How would you feel if all the challenges across your business processes were transformed into opportunities? Discover the best way to maintain your competitive edge: empowering every individual in your organisation to amplify their efforts, ability and contribution.

Are your people able to adapt to the changing global marketplace? As President of the CBI and Chairman of Cadbury Schweppes, Sir John Sunderland passionately believes you must empower your work force if you want to drive growth, productivity and success. At Sir John's talk you will:

• Find out how to bring down the barriers of geography, time and technology to achieve true collaborative working.
• Discover how to best lower the cost base to remain competitive.
• Get more from what you've got by managing your enterprise resource.

Is your company a 'destination workplace' attracting top talent and partners? As Gordon Frazer, Managing Director of Microsoft UK states, corporations don't find customers, streamline operations, close deals or invent products – people do. Find out how to transform your company into a People-Ready Business and why such an organisation is best suited to the rigorous demands of the modern world of work.

Is there a way for you to harness the power of your people? Jeff Raikes, President of the Microsoft Business Division, announces the worldwide business launch of new Microsoft technologies. He also explores how this new technology enables you to:

1. Simplify how your people work together.
2. Help protect and manage content within your organisation.
3. Find information and improve your business insight.
4. Increase security and reduce your IT costs.

You can explore these four themes in more detail during our workshop sessions, which are hosted in conjunction with our Partners and customers.

Speak to the people who really understand your business aims - your peers. This is your opportunity to listen to Microsoft customers who have already implemented new Microsoft solutions based on the new technology showcased in this conference. Find out how and why customers like Capgemini, Paul Smith, BT, Durham University and London Stock Exchange are benefiting. Plus discover what business challenges the software has helped them overcome and how this has helped them to optimise their organisation.

We now work in one world of business. In addition to working across time, geographical and organisational boundaries, companies increasingly need to work with customers and partners. Hear how your people can effortlessly connect, share information and communicate, whether they're in or out of the office. Plus see how they can stay in sync with your organisation's information.

The trend towards increased transparency looks set to continue. Due to new compliance requirements, organisations increasingly need to monitor both how they do work and how the information that work generates is used, managed - and secured. Hear how you can simplify and protect your everyday business processes and how your people can now share, apply workflow to, and approve and manage content.

We live in an always on, always connected world. Information and people are now accessible around the clock and organisations are dealing with the Catch-22 of generating more and more information that is on the one hand increasingly valuable, and on the other, increasingly hard to locate and use in a meaningful, timely way. Hear how people across your organisation can now have faster, easier access to the information they need, and the tools to make sense of this information.

In our information age, security is more important than ever. Under no circumstances can organisations afford to lose sensitive information or to suffer 'down-time' due to malware like viruses or worms. See how you can mitigate security threats to ensure the smooth running of your workplace.

Understand how our technology can drive new revenue streams and support the diversification of your business in the ever-changing global market. Secure the technological advantage for your company now - ensuring that your company is agile enough to lead, not follow, in the new world of work.

In a world that is changing faster than ever before, your organisation has to find new ways to succeed. Sir Ken Robinson, author of the Robinson Report, discusses how continuous creativity and consistent innovation is essential for long-term success. With the insight gained through years of advising Global 500 corporations, government and not-for-profit organisations, he identifies the major myths about creativity that hold organisations back and the proven strategies for innovation that drive great companies forward.

Find out how Microsoft customers benefiting from new-wave Microsoft solutions have achieved tangible business impact so you can recreate the results in your organisation.