30 Tracks. 160 Sessions.
Whatever your priorities, there are expert sessions in the Symposium conference that are full of new ideas and practical advice from top Gartner analysts. These seven categories of thinking will frame the San Francisco conference:
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View the Future: Gartner Scenarios
These popular presentations focus on the big picture. You'll get multiple perspectives and a high-level integrated view of the IT industry. Gartner analysts will discuss and predict the key trends that you need to have on your radar screens. It's all about managing business within a technology context - and managing technology within a business context. Here's where you'll hear about the industry's powerhouse vendors: their plans, their approaches, and what it takes to be successful within their sphere of influence. And you'll get a first glimpse of the trends and technologies that will be on everyone's mind in five years.
Communications Infrastructure
Whether mobile or desk-bound, communications technology is changing rapidly. The future is the network and communications that can happen anytime, anywhere, and by any method. Gartner evaluates these technologies - wired and wireless - with advice about the right investment decisions. How we do business is about to change. Learn how, why, when, and what you can do now to get ready.
Computing Infrastructure
Stand-alone systems just will not get it done anymore. Today, infrastructure is being built and managed around a service model that's flexible and dynamic. It includes enterprise-owned resources as well as a growing number of functions owned by others. Where are you on the curve? Find out from Gartner experts how to arrive at the future faster and at less expense.
Enterprise Software Strategies
A new generation of applications and software is emerging in response to the high cost, slow pace, and inflexibility of IT. This change will be powered by three advancements: 1) Unlocking of once rigid business processes through run-time configuration, 2) A new applications vision where enterprises configure hybrid apps that combine legacy, purchased and services-based software, and 3) Services-oriented architecture where applications are modular and infrastructure software services are acquired just in time.
Business/IT Disciplines
There are some big opportunities on the immediate horizon for CIOs and their management team. The economy is recovering. The next wave of IT innovation is happening. In response, IT organizations will have to implement new leadership imperatives, management disciplines, and world-class delivery models. Learn about best practices for governance, security, strategic sourcing (including offshore), IT centralization, flexible infrastructure and how to make the transition, and process management disciplines that go hand in hand with applications integration.
Focus on Industries
Business leaders want IT capabilities that align with the needs of their business. Success depends on it. Understand what it takes to deliver IT-powered success in Government, Financial Services, and Higher Education, while contending with the turmoil of change and economic transition.
Discontinuities
Think the unthinkable - the truly disruptive - and plan to avoid it. Gartner research is mainly about solutions to current issues, and projecting the future of client markets. The Discontinuities track goes farther. It ventures into the radical, discontinuous, and potentially disruptive changes that lay at the edge of the marketplace. What are you NOT thinking of?
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