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IMPACT 2024: AI & The Future of Business
Join us for IMPACT 2024, a groundbreaking event designed specifically for executives and leaders across industries to explore best practices to assess and demonstrate value from AI to the business. This is not just a technology event; AI permeates the entire leadership of an organization, empowering the entire C-suite to drive innovation, efficiency, and competitive advantage.
Led by our analyst partner, IDC, and top AI solution providers, IMPACT 2024 offers a unique opportunity to engage in meaningful conversations and gain insights from the industry's brightest minds. Immerse yourself in thought-provoking discussions led by IDC analysts, who will guide the conversation on the latest AI advancements and strategic implications for your organization. Learn from leading AI solution providers across vertical markets, each sharing their expertise and innovative solutions to help you navigate the AI landscape and unlock new possibilities.
Register now to secure your spot at AI Impact and embark on a transformative journey that will redefine your organization's future.
AI’s Transformation of the Relationship between Technology and Business
The PC, the internet, outsourcing, and the cloud have all progressively contributed to how the business uses technology and how it works with the business. But nothing can prepare technology users for the transformation that is starting to build around the business’s accelerating use of AI. A combination of open-source tools, access to data, and changing skill sets amongst business executives provide an environment for business leaders and their staff to bypass tech for technology-driven business solutions. CXOs and their organizations must rapidly develop a transformation plan to support the business, or else technology will be left behind in the “AI everywhere” world.
Speaker: Robert Ryan, Director of Product Marketing
Workgrid: Revolutionizing your Workplace With Conversational AI Assistants
The conversation around the potential of AI is everywhere, but the question is – where to begin. In this session, we’ll showcase practical use cases and real-world case studies of how organizations have adopted AI Work Assistants. Learn how personalized and contextual actions, tasks, and information can be orchestrated across disparate systems; by providing employees with an intelligent conversational assistant. This innovative mix of strategy and technology empowers employees to ask questions, automate tasks, and find information more efficiently, enabling them to accomplish more work faster.
Workgrid is a conversational AI platform that guides employees' attention to the moments that matter. Our AI Work Assistant consolidates information from various systems, documents, and knowledge bases. This enables employees to complete tasks and access information seamlessly through a user-friendly, conversational interface. The Assistant provides a personalized and engaging experience by simplifying work processes and delivering information to employees in the channels they work in most, reducing digital friction and enhancing the employee experience.
Insider Insights: Proven Strategies to Maximize Your Data Tech and AI Investments
This session delivers essential insights to unleash the full potential of your data, tech, and AI investments. Backed by proven strategies and real-world experiences, this isn't just a guide; it's a candid conversation on building resilient and successful solutions. Join us to revitalize your decision-making and traverse the digital landscape with newfound clarity, embracing the confidence that stems from strategies proven to drive real, transformative impact.
1:1s – 10:20 – 10:40 and 10:45 – 11:05
AI Transformation: The Promises and Limitations
The hype surrounding AI -- especially generative AI -- has made it easy to assume that if we make AI good enough, there is virtually no challenge it can't solve. The reality, though, is that while AI offers great opportunities for moving the needle, the extent to which it can transform the enterprise is ultimately limited. To illustrate this point, this presentation examines the impact of AI on the cybersecurity market to offer examples of what AI can do that is radically new, as well as which tasks AI is unlikely ever to conquer.
AI-Ready Infrastructure: Partnering for Success
In today's dynamic market, technology sits at the forefront as customers digitally transform their businesses through optimized data models and workloads. This session explores the pivotal role played by technology in unlocking value for organizations as they securely optimize workloads across edge, core, and hybrid cloud environments. From tailoring infrastructure strategies to seamless deployment, and from managing services for peak performance to addressing security, compliance, and up-skilling needs, technology is more critical than ever to customer success. Join Matt as he explores transformational opportunities and gain insights on navigating the ever-evolving infrastructure optimization landscape being enabled by new data models and new generative AI based applications."
