The ICT 2012 Malta conference at Smart City Malta on December 7 will ask an important question: ‘Are businesses ready for a new ICT approach?’
Great uncertainty and turbulence are a consistent characteristic of business worldwide, providing a challenge for chief information officers and ICT professionals.
The annual conference for ICT professionals will find and share answers to these challenges, posing fresh questions about efficiency, growth, global support, innovation, new products and emerging technologies, delivering the insight they need to be able to obtain ideas about the future that they can implement today.
The highlights of the full-day conference are four presentations and two panel discussions. CIO Magazine and cio.co.uk editor-in-chief Mark Chillingworth will speak about the CIO’s evolving roles in leading business transformation.
Malta Science and Technology Institute chief executive Nicholas Sammut will discuss research and innovation governance in ICT. Keith Fearne, chairman of the IT Business Section of the Malta Chamber of Commerce, Enterprise and Industry, will ask whether cloud changes the role of the IT department?
After lunch, ICT Networks (Malta) consultant Joseph Woods will give a presentation on ‘Malta 2020 – a global test-bed for fibre-to-the-home technologies and applications’.
The first panel discussion tackles cloud computing while the second will attempt to predict what the CIO role will look like in 2020.
“The dynamic world of ICT poses both threats and opportunities to businesses in Malta that are operating in a global environment,” organiser Lead Events’ managing director James Grech said. “This conference is posing some tough questions and I am confident that participants will find many answers that will give them a competitive edge, no matter what business they are in.”
Registration for the event is possible at www.leadevents.com.mt/events/.