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Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2025 dove deep into key topics for data, analytics and AI leaders around data strategy, data governance, AI and more.
Session Take-Aways
Day 1 Take-Aways
Gartner Keynote: Scale Data and Analytics on Your AI Journeys
Speakers:
- Gareth Herschel, VP Analyst, Gartner
- Carlie Idoine, VP Analyst, Gartner
Key take-aways
- Trust = value
- Esablish trust models.
- Monetize productivity improvements.
- Communicate value of data and analytics .
- Adaptibility = scale
- Create a modular and open architecture.
- Make data AI-ready and resuable.
- Explore AI agents.
- People = transform
- Establish repeatable habits.
- Embrace new roles and skills.
- Collaborate with other teams.
Day 2 Take-Aways
Embrace the Inevitable: Lead Change With D&A and AI
Speakers:
- Alan Duncan, Distinguished VP Analyst
Key take-aways
- The CDAO’s ability to deliver data and AI literacy, culture change and a skilled workforce will be a top three determining factor in supporting business strategy by 2026.
- Work with willing business stakeholders to clarify and reframe business problems in terms of explicit outcomes. Define targeted business roles, decisions and impact upon business moments.
- Explain underlying data and supporting analytics by deconstructing the business problem and decisions to be taken.
- Facilitate the realization of business value through storytelling of the resulting informed actions.
- Overcome resistance to change by connecting personally with business stakeholders to build trust and ensure there is collective and personal buy-in to decisions.
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Tuesday, 17 June, 2025
09:00 AM - 09:45 AM AEST
Gartner Opening Keynote: Scale Data and Analytics on Your AI Journeys
Gareth Herschel,
VP Analyst, Gartner
Carlie Idoine,
VP Analyst, Gartner
With high D&A ambitions and AI pilots becoming increasingly ubiquitous, focus is shifting toward consistent execution. We will share how to continue innovating and experimenting while scaling success. In this keynote, Gartner’s perspective will guide you on preparing for the expected and adapting to the unexpected. Learn to enhance your D&A and AI capabilities on the path to success.
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10:00 AM - 10:20 AM AEST
BigID:Is Your Data Really Safe Down Under?Rethinking Privacy Through a Data & AI Lens
David Mesman,
Principal, CicaData
Yael Lindman,
SVP PRODUCT MANAGEMENT, BigID
As privacy regulations tighten, organisations must go beyond check-the-box compliance to stay ahead. Join BigID and David Mesman for a practical discussion on how to build a future-proof, privacy-aware data strategy. Learn how to:
• Unify discovery, classification and governance across structured, unstructured and AI-generated data
• Automate privacy workflows and enforce policies in real time
• Strengthen customer trust through responsible data use
• Ensure compliance with current and future Australian privacy laws
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• Unify discovery, classification and governance across structured, unstructured and AI-generated data
• Automate privacy workflows and enforce policies in real time
• Strengthen customer trust through responsible data use
• Ensure compliance with current and future Australian privacy laws
• Align privacy, security and AI risk under one integrated framework ... Show More Show Less
10:00 AM - 10:20 AM AEST
Neo4j: Get Your Data AI-Ready: Knowledge Graphs & GraphRAG for GenAI Success
John Stegeman,
SR. MANAGER, GRAPH DATABASE PRODUCT SPEC, NEO4J, INC.
Enterprise-grade GenAI needs a unified data strategy for accurate, reliable results. Learn how knowledge graphs make structured and unstructured data AI-ready while enabling governance and transparency. See how GraphRAG (retrieval-augmented generation with knowledge graphs) drives real success: Learn how companies like Klarna have deployed GenAI to build chatbots grounded in knowledge graphs, improving productivity and trust, while a major gaming company achieved 10x faster insights. We’ll share real examples and practical steps for successful GenAI deployment.
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10:15 AM - 11:00 AM AEST
Roundtable: Creative Ways to Demonstrate the Value of the D&A Program
Melissa Davis,
VP Analyst, Gartner
There are many ways to show the value of the D&A program. This roundtable session is meant for participants to bring creative examples of how they were able to show the value of their program so D&A leaders can learn from each other's experiences.
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10:15 AM - 11:45 AM AEST
CDAO Circle Leadership Exchange: State of D&A in 2025
Alan D. Duncan,
Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Jorg Heizenberg,
VP Analyst, Gartner
D&A leaders and teams are at an AI-driven inflection point. They are crucial to enable business value through AI-readiness but must evolve their strategy and operating model to meet their organization’s AI ambitions. Reporting from the Gartner 2025 CDAO Agenda Survey, this session reveals actions successful D&A leaders have taken to deliver business outcomes from AI, data, and analytics, and what they need to do next year.
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10:30 AM - 11:00 AM AEST
The Future of Computing Is Data Driven
Frank Buytendijk,
Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
The future of computing will be a virtuous cycle, where use cases drive compute mechanisms and vice versa, supporting human endeavors in a digital world. Data is central, but computing's future isn't a single paradigm. Its impact will deeply affect business and society, from augmenting human capability to autonomy. What will the three horizons look like? Join this session to learn more.
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10:30 AM - 11:00 AM AEST
The Future of Analytics in the Era of Generative AI
Georgia O'Callaghan,
Director Analyst, Gartner
Analytics is experiencing another monumental change. Just as visual drag and drop BI tools and augmented insights led to changes in analytics delivery, we now experience conversational interfaces, automated workflows and AI agents that cause us to rethink how analytics will be done. Join this session to learn the new technologies that are making an impact and how this will affect plans for future investment in analytics tools, platforms and solutions.
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10:30 AM - 11:00 AM AEST
Top Data and Analytics Predictions, 2025
Carlie Idoine,
VP Analyst, Gartner
This presentation of Gartner's top D&A predictions for 2024 guides data and analytics leaders as they plan for the impact of AI on all aspects of data and analytics, including leadership, governance, talent, market, and the need for AI-ready data and a FinAI competency for value realization.
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10:30 AM - 11:00 AM AEST
Scale AI From Pilot to Production With AI Engineering
Afraz Jaffri,
Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Moving AI projects from pilot to production requires substantial effort for most enterprises. AI Engineering provides the foundation for enterprise delivery of AI and generative AI solutions at scale unifying DataOps, MLOps and DevOps practices. This session will highlight AI engineering best practices across these dimensions covering people, processes and technology.
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