Slides for Ross Dawson's keynote at Gartner Application Architecture, Development and Integration Summit on August 10, 2011. The slides are designed to accompany the keynote and NOT to stand alone.

2. Entrepreneur

3. Keynote speaker

6. What is life?

7. Organizations and beyond

8. The structure is the same

9. Levelsof the living networks Brain Internet Applications Organizations Industries

11. Giving Life Organizations Business Ecoystems Applications

12. Giving Life

13. Connectivity Integration Standards Structure

14. Connectivity Integration Standards Structure

15. Information accelerates Flickr credit: kainet

16. Wherever you go

17. Connectivity Integration Standards Structure

18. Where are standards going?

19. Do the layers stack up? Flickr credit: Jon Glittenberg

20. Connectivity Integration Standards Structure

21. Beyond spaghetti

22. New vistas to connect Flickr credit: Irargerich

23. Connectivity Integration Standards Structure

24. Architecture of solids Flickr credit: paul (dex)

25. Coming alive at the phase transition

26. Connectivity Integration Standards Structure

27. Organizations

28. Divergence in performance

29. The only way you can control your destiny is to be more flexible than your environment - The Law of Requisite Variety

30. The two layers of organizations… Standardized processes Ad-hoc networks

31. The events that drive business Flickr credit: cdharrison

32. Finding what you need

33. Governance for transformation

34. Business Ecosystems

35. Information across boundaries

36. Thriving ecosystems

37. Risk and benefit

38. Layers of data Open Trusted Proprietary

39. Processes for trust development

40. Applications

41. Modular processes Flickr credit: Grietje Haitsma

42. Spot markets for everything

43. Distributed development Image credit: NASA

44. The man in the machine

45. Giving Life Organizations Business Ecoystems Applications

46. Energy in networks