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Human Resources Forum
Contact: Pam Levine, Program Director, plevine@idc.com
Lead Analysts: Lisa Rowan and Cushing Anderson
September 17, 2007 – New York, NY
September, 2008 – New York, NY
URL: www.idc.com/hreast07
URL: www.idc.com/hrforum08
The IDC Human Resources Forum: Strategies & Technologies to Manage, Engage and Retain Talent brings together senior HR and IT executives to learn the latest strategies for talent management in a competitive marketplace. In action-oriented sessions, attendees learn first hand from IDC analysts, peers, and industry experts about best practices for attracting and retaining the right workers as well as the latest services and technologies available to identify, secure and retain the best talent.
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Compliance in Information Management Forum
Contact: Elizabeth Cutler, Program Director, ecutler@idc.com
Lead Analyst: Richard Villars
September 18, 2007– New York, NY
September, 2008 – New York, NY
URL: www.idc.com/kahnconsulting/imeast07
URL: www.idc.com/kahnconsulting/imeast08
The IDC-Kahn Consulting, Inc. Compliance in Information Management Forum brings together IT professionals trying to take control of their corporate messaging environment; compliance officers wrestling with emerging privacy laws; records professionals who need to update their corporate records management programs; lawyers working to prepare their organizations for e-discovery; and business managers trying to harness their information assets to better serve customers. The forum is designed to help professionals in each of these areas understand their responsibilities and chart a successful information management path. Throughout the forum, attendees hear case studies from the world’s leading companies and industry experts regarding:
Compliance in IT, Legal and Regulatory Developments and Issues, Records and Information Best Practices, and Data Protection and Archiving Strategies.
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Security Forum
Contact: Lauren Davis, Program Director, ldavis@idc.com
Lead Analyst: Christian Christiansen
September 19, 2007 – New York, NY
September, 2008 – New York, NY
URL: www.idc.com/securityforum07
URL: www.idc.com/securityforum08
The annual IDC Security Forum brings together Security and IT executives for a day of education, networking, collaboration, and innovation. The conference features insight from leading enterprise security practitioners, technology solution providers, and subject matter experts addressing chief security and business continuity concerns. The agenda offers practical advice and solutions into developing a holistic, effective security program that becomes a core part of the organizational culture and business routine.
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Enterprise Data Center Forum
Contact: Jess Black, Program Director, jrblack@idc.com
Lead Analysts: Michelle Bailey, and Matt Eastwood
September 20, 2007 – New York, NY URL: www.idc.com/datacenter-east07
The IDC Enterprise Data Center Forum explores the vision and requirements necessary to sustain the next generation data center – by condensing infrastructure with blades, virtualization technologies, multi-core design, and IT services that are specifically developed to drive new business. Attendees will learn strategies and tools for creating a denser, hotter, more consolidated, highly utilized, better designed, fully redundant and very dynamic data center. The agenda includes key topics such as: Impacts of emerging technology, spiking energy costs, internet based applications, virtualization, blades, real estate, power and cooling, staffing, and business processes.
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Virtualization 2.0 Forum
Contact: Pam Levine, Program Director, plevine@idc.com
Lead Analysts: Vernon Turner and Matt Eastwood
September 26, 2007 – Toronto, ON URL:
The Virtualization Forum provides information and advice to business and IT executives who are making purchasing decisions in the next 12-18 months. The forum highlights the merits and pitfalls of different virtualization technologies and the most effective uses for each. The conference agenda features case studies from early adopters who have seen improvement in data availability, reliability, and resource optimization by implementing virtualization technology.
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IT Service Management and ITIL Forum
Contact: Jess Black, Program Director, jrblack@idc.com
Lead Analysts: Tim Grieser and Fred Broussard
December 5, 2007 – New York, NY
December, 2008 – New York, NY
URL: www.idc.com/itilforum07
The IDC IT Service Management and ITIL Forum: Strategies for Mastering v2 and Transitioning to v3 brings together senior IT executives to learn practical tools for implementing an IT process framework to organize operational and development processes to reduce costs and build cross group collaboration. Using first hand experiences from industry experts, IDC analysts and end user case studies, attendees will address the strategic business value that IT brings to the organization and how to deliver high quality IT service through the use of
ITIL. The agenda will explore best practices for mastering v2 and transitioning to v3 including: recent trends in
ITIL adoption; understanding the opportunities and challenges of ITIL v3; ROI metrics; implementing effective change management and governance; increasing data center efficiency; leveraging other frameworks and standards with ITIL; and the new lifecycle service approach. Additional topics include security, compliance, system management software, and education, training and certification.
