Just Six Weeks to Go until the SAM & IT Compliance Conference of the Year
Special to TAG-IT News Agency
MAIDENHEAD, UK - FAST Ltd, a leading UK authority on IT Compliance and Software Asset Management, providing software, education, consulting and managed services, announced that it has nine confirmed sponsors and exhibitors for the FAST Annual Conference which is taking place in less than two months.
After a four year sabbatical, the FAST Annual Conference The Complexity of Change will be held on the 3rd November 2010 at Mercedes-Benz World, Weybridge, Surrey. Confirmed sponsors for the day include Express Metrix (Bag sponsor and exhibitor); and exhibitors Trustmarque Solutions, License Dashboard, LANDesk, Matrix 42, Unipress Software Ltd, IRIS Accounting and Business Solutions, EARNIE Payroll Software, and C8 Consulting who will get the opportunity to showcase their products and to advise and inform participants about the trends and latest offerings in the marketplace.
Matt Barnes, managing director at FAST Ltd is delighted with the uptake so far and comments: This is a standout conference dedicated to helping end users and FAST customers understand more about SAM and IT compliance.
Anyone who wants to know about issues relating to the management of software should attend this conference. TCO, Cost control and better management of software are all highly pertinent in todays cash strapped world as we look to drive down costs as well as make our IT departments more efficient.
Conference speakers will delve deeply into these topics and will also cover hot industry issues such as Cloud Computing, virtualization, Green IT as well as IT compliance, best practice in software asset management and security.
Lord Rupert Redesdale, House of Lords Climate Change Committee Representative is confirmed as keynote speaker and will deliver a thought-provoking presentation on Green IT. Other high caliber speakers include:
Ian Osborne, Director of the Digital Systems Knowledge Transfer
Network, Intellect
Peter Rowell, Chairman, Regents Partners International
Andy Lawrence, Senior Analyst, the451group.com
Ian Moyse, Channel Director EMEA, Webroot
Dominic Storey, Technical Director Cybercrime Specialist, Sourcefire
Andy White, Managing Director EMEA & APAC, Numara Software
Peter Hubbard, Senior ITSM Consultant, Pink Elephant
Delegates registered to date include: IT Managers, IT Directors, IT Service Delivery personnel, Team Leaders, Procurement personnel, Financial Directors and Managing Directors/CEOs from organizations of varying sizes: from 30 to 30,000 IT devices.
Barnes added: There are a small number of sponsorship and exhibitor packages still available, however were seeing interest everyday and the packages, as well as delegate registrations are selling very quickly. My advice is to get in FAST before they all sell out!
FAST Ltd, part of IRIS, is the UKs leading authority on Software Asset Management and IT Compliance, providing software, education, consulting and managed services. For over 24 years FAST Ltd has helped over 8,000 organizations control their IT costs, mitigate risk and deploy best practice IT using expert impartial and independent advice.
