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| Application Development, Deployment & Integration (ADDI) | Business software is in transition. The need for agility is driving modular design with service-oriented architecture attracting considerable attention. However today’s new business applications blend new development as well as integrate elements of existing applications. This track focuses on both application integration and application development. It will provide insights into how best to leverage web services and how to address the security of business applications. | ADDI |
| Applications Software (AS) | The historical applications platform, comprised of packaged software running in on-premise servers and mainframes, is rapidly evolving. Cloud-based offerings are gaining traction, with the existing traditional Web platform being supplemented by “integration-as-a-service,” “application platform-as-a-service,” and eventually “anything as a service.” Enterprise applications like ERP, SCM, and CRM are maturing and their underlying technologies changing. This leads to a complex set of capabilities that must be effectively sourced, managed and governed in order to provide the foundation required to run enterprise business applications. This track will address the continuous need manage the application portfolio and the trends effecting portals, collaboration, business applications and CPM. | AS |
| Business Management of IT (BMIT) | This track is for CIOs, business and IT leaders, and strategists who want to find new ways to exploit IT to deliver more value to the business through technology-enabled change. Organizations need to re-focus IT from just delivering services to delivering innovation by transforming processes, information networks, and relationships. Learn how key disciplines such as leadership, strategy, governance, performance management, and service management can be applied to raise IT’s contribution to another level. Emerge with a personal competitive edge and a sharper focus on the critical success factors for your enterprise. | BMIT |
| Communications (COM) | Networking has never been more important in underpinning business life than now as organizations place critical reliance on networked applications to deliver their services. The fundamental business models used to deliver applications are under attack from innovative alternatives and communications is becoming more unified and mobile. Learn how to save money and thrive in the emerging networked world. | COM |
| Emerging Trends & Technologies (ETT) | Outmoded business-IT thinking could stop your enterprise from acquiring new technology-enabled capabilities. Gartner will examine how to harness the disruptive potential of technology advances while considering significant business and social changes. Become an innovation leader! Understand what’s on the radar screen, sharpen your senses for what might happen, and learn best practices for emerging technology planning. | ETT |
| Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management (EABPM) | Change without integrated enterprise architecture, IT planning and process improvement leads to reactive and fragmented tactical responses, wasted resources and funding, and loss of competitive advantage. Regardless of your organization’s size, industry, location or culture, we are all experiencing significant business, economic, social, political and cultural turbulence. Business and IT are increasingly intertwined. Integrated enterprise architecture, IT planning and process improvement is far beyond just IT and business alignment, it strategically defines how changes in business and IT engagement will impact IT governance, resource management, skills development and defines the optimal IT investment portfolio. | EABPM |
| Industry Insight (IND) | In a global environment of change and where resources are increasingly constrained, efficiency of production and effective delivery are essential. But organizations are also subject to forces, such as risk mitigation, compliance and regulations, that tend to sustain the status quo. IT can be a formidable force in resolving this contradiction and enabling transformation. Understand how management are using IT to power productivity and transformation in the sectors of Government, Financial Services, utilities and Asset intensive industries. | IND |
| Information Management (IM) | This track looks across your enterprise in how to manage, optimise, consolidate and reconcile, analyze and use all the information assets you have across your organisation. Technologies such as business intelligence, content and document management, search, portals, email and collaboration support are a must-have for a high performance workplace. Learn how to integrate information to improve business decisions, speed, agility, scale and business transformation. | IM |
| IT Infrastructure & Operations (ITIO) | IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals are now under pressure to provide 24/7 availability, quality of service and cost reduction, as well as managing constant change and aligning IT services with business requirements. This means that in 2009, and beyond, we expect the top-of-mind issues that organizations will grapple with will include the impact of virtualization on their environment, changes to legacy infrastructure and controlling IT costs in challenging economic environments. The IT Infrastructure and Operations (ITIO) track will assist IT I&O leaders in delivering superior operations while they contribute to business advantage. This track looks at the latest developments and technologies and the hottest issues in this field. | ITIO |
| Not Track Specific | These sessions include Great Debates, Business Breakthroughs and CIO Insight sessions covering a variety of topics of general interest. Listen to and participate in interactive debates. Gain new skills for better performance of individuals, teams and businesses. Hear new initiatives to driving IT in the Business, and the valuable lessons learnt from your peers. | NTS |
| Program & Portfolio Management (PPM) | Program and portfolio management are the processes organizations use to select and execute projects. Projects are the structured one-time activities organizations use to introduce change. While IT projects can be complex and challenging, they really aren’t about the technology at all. They are about enabling specific business change through the deployment of technology. This track provides an overview of management techniques and best practices necessary to pick the right investments ("where should we change"), manage the work ("how we should change") and measure success in terms of enhanced agility, increased competitiveness and reduced risk ("what we should measure"). | PPM |
| Sourcing & Vendor Management (SVM) | Sourcing today is about balancing new delivery models and custom built systems to provide the competitive differentiation your organization needs today and moving forward. Develop the right sourcing strategy for your organization that encompasses the ‘everything-as-a-service’ as well as traditional IT and service procurement. Manage these different types of vendor relationships, negotiate the best procurement deals, and manage your IT assets through their life cycle. Develop your sourcing strategy for success. | SVM |
| Virtual Track: Green IT | In today's environmentally aware society, businesses are asking IT to be more energy and budget efficient. In this virtual track, we will guide organisations through the critical decisions that must be taken, such as what does being “green” actually mean? How can enterprises assess their IT providers? And how can you reduce your data center electrical costs? | VTG |
| Virtual Track: IT in the Business | This virtual track addresses some of the issues confronting your business as well as the solutions to those issues, in a way that connects IT more closely to the line of business organizations in your enterprise or the policymakers in your governmental institution. | VTI |
| Virtual Track: Optimise IT Spending | CIOs need to go beyond doing ‘more with less’ and evolve to make a “greater difference with what they have”. In this virtual track, we'll look at strategies and best practices for better optimisation of costs, without reducing the business value.
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| Virtual Track: Skills and Staffing for the IT Organisation | CIOs need to assemble new skills, talent and capabilities to build IT capability. IT capability rests on your success in the quest for talent and how you organize IT capability to realize results. Gain insights into best practices for developing, recruiting, retaining and organizing essential skills in this virtual track. | VTS |