Over 3 days attendees had access to unbiased, researched backed Gartner content, as well as guest keynotes, case studies, and solution provider sessions to shape the future of IT and business
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Attendees honed their leadership skills, refined their strategies and discovered the latest innovative technologies at the Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo™ 2022 conference in Tokyo.
2022 day highlights
Gartner Opening Keynote: Make the Difference
Speakers: Tsuneo Fujiwara, VP Analyst, Gartner
Tatsuya Ichishi, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Kaoru Yano, Director Analyst, Gartner
Signature Series: Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2023
Speaker: Takeshi Ikeda, VP Analyst, Gartner
Signature Series: Gartner’s Top Strategic Predictions for 2023 and Beyond — Seizing Uncertainty
Speaker: Hiroyuki Katayama, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Signature Series: Flourishing in the Rejuvenated Work and Talent Landscape
Speaker: Alvaro Mello, VP, Advisory, Gartner
Signature Series: CEO Concerns 2022-23 -- Implications and Actions for CIOs
Speaker: Yoshi Matsumoto, Distinguished VP, Advisory, Gartner
Gartner Closing Keynote: Toward Tomorrow's Challenges
Speaker: Yoshi Matsumoto, Distinguished VP, Advisory, Gartner
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Monday, 31 October, 2022 / 08:30 AM - 06:00 PM JST
Conference Registration and Information Hours
Conference Registration and Information Hours
Monday, 31 October, 2022 / 09:30 AM - 10:15 AM JST
Gartner Opening Keynote: Make the Difference
Tsuneo Fujiwara, VP Analyst, Gartner
Tatsuya Ichishi, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Kaoru Yano, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
CIOs are leading in a world that is deglobalizing, economically disrupted and facing a greater range of threats than ever before. The executive challenge is how to turn these risks into business opportunities while dealing with significant uncertainty and resource constraints. Join us for the Gartner Opening Keynote in which we’ll focus on some of the most important ways in which CIOs and IT executives can use information and technology in new and emerging ways to lead and make a difference for their enterprises.
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Monday, 31 October, 2022 / 10:15 AM - 06:00 PM JST
Gartner Zone
Visit the Gartner Zone to experience Gartner’s actionable, objective insight through a live demonstration of the customer portal site, Gartner.com.
Monday, 31 October, 2022 / 10:35 AM - 11:20 AM JST
Guest Keynote: Mazda’s Approach to Business Structure Reform - People-IT Co-creation of New Values
Akira Marumoto, President and CEO, Mazda Motor Corporation,
Mazda, which succeeded in the world’s only mass production of rotary engines, has been committed to manufacturing (Monotsukuri) and unique technology developments. Being a relatively small-scale company with limited resources, Mazda has been seeking the most efficient development and production methods, and has long invested in Mazda Digital Innovation to improve the Monotsukuri process.
With our cross-organizational business reform progressing, employees’ awareness has changed as well as their operations, and each individual has grown, becoming able to take innovative actions for the reform utilizing digital technologies. In this presentation, new values created by people-IT collaboration, the progress of the business structure reform, and future prospects of the Monotsukuri company are introduced.
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Monday, 31 October, 2022 / 11:20 AM - 05:20 PM JST
IT Xpo
Walk through IT Xpo to explore emerging technologies from leading solution providers to help you accelerate your technology decisions.
Monday, 31 October, 2022 / 11:35 AM - 12:05 PM JST
[Luncheon] Bengo4: What's Happening Now at Sites Where DX is Failing
Taishi Nakajima, , Bengo4.com, Inc.
Since around 2018, the term digital transformation has received increasing attention. Furthermore, the spread of COVID-19 has increased the need for business digitalization.
This is an irreversible change that has traditionally occurred and requires a strategy that is based on digital in both with-corona and after-corona.
On the other hand, despite the fact that digitalization is a major theme for companies, there are often issues with progress within companies.
This session refers to the angles from which the promotion of digitalization should be implemented.
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Monday, 31 October, 2022 / 11:35 AM - 12:05 PM JST
[Luncheon] Denodo: data-driven decision-making - building a logical data fabric
Naomi Nakayama, Regional Vice President & General Manager - Japan, Denodo Technologies
Now that digital transformation and business transformation through the use of data are increasingly required, data-driven decision-making that collects, integrates, and utilizes data quickly and efficiently is necessary for competitive advantage and differentiation. In this presentation, we will introduce an overview of the logical data fabric, which enables data-driven decision-making by quickly "collecting, connecting, and organizing" a wide variety of data scattered inside and outside the company, along with domestic and overseas examples. .
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Monday, 31 October, 2022 / 11:35 AM - 12:05 PM JST
[Luncheon] NTT-TX: Privileged accounts are the most important target for cyberattacks
Akio Ogawa, Manager, NTT TechnoCross Corporation
With the acceleration of DX, the spread of the cloud, and the spread of remote work, the number of accounts is exploding and expanding.
Privileged accounts(IDs) are key to data, making them a prime target for cyberattacks. If the privileged ID is taken, there is a risk of a serious security incident. In the hybrid era, "ID" becomes a new boundary, and Privileged Access Management, which is a hub of security, is important as a foundation for supporting zero trust.
In this session, we will explain the PAM that companies should prioritize and how to proceed with the implementation of Zero Trust.
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Monday, 31 October, 2022 / 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM JST
Google: Learning tips of improving productivity from Google in the hybrid work era
Hiroyuki Koike, Managing Director, Customer Engineering, Japan, Google Cloud Japan
With employees working in offices and remotely, the need for productivity improvement is shifting from traditional information sharing (file attachments via e-mail and individual work) to real-time collaboration (creation of an environment where the latest data can be constantly updated). In this session, we will introduce how to share information in real-time and improve productivity by showing examples of how to work at Google, where high productivity is required.
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Monday, 31 October, 2022 / 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM JST
TCS: Approach to Achieve Cyber-Resilience for Digital Transformation (DX)
Yukinori Harada, , Tata Consultancy Services Japan, Ltd.
Cyber-attacks targeting DX transformations are increasing & resulting in ruinous impact on businesses. There is an acute shortage of IT security resources. Reinforcing "Cyber Resilience" to secure from Cyber Attacks or reduce the damage to the minimum of an attack is must. TCS will introduce on the approach of Cyber Resilience using trends & case studies & also about effective distribution of IT limited resources among various IT service line.
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Monday, 31 October, 2022 / 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM JST
VMware: Cyber resilience to protect your business from destructive cyber attacks
Toshio Ibe, Principal Security Business Architect, VMware K.K
While it is said to be difficult to defend against all cyber attacks, security measures from the perspective of corporate operations are required due to an increasing number of cases such as ransomware that can seriously affect the continuation of business activities.
In addition to the background of the demand for cyber resilience, we will introduce a security solution that is not a pile of conventional defensive measures but a comprehensive solution for early detection of internal spread and reliable system recovery in preparation for internal intrusion.
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Monday, 31 October, 2022 / 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM JST
Fujitsu: Fujitsu Technology Driving Sustainable Transformation of Business and Society
Vivek Mahajan, Corporate Executive Officer, SEVP, CTO, FUJITSU LIMITED
Climate change, geopolitical issues, and digital disruptions all have a profound impact on business, environmental, social and economic sustainability. In this session, we will introduce how technical innovations from Fujitsu can contribute to creating more sustainable business and society.
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Monday, 31 October, 2022 / 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM JST
SoftRoad: Coming soon!
Hideki Niiduma, Director, SALES, SoftRoad Co., Ltd.
Atsushi Ishikawa, Product Development Department, Product Development Management Division, P&M Division Manager, doda Architect Group, PERSOL CAREER CO., LTD.
Coming soon!
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Monday, 31 October, 2022 / 01:20 PM - 01:50 PM JST
CIOs Must Address the Long Term Business Impact of Geopolitical Tensions
Brian Prentice, VP Analyst, Gartner
Geopolitics in today's uncertain world also impacts the value creation of IT departments. In this session, we will focus on multinational enterprises and explain actions CIOs can take in preparation for mitigating geopolitical risks to their enterprises in order to remain resilient. Areas of focus include enterprise architecture, corporate structure and forward-looking view of geopolitical risks.
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Monday, 31 October, 2022 / 01:20 PM - 01:50 PM JST
Expect the Unexpected: Cost Optimization in Uncertain Times
Chris Ganly, VP, Team Manager, Gartner
The pandemic has given way to extremely volatile economic conditions led by inflation and European conflict. What are the best practices to continue to optimize IT cost in the face of such uncertainty?
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Monday, 31 October, 2022 / 01:20 PM - 01:50 PM JST
Key Privacy/Security Trends in Data Utilization 2022
Yuichi Isoda, VP Analyst, Gartner
With the full enforcement of Japan's revised Personal Information Protection Law and the rise of new related technologies, it is imperative for companies to evolve their data privacy and security initiatives to a new stage. In this session, we will discuss the key privacy and security trends to keep in mind when utilizing data.
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Monday, 31 October, 2022 / 01:20 PM - 01:50 PM JST
Mindset 2023 to Acquire for a New Era
Tadaaki Mataga, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Companies need to acquire a new mindset to prepare for the new era (New World) that will come in and beyond 2030. In this session, we will explain the mindset for survival in the coming era.
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Monday, 31 October, 2022 / 01:20 PM - 01:50 PM JST
Signature Series: Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2023
Takeshi Ikeda, VP Analyst, Gartner
Strategic technology trends have significant disruptive potential and set the stage for innovation over the next five years. Enterprises must examine the business impact of these trends and adjust business operations appropriately or risk losing competitive advantage to those who do. These are trends that IT cannot afford to ignore as they deal with the uncertainty driven by global change.
