Sam Holcman and Andrew Lewthwaite share why Enterprise Architecture and Security are necessary compnents in building a proper A.I.capability, and how to do it.

Have a listen to these two, highly engaging webinars from last week. Check out the slide decks. See what you missed and what you can learn!

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Good Day AEA Members,

AEA has hosted 3 webinars over the last week...

What do you know about Architecture and Susainability, AI and Autonomous Work?

Additionally, Dr. Michelle Supper delivered a very interesting webinar on Learning EA Lessons from our past to power significant Transformation.
This webinar touches upon ethical themes and asks the basic question, 'What's our role as Enterprise Architects?" One of the more thought provoking webinars, imho.🙂

To view the latest content go to the AEA Webinars page.

Share your feedback on these webinars in the comments below.
Would you recommend these webinars to other AEA Members?
 

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The latest AEA Webinar delves into ArchiMate and how to best employ it in a way that benefits both Architects and Stakeholders.

Chris Armstrong, President/Chief Architect of Armstrong Process Group, Inc. (APG), shares how the architecture practice can have it both ways by introducing mechanisms for extending the base ArchiMate language with platform-specific semantics and visualization.

AEA Members can login to view this latest content. 

Longtime AEA Contributor Chris Armstrong is back! Chris has helped start 2026 strong in delivering two great AEA Webinars:

AI and Architecture: Future or Folly?

Introduction to the Unified Architecture Framework

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Daljit Banger shares what he knows in the latest AEA Webinar.*

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AEA Members can now login and view the latest webinar content.

Register and Join Us for Part 2 of Syed's discussion on Friday, December 12th:

The Three Transformation Dashboards: How to Align Projects, Realize Benefits, Optimize Investments

Through December 17th...
Download a digital version of Syed's latest book, Beyond Delivery: A Playbook for Enterprise Architects, Portfolio Planners, and Project Managers to Shape Enterprise Transformation, for only $.99. Yes, you read that correctly 99 cents!

Members can also catch up on previous webinars in the series.

Zero Trust Series - Webinar #4

This webinar will focus on the implementation in the context Healthcare. It will cover 3 Acme examples:

• A healthcare provider (SMB) – hospital with a physician practice
• A healthcare provider (large) – covering multiple hospitals, its own insurance, etc.
• A healthcare payer (insurance)

The webinar will further cover application of the 3-pillar model, roles, and an understanding of risk, governance and compliance. How does this fit into the architect’s life? What is the senior executive accountable for? This and many other questions will be addressed as we apply them to the scenarios.

• View the latest AEA Webinar with Andrew Josey and Karuna Mallesh on how earning TOGAF® and Open CA Certifications can increase your skill sets and give your career a boost.

• View Beacoming a Master Architect with Eric Jager. This webinar takes you through the process on completing the application to showcase your experience.

• You'll find webinars from Oliver Bossert and Sharm Manwani on the positive impact that a good Enterprise Architect can make on an organization, and what skills are most valued.

• Dorene Dickman shares how to survive as an Enterprise Architect - clear communication and effective partnerships.

• Len Fehskens shares why Professional Development is important.

AEA Members login to view this Career and Professional Development content and much more.

During the last few months of 2025, there will be additional AEA Webinars on Zero Trust and Optimizing AI. You can register here.

Catch up on these webinars to bring yourself up-to-speed. This will put you in the best position to absorb the additional content delivered in these upcoming sessions.

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Following the AEA Webinar topic about successfully implementing an Enterprise Architecture practice in your business, we offer the latest webinar with Wolfgang Goebl of Intersection Group, from May 21st:

Three Steps to Set Up an Impactful, Collaborative,
Enterprise Architecture Practice

You'll also find recent AEA Webinars: Getting Started with Enterprise Architecture, and Surviving Enterprise Architecture — Practitioner Tales and Pragmatic Insights.

Both webinars are based on recently written books. Details on how to purchase these books are available on the webiniar. 

During the last 2 webinars we've had the pleasure of hosting four practicing Enterprise Architects talking simply, and discussing Enterprise Architecture (including two outstanding Q & A sessions over more than 1 hour).

AEA Members may view the webinar recordings and download the slides here.
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The authors share experiences and lessons learned, case studies, methodologies, how to best navigate the requirements of stakeholders, and overcoming obstacles. 

Most importantly it's all straight talk: Understandable, relateable language, which makes EA seem more accessible, and implementing a practice attainable.

You can learn how by listening to the recording of the LIVE meeting and discussion with Myles Suer:

Securing the Cloud: Blueprint for Modern Entitlements and Security

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While the TOGAF ADM and TOGAF's approaches to integrated risk and security remain useful guides, the approaches that need to be deployed for protecting enterprise security are fundamentally different when considering how LLMs, Vector Databases, and Prompt and Query Engines operate. This presentation will explain how Gen AI works, address the data security concerns, and suggest an approach to Generative AI Governance and Protection.

AEA Members can login and listen to the webinar and view the presentation slides HERE.

For further content on AI and Enterprise Architecture check out Sam Holcman's AEA webinar on "Gaining a Competetive Advantage using AI and Enterprise Architecture" on June 22nd earlier this year.

Were you unable to attend the latest AEA Webinar, or did the time not work for your schedule?

Not to worry.

