Gartner Symposium/ITxpo Orlando 2012

Disruptive technologies like cloud, social, mobile and information are revolutionizing business. The opportunity to leverage information innovation is right before us. The most successful CIOs and senior IT leaders will embrace the future by turning their attention to growth, cost reduction and competitive differentiation — all while filtering out the unproductive "noise" that can compromise clarity and purpose.

Faced with fundamental changes to the enterprise ecosystem, IT leaders must acquire a new ability to Focus on the issues that matter, Connect people and ideas, and Lead with creativity and confidence.

Comprehensive IT Agenda

Gartner Symposium/ITxpo is the world's most important gathering of CIOs and senior IT executives. Our 2012 agenda offers 450+ analyst sessions, workshops, roundtables and mastermind keynotes across five full days. With 10 role-based tracks and 11 industry tracks, the agenda targets your specific title responsibilities and ways to adapt new ideas and strategy to your industry, along with insight on what's next in IT.

Now more than ever, CIOs and senior IT executives must embrace new concepts, pursue new strategies and acquire new leadership skills. Our expanded 2012 agenda covers every aspect of what matters most in IT, in an array of session formats from workshops, end-user case studies, analyst-user roundtables, short-form sessions, clinics and much more.

This year, Gartner Symposium/ITxpo will deliver fresh, leading-edge content in four key concentrations:

• High-impact business and IT trends and technologies

• Leadership and skills development for the CIO and senior IT executive

• Culture creation for the high-performance organization

• Industry-focused issues, challenges and opportunities