Enterprise Architecture Summit 2025: Key Insights, Solutions & Trends

Avolution recently hosted their 7th Enterprise Architecture Summit, bringing together a global community of Enterprise Architecture practitioners, thought leaders, and technology experts. Across masterclasses, and live presentations. Attendees discovered practical strategies to drive transformation, overcome common challenges, and stay ahead of Enterprise Architecture trends.

Key Highlights of the Enterprise Architecture Summit

• Global Expertise: Sessions covered financial services, manufacturing, retail, and more, showcasing how EA delivers value in every industry.
• Actionable Frameworks: From the ArchiMate-based agile practices to real-world application rationalization playbooks, each talk offered immediately applicable insights.
• Technology Deep Dives: In depth previews of ABACUS 14, SharePoint integration, and AI-powered EA roadmaps.
• Multilingual Content: Exclusive Spanish and Portuguese sessions ensured our Latin American audience could engage fully.
• Interactive Q&A: With CEOs, senior consultants, and global EA leaders; fostering community and collaboration.

Featured Sessions

Explore highlighted presentations, key topics, and expert speakers from our latest sessions.

Winning the Boardroom: How Enterprise Architects Can Lead in Strategy

Dr. David Vander, CEO of Avolution 
Learn how enterprise architects can transcend execution, shape strategic decisions, and demonstrate measurable impact, even under short-term pressures.  

The Enterprise Architects Playbook for Application Rationalization: A Real-World Journey

Rafael Costa, Head of Enterprise Architecture at Arxada
Explore a data driven, adaptable playbook for continuous application portfolio optimization and sustained value delivery.

Embedding Agile Architecture with ArchiMate

Chris Payne, Director of Enterprise Architecture at Saint-Gobain 
Discover techniques to integrate ArchiMate into scrum teams, maintain governance, and build end-to-end models that evolve iteratively. 

Building the Future of Banking through BIAN and EA

Hans Tesselaar, Executive Director at BIAN 
Uncover how the BIAN standard, coupled with EA best practices, revolutionized core banking transformations.

Racionalização de Aplicações por Meio da Arquitetura de Negócios 

Lila Reis, Associate Consultant at Evolve&Amplify 
(Presentation in Portuguese) Optimize your application portfolio through business-driven architecture to achieve tangible cost savings. 

How to Start and Stay on Track for Delivering EA Value

Corinna Ahmed, Senior Software Consultant at Avolution 
Proven tactics from global ABACUS deployments for communicating value and bringing stakeholders on board, providing both short and longer term value. 

Successful Integration: SharePoint & ABACUS 

Glenn Wells & Anshul Goswami, Ledcor 
A behind-the-scenes look at Ledcor’s architecture journey and seamless SharePoint to ABACUS integration.

Beyond Business Capabilities: Architecting the Enterprise  

Michael Schank, Founder of Process Inventory Advisors 
A process–first EA approach for AI insights, tighter business alignment, and greater strategic influence.

Pairing ArchiMate and Algorithms to Inform Better Business Decisions  

Kevin Burbidge & Tristan Kinnane, Serco
Exclusive insights into Serco’s data-driven architecture practice across a global enterprise.

Building Enterprise Architecture Roadmaps  

Conor Farrell, Product Consultant at Avolution 
Step–by–Step Guidance on creating and visualizing four common EA roadmap types in ABACUS.

Leveraging Enterprise Architecture for Effective ESG Reporting  

Ryan Xu, Senior Consultant at Avolution 
Explore the link between Enterprise Architecture and ESG metrics for transparent, compliant sustainability reporting.

Realistic AI: Beyond the Hype Cycle  

Aaron Tan, Chairman & Founder at IASA Asia Pacific 
Addressing the gap between AI expectations and delivery, and the critical Enterprise Architecture role in bridging it.

ABACUS 14 Preview  

Peter Collins & Polina Karachunsky, Avolution 
Sneak peek at the next generation of features, performance enhancements, and AI-driven capabilities.

Using EA to Supercharge Efficiency and Collaboration within Financial Services

Fabrizio Dian & Andrea Caiazzo, BIP 
How PLAS (Platform Architecture Strategy) and Enterprise Architecture combine to optimize IT efficiency and team collaboration in banking.

Driving Digital Governance Through EA at QNB

Pavle Vukmanovic & Jalal Banaii, QNB Group 
A structured Enterprise Architecture  approach to enforce digital governance, compliance, and trust in large scale transformations.

Aligning Strategy, Capabilities and Services in ABACUS for Real Enterprise Value

Steven Hemmings & Nick Stevenson Steels, Insight & Avolution 
Holistic methods to sync strategy, capabilities, and services for maximum organizational impact.

Accelerating EA Outcomes with AI: Strategy, Speed, and Scalability

Andrew Lewthwaite, Avolution 
Moving beyond static models to predictive, automated Enterprise Architecture tasks that scale across the enterprise.

¿Cómo maximizar el ROI de su Arquitectura Empresarial?

Alvaro Echeverry & Alexendra Zapata, DTL360 & Avolution 
(Presentation in Spanish) Transform your static “as–is/to–be” models into a continuous engine of value.

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Dive into the full summit experience, access the complete recordings playlist here and catch every expert presentation on demand! 

We look forward to seeing you next June for even more insights into the constantly evolving world of Enterprise Architecture!

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About Avolution 

Avolution develops ABACUS, a scalable Enterprise Architecture solution adopted by thousands of organizations worldwide. From your first cloud-based diagram and editable data list to enterprise-level transformation, ABACUS adapts to your needs, offering intuitive onboarding for new users and sophisticated analytics, algorithmic insights, and roadmap generation for thriving, large-scale EA practices. Collaborate in real time, test alternative scenarios, and share compelling visual reports and dashboards that tie strategic vision to tangible outcomes.