This is a decisive moment. A digital wave is sweeping through every industry, organization and culture.
There is no room to stand on the sidelines, no safe haven
to ride out this disruption. Digital will continue to defi ne and
redefi ne business for an entire generation to come.
This moment presents a defi ning challenge for every CIO and
senior IT executive: a chance to rise up, align mission-critical
priorities — yours and those of the enterprise — and drive
business outcomes. From big data to risk management, now
is the time to operate at two speeds: pursuing agile practices
to compete at the digital speeds while focusing on rock-solid
IT reliability to support your core business.
Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2015 offers you the opportunity
to discover the precise speed, agility and leadership skills you
need to harness this massive wave of technology change.
From personal development to process reinvention, Gartner
is here to help you Rise to the Challenge.
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Gartner Symposium 2015 - Brochure
1. The World’s Most Important Gathering
of CIOs and Senior IT Executives
8 – 12 November | Barcelona, spain
gartnerevent.com/eu/sym
FRANk BuYTeNDIJk
vice President and Distinguished Analyst,
Gartner Research
ANDRew McAFee
Principal Research scientist at MIT
PeTeR sONDeRGAARD
senior vice President, Gartner Research
2. PeTeR sONDeRGAARD
senior vice President,
Gartner Research
This is a decisive moment. A digital wave is
sweeping through every industry, organization
and culture.
There is no room to stand on the sidelines, no safe haven
to ride out this disruption. Digital will continue to define and
redefine business for an entire generation to come.
This moment presents a defining challenge for every CIO and
senior IT executive: a chance to rise up, align mission-critical
priorities — yours and those of the enterprise — and drive
business outcomes. From big data to risk management, now
is the time to operate at two speeds: pursuing agile practices
to compete at the digital speeds while focusing on rock-solid
IT reliability to support your core business.
Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2015 offers you the opportunity
to discover the precise speed, agility and leadership skills you
need to harness this massive wave of technology change.
From personal development to process reinvention, Gartner
is here to help you Rise to the Challenge.
3. 3
Rise to the digital challenge.
Step up to this decisive moment in
digital business: make the right
decisions before someone makes
them for you.
Rise to the leadership challenge
Secure the skills you need to
compete and lead at digital speeds.
Rise to the business challenge
Align your mission-critical priorities
to achieve bold business outcomes.
Rise to the Challenge
4. Your CIO experience
Elevate personal leadership.
What skills, strengths and
qualities do you need to
positively impact those
around you?
We are the business.
How can you and your team
reskill and rebrand yourselves
to become business leaders
who know technology?
Join a global community of cIOs
Our 2015 agenda is built around today’s mission-critical CIO priorities, targeted content to help you
tackle disruption and succeed as a leader in the new digital landscape. With business outcomes as
the goal, Gartner Symposium/ITxpo provides essential insight into:
Growing the business
Learn how to mine the value from “business moments,” reorient systems and processes around the
customer, and create value by elevating every customer experience.
Creating a world-class organization
Transform the enterprise into a vital digital workplace, engage and collaborate with IT-savvy business
stakeholders and demonstrate the entrepreneurial mindset of a bold new startup.
Staying competitive
Embrace innovation and scale new ideas, fully exploit the opportunities presented by real-time
analytical decision making and prepare to leverage emerging trends.
Three focused subthemes are included in the new cIO experience
Create collective success.
How can you ensure that your
team works together to create
and communicate the digital
or bimodal vision?
*There are no additional costs associated with the CIO Experience.
**Preregister on Gartner Events Navigator.
***Gartner one-on-one meetings are 30-minute, private on-site consultations with a Gartner analyst; each attendee is entitled to two meetings.
To ensure an exclusive CIO-only experience, attendees must qualify and meet the criteria to participate. CIO primary members of Gartner Executive
Programs enjoy all of the benefits associated with this program. Visit gartnerevent.com/eu/sym and click on The CIO Experience to view a complete
list of eligibility critieria.