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Monday, 31 October, 2022 / 01:20 PM - 02:05 PM JST
Consulting Clinics+ : Talent Reskilling and Organizational Change Are Foundational for Digital Transformations and Sustaining Continuous Improvements
Tomoaki Sugimoto, Sr Managing Partner, Gartner
Digital transformations require more than technology capabilities. In this session, we will explore how talent reskilling/sourcing and organizational change will work as KSF of digital transformations to achieve an organization’s digital ambitions. In particular, without establishing a solid pool of digital talent and organization mindset shift, sustaining continuous improvements will be difficult to achieve. Examples and lessons from a large Japanese entity undergoing a significant digital transformation will be shared to reinforce key observations.
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Monday, 31 October, 2022 / 02:05 PM - 02:50 PM JST
[Boardroom] TCS:How to Overcome the IT Talent shortage? Discussion on Global Resource
Tetsuya Nakamura, Chief Digital Innovation Officer & Senior Vice President, Tata Consultancy Services Japan, Ltd.
Coming soon!
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Monday, 31 October, 2022 / 02:05 PM - 02:50 PM JST
[Boardroom] Fujitsu: Steps We Take to Expand our Business to Solve Social Issues
Ichiro Aoyagi, Corporate Executive Officer, SVP, Vice Head of Uvance Business Unit, FUJITSU LIMITED
While efforts to solve social issues are essential for the management of all companies, they still remain a challenge for many customers. Fujitsu believes that in order to expand its business, it is essential to solve the day-to-day business issues faced by customers and, beyond that, to focus social issues. In this session, we will introduce practical examples of how Fujitsu has worked together with customers to solve social issues, such as the visualization of CO2 emissions and the circular economy. We would like to discuss what steps we should take.
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Monday, 31 October, 2022 / 02:10 PM - 02:40 PM JST
Autify:Lead Your Company to Success: A Next-Gen Strategy to Rapidly Develop & Deliver
Ryo Chikazawa, CEO & Co-Founder, Autify, Inc.
How can businesses and engineers collaborate to develop services faster, deliver at a higher quality, and succeed?
In a rapidly changing market, many organizations struggle to create and implement strategic development to maintain a high level of competitiveness and agility. This is because strategies include technological, human, and analytical perspectives, all of which are complex.
In this session, I propose the ideal development strategy CXOs should promote by exploring leading companies' strategies and best practices.
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Monday, 31 October, 2022 / 02:10 PM - 02:40 PM JST
KDDI: To Overcome the Three Dilemmas of DX
Akihito Fujii, Executive Officer, Solution Business Planning Division, Solution Business Sector, KDDI Corporation, and President and Representative Director, KDDI Digital Divergence Holdings Corporation., KDDI CORPORATION
Most of the DX of Japanese companies remains at Digitization, and they are still halfway to the business model transformation (new value creation and customer experience creation) using digital technology, which is the original meaning of DX.
To accelerate DX, we need to overcome three dilemmas.
In this session, we will introduce KDDI's efforts and discuss how companies in the Japanese market should acquire digital capabilities such as cloud computing and agile development, which are essential for advancing DX, to create continuous value.
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Monday, 31 October, 2022 / 02:10 PM - 02:40 PM JST
Rimini Street: Transformation During Disruption: A Smart Path
Yorio Wakisaka, General Manager, Nihon Rimini Street K.K.
Economic uncertainty and geo-political turbulence can paralyze organizations during the very time they need to invest in innovative IT. These same organizations often find that vendor-driven product roadmaps can stifle rather than aid growth. Learn how savvy leaders are successfully adjusting their business and IT priorities, reinvesting budgets to drive growth, and taking a smart path to business transformation during times of great disruption.
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Monday, 31 October, 2022 / 02:10 PM - 02:40 PM JST
KOBELCO SYSTEMS: How to Survive in an Era Where the Future is Difficult to Predict
Takashi MInami, General Manager, KOBELCO SYSTEMS Corporation
Today's business environment is constantly changing, as customer needs diversify and business models innovate, making it difficult to predict the future.
In an era in which companies are forced to constantly change, it is becoming more and more important to have a system infrastructure that does not become a hindrance.
While many companies are aware of the need to revamp their systems in anticipation of change, they are still unable to take the necessary steps.
In this session, we will introduce the method of system construction with successful examples.
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Monday, 31 October, 2022 / 02:10 PM - 02:40 PM JST
Zendesk: Future of CX from Japanese Case Studies-Latest Trends from TEPCO and DeNA
Ken Tominaga, Regional Vice President, Zendesk K.K.
Zendesk Abstract Coming Soon
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Monday, 31 October, 2022 / 02:40 PM - 03:40 PM JST
Refresh Time
Please enjoy the refreshments in the IT Xpo area.
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Monday, 31 October, 2022 / 02:50 PM - 03:10 PM JST
What’s Democratized Digital Delivery? Key Points of Fusion Teams and Product Management
Neha Kumar, Sr Director, Advisory, Gartner
CEOs want more technology delivery to happen directly in business areas and are investing more in technology talent in those areas.
Join this session to understand the elements of democratized digital delivery, how it fits within product management approaches to delivery, how teams are organized as fusion teams, and the critical role the IT function must play in transitioning to this model.
Monday, 31 October, 2022 / 02:50 PM - 03:10 PM JST
How to Select Collaboration Applications to Boost Productivity Under Hybrid Environment
Hironori Hayashi, Director Analyst, Gartner
While organizations adopt web conferencing and content sharing for new hybrid work, some organizations respond to diverse requirements from business functions. IT function faces challenges to recommend and support tools and services for driving organization-wide collaboration and fulfilling requirements.
The expert will introduce how to select collaboration tools as per diverse requirements to boost productivity and experience.
Monday, 31 October, 2022 / 02:55 PM - 04:25 PM JST
Workshop: Be Prepared for Ransomware by Optimizing Your Investment Posture Now
Kazunori Kumakura, Sr Executive Partner, Gartner
Toru Asada, VP Service Delivery, Gartner
There are investments you should be making today to prepare against any future ransomware attacks. In this workshop, participants will use the Gartner risk optimization model for evaluating investment decisions related to ransomware and develop approaches specific to their organization. The model can be utilized across a variety of use cases.
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Monday, 31 October, 2022 / 02:55 PM - 04:25 PM JST
Workshop: How to Measure and Improve Data and Analytics Maturity
Yoshifumi Ozawa, Sr Executive Partner, Gartner
To accelerate digital business, it is crucial to extract business value from data and analytics. To solve the challenges faced, key priorities must be set while assessing the overall picture. In this workshop, after reaffirming business goals, we will measure the current maturity level objectively using Gartner's framework and find clues to reach out to stakeholders.
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Monday, 31 October, 2022 / 03:10 PM - 03:25 PM JST
[Theater] Google: Chrome Browser management and security best practice
Ken Mouri, Chrome Enterprise, Browser specialist, Google LLC
In a cloud-native way of working, it is extremely important to balance browser utilization and governance.
In this session, the Chrome browser specialist will introduce solutions that ensure productivity, security, and governance of Chrome browser.
Monday, 31 October, 2022 / 03:10 PM - 03:25 PM JST
[Theater] Solace: Improve Business Agility with Event-Driven Architecture
Tomo Yamaguchi, Country Director, Japan, Solace
Is your organization prepared with the skills and technologies to support event-driven design?
Join us to learn why and how to leverage event-driven architecture to modernize legacy applications and deploy next-gen integration, giving you a better real-time insight as well as helping your digital transformation with applications in other clouds and on-premises environments.
• How EDA can drive transformation to a real-time event-driven business
• EDA simplicity of architecture, cost-saving, resilience and scalability
• Key steps for adopting EDA
• Case studies across industries
Monday, 31 October, 2022 / 03:25 PM - 04:10 PM JST
Ask the Expert: Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2023
Takeshi Ikeda, VP Analyst, Gartner
A follow up from the Signature Series presentation “Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2023". Bring your questions to this interactive session and take a deeper dive into these trends including — which will have the greatest potential impact to your organization.
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Monday, 31 October, 2022 / 03:25 PM - 04:10 PM JST
Roundtable: Considering the Challenges and Direction of IT Global Governance in Japanese Enterprises
Shinji Hasejima, GVP, Gartner
Regardless of the industry, IT and digital execution managers who are promoting global expansion will gather to discuss and exchange opinions on this theme.
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Monday, 31 October, 2022 / 03:40 PM - 04:10 PM JST
IT Department Value and Business Value of IT Describing Various Kinds of KPIs
Hiroyuki Katayama, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) are key metrics necessary to evaluate people, organizations, activities, and investment initiatives objectively. This session introduces how to describe the value of the IT department and the business value of IT initiatives using various kinds of KPIs.
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Monday, 31 October, 2022 / 03:40 PM - 04:10 PM JST
Future of Manufacturing IT: Winning Formula to Product Servitization
Kristian Steenstrup, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Manufacturers are becoming software service companies through product servitization. IT is creating new SaaS-based revenue streams with technologies like IoT, edge, AI and digital twins. Instead of selling capital intensive assets, your company can now sell “as-a-service” subscription offerings. See how manufacturers have successfully evolved their product offering.
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Monday, 31 October, 2022 / 03:40 PM - 04:10 PM JST
Signature Series: CIO and Technology Executive Agenda for 2023
Tsuneo Fujiwara, VP Analyst, Gartner
During these uncertain and challenging times, leading CIOs radically reframe their organization’s value proposition and how their technology departments create value. They reposition the organization as a force multiplier. This year’s CIO and technology executive agenda explores the leadership actions necessary to close I&T execution gaps by leveraging a decentralized an distributed delivery approach.
