Wednesday 22 May 2013

Setting the agenda for European IT professionals



2013 is a pivotal year for European organisations as they accept that embedding IT solutions at the heart of their operations has to be one of their key strategies to help them accelerate out of the longest recession any of them can remember.
As we start to see the early shoots of economic growth in many countries across Europe the timing couldn’t be more appropriate for IT professionals to show their expertise and command of new technologies and IT practices to help advance the growth and sustainability of Europe’s re-emergence as the world’s strongest economic region.
This challenge to Europe’s IT professionals comes at a period of unparalleled change in the industry with the confluence of new technologies, delivery methods and service models. Having a firm understanding of all these evolving IT opportunities will be fundamental to delivering the right IT solutions to enable organisations to prosper in the more dynamic information led economy of the future.
With an understanding of the challenges the IT professional now faces and the criticality of the timing of being able to deliver these new solutions the organisers of Powering the Cloud 2013 have evolved the format of this year’s event to give Europe’s top IT professionals an agenda that addresses the major issues they are facing with the opportunity to debate and challenge ideas put forward by industry experts, analysts and technology gurus.
Powering the Cloud 2013 will still include the popular keynote speaker sessions, vendor updates, customer case studies and emerging technology presentations but a major focus this year will on our Spotlight Sessions. These were introduced last year to bring specific focus on topics that were fundamental to the CIO and other IT professionals in helping them see past technology hype.
Having listened to the positive feedback from delegates last year and taken note of their ideas this year’s Spotlight Sessions will have a much tighter format with shorter subject based presentations followed by Q&A and more structured panel sessions. The objective will be that delegates will get a deep understanding of the issues they face, the opportunities available to them and examples of ways forward with experience, where appropriate, from real world deployments.
These thought leadership Spotlight Sessions will address five main topics this year: big data, data security, running enterprise class and Tier 1 applications in datacenter and Cloud environments, dynamic infrastructure management and rethinking the datacenter architecture.
Powering the Cloud 2013 will be the agenda setting event for all of Europe’s IT professionals. Whether you have the heavy decision making responsibility of a CIO or as a technology specialist the need to be abreast of the latest developments there will be content that will be interesting, challenging and provoking. Most importantly there will be opportunities to debate issues that are most important to you.
Over the next few months it will be my responsibility to put together an array of speakers and panellists to entertain, challenge and inform you. Most importantly my aim will be to create a dynamic atmosphere across the event where our sponsors and event partners engage with you both at an intellectual and practical level.
Powering the Cloud 2013 is the must attend event for Europe’s IT professionals who want to be leaders within their organisations.
I look forward to meeting you at Powering the Cloud 2013. Register to attend now at www.poweringthecloud.com