Managing & Leading IT: Sessions in this stream will arm leaders and managers with thoughts, best practices, tools, and techniques to increase the value of IT within organizations and enable business success.  Sessions in this stream will focus on:

t Increasing alignment between business needs and IT, and the people, process and technology needed to deliver on those business goals
t Best practices used in the development and implementation of strategies which increase the value of technologies within organizations and enable business success
t Project management, business analysis and other tools and techniques used to deliver technology solutions that succeed
t Management of quality assurance and risk management

Solutions and Development: This stream is where strategy and business decisions meet real-world implementation. Project management, business analysis, and other “business of IT” topics will help professionals execute and deliver IT and business solutions that work

Value in IT:  Building on the theme of ICE 2007, this stream includes speaker who will present the opportunities and challenges defining the business benefits from IT investments, including architecture, applications and security projects, the approaches to quantify and measure the value derived from IT contributions, and understanding the value relationship between the lines of business and IT. The presentations will include business cases that provide real world examples of the value organizations achieved through IT investments

Trends in Technology: This stream explores emerging trends in technologies and creative deployment of traditional IT applications.  The speakers featured will present innovative applications of emerging technologies and consider the impact of changes driven by technology development

Professional Development: “Soft skills” are critical success factors in today’s IT and business world. Leadership, communication, presentation, and negotiation skills are  necessary for both leaders and “doers”. Whether you’re a senior executive or just starting out in your career, sessions in the Professional Development stream are designed to round out that extremely important “soft skills” side of your toolkit.  Due to the highly interactive nature of two of the Workshops in the Professional Development stream, the session will limit the number of participants and pre-registration is recommended to guarantee a seat.

Tutorials: Hands-on workshop style tutorials tailored to provide more in-depth coverage of specific topics that will be of interest to developers, analysts and managers alike. Pre-registration for Tutorials is advised to guarantee a seat.