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Symposium and Farewell lecture - 16th of October, 2009

Wednesday, 04 November 2009

jan_dietz_-_portrait On the 16th of October, 2009, a symposium on Methodologies for Enterprise Engineering was held on the occasion of the farewell of Jan L.G. Dietz as professor at the Delft University of Technology.

Several specialists from the Netherlands and from foreign countries contributed by giving presentations. The subjects of those presentations have interfaces with the lifework of Jan Dietz, the DEMO methodology and underlying theories. The contributions clearly show the importance of the work of Jan Dietz and the influence of it in the international academic world.

In the afternoon, Jan Dietz held his farewell lecture, titled: 'Is it φτψ or bullshit?' If you want to view a video of this lecture, please click here. If you want to read his lecture, please click here.

Here below you find some photos, and links to the presentations given.

A word of welcome and an introduction to the symposium, by the organizers Antonia Albani (right side) and Joseph Barjis.
Professor Jan Hoogervorst, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, and Sogeti, The Netherlands: Avoiding enterprise ‘schismogenesis’ for ensuring enterprise success. Download his presentation.
Professor Robert Winter, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland: Terminology, Theory, Technology and Philosophy of Business Engineering. Download his presentation.
Michael Kimman, VP Strategy & Program Management, KLM, The Netherlands: DEMO at Air France-KLM Cargo.
Professor Jan Verelst: University of Antwerp, Belgium: Organizational Entropy as a Foundation for Enterprise Engineering. Download his presentation.
Professor Jose Tribolet, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal: Dietz Engineered a Marvelous Ontology! Download his presentation.
Jan Dietz surprises each contributor with a Performa! (Note: If you don't understand who 'Performa' is, just read the book 'Een reis door Kabouterland', or understand 'performa' by reading the white paper 'A meta ontology for organizations'.)

For more photos, see http://gallery.me.com/fbi#100228.