About
Delivering Accelerated Business Value: Cloud, Mobility & More
At a time when every IT dollar counts, our agenda provides the strategic guidance and pragmatic recommendations needed to demonstrate the business value of I&O as you meet the challenges of modernization, transformation and convergence.
We'll extensively explore today's I&O hot spots, including your virtualization environment, assessing a public vs. private cloud strategy, aggressively optimizing legacy systems, achieving operational excellence despite limited resources and much more. Get ready to identify new business models and technology approaches that can deliver ROI fast, efficiently and effectively. Your takeaway: the ability to leverage real-world experience and knowledge gleaned from track sessions, keynote speakers, analyst-user roundtables and end-user case studies.
Learn more about key takeaways and ROI you'll gain by attending a Gartner Summit Event
Key Benefits
Through analyst sessions, problem-solving workshops and peer interaction, you'll gain the insight necessary to:
- Deliver projects enabling growth
- Develop the right cloud strategy
- Advance to the next stage of virtualization
- Deal with ITIL and process improvements
- Align I&O with the needs of the business
- Reduce IT costs
- Understand mobility's impact on I&O
- Reduce IT costs
Who Should Attend
IT professionals responsible for:
- IT Infrastructure
- IT Operations
- The Data Center
- Storage
- IT Architecture
- Mobility Management
- Facilities
- Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
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: Private meetings that explore your personal IT issues and challenges.
- 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
Hundreds of senior business and IT leaders will convene to interact and share their knowledge and objectives. You can network with your peers at several informal networking sessions, including:
- 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
Discover. Compare. Evaluate.
Gartner conferences bring together the world's leading solution providers so you can gain a comprehensive understanding of what technologies are available, which are right for you, and how they shape up against the competition. Exhibitor access opportunities include:
- 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.
