Visionary John Seely Brown to Keynote Burton Group Catalyst Conference Europe

SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Burton Group will kick off its annual Catalyst Conference Europe with a keynote address from industry luminary John Seely Brown. Mr. Brown and Burton Group analysts will offer insight and actionable advice on how technologists and executives can respond more effectively to the challenging operating environment in the year ahead.

“2010 is IT’s time to capture the opportunity of the moment”

Mr. Brown is the Independent Co-Chairman of the Deloitte’s Center for the Edge, and a visiting scholar and advisor to the Provost at University of Southern California (USC). Previously, he was the chief scientist of Xerox Corporation and the director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). In this position, Mr. Brown expanded the role of corporate research to include such topics as the management of radical innovation, organizational learning, complex adaptive systems and nano/mems technologies. He was a co-founder of the Institute for Research on Learning (IRL).

Mr. Brown's keynote is one of more than 100 presentations by Burton Group analysts, industry perspectives and roundtables available to attendees on critical issues, including enterprise-ready clouds, the new identity architecture and networks in motion.

“2010 is IT’s time to capture the opportunity of the moment,” said Chris Howard, Burton Group executive analyst. “The post-crisis playing field is more level than ever; enterprises are looking to create aggressive new business models that reposition them in the market. Technologists have an important role in this corporate redefinition. If they don’t take advantage of the moment, it will pass them by.”

For more information and registration for Burton Group’s Catalyst Europe 19 – 22, April 2010 in Prague, visit the Catalyst Conference site.

About Burton Group

Burton Group (www.burtongroup.com) is an IT research and advisory services firm that helps technologists make smart enterprise architecture decisions. Burton Group provides in-depth, IT research and advisory services to executives and technologists at Global 2000 organizations. Focused on strategic business technologies and the unique needs of enterprise organizations, Burton Group provides clients company-wide access to its world-renowned analysts and a suite of powerful, intuitive research and decision support tools unmatched in the industry.