8 Great Reasons to Attend

Executive Education on Leadership, Teaming, and Cutting Edge IT

A year's worth of professional development and personal enrichment in 3 invigorating days. The Cutter Summit will change how you think, lead, and innovate.

1. Case studies and exercises on winning leadership & teaming strategies

Winning organizations have leaders who "get" what it takes to enable teaming. Led by top business school faculty who are also part of the Cutter community -- Dick Nolan, Amy Edmundson, Alan MacCormack and Michael Roberto -- you'll delve deeply into the crucial topics of leadership and teaming in keynotes, debates, exercises and HBS-style case studies. Learn how you can enable interactions in your organization that are powerful, effective and efficient.

2. 10 interactive sessions untangle your trickiest business-technology problems

From IT operational excellence to devops, Agile 2.0 to business architecture, a CIO roundtable to agile analytics, 21st century staffing to technical debt, enterprise architecture to "big agile", and Lean to architecture programs that work, you'll choose sessions that send you home with solutions to the issues that keep you up at night.

3. Learn from a "who's who" of business technology

You've read their award-winning books, seen them profiled in technology magazines, used the methodologies that worked for the companies they've built -- maybe you've even wished to work for the IT organizations they've run!

4. Built for interaction, not for speed

Year after year, Summit attendees rate the "formal" sessions as highly useful, but say they value the "times between" just as highly. We plan our meal, breaks, and social event to maximize your time to interact with your peers and our experts.

5. No sponsors, no vendors, no sales presentations in disguise

The Summit mirrors Cutter's focus on the toughest issues at the intersection of business and technology, the people and processes. We don't promote products or technologies and we don't sell sponsorships, so every bit of program time is devoted to your learning and interaction.

6. Meet one-on-one with the thought leaders

Struggling with business architecture? Walk through it with William Ulrich. Consider assessing your acquisition target's technical debt with Israel Gat. Pick Tim Lister's brain on project risk or get Hubert Smits' advice on rolling out Agile in a large-scale project. Tell us your goals for attending, then we'll set up one-on-one time with our experts to help you achieve them.

7. Cutter content, curated to complement your Summit experience

We'll mine our deep library of expert content to extend your Summit experience when you get home. You'll have access to reports, updates, and journal issues around the key topics you explore in April.

8. Last but not least, Tom DeMarco

We've had folks tell us they'd listen to Tom Demarco read the phonebook, but there's no need of that. He moderates the Summit and will guide you through the keynotes and accompanying panel debates with his insights and humor, then wrap up the Summit's lessons learned on Wednesday.

You'll pack a ton of professional development and personal enrichment into 3 days, interacting with an intimate of group of your peers, business school faculty and Cutter experts in a relaxed and fun atmosphere.

We look forward to greeting you in Cambridge on April 2. Don't wait too long, register today!

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8 Great Reasons to Attend