Conference Agenda
Day 1: Wednesday, July 16, 2003
Session Period TRACK B
Special Focus Verticals
: Government   |   BFSI
14:30 - 15:30 FINANCIAL SERVICES:
Financial Services Scenario: Volatile Markets Require Experienced Drivers
Speaker: Bob Hayward

By all accounts, the forecast for Retail and Corporate Financial Services indicates continued turbulence: disruptive competitors, dynamic markets, and demanding customers. This session presents Gartner's outlook for the industry.

- What are the critical drivers and dynamics influencing the competitive landscape?
- How can FS companies effectively recognize and dodge threats, and turn disruptions into big opportunities?
15:35 - 15:50 Refreshments and Networking Break
15:50 - 16:50 FINANCIAL SERVICES:
Reaching Customers: Next generation strategies and technologies for FS
Speaker: Richard Harris


Financial-service providers (FSPs) know the importance of establishing and maintaining enduring relationships with their customers. But an ever-changing marketplace, varying needs, and over-hyped technologies make it hard to know how to best serve customers. Various delivery technologies can be applied to help meet these challenges, but the key to realizing true business value from technology is in optimizing the relationships between complementary forces: deep customer relationships vs. savings from self service; investing in emerging technologies vs.
leveraging existing ones.

How will financial services delivery change in the coming months and years?
17:05 - 18:05 FINANCIAL SERVICES:
Enterprise Architecture - Key to the Financial Services Real-Time Enterprise
Speaker: Greta James


To move towards the real-time enterprise and reduce costs, financial service providers (FSPs) must build a more consistent foundation. But standardization can stifle innovation and thwart agility.

Enterprise architecture must be designed to overcome the dilemma. The role of enterprise architecture in building a real-time financial-service enterprise will be explained and the critical success factors and challenges for architecture to enable the RTE will be identified.