The recording is now available for AEA Members; the slides should be coming soon too.*

When the digital enterprise wants to change its management focus to a product mindset and to implement this with Digital Product Portfolio Management practices, what are the implications for enterprise architects and related technology management roles?

A great presentation from Dan, Mark and Dave. It was accompanied with a 30 minute Q&A at the end. Thank you for all the insightful questions!

Click here to listen and view the latest AEA Webinar.

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Zero Trust, Part 1 is an introduction to Zero Trust: the history, why it's there, the impact in IT, IOT and OT

In Part 2, Nikhil goes through the phases of the Playbook, the 3-pillar model, and covers setting up a Digital Zero Trust Strategy for the enterprise.

AEA Members can login and watch the webinar and view the slide deck here.

Shape Your Career as an EA Professional and Leader

During the last several years AEA has partnered with Drs. Sharm Manwani and Oliver Bossert in conjunction with the Henley Business School to conduct research in order to learn what skills help drive success at the orgainizational level.

More recently, Sharm and Oliver have been researching what skills individuals need to possess and develop to successully progress in their career, and make contributions to their organization's Enterprise Architecture initiatives.

What are your strengths, where are the gaps in your skill set?
Which of these skills are most valued when organizations are hiring?

AEA Members can login to view the latest webinar from November 20, and also download the slide decks (from both 10/2 and 11/20).

Here are some of the questions that Sharm and Oliver address:

• What are the main factors that drive the success of Enterprise Architecture
  at the company level?
• What skills do you need to contribute to and be recognized for this success?
• What skills should you develop to do a good job and to progress in your career?
  (They are different!)
• What are the choices that make the biggest impact on your career?
  

How do Enterprise Architects make Architecture User-Friendly?

(Hint: communication is key) ;)

In the latest AEA Webinar, Dorene Dickman dives into best-practices for EAs who are looking to establish strong partnerships with their stakeholders. Dorene understands the importance of making architecture engaging and user-friendly, plus the positive effects it can have throughout the business. During this webinar you can expect to gain:

• Valuable tips for effective communication
• Stakeholder partnership & management techniques
• Direction for creating architecture that resonates.

AEA Members can login and listen to this AEA Webinar:
Quick Wins: Five Ways to Make Architeture User-Friendly

Members can share thoughts in the comments section to let folks know what you think and make connections.

Login here or go to On Demand Events on the home page to check out more than 125 hours of learning content.

Since September, AEA has been hosting a four part webinar workshop series. Jason Uppal has been conducting these workshops on Business Transformation and Lived Experiences centered around leveraging your real world life experiences, and using them to drive transformational change. In these workshops you'll learn how to overcome the Business Requirements challenge for transformational programs in Organizations, in Communities, and in Public Institutions that serve us all.

AEA Members can listen to the first three webinar presentations and view the accompanying slide decks in On Demand Events.

Bring yourself up-to-speed, then register for the final workshop:

Transformational Change - Share & Learn | Wednesday, December 13th

So you have completed the TOGAF 9.x exams, completed a training course on Business Architecture, and also successfully completed the ArchiMate course. You are wondering "what now”?

During this webinar:

• We will discuss the certification path to follow and its conformance requirements;
• You will learn about the questions posed and gain insight into how to answer them. We will go into all the required badges;
• You will be introduced to the various application forms that need to be completed;
• You will gain insight into how the questions relate to the TOGAF ADM;
• We will go through some sample questions and I will demonstrate how to answer them.

AEA Members can login to listen to the webinar recording, and view the presentation slides and Q&A responses under On Demand Events.

Suresh's presentation covers the topics of the book such as state of the enterprise architecture, different architecture frameworks in the industry, some reference architectures, components of enterprise architecture, setting up the practice, different levels of architectures, business capability development and developing architecture in an agile manner.

The latest AEA Webinar installment is now available for your consumption.

ArcOps Pipeline: Architecting Intelligent Enterprises

Asif Gill from Sydney, Australia shares his insights on the contemporary adaptive enterprise architecture (AEA); an information approach that provides an integrated architecture and operations (ArcOps) pipeline, with supporting tool chain. This approach supports decisions, actions, and desired outcomes for intelligent enterprises.

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Agile Architecture – How do Architects Navigate in a VUCA World?

We're living in a world where what is accepted today will not be accepted tomorrow.
Clients’ needs are changing, and the markets are volatile. Agility is a key requirement for many organizations that are looking for a digital future. IT Architecture is central to the success of any digital transformation.

Keerthi Anantapur Guggila discusses best practices and guidelines for an architect to navigate in a VUCA world and deliver in an agile way.

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In the latest webinar hosted by AEA, Dr. Oliver Bossert and Prof. Sharm Manwani discuss their latest findings from the EA Survey and their practical lessons on how EA is progressing on its journey to make a bigger impact.

Four distinct areas are explored: Strategy and C-suite, Customer and Business redesign, Modern Technology Architecture, and Agile Governance.

Go to On Demand Events to listen to the webinar recording and view the presentation slides.

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** If you enjoy this webinar, have a listen to the 2020 webinars where Oliver and Sharm present their research findings about EA.

... And finally, we encourage AEA members to participate in the ongoing research conducted by McKinsey and the Henley Business School about the role of enterprise architecture. Go to www.easurvey.org to share your insights.