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| Access, Identity and Cyberthreat Management | As communications extend their reach, the new level of social technology interaction is just great for business improvement until the wrong bot sails though the wide open door. You must rethink perimeters to safely allow interactions between identifiable individuals and trusted organizations across extended enterprise boundaries. But what techniques must you deploy to counteract the threats of determined and organized attack? | AICM |
| Broader Roles for IT Leaders | What organizational units will emerge as IT capabilities such as business process management, business intelligence, architecture, program and portfolio management, change management and innovation merge and blend with traditional business skills? The quest for a new focus, organizational structure and name reveal a redefinition of the roles of IT organizations, IT leaders and of IT skills. This track explores what leading organizations and individuals are doing to turn these challenges into organizational and personal value. | BRITL |
| Business Intelligence & Information Management | The true value of Business Information (BI) and Information management (IM) is measured in business outcomes such as decision speed, agility, efficiency, scale and the level of business transformation enabled. With a broader set of users, and a broader set of application and business processes, the value of BI and IM is more about business impact and transformation than ever before and leading enterprises are making a big change toward strategic focus on BI and IM. | BIIM |
| Business Process and Change Management | The highly desired attributes of increased agility and innovation that Business Process Management (BPM) can engender are now gaining impact even over the reduction of operational cost. In BPM and beyond, IT must learn to partner with business to strategically assess accelerating external pressures, prioritize business, IT, and cultural changes, and integratively design enterprise change efforts. This capability is becoming increasingly crucial as accelerating turbulence forces executives to shift strategies and business models to achieve profitable growth. | BPCM |
| Emerging Trends and Innovation Management | As Thomas Edison said "Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration…". It takes a great deal of effort to produce business innovation from technology progress. We will examine emerging trends, new technologies and how enterprises are changing management methods to exploit them by making innovation a central part of their culture. | ETIM |
| Enterprise Web 2.0 | The promise of enterprise class Web 2.0 technologies, portals and flexible open delivery models is attractive, until the conflicting demands of risk management, compliance and E-discovery are considered. With a myriad of new technologies, work patterns, and new attitudes towards collaboration and technology the way ahead is anything but obvious. You must provide the essential technical foundations on which your organization can evolve. | WEB |
| Global Megavendors | Never has the concentrated power of so few IT vendors affected the destiny of so many enterprises. As businesses and governments are increasingly beholden to the technology and software choices they make, despite of the 'open' era - it is critical to understand the future direction of the most powerful vendors of the IT ecosystem. We compare and contrast the current and future strategies of the leading 'mega-vendors'. | MEGA |
| Green Information Technology | IT contributes around 2% of total CO2 emissions - a similar level to the airline industry. Pressure for greener IT comes from multiple directions – shareholders, customers, employees and regulators. But while every company needs to be “seen to be green”, not every stakeholder is happy to pay. Is the best approach for your company re-engineering, or can similar results be achieved through changes in sourcing or operational processes? | GRN |
| Innovating Industries | Let's stop talking about technology possibilities and start showing where and how IT innovation is transforming the structures and business methods of companies, agencies and entire industries. | ININD |
| IT Grand Challenges and Breakthroughs | We will identify the remaining Grand Challenges and emerging breakthroughs in the IT industry while discovering which business and societal Grand Challenges await the discovery of innovative IT solutions. | ITGCB |
| Mega-Trend 1: Advance | IT has always been associated with change but increasingly it’s a driver of transformation of businesses, markets and societies. Creating that transformation is becoming a critical enterprise capability, fusing technology with assets of business process, information and relationships. Connection of IT to other business functions will change. Enterprise architecture is central to this redefinition. Demands on IT leaders and professionals to envision and deliver it are more critical and broader than ever. The winners understand how to link the pieces. Discover how to be one of them.
