- Digital Transformation
- The Future of IT
- How to Incorporate Technology into Business Strategy
- Organizational Change Management
- Changing Skill Sets for IT professionals
- IT Leadership Techniques
- Organizational Impacts of DevOps – especially any impacts outside of the technology group
- Agile, Application Development Trends
- Automated Testing
- Delivering critical projects in a timely manner, being able to support the needs of the business
- Improving communication through organization on IT projects
- Agile Games Workshop – something more fun that helps you learn the fundamentals of Agile disciplines (two breakout sessions back to back (90 minutes) encouraging applied learning).
- Machine Learning and AI for Security
- Cloud Security
- Modern Identity Management
- Developing Processes to access risk and address them
- Creating a Security Culture – Educating Executives and the Board
- Security Workshop – Basic block and tackle things you need to do well followed by detecting risks and going through some examples of hacks (two back to back breakouts)
- How Machine learning is impacting IT
- IT Business Automation ((i.e. Robotic Process Automation)
- Technology Trends – Blockchain, big data, containers, etc…
- IOT
- Real World Block Chain use case, BitCoin use case
- Cloud Strategy
- Cloud Transformation
- Maintaining Cloud Based Applications
- How to leverage cloud in an economical and secure way
- Variable Staffing Models - Balancing Consultants vs. FTE’s
- Recruiting and Retaining employees
- Engaging Change; “building community” with geographically dispersed IT teams
- Mobile Workforce
- Developing the Next Generation of Leaders
- Team Building in the IT work place
- How to have business users own and govern their data and just not think it’s a technology responsibility
- Data Governance
- Digital Economy
Symposium Content/Breakout Themes
IT Leadership (Executive Track)
Running IT
(Topics such as software licensing, software audits, asset management, Help Desk, business alignment, outsourcing, organization structure, DevOps, Agile, technical debt, remote workers, etc.)
Security
Emerging Technologies
Cloud
Finding and Developing Talent
Data
(Topics such as: big data, analytics, storage (SANs, cloud, etc.), data governance, in-memory BI, cloud BI, end-user/ad-hoc query tools, citizen developers, etc.)
Actual use cases of big data – or it all just hype?