Business Technology Summit 2009
India's #1 Inspirational IT Conference Series
Every single aspect of an enterprise is becoming increasingly embodied in the technology it uses, from process application-driven business operations to Internet-based interactions with customers and suppliers. IT Professionals are charged with developing robust systems that super rev enterprise operations or a profitable line of business. And the enterprise needs those systems swifter than ever before. Given the depth of economic uncertainty, no business can wait for two to three years to build and deploy a mission-critical application. Six months to an year may be just too long. But at the same time, the technology ground underneath us is changing rapidly and unpredictably. The era of being able to choose from the best of breed tools, frameworks, and application platforms has now been replaced with that of consolidation -- of application servers, frameworks, and programming interfaces into integrated stacks with virtualization and all packaged into the cloud, application design, coding, and testing are about to become very different.
Although today, only a few enterprises recognize the implications of this trend, sooner rather than later "Business Technology" (BT) will be viewed as being vital and almost critical to delivering business results. Enterprises will embrace the competitive potential of technology and actively manage its use. Business Technology providers will hone offerings to enhance business results, agility, flexibility, and configurability.
The Big Tent Edition - Business Technology Summit 03-04 Nov in Bangalore, was attended by an audience of 1200+ of India's best Business Technology professionals. More than 50+ experts talk about everything from cloud taxonomy, use cases, standards coordination, security, cloud as a platform of platforms, blueprints on migrating existing applications to the cloud, open source and cloud computing, architecting cloud solutions for Windows Azure to building a business case for a virtual lab in the cloud. This year, the summit also featured several first time rock star experts, including Schneider and Hewitt, who opened up their wisdom on topics of key relevance to software architecture, governance and mission-critical service testing. Pelz-Sharpe was back this year with his insights on Enterprise Portals and why they will be big in 2010. While Marcus' talks demystified the cloud, Puhlman's plenary helped the audience brave the threats of a new world. Howard Charney, a direct report to Cisco's CEO John Chambers, delivered the opening keynote titled Smart Services, Smart Future. With over 50+ sessions and several stellar keynotes, the Big Tent edition had it all packed to make the stakeholder experience at the summit worthwhile.
With over 150+ CIOs and Head-IT's in attendance, the Executive Edition in Mumbai, 06 Nov, featured some of the best, brightest and marquee CIO's of India held forth on exotic topics ranging from investigating the "I" in the CIO, to showing you how to make best friends with your enemy (the CFO), to unraveling the skill sets that make them the foremost business technology leaders of India. The theme panels in Mumbai featured expert panelists discuss and debate how business technologies can help shape an enterprise in a post-crisis world.
BT Summit 2009 was sponsored by some of the world's largest IT companies including 3i-infotech, Microsoft, Yahoo, Wipro, CollabNet, Ayuda Networks and Taroby and ably supported by partners Bangalore International Airport (BIAL), Unicel and Airtel.
Download all the available BTS 09 presentation decks. Look up the gallery to view the moments, the wins, and the rapt attention, replete with stills and videos. The blogs capture the brickbats and bouquets BTS 2009 received from stakeholders. The press section houses a choice collection of the media reports written around BTS 2009.