Cutter Consortium's Summit 2006: The Future of IT
IT Luminaries to Debate IT's Future Direction, Identify Opportunities in Cambridge, MA, USA, 7-10 May 2006
Delegates to Cutter Consortium's 10th annual Summit conference will discuss and debate the future of IT with an impressive group of IT luminaries -- including XP and WikiWikiWeb creator Ward Cunningham, Harvard Business School's Siobhan O'Mahony and Steve Bradley, Cutter Fellows Tim Lister, Lou Mazzucchelli and Tom DeMarco and Cambridge University Professor Rob Phaal -- at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge, MA, USA, 7-10 May, 2006.
Over the past decade, the Cutter Consortium Summit has become known as the most stimulating IT conference of the year, valued by its attendees for the direct access it provides to the top thinkers in IT.
Keynote and panel discussion topics include collaboration and open source, avoiding IT-related litigation, consequences of the broadband revolution, strategic roadmapping and emerging technologies that will form the foundation of future IT advances.
The informal setting of this intimate gathering provides both attendees and speakers alike an opportunity to candidly discuss the challenges they face -- from technical concerns and strategies they're considering, to trends they're seeing in their own organization. The format encourages personal interaction and debate and provides an atmosphere that facilitates knowledge sharing and learning -- providing attendees with real-world advice they can put into action right away in their own organizations.
Summit 2006 also features roundtable discussions with Cutter's experts on issues such as governance in the age of IT, innovation, business process management, evaluating outsourcing service providers and IT portfolio management. In addition, Summit delegates can also benefit from in-depth, pre-conference workshops on agile enablement, IT performance management, Scrum, IT leadership and proven strategies for SOA success.
Details on the keynote addresses are below. For further information, visit the Summit 2006 Web site.
The Broadband Explosion
Harvard Business School Professor Stephen Bradley will take us down the path of the broadband revolution and explore its consequences for business and IT. IT departments that are ready for this coming change will put their organizations ahead of the competitive curve, just as early Web adopters shot ahead.
Software That Supports People Who Think for a Living
XP and WikiWikiWeb creator Ward Cunningham will show how the organizational paradigm that people think of as business is changing, and why firms that can create an environment that's safe for emerging ideas will increase their chances of success in the new order.
From SLAs to Patents: How to Avoid IT-related Litigation and Focus on What Counts!
Cutter Fellow Tim Lister will explore the legal impediments to creative, business- enabling IT; the organizations that master and circumvent these barriers will be unencumbered to succeed.
Emerging Technologies: Which Will Form the Foundation for Future IT Advances?
Cutter Fellow Lou Mazzucchelli will identify the must-have technologies for tomorrow's successful enterprises -- the enterprises whose IT teams put these into action first will gain a clear competitive edge.
Adaptation and Diffusion of the Open Source Model: Is it Extreme Collaboration?
Harvard Business School Professor Siobhán O'Mahony will share her research which shows how the social, technical, and legal aspects of the open source development model have been adapted, and recombined with more traditional approaches of collaboration, to form new hybrids. Innovative organizations that can utilize these models in building or managing their own communities will have a strong advantage over those that ignore them.
Strategic Roadmapping: Linking Technology to Markets
Cambridge University Professor Rob Phaal will demonstrate an approach to strategic roadmapping that can be applied in any company to link its technological capability to product and business plans. Learn how organizations are positioned to make IT a differentiator when they use roadmapping to ensure their business strategy and technology development go hand-in-hand.
Themes and Implications
Cutter Fellow and conference moderator Tom DeMarco will pull together the Trends and Implications revealed throughout the Summit in his closing keynote.
For more information on Summit 2006, or to register for a press pass, contact Kim Leonard (+1 781 641 5111) or e-mail at press@cutter.com.