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Investing in IT: Improving Efficiencies While Driving Innovation

THE EUROPEAN IT FORUM 2004

Investing in IT: Improving Efficiencies While Driving Innovation
September 27 and 28, 2004
Le Meridien Montparnasse Hotel
19, Rue du Commandant Mouchotte, Paris


IDC´s 14th European IT Forum is drawing near and once again this flagship event will provide CEOs, CIOs, and senior executives from Europe´s largest companies with the latest trends, knowledge, and insight to enable them to lead their organizations’ growth.

Guests will include Joseph Stiglitz, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize for Economics; writers and journalists such as Jeremy Paxman and Nicholas Carr; Paul Saffo, director of the Institute for the Future; and leading economists and industry experts such as Don Tapscott and Jean-Paul Fitoussi.

Main themes at this year´s forum will include improving efficiency while driving innovation as a key company objective, the importance of utility computing for the creation of a dynamic enterprise, the impact of offshore services on European organizations, business model transformation driven by IT, the role of Linux in the IT landscape, and new information security challenges for CIOs.

Leading IT organizations will illustrate core strategies, objectives, and solutions to make the most of the new opportunities. Companies attending will include Cisco Systems, Microsoft, SAP, Symantec, Alcatel Enterprise Solutions Division, Ericsson, Foundry Networks, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM, SIA, Siemens Business Services, Internet Security Systems, Novell Inc., and RSA Security.

To register for a free media pass and arrange interviews with speakers, please contact Mathew Heath, tel. +44 20 8987 7107, mheath@idc.com, or visit http://www.idc.com/emea/itforum04