45)
Venue: Deloitte Hong Kong, 35/F One Pacific Place, 88 Queensway, Hong Kong
Speaker: Richard Suslick, Senior Manager of Deloitte
Fee: Free for AEA-HK members
Audience: Anyone who is interested in Enterprise Architecture

To register the event, please fill in the registration 

P.S. Please bring along your business card for registration.

Mr. Suslick has 40+ years of progressive and specialized Management, ADP, and Information Science experience. Mr. Suslick has both a Master of Science degree in Business Administration Carnegie Mellon University and a Computer Science degree from Carnegie-Mellon University’s Artificial Intelligence Lab. Masters As founder, President, and CEO of Cedar Cliff Systems Corporation Mr. Suslick built the company into a diverse and profitable systems house, receiving awards in 1993 and 1994 as one of Washington’s Fast 50 growth corporations. Cedar Cliff Systems achieved national recognition as an Inc. 500 Company growth firm in 1993 (#53) and again in 1994 (#137). Mr. Suslick has appeared on various national news reviews including CBS. Mr. Suslick has worked as an appointee to the U.S. Supreme Court and in positions requiring the application of a wide range of diverse skills, both technical and managerial. His talents range from pure computer science AI research and speech recognition, to marketing, sales support, and hardware/software training and development.

On 5 Dec 2011, AEA HK and HKCS EA SIG co-organized a seminar on the topic of “EA Awareness”. It is a great success and we got a full house, that is more than 50 people attending the seminar. I could see most audience had learnt a lot about EA from the speaker, Judith Jones (Architecting the Enterprise CEO). Hope it can raise the EA awareness in the community. For those who miss it, you can download the powerpoint from here.

AEA-HK and HKCS co-organized a seminar on the topic of “EA Awareness and TOGAF 9 Briefing”.

Date: 5 Dec 2011 (Monday)
Time: 7:00pm-8:00pm (registration starts at 6:30)
Venue: PQ703, Mong Man Wai Building, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Speaker: Judith Jones, CEO of Architecting the Enterprise
Fee: Free for AEA members

You have a chance to win a free TOGAF 9 training (certification exam not included)! See you there!

Details: http://www.hkcs.org.hk/edm/20111121/EASIG/

Chairman, Dave Chen presented at 2nd Annual Cloud Computing 2011 on the topic of “Identifying and Overcoming the Challenges of Cloud Computing from Enterprise Architecture Perspective”

Cloud Technologies 2011, from NetworkWorld Asia and Enterprise Innovation, cuts through the hype to bring you real life analysis, debates and case studies on how companies across Asia are adopting cloud technologies.

Join the conference to hear how your competitors are using the cloud and discuss implementation techniques with industry experts to strengthen your internal negotiation power.

Return to your work armed with the confidence of knowing what works, what doesn’t, and what you can do to help your company benefit from cloud technologies.

	1-day event cuts through the jargon and hype
	Hear end user case studies and panel discussions
	Learn from industry peers and recognized experts
	Free for end-user, senior IT execs

Find out more about the conference – and register now to find out where cloud usage is heading in 2012.

15th July 2011 is the major milestone for our Association of Enterprise Architects, Hong Kong Chapter. More than 10 Hong Kong professional architects  joined our first meeting. Congratulations! 2011-2012 AEA HK executive committee has been formed successfully, it is formed by experienced architects from different industry including government, consulting, banking, insurance, etc. in Hong Kong.

Welcome to browse out committee members’ LinkedIn  profile below:

https://aea-hk.org/committee

Dave Chen, the Chairman of Association of Enterprise Architects, HK Chapter (AEA HK) will be participating into the 2nd Annual Cloud Computing 2011 Conference. The conference will be held from 18 – 19 October 2011 at Harbour Grand Kowloon Hotel, Hong Kong.

He will be giving the presentation on the 2nd day from 16:00 – 16:45 on the topic of

“Identifying and overcoming challenges of cloud computing from the Enterprise Architecture perspective”

– Overview of the Association of Enterprise Architects
– Tackling common and uncommon challenges with enterprise architecture
– Holistic understanding how enterprise architecture brings business value to cloud ecosystems

For event details and registration, please go to http://www.cloudcomputing-asia.com/Event.aspx?id=533136

2nd Cloud Computing 2011

Association of Enterprise Architects, Hong Kong Chapter (AEA HK) will have the 1st committee meeting on 15 July, 2011 (FRI) 19:00. This meeting is a very important milestone for AEA HK. With the gathering of Enterprise Architects professionals in Hong Kong, we will elect the committee members for AEA HK.

Invited professionals should have already received the invitation. For those who did not but if you are interested, no worry, you are definitely welcome to join our family. Just drop me a e-mail at dowchen@gmail.com with your brief background. Don’t miss this golden chance! See you there!

It is my pleasure to meet a|EA Taiwan Chapter President, Dr. William Chao and CEO, Cathy Sung in Taipei on 15 May 2011. Dr. Chao has devoted 20 years in the Enterprise Architecture study and research. I am very impressed by his enthusiasm, especially his research on SBC system architecture. Cathy also shared her experience in the setup of Taiwan Chapter. Both of them give me a very positive and clear direction on the setup of Hong Kong chapter. I wish the very good success of Taiwan chapter and let’s work together to promote EA to the Asia Pacific region.

For details about AEA Taiwan chapter, you may visit to http://aea-taiwan.org

For those who would like to join AEA Hong Kong chapter, you can send e-mail to dowchen@gmail.com

Left: Dr. William Chao, President of AEA Taiwan Chapter
Middle: Mr. Dave Chen, Chairman of AEA Hong Kong Chapter
Right: Ms. Cathy Sung, CEO of AEA Taiwan Chapter

I am pleased to announce that the Association of Enterprise Architects (a|EA) Hong Kong Chapter was launched on 22 May 2011. This is an approved local chapter under Association of Open Group Enterprise Architecture (AOGEA) of Open Group.

Our major objective is to bring the Enterprise Architecture experience from worldwide into Hong Kong. We established this platform for Hong Kong Architects to share their experience and knowledge, ultimately promoting the Enterprise Architecture in Hong Kong. Hope you can join this family and support us!

Founder and Chairman, Dave Chen
AEA Hong Kong Chapter