Gartner analysts go one-on-one with each Keynote guest. Trends confirmed. Illusions shattered. News broken.
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This track presents Gartner's vision of the future of IT. Each session focuses on critical predictions for a specific industry segment and offers advice on how best to deal with the opportunities and challenges related to these predictions.
IT directors, line of business managers with a stake in the direction of IT and its business implications, program and project managers, and strategic planners
Lead Presentation: Gartner Predicts: The Future of IT
(13A)
11:30 am - 12:30 pm 24 March 2003
Claunch, Carl
This is the "Gartner IT Scenario," our integrative, top-level view of IT's future. In it, discover fundamental trends, discontinuities, shifts in direction, and unseen opportunities. This session builds on and extends our popular Gartner Predicts 2003 special report, a holistic view of what's going to happen on and around the IT industry landscape over the next several years.
- What are Gartner's "Top 10" predictions for IT?
- How can enterprises best prepare for the major changes ahead?
Gartner Predicts: The Future of Software Infrastructure
(33B)
11:00 am - 12:00 pm 26 March 2003
Plummer, Daryl
Changing business priorities continued to challenge the resiliency of most enterprise's software infrastructure throughout 2003. Yet the quest intensifies to find new business value and innovative solutions driven by technology. This integrative view of the software infrastructure landscape will help you know where to invest, what to avoid and how it all fits together.
- How will business and technology trends reshape architectural trade-offs during the next five years?
- What models and strategies and technologies will enterprises use to achieve agility?
- How can software-driven business innovation be achieved in a down economy?
Gartner Predicts: The Future of Business Applications
(37F)
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm 26 March 2003
Harris, Kathy
Business application markets are maturing as users focus on gaining tangible business benefit from their business application investments and vendors struggle to find ways to grow new customers and revenues profitably. But the shifting business environment and new ways of planning and building enterprise architectures mean that to be successful, both users and vendors will need to change the ways they approach business application investments and markets. In this presentation, we will cut across all of our business-application research to reveal where business applications and major vendors are headed, answering questions you may not have realized you needed to ask.
- What are Gartner's "Top 10" predictions for business applications through 2007?
- How can enterprises best prepare for the major changes in business applications through 2007?
From Silicon to Airwaves: Predicting the Long View of Systems and Networking
(42H)
9:30 am - 10:30 am 27 March 2003
Baylock, Joe Reynolds, Martin
The symbiotic relationship between processor power, portability, bandwidth and applications has always driven IT industry growth. The extent to which growth will accelerate or decelerate will depend on advances in these system attributes and their cost trends. This presentation integrates our research across semiconductors, hardware platforms, operating systems, and networking into one holistic view of where the industry is going over the next 10 to 15 years. A PhD in physics is not required -- only an interest in possible road maps to the future.
- Will Moore's Law remain valid over the next 10 years?
- How close to "free" will the various types of metro, long-haul and wireless bandwidth become?
- Where will the bottlenecks to a fully interconnected world appear?
- Will regulatory change (or the lack of it) stymie industry growth?
Gartner Predicts: The Future of IT Management
(45C)
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm 27 March 2003
Mack, Bob
The continuing integration of IT as a critical component of the enterprise will require greater involvement and responsibility for IT decision making on the part of the business. This will redefine roles, responsibilities and the relationship between business and IT management. This presentation will integrate research from several management-related areas to provide a cohesive vision of the future of IT management and steps that IS organizations can take today to prepare both IT management and business leaders for this change.
- What are Gartner's "Top 10" predictions for IT management through 2007?
- How can enterprises best prepare for the major changes in IT management in 2007?
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