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The annual Gartner Symposium/ITxpo will be held at the Cape Town International Convention Centre from 28-30 August 2012, helping IT leaders look at what opportunities there are to connect applications with business and stakeholders and how they can take a lead in transforming IT in business.

Tom Scholtz

"The theme this year is 'Focus, Connect, Lead'," says Tom Scholtz of Gartner. "Extreme information management presents CIOs with a whole new set of challenges and also the opportunity to deepen their leadership."

Tina Nunno, Gartner vice president and research director in the US-based CIO Research Group, will give a series of presentations on how CIOs can navigate complex decisions and sensitive organisational politics and on management issues such as working with the board of directors, executive communication strategies, change leadership and governance strategies.

"Opportunity to gain new insights"

BRICS expert Partha Iyengar will discuss how local CIOs can help their organisations exploit the opportunities that come with South Africa's entry into the community, Daryl Plummer will reveal trends in cloud computing and Andy Kyte will discuss application management and overhaul.

The special guest speaker is Dr Jasper Horrell, the manager of Science Computing and Innovation for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project.

"This year there are five tracks and over 50 presentations from 18 acknowledged global thought leaders," says Gartner Africa MD Rene Jacobs. "It's an opportunity to catch up with the latest thinking, network, share ideas and gain new insights."

For more, go to www.gartner.co.za.