Sessions and/or speakers are subject to change without notice.
Wednesday, 26 August, 2020 09:00 AM|Wednesday, 26 August, 2020 10:10 AM
Jason Wong, VP Analyst, Gartner
Denis Torii, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Harutoshi Katayama, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
A diversity of perspectives creates success when applications and business ecosystems change. Stop limiting yourself to one perspective; start mixing them. Reimagine your role, experiences and technologies as apps fade away.
Wednesday, 26 August, 2020 01:45 PM|Wednesday, 26 August, 2020 02:30 PM
Yoshifumi Abe, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Organizations with RPA initiatives are trying to broaden the scope of its implementation which is currently limited to some operations/LOBs. However, there are both advantages and risks to expanding the use of RPA.
This session describes some case studies and highlights the issues to be addressed to fully implement RPA in an organization and minimize the risks while achieving economies of scale.
Wednesday, 26 August, 2020 01:45 PM|Wednesday, 26 August, 2020 02:30 PM
Denis Torii, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Companies can adopt the scaled agile framework for supporting their ERP initiatives. Gartner surveys inform us that CIOs are pouring significant investment into adopting agile frameworks, and bringing ERP into the agile fold is a high priority. This session will give insight into fitting ERP into the scaled agile framework.
Wednesday, 26 August, 2020 03:40 PM|Wednesday, 26 August, 2020 04:00 PM
Tsuneo Fujiwara, VP Analyst, Gartner
Orderly, conventional and conforming, Japan’s business culture operates under a dual standard — one for the native Japanese, another for everyone else — adding further challenges for CIOs in Japan seeking digital business transformation. We provide best practices for effective culture change in this theater session, highlighting a few culture hacking that recently worked.
Wednesday, 26 August, 2020 05:55 PM|Wednesday, 26 August, 2020 06:40 PM
Paul Schenck, Sr Principal Analyst, Gartner
This session will discuss what Application Leaders need to know about Gartner's Top Ten Strategic Technology Trends.
Wednesday, 26 August, 2020 05:55 PM|Wednesday, 26 August, 2020 06:40 PM
Denis Torii, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Many organizations continue to approach ERP the same way they did 20 years ago. In 2019 the pace of business requires flexibility and agility not delivered by monolithic ERP and old fashioned “front-end” and “back-end” thinking. The fourth era of ERP is approaching and if organizations aren’t already executing a postmodern ERP strategy they will find themselves left behind.
Thursday, 27 August, 2020 09:15 AM|Thursday, 27 August, 2020 10:00 AM
Jason Wong, VP Analyst, Gartner
Artificial intelligence adoption has entered the mainstream, but most organizations are at the earliest stages and still developing their strategy and governance. Get a sense of where you stand and where the industry will progress.
Thursday, 27 August, 2020 09:15 AM|Thursday, 27 August, 2020 10:00 AM
Yefim Natis, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Cloud platform innovation promises great opportunities. But for many, the rapid change poses more questions than answers. Microservices and serverless functions; APIs and API marketplaces; hybrid integration and multicloud services; IoT and digital twins; events and streams; IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS — how will they support (or disrupt) your plans, your organization, and your market leadership role?
Thursday, 27 August, 2020 03:10 PM|Thursday, 27 August, 2020 03:30 PM
Wataru Katsurashima, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
With the digitization trend and the progress of application technologies such as microservices, the requirements for infrastructure are undergoing major changes. Container technologies and its orchestration technology, Kubernetes, play an important role there. In this session, we share points regarding containers and Kubernetes that application leaders should understand, like market adoption, value and management options.
Thursday, 27 August, 2020 03:40 PM|Thursday, 27 August, 2020 04:25 PM
Denis Torii, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Although ERP vendors are promoting their AI/ML-enabled business software as a means to become intelligent, technology alone cannot make an organization smart. Application leaders should use the five building blocks described herein to achieve a truly intelligent ERP strategy.
