Agenda
FutureTech Summit
One Day Event
Registrazione e Welcome coffee
IDC Opening
Roberta Bigliani
Group Vice President, Global Lead for Energy & Retail Insights and Industry Hub, IDC
IDC Keynote
The AI Platform Imperative: Architecting for Scale, Speed, and Autonomy
In the fast-evolving AI economy, mastering platform innovation is key to unlocking transformative business value. This presentation offers a strategic roadmap for building AI-ready technology foundations and leadership capabilities. We’ll explore critical building blocks for scalable, secure AI workloads, followed by designing resilient cloud-native and hybrid infrastructures for sustainable AI innovation. Finally, we’ll examine the rise of agentic AI systems enabling autonomous decision-making across IT operations, governance, development, and observability. This presentation equips the C-suite and technology leaders to recalibrate their platform strategy and confidently lead their organizations into the AI economy.
Jennifer Thomson | IDC
Associate Vice President Global Services Insights
Jennifer Thomson
Jen Thomson has more than 20 years’ experience advising IT Vendors, senior IT, and business execs on their digital business optimization and transformation strategies. She leads European Research for Accelerated App Delivery, Cloud, and Services. Her core goal is to drive synergies and growth across these research areas, with a central focus on thought leadership.
She specializes in providing insights on the investment strategies and decisions of European enterprises as they transition to modern application architectures. Her research explores app dev and delivery capabilities required to operate in a digital economy, and how this impacts enterprise organizational structures, culture, processes, tools, and skill sets. She leads the Future of Digital Innovation research for IDC Europe, exploring software innovation strategies and what this means in terms of end-user strategies, investment priorities, software sourcing, and KPIs. Thomson’s core research also explores enterprise maturity and strategies towards enterprise scale and empowered DevOps.
She is responsible for the execution of a broad range of consulting and advisory projects. As IDC’s European expert on application development and delivery strategies, Thomson is an experienced public speaker and regularly presents at conferences and IDC partner and end-user events.
She started her career at Compaq Computer EMEA as a senior research analyst. She has a bachelor’s degree in international business with German from Sheffield Hallam University (United Kingdom) and Pforzheim Fachhochschule (Germany).
Sessioni dell'evento
Thursday, April 16 2026 9:35 am | Luogo:
IDC Keynote
The AI Platform Imperative: Architecting for Scale, Speed, and Autonomy
In the fast-evolving AI economy, mastering platform innovation is key to unlocking transformative business value. This presentation offers a strategic roadmap for building AI-ready technology foundations and leadership capabilities. We’ll explore critical building blocks for scalable, secure AI workloads, followed by designing resilient cloud-native and hybrid infrastructures for sustainable AI innovation. Finally, we’ll examine the rise of agentic AI systems enabling autonomous decision-making across IT operations, governance, development, and observability. This presentation equips the C-suite and technology leaders to recalibrate their platform strategy and confidently lead their organizations into the AI economy.
Opening End User Keynote Speaker
Claudio Balbo
Senior Director – Head of IT Architecture, Intesa Sanpaolo
Host Sponsor speech
Strategic Sponsor Speech
a cura di WIIT
End User Case Study
Andrea Bonetti
IT Enterprise Architect, Gruppo Hera
Coffee Break e visita all’area espositiva
End User Case Study
Alessandro Scariolo
ICT Infrastructure Manager, ATV – Advanced Technology Valve
Tech Talk Sponsor
a cura di Equinix
End User Case Study Interview
Simone De Giuseppe
Group CIO, Fortidia
Tech Talk Sponsor
Tech Pitch
con:
- Deda Tech
Sessione IDC Connect – tavoli di lavoro
- IDC Connect 1 – Piattaforme dati per l’AI: unire cloud, edge e analytics
- IDC Connect 2 – Trasformazione cloud-native: accelerare innovazione e resilienza
- IDC Connect 3 – Sicurezza nell’era dell’AI: bilanciare innovazione e rischio
- IDC Connect 4 – Modernizzare i sistemi legacy: dal mainframe al cloud e oltre
- IDC Connect 5 – Open source e tecnologie componibili: ecosistemi digitali più agili
- IDC Connect 6 – Resilienza dei dati e preparazione alle minacce cyber nell’era dell’AI
- IDC Connect 7 – Progettare infrastrutture AI-ready per le imprese
- IDC Connect 8 – FinOps e GreenOps: costi e sostenibilità nel cloud ibrido
- IDC Connect 9 – Observability e AIOps: abilitare operazioni IT autonome
Ogni tavolo ospita un moderatore e un piccolo gruppo di delegati pre-registrati. Ogni sessione si svolge simultaneamente e verte sull’interazione, condivisione di esperienze e discussioni tra pari di aziende e settori diversi.