A major part of Gartner Emerging Trends Symposium/ITxpo 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:
Session Types
Programs
ITxpo Experience
Symposium Essentials
Session Types:
- Symposium Community Kick-Offs
Specifically designed for Symposium Community members, these Sunday-afternoon sessions set the stage for the week … specifically for the role you play in your organization. Hear how trends and new technologies and services will affect you, and how the week’s advice-packed sessions will help you rise to the challenge. - The Great Debates
The future is uncertain. Uncertainty leads to debate. And so the Great Debates will be a lively, controversial look at how the future will unfold. These sessions are Gartner research in action, and not to be missed. - Gartner Compares
There’s no stronger scrutiny we can deliver of a technology and service provider than a direct comparison to its fiercest competitor in the market. HP vs. Dell. Microsoft vs. Google. Open source vs. proprietary providers. Oracle vs. SAP vs. IBM. Cisco vs. … well, everyone else. The outcome of these battles will affect us all. - Interactive Polling Sessions
Participate! We’re introducing interactive polling 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.
Programs:
- Super Sunday
Kick off this powerful week by joining us Sunday afternoon, and you'll get two key benefits. First, you'll get a sneak preview of the week's hottest sessions - including the "Gartner Scenario," as well as a lively debate among Gartner analysts as to whether you've all lost your edge. (How dare they? Come see for yourself.) Second, you'll kick off your Symposium Community experience in grand style, with sessions designed specifically for you in your role, the challenges you face, and how the week will shape up to help you succeed. - Symposium Communities
Symposium Communities are networking groups specifically aligned to the role you play in your organization. We’ve designed Symposium Communities to deliver you the most relevant content and most meaningful interactions possible at Symposium/ITxpo, by providing you a community of peers with and from whom you’ll learn all weeklong. - Symposium Team Programs
Our Symposium Team program that includes a host of exclusive benefits such as a team discount, complimentary meeting room, team concierge service and more!
ITxpo Experience:
- Scenarios
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. - Solution Provider Sessions
Empowered with advice and tools on what to do, the next step is getting down to doing it. Our Solution Provider Sessions are designed to highlight unique, compelling products and services aimed at helping you do just that. Our sponsoring solution providers draw on the successes of their own customers to demonstrate the success possible, and also the obstacles along the way. - Learning Labs
CAn attendee favorite, Learning Labs immerse you in intense, half-hour super-tutorials. Join other attendees while you sit with an instructor and a workstation to test, explore and understand the features of the industry’s emerging products and services. A unique opportunity to get hands-on with a product or service you’re likely evaluating for your organization … or, perhaps, you’ll find you should be.
Some labs – our Concept Labs – will be equipped with interactive polling technology, allowing you to provide immediate feedback to a solution provider … essentially helping to develop the product or service precisely how you’d want to see it developed!
Symposium Essentials:
- Analyst/User Roundtables
All end-user attendees at Symposium/ITxpo are invited to register for Analyst/User Roundtables. These 60-minute discussions, moderated by a Gartner analyst, are topically focused around Symposium Communities. These stimulating roundtables offer valuable peer-to-peer exchange on issues integral to your business. - Gartner Analyst One-on-Ones
A key advantage of Symposium/ITxpo: Meeting face-to-face with Gartner analysts. Bring your issues. Talk one-on-one or as a small group with an unbiased Gartner expert. Get the highly qualified advice you need to take back to your enterprise. You can reserve half-hour sessions with up to three analysts. - The Mavericks: Unconventional Thinking
To best prepare for the future, you need to consider all the ways it may play out. Even ones … maybe especially ones … you’ve never thought of. That’s what our Unconventional Thinking sessions are all about.
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