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GigaWorld IT Forum Europe 2005 is something that all IT
and business executives charged with choosing and implementing
technologies that gain, and maintain, competitive advantage should
consider attending.
Whether your most pressing issues are strategic or tactical or
both, this event will give you a invaluable insight into how to
understand why the decisions you make today will affect your
organisation's ability to compete in the future.
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The GigaWorld agenda >>
Key theme: Integrated IT management –
staying in control
Integrated IT management is a vital issue that faces all companies.
It is very common for the IT used by enterprises’ different
divisions and disciplines to be disparate and unconnected,
especially when it comes to IT systems.
According to Thomas Mendel (pictured), principal analyst at
Forrester, a key problem exists for many companies when looking at
the value they get from their systems. "Operations accounts for the
bulk of IT spend, but improved operations are not what most
perceive as the prime value of what IT can deliver," he says. "It’s
all about new project, new applications and services.”
This can lead to problems, especially when senior managers want
to know exactly what they are getting our of their investment. “If
a company’s CFO asks simple questions, such as ‘How is IT doing?
Are we spending too much or too little? Are we getting a good
service?’, overall it’s impossible to answer," says
Mendel. "Companies have found it very hard to make sense of what
people are spending because of decentralised IT buying
behaviour."
Integrating IT and gaining an overall view of how IT is used
throughout the organisation will bring about huge benefits to
firms. Yet not one current enterprise technology company has, as
yet, produced a complete technology dashboard that gives a single,
unified view for senior management to get an understanding and a
total grip of the assets they own.
However, there is now a movement towards bringing this in order.
Buying decision-making has moved up in the corporate hierarchy and
IT purchasing is becoming more centralised. Technology suppliers
are making some advances in putting these pieces together but it’s
not easy; most suppliers have focused on one piece of the IT
management jigsaw. However, we should expect to see some early
complete solutions implemented in the market by the end of the
year.
At GigaWorld, which runs between 6 and 8 June at the Hilton in
Prague, there will be a whole series of talks that look at all the
different aspects of integrated IT management. The main theme will
be introducing the topic and talking about the major trends. There
will also be breakout talks looking at governance, compliance and
also configuration management, database management and how the
different pieces of technology can be fitted together.
How integrated IT management can make a real improvement to your
company >>
GIGAWORLD AGENDA
Monday 6 June
9:00-9:35 Welcome and introduction
9:20-9:35 Research welcome
9:35-9:15 CIO keynote: Brian Jones, global CIO,
Allied Domecq
10:15-10:40 Technology showcase
10:40-11:30 Streamed presentations:
- Visibility is key to successful IT management, and integrated
IT management is making it possible
- Building tomorrow's more secure network
- The next generation of IT architecture
- Internal process improvement a necessity for offshore
outsourcing success: Cleaning up your act to offshore
outsource
- Datacentre strategies: Topology and physical
infrastructure
- What users want: Hosting trends for enterprise
applications
- Alignment and value through measurement
11:40-12:30 Streamed presentations:
- Best practices: Securing the client computing environment
- European IT spending data
- Business process management: A look into the future
- Decoding computer grid technology – and how to put it to good
use
- Continuous customer management: Turning customer data into
business advantage
- IT innovation adoption criteria
- Europe’s IT skills shortage
12:30-13:45 Lunch
13:45-14:25 Keynote presentation: Sun
Microsystems
14:25-15:05 CIO speech: John Varney, CTO,
BBC
15:05-15:30 Technology showcase
15:30-16:00 Guest executive forum:
Don’t tell me why – show me how!
Peter Armstrong, corporate strategist in business & information
technology, BMC Software
16:10-17:00 Streamed presentations:
- Offshore resources hit the infrastructure: How do you
respond?
- The next generation of user interactions
- The battle for multichannel ownership
- Your application platform choices
- The role of IT in enterprise risk management
- Open source cost savings
- Leveraging knowledge from retiring workers
Tuesday 7 June
9:00-9:10 Morning announcements
9:10-9:50 CIO speech: Gareth Lewis, group CIO,
Virgin
9:50-10:30 22A CIO speech:
Dr Michael Gorriz, vice-president of IT business systems, Daimler
Chrysler
10:30-10:55 Technology showcase
10:55-11:45 Streamed presentations:
- Open source software: At the crossroads
- IT can use process methodologies to create consistency,
predictability and auditability
- Rethinking customer security
- Outsourcing mega-deal trends
- Networking: The next-generation architecture
- What users want 2005 – inquiries from the IT management and
services group
- Telecom innovation
11:55-12:45 Streamed presentations:
- Project portfolio management – leveraging visibility to make
the most valuable decisions
- Crafting your SOA platform
- The changing paradigm of IT service delivery
- Mastering complexity in application development
- Sustainable mobility
- Understanding how enterprises choose their international
telecoms service provider
14:00-14:40 Keynote presentation:
Karyn Mashima, senior vice-president of strategy and technology,
Avaya
14:40-15:20 CIO speech:
JP Rangaswami, global CIO, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein
15:20-15:45 Technology showcase
15:45-16:15 Guest executive forum
16:25-17:15 Streamed presentations:
- Best practices in IT measurement and management: From Six Sigma
to the balanced scorecard
- Data integration embraces services – finally
- Organising IT to deliver organic business services, based on a
service-oriented architecture
- Developing winning speech applications
- Next-generation workspaces
- Effective analyst relations
Wednesday 8 June
9:00-9:10 Morning announcements
9:10-9:50 CIO speech:
Jean-Philippe Vanot, executive vice-president of networks, carriers
and IT, France Télécom
9:50-10:15 Technology showcase
10:15-11:05 Streamed presentations:
- CPG value chain
- Application life cycle
- Exception handling
- Features, function and value
- Analysis of integration suite Forrester wave
- Agile education: Rapid approaches to communicating information
and transferring knowledge
- Online banking customer authentication
11:15-12:05 Streamed presentations:
- Navigating the evolving e-service vendor landscape
- The application rationalisation imperative: APM saves millions
and feeds IIM
- Best practices in global sourcing
- Revitalising the customer experience through content-centric
applications
- Right-time communications transform business connections
- Lessons from the field
- Composites, content and context: The next-generation
applications
- Who uses lightweight tools – and why?
- Information risk management: classifying, valuing and
controlling information
- Outsourcing realities
- The role of enterprise infrastructure management in integrated
IT management
- Emotive content
13:20-14:10 Streamed presentations:
- Composites, content and context: The next-generation
applications
- Who uses lightweight tools – and why?
- Information risk management: classifying, valuing and
controlling information
- Outsourcing realities
- The role of enterprise infrastructure management in integrated
IT management
- IIM briefing
- Emotive content
14:20-15:10 Streamed presentations:
- Sourcing global wide area network services
- Hosted sales and the trend toward simplicity
- Cross-channel customer analytics
- Keeping IT sane in a crazy BI world of Excel
- Emerging server/CPU architectures