8:45 am – 9:30 am
Breakfast, Registration, & Networking

9:30 am – 9:45 am
Welcome Remarks
Making the Right Communications Investments In a Challenging Economy– by Siemens Enterprise Communications

9:45 am – 10:15 am
Industry Perspective
- by InformationWeek

10:15 am – 11:00 am
Keynote: Strategies to Improve Communications and Your Bottom Line– by Siemens Enterprise Communications

11:00 am – 11:15 am
Networking Break & Solutions Showcase

11:15 am – 11:45 pm
Analyst Perspective
Frost & Sullivan

11:45 pm – 12:15pm
Panel Discussion

12:15pm
Closing Remarks & Lunch

* Agenda subject to change

 




Open Minds Seminar

Effective strategies for maximizing your existing network infrastructure investments and improving your business processes are critical to your bottom line during economic uncertainty.  Simply cutting costs and resources will not position your enterprise for growth, nor enhance productivity or increase customer satisfaction.  The move towards open, software-based, unified communications will be the difference between surviving the economic downturn and competitively positioning your company to seize new business opportunities that less nimble companies won’t be able to target.  Such an open approach leads to improvements in business processes, streamlines external communications and improves the customer experience; and reduces latency and cycle times. It also consolidates complex and disparate environments, eliminating disjointed communications processes.

But how do you get there given your current constraints?  Where do you start when you have a reduced budget and a mandate to cut costs immediately?  Your needs to lower costs and grow your business do not have to be in conflict.  Nor does such a strategy require a massive capital investment or forklift of your existing investments.   An open, unified communications platform can help you decrease communications costs while improve the quality of communications with customers, suppliers, and employees. 

In this seminar, we bring together industry experts and executive peers to exchange concrete strategies and ideas for:

  • Reducing the high cost of voice and networking TCO
  • Lowering conferencing expenses while increasing productivity
  • Eliminating inefficient business processes
  • Improving security and business continuity
  • Decreasing operating costs through consolidation
  • Moving towards a greener IT environment

You don’t want to miss this informative session where you’ll hear industry perspectives from Brian Gillooly, Editor-in-Chief of InformationWeek Events, Melanie Turek, Principal Analyst with the Frost & Sullivan North American Information & Communication Technologies and executives from Siemens Enterprise Communications. All will share their insights on how a unified communication strategy can produce immediate business efficiencies.



Brian Gillooly
Editor-In-Chief
InformationWeek Events
Kirk Laughlin
Contributing Editor
InformationWeek
Melanie Turek
Principal Analyst
Conferencing & Collaboration
ICT Practice, North America
Frost & Sullivan
Peter Greco
Director: Strategic Solutions – Siemens Enterprise Communications



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