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Software as a Service (SaaS) Summit
Contact: Jess Black, Program Director, jrblack@idc.com
Lead Analyst: Erin TenWolde
February, 2008 – New York, NY
The Software as a Service (SaaS) Summit brings together senior IT and line of business executives to explore the opportunities SaaS brings to organizations in rapidly deploying new applications, budget impact, and overall flexibility. The interactive agenda will address emerging trends, best practices in the field, and survey new software management tools. We will also cover key topics including: business continuity, budget predictability, security, privacy and change management.
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Green IT Forum
Contact: Pam Levine, Program Director, plevine@idc.com
Lead Analysts: Vernon Turner, Matt Eastwood, Michelle Bailey, and Frank Gens
June 10, 2008 – New York, NY URL: www.idc.com/greenit-east08
The IDC Green IT Forum is designed to help senior IT, Facilities, and Operations executives successfully manage the role that Green IT will play in the future data center and how to effectively measure and capture market opportunities for energy efficient systems and data centers. Featuring end user case studies, IDC analysts and industry experts, this one-day interactive forum offers actionable advice for market leaders driving
Green IT initiatives as well as provide a comparison of competitive Green IT initiatives in the marketplace. The agenda will explore the impacts of emerging technologies, spiking energy costs, and address key topics including Architectural Issues, Power and Cooling, Generators, Virtualization, Recycling, and Energy Rebates.
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Enterprise Data Center Forum
Contact: Jess Black, Program Director, jrblack@idc.com
Lead Analysts: Matt Eastwood and Michelle Bailey
March, 2008 – San Francisco, CA
May 6, 2008 – New York, NY
September, 2008 – Austin, TX (Summit)
URL: www.idc.com/datacenter-east08
The Enterprise Data Center Forum is designed for senior IT, Facilities, and Operations executives seeking practical tools and strategies for transforming their data center to meet the needs of the changing business climate. Featuring end user case studies, IDC analysts and industry experts, this one-day interactive forum offers actionable advice for creating a denser, hotter, more consolidated, highly utilized, better designed, fully redundant and very dynamic data center. The agenda will explore the impacts of emerging technology, spiking energy costs, and internet-based applications on the data center, as well as address key topics including
Virtualization, Blades, Real Estate, Power and Cooling, Staffing, and Business Processes.
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Virtualization Forum
Contact: Pam Levine, Program Director, plevine@idc.com
Lead Analysts: Vernon Turner, Matt Eastwood, and John Humphreys
March, 2008 – San Francisco, CA
May 7, 2008 – New York, NY
September, 2008 – Austin, TX (Summit)
URL: www.idc.com/virtualization-west08
URL: www.idc.com/virtualization-east08
The Virtualization Forum is designed to help IT and business executives answer key questions about how to effectively exploit virtualization in all aspects of the organization. The Forum features case studies that provide practical information about how to execute and manage a virtual and dynamic IT infrastructure. Featuring end user speakers, IDC analysts and industry experts, this one day interactive Forum offers actionable advice for managing across virtual and physical environments and creating a unified virtual environment across server, storage, I/O and client environments. Attendees will leave with a greater understanding of the tools and processes being used to manage, control and optimize their IT infrastructure while maximizing their virtualization investment. The agenda will address key topics such as the impacts of emerging technologies with Client,
Storage, and I/O virtualization; backup/ disaster recovery; software appliances; and an in-depth look at next generation offerings.
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Sales and Marketing Effectiveness Summit
Contact: Lauren Davis, Program Director, ldavis@idc.com
Lead Analyst: Rich Vancil and Lee Levitt
April, 2008 – New York, NY URL: www.idc.com/SMESummit08
The B2B sales and marketing functions can improve process and productivity through better alignment in goals, planning, budgeting and execution. This one-day interactive summit provides best practice case studies from leading executives on how to prioritize and address these issues. The summit explores the emerging tools and techniques successful organizations are implementing to increase marketing and sales productivity.