Wednesday, 26 August, 2020 04:10 PM|Wednesday, 26 August, 2020 04:55 PM
Jason Wong, VP Analyst, Gartner
Channels are inside-out thinking; and omnichannel thinking doesn't address customer nor employee experiences from outside-in. Omnichannel aims to address “where” users interact, but it does not take into account “how” they want to interact. To win in the experience economy, where engagement across apps, devices and interaction modalities is expected, application leaders need a multiexperience mind-set.
Wednesday, 26 August, 2020 04:10 PM|Wednesday, 26 August, 2020 04:55 PM
Yefim Natis, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
To deliver the business value of future applications, organizations will face a disruption. Architecture of applications must change to support role-centric assemblies of business capabilities; software development must shift to product-style delivery; business users must get augmented democratized tools; and the relationship of business and IT must become that of continuous collaboration. This presentation will highlight the milestones on the strategic roadmap to the future of applications.
Wednesday, 26 August, 2020 05:55 PM|Wednesday, 26 August, 2020 06:40 PM
Wataru Katsurashima, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
As use of the public cloud increases, data analysis and machine learning are being performed on the cloud more and more. The reasons for this are not only a reduction in cost, but also that advanced services on the cloud enabled new methods of use. In this session, we will examine how the cloud is changing data analysis and machine learning, and what that means for applications, based on the latest trends.
Wednesday, 26 August, 2020 05:55 PM|Wednesday, 26 August, 2020 06:40 PM
Paolo Malinverno, VP Analyst, Gartner
API strategies are becoming increasingly common, supporting digital transformation and innovation, enabling platform and ecosystem model business models and agile business processes. But how do you develop an API strategy? How do you know which APIs are right? Or which APIs your company must have?
Thursday, 27 August, 2020 11:15 AM|Thursday, 27 August, 2020 12:00 PM
Paolo Malinverno, VP Analyst, Gartner
Business capabilities are increasingly being composed through APIs rather than being created from scratch or sourced as full applications. These APIs may access internal systems, but are just as likely to come from third parties and the organization’s own ecosystem. Prepare for the composable enterprise by building an API marketplace strategy, decomposing monoliths, and enabling integration.
Thursday, 27 August, 2020 11:15 AM|Thursday, 27 August, 2020 12:00 PM
Paul Schenck, Sr Principal Analyst, Gartner
Most enterprises have now started the move from projects to products and the biggest question is "how do I get the organization to change?" Many people in the lines of business, executive management and even IT will be uncomfortable or even combative about making the switch. Concerns include funding models, perceived lack of control and losing the iron triangle of scope, time and cost. This presentation will review the forces necessitating the change, the "what’s in it for me?" arguments for various stakeholders, and tactics for helping the change occur.
Thursday, 27 August, 2020 01:15 PM|Thursday, 27 August, 2020 02:00 PM
Katsushi Shiga, VP Analyst, Gartner
The collaboration market is undergoing significant transformation to support new ways of working. This session will examine emerging application scenarios and technologies that enable organizations to promote a new work nucleus for collaboration， community-building， professional networking， employee crowdsourcing and collaborative work management.
Thursday, 27 August, 2020 01:15 PM|Thursday, 27 August, 2020 02:00 PM
Yefim Natis, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
To reach the full business potential of digital business, your organization must become continuously intelligent and innovating, integrated within itself and across its ecosystems, contextual, and responsive in business real time. In this presentation, learn how event-driven computing helps advance your organization toward each of these objectives.
Thursday, 27 August, 2020 01:15 PM|Thursday, 27 August, 2020 02:00 PM
Jason Wong, VP Analyst, Gartner
Digital business is about the creation of new business models, typically built on digital products and platforms. To continuously deliver digital product innovation and business value, application leaders should apply Gartner’s blueprint to help transform the culture, skills, architecture, technologies and software quality capabilities of their development organizations.
Thursday, 27 August, 2020 03:40 PM|Thursday, 27 August, 2020 04:25 PM
Paolo Malinverno, VP Analyst, Gartner
APIs are ubiquitous ways to access “system of record” application data. Implementing these APIs may imply intractably complex integration challenges and impose intolerable workloads on the systems of record. The emerging digital integration hub (DIH) tackles these issues by consolidating multiple back-end data sources into a low-latency, scale-out data store that serves the API layer.
