Speakers
Guest Keynote Speakers
Gabor George Burt
Luminary Keynote Speaker
Gabor George Burt is an internationally recognized expert on innovation, creativity and strategy development. His spheres of expertise help organizations to overstep perceived limitations and to carve out successful growth strategies. Gabor's book Slingshot presents a framework for connecting systematic creativity with smart strategy.
Keith Ferrazzi
CEO, author of Who's Got Your Back and Never Eat Alone, Ferrazzi Greenlight, Inc.
Keith Ferrazzi, the world's foremost expert on relationship development, is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Who's Got Your Back. His first book, Never Eat Alone, redefined professional networking today. As founder and chairman of the consulting, training, and research firm Ferrazzi Greenlight, Ferrazzi counsels the world's top enterprises on how to dramatically accelerate the development of business relationships to drive sales, spark innovation, and create team cohesion. Ferrazzi created myGreenlight, an online learning academy for "people skills" that delivers an exclusive program aimed at sales people and business professionals.
Gartner Keynote Speakers
Gartner Analyst Opening Keynote
Presented by Peter Sondergaard and the Gartner analyst team, our opening keynote sets the stage for the new demands of IT leadership, challenging decision makers to achieve greater focus on key strategies and technologies, connect people with empowering information and ideas, and lead the way to unlimited IT possibility.
- Peter Sondergaard
- Global Head of Research
- Andy Kyte
- VP and Gartner Fellow
- Mary Mesaglio
- Research VP
- David Cearley
- VP and Gartner Fellow
Gartner Analysts

- Tapati Bandopadhyay
- Principal Research Analyst
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- Mark A. Beyer
- VP Distinguished Analyst
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- Alexa Bona
- VP Distinguished Analyst
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- Brian Burke
- Research VP
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- Miriam Burt
- Research VP
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- David J. Cappuccio
- Research VP
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- Carsten Casper
- Research VP
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- David W. Cearley
- VP & Gartner Fellow
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- Andrea Di Maio
- Managing VP
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- Sue Evans
- Executive Partner
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- Donna Fitzgerald
- Research VP
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- Gene Hall
- CEO
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- Richard Hunter
- VP Distinguished Analyst
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- Partha Iyengar
- VP Distinguished Analyst
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- Hanns Koehler-Kruener
- Research Director
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- Andy Kyte
- VP & Gartner Fellow
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- Steven Lachowski
- VP, Executive Partner
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- Debra Logan
- VP Distinguished Analyst
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- Biswajeet Mahapatra
- Research Director
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- John Mahoney
- VP Distinguished Analyst
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- Richard Marshall
- Research Director
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- Mary Mesaglio
- Research VP
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- Naveen Mishra
- Research Director
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- Alistair Newton
- Research VP
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- Martin Plessow
- VP Service Delivery
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- John P. Roberts
- VP Distinguished Analyst
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- Arup Roy
- Research Director
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- Katja Ruud
- Research Director
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- Peter Sondergaard
- SVP, Research
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- Joao Tapadinhas
- Research Director
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