The ICT sector is called to respond to two challenges: the economic recession and the ongoing struggle to balance the ICT and business units of an organization towards the efficient and cost effective business operation. The aim of the Digital Trends conference is to help the ICT sector to form a comprehensive strategy, incorporating best practices in Green ICT and Cloud Computing, in order to maximize business profits.
The Forum will focus on the business dimension of Cloud Computing and Green ICT, through offering ICT and business professionals a useful guide to the introduction of an organization to the new business environment. The Forum will combine international speakers, national and international case studies and Greek best practices, through interactive presentations of key cloud computing providers .
The forum will focus on the following:
1st section
"Green" practices, business benefits and migration plans
- Moving to Green ICT: Methodologies that guarantee success according to the specific needs of an organization
- Today’s challenges and how to overcome them
- A guide to cost reduction and innovation maximization
- Green ICT adoption levels
- What are the implementation challenges? Are there any restriction policies within companies?
- What are the specifications that data centers need to have to be Green?
2nd Section
The 'business case' of cloud computing and its corporate value
- "The third ICT wave". What does it mean, what is the infrastructure and the main characteristics of Cloud Computing
- Where are we today and are the future trends for corporations
- Business factors that lead to the decision to adopt Cloud Computing
- Why the turn towards Cloud is inevitable and necessary
- The business impact of Virtualization
- Business advantages of Cloud Computing that guarantee support by all those involved in the decision-making process
- Security and privacy in Cloud. A business perspective to avoid any risk.
- Risk Management policies & compliance within on-demand environments
- The need for Cloud training of simple users that may lead to competitive decisions on e-skills
- The need to train CIOs on Risk Management and Cloud e-skills certification
3rd Section
How do Cloud Computing and Green ICT change the way ICT departments operate?
- New ways to measure the business value propositions of Cloud Computing and Green ICT
- The human factor in the business and how an organization can transform
- The new role of ICT and CIO within the business, as defined by Cloud and Green ICT
- Is Cloud part of Green ICT? How Green is Cloud?
- Ways to create innovation with proven business value
- Endless forms of Collaboration and Web 2.0 applications that change the way we work
- Which Green ICT and Cloud applications are used by companies and why?
- The Cloud Computing and Green ICT industry in our country
- Case Studies Presentation