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| Mega-Trend 2: Connect | Future communications networks will understand who you are, where you are, and how you like to interact. They'll improve application performance, and they'll protect your business. These sessions will cover emerging technologies and strategies in wireless, voice over IP, adaptive security, and continuous compliance. | MT2 |
| Mega-Trend 3: Globalize | We are entering the fourth wave of Globalization, one which threatens the existing world order in the knowledge economy. This will throw up new challenges. Enterprise agility, while a critical competitive requirement today will become a pre-requisite for survival tomorrow. New macro forces are emerging like the 'destiny of demography', the mass wave of emerging market 'digital native' consumers, and the increasing power of global online and physical communities. These will force entire industries to rethink their sources of supply and demand for their products and services. Only those that respond with the right customer focus, location and price points will thrive. | MT3 |
| Mega-Trend 4: Industrialize | A fresh cycle of IT activity is gaining momentum. Leading enterprises are externalizing their IT systems - gaining new levels of scalability, agility in business process interactions and extending sourcing options. Ownership of once “business-critical” IT assets like data centers and applications is being reassessed. The resources and results of IT are decoupling and capital expenditure is shifting towards providers of industrialized services, as dynamic enterprises move IT systems off their balance sheets. | MT4 |
| Mega-Trend 5: Innovate | The hype currently surrounding new emerging technologies and new emerging trends all too often compel pundits to proclaim “…this will change everything!”. We will blast through that hype, specify where true IT innovation is taking place, demonstrate that progress is making a difference in business outcomes and identify those people and enterprises that are today's top IT innovators. | MT5 |
| Mega-Trend 6: Socialize | Technology is shifting influence and control points in society and business. Through social networking, instant messaging and a growing mastery of digital media and distribution, newly empowered digital natives and immigrants are rewriting the rules of engagement. The traditional paradigms are changing - personal infrastructure, cloud-based delivery, online interaction, global collaboration, wikipedias, digital media distribution and much more - leaving traditionally oriented enterprises struggling to survive in an unfamiliar world they no longer control and barely understand. | MT6 |
| New Device and Interaction Technologies | What will your computing devices look like in the future? Will you still lug a heavy notebook, do everything with your smartphone, wear a tool belt full of separate devices – or will something totally different come along? Portable personality solutions are evolving to follow users from location to location without carrying any devices at all. Meanwhile, new, more sophisticated user interfaces like the iPhone’s are showing users new ways to work and communicate. If you can’t support these new devices and interaction technologies, you risk losing valuable workers to more innovative companies or you risk losing control of your IT environment as users bring in new consumer devices through the back door. Are you prepared? | NDIT |
| Regional Scenarios | In a globally inter-connected ecosystem, regional differences and interactions matter. Across technology, industry, society and government local rules and specialisms lead to pockets of talent and capability, but also to areas of disparate coverage. Here we present the 'state of the regional ecosystem' in different parts of the world and study their role within the global IT market. | REGS |
| Stronger Synergies in Enterprise Architecture | Enterprise architects are expanding their influence beyond technical architecture into business, information and solution environments where many aspects are not under their direct control but still require cohesion. To deliver greater value from enterprise architecture guidance and create technologically sophisticated business strategies, organizations must empower enterprise architects as change agents. We show what the leaders are doing. | SSEA |
| Supply-Side Futures | New global macro forces are transforming the range of enterprise choices of supply. In the simplest instance this deals with identifying and developing their services sourcing locations, and in the most complex it deals with managing where their future employees will come from and what global partner ecosystems they will need to rely on to continue to drive innovation and growth within their enterprises. | SSF |
| The Future of Business Software | Business software is in transition. The need to support scalability is driving modularity and componentization of design. This in turn is facilitating more rapid support for evolving business process requirements. To minimize costs and increase agility, development and deployment focus is shifting to generalized “commodity-based” architectures. The result is increased portability and new delivery models. | FBS |
| The Future of Knowledge Work | How will individuals and enterprises work, collaborate and innovate in the years ahead? New technologies, tools, ways of working, personal expectations and societal demands are piling up almost faster than business and IT leaders are able to assimilate. Enterprise leaders must learn to extract new business value from this tidal wave of human centered technology change. Designing team support, exploiting unstructured data and navigating the anthropology of social networks will help you leverage the second internet revolution. | FKW |
| The Future of Processing and Storage | Standardization and the emergence of architectural rigor as a technology discipline is yielding new levels of efficiency and agility to enterprise hardware. Broad use of virtualization and improved management processes are facilitating a capacity based approach, helping IT managers demonstrate the business contribution of hardware more clearly. But I&O leaders are already looking to the next phase – to the dynamic reassignment of hardware resources according to changing business requirements. | FPS |
| The Future of the IT Industry | The full ramifications of market maturity are set to hit the IT industry hard. Commoditization will add to the pressure on vendors in more standardized markets. Long overdue revision of software licensing models will reset prices for software. Vendors in denial will be hardest hit, as enterprises exploit industrialization to assert buyer power through new dimensions of supplier choice. For industries long used to comfortable margins, the “normal service” of market forces is set to ensue. | FITI |
| Virtual Worlds, Real Opportunities | Virtual worlds lie at the intersection of social networking, computer simulation and gaming. Caught up in the hype, early moves by enterprises have delivered mixed results. Who is active in virtual worlds, what do they expect and what are they looking for in the future? Understand the demographics, the future trends and developments and the players in this exciting new space. Learn what has worked and what has failed and let us help you plan for your virtual presence. | VIRT |
| Wired and Wireless Communication Advances | Today’s basic packet delivery networks are rapidly evolving into advanced application delivery networks where critical services reside in the network; where the network knows you -your preferences, your location, where and when you want to communicate - and communicates in the modality that suits you. Communications enabled business processes, whether they are simple IP enabled call centers or unified collaboration, will incorporate contextual presence, flexible communications escalations, and seamless mobility. To deliver these services you need a new architecture; one that delivers the application whether the user is local or remote, fixed or wireless and is independent of device type. Come learn how you can make this a reality for your company. | WWCA |