1:1s – 12:20 – 12:40 and 12:45 – 1:05
Proggio is more than a PM tool. It’s a Project Portfolio Management platform that adapts to changes faster to keep projects and revenue running smoothly. It does what Gantt can’t, not just for one project, but for hundreds of projects across entire organizations. Our years of experience, backed by enterprise-grade, certified and audited data protection, make Proggio the choice PPM for pros. Whether it’s a 30,000-ft view of a project or a snapshot of multiple portfolios, Proggio delivers complete clarity and real-time visibility. All while mitigating risk and surprises at every point in a project’s lifecycle. Proggio simplifies complexities for the whole company - with its dynamic views, risk matrices and customizable workflows that help ensure priorities are in place, goals are met and strategies always align with operations. Proggio’s patented ProjectMapTM provides a seamless view of everything on one collaborative timeline. So, the entire company can be prepared for what’s now and poised to deliver what’s next. That’s why pros use Proggio.
Proggio is more than a PM tool. It’s a Project Portfolio Management platform that adapts to changes faster to keep projects and revenue running smoothly. It does what Gantt can’t, not just for one project, but for hundreds of projects across entire organizations. Our years of experience, backed by enterprise-grade, certified and audited data protection, make Proggio the choice PPM for pros. Whether it’s a 30,000-ft view of a project or a snapshot of multiple portfolios, Proggio delivers complete clarity and real-time visibility. All while mitigating risk and surprises at every point in a project’s lifecycle. Proggio simplifies complexities for the whole company - with its dynamic views, risk matrices and customizable workflows that help ensure priorities are in place, goals are met and strategies always align with operations. Proggio’s patented ProjectMapTM provides a seamless view of everything on one collaborative timeline. So, the entire company can be prepared for what’s now and poised to deliver what’s next. That’s why pros use Proggio.
Models and Platforms: GenAI for Competitive Advantage
This topic explores the strategic decision-making process regarding the use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) to gain a competitive advantage. It delves into the considerations of whether to build capabilities in-house or to acquire them externally. Analyzing the advantages and challenges associated with both options, the discussion revolves around optimizing the balance between developing proprietary AI solutions and leveraging existing ones to enhance competitiveness in the evolving business landscape.
Applications and Use Cases: Charting your GenAI Use Case Journey
Generative AI is exploding, but without business use cases to learn and understand its application and value it, organizations don’t understand why it is critical to incorporate GenAI into their business processes. This session will showcase GenAI use cases in some of the key functional/application areas such as customer service and support, finance, and human resources. The GenAI use cases will also bring forward the value of speed, scale, agility, and results achieved from the incorporation of GenAI into the business.
Panel - AI-Powered Business Transformation: Navigating Opportunities and Challenges
Security, Trust & Data Governance: Generative AI, Predictive AI & the CISO
Combinations of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have influenced the cybersecurity landscape for the better of 15 years. What computers have always been able to do is make correlations to the bytes, files, hashes, and code that comprise a network. However, for all of the improvements in computing and years of refining algorithms, so much of operating the network and the cybersecurity software that protects the network are still manually intensive processes.
After all of this time, recent developments in generative AI are seemingly addressing the cybersecurity manpower gap. IDC calls it "autonomizing the SOC." The process of realizing a fully autonomous SOC involves several intermediary steps, but the new efficiencies in evidence are:
• The availability of enriched data at the time of the incident investigation
• The ability to generate an instantaneous response based on the type of attack is increasingly automated
• The implementation of analytics to discover unmanaged devices in the network
• The development of natural language processing (NLP) that enables threat hunting and security querying at the speed of speech
AI is improving SOC processes and empowering security analysts; the power comes at a critical time as organizations struggle with hybrid, multi-cloud complexity and a chronic workforce shortage. However, the hard work is not about the AI at all, but about creating and enabling the security data foundations that will allow AI to create outcomes. Regardless, the cause for overall optimism is real. This session will provide an overview of AI in security and discuss the reasons for the real optimism.
NetSPI is the global leader in proactive security, delivering the most comprehensive suite of penetration testing, attack surface management, and breach and attack simulation solutions. Through a combination of technology innovation and human ingenuity, NetSPI helps the world’s most prominent organizations discover, prioritize, and remediate security vulnerabilities.
NetSPI is the global leader in proactive security, delivering the most comprehensive suite of penetration testing, attack surface management, and breach and attack simulation solutions. Through a combination of technology innovation and human ingenuity, NetSPI helps the world’s most prominent organizations discover, prioritize, and remediate security vulnerabilities.
