Mastermind Keynotes

Gartner Symposium/ITxpo is known for its Mastermind Keynotes. These hard-hitting interviews with technology's leading CEOs reveal corporate strategy, product direction and other question our audience wants answered. The Keynotes sessions will take place live in the Dolphin’s Hemisphere Ballroom.

• Gene Hall
• CEO
• Gartner
• Monday, October 8, 2007 8:00 AM-8:15 AM
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Gartner Analyst Opening Keynote

Monday, October 8, 8:15 AM-9:15 AM
Information technology is essential to business. It drives industries. It brings governments closer to people. It has major impacts on society. But it’s too easy to get lost in technical complexities and forget the importance of business outcomes. Consider the future of your role. What parts of the business will you take care of? Is technology your job or is the job really business innovation? How is your industry responding to technology? What business skills do you need for the future? Join us to explore your business future in the Opening Keynote.

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Partnership for Performance CIO Keynote Panel

Tuesday, October 9, 11:00AM-12:00PM
Gartner pairs with the Wall Street Journal, as we bring to the keynote stage leading CIOs to discuss how they partner with their CEO and other business leaders to ensure IT is powering business imperatives. There, moderated by Gartner GVP Mark McDonald and Wall Street Journal publisher Gordon Crovitz, we’ll delve deeply into how these executives ensure a mutual understanding of overall corporate goals, apply technology and services to realizing those goals, measure performance along those lines, and communicate successes in terms that business leaders can relate to and appreciate. The moderators will draw on primary research jointly conducted by the Wall Street Journal and Gartner of leading CEOs.

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• Steve Ballmer
• CEO
• Microsoft Corporation
• Wednesday, October 10, 2007 10:30 AM-11:15 AM
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  Steve A. Ballmer. Ballmer joined Microsoft in 1980 and was the first business manager hired by Bill Gates. During the past 20 years, Ballmer has headed several Microsoft divisions, including operations, operating systems development, and sales and support. In July 1998, he was promoted to President, a role that gave him day-to-day responsibility for running Microsoft. He was named CEO in January 2000, assuming full management responsibility for the company, which includes delivering on the company's mission of enabling people and businesses throughout the world to realize their full potential. Together with Gates and the company's other business and technical leaders, Ballmer is focused on continuing Microsoft's innovation and leadership across the company's seven businesses. Microsoft's goal is to provide an integrated platform to enable a seamless experience across a wide range of computing and non-PC devices and services.
  
  

• Michael S. Dell
• Chairman of the Board and CEO
• Dell
• Wednesday, October 10, 2007 11:15 AM-12:00 PM
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  Michael Dell is the chairman of the Board of Directors and chief executive officer of Dell, the company he founded in 1984 with $1,000 and an unprecedented idea - to build relationships directly with customers. In 1992, Mr. Dell became the youngest CEO ever to earn a ranking on the Fortune 500. Mr. Dell is the author of Direct From Dell: Strategies That Revolutionized an Industry, his story of the rise of the company and the strategies he has refined that apply to all businesses. Mr. Dell serves on the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum, the executive committee of the International Business Council and is a member of the U.S. Business Council. Mr. Dell also serves on the U.S. President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and the governing board of the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, India.