John Zachman is the author of the "Framework for Information Systems Architecture", which has received broad acceptance throughout the world as an integrative framework for managing change in Enterprises and in the systems that support them. He travels nationally and internationally, teaching and consulting, and has facilitated innumerable executive team planning sessions. As a conference speaker, John known for motivating messages on information issues. John Zachman is a member of the International Advisory Board of DAMA International.

Stan Locke lectures on the implementation of the framework concepts, bringing a practical business perspective to the framework logic. Since graduate school, his special interest is in the management methodologies required to define an enterprise and the ways in which this can be represented in repository technology. Stan has been the architect of the Zachman standards under John’s direction, model builder of the hexagon implementation constructs and directs the applied research through ZFA.