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Monday, 31 October, 2022 / 03:40 PM - 04:10 PM JST
Top Trends Shaping the Future of Applications
Koji Motoyoshi, VP Analyst, Gartner
To deliver on digital transformation, your organization needs applications that can be assembled, reassembled and extended. This will allow you to innovate and adapt to the changing needs of your business. To do this, organizations need to evolve from their current state of inflexible, monolithic applications toward a portfolio that is more modular and adaptable to business change. This presentation will cover the top technology trends in enterprise applications that will enable this transformation.
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Monday, 31 October, 2022 / 03:40 PM - 04:10 PM JST
Web3 and Digital Tokens: What Japanese Organizations Need to Know
Masaki Suzuki, VP Analyst, Gartner
Web3 and digital token trends have become a hot topic to which Japanese organizations should know and react. In this session, Gartner explains the technology foundation, expected future and how to respond to the trends.
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Monday, 31 October, 2022 / 04:30 PM - 05:00 PM JST
Darktrace: How AI Can Think Like an Attacker
Makoto Suzuki, Country Manager, Japan, Darktrace
In the face of skyrocketing cyber risk, detecting and responding to attacks is no longer enough. Organizations must take proactive steps to prevent threats before they happen, and to recover if compromised. In this session, Darktrace unveil an ambitious new approach to security, with core engines powering AI technologies to prevent, detect, respond, and ultimately heal from attacks. Together, these engines combine to strengthen organizations’ security posture in a virtuous AI feedback ‘loop,’ which provides powerful end-to-end, bespoke, and self-learning solutions unique to each organization.
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Monday, 31 October, 2022 / 04:30 PM - 05:00 PM JST
Google: Pushing Security Forward
Kenichi Suzuki, Head of Chrome Enterprise, Google LLC
Anytime/anywhere productivity isn’t just possible, it’s popular and growing thanks to shifting social norms and cloud-first business strategies. As a result, a better and healthier work/life balance finally feels attainable. In this presentation, learn how Chrome Enterprise is evolving to provide new levels of proactive protection that compliment today’s need for flexibility.
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Monday, 31 October, 2022 / 04:30 PM - 05:00 PM JST
Slack: New approach to Break down Silos & shift work style to the next level
Tetsushi Ito, DIRECTOR, PRODUCT MARKETING, Salesforce Japan, Slack Marketing
With the increase of hybrid work styles, more companies are approaching new ways of work style. In this session, Slack, supporting the hybrid work style with the term "Digital HQ", will explain the business value created by open communication with customer use cases.
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Monday, 31 October, 2022 / 04:30 PM - 05:00 PM JST
Workato: How Data-Driven Companies Scale Hyper Automation in Enterprise
Hiroyuki Suzuki, Automation Evangelist, Japan Founder, Workato K.K.
How are leading digital companies "leveraging data" and "automating business process workflow" to improve the total experience (TX) of digital workers? In this session, we will share how they are approaching business process automation across departments and organizations by opening up data in monolithic applications, enabling appropriate governance, and responding to data changes. We will also discuss the business value of the Fusion team's implementation results.
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Monday, 31 October, 2022 / 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM JST
Contract Negotiation Clinic: Oracle
Tsuyoshi Ebina, VP Analyst, Gartner
CIOs often find negotiating with Oracle a challenge. This clinic will help you to navigate the key trends, protect against issues and manage costs by addressing how to negotiate the best possible Oracle contract, how to uncover hidden costs and audit risks, and how to maximize leverage during your Oracle negotiations.
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Monday, 31 October, 2022 / 05:15 PM - 06:00 PM JST
Ask the Expert: CIO and Technology Executive Agenda for 2023
Tsuneo Fujiwara, VP Analyst, Gartner
A follow up from the Signature Series presentation “CIO and Technology Executive Agenda for 2023."
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Monday, 31 October, 2022 / 05:15 PM - 06:00 PM JST
Roundtable: IT Function Subsidiaries - Roles of IT Function Subsidiaries, Communication With Parent Company
Yasuo Ueki, Executive Partner, Gartner
We invite the Executive Management of IT subsidiaries and IT function companies to gather, discuss and exchange opinions on highly common themes.
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Monday, 31 October, 2022 / 05:15 PM - 06:00 PM JST
Roundtable: Manufacturing Industry - Issues in Renovating Core Manufacturing Systems
Yoshihito Sano, Executive Partner, Gartner
We invite IT and digital execution managers from the manufacturing industry to gather and discuss and exchange opinions on highly common themes.
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Monday, 31 October, 2022 / 05:20 PM - 05:50 PM JST
CIO’s Guide to Quantum Computing
Tadaaki Mataga, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Quantum computing leverages quantum physics in a vacuum colder than interstellar space and has the potential to solve some of the world's most challenging problems. CIOs have been inundated with quantum computing hype, but what to believe? Are you behind? Should we start now or wait? This session addresses how CIOs should assess quantum computing opportunities within their organizations. It will focus on quantum use cases both near and long term.
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Monday, 31 October, 2022 / 05:20 PM - 05:50 PM JST
CIOs' Top Leadership Actions to Accelerate Digital Business
Alfred Sim, Director, Advisory, Gartner
The value and related use of technology is expanding across the enterprise demanding a more democratized approach to technology leadership. CIOs need to shift their focus from operating IT to achieving critical business outcomes requiring technology leadership. CIOs need to focus on promoting C-suite digital dexterity, equipping and enabling business technologists, and supporting/creating generative relationships with strategic technology partners.
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Monday, 31 October, 2022 / 05:20 PM - 05:50 PM JST
Advancing Digital Dexterity Across Executive Leadership
Brian Gagnon, Managing Vice President, Gartner
As enterprises accelerate and expand digitalization, technology leadership has become the accountability of all CXOs. This presentation will give CIOs practical approaches to establish programs to assess and elevate the digital dexterity of business leaders.
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Monday, 31 October, 2022 / 05:20 PM - 05:50 PM JST
Future of Applications: How to Make Applications Business Agile?
Kimihiko Iijima, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Applications are required to be much more agile and business relevant, as more business changes keep coming more frequently and more significantly. It creates such trends that more enterprises tend to jump into microservices, but many of them do not have clear pictures of the future of applications. In this session, we discuss key considerations about future applications to build for change.
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Monday, 31 October, 2022 / 05:20 PM - 05:50 PM JST
Talent Beyond Your Teams — A Talent Ecosystem Approach
Andy Rowsell-Jones, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
IT talent shortage has consistently been identified as the biggest inhibitor to digital business progress. Contrary to the traditional linear talent recruitment and management approach, CIOs should treat talent as flow assets (networks of capabilities evolving and exchanging value in the flow of work), orchestrate internal talent and leverage external talent through a marketplace/ecosystem approach.
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Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 08:30 AM - 06:00 PM JST
Conference Registration and Information Hours
Conference Registration and Information Hours
Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 09:00 AM - 06:00 PM JST
Gartner Zone
Visit the Gartner Zone to experience Gartner’s actionable, objective insight through a live demonstration of the customer portal site, Gartner.com.
Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 09:30 AM - 10:00 AM JST
Cloud Computing Trend 2023
Tadaaki Mataga, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Many companies have begun to take a step from discussion to practice about the cloud. However, many are just extensions of traditional on-premises. Meanwhile, hyperscaler technology is trying to make New World even more realistic. In this session, we will sort out rapidly changing cloud trends and give advice to users.
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Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 09:30 AM - 10:00 AM JST
CX Prescription: You Need More Soul Mates
Kensuke Kawabe, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
In order to drive CX for growth, you need to be collaborative with multiple departments to consistently deliver newly added value in response to recent social turmoil, changing market conditions, and diversifying customer needs by applying evolving technologies. This session will explain how IT leaders participating in CX projects should behave, as well as CX trends.
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Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 09:30 AM - 10:00 AM JST
Develop New Fighting Style for Security
Yuichi Isoda, VP Analyst, Gartner
In order to continue to tackle the challenges of security in the face of growing threats and rapid changes in the digital environment, it is necessary to change the old style and develop a new fighting style. This session will cover some of the key challenges for IT and security leaders and provide recommendations.
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Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 09:30 AM - 10:00 AM JST
Signature Series: Gartner’s Top Strategic Predictions for 2023 and Beyond — Seizing Uncertainty
Hiroyuki Katayama, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
The future is always uncertain. But the idea that “uncertainty brings opportunity” is almost a universal constant. And now is the time to seize opportunities. This presentation covers ten predictions of the future that represent opportunity — or threat. CIOs tech providers and business leaders will need to decide which while acting swiftly.
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Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 09:30 AM - 10:00 AM JST
Where Is the CIO Role Going?
Andy Rowsell-Jones, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
The role and responsibilities of the CIO continue to evolve. Gartner has identified several important archetypes for the CIO role all CIOs should understand. CIOs can learn from leading CIOs and take charge in order to increase value and impact for their enterprise.
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Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 09:30 AM - 10:15 AM JST
Roundtable: Retail Industry - Improvement and Reform of Customer Experience
Takeshi Kitajima, Executive Partner, Gartner
We invite IT and digital execution managers from the retail industry to gather, discuss and exchange opinions on highly common themes.
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Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 09:30 AM - 10:15 AM JST
Roundtable: Employee Value Proposal —Aiming to Acquire Human Resources and Improve Retention Rate
Yoshifumi Ozawa, Sr Executive Partner, Gartner
Regardless of the industry, IT and digital execution managers will gather to discuss and exchange opinions on this theme.
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Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 09:30 AM - 11:00 AM JST
Workshop: How to Deal With the Shortage of Data and Analytics Talent
Yasuo Ueki, Executive Partner, Gartner
The efforts of data and analytics are indispensable for solving digital business problems, but many companies are facing the challenge of building human resources and systems to fulfill the role. This workshop will introduce examples of efforts to tackle the challenges and discuss how to acquire and develop human resources for data and analytics.
