Mindy Cancila works as a Research Vice President in Gartner for Technical Professionals (GTP) and is the agenda manager for public cloud. Current areas of research include cloud adoption strategy, comparing and selecting public cloud service providers for IaaS, and cloud management.
Before joining Gartner, Ms. Cancila worked for four years in Dell's Enterprise Strategy group researching cloud adoption patterns to help define the private and hybrid cloud strategy. She also spent two years focused on Dell's storage strategy, including software-defined storage and scale-out architectures. Prior to joining Dell, Ms. Cancila worked for 10 years at HP, focused on x86 server hardware and software development and program management.
Mindy Cancila
Mindy Cancila
Managing VP
Wednesday, August 14, 2019 02:15 PM|Wednesday, August 14, 2019 03:00 PM
Promoting Diversity in Technical Teams: A Case Study From the National Center for Women in Technology (NCWIT)
Diversity continues to be a struggle for organizations as they strive to develop and retain a diverse workforce. Organizations are largely embracing the idea that diverse teams achieve better outcomes and more quickly. Given the pace of technology adoption and the need for organizations to develop new skills and adopt and implement new technologies, diverse workforce development becomes a key to success. Join this session to learn how from NCWIT speaker Terry Hogan on how to embrace, develop and retain diverse teams.
Wednesday, August 14, 2019 04:00 PM|Wednesday, August 14, 2019 05:30 PM
Workshop: How to Recruit, Retain and Promote for Inclusion and Diversity
Organizations are rapidly realizing the benefits of a diverse workforce. Despite their best efforts to attract a range of talent, many CIOs are concerned that they are failing to meet even their basic staffing goals. Why? In this workshop you will earn how to write a job description that will attract the right candidates and create the right incentives to fuel retention and promote a different kind of leader.
Thursday, August 15, 2019 11:15 AM|Thursday, August 15, 2019 12:00 PM
Gartner Closing Keynote: Optimizing the Value of IT through Connected Intelligence
The pace of technology continues to accelerate, disrupting traditional IT organizations. Technologists must understand how to leverage technology and harness technology innovation to achieve competitive differentiation. Today, that’s often measured in how successful we are in helping our organization transform to a digital business. Practitioners today require new skills and a deep understanding that focusing on discrete technologies will not translate into value. Instead, practitioners must take a holistic approach to architect and secure all facets of technology and work to integrate and connect the various data sources to maximize the value of IT.