Technology & Innovation EMEA

Every organization is facing skill gaps when tackling their broader digital transformation initiative – technical and soft skills. Many European business leaders have difficulty finding the digital talent that they need. In this presentation, participants will learn: 

• Which competency areas are most critical for digital evolution and where the right skill clusters are in Europe. 
• If and how AI-tools like ChatGPT can help bridge digital skill gaps. 

Speakers:
Dan Bieler, Principal Analyst, Forrester

Cloud technologies are the driving engine for many digital transformations. According to Forrester’s Priorities Survey, 2023, 62% of business and technology professionals globally report their organization is adopting cloud-native computing, with more planning to adopt it soon. How are European organizations using cloud and digital platforms to accelerate with purpose? Is cloud sovereignty an enabler of or a road block to innovation and change compared to the rest of the world? Attend this presentation to:  

• Make your organization thrive with cloud in an era of continuous change and fast innovation. 
• Discover the magic formula for cloud implementations in Europe. 

Speakers:
Dario Maisto, Senior Analyst, Forrester

Each day, IT and security teams face major risks and concerns globally; unfortunately, teams are often working against each other by not presenting a unified front, and at times, with outward hostility. Yet technology and security executives have a multitude of benefits to reap from having a unified and consolidated security vision, sound relationships, and working together to enable the business.

Attend this session to:
• Explore the root causes of the divide and tensions between IT and security.
• Discover the surprising commonalities between technology and security leaders and teams.
• Build humanity in the interactions and behaviors with infosec leaders and teams.
• Learn how to operationalize the collaboration required to build trust between the teams.
• Exercise empathy to build trust across teams.

DIGITAL SESSION ONLY

Speakers:
Jinan Budge, VP, Principal Analyst, Forrester

This session navigates the transformative power of a decentralized Digital Integration approach. It will showcase how this approach, moving beyond mere technology adoption, fosters a collaborative, silo-breaking ecosystem, thereby accelerating Digital Transformation & Innovation.

Insights include:
• Real-life examples of successful decentralized digital transformations.
• A spotlight on people’s essential role, over technology, in steering successful decentralized digital transformations.

Speakers:
Raul Jimenez, Head of Digital Integration & Innovation, Sika

The metaverse does not exist yet, but precursors do, in consumer- and employee-facing scenarios. Companies have been exploring how to reach consumers in virtual worlds and games, and how to make use of new environments for employee onboarding, training and collaboration. Indeed, some of the most promising developments are happening in asset-intensive industries like manufacturing. Earlier investments in augmented and mixed reality, the internet of things (IoT) and digital twin combine with compelling use cases to make this a space that’s ripe with opportunity. Companies interested in their own metaverse journey have much to learn from these early adopters.

In this session, we will explore: 

• What’s worked — and what hasn’t — in consumer-facing scenarios. 
• Why metaverse precursors make sense in asset-intensive industries, and which solutions deliver value. 
• Useful lessons for technology leaders in other industries. 

Speakers:
Paul Miller, VP, Principal Analyst, Forrester
Martha Bennett, VP, Principal Analyst, Forrester

Combining IT sustainability and enterprise architecture (EA) in a holistic approach adds value to the company. Thus, EA plays a major role in driving sustainability initiatives that lead to a lower IT carbon footprint. In this session, you will learn how EA can promote actions that reduce electricity consumption in three domains: programming, workplace, and infrastructure.

Speakers:
Stéphane Vanrechem, Senior Analyst, Forrester

Enterprises creak under the weight of technical debt and the myriad of legacy systems they must modernize – and few transform their application landscape successfully. New business models, fluid organizations, slick product experiences, cloud, and agile practices stretch the boundary of existing architectures even further. Our research tells us that successful transformers take innovative paths to weave new technologies into their application landscapes.

This fireside conversation will tell you:

• What a major European bank did to surmount these challenges.
• How judicious use of modern and emerging technologies can elevate existing platforms.
• How to organize and optimize to assure transformation and continual change.

Speakers:
Jacob Morgan, Principal Analyst, Forrester

For years enterprises have collected data for transmission to the cloud and leisurely analysis. But to enhance their operational resilience, for example in distribution centers, railway yards, or port operations, they need to enable low latency analysis and rapid local next best actions. In this session Forrester will present its recent research into the way in which enterprises exploit edge device onboard processing to capitalize on the opportunity for low latency use cases with edge device workload affinity. We will share some example from retail, wholesale, transportation, and logistics of smart infrastructure enabling more responsible supply chain operations. 

You will walk away with: 

• Insights about how to identify high value use cases  
• A framework for developing viable conceptual designs for hybrid edge and cloud applications. 

Speakers:
George Lawrie, VP, Principal Analyst, Forrester

There is a hard-to-combat misconception among enterprise and technology leaders that just adopting the latest and greatest emerging technology would elevate their companies into new realms of revenue generation through innovative differentiation. This at least partially explains the craze about emerging technologies such as ChatGPT, the Metaverse, and cryptocurrencies. Successful technology adoption requires more than just technology adoption.

In this session, we’ll explore:
• Where tangible innovation success is stemming from,
• How innovation leaders prioritize and decide about which emerging technologies to adopt.

Speakers:
Bernhard Schaffrik, Principal Analyst, Forrester

Since Taylorism’s appearance, companies have been taught to cut business processes into pieces which drove companies to be more efficient and profitable. But this had two major side effects, one it has removed the sense of the work as you do not understand the company big picture anymore and two it has encouraged specialization and protection of know-hows preventing collaboration, communication, and coordination. This culture is now widespread, and nobody can proudly say today: “Silos, Ah! Ah! there is none in my company!”

Silos are everywhere and, in this session, you will learn leads to break them! 

Speakers:
Stéphane Vanrechem, Senior Analyst, Forrester

If one of the world known Italian geniuses Leonardo Da Vinci suddenly discovered Open AI ChatGPT or GitHub Co-Pilot and other AI TuringBots, what would he do? He would probably find creative ways to populate your software factory with autonomous TuringBots that would totally automate development and more. But would the famous British nursing reformer and statistician Florence Nightingale, that professionalized nursing saving hundreds of lives, question that professionalizing TuringBots is a good idea?

Forrester analysts will impersonate the two characters to discuss points and counterpoints, and land on common agreement, your take aways will be:  

• What are the real opportunities and the real risks? Will it be “humans in the loop” or “TuringBots in the loop?”, How do we govern the arrival of TuringBots? How real is all this?  

• Find out how you need to pragmatically prepare for Generative AI, it is here to stay, and will change you build applications and deploy them forever. 

Speakers:
Diego Lo Giudice, VP, Principal Analyst, Forrester
Martha Bennett, VP, Principal Analyst, Forrester