| Conference
Agenda |
| Day
1: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 |
| Session
Period |
TRACK A
Business Applications & the RTE |
| 8.00
- 9.00 |
Registration & Refreshments |
| 9:00
- 9:15 |
Welcome Address: Partha Iyengar |
| 9:15
- 10:00 |
"Keynote: Gartner Predicts: The Future of IT"
Speaker: Bob Hayward
Changing business priorities continued to challenge the resiliency of most
enterprise's software infrastructure throughout 2003. Yet the quest intensifies to find
new business value and innovative solutions driven by technology. This integrative view of the software infrastructure landscape will help you know where to invest, what to avoid and how it all fits together.
- How will business and technology trends reshape architectural trade-offs
during the next five years?
- What models and strategies and technologies will enterprises use to achieve
agility?
- How can software-driven business innovation be achieved in a down economy?" |
| 9:15
- 10:00 |
Refreshments and Networking Break |
| 10:15
- 11:15 |
Business Applications & the Real Time Enterprise
Speaker:
Kristian Steenstrup
The
real-time enterprise (RTE) is an emerging concept that promises great business
impact. However, while a confluence of new technologies will enable real-time
performance, the RTE is not simply a matter of technology. Enterprises must
take a broader view of business processes and people to complement their
technology migration efforts. Further, enterprises will have to reconcile
RTE evolution with their business applications portfolios.
- What is RTE?
- How do key RTE concepts relate to business process and applications management practices?
- Which technologies and architecture will enable RTE? |
| 11.15
- 11.30 |
Refreshments and Networking Break |
| 11:30
- 12:30 |
Web Services Scenario
Speaker:
Dion Wiggins
Web
Services technologies and concepts are permeating almost every industry.
Yet misconceptions and unrealistic expectations abound. Understanding the
truth to get through the hype is the focus of this presentation.
- What are Web services, and how are they affecting modern software development and deployment?
- How will Web services evolve over the next five years?
- Best practice to articulate the value of Web Services to business peers. |
| 12:30
- 13:30 |
Networking Lunch |
| 13:30
- 14:15 |
Education Sessions
Presented
by:Corporate Sponsor |
| 14:15
- 14:30 |
Refreshments and Networking Break |
| 14:30
- 15:30 |
Managing Architecture for Success
Speaker:
Greta James
Enterprise
architecture can easily get bogged down in politics or, worse, become irrelevant.
This presentation guides you through this political minefield so that enterprise
architecture delivers real business value.
- How can enterpise architecture best address business needs?
- What are enterprise architecture management best practices?
- What are the attributes of a successful enterprise architect? |
| 15:35
- 15:50 |
Refreshments and Networking Break |
| 15:50
- 16:50 |
Gartner Predicts: The Future of Business Applications
Speaker:
Kristian Steenstrup & Pranav Kumar
Business
application markets are maturing as users focus on gaining tangible business
benefit from their business application investments and vendors struggle
to find ways to grow new customers and revenues profitably. But the shifting
business environment and new ways of planning and building enterprise architectures
mean that to be successful, both users and vendors will need to change the
ways they approach business application investments and markets.
What are Gartner's "Top 10" predictions for business applications
through 2007? How can enterprises best prepare for the major changes in
business applications through 2007? |
| 17:05
- 18:05 |
Achieving Business Value from Technology
Speaker:
John Roberts
This
presentation outlines a clear and practical approach to IT investment and
benefits realization. It shows how to identify projects with the highest
potential business return, and how to convince senior executives of your
approach. It also outlines techniques to put hard numbers on intangible
benefits.
- In these difficult economic times, can a convincing case be made for increased IT investment?
