The World's Most Important Gathering of
CIOs and Senior IT Executives
6 - 10 October 2013   Orlando, Florida

CIO Program

CIO leadership is being challenged in historic new ways, requiring a fresh approach to IT concepts, strategies. Based on direct input from more than 2,000 CIOs, the CIO Program at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo offers the most timely, relevant content available to CIOs — all captured in a comprehensive agenda of interactive workshops, CIO-exclusive sessions, guest speaker luncheons and other formats appropriate to a C-level audience. Attendees must apply to this program based on the qualification criteria (listed below).

Program objectives

• Provide qualified attendees an exclusive CIO experience
• Stimulate entrepreneurial and creative thinking
• Create unlimited opportunities for CIO to benefit from the collective wisdom of their peers
• Investigate methodologies, frameworks and approaches for professional and personal growth
• Prepare CIOs for the technology developments causing a profound shift in the enterprise
• Arm CIOs with leadership strategies and techniques to develop and sustain talent in an ever-changing employment landscape

CIO Luncheon Speakers

2012 CIO Program luncheon speakers included:

• Kenneth Daly
• President and CEO, National Association of Corporate Directors

• Seth Godin
• Best-Selling Author and Entrepreneur

• A. G. Lafley
• Former Chairman, CEO and President of Procter & Gamble (P&G)

Please check back in the upcoming months for our 2013 line-up of CIO Program luncheon speakers.

Criteria

CIOs or equivalent-level IT executives who have ultimate responsibility for enterprise-wide (or business-division) IT decisions and budgets:

• CIOs or equivalent-level IT executives who have ultimate responsibility for enterprisewide (or business division) IT decisions and budgets
• CIOs, CTOs (or equivalent) and business unit/regional CIOs from organizations with revenue of $1 billion+ (CIO surrogates and business division/regional CIO equivalents may be additionally qualified on their individual IT budget responsibility/control)
• CIOs, CTOs (or equivalent) from organizations with revenue of $200M to $999M (applicants may be additionally qualified on their individual IT budget responsibility/control)
• CIOs, CTOs (or equivalent) from not-for-profit and public sector organizations or agencies with 1,000 employees or more (applicants may be additionally qualified on their individual IT budget responsibility/control)
• CIO members of Gartner Executive Programs
• CIOs, from technology vendors and consultants, who are involved exclusively in their organization's internal IT/IS operation

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