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Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 10:00 AM - 05:05 PM JST
IT Xpo
Walk through IT Xpo to explore emerging technologies from leading solution providers to help you accelerate your technology decisions.
Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 10:20 AM - 10:50 AM JST
Techtouch: What is the technology to bring your DX Vision become a reality
Soushi Nishino, Vice President, Techtouch, Inc.
"Many companies are trying to realize ""data-driven management"".
For data-driven management, it is necessary to realize business operations as intended by management.
But, DX promotion often fails to make progress.
In this session, we will introduce ""Techtouch®,"" a technology to realize DX.
The session will explain how to establish digital operations by connecting management and business sites, with examples that are implementing leading-edge DX."
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Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 10:20 AM - 10:50 AM JST
Zscaler: The One True Zero for Accelerating Business Value
Hiroaki Fukatani, Chief Information Security Officer – Japan, Zscaler, Inc.
In the IT field of enterprise, which supports the foundation of business, there are many cases where the correct design is not done in accordance with the true zero trust architecture due to the many theories about "zero-trust". This includes networking, security, and applications. The transition needs to take into account the network, security, applications (including cloud computing), endpoints, and security operations (SOC). This presentation will discuss the value proposition and leadership that can be achieved with the right design and deployment for Zero Trust.
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Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 10:20 AM - 10:50 AM JST
SAP: What should be changed about ERP to strengthen competitiveness
Shinichi Oda, , SAP Japan Co., Ltd.
With Japan's GDP growth rate stagnating and concerns about the future increasing, how should Japanese companies regain and further strengthen their competitiveness in the world?
In order to strengthen competitiveness, we will introduce the points, including examples of SAP itself, about the architecture necessary for business process transformation and data-driven management, and the system and governance for transformation projects.
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Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 10:20 AM - 10:50 AM JST
ServiceNow: Drive human-centric transformation with automation by digital platform
Tomohiro Hara, Area Vice President Solution Consulting, ServiceNow Japan G.K.
Today, it is essential to think how to design and build IT platforms to enable users, both customers and employees, to experience value. This human-centric approach can simplify the relationship between business and users, and also systems and users, for higher productivity, time to focus on value-added tasks, and improved operational throughput. In this session, more detail will be presented with case studies.
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Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 10:20 AM - 10:50 AM JST
Serverworks: Solution Provider Session Title Coming Soon
Ryo Ooishi, Founder&CEO, Serverworks Co., Ltd.
Masafumi Kabayama, General Manager, Digital Division, Alpen Co., Ltd
Serverwork Abstract Coming Soon
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Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 10:20 AM - 11:05 AM JST
[Boardroom] Google: What is necessary for companies to lead green growth?
Coby Kobayashi, Head of Google Workspace New Business Sales, Google Cloud Japan
DescriptionJoin this facilitated discussion with your peers and separate fact from fiction when it comes to changing today's work habits, end user device requirements, security risks and how we can help meet sustainability goals. Discuss whether legacy is the dirty word everyone tells you or a necessary requirement for realising your budget potential. Explore what a roadmap from today to tomorrow entails and make sure you are ready to make the smart transitions to keep your business ahead.
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Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 11:05 AM - 11:50 AM JST
Roundtable: How to Improve Employee IT Literacy?
Junichi Masukawa, Sr Executive Partner, Gartner
Regardless of the industry, IT and digital execution managers will gather to discuss and exchange opinions on this theme.
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Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 11:10 AM - 11:40 AM JST
Choose the Optimal Corporate Structure to Drive Digital Reglobalization in a New Market
Tsuneo Fujiwara, VP Analyst, Gartner
During times of geopolitical tensions and the emergence of multipolarity, executive leaders are challenged to decide which markets to enter, and how to operate in those markets. A quick assessment providing a forward-looking view of operational risks helps in choosing the optimal corporate structure to drive growth and digital business reglobalization.
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Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 11:10 AM - 11:40 AM JST
Gartner's CIO Playbook for Dealing With a Recession
Chris Ganly, VP, Team Manager, Gartner
Economic downturns represent considerable challenges for CIOs and IT functions. This session will lay out Gartner's playbook on how CIOs should proactively respond and prepare for periods of economic uncertainty, by managing three key components: spend management, digital investment and talent.
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Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 11:10 AM - 11:40 AM JST
Geopolitical Impact on Software and Cloud Contract Negotiation
Tsuyoshi Ebina, VP Analyst, Gartner
Geopolitical risks, such as fluctuations in exchange rates and prices, the secrecy of intellectual property and information by countries, and restrictions on the movement of people, have a significant impact on software and cloud contract prices, data protection provisions, and professional services. This session explores ways to address these impacts.
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Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 11:10 AM - 11:40 AM JST
Japan CDO Agenda: Lead the Organizational Consensus-Building and Be the Center of Excellence to Achieve Business Value.
Tatsuya Ichishi, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
The unique culture of Japanese companies is troubling CDOs (Chief Data Officers) who must lead new initiatives in their organizations. This session will explain the priorities and action plans for handling the unique situation of Japanese organizational culture with the results of the Gartner Global CDO Survey.
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Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 11:10 AM - 11:40 AM JST
Signature Series: Flourishing in the Rejuvenated Work and Talent Landscape
Alvaro Mello, VP, Advisory, Gartner
The way we work and treat tech talent has gone back to its roots — human-centricity. Progressive CIOs must continuously renew ways of working and reinvigorate approaches to talent to match the pace of market change. This session will cover the latest trends and emerging leading practices.
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Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM JST
[Luncheon] JFE Systems: Meitetsu talks about Biz Transformation Challenge through DX
Tomohiro Kabeya, Manager, NAGOYA RAILROAD CO., LTD.
Yoshibumi Kirihara, General Manager, Sales Dept, Solution Business Div, Business Solution & Software Unit, JFE Systems, Inc.
Nagoya Railroad, which operates railroad and real estate businesses mainly in the Chubu region, has been promoting a two-year business process reform project since July 2019 to improve operational efficiency.
Since then, the company has been implementing a flurry of measures to respond to major changes in the business.
In this presentation, he will talk about his DX efforts in construction and purchasing inventory management in the railroad division, which was the core of the business process reform project, as well as the effects on the business and the secret to the success of the project.
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Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM JST
[Luncheon] Splunk: Build a Foundation of Security and Resilience
Ken Nomura, Area Vice President, Japan Country Manager, Splunk Services Japan
Cybersecurity measures are an unavoidable priority for corporate leaders to address throughout their organizations. Moreover, with the rapid development of the digital society and geopolitical risks, the environment surrounding companies is becoming increasingly uncertain. In this session, we will introduce the next-generation unified security and observability platform to both strengthen security and resilience of the entire organization and accelerate DX promotion, with cutting-edge case studies from Japan and overseas.
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Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM JST
[Luncheon] PSI: Awareness of potential threats with a "defense over detection" posture
Tsutomu Ogura, DIRECTOR, PSI Inc.
Yoshiyasu Nakayama, SECURITY ENGINIEER, Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.
PSI Abstract Coming Soon
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Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 12:50 PM - 01:35 PM JST
Guest Keynote: Top-line, Bottom-line, Green-line- How Unified DX Strategy Helps you Meet Three Management imperatives
Hirofumi Suzuki, President and Representative Director, SAP Japan,
Achieving Top-line, Bottom-line, and Green-line goals are universal management imperatives for today’s enterprise. Introduce SAP unified strategy and efforts to help you run and drive initiatives.
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Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 01:55 PM - 02:25 PM JST
Pendo: PLG as a new revenue source and 'IT Health Check' from product data
Kiyo Takayama, Country Manager, Pendo.io Japan
Abstract Coming Soon
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Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 01:55 PM - 02:25 PM JST
How AI can revolutionize your business
Ryohei Fujimaki, CEO & Founder, dotData, Inc.
Just as smartphones drastically changed lifestyles, AI is starting to transform businesses. A number of organizations have been able to utilize AI in their businesses and make a significant contribution to business outcomes. This presentation will feature the CEO of dotData, Inc., the world's first developer of AI that fully automates data science processes. We will introduce the current and essence of AI from the past to the present and into the future with specific examples of contributions to business outcomes.
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Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 01:55 PM - 02:25 PM JST
Monday.com: How to drive digital transformation and build an agile organization
Kazuto Terada, MARKETING MANAGER, monday.com
Every year presents various unpredictable opportunities and challenges - but now more than ever, with the market ever-changing, organizations need to regularly drive innovations at speed and DX. Join our session, as we discuss how organizations can create successful outcomes for their customers and business in the times of change and ambiguity. We’ll discuss how to create better alignment, increased transparency and improved engagement within your teams.
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Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 02:25 PM - 03:25 PM JST
Refresh Time
Please enjoy the refreshments in the IT Xpo area.
Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 02:30 PM - 02:50 PM JST
Democratized Digital Delivery for Fusion Teams and Product Management Explained
Dongbae Park, Sr Director, Advisory, Gartner
CEOs want more technology delivery to happen directly in business areas, and are investing more in technology talent. Join this session to understand the elements of democratized digital delivery, how it fits within product management approaches to delivery, how teams are organized as fusion teams, and the critical role that IT must play in transitioning to this model.
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Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 02:30 PM - 02:50 PM JST
Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms
Adrian Leow, VP Analyst, Gartner
Organizations are increasingly adopting low-code application platforms (LCAPs) to enable developers in IT and business to quickly deliver new solutions and modernize business capabilities. Join this session to learn how applications and software engineering leaders can use the Enterprise LCAP Magic Quadrant to navigate the vast and diverse vendor landscape.
Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 02:35 PM - 05:35 PM JST
Research Discussion for CIOs: Democratized Delivery by Design--Adaptive Governance Principles for Fusion Teams
Yoshi Matsumoto, Distinguished VP, Advisory, Gartner
Over two-thirds of CEOs want more technology work done within business areas. Enterprises increasingly rely on multidisciplinary fusion teams to digitalize business capabilities, experiences, products or services. This highly interactive session features new data and case studies of how CIOs have adapted governance and risk management practices to equip and empower fusion teams, and avoid downsides.
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Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 02:50 PM - 03:05 PM JST
[Theater] Google: Secure and flexible IT management with ChromeOS
Soushi Yamamoto, Customer Engineer, Google Japan
ChromeOS is an OS that incorporates powerful security features designed and developed by Google with an eye on the cloud era.
It is designed so that anyone can easily perform secure and flexible IT management based on zero trust.
In this session, a Chrome Enterprise customer engineer will explain the technical points with ChromeOS demo.
Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 02:50 PM - 03:05 PM JST
[Theater] LumApps: Digital communication governance with multiple providers
Masako Matsushita, Marketing manager, LumApps KK
Shigeru Watanabe, Sales Engineer, LumApps KK
The remote work is now becoming established, information sharing way within the company has also changed.
The small chats and consultations that used to happen naturally in the company every day are no longer possible under remote work. Under such circumstances, there is growing interest in internal digital communication for maintaining a sense of belonging, engaging and motivation among employees. In this session, we will introduce how internal communication should be in an organizational environment where various applications and tools are used in a complex IT environment.
Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 03:15 PM - 04:00 PM JST
Ask the Expert: Gartner's Top Strategic Predictions for 2023 and Beyond: Seizing Uncertainty
Hiroyuki Katayama, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
A follow-up from the Signature Series presentation “Gartner's Top Strategic Predictions for 2023 and Beyond: Seizing Uncertainty". Bring your questions to this interactive session and take a deeper dive into these predictions including the ones you feel will have the greatest potential impact to your organization or industry.
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Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 03:15 PM - 04:00 PM JST
Roundtable: How Should the Information System Department Change in the Age of DX?
Shinichi Kondo, Executive Partner, Gartner
As DX initiatives progress, the breadth and depth of IT/digital scope expands, and the importance of the information system department increases. In this session, we will discuss and learn about how the information system department should change, such as people, systems, cost/investment management, roles, management/business relationships, and operations.
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Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 03:25 PM - 03:55 PM JST
Building Technology Talent Beyond IT: Principles for New Talent Management
Brian Gagnon, Managing Vice President, Gartner
Technologists outside of IT are at higher risk of attrition than other employees, including IT staff. These technologists need new and better opportunities to develop and grow in their careers. Join this session to learn how to transform technology management to support an workforce of technologists.
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Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 03:25 PM - 03:55 PM JST
Digital Business in Japan: Current State and the Future
Masaki Suzuki, VP Analyst, Gartner
With the solid tailwind for digital business Initiatives, most organizations in Japan are tackling the obstacles to beat them. In this session, Gartner describes the current state of the Japanese organization in the journey and suggests the direction to move faster.
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Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 03:25 PM - 03:55 PM JST
Future of Work: Foreseeable Changes Enterprises in Japan Should Take
Alfred Sim, Director, Advisory, Gartner
The pandemic has brought about a significant change in the way we worked today. With remote/hybrid work, enterprises have implemented plenty of tools to assist communication and collaboration in the virtual space. However, work and management culture need to be looked at as well. This session will explain the best practices and take a peek into how Japanese enterprises are handling the change in the way we worked.
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Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 03:25 PM - 03:55 PM JST
Insider Risk: Redefine New Threat and Redesign New Strategy
Kaoru Yano, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Insider threat is one of the serious security risk that comes with enterprise DX related activity. New technology brings new threat and this is about a time to redefine current insider risk management strategy . This session will cover new approach for the insider threat and how to protect sensitive data.
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Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 03:25 PM - 03:55 PM JST
Reinvent Your EVP to Survive and Thrive Through the IT Talent Crisis
Neha Kumar, Sr Director, Advisory, Gartner
Significant demand for technology talent, unprecedented turnover and aggressive compensation increases are reshaping the IT job market, making it difficult to attract and retain IT talent. Employees and candidates’ views of work and the workplace are transforming. Considering that many organizations do not consciously articulate EVP strategies at the enterprise level, the pressure and responsibility are on CIOs, in partnership with HR, to address the technology talent risks. Join this session to learn about how to create and deliver against a human-centric EVP for IT to attract talent, improve engagement and retention.
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Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 03:25 PM - 04:10 PM JST
Consulting Clinics+ : What is the Approach to New Business Creation in the Era of Every Employee as Digital Creators?
Atsuyuki Takahashi, Expert Partner, Practice, Gartner
Shunya Kitaguchi, Sr Director Consulting, Gartner
Ryuichi Toda, Associate Director Consulting, Gartner
DX/digital business initiatives are rapidly being executed in various companies, and the number of cases in which companies are engaged in idea exploration is rapidly increasing as well. While there is a strong sense of urgency to address issues such as the full-scale entry of big technology vendors into their markets and the need to secure new sources of revenue amid the continuing impact of COVID-19, there is a strong sense that innovation organizations and business units responsible for creating new businesses lack foresight and a broad understanding of enabling technology. Many companies are unsure of how to formulate business creations or once established, how to control various points such as process gates, outputs, and decision criteria. In this session, we will explain the concept of the approach for creating new businesses regardless of maturity level, and how to proceed with business idea creation in tactical terms.
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Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 04:05 PM - 04:50 PM JST
[Boardroom] NEC: The Current State of AI and Business Utilization
Ryohei Fujimaki, CEO & Founder, dotData, Inc.
In this session, dotData, Inc., the first company to develop and provide AI that fully automates data science processes, will discuss with the participants the obstacles to maximizing business results using AI and the solutions, including customer examples.
・Why is it difficult to analyze data that can be used for business decision making and business execution?
・Are customer initiatives that are achieving business results through the use of AI effective at your business?
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Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 04:15 PM - 04:45 PM JST
Elasticsearch: New CIO's priority - What We Expect from Observability
Yuji Yamaga, Area Vice President & Country Manager, Elasticsearch K.K.
As many companies move to hybrid cloud environments and infrastructure, and the applications become increasingly distributed, building observability to visualize vast amounts of data and logs in real-time, identify problems, and take action to resolve them is the top CIO's priority. This will support the realization of security measures and a quality digital experience. This presentation will introduce a new approach to visualizing the entire IT assets and converting them into business value in the digital society.
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Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 04:15 PM - 04:45 PM JST
Trend Micro: Deep Insights into Cyber Risk Management based on the latest Trends in Cyber Attacks
Tomohiro Iida, Director of Trend Micro Cyber Security Institute, Public Sector Business Director, Trend Micro Incorporated
94.3 billion -.This is the total number of threats we have detected from all over the world in 2021. Approximately 300 million threats per day continue to grow and sophistication, leading to the suspension of business activities, downsizing, and withdrawal of companies. In this session, we will analyze the trends in current cyberattacks based on original data by our researchers. Then we will explain what organization cyber risk management should like from the perspective of geopolitical risks and supply chain risks with thinking how to protect an organization from the risks of cyber threats in mind.
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Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 04:15 PM - 04:45 PM JST
Fujitsu: 5-Themes to Achieve Sustainable Manufacturing with Fujitsu's Best Practices
Yuuki Yamamoto, Head of Sustainable Manufacturing, Uvance Unit, FUJITSU LIMITED
The manufacturing industry is required to provide products and services in a stable manner while responding to various changes or risks. To react on these requirements it is necessary to make data-driven decision. In addition, initiatives within entire supply chain is essential to address issues such as food loss, industrial waste, and strengthening resilience. Based on its in-house practices and co-creation project with customers, Fujitsu has set five themes to resolve these issues. The practices to realize sustainable manufacturing will be presented in this session.
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Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 04:15 PM - 04:45 PM JST
Red Hat: "First Agile Development" Challenge: Rebuilding Critical Systems with Agile
Takahiro Hisasue, Associate Principal Consultant/Agile Coach, Red Hat Japan K.K.
Kei Hirai, Team Manager, DX Promotion Team, Corporate IT Systems Department, Management Division, OPTAGE Inc.
Overview of DX Promotion Efforts at Optage
-Barriers to Agile Development as Experienced by a Scrum Master (Systems Division)
-Barriers to Agile Development Experienced by Product Owners (Sales Division)
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Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 04:50 PM - 05:50 PM JST
Contract Negotiation Clinic: Microsoft
Ryuichi Tsuchiya, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
The complexity of Microsoft's licensing models, with the number of options and use rights to be considered, creates challenges for effective negotiations of Microsoft Enterprise Agreement contracts and renewals. This clinic will guide customers to understand these complexities and plan an effective negotiation strategy.
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Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 05:05 PM - 05:35 PM JST
How to Extract Value From Digital Ecosystems
Brian Prentice, VP Analyst, Gartner
Enterprises are learning how to reap the benefits of participating in various digital ecosystems, many of which are dominated by digital dragons. Join the session to learn practical examples and tactics you can use to extract value out of being an ecosystem participant.
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Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 05:05 PM - 05:35 PM JST
Key Points of Creating an Application Development Organization That Realizes Agility
Harutoshi Katayama, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
In Japan, the number of organizations that try to create application development organizations to realize agility is increasing. Those organizations should recognize that there are always problems faced by most organizations face. This session discusses those problems and shares some hints that help improve those problems.
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Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 05:05 PM - 05:35 PM JST
Maverick* Research: Tales from the Metaverse
Tadaaki Mataga, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
The Metaverse opens up many opportunities for Technology Innovation leaders but also opens up many questions that need to be raised and answered (as much as possible).
