ISG 's Steve Hall will highlight the amazing rise of the as-a-service economy over the last three years with a focus on new opportunities created through on demand services and its business and M&A impact.

Learn how Swisscom has been partnering with Accenture to deliver business value in the areas of customer experience, time to market and revenue growth though large scale technology transformation

"The historic challenge for leaders is to manage the crisis while building the future.” —Henry Kissinger
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended how organizations work and operate. From remote working environments to radical spikes in volumes, it has forced a reckoning for every business. 
The one term that has surfaced the most amid this unprecedented crisis is resilience. COVID-19 has accelerated enterprise interest and adoption of cloud. IT organizations leveraging cloud  are able to adapt better to the current crisis because they can easily scale  and continue to deliver services. Those that have taken more constrained approaches have had challenges.
In the new world that is emerging, business continuity shall depend on technology that advances IT resiliency, empowers remote workforces, and creates new experiences. Through the transformative power of Cloud, we can reinvigorate customer engagement and help organizations re-imagine their business models.

These sessions provide hands-on demonstrations of innovative and cutting-edge technologies that are helping to shape the future of business.

These sessions provide hands-on demonstrations of innovative and cutting-edge technologies that are helping to shape the future of business.

Organisations have weathered the storm of 2020 but many have not changed their business models. In six simple steps, ISG can outline the plan business needs to take to get ready for the new way of working. We live in a world with the digital capabilities of 2021, the social mobility of the 1950s and yet we need to plan for the future. This session will bring to life the key building blocks that ISG suggests all organisations need to understand in order to flourish in the post pandemic world.

Advancements in Technology and ever increasing customer needs, coupled with new ways of working brought on by the global pandemic has resulted in a transformation in the way the agent needs to complete there role, but what are the technology enhancements that need to be considered to provide help, support and automation in the future – Listen to ISG's Wayne Butterfield as he explains more

Digital Workplace is evolving at a rapid pace, more so due to the pandemic. Organizations have to adapt their working model too and swiftly embark upon digital transformation initiatives, that were otherwise planned for a phased deployment. Its about agility and driving velocity of change to meet business needs, now. Tech Mahindra’s future of workplace strategy, WorkplaceNXT, allows organizations to be digitally nimble and successful to maintain a competitive edge, both during and post-pandemic as workplaces gradually reopen. WorkplaceNXT encompasses leading and evolving trends in the digital workplace solutions, coupled with thought leadership in niche areas that provide a blueprint helping organizations accelerate their digital transformation journey. Come, join us for an exciting session to find out, how Tech Mahindra can help balance your digital transformation initiatives driven by business needs on one hand whilst focusing on robust user experience and rapidly evolving trends on the other.

Consumers can be grouped into several main groupings – the greatest generation, baby boomers, gen x, y (millennials), and z – and catering to them all at once can be challenging. Each have their own needs. Clearly, millennials want to use their phones/devices to do as much as they can. That can’t always be said for all generations. Companies have to strike a balance as they accommodate different customer groups. At the same time, companies have to carefully consider what is automated and internet-enabled, so they don’t lose the competitive edge that human interaction can often provide.

The workforce of the future will be much more highly digital. This means that they will either be connected gig workers, remote collaborative workers or office based workers who all need to connect to themselves and their customers. The office of the future also needs to be digitized. COVID-19 has enabled a new way of working and now as we head back to office, the workplace needs to adapt. Smart facilities, connected employees, AI and augmented capabilities into work spaces will drive a healthier and "less touch" office BUT also to be considered are capacity planning and management, the flexibility to choose and of course the inclusion of the home as an office given 2020 saw 700 million new offices pop up. We may now be working in a hybrid world which means we need to ramp up digital in the workplace as well as the workforce.

Revival is on the cards and businesses globally are all set for an inevitable re-bound. The one important question is – WHAT DO BUSINESSES NEED – FOR TODAY AND TOMORROW?
The answer is simple – business has to continue, better than normal, better than good, better than ever before! Simply put, THAT is the voice of the customer.

Decoding that voice of the customer, is all about shifting gears to newer ways of working, with increasing reliance on digital mediums and channels, accelerating new product / service launches and building future-ready talent. As the end-customers increasingly prefer touchless transactions and rely on digital, organizations would have to re-think their ways of engagement with buyers at the right time and through their preferred channels; re-model business processes around customer behaviors and not the offerings; understand value from the customers’ perspective; and look at re-designing the entire supply chain around the customer.

The good news is – it’s doable! With analytics evolving to the level that it has, AI / ML being in perfect sync with human intervention and automation, and the ‘digital-first’ mindset taking centerstage, brands across the globe, regardless of the industry, can be assured of brighter times.

