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| Mega-Trend 1: Advance: Redefining IT Organizations & Competencies | 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.
| MT1 |
| Mega-Trend 2: Connect: Opening & Securing Communications | 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.
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| Mega-Trend 3: Globalize: Provisioning & Sourcing Worldwide | 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: Agile Enterprise IT Edges Into the Cloud | 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: New Business Methods, Trends & Technologies | 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: Building Value in Knowledge & People Networks | 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 |