Analyst Series
Live Analyst Series
IDC Dinner Series, Austin TX
SOHO House
Aug 10, 2022
Austin TX
5:30 PM - 8:30 PM CT
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Speaker
Daniel Saroff
Group Vice President, Consulting and Research
Daniel Saroff is Group Vice President of Consulting and Research at IDC. As a senior practitioner in the end-user consulting practice, he provides support to boards, business leaders, and technology executives in their efforts to architect, benchmark, and optimize their organization's IT. He is currently a leader in AI research and analysis. Mr. Saroff also leads the CIO/End-User Research Practice at IDC, that guides business and technology executives to leverage technology to achieve innovative and disruptive business outcomes.
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Join us and senior analysts from our strategic research partner, IDC, for critical analysis on topics ranging from digital innovation, to industry ecosystems, ransomware and phishing, and more.
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CIO Exchange: Strategies, Tactics, and Best Practices to Help you Thrive in 2022
2020 was a bear, 2021 has been a beast – 2022 is the year of the tiger. Are you ready?
Join us as Vice President of Consulting Services, Daniel Saroff, shares market observations and guidance to help you enhance your organization’s resiliency, improve agility, and accelerate innovation as digital-first business strategies become the norm. Then over dinner discuss, debate, and exchange perspectives with your fellow CIOs about 2022 challenges and opportunities. Discussion topics include:
- How design thinking accelerates innovation
- Setting your cloud optimization strategy
- What the board needs to know about ransomware
Enjoy a luxurious Three-Course Dinner while you listen to presentations from some of the greatest minds in technology, headed by IDC's Vice President of Consulting Services, Daniel Saroff. The event will take place at SOHO House Austin, a luxurious clubhouse with a decadent restaurant inside.
A space for creatives in Austin set on South Congress Avenue, close to Lady Bird Lake. Situated between downtown and South Austin, our House features 46 bedrooms, a rooftop pool, screening room, and restaurant. The restaurant serves Southern-inspired dishes, wood-fired pizzas, and creative plant-based options.
Speaker: Daniel Saroff | Vice President, Consulting Services
Daniel Saroff, Vice President Consulting Services, is a senior practitioner within IDC’s end-user consulting practice – a practice focused on supporting Boards, business leaders, and technology executives as they strive to architect, benchmark, and optimize their organization's IT Platform. This Practice is built upon IDC’s unparalleled, international, IT data library, its robust research base, and tailored consulting solutions all focused on delivering unique business value through IT acceleration, performance management, and contextualized process benchmarking capabilities.
SOHO House, 1011 S Congress Ave Austin TX 78704
Agenda
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5:30 pm
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Event begins |
Cocktails served. Meal courses will be dropped bet...ween presentations.
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6:00 pm - 6:20 pm
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IDC |
About IDC International Data Corporation (IDC) is ...the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the information technology, telecommunications, and consumer technology markets. With more than 1,100 analysts worldwide, IDC offers global, regional, and local expertise on technology and industry opportunities and trends in over 110 countries. IDC’s analysis and insight helps IT professionals, business executives, and the investment community to make fact-based technology decisions and to achieve their key business objectives. Founded in 1964, IDC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of International Data Group (IDG), the world’s leading tech media, data and marketing services company. To learn more about IDC, please visit www.idc.com. Follow IDC on Twitter at @IDC and LinkedIn. Subscribe to the IDC Blog for industry news and insights: http://bit.ly/IDCBlog_Subscribe
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6:20 pm - 6:40 pm
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Blackberry |
BlackBerry offers a range of cybersecurity solutio...ns powered by Cylance artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning that both predict and prevent cyberattacks, helping organizations become more resilient to ransomware, including those used in the attacks such as REvil, Avaddon and DarkSide.BlackBerry® endpoint protection products such as BlackBerry® Protect use our 7th generation Cylance AI engine, trained on a threat dataset numbering in the billions, to identify and stop cyberattacks before they begin. Our solutions neutralize ransomware before the execution stage, preventing ransomware from detonating and infecting your endpoints and your network. BlackBerry products mitigate risks from known, unknown, and zero-day threats by detecting and stopping attacks before they execute.
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6:40 pm - 7:00 pm
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RingCentral |
RingCentral, Inc. (NYSE: RNG) is a leading provide...r of business cloud communications and contact center solutions based on its powerful Message Video Phone ™ ? (MVP ™ ?) global platform. More flexible and cost effective than legacy on-premises PBX and video conferencing systems that it replaces, RingCentral empowers modern mobile and distributed workforces to communicate, collaborate, and connect via any mode, any device, and any location. RingCentral offers three key products in its portfolio including RingCentral MVP ™ ?, a Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) platform including team messaging, video meetings, and cloud phone system; RingCentral Video ™ ?, ?the company's video meetings solution with team messaging that enables Smart Video Meetings ™ ?; and RingCentral cloud Contact Center solutions. RingCentral’s open platform integrates with leading third-party business applications and enables customers to easily customize business workflows. RingCentral is headquartered in Belmont, California, and has offices around the world
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7:30 pm
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Dessert, raffles, & networking |