Keynotes

In our renowned Keynote sessions, you'll hear what today's leading figures are thinking. Gartner analysts and invited experts will give you new strategic insights, thought-provoking points of view and forward-thinking advice that will help shape your planning.

Why our Current Thinking is not Enough
Dr. Edward de Bono
Consultant, Author, Inventor and originator of the term "lateral thinking"

The brain as a self-organizing system needs tools to force it to be more creative. It is the same with organizations. People working within an organization become aware of the idiom, the culture and the guiding frames for that organization, and it can be very difficult for executives to think outside of these frames. In this keynote, Dr. Edward de Bono, one of the world's leading business thinkers, will talk about how creativity and innovation is so important in shaping our future, how tools of lateral thinking can generate ideas, and how to move from the "what if" to the "what can be".


Building the Stacks for a Mutualized Newspaper
Dr. Chris Thorpe
Developer Advocate, Open Platform, The Guardian

With the inexorable move towards the outcomes of the real-time and social Web, industrial-era style newspapers simply ported to the Web make increasingly less sense. The Guardian has been thinking and working towards making a mutualised newspaper. In this keynote, Chris Thorpe will discuss:

• The recent crowdsourcing of the UK Members of Parliament expense review
• How agile platforms support engagements with readership, data and journalists
• How the opening out of content enables a variety of delivery mechanisms and business models
• How APIs, lightweight tools and frameworks allow the creation of rapid build, but complex functionality.

• Dr. Edward de Bono
• Consultant, Author, Inventor and
• originator of the term "lateral thinking"
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  Edward de Bono is regarded by many to be the leading authority in the world in the field of creative thinking and the direct teaching of thinking as a skill. He has written over 80 books with translations into 41 languages and has been invited to lecture in 61 countries. He is the originator of lateral thinking which treats creativity as the behavior of information in a self-organizing information system - such as the neural networks in the brain. From such a consideration arise the deliberate and formal tools of lateral thinking, parallel thinking and so on.
  
  Dr. de Bono's latest book Think - before it's too late published by Random House will be available shortly.
  

• Dr. Chris Thorpe
• Developer Advocate, Open Platform, The Guardian
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  Chris Thorpe is the Developer Advocate for the Open Platform at The Guardian. His background as a research scientist and his early involvement in Open Access publishing, makes him fascinated and passionate about what happens when data, content, platforms, identity and pretty much anything opens up. He spends his time at The Guardian working on the best ways to integrate The Guardian's content, data and APIs with other people's technology and businesses as part of the drive towards building the distribution and engagement channels of a mutualised newspaper.

• Debra Logan
• VP Distinguished Analyst
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• Tom Austin
• VP & Gartner Fellow
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• Toby Bell
• Research Director
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• Nikos Drakos
• Research Director
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