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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 Opening Keynote: Scale Data and Analytics on Your AI Journeys
Speakers:
- Ehtisham Zaidi, VP Analyst, Gartner
- Aura Popa, Senior Director Analyst, Gartner
Key take-aways
- “49% of organizations say demonstrating the value of AI is a top barrier.”
- “Over half of organizations have issues with their data.”
- “Businesses not understanding D&A is a top three challenge to D&A leaders.”
- “Data quality is a top challenge for D&A leaders.”
Day 2 Take-Aways
Top Trends in Data and Analytics 2025
Speakers:
- Shubhangi Vashisth, Director Analyst, Gartner
Key take-aways
Trend No. 1: Highly Consumable Data Products: “Start with business-critical use cases, correlate and scale products to reduce data delivery bottlenecks.”
Trend No. 2: Metadata Management Solutions: “Start with technical metadata and add business metadata to enable context.”
Trend No. 3: Multimodal Data Fabric: “Build a metadata management practice where tools share metadata across the entire data pipeline. Use tools to remove duplicate metadata and share metadata bidirectionally with other tools.”
Trend No. 4: AI Agents: “Apply actionable AI to move the needle of automation further.”
- Trend No. 5: Small Language Models: “Harness proprietary knowledge for higher reliability.”
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Hundreds of conference sessions were presented each day at the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2025. While we work to develop the 2026 agenda, filter to see sessions that align with your role and interests.
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Monday, 02 June, 2025
09:30 AM - 10:15 AM IST
Gartner Opening Keynote: Scale Data and Analytics on Your AI Journeys
Ehtisham Zaidi,
VP Analyst, Gartner
Aura Popa,
Sr Director 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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10:30 AM - 10:50 AM IST
SAP: Broken Processes, Missed Outcomes: The Price of Not Using Agentic AI
Varun Thamba,
REGIONAL HEAD OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, SAP India
A global Pharma giant missed a $30M market opportunity and faced FDA sanctions when siloed systems delayed critical product insights leading to poor production and supply chain execution.
Manual handovers and fragmented workflows broke down at the worst moment leading to missed deadlines and demand spike windows.
Agentic AI autonomously connects, predicts, recommends and acts to course-correct in real time.
Discover how businesses can win big with AI acting in business process not just advising! ... Show More Show Less
Manual handovers and fragmented workflows broke down at the worst moment leading to missed deadlines and demand spike windows.
Agentic AI autonomously connects, predicts, recommends and acts to course-correct in real time.
Discover how businesses can win big with AI acting in business process not just advising! ... Show More Show Less
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM IST
How to Create an Optimal Data & Analytics Organizational Model
Michael Gabbard,
Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
To position their teams as a must-have discipline that can fulfill cross-functional use cases, D&A leaders must optimize their organizational model. The optimal organizational model is one that balances enterprisewide capabilities focused on enablement with decentralized needs focused on outcomes. In this session you will learn the design principles behind the right D&A organizational model and how to balance a centralized team (focused on enablement) and decentralized needs (focused on outcomes).
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11:00 AM - 11:30 AM IST
Scale AI from Pilot to Production with AI Engineering
Chirag Dekate,
VP 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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11:00 AM - 11:30 AM IST
Create Metrics That Matter
Christopher Long,
Director Analyst, Gartner
Organizations have a lot of metrics, but few have the kind of metrics that move the needle on performance. This presentation discusses techniques you can apply to create metrics that compel users to run to their dashboards every morning.
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11:00 AM - 12:30 PM IST
CDAO Circle Leadership Exchange: State of D&A in 2025
Brian Foster,
Managing Vice President, Gartner
Akash Krishnan,
Director, Research, 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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11:00 AM - 11:30 AM IST
Data Products: How You Should Build, Manage and Sustain Them for D&A Success
Robert Thanaraj,
Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Data products are all the rage within D&A functions as the next wave of potential solutions to reduce the business-IT friction and provide sustained means to data delivery. However, there are many challenges. This session will help D&A leaders understand and build data products, manage and govern them through contracts, and sustain them through marketplaces, governance, and ops best practices.
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11:00 AM - 11:45 AM IST
Ask the Expert: Improve Your Retrieval-Augmented Generation Solution
Sumit Agarwal,
VP Analyst, Gartner
Despite the popularity of retrieval-augmented generation, organizations are struggling to optimize large language model applications based on RAG. Attend this session to get suggestions and recommendations on improving your RAG solution, LLMOps for RAG systems, and scaling considerations.
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11:45 AM - 12:15 PM IST
Zoho: Gen AI-powered Insights: Blending AI, BI, and Data Science for Decision-making
Ashwinth Solomon,
Head of Marketing - Zoho Analytics, Zoho Corporation
Rapid changes demand innovative decision-making tools beyond traditional methods. Businesses are turning to AI, BI, and data science to gain a competitive edge. The perfect blend of these technologies can be a true differentiator.
Take a quick look at what to expect from this session:
-Challenges in data and analytics today
-Unlocking the power of AI, BI, and data science
-The transformative role of AI-powered self-service BI platforms
-Live demos of next-generation analytics in action
Learn how these innovations can drive better decisions to deliver transformative business outcomes. ... Show More Show Less
Take a quick look at what to expect from this session:
-Challenges in data and analytics today
-Unlocking the power of AI, BI, and data science
-The transformative role of AI-powered self-service BI platforms
-Live demos of next-generation analytics in action
Learn how these innovations can drive better decisions to deliver transformative business outcomes. ... Show More Show Less
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