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6. Insight on
future trends
Hear it first, act first and take the lead. Remain at the forefront of strategy and
technology with the Gartner Signature Series. This year, it means meeting the
challenges of digital disruption head-on. From talent and structure to risk and roles,
the digital journey is accelerating — and no CIO can afford to be left behind. Hear
exclusive content, unveiled in high-impact presentations.
signature series sessions
The CIO Agenda for 2016
dAVe ARON, gRAHAM P. WALLeR ANd Lee WeLdON
Digitalization is moving from an innovative trend to a core competence
for every enterprise. Digital is different for every enterprise and poses
unique challenges for each, in terms of talent, structure, innovation
and the role the CIO plays in all of these. How should you understand and
engage with your enterprise’s digital journey? Is bimodal essential? What
talent gaps must be filled? How is risk morphing? And how is your role
evolving in response?
The CEO Perspective 2015:
How CIOs Should Respond
MARK RASKINO
Gartner’s Top Predictions:
The Future Is a Digital Thing
dARYL C. PLUMMeR
The Top 10 Strategic
Technology Trends for 2016
dAVId W. CeARLeY
Opening Up Without Falling
Over: A Comprehensive Guide
to Trust, Security and Ethics
in the Digital Mesh
BARd PAPegAAIJ
Architecting the Digital
Business
CHRIS HOWARd
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MARk RAskINO
vice President and Gartner
Fellow, Gartner Research
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An agenda
focused on
your priorities
This year, we’ve structured the agenda around
your mission-critical priorities, categorized
under six tracks. We’ve shifted from a framework
that addresses a broad set of roles to one that
focuses on the high-impact initiatives that you
and your team must pursue to align with overall
enterprise priorities.
Renovate
the IT core
Architect
the Digital
Business
Plan for the
Digital Future
Lead the
Digital
enterprise
create a
Dynamic
Organization
Drive
Business
Growth
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How can you modernize, measure and manage a mission-critical runtime
environment and partner ecosystem that is high-performing, robust, efficient
and responsive to change?
Agility
How do you create:
• A digital core that will support a variety of known, and unanticipated,
business outcomes?
• Agile applications, services and related infrastructure?
Modernization
How do you:
• Address legacy architecture?
• Modernize IO?
• Balance simplicity and complexity to provide capacity for both legacy and digital
business models?
Measure and Manage
How do you:
• Measure and benchmark IT performance on a value and cost basis?
• Optimize cost and benefits with limited resources to do more with less?
Skills and Partnerships
How do you:
• Move to a hybrid environment that includes on- and off-premises functionality
and new mixes of strategic and alternative vendors?
• Navigate the partner ecosystem, IT supply chain and cloud?
• Make sure all of your IT disciplines are up to the demands that a digital
business requires?
HOT TOPICS
• Digital business platform
• Hybrid IT
• Legacy modernization
• Cost optimization
Renovate the IT Core
What patterns and practices can you use to deliver scalable, safe and ethical
digital business solutions?
Architecture Patterns
How do you:
• Build and support a hybrid IT environment (e.g., to enable postmodern ERP)?
• Create a platform for the digital workplace?
• Incorporate cloud into your overall architecture?
• Support a combination of IT centralization and federation?
• Create (and use) a business analytics infrastructure?
Security and Risk Management
How do you:
• Secure the digital business and protect the enterprise?
• Ensure proper security and risk management when using the cloud?
• Incorporate ethics into governance and solution delivery?
• Enable secure mobile solutions?
• Enable and encourage person-centric security?
• Balance business pressures and privacy?
Emerging Technology
How do you:
• Unlock the value of mobility?
• Architect for the Internet of Things?
• Incorporate emerging technologies into your environment (e.g., smart machines,
in-memory computing, wearables)?
Digital Business Architecture
How do you:
• Use business architecture to uncover new digital business opportunities?
• Evaluate the business and economic success of digital?
HOT TOPICS
• Secure the digital business
• Internet of Things
• IT centralization and federation
• Business analytics
Architect the Digital Business
TechNOLOGY AND INFORMATION
9. What should be on your 3- or 5-year technology and business radar? Further
out? What should you be thinking about that you’re currently not?
strAtegy
How do you:
• Strategize for the digital business future?