Customer experience (CX) itself, as a focus area in organizations, has seen dramatic evolution during the pandemic era. Customers’ perception of brands and products today is markedly different from the pre-COVID world. This has meant that the customer-brand relationship has permanently changed, compelling businesses to re-establish trust in the new normal. A digitally driven CX strategy with the right balance between automation and human judgment can help companies pre-empt changing customer needs and design the right Customer Experience (CX), thereby instilling the much-needed trust in brand relationships.

These sessions provide hands-on demonstrations of innovative and cutting-edge technologies that are helping to shape the future of business.

These sessions provide hands-on demonstrations of innovative and cutting-edge technologies that are helping to shape the future of business.

These sessions provide hands-on demonstrations of innovative and cutting-edge technologies that are helping to shape the future of business.

These sessions provide hands-on demonstrations of innovative and cutting-edge technologies that are helping to shape the future of business.

In many meetings, we share with our clients, we listen to rather similar experiences: if only the business would have invited us earlier. And we hear the other end of the story: how could that have happened, that • our data have been kidnapped • core IP has been stolen • we are blackmailed for personnel client data from out of our sources can be published • or serious amounts of money disappeared via digital routes. To avoiding those cybercrime effects it requires that the unequal twins meet at the same table, early enough to agree on effective measures armouring the company as a whole, the concrete business initiative and the human as the weakest subject of attacks. Join ISG's Roger Albrecht to learn 1. Why to Involve the CISO at earliest stages of any digital journey allowing him to provide enabling advice. 2. How to make Cybersecurity a building block of conceptualization, development and implementation. 3. When to make Cybersecurity investments - at the beginning pay out, latest when databreaches can be avoided

Covid-19 has radically changed the way we live and work for over a year by now, both on a social and a professional level. Additionally, businesses or even industries might fear bankruptcy. Can we get ‘back to normal’ after the pandemic, with everything returning to how it was before Covid-19? Probably not. Besides changes on an individual level, the situation showed how platform business models thrived in comparison to traditional business models. What made platforms so much more able to react to the pandemic? And what can we expect our economies to look like when the pandemic becomes a thing of the past?

Enterprise focus on cybersecurity has increased as companies have had to embrace digitalization, the Internet of Things (IoT) and Work From Home (WFH) models. Organizations are constantly under attack, and regulatory authorities are strengthening laws to protect data. WFH models have greatly expanded the attack surface. Internal risks are also increasing because of factors including a lack of employee education about information security, and increasingly sophisticated attacks. What additional security challenges do you face as your organization adapts to a new way of working? Our panel of experts will discuss: o What employee training is needed to align security, risk, and productivity? o Where and how should you invest in security measures? o How can machine learning and AI be applied to security? o What types of cyberattacks are occurring? o What are best practices to ensure businesses and individuals stay as secure as possible?

To accomplish the Digital Journey, enterprises are frog-marching towards Multi-Cloud Model or even further. Public Cloud options become an essential component as part of the cloud adoption Journey, but have their stumbling stones. Organizations are now searching for the answer of how to accelerate and optimize cloud adaption. The main questions question are – how to move workload, how to set-up the cloud operating platform and what to do with their DC assets and workforce. This panel of experts will discuss - o What are the options to move to the cloud? o What are examples of cloud adoption strategies? o How can SIs help with the could adoption and challenges? o What is the right balance between cloud and traditional hosting? o Ways to avoid Vendor Lock in the cloud? o What is the Best Practice Set-Up for the Eco-System?

If cybersecurity is often the afterthought in organisational strategy and planning, then dealing with user awareness and training is typically the afterthought within cybersecurity itself.  Despite a pandemic that led to an increase in home working and a corresponding need for related policies and awareness to be provided, evidence suggests that the situation is unchanged or even worsened.  Meanwhile, incidents continue to occur and people continue to be blamed, despite often being unsupported to do any better. This talk will examine the issues that ought to be covered to enable basic cybersecurity literacy, but which are often overlooked, neglected, dismissed or mishandled.  It will also illustrate how guidance needs to be meaningfully aligned to users’ needs and why relying on them to solve it for themselves will generally lead to a false sense of security.

Join this session to understand how cloud adoption boosts business growth and enables a competitive edge. Hear Infosys leader Saju Sankarankutty share insights on:

• The need for enterprises to unlock agility and eliminate the challenges from legacy structures
• Cloud as a business growth enabler, co-relation between cloud performance and enterprise profit growth
• Strategic hybrid cloud transformation and why enterprises need to go this way
• How leveraging cloud and platform solutions boosts business growth and enables a competitive edge
• What it means for our clients, and how Infosys enables customers navigate their digital transformation and accelerate their cloud journeys

These sessions provide hands-on demonstrations of innovative and cutting-edge technologies that are helping to shape the future of business.

What do you need to know about producing a Multi-Vendor Cloud RFP? Learn how Amadeus developed a highly engaged project team and aligned culture and communications to orchestrate a cloud RFP. What did they learn? What did they already know? How can you apply this to your own sourcing?

These sessions provide hands-on demonstrations of innovative and cutting-edge technologies that are helping to shape the future of business.