Summit 2010 Europe
In Association with IRM UK
1-3 December 2010
London, UK

With the economy still struggling, technology moving at an ever faster pace, and security threats mounting, CIOs and senior IT Management face an increasingly challenging world. Join the top thinkers in business-IT at this European Summit to focus your thinking on the issues that matter most and to yield ideas and solutions you can put into action now.

The Cutter Consortium Summit is unlike any other conference you've ever attended. It provides a live venue for IT and business professionals to meet and debate with one another and noted experts in the IT field. The intellectual give-and-take is second to none. Discover why business and technology professionals return each year -- and why you should join them!

Interact with the Experts in IT

Meet the IT luminaries speaking at Cutter Consortium Summit 2010 Europe

Agenda

You'll enjoy stimulating keynotes by top experts panel discussions, an interactive Harvard Business School-type case, and hands-on seminars and raucous panel debates; networking at lunches, breaks and entertaining evening events; and getting one-on-one guidance and input from expert presenters who include professors from leading business schools.

What's Included?

Registration for Summit 2010 Europe includes the 3-day program, continental breakfast, lunch and a buzzing cocktail party on Tuesday evening. Accommodation at discounted rates can be booked through JP Events

Security

Keynote: Dark Side Agility - How the Bad Guys Will Get You Fired

Andrew Fried

We've all heard the saying, "I'm not paranoid, even though everyone is out to get me." If you're responsible for protecting your organization's infrastructure and data, you have every reason to be paranoid. The reason is simple - all the basic tenets of computer security are no longer effective at preventing catastrophic intrusions and data losses.

Eight hours every workday, five days a week, you try and keep your systems patched, have the latest anti-virus installed, and protect your network with the finest firewalls. Unfortunately, 24 hours every day, seven days a week, people from the dark reaches of the Internet are devising methods that bypass everything you've put in place. Once they violate your security, they'll target your customers, sell your data, drain your bank accounts, and often use your systems to perpetrate their next round of attacks.

The consequences of a security breech often lead to customer lawsuits, a rapidly dwindling customer base, possible governmental fines, and ultimately your company going out of business. Even if the company survives, if you're a CIO or the person charged with security, you'll be looking for a new job.

This is a scenario that plays itself out day in and day out. You don't have to be "special" to be targeted, just vulnerable.

In this no-holds-barred keynote, Cutter Senior Consultant Andrew Fried will discuss many of the current attack strategies being used to target both business and governmental organizations and show you why current technology is failing miserably to both prevent and detect these attacks. Most important, he'll discuss steps you can take to reduce (but not eliminate) the probability that you and your organization will be the next victim.

Leadership

Keynote: Agile Leadership for the 21 Century - IT and Beyond

Rob Austin

In the early years of the 21st century, in the aftermath of the attack on the World Trade Center in the US, a financial crisis that nearly brought down the world economy, and a series of unprecedented environmental and natural disasters, the belief that 20th century models of leadership had failed was widespread. But what would replace them?" This pair of sentences, a statement and a question, might well anticipate history textbooks from, say, the year 2050. Indeed, what will replace our models of leadership in which we were once so confident? In this keynote address, Rob Austin will discuss some of the possibilities. We have seen over the past few years the power in the idea and principles of agility, for developing software and other new products and services, for managing large projects, and from remaking processes of value creation in post-industrial societies. So why not draw on these powerful ideas to address some of the biggest challenges of all -- challenges of leadership.

Outsourcing

Case Study: Examining an Outsourced Project Gone Wrong: A Look from Both Sides

Dave Upton

How do you do damage control on an outsourcing project gone wrong? Oxford Professor David Upton will lead this session, featuring his case study of a struggling IT outsourcing project seen from the perspective of the customer, to give you fresh insights into the ongoing challenge of IT outsourcing. When Tegan, a Welsh toy distributor, outsources the development of a new accounts payable system to Hrad Technika, a growing outsourcing firm from the Czech Republic, Tegan believes they are getting a problem off their hands. But the project goes poorly, and Tegan is left with the decision of how to prevent a failure in accounts payable from halting the entire company's operations. In this dynamic, interactive session, you'll gain a new understanding of the critical success factors in outsourcing, including when keeping a function in-house is the wiser choice.

