In two weeks time it’s again that time of the year when business- and IT decision-makers, experts and specialists, project managers and IT architects, consultants and users travel to Germany to visit Fujitsu’s largest IT-event in Europe: Fujitsu Forum 2013. And that’s also the destination where I’m going as I’m one of the bloggers invited by Fujitsu’s Lifebook4Life campaign to visit the forum. This year the event is held 6th and 7th November at the ICM in Munich and there will probably be over 12,000 attendees around the world getting insights and looking for strategic and operative options for modernizing and developing their IT.
The motto this year, “Reshaping ICT, Reshaping Business and Society”, highlights the key theme that is addressed by all aspects of the event: How to combine business processes and IT to form a stable basis that will ensure growth and success in the future. So what can you expect from Fujitsu Forum 2013? The event overview gives you some idea about the different topics covered but let’s look which events I’m looking forward to the most.
The presentations I picked from Keynotes and the list of 52 Breakout Sessions for my Fujitsu Forum 2013 agenda span all of the three conference tracks, “Create innovation through people”, “Power Business and Society with information” and “Optimize ICT systems from end to end”, and cover topics like cloud services, creating value from enabling innovative IT models with mobile technologies and information security and data protection. Overall I selected 10 sessions to my agenda but pruned it to one Keynote and four Breakouts as you don’t have time for every interesting topic.
Defining Your Workplace Strategy: Our Recommendation to IT by Meinolf Althaus (Fujitsu), 6 November, 10:00, Room 13b
Adopting new computing devices and delivering concepts to provide optimized workplaces for the different user roles within a company present a new challenge. An optimized end-to-end selection, from back-end to workplace devices and a suitable combination of desktop delivery methods is essential to guarantee high availability, flexibility and user satisfaction. This session looks at the various ways to identify the ideal workplace strategy.
Leveraging Advanced ICT to Support Fujitsu Technology and Service Vision by Tatsuo Tomita (Fujitsu), 6 November, 13:00, Room 4
Leveraging ICT to generate New Value for society is essential to enable sustainable growth and advancement of societies. This session highlights how Fujitsu’s R&D is being leveraged toward realizing a Human Centric Intelligent Society envisioned by Fujitsu, by supporting the Fujitsu Technology and Service Vision, to be achieved through Three Actions: Create Innovation through People’s Activities; Power Business and Society with Information; and Optimize ICT Systems from End to End. We introduce how it will contribute to societal growth and realization of a prosperous society in which people can thrive.
Intelligent Workplace. Greater Efficiency. Here is the answer! by Anand Srivatsa (Intel) and Dieter Heiss (Fujitsu), 6 November, 16:00, Room 13a
There are fundamental changes taking place in society, new technology and changing demands are redesigning the workplace. The enterprise workplace will dramatically improve interactions across applications and between workers, driving productivity and improvements in work quality. This session will show you how new technologies support you at your workplace and how to ensure efficiency in and outside the office.
Keynote: The CIO Session by Dr. Joseph Reger (Fujitsu) and Ed Goldman (Intel), 7th November, 10:00
“All things considered” – How the internet of things changes our world
Powering Healthcare Information – improve and secure the healthcare data value chain by Lester Russel (Fujitsu), 7 November, 12:00, Room 5
Healthcare costs are rising and the burden of managing long term conditions threatens to destabilize whole economies. Clinical information has to flow smoothly to ensure a seamless patient journey through the healthcare system and the safe practice of medicine has special requirements in terms of the data value chain. The right information, in the right place, at the right time. This session will give examples of how IT can power healthcare in new and exciting ways and underpin the radically different processes we need to adopt, if we are to avoid meltdown in our healthcare systems.
And of course you should not forget the Exhibition with 250 highlights from the portfolio offered by Fujitsu and its partners which has always been interesting. I’m looking forward to get hands-on with Fujitsu’s new LIFEBOOKs with IGZO display like the versatile T904 and the ultra-slim U904 and check out the semi-rugged STYLISTIC Q704 tablet.
And lest the whole two days be just about technical topics there’s the Oktoberfest themed Evening Event on Wednesday. Excellent entertainment and networking opportunity with drinks together with special Bavarian dishes, such as crispy roast chicken (Hendl), spiced strips of pork belly (Hüttenspeck), bread and dripping (Schmalzbrot), chive bread, savory cheese spread with pretzels (Obatzda und Brezn). Hmmm, and now I’m hungry :)
Until then, read about my insights from last year’s Fujitsu Forum 2012 where I was invited by Fujitsu’s Lifebook4Life campaign and follow me on Twitter (@walokra) for upcoming insights from Fujitsu Forum 2013. See you all on 6th and 7th November at the ICM in Munich.
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