Networking & IT Innovation
IDC Dinner Series, Boston MA
Rochambeau
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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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, 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, Consulting Services, Daniel Saroff. The event will take place at Rochambeau, an elegant, contemporary French Brasserie in Boston's Back Bay area, next to the Hynes Convention Center.
Rochambeau in Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood is a French Brasserie
that spans two floors, with a a full service cafe attached. The restaurant and bar at Rochambeau serves loaded lunch, brunch and dinner menus with dishes from Executive Chef Phil Lewis. The bar program consists of specialty crafted cocktails, draft and bottled beers, as well as a carefully curated wine list.
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.
Mr. Saroff spent the past two decades working in Senior-level positions in both consulting organizations and in delivering technology. Most recently, he was the CIO for a major Massachusetts state agency where he led them through cloud migrations, digital transformation, technology modernization, enterprise platform reengineering, security in-depth and zero trust, and defense and response to a major cyber-attack. Former positions included consulting positions at both Forrester and Gartner, and as a Director at a major aerospace and defense company. Before joining IDC, he owned a private IT management consultancy. Additionally, he co-founded and managed a neuroscience research laboratory focusing on Alzheimer’s Disease and published multiple peer-reviewed research articles.
Rochambeau, 900 Boylston St Boston MA 02115
Agenda
Time | Title | Description |
5:30 pm | Event begins. | Cocktails served. Meal courses will be dropped bet...ween presentations. |
6:00 pm - 6:20 pm | Strategies with IDC's Vice President, Consulting Services, Daniel Saroff | Strategies, Tactics, and Best Practices to help yo...u thrive in 2022 |
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6:40 pm - 7:00 pm | PagerDuty | |
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7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Dessert, raffles & networking |