Tel.Con has been the leading conference addressing the needs of the New Zealand telecommunications sector over the past decade.
This year, Conferenz is partnering with research firm IDC to provide an event that will go into more details and deeper analysts into the key industry trends than ever before.
What are the critical and strategic issues facing today’s ICT leaders? How should they respond to the shifts in the rules of market competition? How do they successful navigate the move from ICT manager to business leader?
These are some of the key questions a panel of local and offshore business leaders will cover at the CIO Summit 2010 on July 20 and 21 at SkyCity Convention Centre.
Vernon Turner, senior vice president enterprise infrastructure, consumer and telecom research of IDC, and Dr Peter C. Wilton, who teaches strategy and international management at the Haas School of Business at the University of California in Berkeley, lead the international panel of speakers at the upcoming CIO Summit taking place this July in Auckland.
Turner is one of the authors of the IDC Special Report on Reducing Greenhouse Gases through Intense Use of ICT, released during the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen. His presentation will focus on how enterprises can lower carbon emissions and infrastructure and operations cost through the focused use of ICT tools. The session will provide guidance for how CIOs across specific sectors can work across the business to achieve this.
Fourteen CIOs across a broad reach of industries have joined the advisory council for the CIO Summit 2010.
The group will help draft the agenda for the CIO Summit, New Zealand’s premium event for ICT leaders, to be held July 20 and 21 at SkyCity Convention centre.
Registrations to the 2009 CI0 Summit have started and those who register before Friday, 5 June will save $300 from the registration fee and go into the draw to win a trip for two to Rarotonga plus five nights accommodation at The Pacific Resort.
In addition, each paying delegate will receive a 12-month subscription to CIO. Five Blackberry Bold units will also be given away during the two-day conference .
“We find ourselves… right at the maelstrom at the impact of IT and technology to everything in the world and that creates challenges [and a] tremendous amount of opportunities.
“With those opportunities come the necessity to look at our core competence, comfort zones and examine what needs to be changed in order to move to higher and bigger advances.” With these words, Andre Mendes, global CIO of Special Olympics and a keynote speaker at the 2008 CIO Conference, summarises the challenges facing today’s ICT leaders in increasingly globalised, if uncertain, times.
Leadership is a dance, in which leaders and followers jointly respond to the rhythm and call of a particular social context, within which leaders draw from wells of collective experience and energy, to engage followers around transforming visions of change and lead them in the collective creation of compelling futures.
Air New Zealand CIO Julia Raue cited this quote from The Dance of Leadership by Peter Cammock in her opening keynote at the CIO Conference 2007.