[announce] Announcement: Government and Industry IT leadership joinforces in launching SecurE-Biz CxO Summit: April 1-2, Pentagon Hilton

["John Weiler, Executive Director" <john@ichnet.org>]

RE: Spring '03 SecurE-Biz CxO Summit
April 1-2, '03, Pentagon Hilton, Arlington, VA
703-768-0400  www.SecurE-Biz.net

On April 1-2, in Wash. DC, thought leaders from Government and industry will
again gather for the fifth annual SecurE-Biz CxO Summit.  These titans of
the IT world will share best practices and lessons learned in conducting
e-Business, effectively and securely. SecurE-Biz provides an interactive,
hype-free forum where CIOs, CFOs, CTOs, CEOs, CAOs, and CSOs articulate
Actionable Architectures and CIO Strategies for implementing the President's
Management Agenda in the areas of e-Business, Homeland Security, IT Capital
Planning and Enterprise Architectures (www.FEAPMO.gov).

"We see the conference as a catalyst promoting the sharing of 'lessons
learned' achieving future cost savings and efficiencies within the federal
IT community,"  stated Lee Holcomb former chair of the Federal CIO Council,
Architecture and Infrastructure Committee in 2002.

The theme for the '03 SecurE-Biz Summit is; "Solution Architectures for
E-Gov and Homeland Security".   Information about CxO Summit (past and
current), attendance, sponsorship and the Advisory Board can be found at
www.SecurE-Biz.net.  The Advisory Board will be meeting with our Platinum
Sponsors on Jan 24th to finalize the program and identify our Distinguished
Speakers for the '03 Summit.

To serve the needs of the entire IT value chain, SecurE-Biz will run in
parallel, two interactive tracks (one for CxOs, the other for architects and
system designers) which will cover the following topic areas in depth;

CxO Strategies Track: "Models for e-Business Transformation":

- Citizen Centric, Business Architectures: Convergence of State, Federal and
Commercial best practices
- Information Sharing Strategies for Homeland Security and Critical
Infrastructure Protection
- Linking Capital Planning and IT investments through Enterprise
Architectures
- Applying the Business Reference Model and Performance Metrics (BRM, PRM)

Applied Architectures Track: "Delivering Business Outcomes through IT":

- Secure Web Services: building a common platform for e-Business and e-Gov
- Evolving Solution Architectures for US President's 24 e-Gov initiatives
- Component-based Architectures: The missing link between business drivers
and technical solutions
- Incorporating emerging e-Biz standards into the Service Component
Reference Model and TRM.

Enterprise Architecture Bootcamp:

For select organizations who want to re-engineer their IT Planning and
Architecture Team, a two day, in depth workshop for those interested in
understanding how to apply Component-base Architectures in developing the
new OMB FEAPMO reference models.  In depth presentations will be given by
top practitioners from ICH, BAH, Unisys, OMB, GAO and chairs from the IAC
Enterprise Architecture SIG.

SecurE-Biz Thought Leadership Awards:

Members from the press, Advisory Board and Federal CIO Council are invited
to submit nomination.  The 03 SecurE-Biz Leadership Awards program (led by
Dave McClure of the Council for Excellence in Government) will recognize
government and industry thought leaders who have made a difference in
transforming their business processes with improved service to the
"customer".

"The words I repeatedly hear are ‘substantive, meaningful, useful,
thoughtful and professional.’ You guys really put together a first rate
conference that (unlike many other conferences in this town) actually tries
to identify and solve some very difficult problems. You should all be proud
of your significant contributions to the future of the Department!" stated
the 2001 DoD Deputy CIO with regard to the past success of the SecurE-Biz
conference series.

