Ignite Team Success: Bring Your Team to Gartner’s I&O Cloud Conference

From architects to executives: Explore sessions for every role

Addressing cost pressures, increased demand, maximizing cloud potential and enhancing strategic thinking can be challenging. These key challenges and emerging trends can impede your ability to drive success in 2026 and beyond.

Attending the conference as a team can help you break down silos, enhance collaboration and gain business and technology insights into the latest trends in I&O, cloud and AI innovations, ensuring everyone aligns with industry best practices for smarter decision making.

Benefits of attending as a team

Divide and conquer

Split up to attend more sessions designed for every member of your team.

Evaluate vendors and solution providers

Compare solutions for all stakeholders across your business.

Meet as a team with experts

Discuss your challenges and validate your strategies. 

Unified strategic vision

Align on strategic goals and ensure everyone is equipped to drive data initiatives forward.

Tips for attending the conference as a team

Align your vision as you forge strong relationships and a deeper, shared understanding with your colleagues and peers to help drive your strategies forward.
  • Recommended Team Agenda
  • Pre-conference
  • During the conference
  • Post-conference

We've outlined recommended sessions for every member of your infrastructure and operations teams. 
  • I&O Skills: What's Needed Now, What's Needed in the Future
  • Leadership Vision 2026 Infrastructure and Operations
  • 4 Generative AI Skills to Master in 2025
  • Get Ready for the Agent-Native Future of I&O
  • 5 Keys to Success as a New Head of I&O
  • Ask the Expert*: What Heads of I&O Can Do to Make an Immediate Impact
  • Workload Placement in a Hybrid and Multicloud World
  • When Cloud Strategies Meet Digital Sovereignty: The New
  • Avoiding the top mistakes in your cloud strategy
  • 2025 Cloud Financial Management MQ and CC Review
  • The Future of Cloud 2030
  • Roles, Skills and Training to Build a Successful Infrastructure Platform Engineering Team
  • Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms
  • Organize for Resilience With an Optimal SRE Team Topology
  • Top Technology Trends Shaping the Future of AI Infrastructure Strategy Development
  • How to Adopt Agile and Product Mindsets to Transform Infrastructure & Operations
  • Technical Insights: The Cloud Financial Management Maturity Roadmap
  • Optimize Infrastructure Costs During Vendor Negotiations With Gartner's Triple A Framework
  • How to Address Risks in Your AI and GenAI Contracts
  • Contract Negotiation Clinic*: How to Negotiate With Microsoft
  • Workshop*: The Art and Science of Managing the Digital Giants: Amazon, Google and Microsoft
  • Contract Negotiation Clinic*: How to Negotiate Microsoft Azure, Google and Amazon Web Services
  • Magic Quadrant for Artificial Intelligence Applications in IT Service Management
  • AI Use Cases for IT Support That Will Transform Your IT Service Desk
  • Top 5 Reasons Your I&O Automation Initiative is Suffering (and what to do about it
  • Roundtable*: Learning From others: I&O Automation Successes and Challenges
  • AI Use Cases for IT Support That Will Transform Your IT Service Desk
     

View the full agenda for all sessions and topics for your team. View Agenda
  • How to Securely Implement AI-Generated Infrastructure Code
  • Structured Patching: Building Confidence and Ensuring Business Continuity
  • Ask the Expert*: Ransomware Recovery Steps — Avoid Paying the Ransom
  • Being Comfortable in the Hot Seat:  Having Cybersecurity Conversations With Executives

Pre-conference

  • Have a team-planning meeting to set key objectives.
  • Decide a strategy for how to divide and conquer the agenda (which sessions you attend collectively could be as important).
  • Agree on how you will share key lessons.
  • Create a document repository for notes, slides, etc., on Google Drive or other file-sharing platform.

During the conference

  • Create a Microsoft Teams/Slack/Google Hangout channel to stay in touch during the conference.
  • Share sessions with your teammates — make notes of times they would find especially helpful.
  • Make a plan to share a coffee or lunch break together as a team.
  • Set up a.m. or p.m. meetings to discuss what you hope to learn, what you did learn, and stay connected.

Post-conference

  • Set up a meeting to review key take-aways and create an action plan for how you will apply what you have learned. What are you going to start doing/stop doing/do differently as a result of what you have learned?
  • Connect on LinkedIn with any peers you met during the conference.
  • Schedule follow-up meetings with any exhibitors that piqued your interest (through the Gartner Conference Navigator).

Ready to register your team?

If you are interested in receiving a group rate or learning more about bringing your team to a Gartner conference, please email GlobalConferences@gartner.com or contact your Gartner representative.

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Group Rate Discount

Save on registration when you attend the conference with your colleagues. Receive complimentary registration(s) when you register as a team.*

  • 1 for 3 paid registrations
  • 2 for 5 paid registrations
  • 3 for 7 paid registrations
  • 4 for 10 paid registrations

*See Group Rate Discount terms and conditions.

“Fantastic opportunity to gain insight into business trends that are very topical. Have enjoyed the conference and am looking forward to using the energy and thinking this has created back in the office.”

Darryn Ying
GM Technology, Lotto NZ

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