AI and Gen AI Use Cases – A Case Study from an Innovative High-Tech Manufacturer
In this session, we will discuss both horizontal and vertical-specific use cases that we have developed for both AI and Gen AI both for Lexmark’s internal use and in collaboration with strategic customers, and the impact that these are having along with lessons learned.
AI Everywhere - The C-Suite Perspective
Part of the seminal shift of the technology industry towards AI Everywhere is driven by the ‘business-first’ adoption of Generative AI technologies. Given the accessible nature of the technology, C-Suite leaders can quickly understand the potential to drive concrete business outcomes for their respective functions. This session will draw on IDC’s latest C-Suite Tech Agenda survey of close to 1000 business and technology leaders across the world to understand the impact of Generative AI on their businesses. It will provide an overview of priority investment areas for the C-Suite, how GenAI will affect the role of technology leaders, emerging best practices on AI governance, as well as feedback on what the C-Suite is expecting from prospective technology partners with recommendations in terms of how to drive the vendor engagement model for customers.
Generative AI – Preparing for the Long-Term Impact
Generative AI is not a fleeting trend but a powerful force that will reshape industries for years to come. This session will review practical applications and guidance for CIOs and CTOs as they take on an overarching leadership role in reshaping their organizations at this pivotal time. It will review business, organization, and technology architecture transformation to help organizations tap into emerging business models and achieve sustainable competitive advantage.
AI Transformation - AI-Driven Decisioning: How AI can improve your Decision Velocity?
AI-driven Decision Intelligence has the potential to become the next killer app. AI can assist, augment, and automate decisioning allowing enterprises to significantly improve their decision velocity, which in turn generates significant improvements in business outcomes. This session will describe where Decision Intelligence Platforms belong in your enterprise intelligence architecture stack, and how you can improve business performance by leveraging AI in decision-making.
1:1s – 10:20 – 10:40
AI-Ready Infrastructure - Performance Intensive Computing: Your AI-ready Infrastructure
IDC research shows that many HPC and AI projects fail due to a lack of attention or proper investments in infrastructure. The industry has conditioned IT organizations to think that general purpose infrastructure is good enough for most use cases. IT organizations often make the mistake of assuming that it is good enough for AI use cases as well. The reality is that fit-for-purpose infrastructure is gaining traction specifically for high performance use cases and workloads like AI and HPC. IDC calls this infrastructure as “performance intensive computing infrastructure (PICI)”. It can be deployed on-premises, in the hosted facility, or consumed in the public cloud.
This session will go deep into what a typical performance intensive computing infrastructure looks like and how organizations can go about building it or procuring it as a service. Join Ashish as he discusses the various elements of the PICI and PICIaaS stack. He will discuss what organizations must look for when evaluating key compute, storage, and data management elements of this stack with AI use cases and business outcomes in mind. Finally, Ashish will discuss how organizations can deal with trends such as HPC-AI convergence, cloud bursting, hybrid/multicloud, and heterogeneous/accelerated computing.
Models and Platforms - The Architecture Enablers of AI Platforms
This session explores the elements of strategic architecture and their condition to enable the use of AI platforms and models. To support AI data, infrastructure, and application architectures must be based on modern principles and must be prepared to evolve and adapt quickly as technologies and business rules change. This session views architecture from the perspective of its alignment with AI and provides frameworks to prepare current architectures to align with AI.
Applications and Use Cases - Differentiating Your Value with GenAI Industry Use Cases
GenAI is changing the way our businesses perform, providing an opportunity for businesses to reset their differentiating value and create a large market share. When organizations focus on the issues, decision velocity can be enhanced with the right industry use case. This session will focus on some of the GenAI solutions, solving business issues across a variety of industries including finance, field services, and manufacturing.
1:1s - 12:20 – 12:40
Security, Trust & Governance - Securing the Future of Financial Services with Generative AI
The Future of AI and Strategy: Scenario Planning for the Future of Work 2035
Speaker: Eric Helmer, CTO at Rimini Street, Inc.
The role of ERP in AI
The ERP is the backbone of most organizations. Software packages from large vendors such as Oracle and SAP are essential for back-end business operations. But how do they fit into emerging technology strategies such as AI/ML and other competitive growth initiatives? Come to this session to learn about the evolving landscape of IT departments, the current state of the ERP world, and how to transform traditional back-office IT departments into AI innovation engines.
