Industry Leaders to Headline Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference Chicago

SAN FRANCISCO, June 30 /PRNewswire/ — The Open Group, a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium focused on open standards and global interoperability within and between enterprises, today announced its line-up of keynote speakers for the 19th Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference. Brian Wilczynski, chief of staff architecture directorate, assistant secretary of defense (Networks & Information Integration) and Department of Defense CIO, will deliver one of the keynote speeches at the conference, to be held July 21-23, 2008 at the InterContinental Hotel in Chicago, Illinois.