Program

Successful Strategies in the Cloud: Perspectives from Amazon Web Services

Dr. Werner Vogels is working to help businesses develop both short and long term strategies for taking advantage of the cloud.
Dr. Vogels will discuss how companies are making the move to the cloud and why they are doing so more rapidly than ever.

A Changing Focus for Business and IT

As the ability to save on costs encounters the law of diminishing returns, the enterprise focus for using technology is shifting towards external goals. The focus of 'Business Technology' is on people, communications, and collaboration, not computers and data. Results of the IT Trend survey DACH will be presented towards the background of technology change. Is Central Europe fit for the future?

Sustainability and IT

Gov 2.0: building a strong foundation for open democracy

Senator Lundy will discuss Gov 2.0, what it means for political and departmental offices in government, and how Gov 2.0 will take us to a new age in open and participatory democracy.

Telco perspectives on Cloud and ICT evolution

Evolution of the Web: Open, social, mobile and transparent

To meet tomorrow's needs, web search and online applications require constant innovation, as the Internet becomes more personal and social, more local, is increasingly accessed through mobile devices, and needs to foster new forms of collaboration. Real value for Web users can best be achieved through both open technology and open information, and giving the users control over the information they want.

New Skills and Collaboration for a Smarter Planet

Our ability to instrument and interconnect the infrastructure of the world for greater intelligence is providing seemingly unlimited potential to drive transformation of just about every industry -- to make the planet smarter. Our challenge won't be the technology. It will be whether we can change the way we work together. During this keynote presentation, Jon Iwata will discuss how a smarter planet will require much more collaboration, agreement on standards and new approaches to leadership.

Beating the Competition: How Efficient and Accessible Technology is Driving Today's Growing Business

How businesses can utilize breakthrough technologies to become more competitive, more profitable and more dynamic.

Tomorrow's Potential, Shaped by Information Technology Today

IT faces many challenges - accelerating user requirements, globalization, and growing security issues. IT needs to be agile, responsive, and ultimately create value. Diane Bryant will highlight how creating value is not a one-time effort. Value relies on continuous investment, innovation, and foresight. The pace of business demands is astonishing. Equally astonishing is the pace of technology.

The Customer-Driven Enterprise: Changing Enterprise Software, One User at a Time

What does a Customer-Driven Enterprise mean in this dynamic business environment, where channels of communication change rapidly, where experiences span devices and platforms, and where the web of information is being replaced with the web of social interaction? Rob Tarkoff will highlight the role of software innovation in transforming customer experiences in the next generation of Enterprise software.

The Decade When Enterprise Software Died

The last decade innovators like Google re-defined the Internet. Raised on the consumer-web, employees are having new expectations about business applications and IT delivery. Software is becoming part of the problem, not part of the answer. Steve Garnett highlights how Cloud Computing is bringing the End of Software - why this is relevant (not scary) and how you can take advantage of it now.

Connecting the Digital Lifestyle & Digital Work style:

In today's society, consumers are looking more and more to bridge their work and home experiences across productivity and entertainment. In addition to seamless experiences with ICT, there is pressure for organizations to provide equivalent technologies that employees use in their home environment. These trends are redefining the way that society views productivity particularly in this uncertain economic environment. The next frontier for the power of software will bridge the digital lifestyle and work style through new user interface paradigms and cloud computing.

Spurring Creativity and Innovation During Tough Times--and Good Times, Too

The presenter, one of the world's leading researchers on creativity and innovation, presents 10 strategies for accelerating innovation during difficult times, and for "embedding" systems into an organization that will keep creativity and innovation flowing at a high rate year round.

New value-add partnerships in the ICT industry

To deliver on the expectations of the mobile consumer it is absolutely necessary that carriers, device manufacturers, app and service providers work more effectively together. This requires new business models and partnerships rather than defending the status quo. This session will focus on how the mobile industry should embrace the reality of today's market, and demonstrate how smart mobile companies are already one step ahead.

Cloud computing for the end user

Cloud computing can transform not only the corporate data center but also the personal computing experience for both consumers and company employees. This talk will describe how multiple cloud technologies such as Software as a Service, cloud file storage and web desktops are all converging to allow tomorrow's user to 'live' on the Web. Includes lessons learned from Ghost's 350,000 users.

The Biggest Thing Since the Domestication of Animals

Things have been "constantly changing" for a long time now, but in the decade since the dot.com frenzy there has been a real and profound species-level change. This change can be hard to see when we're caught up in the day to day news. This talk will take a step back for a larger perspective on how human life is changing.

Keynote

Keynote

The Ultimate Immersive Experience - Using Virtual Worlds to Connect, Communicate and Collaborate.

Learn how virtual worlds like Linden Lab's Second Life are being used everyday by individuals, companies and organizations around the world to collaborate with co-workers, create new products, hold meetings and start new businesses.

The Power of Live: Real-Time Community and Connections

The internet, the world's most powerful network for connecting people, is becoming more real-time. This change is undeniable. It must be understood and we must get ahead of it. The on-demand, time-shifted consumer does things, conveniently, on his/her own time largely individually and separately. With recent innovation in the mobile and social web, live events are bringing people back together online to find rich live experiences and community. Ustream is the bridge connects people in real-time all around the world in a social and shared experience online. Millions of people are discovering and driving this change with Ustream. The Future is Live and Live will live on Ustream.