Benefits of Attending

• Turbo-charge your teams - with collaboration tools that drive innovation
• Empower your knowledge workers to make better decisions faster
• Discover effective collaborative strategies, tactics and technologies
• Learn when and when not to introduce technology into team process
• Measure the business impact of collaborative tools
• Get the latest Gartner research on key teamwork & knowledge management issues
• Learn from the collaboration pioneers in a series of in-depth case studies
• Hear the visionary keynotes from the industry's top thinkers
• See the new generation of PCC technology at the Solutions Showcase
• Network with your peers at the receptions
• Attack your toughest challenges in complimentary One-on-One sessions with Gartner analysts and Analyst/User Roundtables

Who Should Attend

The Summit is aimed at business and IT executives and project managers planning or managing portals, content management or collaboration initiatives:

• Chief Knowledge Officers
• Enterprise Architects
• Enterprise Content Managers
• Enterprise Collaboration Managers
• Portal Architects
• Chief Learning Officers
• R&D Directors
• Retrieval & Search Application Managers
• E-Communications Managers
• Presence Application Managers
• Application Development/Integration Managers
• Solution providers and consultants involved with portals, content management or collaboration projects

We expect a pan-European audience of over 400 decision-makers and professionals with the vast majority representing end-users across a wide range of industries: financial services, public sector, telecoms services, manufacturing and energy are likely to be the strongest verticals. More than 65% of the audience is expected to originate from the UK, Benelux and the Nordic region combined, with around 25% holding business functions and 75% IT titles.

Who is Attending?

View a sample of attending organisations. Download the PDF.

Gartner Predictions

Gartner takes a look ahead at the market for social software and collaboration via several key predictions and unveils issues that will impact vendors and organizations. Applications and line of business managers should monitor these trends and the impact it will have on the workplace.

Key Findings

• The market for social software will experience growth in enterprises, primarily via departmental deployments.
• While consumers have made public portal e-mail a core part of digital lifestyles, the use of consumer calendar services has significantly lagged behind e-mail adoption.
• The IM client has now morphed from just being an instant messaging (IM) and chat tool to a fully unified communications client that supports various forms of communications.
• Driven by dropping prices and new vendors, the long-nascent market for hosted e-mail services is poised for rapid growth during the next five years.

Learn more by following the Social Software and Collaboration track at the Summit - view the sessions now.

What to Expect from the Summit

View a Keynote presentation from last year.

Gartner Keynote: The Art of Innovation and the Science of Survival
Tom Austin, Mark R. Gilbert, Carol Rozwell

As consumer-grade becomes the new industrial strength, technology decisions become far more complex. IT is trapped in the revolving door of shifting organizational priorities, facing a need to innovate despite institutional inertia and inattention. Meanwhile, some CEOs see IT as an impediment to strategic change and the multigenerational workforcehas placed seemingly conflicting technology demands on the enterprise.

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Summit Value

Budgets are tight and increasingly IT and business professionals must prove the value of educational conferences before attending. We have pulled together information that will help you demonstrate how attendance at the Gartner Portals, Content and Collaboration Summit supports your organizational goals. To Understand the True Value of the Summit - Download the (PDF).

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.


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.
• Trip Report: A PDF that highlights what was new and notable, key takeaways, what attendees asked about, exhibition showcase highlights and more.