Rimini Street, Inc. (Nasdaq: RMNI), a Russell 2000® Company, is a global provider of end-to-end enterprise software support, products and services, the leading third-party support provider for Oracle and SAP software and a Salesforce and AWS partner. The Company has operations globally and offers a comprehensive family of unified solutions to run, manage, support, customize, configure, connect, protect, monitor, and optimize enterprise application, database, and technology software, and enables clients to achieve better business outcomes, significantly reduce costs and reallocate resources for innovation. To date, over 5,300 Fortune 500, Fortune Global 100, midmarket, public sector, and other organizations from a broad range of industries have relied on Rimini Street as their trusted enterprise software solutions provider. To learn more, please visit riministreet.com, and connect with Rimini Street on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn. (IR-RMNI)
NetSPI is the global leader in proactive security, delivering the most comprehensive suite of penetration testing, attack surface management, and breach and attack simulation solutions. Through a combination of technology innovation and human ingenuity, NetSPI helps the world’s most prominent organizations discover, prioritize, and remediate security vulnerabilities.
Streamlining business operations by leveraging Low code No Code Platforms and AI -- Aditya Jhawar
Trends in AI and their Impact on Business – Dr. Sumit Maheshwari
As a Microsoft Partner, The Digital Loom specializes in end-to-end digital transformation. Our expertise covers Consulting & Strategy, Business Process Optimization, CX, Analytics, Data & AI, Cloud Solutions, Digital Engineering, and Workforce Solutions. With a people-first mindset, we are shaping ideas into reality—driving efficiency, growth, and lasting impact.
AI & The 2024 Election
Engage in meaningful discussions with renowned experts and thought leaders in the AI space. Exchange ideas, challenge conventional thinking, and explore novel approaches to harness the power of AI in your business.
Benefit from IDC analyst presentations that translate complex AI concepts into actionable insights for business leaders. Understand the key considerations, risks, and practices that effectively implement AI strategies in your organization.
TechTalk Summits Board
In 2024, TechTalk is thrilled to unveil our inaugural Advisory Board. Our Advisory Board is a carefully selected sounding board comprised of thought leaders from diverse experiences who have a proven track record of helping organizations innovate, exceed their goals, and remain secure in an ever-changing landscape. This powerful network will aid TechTalk in crafting agendas and content that is forward-thinking and mission-critical to our attendees. Through peer-sharing and networking, members of the Advisory Board are committed to offering TechTalk sponsors and attendees regular access to their invaluable knowledge and expertise.
LinkedinLinkedinLinkedinLinkedinLinkedinLinkedinLinkedinLinkedinLinkedinLinkedinLinkedinLinkedinLinkedinLinkedinLinkedinLinkedinLinkedinLinkedinLinkedinLed by our analyst partner, IDC and top AI solution providers, IMPACT 2024 offers a unique opportunity to engage in meaningful conversations and gain insights from the industry's brightest minds. Immerse yourself in thought-provoking discussions led by IDC analysts, who will guide the conversation on the latest AI advancements and strategic implications for your organization. Learn from leading AI solution providers across vertical markets, each sharing their expertise and innovative solutions to help you navigate the AI landscape and unlock new possibilities.
Event TagIDC’s research shows that most organizations are still at the early stages of their AI journey. However, GenAI has been the catalyst to accelerate AI transformation initiative as the C-Suite looks to establish first-mover advantage. Organizations are still asking questions around which use case to prioritize, whether to ‘build or buy’ AI capabilities, and how to govern their AI environments to mitigate risk. This track will cover the strategy and roadmaps, the intelligence architecture and the re-skilling and enablement initiatives that need to be put in place to drive a future proof AI transformation at scale.
Event TagInfrastructure is the most underestimated nonetheless critical component of any AI initiative. IDC finds that most AI projects fail or deliver subpar outcomes because of lack of planning or inadequate investments in optimized and fit-for-purpose infrastructure stacks for AI and Generative AI. This track will focus on how tech organizations can plan to succeed with their AI initiatives with their infrastructure investments.
Event TagSince the first foundation models were released in 2018, a common belief was that more extensive training data and models with more parameters would be more performant and move the AI market toward "artificial general intelligence." Resource-rich tech companies developed the first foundation models for use in their own proprietary offerings. In late 2022, the open-source community began releasing a myriad of foundation models, which have been proliferating into 2023. The current foundation model market is a mix of proprietary and open-source models covering a range of model types, including language, image, audio, music, code, video, 3D, bio-molecular structures, and industry-specific models. This track will cover these models in more detail – as well as the highlighting the architecture for the platforms that need to be put in place to train, tune and deploy them.
