With the recovery in place resulting from last year economic recession impact, IDC’s Asia/Pacific CIO Summit 2010 will focus on a pressing theme: Back to Winning ways, Strategies of Empowered CIOs in Asia/Pacific. What are the winning strategies that empower CIOs to go the extra mile during this recessive period with less? In challenging times, it take sharp minds, wits and creativity to rejuvenate organizations.

A slowed-down economy is the perfect period where enterprises big and small alike, take the opportunity to re-evaluate existing workforce productivity, effectiveness and align their business strategies. The most pressing issue at this juncture for CIOs is to educate their company’s board members and stakeholders alike on the benefits of aligning IT business objectives with all business units within the organization. They must effect change with transparency, efficiency and urgency.

How can CIOs manage their IT spend in this recession period? How can CIOs re-ignite the momentum and help rejuvenate businesses? What are the fundamentals and basic infrastructure needed at this juncture? What winning strategies can they adopt in their organizations to maintain their market share while growing their business?

IDC's Asia/Pacific CIO Summit 2010 will bring together the best minds from resilient enterprises, fresh perspectives from IDC analysts and collective intelligence from the top business leaders in the Asia Pacific region to:

• Learn what it takes to be the top 10% of enterprises in Asia Pacific,
• Gain insights into new technology trends from IDC’s Emerging Technology Advisory Services (ETAS) team,
• Benchmark your organization against IDC’s Dynamic IT Benchmarking Survey

Based on the exclusive inputs from CIOs who attended the last CIO Summit in 2009, IDC has developed the following cutting-edge topics and sessions in Asia Pacific:

• Winning Strategies in the new marketplace - Making your business resilient!
• Rejuvenate and advance the core of IT business
• Innovating collaboration mechanisms and collaborative enterprise applications
• Crowdsourcing and Cloud Computing: Where social computing meets the cloud
• Advancing Virtualization and the Nirvana of IT management: Summary and Insights
• Inventing new business services, how to bear fruits with emerging technologies
• Embarking on Large scale computing and stretching business services in new ways
• Extending Service Oriented Architecture. Agile, Governed and Sustainable.

In this event, IDC will host and feature at least one winning CIO IT refresh strategy and implementation in each host country with four special mention of IT innovation award projects, detailing refreshing winning IT strategies leveraged by leaders in the field.

This is a by-invitation event. Only selected CIOs can participate in this year event. However if you are a C-level executive who would like to attend this event, kindly submit an inquiry to us via customer service and we will get back to you!