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Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 05:05 PM - 05:35 PM JST
CIO Experience Guest speaker session: Organizations that Develop DX Talent - Fostering a Culture of Individuality and Challenge
Yuki Shingu, President and Chief Executive Officer, Future Architect, Inc./Board Director, IT Consulting & Services, Future Corporation,
As the pandemic has exposed many underlying social issues, Japanese firms are under pressure to change. While innovation-driven DX is expected to be the key to unlock the future and full-scale investment is accelerating, skilled human resources are in short supply. In order for a company to grow, it is critical to secure and develop a diverse workforce and create an environment in which each employee can maximize his or her personal strengths. This session will highlight the importance of flexible work styles based on her own experience of leaving work to care for family, and will present a system to create a culture that encourages employees to continuously learn and challenge themselves by supporting innovation and growth, and to enable them to build careers autonomously.
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Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 05:05 PM - 05:35 PM JST
How Sovereign Data Strategies Will Impact You and Your Organization
Tatsuya Ichishi, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
China has a data strategy. The EU has a data strategy. There is a U.S. Federal Data Strategy. Even the U.K. has a Data Strategy. What does this mean for you? What are the issues to avoid and opportunities to exploit? This exploratory session will highlight the good, the bad, and the vagaries of these evolving sovereign data strategies.
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Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 / 05:05 PM - 05:50 PM JST
Ask the Expert: Flourishing in the Rejuvenated Work and Talent Landscape
Alvaro Mello, VP, Advisory, Gartner
Alfred Sim, Director, Advisory, Gartner
Join us for an opportunity to engage more deeply in the themes and concepts presented in the Signature Series session: “Flourishing in the Rejuvenated Work and Talent Landscape.”
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Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 08:30 AM - 06:00 PM JST
Conference Registration and Information Hours
Conference Registration and Information Hours
Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 09:00 AM - 09:30 AM JST
5 Steps for Dynamic Management of Globalization Risks in Uncertain Times
Tsuneo Fujiwara, VP Analyst, Gartner
Major geopolitical, economic and technical shifts are altering the assumptions underpinning enterprises’ globalized expansion. As such deglobalization increases, CIOs and other leaders should use Gartner’s framework to assess the likely impacts and create adaptive strategies to proactively minimize risk.
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Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 09:00 AM - 09:30 AM JST
AI Strategy — From Plan to Execution
Tadaaki Mataga, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
AI will make or break industries and companies over the next decade. Executive leaders should develop a formal AI strategy document that can help identify use cases, quantify benefits and risks, align business and technology teams, and change organizational competencies to support AI. In this session, the IT leaders will learn about the foundational elements of an AI strategy and craft a strategy document to harness its potential.
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Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 09:00 AM - 09:30 AM JST
The Essence of Technology in the Age of Connected World
Takeshi Ikeda, VP Analyst, Gartner
In this chaotic global environment, new business challenges using technology have already begun around the world and are already making a splash in the marketplace. However, many of the technologies that support the realization of these technologies are not ready yet to deliver high value in a short period of time. In this session, technology leaders will learn about the technologies that need attention in the age of the connected world and what they need to keep in mind when implementing them.
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Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 09:00 AM - 09:30 AM JST
The Future of Data and Analytics: Reengineering the Decision 2025
Hideaki Horiuchi, Managing Vice President, Gartner
Data and Analytics keep expanding. The next big step for D&A is in moving from "decision support" to completely "reengineering decision making". Decisions are becoming more connected, more contextual, and more continuous, and this complexity needs to be mastered. How can you make decision-making a competitive differentiator?
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Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 09:00 AM - 09:30 AM JST
Security Metrics for Your Board: The Gartner Cybersecurity Value Benchmark
Yuichi Isoda, VP Analyst, Gartner
Gartner has developed and vetted a prioritized list of metrics to describe the value of your cybersecurity program to satisfy the most challenging audiences including your board, CFO, COO, customers, partners and regulators. And we are building a global benchmark for each.
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Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 09:00 AM - 09:45 AM JST
Roundtable: Build a Fusion Team and Improve Your Organization's Digital Dexterity
Masayuki Otomo, Executive Partner, Gartner
Regardless of the industry, IT and digital execution managers will gather to discuss and exchange opinions on the possible ways to build a fusion team and improve their organization's digital dexterity.
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Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 09:00 AM - 09:45 AM JST
Roundtable: Financial Industry/Government-Affiliated Institutions — Measures to Protect Personal and Confidential Information
Takeshi Kitajima, Executive Partner, Gartner
We invite IT and digital execution managers from the Financial industry/government-affiliated institutions to gather and discuss and exchange opinions on highly common themes.
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Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 09:00 AM - 10:30 AM JST
Workshop: Transform Yourself as a CIO in 2022
Shinji Hasejima, GVP, Gartner
CIOs are playing an increasingly important leadership role in digital transformation as part of the management team. CIOs must not only deal with the firm's traditional IT-related issues, but also overhaul the IT operating model for DX and advance the alignment of business and IT strategies. This workshop reviews and discusses what are the leadership demands of CIOs, what kind of CIO one should aim to be and how to go about transforming oneself.
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Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM JST
Gartner Zone
Visit the Gartner Zone to experience Gartner’s actionable, objective insight through a live demonstration of the customer portal site, Gartner.com.
Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 09:30 AM - 04:20 PM JST
IT Xpo
Walk through IT Xpo to explore emerging technologies from leading solution providers to help you accelerate your technology decisions.
Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 09:50 AM - 10:20 AM JST
Hitachi: DX of Business through Design and Engineering
Arya Barirani, CMO, GlobalLogic Inc.（A Hitachi Group Company）
Digital Engineering is a DX approach leveraging design thinking and agile development. Today market demands have transformed fast-evolving, more efficient and profitable models, thus speedy response to changes with new services becomes critical. Empowered by GlobalLogic’s expertise and global co-creation experiences, Hitachi now offers speedy and flexible digital engineering services, experience design practices, and unlocks access to global talent in Japan. This session introduces the capabilities of GlobalLogic, GlobalLogic Japan and demonstrates how digital systems will empower businesses.
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Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 09:50 AM - 10:20 AM JST
Box: How should CIOs and IT executives deal with cyber attack as a management issue?
Hideo Nishi, Senior Team Director, Box Consulting, Customer Success, K.K. Box Japan
Ransomware continues to cause damage and information leaks due to insider or inadvertent mistakes. In order to safely and effectively utilize corporate information assets such as data and contents for DX acceleration and competitiveness enhancement, it is necessary to take measures to protect contents themselves, which are what should be protected. In this session, we will explain the concept and specific approaches to "content security" beyond zero-trust, which CIO and IT Executive should know, with case study.
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Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 09:50 AM - 10:20 AM JST
NTT DATA Global Services: Coming soon!
Tetsuya Hiwatashi, Ⅾirector, NTT DATA Global services Corporation
Yuka Okoshi, TECHNOLOGY ARCHITECT, QUNIE CORPORATION
Coming soon!。
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Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 09:50 AM - 10:20 AM JST
WalkMe: Redesigning EX to increase engagement
Satoru Nakagawa, Director, Sales Div. 1, WalkMe K.K.
An increasing number of companies rapidly introduce multiple new business applications now. This has, however, highlighted issues with business systems in the workplace, such as low employee satisfaction and lack of utilization. This session will introduce how a Digital Adaptation Platform help organizations analyze system adoption levels and improve user experience.
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Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 09:50 AM - 10:20 AM JST
Cisco: Cybersecurity Strategy to Keep Pace with Evolving World for our own Business
Shigeru Kimura, Security Evangelist/ Technical Architect, Global Security Sales Organization (GSSO), Cisco Systems G.K.
In recent years, the industrial and social conditions have been undergoing unprecedented speed changes and increasing in complexity. Cisco’s Evangelist will sort out these backgrounds and their impact on the IT environment in the global era, and then introduce actual examples of the important steps and processes that Cisco has been working on in the supply chain for successful business and in the security strategies for its internal global IT. You will learn from concrete examples of zero trust implementation, along with the latest trends to consider from security incidents within Cisco.
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Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 10:40 AM - 11:25 AM JST
Guest Keynote: SPACETAINMENT - Why do we Make Space a Travel Destination for Humanity?
Kaho Sakakibara, Co-Founder and CEO, SPACETAINMENT PTE. LTD.,
We will introduce the vision of SPACETAINMENT, making space a travel destination for humanity, and the reason why we are pursuing this vision.
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Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM JST
[Luncheon] ailys: Necessity of Decision Making AI for Business
Masatoki Fujii, , ailys Japan Inc.
With the advent of no-code tools such as Auto ML (machine learning automation), business transformation through machine learning data analysis is gradually expanding, but the current situation is that it is still progressing only in some major companies.
Although the model development process was automated by Auto ML, the reason is that it is difficult to actually utilize the output for business.
The purpose of utilizing AI in business is to "optimize decision making".
In this session, we will introduce new AI technology for linking company data to decision making.
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Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM JST
[Luncheon] Ricksoft:The Global Trend of EA and What Japanese Companies Should Do
Daisuke Tsuji, Section Manager, Ricksoft Co., Ltd.
"Enterprise agility" is a new concept in Japan but is popular with global companies across many industries.
Through agile methodology, companies change their approaches to work, organizational structures and systems to keep up with fast-moving markets, evolving work styles and employee mindsets.
We will present some global examples of enterprise agility transformation efforts utilizing SAFe, the most widely-adopted framework, and our own experiences with agile.
Finally, we will suggest ways for Japanese companies to start their own agile transformation.
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Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM JST
[Luncheon] SailPoint Technologies: Digital Infrastructure Protecting the Cloud
Yutaka Fujimoto, SailPoint Technologies Inc. Vice President and Country Manager, Japan, SailPoint Technologies Japan
For enterprises the pandemic has made to shift to the cloud system environments and cybersecurity measures an urgent priority. However, ID management tends to be an afterthought for the management team and IT departments to address. In this session, SailPoint will introduce the latest ID management incorporating AI, which is essential for promoting DX while minimizing business risks, and the future ideal form of ID management.