Event TagUltimately, the value to organizations will be delivered through use cases. IDC defines a use case as a business-funded initiative enabled by technology that delivers a measurable outcome. There are three broad types of GenAI use cases that need to be assessed:
This track will explore all the of these use cases, as well as the various applications underpinning them.
Event TagThere are numerous well-founded concerns around transparency, biases, regulatory compliance, security threats, and ethics associated with AI. The growing scale of models (especially GenAI models) means that are often viewed as black boxes with limited transparency – this limitation is especially important when the outcomes of the model have major human consequences, whether being turned down for a loan or given an assessment of the likelihood of cancer. The outcry for better trust and governance has led to a push for explainable solutions and an emphasis on human-in-the-loop augmentation, rather than pure unsupervised automation for high risk use cases. This track will cover the technologies and strategies required to mitigate the range of risks associated with AI.
For more than 90 years, The Vinoy has been an icon in the Saint Petersburg community. Since Aymer Vinoy Laughner opened The Vinoy Park Hotel in 1925, The Vinoy has seen many transformations. Now, The Vinoy is taking luxury to an entirely new level. Combining timeless elegance and superior quality, you can enjoy the style, tastes, and relaxed yet sophisticated atmosphere of The Vinoy.
Pink. Proud. Perfectly preserved. Celebrating almost 100 years of sun-drenched hospitality, the resort looks back, reminisces, and forges forward in its never-ending quest to deliver thoughtfully curated and inspiring experiences. In 1978, The Vinoy was named to the National Register of Historic Places, despite being closed and stripped bare of its furnishings and other architectural details.
The Vinoy reflects the architectural influences of the Mediterranean coast, capturing its essence down to every detail. Over the years, The Vinoy’s incomparable facilities have stood the test of time. The original 1925 color named “Vinoy” was created by the Gutta Percha Paint Company exclusively for the hotel. Learn more about The Vinoy Resort & Golf Club.
Your stay includes an afternoon on the green enjoying 18 holes of golf at the exclusive Vinoy Golf Club. On day 3 of the event, groups of 4 are invited to
play and compete for awards in the following:
World-class museums, performing arts, shopping, restaurants, boating, fishing, and waterfront outdoor activities are all just steps away from The Vinoy’s front door. The Vinoy is located at the crossroads of Downtown St. Petersburg, Vinoy Park, the Waterfront, and the Arts Districts, making it the ideal destination for experiencing the city.
Our location and offerings provide you with an unbeatable breadth of experiences, from land to sea. A stay at The Vinoy grants you access to our private marina, 18-hole championship golf course, tennis complex, and world-class spa. Key attractions at St. Petersburg are within easy reach, including world class museums, music venues, major league sports, and sea-faring diversion.
The Vinoy Resort & Golf Club is the perfect environment to exchange ideas, network and create new relationships. IMPACT 2024 follows TechTalk Summits' mission to create events that allow technology professionals to advance their professional knowledge while meeting thought leaders in environments that foster meaningful dialogue and encourage long-term networking.
The three-day event includes coffee and cocktail networking opportunities, as well as a final day of golfing at the pristine Vinoy Golf Club.
Register today to save your space at the Vinoy Golf Club.
Topics At a Glance
The 2024 agenda will deliver the latest technology, strategy and leadership insights across 5 key topic areas, covering the challenges most critical to technology leaders and their teams.
Event TagIDC’s research shows that most organizations are still at the early stages of their AI journey.
Event TagThis track will focus on how tech organizations can plan to succeed with their AI initiatives with their infrastructure investments.
Event TagThe current foundation model market is a mix of proprietary and open-source models covering a range of model types, including language, image, audio, music, code, video, 3D, bio-molecular structures, and industry-specific models.
Event TagUltimately, the value to organizations will be delivered through use cases. IDC defines a use case as a business-funded initiative enabled by technology that delivers a measurable outcome.
Event TagThere are numerous well-founded concerns around transparency, biases, regulatory compliance, security threats, and ethics associated with AI.
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