All 2025 Conference Sessions

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.”

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.”