Gartner Symposium/ITxpo Orlando 2009
| October 18, 2009 | to | October 22, 2009 |
Walt Disney World Dolphin
Orlando, FL, USA
Gartner Symposium/ITxpo is the industry’s largest and most strategic conference for senior IT and business professionals. The entire event experience is based on Gartner’s best-in-class research and information.
Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2009 is the world’s premier business technology conference series, designed exclusively this year to help you and your organization drive business imperatives, operate with optimal efficiency, and position yourself to emerge from the economic downturn stronger than ever. Business technology will contribute to all of these goals, and Symposium/ITxpo 2009 will deliver you the insights and practical advice on precisely how.
Track: Applications
There are only three kinds of software solutions businesses need: Ones that deliver business value better, ones that deliver business value faster and ones that deliver business value cheaper. The best ones do all three. Application leaders need to figure out how to provide this trifecta of software solutions in an increasingly complex development and management environment. From SOA to mashups to SaaS to cloud computing, the road to truly valuable software – solutions with worth you can prove – is difficult but navigable.
Track: Business Intelligence & Information Management
The world’s business environment has changed dramatically in the last year. CIOs and their leadership teams need to adapt to new business models, manage changes in business processes, make knowledge workers more productive and exploit information (both inside and outside the firewall) as a strategic asset. Exceptional leadership is needed for five key initiatives: 1) Business intelligence and performance management; 2) enterprise content management; 3) social software and collaboration; 4) enterprise information management; and 5) data management and integration. CIOs will either provide the leadership and investment that these initiatives require to transform their business, or their business will be operating in the dark using outdated information, tools, skills, processes and business models.
Track: Business Process Improvement
Improving business processes consistently ranks as the most important priority for CIOs and is a top priority for Symposium attendees this year. That’s not surprising, as process excellence contributes to a number of other business priorities, including customer acquisition and retention, risk management, worker productivity and, of course, the critical act of cost optimization. Our volatile macroeconomic environment highlights the importance of business process improvement and, for some enterprises, regaining control of critical processes will be a matter of survival.
Track: CIO
CIOs face unprecedented challenges leading IT, needing to reduce costs while simultaneously delivering innovation to drive effectiveness. The CIO program at Symposium concentrates on the issues, decisions, needs and actions required for IT success. To succeed, CIOs must enhance IT performance through new tools and practices. Using these tools, CIOs will position IT and business expectations for IT now and in the future. The future requires defining new sources of IT-led innovation and competitive advantage.
Track: Enterprise Architecture
Enterprise architects in best-practice organizations are responding to today’s challenging environment by using the tools of strategy to manage IT costs while providing a platform for innovation. By moving beyond the “old school” obsession with granular standard setting and instead focusing on information exchange and business process management, enterprise architects are learning to love social computing and user-centric technology, not see them as threats. In addition, enterprise architects’ holistic, business-first perspective is helping to supercharge the development of new business models and provide more precise measures for business value delivery.
Track: Infrastructure & Operations – Data Center, Client Computing and IT Operations
Combine virtualization, consolidation, automation and cloud computing – and throw in a recession – and you’ve got the makings for huge expectations of cost savings delivered by infrastructure & operations (I&O) leaders. Of course, you also can’t falter when it comes to improving service quality and increasing agility. And what about upgrading those aging PCs? Such is the plight of today’s I&O leaders.
Track: Infrastructure & Operations – Communications
Networking and communications technologies and services are the lifeblood of successful organizations. Yet, like in all areas of IT today, the business is demanding cost-optimized network services that are flexible (e.g., MPLS), provide process improvements (e.g., unified communications), and increase worker productivity (e.g., mobile applications and solutions). Communications leaders must continue to drive business priorities through the application of these communications technologies.
Track: Program & Portfolio Management
Program and portfolio management leaders have extraordinary influence over what actually gets done in business technology – or, at least, you should. After all, it’s your job to value, prioritize and then see through your enterprise’s key initiatives. In today’s challenging economic environment, valuing, prioritizing and seeing through projects and programs is more challenging than ever, and requires new approaches.
Track: Security & Risk Management
The irony of great security, risk management and business continuity programs is that they’re appreciated by the business only when something goes wrong or, ideally, a great wrong is averted. Part of this is the immature treatment of these disciplines, but part of it lies in security and risk management leaders’ failure to clearly define and articulate the business value of what they do. You need to create a proactive program that appropriately addresses risk, meets compliance requirements, and is directly linked to business performance.
Track: Sourcing & Vendor Relationships
The only nice thing about a recession is the shift to a buyer’s market. Are you capitalizing on that? This is a natural time to refresh your sourcing strategy and reassess your sourcing engagements with strategic vendors and service providers, to clearly understand whether or not you’re getting out of those relationships what you’d expected. And it’s also time to consider the wide variety of alternative sourcing models emerging in the market (e.g., SaaS, infrastructure utilities), to see if they would fit your needs as well or better.
Designed specifically to weather the current economic challenges, Symposium/ITxpo is a powerful mix of management and technology insight with hard-hitting actionable advice that will enable you to make the strategic, organizational and technology cost-cutting and investment decisions you need to emerge with a competitive edge.
5 Reasons to Attend
Need a reason to attend? Before we give you 5, read what your peers have to say:
- “As in the past, Gartner did not disappoint. I’m leaving with the answers and direction I came to find.”
- “As someone who has attended symposiums every year for the last 12 years, this year’s symposium was, as expected, very well done.”
- “Symposium is my annual IT event which trumps events designed specifically for my vertical. I have been back annually for over 5 years and I have no plans to stop!”
1. RESEARCH.
In the technology world, Gartner is the single most trusted source of knowledge and advice.
2. RELEVANCE.
Gartner Symposium is keenly focused on aligning IT with the enterprise and addressing topics which are top-of-mind.
3. EXPERIENCE.
Gartner Symposium ITxpo research-backed sessions, highly requested keynotes and special programs and networking creating a world-class environment.
4. PERSONALIZATION.
Everything at SYM is designed specifically for you with build your own agenda, community-based networking, Analyst One-On-Ones and other individualized programs situated around your needs.
5. SOLUTIONS.
The ITxpo showcase floor is loaded with technologies to solve your problems and help with innovation to achieve growth.
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