Gartner's methods for peer reviewing research ensure that we create future scenarios that have a good chance of occurring. In the early stages of developing such considered opinions we sometimes see predictions that suggest much more outside-the-box, maverick or unconventional thinking. Rather than leave these invisible to our clients we select some to put on stage at Symposium.

For Barcelona we have two such maverick sessions that have this characteristic of breaking away from conventional ideas. The first is 2018: Digital Natives Grow Up and Rule the World from Monica Basso and Steve Prentice. It's not often that you see Gartner looking ten years ahead, but this could well change your expectations of just how differently enterprises will behave by then as social collaboration extends to new styles of business innovation.

The second maverick session is The Hyperconnected Enterprise: Anticipating the Next Wave of Business Influences by Diane Morello. Diane will take you through some very compelling research and scenarios where the new breed of web-based enterprises become the norm. Businesses lose their traditional advantage of internal innovation while their dependence on external influencers grows ever more rapidly.

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