Technology & Innovation Summit
APAC

Delivering business results through technology requires tech leaders to align, adapt, and develop a higher level of trust with business teams. How do leaders achieve and sustain this level of performance to unleash the promise of emerging technologies — while delivering on mission-critical projects? We will present a framework for turning today’s technology disruption into a high-performance strategy to enable success, cocreate value, amplify impact, and transform the business. In this session, you will learn:  

• How high-performing firms align and adapt technology to changing business dynamics through four investment styles.
• Why regularly calibrating your strategy can instill a higher level of trust with business partners.
• How to assess the potential for emerging technologies, like predictive and generative AI, on business growth, productivity, and execution.

Join us for an open and honest discussion focused on practical strategies for male allies to support and advocate for diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace. This session will emphasize the importance of understanding and addressing conscious, and unconscious biases, actively understanding your colleagues’ experiences, and using your position and influence to fix, and to make the tech industry and beyond an inviting environment for all people, voices and perspectives.​

In this session, you will learn from our male ally speakers that:​

• Inclusion requires intentional effort – learn how to speak up against exclusion, and how to become an active ally.​
• Exclusion can be accidental – learn how to avoid being an accidental jerk.​
• There are horror stories your colleagues may not have told you – learn how to pay attention to the experiences of women in the workplace.​
• Mentorship and sponsorship matter – learn how you can mentor and sponsor your colleagues to close gender pay gaps, advance their careers and visibility.​

All organizations have KPIs (or are gravitating toward OKRs), but these metrics are often misaligned, lack clarity and accountability, or worse, encourage competition instead of collaboration. Successful high-performance IT (HPIT) organizations value and prioritize alignment, trust, and adaptability, which cascades down to the metrics they track. Join this session to learn what your IT organization should measure for success and how to drive cross-functional alignment to power business results. In this session, you will learn:

• Why measurement misalignment jeopardizes success for HPIT organizations.
• What measurement alignment encompasses.
• How you can drive alignment cross-functionally.

Drive High Performance Across Alignment, Adaptivity And Trust. 

Alignment, Trust, and Adaptivity are the core guiding principles of Forrester’s high-performance IT model. They are not just theoretical constructs, but practical tools that have been proven to drive superior business results.

In this invitation-only discussion for Technology Executives, held over a private lunch, we’ll explore how organisations including the winner of Forrester’s Technology Strategy Impact Award have used these principles to shape the right IT strategy and achieve their business goals. To succeed in today’s environment, despite being in a state of ‘perma-crisis’, tech execs must develop an IT strategy and operating model that delivers business success – and this will only come from building better alignment, trust, and adaptivity. Join us for this insightful session as we dissect these principles and provide practical guidance on how to drive high performance across these three dimensions.

Achieving high-performance IT requires continuous improvement in business results through adaptive and responsive technology strategies. By adopting an adaptive investment thesis, technology leaders can navigate dynamic business environments to optimize performance. But how can an adaptive mindset align with a firm’s overarching business strategy, competitive edge, and evolving technology investment philosophy? How do these parameters shift as AI and automation integrate into the business model? Explore how an adaptive mindset can drive high-performance IT, ensuring technology investments remain responsive to business needs with technological advances and market shifts. In this session, you will learn:

• The key characteristics of an adaptive mindset.
• How to ensure your tech investments remain agile and responsive to business needs.
• Real-world examples of companies that have successfully adopted an adaptive mindset.

• AI Innovations in Mental Health: How AI is being used for personalized support and triaging.
• Balancing AI and Human Empathy: How Beyond Blue ensures technology enhances, not replaces, human care.
• Adaptive AI Strategies: Their cautious, community-focused approach to AI integration in mental health services.

These dynamic, interactive sessions provide attendees the opportunity to engage with Forrester experts, as well as with peers, to gain deep insights, ask questions, share their own experiences, and collaborate in a focused, small-group setting. The session is designed to foster meaningful dialogue, offer actionable takeaways, and help attendees stay ahead in their strategic planning and decision-making.

High-performance IT (HPIT) emphasizes trust as one of its three guiding principles, which means your CISO must be part of strategy planning to avoid misalignment and silos. Whether the CISO is a direct report or a peer, understand their background and hire in accordance to your HPIT strategy. If you position the strategy so it resonates with your CISO, they will structure investments to align to your HPIT capabilities. In this session, you will learn:

• The key characteristics of an Asia Pacific CISO — their career paths, education, and tenures.
• Understand how your CISO’s background can impact your strategy.
• Hire the right CISO, or decode your strategy, to allow for maximum support of your HPIT capabilities.

In this session, we will announce the winners of this year’s Technology Awards in two categories: Technology Strategy Impact and Enterprise Architecture.

Join us for this interactive Q&A with Forrester’s 2024 Technology Award Winners.

Join us for a reception full of networking, fun, food, and refreshments.