Tracks
18 Tracks
| Applications | There are only three kinds of software solutions businesses need: ones that deliver business value better, ones that deliver business value faster and ones that deliver business value cheaper. The best ones do all three. Application leaders need to figure out how to provide this trifecta of software solutions in an increasingly complex development and management environment. From SOA to mashups to SaaS to cloud computing, the road to truly valuable software – solutions with worth you can prove – is difficult but navigable. Symposium 2009 will answer: • Which approaches to application acquisition or development, integration and delivery, and ongoing support and maintenance will allow me to create the best, fastest and cheapest software solutions that deliver sustainable business value? • What are the economics behind new architectures like SOA, WOA and EDA, and alternative delivery models for software, like SaaS and cloud? • How do I justify my legacy modernisation projects in the face of budget tightening? What metrics can I produce that will convince business leaders we’ll be better off in the long run for the investments made today? • What skills and domain knowledge will tomorrow's application leaders needs, and how can people get there fast? | APP |
| Business Intelligence & Information Management | Information or distilled intelligence is great – when you can get your hands on it. Sadly, the information that can help business leaders cut costs, drive efficiencies and transform their business remains well out of reach for most enterprises. This situation is not helped by the amount of information that is exploding, both inside and outside the enterprise, driven by the modernisation of IT affecting data and content, collaboration platforms and evolving demands for information management competencies. Symposium 2009 will answer: • What’s the best way to get the right intelligence to the right decision maker at the right time? What’s the opportunity cost of failing to do so? • Which BI, analytics and CPM solutions will best position my business to anticipate, decide and execute with speed and confidence? • Which evolving and emerging best practices and trends in managing information must organisations harness to ensure scalability in my BI & IM activities? • How can I fuse information inside my firewall (e.g. corporate data) with information outside my firewall (e.g. consumer Web behaviour, externally hosted data stores) to create a single, cohesive way of accessing information for my business leaders? • How will the consolidation of major BI & IM providers affect my sourcing of solutions? | BIIM |
| Business Management of IT | IT and business leaders must exploit ICT for business success. Understand the core, proven practices that drive IT effectiveness, performance and achievement. Then begin to re-imagine IT’s contributions and create new business models that exploit IT-led innovation to deliver transformational business value. Symposium 2009 will answer: • What do I need to do to raise IT performance and reduce IT costs? • How will IT create business value, contribute to renewed business activity, and help the business to succeed? • What needs to be in my 2010 plan, and what expectations should I be setting for the business and the IT organisation in 2010? • How do I get the people, resources and capabilities required of me and my team to lead today and into the future? | BMIT |
| Business Process Improvement | Improving business processes consistently ranks as the most important priority for CIOs and is a top priority for Symposium attendees this year. That's not surprising, as process excellence contributes to a number of other business priorities, including customer acquisition and retention, risk management, worker productivity and, of course, the critical act of cost optimisation. Our volatile macroeconomic environment highlights the importance of business process improvement and, for some enterprises, regaining control of critical processes will be a matter of survival. Symposium 2009 will answer: • How will cost savings, time-to-market improvement, customer retention, and/or revenue growth flow from my process initiatives? • What steps should I take to improve disparate processes and manage them through a “business process competency centre”? • To judge the effectiveness and value of BPI initiatives, what should I measure and how should I measure it? • What best practices can I use to model, analyse, execute and optimise business processes that span business units, organisational silos and geographies? | BPI |
| Communications | Effective communication is the lifeblood of successful organisations. Communications technologies have been core components of cost optimisation and flexibility (e.g. VoIP or MPLS), process improvements (e.g. computer/telephony integration or Application Acceleration) and worker productivity (e.g. mobile applications and solutions or WAN Optimisation). Communications leaders must continue to drive business priorities through the application of communications technologies. Symposium 2009 will answer: • What strategies and tactics can I use to reduce my overall communications expenses without sacrificing availability and reliability? • What steps should I take to finally realise the efficiencies and opportunities that unified communications have promised for so long? • Which advancements in mobile devices and applications are worth investing in – the ones that will truly and demonstrably improve worker productivity? • What network sourcing strategies should I take to gain most benefit of my network service to cost-optimise my network? • How will the Government’s National Broadband Network benefit Australian enterprises? | COM |
| Enterprise Architecture | Enterprise architects in high performing organisations are responding to today's challenging environment by using it to strategically manage IT costs while providing a platform for innovation. By moving beyond the "old school" obsession with granular standard setting and instead focusing on information exchange and business process management, enterprise architects are increasing their value to the business. Their holistic, business-first perspective is helping to supercharge the development of new business models and provide more precise measures for business value delivery. Symposium 2009 will answer: • How can we resize, re-engineer and reality-check the IT project and IT asset portfolios to deliver more business value while reducing complexity and enabling change? • How can we use pragmatic, “lightweight” planning approaches to enhance innovation and incorporate new technology without sacrificing the benefits of reduced complexity and economies of scale? • What are the primary concerns of the C-Suite and what should EA teams do to support the C-suite goals? | EA |
| Emerging Trends & Technologies | IT leaders must ask themselves an important question. Are we currently experiencing a short-lived recession or longer-term restructuring of the global economy? If you’re more inclined to seeing the former as the likely scenario, you’re more likely to come to an important realisation. While cost optimisation is important, you can’t save you’re way out of this situation. At some point you must innovate. Keeping an eye on the horizon for the transformative technology and trends emerging from, and directly impacting the IT industry will help senior IT leaders align their efforts towards the long-term vibrancy of their organisation. | ETT |