• Manage and create smart machines to deliver new business benefi ts and new
business models?
trends
• What are the emerging trends and technology disruptions for which you must
prepare or exploit?
• What is the Global 10-year outlook for technologies, economics and
demographics, and how can you use this to drive digital business outcomes?
hot toPiCs
• Emerging trends
• Long-range planning
• Smart machines
• Technology disruptions
Plan for the Digital Future
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DARYL c. PLuMMeR
vice President and Gartner
Fellow, Gartner Research
This year’s track sessions
will answer the questions
highlighted within each
track. To view the specific
session details, please visit
gartnerevent.com/eu/sym or call
+44 20 8879 2430
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How can you harness the potential of people and skills to change the culture
and to build digital business?
the digitAl WorkPlACe
How do you:
• Create and support a vital digital workplace?
• Become creative with people, process and technology to deliver new
business value?
the Agile it orgAnizAtion
How do you:
• Create a bimodal delivery organization?
• Attract, develop and retain critical IT talent and skills?
• Deliver great outcomes with traditional IT talent and skills?
hot toPiCs
• Create the digital workplace
• Collaborate with business line IT
• Skills and staffi ng
• Deliver on the promise of bimodal IT
How do you become a more effective leader in the digital enterprise?
inFluenCe
How do you:
• Increase your infl uence with business stakeholders to increase investment in
digital business?
• Translate and reinterpret the value of technology into the (board-level) language
of business choices and decisions?
• Engage and co-create with business groups that have signifi cant and growing IT
capabilities of their own?
• Position digital business to the CEO?
leAdershiP And deliVery
How do you:
• Balance innovation and differentiation with commonality and standardization?
• Evaluate the business and economic success of digital?
• Change organizational culture to align with big changes related to
digital business?
• Create a bimodal delivery organization?
• Execute on the digital transformation journey
hot toPiCs
• Organizational change and culture
• The startup mindset
• Executive communication
Create a Dynamic OrganizationLead the Digital Enterprise
LeADeRshIP
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How can IT help grow the business, especially through new revenue streams
and high-value outcomes?
neW sourCes oF VAlue
How do you:
• Defi ne business innovation with technology?
• Assess the economic value of data?
• Evaluate the business and economic success of digital?
• Position digital business to the CEO?
CustoMer engAgeMent
How do you:
• Create compelling customer experiences?
• Reorient processes and systems around the customer?
• Enable business agility and respond more quickly to business or
market demands?
hot toPiCs
• Customer-centric processes
and systems
• Digital experiences
• Data as an asset
• New sources of business value
Drive Business Growth
This year’s track sessions will answer the
questions highlighted within each track.
To view the specific session details, please
visit gartnerevent.com/eu/sym.
BusINess OuTcOMes
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Banking Investment
Learn to anticipate demand and build
an ecosystem for the future, while:
• Addressing disengaged
customers, collapsing margins
and disappearing revenue
• Beating competitors and building
“banking superiority”
• Embracing change to drive growth
education
Attract, serve and retain students with
digital education. Discover new ways to:
• Adapt to the evolution of the
education ecosystem
• Modernize learning and
administrative systems
• Enhance adaptive learning
energy utilities
In order to manage the encroachment
on the traditional utility franchise and to
maintain reliable operations, learn to:
• Adopt new strategies in IT to balance
innovation and run the business
• Enable the modern grid by applying
sharing-economy and digital
business concepts
• Tap into the universe of intelligent
endpoints to save money and
respond faster
• Oil and gas scenario for 2020
• Digital oil fi elds and advanced analytics
Government
Discover how digital transformation and the
need for effectiveness and efficiency are
challenging organizations. Learn how to:
• Put data at the center
• Move to the cloud
• Embrace digital government
healthcare
As a healthcare provider, learn how to:
• Leverage and optimize electronic health
record (EHR) investments
• Defi ne the next generation enterprise
architecture
• Exploit analytics to support population
health management
Insurance
Continue your legacy modernization
efforts and learn how to leverage:
• Digital insurance
• Advanced analytics
• Customer centricity
Manufacturing
In the never-ending challenge of
differentiating products and services,
learn effective ways to:
• Manage the product life cycle maturity
model and best practices
• Manufacture the implementation of
the execution system
• Minimize risk and maximize
business value
Digital business is driving change in unprecedented ways, creating a
dynamic business environment that requires enterprise capabilities very
different from those that historically drove success. In this program, we
explore the impacts of digital business where they are most acute and
the actions CIOs should take to respond.
