Welcome to Summit 2006

The Cutter Summit has never been a place to meet with vendors, to attend one of hundreds of "nuts and bolts sessions" from a myriad of concurrent tracks, or to hear speakers talk about mainstream trends.

Instead, the Cutter Summit has always been a place to meet great thinkers from around the world, to collaborate and share emerging ideas and to debate them as a group, to leap beyond the mainstream.

The 10th Annual Cutter Summit pushes the boundaries once more, with a focus on the future. As always, Cutter Fellow Tom DeMarco will lead participants through a unique format of keynotes and interactive debate.

"Access the experts" and join them in examining the changes afoot that will forever transform IT.

• XP and WikiWikiWeb creator Ward Cunningham will show you how the organizational paradigm that people think of as business is changing. You'll learn why firms that can create an environment that's safe for emerging ideas will increase their chances of success in the new order.
• Harvard Business School Prof. Siobhán O'Mahony will share her research which shows how the social, technical, and legal aspects of the open source development model have been adapted, and recombined with more traditional approaches of collaboration, to form new hybrids. Learn how innovative organizations that can utilize these models in building or managing their own communities will have a strong advantage over those that ignore them.
• Cutter Fellow Tim Lister will explore the legal impediments to creative, business-enabling IT. Find out how to master and circumvent these barriers and be unencumbered to succeed.
• Harvard Business School Prof. Stephen Bradley will take you down the path of the broadband revolution and explore its consequences for business and IT. IT departments that are ready for this coming change will put their organizations ahead of the competitive curve, just as early Web adopters shot ahead.
• Cutter Fellow Lou Mazzucchelli will identify the must-have technologies for tomorrow's successful enterprises. Don't miss out -- the enterprises whose IT teams put these into action first will gain a clear competitive edge.
• Cambridge University Prof. Rob Phaal will demonstrate an approach to roadmapping that can be applied in any company to link its technological capability to product and business plans. Learn how IT organizations that use roadmapping to ensure their company strategy and technology development go hand-in-hand are positioned to make IT a differentiator.

Join roundtables on innovation, risk management, creative sourcing, and business process redesign. Attend workshops on agile enablement, agile EA, leadership redefined and the new CIO dashboard. Participate in hands-on, minds-on lunch sessions addressing the IT spend and the next steps for IT in the age of governance.

Summit 2006 will remind you why IT is indispensable to today's leading enterprises and reveal the crucial role it will play in the future fate of organizations worldwide.

Don't be left behind!

Registration now closed for Summit 2006