A note from CEO / Founder Gary Rowe

Since forming TechVision Research, I have been asked hundreds of times by those that knew and loved the old Burton Catalyst Conference (given its pragmatic, technically deep, strongly independent, and end-user focused themes) as to when TechVision would be producing our own conference. While this feedback indicated there was an unmet market need I thought we could address, I didn’t want to settle for just another event…Our first conference had to be a highly valuable, relevant, collaborative, immersive, educational and timely experience for our clients.

Now, 3½ years after the starting TechVision Research we have the right foundation; a diverse and world-class Principal Consulting Analyst team, a research and consulting customer base we regularly interact with and a portfolio of research and analysis that allow us to deliver what our customers have been asking for—an independent event packed with valuable information and pragmatic insights, free of vendor bias, and solely focused on addressing the critical needs of large end-user organizations.

I’m proud to announce that we will host the first annual TechVision conference from November 11th – 14th in San Diego. As I describe in my blog, The Soul of a New Research Company, we are building a new type of research company and this is reflected in our conference. Large enterprises have major challenges as they “keep the plane in the air” while building the next generation aircraft…and keeping it all secure. The theme of our inaugural event is Chrysalis which we’ll describe below. As enterprises consider new business models and supporting technologies, we believe it is critical to assemble the right infrastructure, participate in the right foundational ecosytems and, above all, keep it secure.

Last, but not least, we expect our first event to be fully subscribed given our intimate inaugural conference venue and I want to make sure that everyone has a fair chance to participate.  On April 6 we will begin taking registrations for our main conference, pre-conference tutorials and post-conference workshops–all focused on educating and preparing large organizations to cut through the noise and make the best possible technology and business decisions.  I look forward to seeing you in San Diego at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in November and thanks for your support.