Agenda Tracks

Track A: Financial Management of IT
IT financial management is a critical discipline at all times, but never more so than in today's environment. This track is designed to focus on the key areas that IT finance needs to understand to optimize long-term costs, and on how to become a more efficient IT services organization.

Track B: Best Practices in IT Procurement
In these challenging economic times, maximizing your IT procurement efforts is of primary importance to IT organizations. This track focuses on the best practices in IT procurement strategies, practices, tools and negotiation techniques.

Track C: IT Asset Management & Optimization
IT asset management is a key enabler to help companies gain control of their IT assets and the associated costs. Simply put, good ITAM can save clients money and help optimize the performance of IT assets in their environment.

Track D: Future Trends in IT
Changes in the world of technology carry a significant and long-term impact to IT assets and costs. In order to succeed, asset managers need a thorough understanding about how new technologies, procurement models, delivery models and legislation will affect their existing and future cost and risk models, as well as how the latest developments and trends will impact their ITAM practices.

New This Year - Recommended Agendas!

This year, we're offering recommended agendas tailored to your specific roles and initiatives - 13 agendas in all. For each time slot within the conference schedule, we've recommended sessions super-relevant to your on-the-job needs. Take a look at our agenda recommendations.

Recommended Agendas by Role
It's a given that IT managers and leaders often rotate in and out of different technology roles within an organization. But, often, some of these roles require a more in-depth understanding of IT finance, going beyond what was learned in school. These recommended role-based agendas focus on the fundamental concepts behind IT finance, procurement and asset management and are designed to bring your key technologists up to speed on the most advanced techniques for optimizing IT costs. Agendas are designed for the following roles:

• Applications Manager
• Enterprise Architect
• Technology Manager
• IT Auditor
• IT CFO & Controller
• IT Procurement Leader
• Project Manager

Recommended Agendas by Initiative
Technology organizations have often focused on delivering solutions to customers, with cost concerns initially taking a back seat. But inevitably, the latter does enter the discussion, resulting in initiatives that seek to justify costs, reduce them or do both. These agendas are designed around the most common financially-themed initiatives that Gartner has observed with clients. Our objective is to encourage you to take the right actions in key areas. Agendas have been developed for the following initiatives:

• Cost Modeling
• Cost Optimization
• Data Center Consolidation
• IT Leaders Financial Training
• IT Leaders Procurement Training
• IT Strategy Development

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