About
Amplify the Enterprise: Creating New Connections With IT
Gartner CIO Leadership Forum is an executive-only program, designed to explore critical business, technology and leadership strategies. This exclusive event was created with direct input from more than 1,000 top CIOs. With attendance limited to a select group of CIOs from major corporations and public sector enterprises, the emphasis will be on small-group discussion and debate, private consultations with analysts, and special keynotes. No lengthy presentations. No minutiae.
In a workshop environment, CIOs will discover how to translate strategic direction into actionable results, achieve the innovation required for competitive business advantage, and lead an organization's transformation of its IT capabilities. Using your peers as well as some of Gartner's more renowned analysts and CIO experts as a sounding board, you'll come away with creative solutions, proven frameworks for managing change and a viable plan of action.
Mark McDonald, GVP, Gartner Executive Programs, discusses the 2012 Gartner CIO Agenda
Key Benefits
The Gartner CIO Leadership Forum offers you an interactive experience to exchange ideas and receive actionable guidance from prominent CIOs, Gartner experts and senior executives from leading technology providers. It focuses on helping to turn your insights into actionable results.
- Gain from the proven practices and market insight of your CIO peers
- Team up with leaders who understand your challenges in workshops focused on your central issues
- Broaden your perspective by exchanging ideas with thought leaders from Gartner and the industry
- Translate your strategic direction into actionable results as the enterprise context for IT changes
- Examine what works and what doesn't when it comes to technology innovation
- Explore the drivers of IT transformation - business intelligence, resource management, strategic planning and more
- Assemble the resources you need to build and transform IT capabilities
- Explore the issues facing CEOs today - from globalization to sustainability to alternative business models
- Uncover communication strategies of CIOs who position themselves as business leaders first and technology leaders second
Who Should Attend
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The Gartner CIO Leadership Forum is for CIOs, and only CIOs. Which means, you are guaranteed a level of information exchange and peer interaction that is unrivaled. To ensure this commitment to our attendees, we ask that you verify your eligibility.
Analyst Access
World's Top Industry Experts
Gartner's global research community of 750 analysts engages in nearly 300,000 one-to-one client interactions each year. There are several ways to interact with an analyst at the event, including:
- Gartner Analyst Sessions: Listen to insightful and actionable advice direct from a subject matter expert, with allotted time for Q&A.
- Gartner Analyst One-on-One Meetings: These meetings allow you to sit down with a Gartner analyst in a private consultation to explore solutions to your IT issues and challenges. All registered attendees have the exclusive opportunity to speak directly with one Gartner analyst in a private 30 minute One-on-One meeting.
- Analyst-User Roundtables: Small group format moderated by a Gartner analyst where you and your peers can share insights, challenges and concerns related to today's hottest topics.
Peer Networking
Real World Experience
Business and IT professionals will convene to interact and share their knowledge, best practices and objectives.
- End-User Case Studies: Learn about recent implementations firsthand, with an opportunity for Q&A with the IT and business executives leading the initiatives.
- Workshops: Presented by Gartner or guest experts, these intimate workshops provide an opportunity to drill down on specific "how to" topics in an extended, small group environment.
- Hospitality Suites: Hosted by Premier and Platinum sponsors, these evening theme receptions are ideal for informal networking.
Exhibitor Access
Sponsor Consultation
Meet with senior executives from leading technology providers to understand their strategy and vision for the future, and to consult on your concerns and challenges.
- Solution Provider Sessions: Solution providers and their customers provide a look into how the products work in the real world.
- Face-to-Face Sponsor Meetings: Private, prearranged 30-minute meetings that will advance your projects and relationships, regardless of where you are in the buying cycle.
