Now in its sixth year, the CAUDIT Enterprise Architecture in Higher Education Symposium provides attendees with the opportunity to discuss the value of enterprise architecture to universities.

It also allows for participants to demonstrate best practice examples, gain new perspectives, share information across the sector, network, build relationships and collaborate.

Conference dates

The Symposium is being held on 21-23 November 2011 at The University of Western Australia (UWA).

Themes

This year’s event will focus on three themes:

• Building your enterprise architecture maturity.
• How enterprise architecture can support research across the higher education sector.
• Organisational change: enterprise architecture and transformational projects.

Program highlights

The program for the three days includes presentations on enterprise architecture from people within the higher education sector across Australia and New Zealand. We’ll also have speakers from the private sector and government, as well as Pecha Kucha sessions and workshops.

Some highlights include:

• Transformational Projects to Remain Globally Competitive
  Presented by Dr. Mary Davies BA(Hons), MSc, DipLib, MCLIP, MBCS, University Librarian and Director (Information Management), The University of Western Australia
• The NBN – and the Demise of University IT Departments
  Presented by Greg Bader, Chief Technology Officer, iiNet
• Enterprise Architecture Maturity @ Bankwest
  Presented by Sean Langton, Head of Solution Architecture, BankWest
• Workshops on Innovation; Sharing Enterprise Architecture Across the Sector, and Beginning Your Enterprise Architecture Effort
• Pecha Kucha – five-minute lightning-fast presentations from enterprise architects across the sector
• Over a dozen presentations from people on-the-ground, doing Enterprise Architecture in Higher Education
• Build your network – meet, share and learn from other enterprise architects working in higher education; social functions are included in registration
• Break-out groups on every day of the program on topics that are important to you.