Agenda
Bold Starts: Wednesday
Oct 9- 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm BST Welcome Reception
Thursday
Oct 10- 8:30 am – 9:30 am BST Registration and Breakfast
- 8:30 am – 9:30 am BST Forrester Women's Leadership Program Networking Breakfast
- 9:30 am – 10:55 am BST Opening Remarks & Keynote Sessions
- 10:55 am – 11:35 am BST Marketplace Break
- 11:35 am – 12:40 pm BST Breakout & Case Study Sessions
- 12:40 pm – 1:40 pm BST Lunch & Marketplace Break
- 1:40 pm – 3:35 pm BST Breakout & Case Study Sessions
- 3:35 pm – 4:15 pm BST Marketplace Break
- 4:15 pm – 5:30 pm BST Afternoon Keynotes
- 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm BST Reception
Friday
Oct 11- 8:30 am – 9:30 am BST Breakfast
- 9:30 am – 10:40 am BST Keynote Sessions
- 10:40 am – 11:20 am BST Marketplace Break
- 11:20 am – 12:25 pm BST Breakout & Case Study Sessions
- 12:25 pm – 1:25 pm BST Lunch & Marketplace Break
- 1:25 pm – 2:50 pm BST Breakout & Case Study Sessions
- 2:50 pm – 3:30 pm BST Marketplace Break
- 3:30 pm – 4:35 pm BST Closing Keynotes and Remarks
Bold Starts: Wednesday Oct 9
Welcome Reception
Thursday Oct 10
Forrester Women's Leadership Program Breakfast & Panel
Avoid The “She’s Not Strategic” * Trap: Balancing Influence And Effectiveness To Lead In Technology
If you take pride in your ability to get stuff done and prefer to let your work speak for itself (because you’re uncomfortable with self-promotion), this session is for you. Paradoxically, many ambitious and talented women miss out on leadership opportunities precisely *because* they’re excellent at getting stuff done — they end up spending all their time executing effectively, or no one notices their strategic contributions among all the operational work that they do. For this session, we’ve assembled a fantastic panel of technology leaders who’ve faced this challenge. Here’s what you’ll take away from this session if you join us:
- How to make space for contributing strategically — and how to highlight your strategic contributions (yes, this will involve some self-promotion!)
- How to build influence and visibility with the leaders above you in the organization
- How to help those more junior to you avoid or climb out of this trap
Speakers:
Raluca Alexandru, Analyst, Forrester
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Speakers:
George Colony, CEO, Forrester
Keynote: Generative AI As A Forcing Factor For Change
Generative AI has quickly sparked excitement with business and technology leaders, with an unprecedented amount of enterprise projects being kicked off in a very short space of time. But while companies are eager to experiment with this new technology, they often quickly face significant obstacles that make it difficult to scale beyond the first single use case. So where are we with generative AI today? How can we make it a real catalyst for innovation and change, rather than stifling innovation? Given the current momentum around generative AI, this session will focus on how to assess opportunities and challenges associated with this fast-moving technology:
- Why are we (mostly) still approaching (gen)AI in suboptimal ways?
- What is needed to scale beyond the first single use case?
- How can we make this technology a real catalyst for innovation and change, rather than stifling innovation?
Speakers:
Martha Bennett, VP, Principal Analyst, Forrester
Marketplace & Coffee Break (In-Person Only)
Attend one session:
11:15 - 11:25am - Namiral Spotlight Session
Speakers:
Antonio Taurisano, Managing Director International Markets, Namirial
Level-Up Workshop: Unlock High-Performance IT With A Modern Architecture Practice
The success of enterprise architecture (EA) depends on the business outcomes that EA leaders must look for and the dominant high-performance IT style of the organization. EA leaders need to understand which best practices to prioritize to set their practices up for success in their respective business contexts. Attend this session to:
- Understand and identify the architecture value best practices that drive each high-performance IT style.
- Craft a dedicated roadmap to deliver the strategy you choose.
Speakers:
Stéphane Vanrechem, Senior Analyst, Forrester
Breakout Sessions
Case Study Sessions (In-Person Only)
Lunch & Marketplace (In-Person Only)
1:00 - 1:10pm - metaphacts: Accelerate business decisions with a semantic layer for enterprise information architecture
The data needed to create new opportunities and drive decisions is abundant, but it is distributed across heterogeneous silos and lacks the context needed to deliver insights. In this lightning talk, we will make the case for why every enterprise should implement a semantic layer for their enterprise information architecture (EIA) to support easy and intuitive knowledge discovery and exploration. As the single source of truth for all company metadata connecting disparate silos and systems, the semantic layer is key to establishing a common understanding of data, governing and shaping the enterprise information architecture, and establishing consistent data governance processes. It does not only enable the standardization and harmonization of the existing information landscape by reducing redundancies, but it also helps inform and accelerate business decisions by providing users with meaningful context to individual information points and details on how to access, stream or reuse data.
Speakers:
Sebastian Schmidt, CEO, metaphacts
Breakout Sessions
Case Study Sessions (In-Person Only)
Breakout Sessions
Level-Up Workshop: To Be Or Not To Be Agile?
