Symposium Communities:
The right connections, the ideal content, made easy- Symposium Communities are high-value, role-based networking groups designed around your responsibilities or primary area of interest. As part of a community, you'll exchange information with peers before, during and following the event — and further your learning in the process. Symposium Communities include the below nine groups.
- Symposium Communities include the following nine groups, along with subcategories of roles within them:
Targeted for all IT professionals responsible for the delivery of strategic programs, projects and services.
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.
Targeted for CIOs, CTOs and other senior IT executives.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Highly targeted on the strategies and deployment of enterprise architecture. This is for those who hold enterprise architecture and planning roles within their organizations.
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 values:Pre-Event
- Recommended agenda(s)
- Pre-event preparatory audio conference with key Gartner analysts
At Symposium/ITxpo
- Symposium Community Identification Badges
- Super Sunday - Community Sessions all afternoon
- Sunday-evening Symposium Community Welcome Reception
- Community-Led Roundtables – Members facilitate their own Roundtable
- Segmented Meal Areas
- Community Lounges
Post-Event
- Trip Reports