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Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 12:35 PM - 01:05 PM JST
Attributes of the World's Top Performing Fusion Teams
Alfred Sim, Director, Advisory, Gartner
What do the best fusion teams have in common? Gartner's 2022 Fusion Teams Survey has identfied how the best fusion teams work, set goals, manage interdependencies and make decisions. Join this session to understand how CIOs can set fusions teams up for success.
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Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 12:35 PM - 01:05 PM JST
Elements That Data-Driven Organizations Must Have in Balance
Tatsuya Ichishi, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
DX or Data and Analytics leaders in Japanese organizations usually want to be data-driven and wonder how they can achieve this ideal. And while they know it's not easy, they often don't have a clear idea of what they need to learn. In this session, we will try to understand the essence of data-driven and the characteristics of organizations that practice it, and what is essential to achieve it. Then, we will discuss strategies and concrete measures to acquire each of them.
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Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 12:35 PM - 01:05 PM JST
Improve Digital Performance With Objective KPI Benchmarks
Hiroyuki Katayama, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
This session analyzes the state of digital strategy execution using data from over 1,500 Execution Scorecard KPI benchmark submissions. Get objective data to inform progress across three areas: strategic digital priorities, operating model and digital platform. Learn what differentiates top performers and choose from five common performance improvement journeys to increase business value.
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Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 12:35 PM - 01:05 PM JST
Product Management Leadership Best Practices to Drive Digital Business
Wataru Katsurashima, VP Analyst, Gartner
Digital business requires continuously evolving a service as a "product" rather than as a "project." For that, the adoption of "product management" is essential. This session will explain the product management leadership best practices and Japanese case studies that CIOs should understand.
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Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 12:35 PM - 01:05 PM JST
Signature Series: CEO Concerns 2022-23 -- Implications and Actions for CIOs
Yoshi Matsumoto, Distinguished VP, Advisory, Gartner
Now in its second decade, Gartner’s global CEO survey uncovers business leader priority changes that will redirect the use of technology in the business. Momentous events are reshaping the business world; this session will explain some of the domino consequences for CIOs.
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Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 12:35 PM - 01:05 PM JST
Unprecedented Change Fatigue Is Lurking — Don't Let It Spoil Your Team and Business
Alvaro Mello, VP, Advisory, Gartner
Accelerated digital transformation is causing unprecedented levels of change fatigue. According to our research, it will only get worse. Under this scenario, your team's performance and business goals are at stake. In this session you will learn how to anticipate to it and minimize change fatigue.
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Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 12:35 PM - 01:20 PM JST
Roundtable: Development of Digital Human Resources in the Information System Department
Morihiro Kushida, Executive Partner, Gartner
Regardless of the industry, IT and digital execution managers will gather to discuss and exchange opinions on the development of digital human resources in the information system department.
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Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 12:35 PM - 01:35 PM JST
Contract Negotiation Clinic: SAP
Akimasa Nakao, Sr Principal Analyst, Gartner
As SAP continues to shift its business to the cloud, the complexity of negotiating with SAP only continues to increase. SAP customers have many strategic options, licensing models and risks to consider. This interactive clinic will provide you with indispensable insight to enable smarter decisions and stronger performance on your organizations upcoming SAP negotiations.
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Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 01:25 PM - 01:55 PM JST
Fortinet: DX Cyber Security Strategy in the Hybrid Era
Hiroaki Komeno, Director of Marketing, Fortinet Japan G.K.
Wave of digital evolutions like the mobile workforce, cloud, OT and metaverse, has become too bigger, faster, and more complex to predict. For the competitive DX, it’s necessary to find changes and take challenges with agility and flexibility in the evolving digital. But unpredictable change drives unpredictable cybersecurity risks. To make employees focus on X, it’s necessary to shift to a cybersecurity strategy organically evolves, not a patching hole. Fortinet, a global leader of cyber security, will introduce the "Security Fabric" as a cyber security strategy highly required for your DX.
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Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 01:25 PM - 01:55 PM JST
待ったなしのESG情報開示 ―非財務情報を高品質かつタイムリーに管理するアプローチとは―
Hidetaka Kojima, ANALYTICS & INSIGHTS TECHNOLOGY LEADER, Tata Consultancy Services Japan, Ltd.
昨今、世界中でESG（環境・社会・ガバナンス）に配慮する企業を重視するESG投資が注目されています。日本国内においてもこの投資は急速に伸展しており、多くの企業は積極的にESG情報開示を推進していると考えられます。そのために情報管理を適切に行う必要があり、データに基づく透明性の高いポートフォリオの構築が不可欠です。 しかし、温室効果ガス排出削減などの環境問題対応や、社会貢献、健全なガバナンス構築など幅広い分野の非財務情報を、高品質でタイムリーに管理、公開することに苦慮している企業が多く見受けられます。 本セッションでは、このような企業の方を対象に、現状と課題を考察し、タタコンサルタンシーサービシズが提唱するESGデータ管理のアプローチと活用方法を、具体的な事例とともにご紹介します。
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Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 01:25 PM - 01:55 PM JST
Zoom: Reimagine the Communications Platform by The Connected Experience
Norihiro Shimogaki, Chairman and Representative Director, ZVC Japan K.K. (Zoom)
The Connected Experience: Reimagine the Communications Platform Our world is forever changed - we now work across boundaries of time and place, as asynchronous communications allow us to collaborate deeply and video brings us together. But there is much more to communications than meetings, phone, and chat! Today our businesses demand intuitive, powerful tools to propel our teams forward and to keep us connected. Join us as we unveil the new Zoom Platform.
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Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 01:25 PM - 01:55 PM JST
Okta: Consumerization of IT by Identity management
Hisaharu Nakamura, Director, Enterprise Sales, Okta Japan K.K.
The IT department is struggling to dramatical productivity with business agility and work style changes in the last 2 years. The consumerization of IT is a new method to achieve their goal.
You can find how Identity management support Business agility, Productivity and Employee experience with move forward consumerization of IT
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Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 01:25 PM - 02:10 PM JST
[Boardroom] Hitachi: Market itself is Laboratory ～How to Speedily Respond to Changes
Jun Abe, Senior Vice President and Executive Officer, CEO of Services & Platforms Business Unit, Hitachi, Ltd.
Emi Goto, Strategy & Delivery Head, Japan, GlobalLogic Japan, Ltd.
Many executives may find it difficult to respond to rapidly changing business needs. In today's business environment, it is important to continue listening to the voices of the market and respond to changes. Design-driven digital engineering is an approach that makes this possible. We analyze customer issues from financial, organizational and strategic perspectives to create more attractive user experiences. Hitachi acquires GlobalLogic, which has creativity and innovation in Silicon Valley. In this session, we will find out the key elements together that are necessary to promote your DX.
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Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 01:55 PM - 02:40 PM JST
Refresh Time
Please enjoy the refreshments in the IT Xpo area.
Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 02:00 PM - 02:20 PM JST
Hype Cycle for Blockchain and Web3, 2022
Adrian Leow, VP Analyst, Gartner
Blockchain and Web3 will transform the internet, and CIOs must determine the impact on their industries and organizations. This session identifies underlying blockchain and Web3 technologies as they traverse through the Hype Cycle. We identify the innovations that have the broadest impact and the most benefits. We also identify sample vendors for those innovations.
Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 02:00 PM - 02:20 PM JST
How to Select Collaboration Applications to Boost Productivity Under Hybrid Environment
Hironori Hayashi, Director Analyst, Gartner
While organizations adopt web conferencing and content sharing for new hybrid work, some organizations respond to diverse requirements from business functions. IT function faces challenges to recommend and support tools and services for driving organizationwide collaboration and fulfilling requirements.
The expert will introduce how to select collaboration tools as per diverse requirements to boost productivity and experience.
Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 02:10 PM - 03:40 PM JST
Workshop: Devise a Value Stream Map That Improves Your Customer Value Proposition
Morihiro Kushida, Executive Partner, Gartner
As the use of digital technology progresses, it has become important to maintain connections with customers and provide them with useful information and services in a timely manner.
In this workshop, we devised a "value stream map" that provides further value chains to the information and services currently provided.
We aim to improve customer satisfaction and differentiate ourselves from our competitors.
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Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 02:20 PM - 02:35 PM JST
[Theater] Parongo: Identify cyber risks to avoid security incidents beforehand
Manabu Kondo, CEO, Co-Founder, Parongo, Inc
Despite years of budget and person-hours spent on security measures, cyber incidents continue to occur, and it is sometimes too late to respond.
Before taking responses, isn't it important to visualize your company's cyber risks?
No matter how sophisticated your security solutions are if you have left any known vulnerabilities unchecked, it will give you a significant advantage against attackers.
In this session, we will introduce cyber security risk assessment solution to visualize the cyber risks in your company and the environment surrounding you and review your security measures' footing.
Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 02:20 PM - 02:35 PM JST
[Theater] Zoom: Reimagine the Communications Platform by The Connected Experience
Marika Rogers, SMB VAST Manager, ZVC Japan K.K. (Zoom)
In this session, Zoom will show you with examples and demonstrations how to get out of the chaos of increasingly complex communication and how to achieve easy and rich collaboration.
Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 02:40 PM - 03:10 PM JST
A Practical Approach to Presenting a Proposal to the Board of Directors
Andy Rowsell-Jones, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
There is an art to asking a board of directors for funding. This session provides an overview of the typical structure for a proposal for funding, what value drivers to include, how costs and risks should be discussed, plus a brief summary of validation and communication strategy to follow prior to presenting a funding opportunity to a board.
