Today, IT delivers a PC to the end user, but in the future, this will become virtualized or abstracted and the PC or client becomes a service we will deliver on demand from a central management capability, he said.

Established in 2005, the Intel Premier IT Professional program brings Intel's own IT group out from behind the server rooms and data centres to engage in discussions with other IT professionals, said Elaine Mah, Canadian business marketing manager at Intel.

The half-day event, a partnership between Intel's IT group and marketing organization, presents lectures on enterprise IT management and best practices as well as insight into the latest Intel technologies. Presentation content is available in the event archives section of ipip.intel.com.