In this interactive session, we will discuss why agile paradigms are pervasively adopted but struggle because implementations often don’t meet all stakeholders’ expectations. Agile structures in organizations are perceived and lived very differently by employees and leaders, causing underwhelming performance. The role of agile leaders requires more attention if agile is to be taken seriously. In this panel discussion, attendees will:
- Discuss agile implementation challenges and how they correlate with leadership styles.
- Learn to assess under which conditions an agile paradigm is favorable and where it isn’t.
- Understand the essential skills and leadership profiles that enable agile organizations to become and stay successful.
Enjoy a vibrant and fun discussion with a surprise guest.
Speakers:
Dan Bieler, Principal Analyst, Forrester
Keynote: Unleash Your Potential With High-Performance IT
Delivering business results in the face of today’s business dynamics requires technology leaders to relentlessly align, continuously adapt, and develop a higher level of trust with business teams. But how do leaders achieve and sustain this level of performance to fully unleash the promise of emerging technologies, co-innovation, and transformation, all while delivering on mission-critical projects? Join us for this presentation and panel to learn about how to achieve the following:
- Align and adapt to changing business dynamics with high-performance IT.
- Calibrate regularly to instill a higher level of trust with business partners.
- Create the organizational flexibility to pivot in line with business dynamics.
Speakers:
Manuel Geitz, Principal Analyst, Forrester
Keynote: Predictions 2025
The stage is being set for 2025. Come listen to Forrester’s top technology analysts discuss the next frontier of innovation threats, advantages, and opportunities.
Speakers:
Stephanie Balaouras, VP, Group Director, Forrester
Reception
Friday Oct 11
Keynote: Embrace Trust, Adaptivity, And Alignment For AI Success
As companies are embracing new technologies like automation and generative AI, they typically run into traditional obstacles rooted in their organizational setup and existing talent structures. To unlock the value of AI, companies need to tear down their internal data silos and embrace trust, adaptivity, and alignment across the entire organization. In this session, we will decompose these existing challenges and outline how high-performing leaders can effectively steer, align, and motivate their organization to deliver value from their AI strategies.
Key takeaways:
- Understand how to address the AI bottleneck by breaking down operational and data silos.
- Embrace trust, adaptivity, and alignment as core principles of high performance.
- Learn how to apply the guiding principles of high performance to leadership for AI.
Speakers:
Bernhard Schaffrik, Principal Analyst, Forrester
Dan Bieler, Principal Analyst, Forrester
Keynote: Forrester's 2024 Technology Strategy Impact Award Winners
Welcome to the highly anticipated Forrester Technology Awards, the only assessment dedicated to recognizing excellence in technology strategy. This awards honors remarkable IT organizations that have proven their mettle in aligning technology with the dynamic needs of the business.
Speakers:
Laura Koetzle, VP, Group Director, Forrester
Marketplace & Coffee Break (In-Person Only)
Level-Up Workshop: Sustainability Roundtable: Practical Steps To Take To Drive Down Public Cloud CO2 emissions
Organizations move to the cloud has enabled many advantages such as increased agility and scale. However, as net zero targets become common and in response to regulatory pressures, tech leaders are looking to optimize their cloud infrastructure and its CO2 emissions to support their corporate sustainability goals. Join this peer roundtable session to understand the architectural steps you can take to reduce and optimize your cloud environment.
Speakers:
Stephanie Balaouras, VP, Group Director, Forrester
Dario Maisto, Senior Analyst, Forrester
Breakout Sessions
Case Study Sessions (In-Person Only)
Lunch & Marketplace (In-Person Only)
Breakout Sessions
Keynote: Staying Resilient In A Fluid Technology And Threat Landscape
The last two years have seen significant technology innovation and has been a boon for business productivity; the same goes for threat actors. This presentation will explore the future of cybersecurity in the context of the opportunities of emerging tech. Attendees can expect to learn how to:
- Approach AI practically in the context of security.
- Balance business needs when modeling emerging threats.
- Leverage visibility to boost risk and opportunity.
Speakers:
Tope Olufon, Sr Analyst, Forrester
Keynote: AI And The End Of Software Development As We Know It
Past and future technologies and paradigm shifts such as agile, DevOps, low-code, and even AI have been reshaping the software development world, but generative AI (genAI) is disrupting it. The software development lifecycle (SDLC) is being accelerated, done in real time, and compressed. At the same time, automation of all tasks of the SDLC (through TuringBots) is empowering both professional coders and citizen developers, totally transforming their experience. As you overcome short-term hurdles, prepare in the long term for a new breed of AI-infused platform enabling fast iteration for top-down and ground-up application generation. In this session, you will:
- Understand the impact of genAI on the SDLC as well as low-code, professional, and citizen developer strategies.
- Live the experience and learn about the emergence of application generation platforms, infused with both predictive and generative AI.
- Explore the implications of these trends for your enterprise software strategy.
Speakers:
Diego Lo Giudice, VP, Principal Analyst, Forrester
Closing Remarks
Speakers:
Pascal Matzke, VP, Research Director, Forrester
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