Analyst Series
Live Analyst Series
Networking & IT Innovation
IDC Dinner Series, Boston MA
Grill 23
Mar 24, 2022
Boston MA
5:30 PM - 8:30 PM ET
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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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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 Grill 23 & Bar, a legendary steakhouse with delicious, classic dishes, and an award-winning wine program.
Brandt family beef, New England seafood, seasonal produce, decadent desserts, a world-class wine list, outstanding service and warm hospitality. A truly American experience. Boston’s top steak and seafood grill for more than 30 years. Consistently named Boston's Best Steakhouse by The Improper Bostonian Magazine and Boston Magazine. A 2000+ bottle wine list that encompasses wines from around the world and is the only Boston recipient of Wine Spectator’s Grand Award.
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.
- B.S. Biology, UMASS Boston
- Masters Information Systems Management, Boston University
- Master of Business Administration, Boston University
Grill 23, 161 Berkeley St Boston MA 02116
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 - 6:15 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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6:15 pm - 6:30 pm
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Starburst |
Starburst helps companies modernize their data str...ategy by bringing analytics to data where it lives. We enable companies to make faster & better decisions on more complete data.
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6:30 pm - 6:45 pm
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Fortinet |
Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) secures the largest enterp...rise, service provider, and government organizations around the world. Fortinet empowers its customers with intelligent, seamless protection across the expanding attack surface and the power to take on ever-increasing performance requirements of the borderless network—today and into the future. Only the Fortinet Security Fabric architecture can deliver security without compromise to address the most critical security challenges, whether in networked, application, cloud, or mobile environments. Fortinet ranks number one in the most security appliances shipped worldwide and more than 500,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses. Learn More https://www.fortinet.com/corporate/about-us/about-us
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7:00 pm - 7:15 pm
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Avatier |
Avatier develops identity management software and ...identity management platform that enables information technology operations through workflow automation and self-service.Avatier Identity Anywhere™ provides private, secure, scalable, easy-to-maintain, containerized Identity Management and SSO that runs cloud-hosted or non-hosted, and across your favorite apps and devices. Avatier’s solution deploys in 14 days or less.
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7:15 pm - 7:30 pm
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Expedient |
Expedient helps companies transform their IT opera...tions through award-winning multi-cloud solutions and managed services including disaster recovery, security and compliance, and more. The company’s Cloud Different™? approach provides an on-ramp to the cloud, supporting the optimization and delivery of all applications (both core essential and cloud native). Named VMware’s Americas Cloud Partner of the Year and acknowledged in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a Service, Expedient eases a customer’s transition to the cloud by providing curated and bundled best of breed solutions backed by “white glove” services and support. Expedient data centers are compliant with a variety of regulatory mandates, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) as well as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Service Organization Control (SOC) reports are completed and audited annually for all locations and infrastructure platforms.
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7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
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Dessert, raffles & networking |