Event Details

With the current economic climate, this year’s IDC ASIA/ PACIFIC CIO SUMMIT 2009  will focus on a pressing  theme : Winning Strategies of Empowered CIOs  in Asia/Pacific.  What are the winning strategies that empower CIOs to go the extra mile during this recessive period with less?  In challenging times, it take sharp minds, wits and creativity to rejuvenate organizations.

A slowed-down economy is the perfect period where enterprises big and small alike, take the opportunity to re-evaluate existing workforce productivity, effectiveness and align their business strategies. The most pressing issue at this juncture for CIOs is to educate their company’s board members and stakeholders alike on the benefits of aligning IT business objectives with all business units within the organization. They must effect change with transparency, efficiency and urgency.

How can CIOs manage their  IT spend in this recession period ?  How can CIOs re-ignite the momentum and help rejuvenate businesses ?  What are the fundamentals and basic infrastructure needed at this juncture ?  What winning strategies can they adopt in their organizations to maintain their market share while growing their business?

IDC ASIA/ PACIFIC CIO SUMMIT 2009  will bring together the best minds from resilient enterprises , fresh perspectives from sharp IDC analysts and collective intelligence from the top business leaders in the Asia Pacific region to :

• Learn what it takes to be the top 10% of enterprises in Asia Pacific
• Gain insights into new technology trends from IDC’s Emerging Technology Advisory Services (ETAS) team,
• Benchmark your organization against IDC’s Dynamic IT Benchmarking Survey

Based on the exclusive inputs from CIOs who attended the last CIO Summit in 2008, IDC has developed  the following  cutting-edge topics and sessions demanded by CIOs in Asia Pacific.

1. Winning Strategies in the new marketplace- Making your business resilient!
   Businesses and enterprises are busy assessing their current position and new ways to win in the digital business era. IDC will review the best winning strategies and share with CIOs what it takes to be the top 10% in Asia Pacific.
   
   
2. New enterprise Security:  Winning ways, new formula
   Security has featured highly on AP CIOs agenda for some time. However, like the song that never ends, CIOs still find themselves on the back foot in terms of consistent alignment and tracking execution from year to year. Burdened with reactive approaches and porous perimeter defence systems, CIOs & CISOs need to understand and prioritize what needs to be on their radar when preparing security investments. IDC will enrich this debate by sharing best practices and emerging security challenges to prepare CIOs & CISOs with what lies beyond the horizon.
   
   
3. Developing next generation enterprise applications
   Enterprises constantly pursue agility and cost effective strategies when developing business enterprise applications. This becomes even more critical in these times of economic uncertainty. From Web 2.0 approaches of mashups, ajax-like solutions to SaaS approaches, enterprises need to align the service-oriented practices and to instill the right composition of disciplines and technology into their enterprises in order to consistently execute ahead of others.  This session reviews the next generation enterprise business application landscape and the strategies, solutions and best practices of execution.
   
   
4. Virtualization: Summary and Insights, Nirvana and ROIs - What’s new in the horizon?
   2008 has seen a large movement in virtualization offerings and enterprise adoptions.   Virtualization has played a big part in the IT consolidation effort in Asia Pacific.  A must attend session for CIOs who are embarking on virtualization to empower their business.  New strategies from asset management to business disaster recovery can be derived from virtualization projects.  How do you position and align virtualization projects into vital enterprise infrastructure and IT practices successfully? What are the new virtualization management practices ?  How do you align physical and virtualized assets ? 
   
   
5. Large scale computing:  Should enterprise consider a new way of doing business?
   Enterprises today are challenged with utilizing the wealth of IT data and assets they have accumulated. CIOs are faced with increasing demand to provide quick insights and advise to business lines. The rapid pace of competition and business raises the bar even higher. The myth associating large scale computing with huge costs is seriously flawed.  The current IT landscape is looking good with a wealth of IT resources that can be made  available on demand.  Should enterprises do and execute IT differently today ?  What new insights can be derived from large scale computing approaches ?   What should businesses demand or expect from IT today and in the future?  What are the endless possibilities?  Come and learn what the new era of business execution brings.  Be prepared. Be inspired.

This is a by-invitation event. Only selected CIOs can participate in this year event.  However if you are a C-level executive who would like to attend this event, kindly drop us an email with your contact details and we will get back to you!