Online Summit: Future Ready ITAM: The 2025 Skills Revolution
Join us to hear about the crucial skills needed for IT Asset Management (ITAM) to succeed in today’s rapidly-evolving technological landscape. As the role of IT Asset Managers expands to encompass new responsibilities and challenges, this summit will focus on the essential skills required to thrive in 2025 and beyond.
This event will also explore the intersection of ITAM with disciplines like FinOps and SaaS Management, emphasising how the right skill sets can drive successful collaboration with service providers.
This event is brought to you by The ITAM Forum and its sponsors. When you register for this event, your data will be supplied to all parties for the purposes of delivering the event and post- event follow up. More details about how we use your data can be found in our privacy policy.
Why attend?
- Gain insight into the critical competencies—both technical and soft skills—necessary for navigating the complexities of modern technology management
- Hear about the skills needed to align ITAM practices with business-led technology buying and evolving operational models
- Examine the skills needed to adapt new technologies such as AI and IoT within ITAM practices
- Explore the importance of relationship management, change management, and communication skills in fostering collaboration and driving organisational success
Sponsors:
This event is brought to you by The ITAM Forum and its sponsors. When you register for this event, your data will be supplied to all parties for the purposes of delivering the event and post- event follow up. More details about how we use your data can be found in our privacy policy .
Hourly Schedule
Online Summit: Future Ready ITAM: The 2025 Skills Revolution
- 14:00 - 14:05
- Welcome & Introduction, Kelly
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Speakers:
Kelly Yip
- 14:05 - 14:30
- The ITAM Multiverse: Mapping skills across the New Digital Cosmos
- The 2025 Skills revolution isn’t just about adding new capabilities – it’s about navigating an ever-expanding multi-verse of interconnected disciplines. In this session, Kelly will discuss how to navigate the challenges outside of our ITAM Solar System, exploring how our skills can bring value to the wider multiverse. Looking to the future, you will learn which skillsets ITAM teams should be building on, and delve into the best methods for developing a growth mindset, at both an individual, and team level. By building on our existing expertise, we can advance ITAM to new heights, becoming a strategic core within organisations.
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Speakers:
Kelly Yip
- 14:30 - 15:00
- Future-Ready ITAM Starts Here
- ITAM is evolving—fast. Today’s asset managers must be strategic thinkers, data interpreters and tech-savvy communicators. But what will it take to succeed in 2025? At this exclusive online summit hosted by the ITAM Forum, Robbie Plourde from USU will break down the three essential skill sets ITAM leaders must develop to stay future-ready—while showing how smart tooling can support those skills in real time. What You’ll Learn with USU Turn Data into Strategy The most valuable ITAM professionals don’t just track—they analyze. Learn how to develop data fluency to interpret license, usage and cloud data—and how the right platform can translate that into cost savings and smarter planning. USU Insight: Custom dashboards and automated license intelligence take the guesswork (and spreadsheets) out of optimization. Own the SaaS and Cloud Ecosystem In a hybrid, decentralized world, full visibility is non-negotiable. Discover why managing SaaS sprawl, cloud contracts and traditional on-prem assets in one view is a critical new skill—and how you can master it. USU Insight: Our unified ITAM platform helps asset managers maintain control across every environment—cloud, data center, and everything in between. Stay Always Audit-Ready Audit-readiness is no longer a task—it’s a mindset. We’ll explore how modern ITAM leaders are reducing surprises and stress by embedding compliance into their daily workflows. USU Insight: With real-time license positions and pre-built audit reports, USU customers stay in control—without scrambling.
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Speakers:
Robbie Plourde
- 15:00 - 15:30
- License to Thrill: AI Takes on Java in ITAM
- If your team is managing a complex, Java-heavy environment, this session might be worth your time. AI is reshaping IT Asset Management (ITAM)—not just in theory, but in ways that directly impact discovery, compliance, and cost control. We’re hosting a live webinar that explores exactly how AI is being used to: Automate asset discovery across Java-based environments Identify shadow IT and open-source Java components Forecast licensing risks and avoid audit exposure Optimize Java support and lifecycle costs What’s in it for you: You’ll walk away with real-world use cases, cost-saving examples, and a framework to assess AI in ITAM tools.
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Speakers:
Simon Taylor
- 15:30 - 16:00
- Final Questions & Close
Speakers
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Kelly YipITAM Thought Leader and Advisor, ITAM ForumKelly has worked in the SAM/ITAM industry for 10+ years and has considerable experience with Microsoft and broad experience with IBM and Oracle. She has spent the last few years focusing on bringing value to organisations, typically in the form of cost optimisation/cost avoidance and good ITAM practices. She has also been heavily involved with online course creation and delivery. With a passion for value, Kelly is always keen to ensure organisations maximise the value of their IT software assets and believes that training & enablement plays a key role in driving this.
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Robbie PlourdePrincipal Solutions Engineer, USU Solutions
Robbie is a charismatic IS Business Executive with a broad background in international business. In his Global Sales Enablement Lead role, Robbie is the technical sales lead and License Management solution leader responsible for ITAM products ensuring the USU product portfolio meets market needs and delivers functionality and design to exceed customer needs. For the past 20 years, Robbie has specialized in corporate IT Compliance initiatives for Fortune 500 companies in North America, Europe, Japan, and Latin America. He has led process improvement initiatives developing processes and solutions that enable strategic and operational business goals for over a decade. He holds an MBA from Quinnipiac University where he graduated Magna cum Laude.