Key Issues:
How will application leaders tackle the challenges of business-critical APIs?
What will be the business value of the DIH architecture?
What will be the technologies application leaders use to implement their DIHs?
Wednesday, 26 August, 2020 01:45 PM|Wednesday, 26 August, 2020 02:30 PM
Harutoshi Katayama, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
While many japanese companies are trying to shift from mode-1 to mode-2 adopting agile method of application development, they encountered problems that it is very difficult to develop human who can work using agile method. This presentation shows some approaches to do it.
Wednesday, 26 August, 2020 01:45 PM|Wednesday, 26 August, 2020 02:30 PM
Paul Schenck, Sr Principal Analyst, Gartner
Every business is a technology business and applications are at the core (and edge) of every organization. Business models, customer demands, and the competitive landscape are all undergoing significant change which will require a new approach to how application leaders need to develop and deliver their application strategy to meet business goals. This session will focus on the strategy, architectures, people and culture changes required to embed application capabilities into the DNA of your business.
Wednesday, 26 August, 2020 03:50 PM|Wednesday, 26 August, 2020 05:20 PM
Toru Asada, VP, Team Manager, Gartner
It is becoming more important to make smart IT investments. That means reviewing existing IT spending and shifting money toward efforts on transformation and growth, such as digital businesses, to utilize IT for better business performance. In this workshop, participants will use Gartner’s IT cost optimization checking tools to visualize the current status of their own companies, and through group discussion, find insights into steps to take next.
Wednesday, 26 August, 2020 04:10 PM|Wednesday, 26 August, 2020 04:55 PM
Tsuyoshi Ebina, VP Analyst, Gartner
Costs of application management works are the core of total IT costs and are the “barrier” against the digital transformation for Japanese enterprises.
Without the fundamental reform of both maintenance works and daily operations of their applications, IT leaders can never start the new initiatives.
In this session, a Gartner analyst will discuss the cost structures of application management works and tactics to optimize the costs for the IT leaders in Japan in the digital era.
Wednesday, 26 August, 2020 05:55 PM|Wednesday, 26 August, 2020 06:40 PM
Kimihiko Iijima, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Many firms have launched initiatives to reform existing applications in order to avoid the "2025 digital cliff." However, many such efforts have not set specific goals, or are still seeking a methodology or approach to setting goals. In this session, we will discuss approaches to realizing a digital transformation that supports "future applications," an important keyword of this summit.
Wednesday, 26 August, 2020 05:55 PM|Wednesday, 26 August, 2020 06:55 PM
Harutoshi Katayama, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Kei Nakahara, Section Head, Services Development Section, IoT Services PF Development Department, Konica Minolta, Inc.
Discussing key points for promoting agile transformation with a leader of a long established manufacturing company, who is promoting agile transformation.
Thursday, 27 August, 2020 08:30 AM|Thursday, 27 August, 2020 09:00 AM
Harutoshi Katayama, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
We will describe "TIME" and "pace layering," Gartner's useful frameworks for the classification and evaluation of existing applications. Both frameworks can be used for analysis/evaluation and sorting/planning of IT assets, steps described as important to achieving digital transformation in the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)'s DX Report.
Thursday, 27 August, 2020 08:30 AM|Thursday, 27 August, 2020 09:00 AM
Koji Motoyoshi, VP Analyst, Gartner
In this session, we will thoroughly discuss ERP market trends that CIOs and application leaders involved in upstream phases, such as ERP project planning and RFI/RFP creation, must be aware of, as well as the characteristics of the major vendors in Japan.
Thursday, 27 August, 2020 08:30 AM|Thursday, 27 August, 2020 09:00 AM
Tatsuya Ichishi, Sr Principal Analyst, Gartner
An application takes input, stores it in a database, and outputs it to the screen or a ledger as necessary. But going forward, there will be a demand for applications to also analyze stored data and data obtainable from outside the application, and improve their own functionality. In this session, we will discuss what it means to improve an application’s functionality using data and analytics, and important points when doing so.
