2027 Planning Workshop: Five Decisions to Make Before January
Planning for 2027 is bringing up some new, unfamiliar questions for many.
How do you budget for AI when usage is hard to predict? Is another security tool going to help, or just add another console to manage? How much work should you put into your data before AI becomes part of the equation?
Then there are infrastructure decisions, changing consumption models, and the question of who should own costs that no longer fit neatly into a traditional IT budget.
Join our team of CIO Advisors and CTO/VP of Strategy for a session is built around those decisions. We’ll look at five areas likely to come up in 2027 planning conversations and talk through the questions IT and business leaders should be asking before budgets are finalized and priorities are set.
What We’ll Cover:
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AI: How Do You Estimate or Even Experiment with Usage-Based Tokenomics?
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How to approach experimentation, estimate usage, and start putting some boundaries around costs when consumption can vary significantly by use case.
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Security: Add Tools or Consolidate the Stack?
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Where consolidation can make sense, when specialized tools may still be needed, and what to consider before adding another platform to your environment.
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Data: Clean It Up Now or See if AI Fixes the Problem?
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What needs attention before expanding AI use, where cleanup is worth the effort, and which issues technology alone isn’t going to solve.
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Infrastructure: Renew It, Replace It, or Go Hybrid?
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Which questions to ask that can help determine whether it makes sense to renew, replace, move workloads, or use a mix.
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Economics: Who Pays as Technology Becomes Consumption-Based?
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How consumption-based services change forecasting and ownership, and what IT and business teams should decide before those bills start growing.
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You don’t need to make every technology decision before January. You do need to know which decisions are coming, what information you’re missing, and where assumptions in your current plan could create problems later.
