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 w online portal Symposium Communities Online.
- 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:New! Symposium Communities Online
Connect with fellow Community members through Symposium Communities Online. 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.
Pre-Event
- Recommended agenda(s)
- Pre-event podcast with key Gartner analysts
At Symposium/ITxpo
- Symposium Community Identification Badges
- Monday afternoon Symposium Community Kick-Off Sessions
- Monday evening Symposium Community Cocktail Reception
- Analyst/User Roundtables Focused on Community topics
- Community Meeting Areas
Post-Event
- Summary reports
- Insider communications throughout the year related to your interests
