Opening Session

Paul Brandling

Paul Brandling, Vice President and Managing Director for HP South Pacific, welcomes delegates and introduces the event theme ‘alternative thinking about business, technology and sustainability’, sharing some highlights on how HP can help you manage and transform your IT environment.

CIO Panel Melbourne

John Wadeson (Centrelink), Denildo Albuquerque (Fairfax Media) & Peter Dean (Zinifex)

The session is a facilitated, interactive CIO panel discussing “real life” experiences on how alternative thinking about technology led to better business outcomes. Speakers provide insight into their IT challenges, and the IT solutions they have in place to deliver better business outcomes.

CIO Panel Sydney

Tony Forward (BT Financial), Tim Anderson (NSW Department of Education and Training) & Denildo Albuquerque (Fairfax Media)

The session is a facilitated, interactive CIO panel discussing “real life” experiences on how alternative thinking about technology led to better business outcomes. Speakers provide insight into their IT challenges, and the IT solutions they have in place to deliver better business outcomes.

Project and Portfolio Management for business & IT alignment

Richard Outten

In the search for better business alignment, many IT executives are turning to Project & Portfolio Management (PPM) practices to ensure they are delivering the right mix of IT projects that will deliver better business outcomes. Richard Outten explores four practical "starting points" for the PPM journey, and describes the HP approach to PPM that provides better visibility and control over everything IT is working on.

Simplification and business transformation via virtualisation

Craig Dobson

Virtualisation is the starting point for transforming Information Technology into Business Technology, and shifting IT budget from operations to innovation. With a new-found optimised business infrastructure, IT can drive business services, respond faster to business dynamics and evolve technology to support business growth.

Flexibility fuelled growth via Service Orientated Architecture

Raymond Lambie

SOA has the potential to dramatically improve the agility of your IT organisation by accelerating time-to-market for new applications and drive down IT costs by enabling business processes that are built for change. However, SOA is complex and needs to be properly implemented so as not to disrupt operations and subsequently make the business more fragile.

Alternative thinking is acting: ITSM in action

Joshua Brusse

Many management theorists have suggested that the difference between success and failure in achieving efficiency is acting. Efficiency is achieved and value added when blue prints, ideas and theoretical best practice are made real. This session is about "acting"; it's about leadership and mobilisation; and it's about driving efficiency with a "let's do it" attitude.

Application Modernisation Services – creating new value without risk

John Lonergan

Today many organisations can trace constraints on business performance and general inefficiency back to the limitations of their older application and system architecture. While the need to update them is understood, modernising also presents risks. HP Application Modernisation is a disciplined approach to determine the best modernisation strategy for unlocking the most business value, without the associated risks.

Innovative strategies for Information Lifecycle Management

Paul Shaw

Today’s exponential growth in data and supporting infrastructure is not sustainable without changing our thinking towards information. This session demonstrates that in utilising industry standards from both SNIA and ITIL, HP Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) solutions enable you to go beyond simply reducing the cost of storing increasing amounts of data, by turning your information into a business asset.

Sustainability: the HP story

Pierre Delforge

As far back at 1950, HP embraced responsibility for our role in caring for the environment. The cumulative result is that technology design and operational experiences have increasingly come together to create a portfolio of sustainable solutions our customers can benefit from. This presentation will take you through HP's journey, sharing with you the best practices we’ve developed to meet your green needs today, and in the future.