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Stuart Macgregor is the CEO of Real IRM and The Open Group - South Africa. Through his personal achievements, he has gained the reputation of an Enterprise Architecture and IT Governance specialist, both in South Africa and internationally. Stuart is a member of John Zachman’s advisory committee, and is openly obsessed with Enterprise Architecture with a definite business bias.
Trainer - Bruno Vandenborre
Bruno is an information and data modelling expert with over 22 years of IT experience. Born and educated in Belgium, Bruno holds a Masters in Computer Science from the KULeuven, and is TOGAF 9 and ArchiMate 3 certified. Currently he serves as specialist trainer at Real IRM.
Trainer - Michael Payne
Michael Payne is an IT professional who writes, speaks, lectures and consults on various IT-related topics. Currently, Michael works for Real IRM as a trainer and senior consultant. He presents various courses including TOGAF® 9 Level 1 & 2 training, Introduction to Business Architecture, Business Architecture in Practice and the EA Bootcamp.
Trainer - Adriaan Vorster
Following a successful career in Electrical Engineering Research, Adriaan Vorster moved into the ICT field, where, for 23 years, he has been involved in business systems analysis, design, development and implementation. Having held CIO positions at UJ and Mvelaserve for over ten years, Adriaan Vorster’s experience makes him a highly knowledgeable, competent TOGAF® trainer with an entertaining, interactive presentation style
Trainer - Joanne Macgregor
Trainer and specialist consultant at Real IRM, Joanne Macgregor has a background in education, IT training and business consulting, and she is also a registered Counselling Psychologist in private practice. She brings her considerable experience in these fields to helping corporations with soft skills and change management training, and team facilitation. A dynamic presenter, Joanne is also the author of several published novels.

Latest News

On 24 November 2021 The Open Group Africa hosted a virtual workshop to evaluate the Spanish Higher Education Capability Map currently under review within The Open Group Architecture Forum.

The Open Group, the vendor-neutral technology standards consortium, is hosting its upcoming “Open Digital Standards” event October 26 – 27, 2021.

After a longstanding debate over the compatibility and relationship between enterprise architecture and Agile methodologies, The Open Group has released its Open Agile Architecture standard - a standard that provides guidance and best practices for enterprise architects transitioning to Agile met

For the first time since the Enterprise Architecture Forum’s inception in 2004, The Open Group South Africa is proud to have held a live, virtual Enterprise Architecture forum. The mostly-monthly event took place on the 25th of June 2020.

The Open Group South Africa is proud to announce that the number of TOGAF® 9 individual certifications has passed the major milestone of 100 000. These certifications span 149 countries throughout the world.

As of May 2020, the number of TOGAF 9 certifications is growing rapidly and is about to surpass 100 000 (the number is currently 98 900). This number includes certified individuals from 149 countries.

November 2019 saw The Open Group release its latest version of the ArchiMate ® modeling language for Enterprise Architecture.

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