• Symposium for You

    Symposium Communities are designed to deliver you the most relevant content and interactions possible at Symposium/ITxpo. They are role-based, so as part of a community, you'll learn with and exchange information all week with peers.

  • Get the most out of Symposium/ITxpo by joining a Community.

  • Note: You must be registered for the event to join a community.



  • Symposium Communities include the following nine groups, along with subcategories of roles within them:
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  • Applications
  • Business Intelligence & Information Management
  • Business Process Improvement
  • CIO
  • Enterprise Architecture
  • Infrastructure & Operations
  • Program & Portfolio Management
  • Security & Risk Management
  • Sourcing & Vendor Relationships

The Benefits of Membership

Participation in Symposium Communities is complimentary with your conference registration, and includes the following values:


Pre-Event

  • Recommended agenda(s)
  • Pre-event preparatory audio conference with key Gartner analysts
  • Community Survey

At Symposium/ITxpo

  • Symposium Community Identification Badges
  • Sunday-afternoon Symposium Community Kick-Off Sessions
  • Sunday-evening Symposium Community Cocktail Reception
  • Analyst/User Roundtables Focused on Community topics
  • Community-Led Roundtables
  • Community Lounges

Post-Event

  • Trip Reports, including results of "Your Community Survey"
  • Online directory of Community members

Symposium Community Kick-Offs

Start the week right, alongside your peers, in your Symposium Community of choice offered only on Sunday, April 22. The Symposium Community Kick-Off sessions are designed to showcase Gartner Research's assessment of the challenges you face in your role, the technologies and trends that will impact your role going forward, and how the week's agenda can help you meet those challenges and capitalize on the opportunities. There will be a Kick-Off session for each of our nine Symposium Communities.

Team Send

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Sample Trip Report

  • Download a sample from 2006, for the Infrastructure & Operations Symposium Community

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