Networking & IT Innovation
IDC Dinner Series, Tampa FL
Epicurean Theatre
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.
TechTalks events are where leaders in the technology community relax, network and hear about the latest mission-critical technologies in a social setting. Enjoy your beverage of choice; munch on appetizers; connect with people you’ve friended, LinkedIn and tweeted; and discuss cutting-edge technology with innovative IT manufacturers and their partners.
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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 the Epicurean Hotel, a playground for James Beard nominated chefs. and the hottest local culinary talent.
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.
Epicurean Theatre, 1207 S Howard Ave Tampa FL 33606
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 | 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 |
6:20 pm - 6:40 pm | Suse | SUSE is a global leader in innovative, reliable, s...ecure enterprise-grade open source solutions, relied upon by more than 60% of the Fortune 500 to power their mission-critical workloads. We specialize in Business-critical Linux, Enterprise Container Management and Edge solutions, and collaborate with partners and communities to empower our customers to innovate everywhere – from the data center, to the cloud, to the edge and beyond.SUSE puts the “open” back in open source, giving customers the agility to tackle innovation challenges today and the freedom to evolve their strategy and solutions tomorrow. |
6:40 pm - 7:00 pm | 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 |
7:00 pm - 7:20 pm | Fivetran | Fivetran, the global leader in modern data integra...tion, powers high-volume data movement for the enterprise. Built for the cloud, our mission is to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity. We enable data teams to effortlessly centralize and transform data from hundreds of SaaS and on-prem data sources into high-performance cloud destinations. Fast-moving startups and the world’s largest companies use Fivetran to accelerate modern analytics and operational efficiency, fueling data-driven business growth. For more info, visit fivetran.com. |
7:20 pm | Dessert, raffles, & networking |