Two of the influential leaders in business and technology will sit down with Gartner, Inc., analysts to discuss the current and future state of IT during Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2016, taking place October 16-20 in Orlando. Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, and Chuck Robbins, CEO of Cisco, will provide their perspective on the future of their companies, as well as the future of IT.
Additionally, Robert Gates, former U.S. Secretary of Defense, will draw on years of dedicated leadership at the CIA and the Department of Defense to offer guidance to leaders on how to successfully implement change and transform their organizations. Bert Jacobs, co-founder and CEO of the Life is Good Company, will provide inspiration to business leaders focusing on how optimism can take them anywhere.
Gartner Symposium/ITxpo is the world's most important gathering of CIOs and senior IT leaders, uniting a global community of CIOs with the tools and strategies to help them lead the next generation of IT and achieve business outcomes. More than 8,500 CIOs, senior business and IT leaders will gather in Orlando for the insights they need to ensure that their IT initiatives are key contributors to and drivers of their enterprise's success.
This year's conference program will reveal the latest research to help drive digital to the core of your products, processes and talent, ultimately delivering long-term business benefit. Along with the Signature Series sessions and 12 industry tracks, Attendees can choose from more than 400 Gartner analyst sessions, workshops and roundtables across five full days.
ITxpo, a solution showcase teeming with leading providers of IT solutions aimed at driving business imperatives, will highlight the next steps in technology through live demonstrations, face-to-face meetings with exhibitors and fast-paced presentations on key technology directions.
For complete event and registration details, please visit Gartner Symposium/ITxpo. Follow news and updates from the event on Twitter using #GartnerSYM.
Members of the media can register for Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando by contacting Christy Pettey at christy.pettey@gartner.com.
Dates and locations for all Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2016 events include:
September 26-28, Cape Town, South Africa
October 16-20, Orlando, Florida
October 24-27, Sao Paulo, Brazil
October 24-27, Gold Coast, Australia
