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Registered attendees who have selected a Symposium Community will be invited via email to the following pre-event audio conferences to get up to speed on all that will be covered at the event. Be sure you register and select a Community to receive your invitation.
Symposium Community Audio Teleconference Gartner Analyst Co-host Date Day Time (EDT)
Applications Kathy Harris, VP Distinguished Analyst 24-Mar Monday 3 PM
Business Intelligence & Information Management Bill Hostmann, GVP 25-Mar Tuesday 3 PM
Business Process Improvement Bill Rosser, VP Distinguished Analyst 26-Mar Wednesday 1 PM
CIO Colleen Young, VP Distinguished Analyst
Patrick Meehan, VP		 26-Mar Wednesday 3 PM
Enterprise Architecture Anne Lapkin, Research VP 27-Mar Thursday 2 PM
Infrastructure & Operations Jay Pultz, VP Distinguished Analyst 25-Mar Tuesday 2 PM
Program & Portfolio Management Audrey Apfel, VP Distinguished Analyst 31-Mar Monday 3 PM
Security & Risk Management Paul Proctor, Research VP 27-Mar Thursday 1 PM
Sourcing & Vendor Relationships Chris Ambrose, Research VP 31-Mar Monday 2 PM

  • Symposium Communities include the following nine groups, along with subcategories of roles within them:
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Program and Portfolio Management Community
Targeted for all IT professionals responsible for the delivery of strategic programs, projects and services.
 
Infrastructure and Operations Community
Targeted to those who strive for excellence with management system architectures, operations management, data warehousing and software and IT asset management. Focus areas include procurement, wireless systems and infrastructure, networking, storage systems and data center.
 
CIO Community
Targeted for CIOs, CTOs and other senior IT executives.
 
Sourcing and Vendor Relationships Community
Focused technology professionals charged with developing sourcing strategies, sourcing vendors and managing relationships as well as contract development and securing IT services. Focus areas will include IT change management, supply chain strategies, pricing model development and human resourcing.
 
Business Process Improvement Community
Targeted for IT professionals responsible for business process modeling, analysis, design, implementation and/or optimization. Key coverage areas include: enterprise management; software integration, enterprise suites and customer service technologies.
 
Security and Risk Management Community
For CISOs, security professionals, and risk managers. Focus areas include compliance and audit identity and access management, security threats and countermeasures and implementing security policy and management practices as well as disaster recovery.
 
Business Intelligence and Information Management Community
Developed for IT professionals interested in business intelligence tools and applications. Key focus areas also include BI platforms, data management, customer relationship management, database management and information collaboration, analytics, portals, content management and collaboration.
 
Enterprise Architecture Community
Highly targeted on the strategies and deployment of enterprise architecture. This is for those who hold enterprise architecture and planning roles within their organizations.
 
Applications Community
Targeted to those responsible for application management, development, analysis, integration and/or enterprise resource planning (ERP). Related topic areas include: application architecture, development & integration, open source, web innovation, event processing and business applications...
 


The Benefits of Membership

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


New! Symposium Communities Online

Join our online Community of now over 3400 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.



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  • Trip Reports, including results of "Your Community Survey"

Symposium Community Kick-Offs

Start the week right, alongside your peers, in your Symposium Community of choice offered only on Sunday, April 6. 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.

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