Thursday, 27 August, 2020 09:15 AM|Thursday, 27 August, 2020 10:00 AM
Kimihiko Iijima, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
You want to capitalize on digital business opportunities, but your current application estate is holding you back. How do you adapt your core application systems to enable you to take advantage of new opportunities? To leverage digital business ecosystems? To exploit big data? To deliver awesome customer experiences? To allow your people to work smarter? This session discusses the top trends in application architecture that can help you modernize your application estate and enable your digital business transformation, as well as how adopting these trends will impact your organization.
Thursday, 27 August, 2020 11:10 AM|Thursday, 27 August, 2020 12:10 PM
Harutoshi Katayama, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Katsuhiko Abukawa, Head of Digital Strategy, Management Department, Keio Corporation, President and CEO, Kansei AI Co.
With Mr. Abukawa of Keio Corporation (Kansei AI Co.,Ltd) who is helping enterprises transform their numerous legacy systems into a leading-edge IT environment, this roundtable will explore approaches for firms to overcome the 2025 Digital Cliff through discussion among the participants, based on his presentation.
Thursday, 27 August, 2020 11:15 AM|Thursday, 27 August, 2020 12:00 PM
Hideaki Horiuchi, Managing Vice President, Gartner
Almost every large enterprise has implemented BI tools and they have gotten reasonable outcome. On the other hand, the needs for data is changing day by day, so many users feel frustration against current BI. To get better experience, new visual-rich tools and cloud-based offerings are purchased by business users. This presentation will explain BI trend and the hint to improve your BI environment.
Thursday, 27 August, 2020 11:15 AM|Thursday, 27 August, 2020 12:00 PM
Koji Motoyoshi, VP Analyst, Gartner
Mainstream maintenance for SAP ERP will end in seven years. Transitioning to the latest version, SAP S/4HANA, brings costs and risks, and as a result, many organizations are still in the review stage or taking a wait-and-see approach. How can Japanese CIOs and application leaders turn the "2027 problem" into an opportunity? In this session, we will summarize key points based on insights gathered from Japan and abroad, and provide some suggestions.
Thursday, 27 August, 2020 01:15 PM|Thursday, 27 August, 2020 02:00 PM
Koji Motoyoshi, VP Analyst, Gartner
Mainstream maintenance for SAP ERP will end in seven years. Transitioning to the latest version, SAP S/4HANA, brings costs and risks, and as a result, many organizations are still in the review stage or taking a wait-and-see approach. How can Japanese CIOs and application leaders turn the "2027 problem" into an opportunity? In this session, we will offer suggestions, based on insights gathered from Japan and abroad, for participants who, in 2020, are now facing this problem.
Thursday, 27 August, 2020 03:35 PM|Thursday, 27 August, 2020 04:35 PM
Kimihiko Iijima, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Eiji Hisamoto, Unit Director, Group Information Systems, Hoshino Resorts Co.
Yu Manabe, Group IT Systems, Hoshino Resorts Co.
Following a talk by guest speakers Eiji Hisamoto and Yu Manabe of Hoshino Resorts, participants will engage in a discussion with them on the new roles of IT departments and business/management in the digital era, in which applications support and enable business.
Thursday, 27 August, 2020 03:40 PM|Thursday, 27 August, 2020 04:25 PM
Tatsuya Ichishi, Sr Principal Analyst, Gartner
IT leaders are thinking about what data is valuable for data-driven management. Some IT leaders are asking the CxOs what they want to know from the data. However, most cases could not have had the exact answer that IT leaders imagined. In this session, discuss the gap and how to avoid it based on the knowledge from interaction with Gartner customers and interview sessions.
Thursday, 27 August, 2020 03:40 PM|Thursday, 27 August, 2020 04:25 PM
Tsuneo Fujiwara, VP Analyst, Gartner
Culture and talent have been cited as the top reasons for the lack of progress of digital business transformation. Traditional enterprises in risk-averse cultures are consensus-oriented and hierarchical, making agile difficult. This session provides some practical leadership techniques to overcome these barriers to drive digital business transformation, starting with commitment to leadership.