- What organizational and governance models will ensure the reliable, cost- efficient and program-effective delivery of IT services? |
| Day
2: Thursday, July 17, 2003 |
| Session
Period |
TRACK A
Wireless & Infrastructure |
| 8.00
- 9.00 |
Registration & Refreshments |
| 9:00
- 9:15 |
Welcome Address: Partha Iyengar |
| 9:15
- 10:00 |
"Mastermind Keynote Address / Interview"
Speaker: Mr. N. R. Narayana Murthy, Chairman & Chief Mentor, Infosys
Technologies Ltd |
| 10:00
- 10:15 |
Refreshments & Networking Break |
| 10:15
- 11:15 |
The Mobile Scenario; Bite Sized Business on Pocket Sized Devices
Speaker:
Geoff Johnson
This
presentation sets the scene with Gartner's high-level overview of the next
five years of mobile business and technology. It outlines the technology
trends, the commercial trends, the social impact of mobility and the economics
of mobile services. In addition we examine some of the key risks that mobile
vendors and users will face in a future of accelerating technological and
business change.
-What are the technical and commercial drivers underlying mobile business?
-How will mobility be exploited in both consumer and enterprise contexts?
-What are the management issues and challenges to be faced by the mobile enterprise? |
| 11:15
- 11:30 |
Refreshments & Networking Break |
| 11:30
- 12:30 |
The Future of the Server
Speaker:
Matthew Boon
Next-generation
servers will deliver new technology architectures and new value propositions
that will impact data center server procurements and infrastructure designs.
This session examines the server's rapidly changing and expanding IT role
with a view toward maximizing value.
- How will servers and server infrastructures evolve in the next
five years?
- How will Linux change the OS landscape?
- How should enterprises evaluate existing and emerging technology to maximize server returns? |
| 11:30
- 12:30 |
EXP: Creating Top IS Leadership Teams
CIOs everywhere know they have little choice except to improve their leadership
skills and get more from their senior leadership team. But that's not easy.
High-performance teams are far more productive than their more average counterparts.
But distilling the secrets of success and putting them into practice is
not as easy as it sounds. The session is set to answer the question: How
can CIOs get high performance from their senior leadership teams?
Some of the areas that will be touched are:
- What are the needs that impact Senior management team performance
- When you form a team, how does psychology play a role in getting the team
working:
- What are the different types of competencies are needed at senior management
level.
- How do you address the emotional intelligence as a part of leadership.
- How do you adapt your leadership style to the needs of the team. |
| 12:30
- 13:30 |
Networking Lunch |
| 13:30
- 14:15 |
Education Sessions
Presented
by:Corporate Sponsor |
| 14:15
- 14:30 |
Refreshments & Networking Break |
| 14:30
- 15:30 |
Storage Trends & Directions Scenario
Speaker:
Matthew Boon
Continued high growth in information, and thus storage, requires better Storage Products, Topologies and Management mechanisms. New Modular and Monolithic storage products together with topologies like Storage Area Networks (SAN), Network Attached Storage (NAS) and iSCSI are creating opportunities and confusion. These new products and topologies are demanding that Storage Management tools incorporating policy-based storage management be a part of the storage solution.
- How will storage products and storage interconnect technologies evolve?
- What will be the best storage networking infrastructure strategies?
- What factors are driving the need for storage management? |
| 15:30
- 15:45 |
Refreshments & Networking Break |
| 15:45
- 16:45 |
Security Architectures for the new Enterprise
Speaker:
Dion Wiggins
Enterprise
architectures are evolving to support a wide range of business functions
over a broad set of constituents. The Internet, B2B exchanges and mobile
workers extend the enterprise perimeter while providing more avenues for
attack. Web services, wireless applications, content management and other
technologies are enabling architectural evolution, but each has its own
security risks which need to be addressed by the security architecture.
- What new business styles and new applications are driving the new enterprise
architectures?
- What security patterns can be implemented to reduce risks in business? |
| 16:45
- 17:00 |
Refreshments & Networking Break |
| 17:00
- 17:45 |
"Locknote: Emerging Technologies"
Speaker: Bob Hayward
Gartner's technology radar screen examines the evolution of IT during
the next decade, with particular focus on disruptive and high-impact technologies
and the transformations they will bring in business and society.
- Which advances will trigger a revolutionary leap, rather than an evolutionary
crawl, in the power of information technology?
- What are the most disruptive trends and most significant opportunities
arising from emerging information technology?
- How can technology planners identify the technologies and applications
that will generate maximum benefit for the organization?
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