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Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 02:40 PM - 03:10 PM JST
How to Effectively Work With Vendors in AI Projects
Tsuyoshi Ebina, VP Analyst, Gartner
(This is a submission for only Tokyo Symposium)
Enterprises are actively incorporating AI into their various operations. In these initiatives, it is essential to collaborate with AI algorithm vendors and IT service vendors. In some cases, IT leaders lose control in the projects with vendors. In this session we explore the tactics for IT leaders to negotiate with vendors to secure the controls and gains the benefits of AI.
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Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 02:40 PM - 03:10 PM JST
Metaverse 2030: Prepare for the Destruction and New Creations of the Fully Digital World
Tadaaki Mataga, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Metaverse is a "fully digital" world that goes beyond the conventional virtual space and digitizes the real world. From now on, toward 2030, this New World will bring destruction and new creation to all people. In this session, we will make recommendations on how users should prepare for the megatrends that will occur in 2030.
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Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 02:40 PM - 03:10 PM JST
Take Your Customer Experience Up a Notch by Focusing on Customer Confidence
Kensuke Kawabe, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
In the race to improve customer experience, most companies have overlooked the single-biggest driver: Customers’ confidence in themselves. In this presentation we will help CIOs advocate for a far more effective approach to Customer Experience centered on a customer's confidence in themselves.
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Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 02:40 PM - 03:10 PM JST
Democratized Digital Delivery: Fusion Teams and Product Management Explained
Dongbae Park, Sr Director, Advisory, Gartner
CEOs want more technology delivery to happen directly in business areas, and are investing more in technology talent in those areas. Join this session to understand the elements of democratized digital delivery, how it fits within product management approaches to delivery, how teams are organized as fusion teams, and the critical role the IT function must play in transitioning to this model.
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Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 02:40 PM - 03:25 PM JST
Ask the Expert: What Should Be the Role of a Chief Data Officer in Japan?
Tatsuya Ichishi, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
In this session, Gartner experts will answer the questions from participants on what should be the role of a chief data officer (CDO) in Japan. It will be based on Gartner's research note: "CDO Agenda in Japan: Leading Organizational Consensus Building to Achieve Business Results."
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Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 02:40 PM - 03:25 PM JST
Ask the Expert: Key Points of Creating an Application Development Organization That Realizes Agility
Harutoshi Katayama, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Let’s ask an analyst directly about the key points of creating an application development organization that realizes agility which will be discussed in a breakout session.
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Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 02:40 PM - 03:25 PM JST
Consulting Clinics+ : Strengthening Cyber-Defense Capabilities in the Digital Era is Critical for Highly Exposed Japanese Organizations
Toshio Fujisawa, Sr Managing Partner, Gartner
In this session, we will explore the range of evolving cyber-threats facing organizations in Japan, and the critical necessity for integrating next generation cyber-defense capabilities into digital transformation efforts. In addition, we will highlight the important IT operations and services management capabilities needed to ensure Japanese can defend themselves against cyber-attacks on a continuous basis.
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Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM JST
ゼロトラストアーキテクチャのビジネス価値
Mike Anderson, Chief Digital and Information Officer, Netskope, Inc.
現在、ゼロトラストの原則に焦点を当て、包括的に企業のリスクに対処することができるセキュリティが求められています。今までのような「許可/ブロック」のみの制御だけではなく、より柔軟であり、それぞれの通信におけるコンテキストを継続的に評価して、適切なタイミングで適切なレベルのアクセスをリアルタイムで提供する必要があります。
本セッションでは、セキュリティ・サービス・エッジ（SSE）が柔軟かつコスト効率の高いゼロトラスト戦略を実現するための重要なコンポーネントであることを説明します。SSEは、今まではデータセンターに設置されていた各セキュリティ機能を統合されたクラウドプラットフォームへと集約して、あらゆる場所、デバイス、ユーザーから、クラウドやオンプレミスにあるアプリケーションとデータへの安全なアクセスを提供します。
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Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM JST
Hitachi: "Lumada" Illuminate the Business in the Era of Uncertainty, by Madoka Sawa
Madoka Sawa, Lumada Innovation Evangelist, Hitachi, Ltd.
In the era of VUCA, predicting the future of the business is becoming even more difficult. Today, executives are required to update the mindset of "Why do we need DX?". I think many companies have trouble with vertically structured organizations which is hindering DX progress. The same thing is happening in Hitachi. That is why we have decided to include Lumada in our medium-term plan. Why is Lumada important to customers, partners, and Hitachi itself? In this session, Lumada Innovation Evangelist is going to outline what Lumada can do to advance the DX, and how Hitachi can support customers.
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Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM JST
OutSystems: Next Hop & Step beyond the legacy modernization
Motokazu Furuya, EXECUTIVE OFFICER, Takasago Thermal Engineering Co., Ltd.
Tomohiro Mieno, Regional Sales Director, Enterprise Sales, OutSystems Japan KK
A core system provides the functions necessary to run a business and to improve efficiency, it isn't an easy task to update or renew it. In this session we will show how Takasago Thermal Engineering actually achieved legacy modernization, including various points unique to "mission-critical systems", such as the system configuration & development methods, standardization efforts for the use of development tools, past failure experiences, what Takasago Thermal Engineering which advocates being an "environmental creator," is trying to achieve next based on the support of information technology.
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Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM JST
AWS: Day One Culture to Modernize Your ERP Systems
Haydn Sallmann, Head of ERP, Asia Pacific and Japan., Amazon Web Services
Amazon Day One Culture has helped organizations around the world to run fast, adapt to change and embrace business model innovation and market opportunities. Come see how Day One culture and AWS cloud can support your ERP modernization ambitions and deliver value to your customers. AWS native cloud services can leverage the core ERP solution to improve the business agility and flexibility
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Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 04:20 PM - 04:50 PM JST
Drive Business Innovation With Democratized Digital Delivery
Neha Kumar, Sr Director, Advisory, Gartner
As technology delivery is distributed across the enterprise and digital innovation becomes a shared leadership responsibility, CIOs must orchestrate and enable innovation by technologists outside of IT to accelerate the pace of digital business. Join this session to learn how leading CIOs are leveraging democratized digital delivery to drive business innovation.
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Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 04:20 PM - 04:50 PM JST
How to Avoid ERP Project Failure Patterns
Koji Motoyoshi, VP Analyst, Gartner
Gartner foresees that the ERP of the future will be composable. Composable ERP can compose various functions, including cloud services, more easily than ever before and is more adaptable to change. In this session, we will review the "failure patterns" of ERP projects and provide strategies for avoiding them, taking into account the market trend toward composable ERP.
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Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 04:20 PM - 04:50 PM JST
How to Evaluate Vendor Sustainability
Ryuichi Tsuchiya, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Sustainability is a multifaceted concept and includes environmental, social and economic dimensions. Executive leaders pursuing sustainability outcomes must fully understand the sustainability posture of their partners, suppliers and technology vendors to achieve their desired sustainability outcomes. This session will cut through the noise and hyperbole of sustainability positioning and provide practical guidance for assessing vendor sustainability.
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Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 04:20 PM - 04:50 PM JST
The Executive Leaders' Role in Mergers and Acquisitions
Chris Ganly, VP, Team Manager, Gartner
Successful M&A is best played as a “team sport.” All executives across the organization need to play a role in M&A in order for business outcomes to be achieve. In this session we’ll look at the M&A process and where and how executives need to be involved to deliver success.
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Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 04:20 PM - 04:50 PM JST
Executive insights: ASICS' Transformation to a Digital Driven Company
Mitsuyuki Tominaga, Managing Executive Officer, CDO / CIO, ASICS Corporation,
In the ASICS VISION2030 announced in 2020, we set "digital" as a common theme, and in the Mid-term Business Plan 2023 announced the following year, we set "shift to digital centered management" as a strategic goal. ASICS as a company is united in our efforts to be digitally aware in the ways we do business. Although we previously had been growing and expanding our business mainly in the wholesale segment, with the evolution of digital technology in recent years, we are aiming to improve our profitability through strengthening our DTC channels globally, which are our direct customer touchpoints with initiatives such as using data to analyze runners, deliver personalized service and produce the best shoes. In this session, we will introduce our past, present, and future initiatives, focusing on our running ecosystem, global platform, and global organizational structure.
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Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 04:20 PM - 05:05 PM JST
Ask the Expert: CX Consultation Room
Kensuke Kawabe, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
As CX initiatives continue to grow in complexity and require the involvement of multiple departments, expectations for IT are increasingly becoming particularly high. Therefore, we continuously provide recommendations on how IT leaders should support CX initiatives. In this session, we will answer questions and suggestions to participants who are experiencing challenges with their CX efforts.
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Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 04:20 PM - 05:05 PM JST
Consulting Clinics+ : Successful Cloud Transformations Require a Multidisciplinary (Application, Security, DevOps) Composable Architecture Approach
Masamune Ishikawa, Expert Partner, Practice, Gartner
Takashi Watanabe, Director Consulting, Gartner
Japanese companies continue to lag behind in digital transformation. Business composability capability is needed to enable companies to detect and respond to business changes. Business composability consists of the following 3 components.
- Composable Thinking
- Composable Business Architecture
- Composable Technology
Cloud Transformation is urgently needed to implement Composable Technology. While many companies may be implementing cloud transformation, there are significant barriers to becoming aware of Composable Technology. Moreover, the barriers are not only for infrastructure/operations, but are a combined challenge with application and security. This session will point out the barriers and how to overcome them.
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Wednesday, 02 November, 2022 / 05:10 PM - 05:55 PM JST
Gartner Closing Keynote: Toward Tomorrow's Challenges
Yoshi Matsumoto, Distinguished VP, Advisory, Gartner
This session will summarize the key messages and recommendations from the three days of the Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo. It will provide the essence of this conference as an assist to your future practice.
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