Benefits of Attending

Innovation: Get informed recommendations on what existing infrastructure to keep, and which new technologies are worth the investment.

Enterprise architecture: Hear how the best IT departments are handling the mobile influence on enterprise architecture, and which strategies make sense for you.

Mobile applications: Learn about the new approach to mobile applications, including how to make sure they comply to the same high development standards as other apps.

Security: Learn the new best practices for addressing today's wireless security challenges.

Convergence: Push past convergence confusion to identify key next steps you can implement now.

Cost Containment: What to cut and what to keep?

Five-Year Scenario: Understand which trends matter, and how they will affect your business.

Your Value in the Economy

• Get a list of "zero output cost" cost-cutting strategies you can implement right now.
• Hear advice on where to cut first, what to keep, and where to invest.
• Learn strategies for negotiating better deals with vendors and service providers.
• Hear about new ways to leverage existing infrastructure for greater productivity.
• Identify the buys that align best with business goals and deliver measurable ROI.
• Find out how to make mobility's contributions to the bottom line clear and evident to management.
• Gather the product and vendor analysis you need to make every dollar deliver.
• Head home with an action plan in hand, complete with immediately actionable next steps tailored to your needs and goals.

Hot Topics

• Reinventing your business through mobility
• Architecting mobile applications for the enterprise
• Wireless security and the consumerization of IT
• New rules for mobility success
• Emerging technologies and new devices
• M-commerce and mobile social networking
• Leveraging existing strategies for increased payoff
• Improving teleworking and mobile productivity

Who Should Attend

• Senior management (manager/director/VP level with purchase authority)
• Systems integration and business process management
• Voice and data communications professionals
• IT architecture and security professionals
• Application management
• Network architects/manager/engineers
• Mobile/wireless professionals

Summit Value

Every Gartner Event is designed to give you practical, relevant, and immediately applicable ways to lower IT costs, deliver more business value with IT, and achieve greater returns from every IT investment - including the one you make with us to attend.

Justification Kit

With these justification tools, we've made it as convenient as possible to justify your investment to attend and present the ROI you've received post-event.


During the Conference

• ROI Worksheet: A Word template for productive note-taking onsite for your sessions, Analyst One-on-One Briefings and Face-to-Face Sponsor Meetings.

Post-Conference

• Customizable Trip Report: A Word template to help you easily report your ROI from the conference.
• Post-Event Brief: A PDF that highlights what was new and notable, key takeaways, what attendees asked about, interactive polling results, exhibit showcase highlights and more.