Industry Program highlights
• Full day, starting at 11:00 on Sunday 8 November; included in
your conference fee
• Industry-based networking sessions
• NEW! Cross-industry sessions
• Industry CIO Experience lunch keynote
• Industry Sunday closing keynote
• Exhibitor industry-specifi c solutions and presentations
Industry
Program
DR LOuIse MAhLeR
An expert in the psychology of face-to-face
engagement, her research is award-winning and
her hands-on, no-nonsense approach, lends
itself to transformational change.
Industry sunday keynote
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DAvID FuRLONGeR
vice President
and Gartner Fellow,
Gartner Research
Retail
Address the increasingly demanding
and technology-savvy consumer by
learning to:
• Envision and deliver the competitively
advantaged digital store
• Leverage enhanced analytical
capabilities to drive better decisions
• Balance service and automation in the
digital workplace
New! cross-industry sessions
The rise of key technologies —
mobile Internet, sensor technology,
cloud computing and emerging
Internet of Things — will create new
levels of pervasive connectivity that
will interweave the physical with the
digital. In our new cross-industry
sessions, we explore how, in this
dynamic and volatile business
environment, organizations will face
new digital business realities that
will redefine traditional industry and
market boundaries.
14. Power of peer engagement
At Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, you’ll experience the strength of peer connection
firsthand, all in an environment ideal for sharing knowledge, resolving issues
and forging meaningful professional relationships.
Build relationships
Developing a strong business network is critically important to your own
success and the advancement of your organization’s business goals. At Gartner
Symposium/ITxpo, a wide range of social networking opportunities are available
throughout the week for you to:
• Renew relationships
• Make important new contacts
• Expand and strengthen your
professional network
solve your pressing problems
Issue resolution is high on the priority list for most of our attendees, and
Gartner Symposium/ITxpo offers multiple ways to share your concerns and test
your strategies through daily interactive peer exchange sessions, which include:
• 90-minute Gartner-led CIO-only workshops
• Peer Perspectives: CIO-led roundtable discussions
• Topic-driven session follow-up discussions
embrace new perspectives
Gartner Symposium/ITxpo is well-known for inspiring “aha” moments that
help you see issues in a new and different way through information gathered
from your peers. Engagement opportunities include:
• Sunday morning Industry Meet and Greet session
• Peer Connect Meetups — Discuss topics suggested by you and other
attendees
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Peer perspectives
Solve problems and share best
practices with peers in CIO-led
small-group discussions.
Peer connect Meetups
Discuss highly relevant and timely
topics in small, self-facilitated
peer-to-peer exchanges.
Real-time networking sessions
Following select track sessions,
collaborate with peers on the
just-covered topics.
social events
Engage with peers at receptions,
meals and special events.
Never stop learning
Add these peer connection opportunities to
your agenda and keep exploring, challenging
and enhancing your journey as a leader.
