This Summit provides the most comprehensive coverage of workplace technologies, direction and best practices for business and IT professionals.

You'll find compelling content organized along four rich tracks:

• Create an Environment to Innovate - For those who are charged with managing technology innovation, you'll learn where innovation begins and outline the conditions required for it to flourish.
• Determine Your Strategy to Consolidate - A worsening economy is forcing IT project delays and driving interest in alternative delivery models. Consolidating multiple, disparate portals and repositories can help control costs, increase efficiencies and uncover resources for best of breed investments. This Summit will help you develop your consolidation strategy, identify technologies that can help you do more with less and learn how to improve Architecture and Governance models for maximum efficiency.
• Get Organizations to Advance - Discover how to derive maximum business value from current and future investments. We'll also discuss the issues resulting from new web technologies and user-generated content that require new roles and processes, and outline the roles required for a high-performance workplace.
• Increase Adoption with New Ways to Motivate - User interface is key to gaining acceptance. Learn which approaches and change strategies will deliver the greatest value.

Summit at a Glance

• Four tracks and more than 40 sessions
• New research from Gartner analysts
• Networking with peers
• End-user case studies
• Solution-provider sessions
• Pre-conference tutorials
• One-on-one vendor meetings
• Analyst-user roundtable discussions

Gartner Analysts Introduce Key Topics

Is your organization at an information crossroads? Are you trying to rationalize your portals, content and collaboration applications while considering the viability of newer web technologies that are fueling social interactions? Is your organization struggling with information technology decisions? Are you trying to encourage collaboration but overwhelmed by too many portals, too much content and too many new web technologies that sound cool but could put your company at risk?

Q: Why should I attend this Summit at this time when budgets and deadlines are tighter than ever?

A: There are three compelling reasons to attend:
First, you'll learn about trends that will affect your plans and decisions today. Second, you'll discover best practices to help ensure the success of current and new portal, content and collaboration projects. And third, you'll understand how to find a strategic balance between user freedom and the need for standards and procedures to protect the enterprise.

Hot Topics

Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit features "must-have" information identified by your peers on the following topics and many more:

• Emerging collaboration trends: exploiting Social Software
• Enterprise Content Management
• Web communities
• Information governance
• Changing roles for effective leaders
• Portals, content & collaboration project management
• Web conferencing
• Email management

What's New At This Event 

Based on attendee feedback from our last summit, we've added our first-ever Innovation Panel in which the CEOs of open innovation network organizations will share their insights on:

• How to look for innovation
• Where to find it
• How to transfer ideas and vet them
• How to deal with intellectual property issues

We'll also dig deeper into key topics such as:

• How to structure and manage governance programs
• The future of enterprise search as a solution to the content maze
• Scenarios addressing the economic downturn

Back by Popular Demand

These top-pick sessions are better than ever to help you make the right choices:

• Sharepoint: Everything You Need To Know
• Portal of the Future: What's Beyond Web 2.0?
• Enterprise 2.0: The Business Side of Web 2.0
• You Ain't Got No Alibi: Good User Interface Drives User Adoption
• Bring Facebook, Wikipedia and Del.icio.us in-house: Better Insight with Enterprise Social Software
• Creating a High Performance Workplace - 5 New Roles

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