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Thousands of IT and business professionals will attend Gartner Symposium/ITxpo despite economic woes. How about you?

The smartest IT and business strategists are attending Symposium/ITxpo, October 12-16 in Orlando to gather advice and plan strategically for business continuity, revenue preservation, and critical changes to customer and supplier relationships.

Symposium/ITxpo has never been of greater value. Don't miss out. There are only a few days left to register.

Designed specifically to weather the current economic challenges, Symposium/ITxpo is a powerful mix of management and technology insight with hard-hitting actionable advice that will enable you to make the strategic, organizational and technology cost-cutting and investment decisions you need to emerge with a competitive edge.

More than ever, you need to understand how IT can cut costs yet still deliver competitive advantages. We'll approach cost cutting from a variety of angles, including straightforward discussions of where most organizations can and should cut ("Top 25 Ways to Cut IT Costs") and how savvy organizations will turn cost containment into a benefit ("Innovation Through Radical Cost-Cutting"):

• Panel: 25 Ways to Cut IT Costs
• Benchmarking IT: How Much Should You Spend and Where?
• Changing the Cost Structure of IT
• Restructuring IT Costs
• Total Cost of Ownership of PCs and Alternative Client Architectures: Where Are the Savings?
• Saving Money Through IT Asset Management
• Bring Facebook, Wikipedia and Del.ico.us In-House: Why Consumer Social Software Is Better Than What You Are Paying For
• Using Corporate Performance Management to Understand the Drives of Profitability and Deliver on Strategy
• IT Is Critical to Lean Business Process: Learn Why and How
• Best Practices for Applying Lean in IT
• How to Lead Your Industry in Lean IT
• IT Success Is All About Business Benefits
• Articulating the Business Value of Information Security
• The Business Case for Business Applications
• Building the Business Case for Business Intelligence and Performance Management
• Maximizing Business Value and Avoiding the Fatal Flaws of Business Intelligence

Here's what awaits you next week:

• 250+ in-depth sessions delivered by over 150 Gartner Analysts for a level of expertise and experience you simply cannot find anywhere else.
• Mastermind Keynote presentations that include Steve Ballmer, CEO Microsoft Corporation,John Chambers, CEO Cisco Systems Inc. and Joseph Eng, EVP, Systems & Technology, JetBlue Airlines.
• The opportunity to have a One-on-One session with a Gartner Analyst for advice tailored to the challenges you are facing.
• The ITxpo Exhibit Showcase for the answers you need from hundreds of senior technology providers in a purposefully low-hype atmosphere where the focus is on problem-solving.
• The opportunity to meaningfully network with your peers in Symposium Communities, our role-based networking groups.
• Use our online Agenda Builder and Agenda Wizard scheduling tools to build a recommended cost cutting agenda. Select the tracks that cover: Dealing with the Downturn, Lean IT: Practices and Realities, and Maximizing Profitability and Competitiveness.

There's Still Time. This is the premier IT event of the year for IT leaders across every industry. Address the financial crisis head-on and emerge ahead. Register to attend right now. It's happening in just a few days, October 12-16 in Orlando.

5 Reasons to Attend

Need a reason to attend? Before we give you 5, read what your peers have to say:

• "As in the past, Gartner did not disappoint. I'm leaving with the answers and direction I came to find."
   
• "As someone who has attended symposiums every year for the last 12 years, this year's symposium was, as expected, very well done."
   
• "Symposium is my annual IT event which trumps events designed specifically for my vertical. I have been back annually for over 5 years and I have no plans to stop!"

1. RESEARCH.
In the technology world, Gartner is the single most trusted source of knowledge and advice.

2. RELEVANCE.
Gartner Symposium is keenly focused on aligning IT with the enterprise and addressing topics which are top-of-mind.

3. EXPERIENCE.
Gartner Symposium ITxpo research-backed sessions, highly requested keynotes and special programs and networking creating a world-class environment.

4. PERSONALIZATION.
Everything at SYM is designed specifically for you with build your own agenda, community-based networking, Analyst One-On-Ones and other individualized programs situated around your needs.

5. SOLUTIONS.
The ITxpo showcase floor is loaded with technologies to solve your problems and help with innovation to achieve growth.

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