Benefits of Attending

You'll learn how to:

• understand how "business" skills - communication, strategic planning, managing expectations - are more important than ever
• define effective standards that will best support the business
• understand what it takes to deliver value and spur innovation
• identify and support new business opportunities
• prioritize IT investments and reduce costs

What to Expect from a Gartner Summit

Listen and view presentations from last year's Summit.

Radical IT Cost Cutting Driving Business Transformation
Speaker: Mark Raskino
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Communicating the Value of EA
Speaker: Brian Burke
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SOA and EA: Lessons Learned from the Trenches
Speaker: Nicholas Gall
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Who Should Attend

• Architects and Architecture Leaders
• Strategy and Planning Heads
• CIOs and Senior IT Managers
• Software Development/Integration Executives
• Business and Systems Analysts
• Consultants

Who is Attending?

View a sample of attending organisations. Download the PDF.

Architecture & Governance Podcast

Architecture & Governance Editor Jonas Lamis speaks with Garter VP and Enterprise Architecture Analyst Philip Allega. They discuss recent trends in EA support for the C-Suite and cover the 5 key ways the CEO can use EA to support the business.
Download the Podcast.

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.

To understand the true value of the summit - Download the (PDF).

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.


Pre-Conference

• Customizable Letter to Your Manager: A Word template with a cost/benefit analysis.
• Justification Tips
• Top 10 Reasons to Attend a Gartner 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.