Cloud & EA

Keynote: Assuring an EA Silver Lining with the Cloud

Mike Rosen

The cloud is coming, whether we like it or not. Obviously, the cloud provides many exciting opportunities. But more than anything, the cloud represents a new IT sourcing model where business capabilities can be acquired from third party providers with minimal provisioning from the IT department. This signals a major shift in the business / IT relationship and brings a host of new challenges that architecture must address. Perhaps the most obvious is security, but it goes well beyond that to include DR/BCP, technology configurations, and the role of enterprise 2.0 services in your end-to-end, SOA, application architecture. The wide variety of available cloud services and providers creates a need for better semantic technologies and integrations, and creates a real threat to data integration and MDM strategies. This keynote will discuss the architectural challenges presented by the cloud and provide a framework and set of principles that can be applied to protect your organization from the storm and to bring out the cloud's silver lining.

Wrap Up

Keynote: What Does It All Mean?

Tom DeMarco

Abstract will be available soon.

Leadership

Seminar: CIO and Senior IT Leadership 2010 Challenges

Rob Austin

Pressure continues to be intense for IT executives. Budgets are as tight as ever (if not tighter) and the rate of technology change is increasingly hard to keep up with. You must remain laser-focused on the cost and value of IT. But the distractions are many and potentially threaten to push the cost-value balance in wrong direction. From strategy-related issues, such as moving to the cloud or integrating social networks into the enterprise, to culture-related issues, for example the work-style of digital natives, the decisions CIOs make will have a profound impact on the organization. In this half-day roundtable for CIOs, Cutter Fellow Rob Austin, who is Professor of Managing Creativity and Innovation at the Copenhagen Business School and chair of the Executive Program for Chief Information Officers at the Harvard Business School, will facilitate a discussion that will give you a platform to lead your organization's IT function through this turbulence, proactively manage the risks it presents, and find the opportunities and advantages IT can bring to the enterprise.

IT Governance

Seminar: IT Governance During Lean Times

Bob Benson

Planning and decision making for IT are a challenge in the best of times. When the pressure is on for simultaneous cost containment and value delivery – well, it's even more of a challenge. During this half-day seminar, Cutter Senior Consultant Bob Benson will explain the ways that governance best practices have evolved over the last two years. His analysis is based not only on his vast experience helping global organizations fine-tune their governance practices, but also on extensive analysis of year-after-year Cutter research about evolving governance practices around the world. In this seminar, you'll have considerable opportunity to share your experiences and discuss the commonalities and differences among the governance strategies and experiences of Summit attendees and get guidance on how to improve the practices your organization employs.

Agile

Seminar: Agile in the Workplace

Rachel Davies

Agile reduces bureaucracy and waste from project lifecycles, by bringing in a focus on incremental delivery. Teams streamline their activities by applying Lean ideas, like reduced cycle times and making workflow visible with Kanban systems. To get a leaner process, we need a workplace conducive to the increased collaboration and teamwork that underpins Agile development. Practical challenges that hamper teams are lack of wallspace and testing environments. Increasingly, we also need to find ways to work with people in different offices and time-zones. Come to this hands-on workshop, to explore how you can foster an Agile workplace. We'll be sharing stories about creative ways to overcome some of the obstactles teams typically encounter and identifying what elements of the workplace have the highest impact.

Cloud Computing

Seminar: Cloud Computing: Fear, Hype, Reality and Pragmatics

Claude Baudoin

Like an antique light bulb, Cloud Computing still generates more heat than light. People are for or against it on an often emotional basis. IP lawyers are telling you, "it's 10 p.m. - do you know where your data is?" Vendors are telling you about "five nines" Service Level Agreements and at least one is incredibly promising "100% uptime." The case studies are starting to emerge, but will the industry scale? Instead of being locked in to a software vendor, will you become locked in to a cloud provider due to a new form of incompatibility?

The one thing that Cloud Computing is definitely making flourish is the blogosphere. Conference organizers are also successfully riding this wave - thank you for asking - but Cutter Consortium will take a different approach. Instead of a succession of pundits with more or less hidden agendas, Senior Consultant Claude Baudoin will facilitate a working session in which you will put together your individual brains and experiences to think about the opportunities, the risks, and most importantly the pragmatic steps you can take to decide how, where, and when to apply this new technology in a useful and safe manner for your organization. You will leave this workshop with more than the sum of your collective wisdoms. The future may be cloudy, but we will help you determine how to take advantage of this new weather pattern.