Fluctuations in the cost of oil and changing economic conditions make the environmental sustainability agenda vulnerable. This session will review how IT can be both a liability and an asset for the environment and will discuss how different enterprises can prioritize the components of a green IT program in order to strike the right balance between short term cost pressures and longer term sustainability. Key Issues: How will the green IT agenda evolve depending on uncertainties in energy prices and the economy? How should green IT priorities be set in order for an action plan to be sustainable in the longer term?

As businesses across the region in all industry sectors come to terms with the new realities, technologies which bring improved efficiency and reduce costs become increasingly attractive. The need for cost optimisation and conspicuous frugality will dominate technology deployment, but organisations which postpone essential technology deployments will do so at their peril. Virtualisation and cloud computing offer new efficiencies and reduce the need for capital expenditure, whilst consumer technologies continue to advance into the enterprise and the impact of social computing is becoming clearly visible. How will organisations adapt previous IT spending plans to reflect the unfolding economic conditions? What emerging technology and disruptive trends will impact enterprise ICT services, markets and business models? How will the growing power of consumer technologies and social computing impact the workplace, recruitment, markets, products and innovation?

What should be in your 2009 plan and how will you execute that plan? This session looks to help CIOs shape and improve their 2009 planning based on data and trends from CIOs in both the private and public sectors. Key Issues: How will IT deliver the difference in 2009? What are the forces shaping business expectations for IT? What are the new definitions of IT success in 2009? How should IT leaders prepare for 2009?