Special thanks for the thoughtful contributions from our best even
SecurE-Biz Advisory Board;

John Brantley, Intelink Director, CMS Intelligence Community CIO
Michael Farber, Chief Architect, BAH
Dave Connelly, President,  Open Applications Group
Ed Cannon, CIO, Grey Global, Chair, former SIM Information Civil Defense
Task Force
Steve Cooper, CIO, Department of Homeland Security *
Audrey Davis, CIO, (DFAS) Defense Finance
Karen Evans, CIO, Dept of Energy, Vice-chair, Federal CIO Council *
Shirley Fields, CIO, Defense Information Systems Agency
Tom Glover, President, Web Services Interop Consortium (WS-I)
Patrick Gannon, President, OASIS
Keith Herrington, Chief Architect, Transportation Security Admin.
Vance Hitch, CIO, Dept. of Justice *
Randy Hite, Director of Architecture and Systems, Government Accounting
Office
Bill Hoffman, President, Object Management Group
Laura Lundin, Director, BITS
Norm Lorentz, CTO, Office of Management and Budget, the White House *
Dr. Dan Mehan, CIO, Federal Aviation Administration
Dave McClure, VP E-Gov, Council for Excellence in Government
Emory Miller, Deputy Administrator,  Government Services Administration
Bob Nemetz, DAUSD ATL, US Office of the Secretary of Defense *
Mark Nelson, Chief Architecture Officer, ICHnet.org
PV Puvvada, CTO, Unisys, Chair, IAC EA SIG
Rick Rosenburg, EVP, EDS
Rick Smith, COO, ICHnet.org *
Howard Schmidt, Vice Chair, President's CIPC, National Security Council *
Stan Soloway, President, Professional Services Council
Debra Stouffer, former CTO of EPA
Brad Westpfahl, VP Public Affairs, IBM
Owen Wormser, DAUSD Spectrum, Office of the Secretary of Defense, C3I
Rob Thomas, ADCS Warfighter Integration, USAF
Zack Tumin, President, Financial Srvs. Tech. Consortium
Susan Warsaw, Chief Architect, BEP, Dept of Treasury
John Weiler, Executive Director, ICHnet.org *

* Program Chairs

Ed Cannon, CIO Grey Global, and former SIM Information Civil Defense Task
Force Chair, states, "The Secure E-Business Summit will be an excellent
opportunity for IT leaders to understand the critical success factors for
conducting e-business securely. I encourage others to participate in this
and other worthwhile ICHnet.org collaborative efforts."

The Advisory Board welcomes back our alumni sponsors to join us in helping
make the '03 Spring SecurE-Biz CxO Summit another invaluable educational
experience for our Nation's IT leadership:

ANSI, Apple Computers, AOL Time Warner, Arcot Systems, AT&T, BAE, BEA
Systems, Bearing Point, Booz Allen Hamilton, Center for Internet Security,
CCIA, Computer Sciences Corporation, CIO Magazine/CXO media, Cisco Systems,
Community Management Staff CIO, Commerce One, Computer Associates,
Computerworld, Council for Excellence in Government, Defense E-Business
Program Office, DISA, EDS, Entrust Technologies, ePresence, Federal Computer
Week, Federal CIO Council, Financial Services Technology Consortium,
Government Computer News, Government Services Administration, Hewlett
Packard, IBM, Identix, IEEE, InformationWeek, IONA Technologies, I-Planet,
Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Loudcloud, Mercator Software, Microsoft,
National Information Assurance Partnership, National Security Agency,
National Imagery & Mapping Agency, NIST, Novell, OASIS, OBJECTive Technology
Group, Object Management Group, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Open
Applications Group, Open GIS, Optimize, Oracle, Persistence Software, Post
Newsweek, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Qwest, RSA Security, SAP, SAIC, Syntegra,
Secure Computing, Society of Information Management, Silverstream Software,
Sun Microsystems, Symantec, Telcordia Technologies,  TIBCO, Tivoli Systems,
Unisys, Verisign, Versata, Vitria Technologies, Dept. of Veterans Affairs,
WebMethods.

"Please join us in supporting the Secure E-Business Executive Summit so we
may all better learn how to transform our business processes into secure
E-Business Solutions!" stated Art Money, DoD CIO & Assistant Secretary of
Defense for C3I with regard to the 2000 SecurE-Biz summit.

About ICH: ICHnet.org is a public/private partnership established to advance
the practice of enterprise architectures and e-business interoperability.
ICH provides members of the IT value chain with formal mechanisms to effect
the mapping of common business frameworks to solution architectures in a
timely and cost effective manner. Free Architecture White Papers and GSA
Schedule can be found at www.ICHnet.org. Or call us, 703-768-0400. Or just
send me a note at john@ICHnet.org

John Weiler
ICH Architecture Resource Center
"From Architectures to Implementation Reality"
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