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Week at a glance
suNDAY 8 NOveMBeR
09:00 Registration Opens
11:00 Industry Sunday Orientation and All-Industry Networking Session
12:15 Industry Sessions, Roundtables and CIO Workshops (Led by gartner
Analysts, Sponsors and Peers) Scheduled Throughout the Day
13:00 All-Industry Networking Lunch
17:15 All-Industry keynote
18:00 Industry Reception
MONDAY 9 NOveMBeR
07:30 Registration Opens
09:30 gartner Welcome Address: gene Hall, CeO, gartner
09:45 Gartner Analyst Opening keynote
11:30 Sessions, Workshops, Clinics and Roundtables (Led by gartner Analysts,
Sponsors and Peers) Scheduled Throughout the Day
12:15 Attendee Lunch Begins
12:30 cIO Lunch keynote
17:15 ItXpo Opening Reception; Magic Quadrant and Itxpo theater Sessions
19:15 Itxpo Closes
TuesDAY 10 NOveMBeR
08:00 Registration Opens
09:00 Sessions, CIO Workshops, Clinics, Meetups and Roundtables (Led by
gartner Analysts, Sponsors and Peers) Scheduled Throughout the Day
12:00 Attendee Lunch Begins; Itxpo Opens; Magic Quadrant and Itxpo theater
Sessions Scheduled Throughout the Day, until 19:15
12:15 cIO Lunch keynote
17:00 external keynote
17:45 Itxpo Reception; Magic Quadrant and Itxpo theater Sessions
19:15 Itxpo Closes
weDNesDAY 11 NOveMBeR
08:00 Registration Opens
09:00 Sessions, CIO Workshops, Clinics, Meetups and Roundtables (Led by
gartner Analysts, Sponsors and Peers) Scheduled Throughout the Day
12:00 Attendee Lunch Begins; Itxpo Opens; Magic Quadrant and Itxpo theater
Sessions Scheduled Throughout the Day, until 19:15
12:15 cIO Lunch keynote
17:00 external keynote
17:45 Itxpo Reception; Magic Quadrant and Itxpo theater Sessions
19:15 Itxpo Closes
ThuRsDAY 12 NOveMBeR
08:00 Registration Opens
09:00 Sessions, CIO Workshops, Clinics, Meetups and Roundtables (Led by
gartner Analysts, Sponsors and Peers) Scheduled Throughout the Day
12:00 Gartner closing keynote
12:45 Conference Concludes
Gartner events Navigator
Prebook high-demand sessions*, including Gartner analyst
one-on-one meetings (maximum of two appointments), and
Gartner analyst roundtables and workshops.
Customize your agenda by analyst and your mission-critical
priorities, daily activities, IT role and networking.
Visit gartnerevent.com/eu/sym and click the “agenda” tab, or
download the mobile app.
*Pre-registration required
16. exhiBitors By
MArketPlACe
APPLIcATIONs
Anubex
Atlassian
Clarive Software
Condusiv
delphix Corp
Faircom
Mubaloo
Splunk Services
testPlant
Uniface
VisoCon
BusINess INTeLLIGeNce
INFORMATION MANAGeMeNT
Corvil
enterprisedB Corporation
entity group
eSRI
IFS – World Operations
Gartner theater sessions
Get the unbiased vendor assessment
information you need to support your
technology acquisition decisions with
the qualitative analysis of Gartner Magic
Quadrants and Hype Cycles.
ITxpo theaters
Sponsor-led sessions focus on product
vision, client case studies, roadmaps and
important new product announcements.
Learning labs
An attendee favorite, these small-group
learning labs offer a hands-on immersion
in tutorials that test, explore and explain
the features of the industry’s latest and
greatest products.
Emerging Technologies Pavilion
Be on hand as the most intriguing
up-and-coming providers in IT give brief
presentations and highlight their innovative
technologies in the adjacent Emerging
Technologies Pavilion.
ITxpo receptions
Network, find solutions for upcoming
projects and learn about the latest
technologies by attending lively receptions
that facilitate a meaningful exchange of
ideas — all in an environment enhanced
by good food and drink.
Face-to-face sponsor meetings
Confer privately with any sponsor on the
topic of your choice in 30-minute private
meetings that can be scheduled ahead of
time on Gartner Events Navigator, our
online scheduling tool.
CIO thought leadership presentations
Senior executives from technology
providers present strategy and vision
geared toward the CIO.
