A Symposium Experience Designed Specifically for You

Com-mu-ni-ty (noun): 1. a group of people with a common background or with shared interests within society

Imagine an experience where you, with like-minded individuals, share stories of successes, failures, and everything in between. Symposium Communities are designed to deliver you just that, bringing together 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.

Once you have registered for the event, we will automatically send you a personal email invitation with a simple step-by-step process on how to join Symposium Communities and our new online portal Symposium Communities Online.


Symposium Communities include the following nine groups, along with subcategories of roles within them:



The Benefits of Membership

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


Symposium Communities Online

Join our online Community of now over 4000 members world wide. Connect with fellow Community members with the easy-to-use people matching, search, discussion boards, polling, and more. You can collaborate, network, build relationships and share best practices with your industry peers before, during, and after the event. Once you have registered for the event, we will automatically send you a personal email invitation with a simple step-by-step process on how to join Symposium Communities Online.


To see what the Symposium Communities Online site looks like, click here.
Note: You must be registered for the event to join a community. Please then enter the same login details you provided at "My Registration" when you received your attendance confirmation email.


Pre-Event

  • Recommended agenda(s)
  • Pre-event podcasts for each Community with key Gartner analysts
  • Applications Community
    Living with Large Application Vendors
    27 March 2008
    Host: Jeff Comport
    Guest: Yvonne Genovese
    Your application environment may require radical changes to meet escalating business demands for agility, speed, innovation and cost-effectiveness.
    Listen to the topic for Cannes Symposium
  • Business Intelligence & Information Management Community
    BI & Performance Management Hype Cycle 2008
    21 July 2008
    Host: Bill Hostmann
    Guest: Andreas Bitterer
    The technologies and analytic applications required to support a broad BI and performance management strategy become more complex to understand and manage.
    Listen to the topic for Cannes Symposium
  • Business Process Improvement Community
    User-Friendly Business Process Modeling
    8 July 2008
    Host: David W. McCoy
    Guest: Bill Rosser
    Enterprises are achieving business-user engagement by approaching business process modeling through user-friendly, participative techniques that extend the power of the traditional IT-centric modeling focus.
    Listen to the topic for Cannes Symposium
  • CIO Community
    New Demands on IT
    11 September 2007
    Host: John Mahoney, VP Distinguished Analyst
    Guest: Mark Raskino, VP & Gartner Fellow
    Listen to the topic for Cannes Symposium
  • Enterprise Architecture Community
    The Changing Face of Enterprise Architecture
    5 November 2007
    Host: Dale Kutnick, SVP, Executive Programs
    Guests: Philip Allega, Research VP; Nicholas Gall, VP & Distinguished Analyst
    Listen to the topic for Cannes Symposium
  • Infrastructure & Operations Community
    The Growing Trend Toward Virtualization
    10 September 2007
    Host: Michael Glennon, Managing VP
    Guest: Thomas J. Bittman, VP Distinguished Analyst
    Listen to the topic for Cannes Symposium
  • Program & Portfolio Management Community
    Assessing your Readiness for PPM
    The Cost of Vulnerability
    13 March 2008
    Host: Audrey L. Apfel
    Guest: Michael Hanford
    Good project and portfolio management (PPM) disciplines can help you demonstrate the value of IT to the enterprise but you must assess your readiness before moving forward.
    Listen to the topic for Cannes Symposium
  • Security & Risk Management Community
    The Cost of Vulnerability
    23 April 2008
    Host: Rich Mogull, Research VP
    Guest: Thomas Ptacek
    Listen to the topic for Cannes Symposium
  • Sourcing & Vendor Relationships Community
    Renegotiating an Outsourcing Contract
    10 April 2008
    Host: Christopher Ambrose
    Guest: Helen Huntley
    Many outsourcing contracts are inadequate, leading to renegotiations and dissatisfaction with deals. Leaders of sourcing teams should prepare for negotiations and get the best contract from the start.
    Listen to the topic for Cannes Symposium

Symposium Community Kick-Offs

Start the week right, alongside your peers, in your Symposium Community of choice offered only on the afternoon of Monday 3 November. The Symposium Community Kick-Off Workshops 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 Workshops for each of our nine Symposium Communities.


At Symposium/ITxpo

  • Symposium Community Identification Badges
  • Monday-afternoon Symposium Community Kick-Off Workshops
  • Monday-evening Symposium Community Welcome Reception
  • Analyst/User Roundtables Focused on Community topics
  • Community Lounges on the ITxpo Showfloor

Post-Event

  • Trip Reports per Community




We've made it easy!

  • Choose from over 200 sessions with suggested agendas by role
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