A major part of Symposium/ITxpo’s value is its rich session choices designed to make your total experience stimulating, relevant, and profitable.

Take your pick. Or pick them all.

Symposium Session Types:

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• Solution Provider Sessions
  Selected technology providers will give you an exclusive window into the hottest new solutions and products available through Solution Provider Sessions. Integrated into the Symposium agenda, these sessions will be used to demonstrate breakthrough solutions designed to make a difference to your business. You have a unique opportunity to hear directly from company representatives - and representatives of their clients - who will provide you with a first-hand look at what is new in the IT market today.
• ITxpo Premier Sponsor Presentations
  Located on the ITxpo showfloor, the ITxpo Presentation Theater will host 15 minute Premier Sponsors sessions to compliment the solution rich agenda. Take up this opportunity to link conference learning to market solutions and sharpen your focus on Sponsor selection.
• The Mavericks: Unconventional Thinking
  To prepare for the future, you have to consider multiple ways it might play out, especially those you haven't thought about. That’s what our Unconventional Thinking sessions are all about.
• The Great Debates
  The future is uncertain. Uncertainty leads to debate. The Great Debates will be a lively, controversial look at how the future will unfold in your business and others. These sessions are Gartner research in action.
• Symposium Community Kick-Offs
  Start the week alongside your peers in the Symposium Community of choice. On Sunday, 20 May, the Symposium Kick-Off sessions are designed to showcase research findings selected from the technologies and trends that will impact your role going forward. There will be Kick-Off sessions suitable for each of our nine Symposium Communities.
• Interactive Voting Sessions
  Participate! We’re introducing interactive voting to select Gartner breakout sessions this year so you and your peers can interact with the speaker … answering intriguing questions posed by the speaker, and then seeing the group’s collective answers in real time, with instant results displayed onscreen.
• Best Practices Roundtables
  Gartner Best Practices Councils will be hosting roundtable forums. Moderated by a Best Practices Program Director, the roundtables represent an excellent opportunity to discuss topical issues with your peers. One of Gartners leading subject matter experts will also be on hand to provide expert opinion and advice. The roundtables main aim is to promote Peer Networking around a hot topic.
• Gartner Interactive Workshop
  An opportunity to work in small groups to frame and resolve problems of business-IT alignment, collaboration and performance.
• Scenarios: A Picture of Tomorrow
  The staple of the Symposium/ITxpo session lineup, Scenarios set the stage for what’s coming in a technology or service area for the next several years. A foundation for the future.