Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2012 | Barcelona CIO and IT Leader Event

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Genevieve Bell

Director of Interaction, Experience and Research, Intel

Dr. Genevieve Bell is a anthropologist and researcher. As director of User Interaction and Experience in Intel Labs, Bell leads a research team of social scientists, interaction designers, human factors engineers and computer scientists. This team shapes and helps create new Intel technologies and products that are increasingly designed around people's needs and desires. In this team and her prior roles, Bell has fundamentally altered the way Intel envisions and plans its future products so that they are centered on people's needs rather than simply silicon capabilities.

Frans Johansson

Chief Executive Officer, The Medici Group

Author and entrepreneur Frans Johansson has inspired audiences worldwide, from Fortune 500 boardrooms to rural villages. His debut, The Medici Effect, was an international bestseller that shattered assumptions about how great ideas happen. His second book, The Click Moment, rewrites the rules of strategy and success.

Sandra Navidi

Founder and CEO, Beyond Global

Sandra Navidi is a leading international strategic consultant. She recently founded her new advisory company which provides strategic assistance to corporations and financial institutions seeking to position themselves in international capital markets. She is the former Director of research strategies and senior relationship manager at Roubini Global Economics.

Karl-Erich Probst

Chief Information Officer, BMW

Karl Probst took over as chief information officer at the BMW Group at the beginning of 2006. In 2002, he became managing director of T-Systems GEI GmbH and of T-Systems Nova GmbH, sitting on the executive board of T-Systems International GmbH Service Line Systems Integration.

Professor Donald Sull

Professor of Management Practice, London Business School

Dr. Donald Sull is a Professor of Management Practice in Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the London Business School. Sull is a global authority on managing in turbulent markets. He has been identified as a leading management thinker by The Economist, the Financial Times, and Fortune which named him among the ten new management gurus to know. The Economist listed his theory of active inertia among the ideas that shaped business management over the past century.

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Senior IT Leader Case Study Speakers

Hear from senior IT and business executives from leading multinational organizations that will bring their valuable experience to life by sharing best practices and lessons learned.