| Government | Government CIO's and their IT organisations play a crucial role in the success or failure of public policy programs and initiatives. Facing demands often vastly different from the private sector, they are in search of management and technology solutions addressing unique requirements most often forged in political, not for-profit business environments. This track will provide research and timely advice on the specific issues faced by Federal, State and Local governments. We will explore how to align your IT strategies to the requirements of the organisation using effective governance approaches, examine how to effectively address the mounting pressures to run IT more like a business, and demonstrate how government agencies are addressing citizen-centric demands for responsive services, greater participation and access, and trusted accountability for cost effective results. Symposium 2009 will answer: • How do I plan an IT strategy to cope with unforeseen change? • How do I rethink my procurement processes to maximise my buying power? • How do I recruit and retain the skilled workforce required to fulfil these projects? • How do I better engage the service delivery and business of Government by introducing new technologies? | GOV |
| IT Infrastructure & Operations | Combine virtualisation, Green IT and Cloud Computing – and throw in a recession – and you’ve got a catalyst for huge expectations of cost savings delivered by infrastructure and operations leaders. Servers, storage, and the operation and management of such, are the core of the data centre. However, technology and the management of the data centre and its leaders are changing. Data centres need to be flexible, modular and increasingly adaptable to changing business needs and economic pressures. This track focuses on the changes required in the data centre as technologies such as Virtualisation, Green IT and Cloud Computing change and mature. Symposium 2009 will answer: • How can I best utilise virtualisation, consolidation, cloud computing, ITIL and other key I&O trends to lower costs, improve service and increase agility? I can’t afford to move forward on all fronts – so which ones do I do now and which ones to do I defer? • How do I demonstrate and articulate the value of servers, storage, PCs – all things infrastructure – to my business leaders? • What technologies can be employed now to make existing data centres “greener”? What emerging technology trends will have an impact on data centre design and operations? | ITIO |
| Not Track Specific | These sessions include Great Debates, Business Breakthroughs and CIO Insight sessions covering a variety of topics of general interest. Listen to and participate in interactive debates. Gain new skills for better performance of individuals, teams and businesses. Hear new initiatives to driving IT in the Business, and the valuable lessons learnt from your peers. | NTS |
| Program & Portfolio Management | Program and portfolio management leaders have extraordinary influence over what actually gets done in business technology – or, at least, you should. After all, it’s your job to value, prioritise and then see through your enterprise’s key initiatives. In today’s challenging economic environment, valuing, prioritising and seeing through projects and programs is more challenging than ever, and requires new approaches. Symposium 2009 will answer: • How can I create an optimal portfolio of programs and projects that deliver the most value at the least cost? • What new approaches to valuing and prioritising projects do I need to use to ensure I’m delivering the right mix for the business? • How can I build flexibility and agility into my programs, so that my enterprise can capitalise on, or mitigate the risk of, today’s volatile and fast-changing business environment? | PPM |
| Security & Risk Management | The irony of great security, risk management and business continuity programs is that they’re appreciated by the business only when something goes wrong or, ideally, a great wrong is averted. Part of this is the nature of these disciplines, but part of it lies also in security and risk management leaders’ failure to clearly define and articulate the business value of what they do. Symposium 2009 will answer: • How much security is enough security, particularly with ever-tightening budgets? • What are the elements of an effective proactive program to address reasonably anticipated threats? • In the absence of a breach or disaster, how do I drive executive support and funding for a proactive approach to security, risk management and business continuity? | SRM |
| Sourcing & Vendor Relationships | The only nice thing about a recession is the shift to a buyer’s market. Are you capitalising on that? This is a natural time to refresh your sourcing strategy, review your vendors' deal sweet spots and reassess your sourcing engagements and software contracts with strategic vendors and service providers, to clearly understand whether or not you’re getting out of those relationships what you’d expected. And it’s also time to consider renegotiating contracts and the wide variety of alternative sourcing models emerging in the market (e.g. SaaS, infrastructure utilities) to see if they would fit your needs as well or better. Symposium 2009 will answer: • Why, when and how should I reassess our sourcing strategies? What course corrections are indicated by the current economic conditions? • What specific actions and demands should I take and make when negotiating and renegotiating my sourcing or software contracts? • Understand opportunities in using emerging alternative delivery options like SaaS, infrastructure utilities and business process utilities? Are they mature enough to deliver the flexibility and reliability I need? • How do I create a world-class strategic vendor management program that not only helps me capitalise on today’s buyer’s market, but also makes me stronger in my provider dealings over the long term? | SVR |
| Virtual Track: Cloud Computing | Cloud computing's impact is substantial and growing. We look at every facet of this emerging computing model in this collection of sessions throughout the week – from what it is, to when you should and shouldn't use it, to how you manage it, to its benefits and the inherent risks. | VTC |
| Virtual Track: Green IT | Whether the "green" you seek from green IT is environmental consciousness, sustainability or simply the green of cost savings, this collection of sessions will help you understand what's real and what's hype when it comes to green IT. | VTG |
| Virtual Track: Pattern Based Strategy | VTP | |
| Virtual Track: Skills and Staffing for the IT Organisation | CIOs need to assemble new skills, talent and capabilities to build IT capability. IT capability rests on your success in the quest for talent and how you organise IT capability to realise results. Gain insights into best practices for developing, recruiting, retaining and organising essential skills in this virtual track. | VTS |
| Virtual Track: Consumerisation, Web 2.0 & Social Software | Friend or foe? How should you approach trends like consumerisation and social computing? Banish them to protect the enterprise, or leverage them to innovate and grow? In this collection of sessions, we consider the benefits and risks of embracing consumerisation, Web 2.0 and social software, and the opportunities lost in not embracing them. | VTW |
