19:25 - 20:45

The central theme of this year’s Plenary Session will be

"Technovision 2009 -2012: rise from the downturn economy"

The speed of change we face today is historical. Not only the financial sector is in a big transition, the economy as a whole is affected by the biggest change in customer demands since many decades. At the same time technological progress and the speed of information itself are creating new opportunities. Now that we realize that we move from the mechanical age of speed, into the digital age of real time, the main question is “How to deal with it?”

• How does your organization cope with those changes?
• How do you define a new strategy for IT based on the seven new Technovision clusters?
• Where do I find recession tools, how do I protect the essentials, where can I move forward?

It’s not only that we want to address these questions. Together with our partners we want to look for creative solutions to empower new possibilities. From solutions for real-time business-process control, to sensing networks and the google-fication of your company, including rich internet apps, software-as-a-service and role-based user portals.

Speakers of this session will be Michiel Boreel, CTO of Sogeti Group and Menno van Doorn, director of VINT, the Research Institute of Sogeti Group and co-author of the new ViNT book Me the Media. In 2007 Menno has been awarded ‘IT Researcher of the Year’ by VNU/Computable. In “Me the Media”, Menno introduces the concept of media mass to distinguish the web dynamic from the mass media. “Me the Media” will also be presented during the plenary session.

The speakers

Michiel Boreel

Michiel trained as an Industrial Engineer and started his working career as a junior consultant with a highly regarded management consultancy firm in Amsterdam. After two years he made the transition towards the Information Technology industry by working for one of the companies that are now united in Sogeti. Performing several assignments in systems programming and implementation of security systems he learned about the technical side of the profession.

Combining both technical skills and organizational experience, Michiel began advising about the Reverse Engineering of legacy information systems and Migration Estimation Methods. Adding commercial responsibilities, he worked as an account manager for a couple of years, focusing on the telecom and financial industries. In 1994 Sogeti asked Michiel to lead a new initiative, called the Institute for the Analysis of New Technology, a small research group with the goal of inspiring customers to apply new technology in business processes. Since the start, Michiel co-authored several books about different IT-related topics that are successfully published in multiple languages. During that time Michiel has become a well regarded speaker at both national and international events and venues. The last years Michiel, as director of strategy, has been involved in the innovation of Sogeti's business processes. A role that he now also plays within the international Sogeti group of companies.

Menno van Doorn

Menno worked in his earlier career as a consultant, specializing in information and knowledge processes. After acquiring a lot of experience in different fields, he is now Director of the Research Institute for Analysis of New Technology (ViNT) of Sogeti. He has been involved in the most recent major research projects of the Research Institute as IT-governance and Open Innovation. The IT-governance research has been published under the title of 'Making IT-governance Work in a Sarbanes-Oxley World'. Menno co-authored the book together with Jaap Bloem, senior analyst at ViNT. The latest research Menno is involved in is on open source and open innovation. The research deals with the question how to find new ways for innovation in companies by getting the outside world involved. This research has lead to the publishing of the book presented at this convention. Menno has also published several articles in leading IT publications.