Presentations from:
The ITxpo exhibit floor offers you and your leadership team direct access to leading
technologies and services — an ideal way to link your mission-critical priorities with
the most relevant solutions and providers. In fact, CIOs report that ITxpo is their best
opportunity all year to thoroughly evaluate the vendor landscape and prepare for
future projects.
2015 ITxpo highlights include:
technology
in action
keep a lookout for cool
vendors! each year, gartner
identifies Cool Vendors in key
technology areas that have the
potential to change or affect
a market in a significant way.
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Informatica
Insightsoftware.com
Metapraxis
Workday
Business Transformation
Process Improvement
Appian
Barium
Bizagi
Fadata
Mega International
Worksoft
Content, Collaboration
Social Software
Barco
Boardvantage
Box.net
Brainloop
Code42
Cyviz
Dropbox
Syncplicity an EMC Company
Huddle / Ninian Solutions
Isis Papyrus
Kaltura
Liferay
Mitel Networks
Novabase
Oblong
OnBase by Hyland
Sap
SMASHDOCs
Squiz
Vidyo
Data Center IT Operations
AtT Global Network
Citrix Systems
CommVault
Curvature
Equinix
FalconStor Software
FNT Software
InContinuum Software
NetApp
Res Software
ServiceNow
SolidFire
TelecityGroup
Tintri
Unisys
Vce
Veeam Software
Virtual Instruments
VMware
Enterprise Architecture
Avolution
G2g3 Propulsion
Qualiware
Troux Technologies
Enterprise Networking
Communications
Blue Jeans Network
Bt
Mobility Wireless
Airwatch
Bosbec
Chelsea Apps Factory
Deutsche Telekom
Dmi
Globo
Good Technology
Interoute Communications
Kony
Level 3 Communications
MobileIron
Ntt Communications
Ntt Data
Siemens
SOTI
Telefonica
Toshiba
Vodafone
Outsourcing IT Services
Akamai
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Csc
Fox It
Ipsoft
Kyocera Document Solutions
Pts Consulting
Rimini Street
Stefanini
Xerox
Zensar Technologies
Program Portfolio
Management
Antura
Changepoint
Planview
Prosymmetry
Security Compliance
Avecto
Centrify
Netskope
Okta
OneLogin
Pointsharp
Premier exhibitors* Marketplace exhibitors* Platinum exhibitors*
World class. Local knowledge.
* Sponsors as of 20 July 2015,
and subject to change
18. Be a part of it
Bring your team
Attending as a group has clear benefits. It’s about getting inspired. Making new
business partnerships. Exploring new innovative processes. And celebrating
the incredible breadth of knowledge on hand. As a team, align mission-critical
priorities — yours and those of the enterprise — to drive business outcomes.
Visit the website for special team pricing.
Gartner events On Demand
In addition, registered attendees receive access to streaming videos from Gartner
Symposium/ITxpo 2015 analyst sessions for a full 12 months, post-event. For details
and sample trailers, visit gartnereventsondemand.com.
Register
Web: gartnerevent.com/eu/sym
email: emea.registration@gartner.com
Phone: +44 20 8879 2430
The cIO experience
The CIO Experience is limited to eligible CIOs only. If you are a CIO and want to
experience the lunch keynotes, exclusive workshops and other benefits, let us
know during the registration process.
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For details on the global series, visit gartner.com/symposium.
Gartner symposium/ITxpo attracts
25,000 attendees, including 8,500 cIOs
in eight locations worldwide
what’s included in your registration?
• Conference attendance 8 – 12 November (including Industry Sunday)
• Two Gartner analyst one-on-one meetings (preconference scheduling required)
• Roundtables (preconference scheduling required)
• Planned functions and meals
• Evening country receptions
• The CIO Experience (eligible CIO attendees only; application required)
hotels
You must be registered to book your Symposium/ITxpo accommodations, which can
be reserved directly through the online registration system by visiting the event website.
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Gartner executive Programs members
Take advantage of the complimentary VIP attendance and
benefits your Executive Programs Membership provides at
Gartner Symposium/ITxpo. Contact your Service Delivery
Associate to register today or find out more.