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Energy and Utilities Summit
Contact: Jess Black, Program Director, jrblack@idc.com
Lead Analyst: Rick Nicholson
The Energy Insights and IDC Energy and Utilities Summit brings together senior energy industry technology, customer service, marketing and operations executives to explore the role of intelligent technologies in addressing climate change issues. The agenda will include sessions on energy consumers' perceptions of climate change and the energy company's expected role, how energy companies can measure and reduce their power generation carbon footprints, support for cap and trade programs, renewable energy strategies and green computing.
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Storage and Information Management Forum
Contact: Pam Levine, Program Director, plevine@idc.com
Lead Analysts: Rick Villars, David Reinsel, and Benjamin Woo
September, 2008 – New York, NY
The IDC Storage and Information Management Forum is designed to help IT and business executives answer key questions about how to effectively store, protect, and exploit their information assets. The forum features case studies on how to boost storage utilization and reliability with storage virtualization solutions as well as the emerging business challenge of cost effectively organizing, archiving and exploiting large pools of business information and rich content. Featuring end user speakers, IDC analysts and industry experts, this one-day interactive forum offers actionable advice for managing virtual and physical storage environments and creating a unified data protection, data retention, ediscovery, and information management environment. The agenda will explore the impacts of emerging technologies such as storage virtualization (both block and file), data deduplication, and archival disk storage as well as address key topics including: backup/ disaster recovery, thin provisioning, and rich content archives.
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IT Forum & Expo
Contacts: Elizabeth Cutler, Vice President, ecutler@idc.com
The IDC IT Forum & Expo is a two-day conference and exhibition designed for IT and business executives interested in how technology can be used to enable and transform business models and processes. The tracks are organized by topic to facilitate networking opportunities for attendees with similar interests and challenges. A key component of the program is end-user case studies from early adopters of technology. To meet the needs of a diverse audience constantly facing new challenges and technology product purchasing decisions, the IDC
IT Forum & Expo features an exhibit hall with a full range of IT solutions for attendees.
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Technology Lifecycle Management Summit
Contact: Jess Black, Program Director, jrblack@idc.com
Lead Analyst: Joseph Pucciarelli
June, 2008 – New York, NY URL: www.idc.com/techlife08
The Technology Lifecycle Management Summit is designed for senior IT, Finance and Operations executives seeking practical tools and strategies for obtaining predictable capital investment and renewal. Featuring end user case studies, IDC analysts and industry experts, this one-day interactive summit will explore: the overall demand, technology and budget constraints impacting enterprise end user IT organizations through 2011; how technology lifecycle management programs are being utilized to operationalize IT capital planning, sourcing and deployment; the leading vendor providers of technology lifecycle management programs and how their offerings align with current and evolving market requirements. The agenda will also share best practices around PC and laptop replacement; storage replacement; server virtualization and consolidation.
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Business Analytics and Information Access Forum
Contact: Jess Black, Program Director, jrblack@idc.com
Lead Analysts: Sue Feldman and Dan Vesset
September, 2008 – New York, NY URL: www.idc.com/businessanalytics08
The Business Analytics and Information Access Forum brings together senior call center, marketing, warranty management, data management, content management and fraud detection executives to address strategies and tools for creating a universal access point to information. In collaborative and interactive sessions, we will explore key topics including: search, text mining, NLP, business intelligence, predictive analytics, and intelligent process automation.
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Unified Communications Summit
Contact: Pam Levine, Program Director, plevine@idc.com
Lead Analysts: Lee Doyle, Nora Freedman, Abner Germanow, and Mark Levitt
September, 2008 – New York, NY URL: www.idc.com/ucsummit08
The Unified Communications Summit will provide IT and business executives with a greater understanding of what unified communications (UC) is and help to build a business case for adopting UC. The summit features case studies and best practices on voice over IP (VOIP) and how unified messaging implementation and adoption will impact IT professionals, internal end-users, data and voice networks; data centers, customer contact centers and customer service. Sponsor partners, along with IDC analysts and end user speakers, will provide a vision of Unified Communications that makes clear the operational opportunities and challenges being faced in the marketplace. Attendees will leave with a greater understanding of the tools and processes being used to help prevent implementation disaster, while having a positive impact on the bottom line.
For general conference questions please contact: Elizabeth Cutler, Vice President, US Conferences, IDC
508-935-4790 or ecutler@idc.com. This schedule is subject to change.
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