Since 2007, IDC has been exhaustively tracking IT’s shift of workloads from on-prem hosting to the cloud. This year, in 2023, IDC predicts that fully 50% of all IT workloads, worldwide, will have pivoted to the cloud. But, to paraphrase a famous poem, we have many workloads to migrate before we can sleep! In this important session, two senior IDC analysts will share five critical cloud migration insights that IT leaders have learned to t...

David Myhrer, Research Vice President, Consumer Strategies at IDC, will provide a data-driven view of the U.S. consumer marketplace and where it is headed in the short and medium term. David will leverage data and share insights from IDC's Consumer Pulse primary research service, including its Future Consumer surveys, to highlight resilient consumer tech spending, rising expectations, and the dynamics of changing consumer behavior and attitude...

This session will frame both WHY delivering IT change is more important than ever for IT leaders and HOW five IT leaders successfully implemented meaningful IT changes. These anonymized mini case studies, taken from IDC’s End-User Consulting Team, emphasize the role of information, sourced from outside the virtual four walls of their organizations, played a critical role in making these IT change projects successful: Validating an enterp...

Generative AI has the potential to transform entire industries. To gain a competitive edge, business leaders need to create a clear and compelling generative AI strategy today. This session will review the leading use cases, approaches to building an enterprise solution, the funding distribution, and survey insights on the promise of generative AI. It will also include generative AI basics, benefits, current limitations, and approaches to addr...

As brands continue to accelerate their digital-first strategies, improving the Customer Experience (CX) is a top business priority for brands of all sizes and across all industries. To address this priority, the Voice of the Customer (VoC) has evolved to a corporate program to gather customer data across all digital journey touchpoints. This helps ensure that companies/brands understand and are prepared to act on customer feedback to improve p...

In the world of Digital Transformation, cybersecurity plays a crucial role. Whether preparing for 5G on the edge, artificial intelligence at the core, or software-defined everything, enterprises have begun to realize that intelligent adversaries will be looking for ways to manipulate the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of their data and systems throughout the environment. Traditional cybersecurity programs are built on formal proc...

This webinar looks at key technological trends for public safety agencies globally, providing agencies, and the IT ecosystem that serves them, with guidance on key success factors, and pitfalls to avoid. The session will illuminate the role that drones, AI, visual analytics, facial recognition, early warning systems, mobile tools and digital intelligence platforms are shaping the way public safety agencies work. Attendees will also understand...

The promise of better and faster data driven decision making has pushed big data and analytics investments to the top of executive agendas. As the evidence of successful government outcomes grows, a growing number of government entities are investing in big data, but many government organizations do not yet have the maturity to address the range of technology, staffing, and process requirements needed to capitalize on big data assets and to de...

Cloud today is the foundation of the agile enterprise. As it reshapes the way organizations design, consume and manage IT resources, it drives more efficient business processes, new products, new lines of business and greater revenue opportunities. The result: a dynamic enterprise where change is a constant, due diligence a requirement and entrepreneurial vision a must. Cloud Leadership Forum 2012 is the only national conference that illuminat...

As we embark on a new era of IT industry transformation, a critical question to ask is: Are we positioned for success across this increasingly competitive IT landscape? What will the world of technology look like in 3 years, 5 years, and beyond? Join us on September 22nd for predictions and insights as we explore the next wave of convergence and how clients and computing are being transformed by mobility and the cloud and vice versa. IDC's Tec...