Focus. Connect. Lead. Disruptive technologies like cloud, social, mobile and information are revolutionizing business. The opportunity to leverage information innovation is right before us. The most successful CIOs and senior IT leaders will embrace the future by turning their attention to growth, cost reduction and competitive differentiation — all while filtering out the unproductive "noise" that can compromise clarity and purpose.
Faced with fundamental changes to the enterprise ecosystem, IT leaders must acquire a new ability to Focus on the issues that matter, Connect people and ideas, and Lead with creativity and confidence.
Gartner Symposium/ITxpo is the world's most important gathering of CIOs and senior IT executives. Our 2012 agenda offers 450+ analyst sessions, workshops, roundtables and mastermind keynotes across five full days. With 10 role-based tracks and 11 industry tracks, the agenda targets your specific title responsibilities and ways to adapt new ideas and strategy to your industry, along with insight on what's next in IT.
Don’t forget to attend the CA Technologies Solution Provider Sessions:
Monday, October 22
3:30pm – America’s Seminar
Roadmap for Transforming IT to Deliver Enterprise Reliability and Innovation
Join IT executives from Federal Express, SunTrust, HCA and CA Technologies in a panel discussion about how to free up resources for innovation and achieve operational excellence. You’ll learn how you can implement a proven 9-step “reliability roadmap” designed to transform from infrastructure management to service quality and end-user experience.
Tuesday, October 23
3:30pm – Southern IV-V
“Driving Innovation with Service Virtualization - Eliminate Software Lifecycle Constraints"
Enterprises are breaking the constraints of innovation with Service Virtualization (SV), the practice of simulating the behavior, data and performance characteristics of complex software environments. Using SV, development and test teams are decoupled from their dependencies, working in parallel to “shift left” and deliver releases 30-50% faster, with higher quality.
Wednesday, October 24
3:15pm – America’s Seminar
Identity is the New Perimeter
As enterprises adopt cloud services, IT security is struggling to secure the new, distributed application environment. This session will describe how to make “identity the new perimeter” and show how a new model for identity management and authentication can enable access to business services quickly and efficiently.
Agenda
Sunday, October 21
9:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. – Registration
10:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. – Keynote Session
11:15 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. – Track Sessions
6:15 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. – Industry Keynote Session
7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. – Industry Reception
Monday, October 22
7:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. - Registration
9:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. – Welcome Address
9:45 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. – Keynote Session
11:15 a.m. – 6:00pm – Briefings, Track Sessions, Workshops, Clinics
12:30 p.m. ‐ 1:30 p.m. - Solution Provider Sessions
3:30 p.m. ‐ 4:30 p.m. - Solution Provider Sessions
6:00 p.m. ‐ 8:00 p.m. - ITxpo 2012 Opening Cocktail Reception
Tuesday, October 23
7:00 a.m. – 8:30 p.m. – Registration
7:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. – Briefings, Track Sessions, Workshops, Clinics
12:00 p.m. ‐ 3:00 p.m. - ITxpo Open
12:15 p.m. ‐ 1:15 p.m. - Solution Provider Sessions
3:30 p.m. ‐ 4:30 p.m. – Solution Provider Sessions
5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. – Keynote Session
5:45p.m. ‐ 7:15 p.m. ITxpo Cocktail Reception
Wednesday, October 24
7:00 a.m. ‐ 7:30 p.m. – Registration
7:00 a.m. – 2:45 p.m. – Briefings, Track Sessions, Workshops, Clinics
9:30 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. – Keynote Session
12:00 p.m. ‐ 3:00 p.m. - ITxpo Open
12:15 p.m. ‐ 1:15 p.m. - Solution Provider Sessions
3:15 p.m. ‐ 4:15 p.m. - Solution Provider Sessions
5:30 p.m. ‐ 7:30 p.m. - ITxpo Cocktail Reception
Thursday, October 25
7:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. - Registration
7:00 a.m. – 4:45 p.m. – Briefings, Track Sessions, Workshops, Clinics
12:00 p.m. ‐ 1:30 p.m. - ITxpo Open
12:15 p.m. – 1:15 p.m - Solution Provider Sessions
