Bring the Entire Team to Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies 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 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.

Session Recommendations by Role

  • Accelerate cloud adoption to enhance organizational agility and innovation.
  • Optimize cloud costs and resources to maximize return on investment.
  • Strengthen cloud governance and security to protect data and ensure compliance.

Sample sessions:

  • Gartner Opening Keynote: The Future of Cloud in 2029: Omnipresent and Business-Driven
  • Ask the Expert: Help Me Solve My Cloud Cost and FinOps Challenges
  • Technical Insight: Should I Migrate to Cloud: Assessing the Cost Implications of Lift and Shift
  • Peer Meetup: Multicloud Implementations
  • Ask the Expert: From Cloud Center of Excellence to Cloud Operating Model
  • Cloud Repatriation: What, Where, When and Why?
  • Ask the Expert: How Do I Implement a Multicloud Strategy for the Cross-Cloud Future?
  • Avoiding the Top Mistakes in Your Cloud Strategy
  • Modernize data center infrastructure to support digital transformation.
  • Improve operational efficiency through automation and advanced analytics.
  • Enhance data center sustainability to meet environmental and regulatory standards.

Sample sessions:

  • Unveiling the I&O Future: Exploring Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure On-Premises, at the Edge and in the Cloud
  • The Future of Data Centers: What’s Next for 2025 and Beyond
  • Technical Insights: VMware Migration — Assessing the Technical Challenge
  • Peer Meetup: Data Center Cost Management
  • Cloud Repatriation: What, Where, When and Why?
  • The Field Guide to VMware Alternatives
  • Leadership Vision for 2025 Infrastructure and Operations
  • Develop a resilient infrastructure strategy to support business continuity.
  • Integrate emerging technologies to drive infrastructure innovation.
  • Optimize infrastructure performance to improve user experience and productivity.

Sample sessions:

  • Gartner Opening Keynote: The Future of Cloud in 2029: Omnipresent and Business-Driven
  • Unveiling the I&O Future: Exploring Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure On-Premises, at the Edge and in the Cloud
  • Ask the Expert: Vulnerability Management for I&O
  • Technical Insights: VMware Migration — Assessing the Technical Challenge
  • How Should I Approach Infrastructure Modernization?
  • Act Now to Fortify Your Weakest Link: Enhancing Cybersecurity for Data and Storage
  • A Practical Guide to Reducing Infrastructure Technical Debt
  • Expand Your IaC Horizons: AI, Testing and Security
  • We Can't Patch Our Way Out of Threat Debt
  • Contract Negotiation Clinic: How to Prepare for Your VMware Renewal Negotiations With Broadcom
  • The Field Guide to VMware Alternatives
  • Navigating the Infrastructure Maze: 2025 Edition
  • Technical Insights: A Super Villain’s Guide to Misusing AI
  • Leadership Vision for 2025 Infrastructure and Operations
  • Ask the Expert: What Heads of I&O Can Do to Make an Immediate Impact
  • Align I&O strategies with business goals to drive digital transformation.
  • Foster a culture of innovation and collaboration within I&O teams.
  • Enhance operational resilience to mitigate risks and ensure service continuity.

Sample sessions:

  • Gartner Opening Keynote: The Future of Cloud in 2029: Omnipresent and Business-Driven
  • The Future of Data Centers: What’s Next for 2025 and Beyond
  • Senior Leader Roundtable: Navigating the I&O Ecosystem: Building Strong Partnerships
  • I&O Skills: What's Needed Now, What's Needed in the Future
  • Ask the Expert: What Heads of I&O Can Do to Make an Immediate Impact
  • Top Generative AI Use Cases That Benefit I&O
  • Cloud Repatriation: What, Where, When and Why?
  • Senior Leader Roundtable: Building Your Winning Team: Developing I&O Leadership Capability
  • Get Control of Your Observability Costs
  • Leadership Vision for 2025 Infrastructure and Operations
  • Navigating the Infrastructure Maze: 2025 Edition
  • AI Will Be the Foundation of Next Generation IT Operations
  • Gartner Closing Keynote: Your AI-Augmented Future
  • Drive platform modernization to support scalable and flexible application delivery.
  • Enhance platform security to safeguard against evolving threats.
  • Improve platform interoperability to streamline processes and data flow.

Sample sessions:

  • How Platform Engineering Teams Can Augment DevOps With AI
  • Peer Meetup: Platforms & Platform Engineering
  • Magic Quadrant for Service Orchestration and Automation Platforms
  • How Should I Approach Infrastructure Modernization?
  • Expand Your IaC Horizons: AI, Testing and Security
  • Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage Platforms
  • Get Control of Your Observability Costs
  • SRE Is More Than Operations, It’s Reliability Everywhere
  • Gartner Closing Keynote: Your AI-Augmented Future
  • Implement advanced monitoring and analytics to enhance operational visibility.
  • Optimize operational processes to reduce costs and improve efficiency.
  • Strengthen incident management and response to minimize downtime.

Sample sessions:

  • Leadership Vision for 2025 Infrastructure and Operations
  • Magic Quadrant for Service Orchestration and Automation Platforms
  • Top 10 Ways to Improve the Digital Employee Experience in 2025
  • Ask the Expert: SRE Practices for I&O and Beyond
  • Peer Meetup: Platforms & Platform Engineering
  • Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms
  • Is Microsoft 365 Copilot Worth It? Key Insights From the Digital Workplace GenAI Survey
  • How Platform Engineering Teams Can Augment DevOps With AI
  • How to Deploy AI at Your Service Desk
  • Ask the Expert: Implementing AI Solutions at Your Service Desk
  • 12 Steps to Successfully Implement an I&O Automation Strategy
  • SRE Is More Than Operations, It’s Reliability Everywhere
  • Get Control of Your Observability Costs
  • Enhance threat detection and response capabilities to protect critical assets.
  • Implement zero-trust security models to strengthen defenses.
  • Foster a security-first culture to improve organizational security posture.

Sample sessions:

  • Ask the Expert: Vulnerability Management for I&O
  • We Can’t Patch Our Way Out of Threat Debt
  • Technical Insights: A Super Villain’s Guide to Misusing AI
  • Gartner Closing Keynote: Your AI-Augmented Future
  • Develop strategic vendor partnerships to drive innovation and value.
  • Optimize procurement processes to reduce costs and improve efficiency.
  • Enhance vendor risk management to ensure compliance and mitigate risks.

Sample sessions:

  • Negotiation Cheat Sheet: 10 Powerful Tips & Techniques to Optimize Your Vendor Deals
  • Ask the Expert: Help Me Solve My Cloud Cost and FinOps Challenges
  • Contract Negotiation Clinic: How to Negotiate With Microsoft
  • Peer Meetup: FinOps/Cloud Cost Management
  • Is Microsoft 365 Copilot Worth It? Key Insights From the Digital Workplace GenAI Survey
  • Contract Negotiation Clinic: How to Prepare For Your VMware Renewal Negotiations With Broadcom
  • Roundtable: What Are MSEs’ Concerns About Broadcom's Acquisition of VMware and What Actions Are They Taking
  • Get Control of Your Observability Costs
  • Navigating the Infrastructure Maze: 2025 Edition
  • Workshop: 4 Powerful Steps to Combat Price Hikes on Software and SaaS Deals
  • Ask the Expert: How to Use Gartner’s S-A-V-E Methodology to Launch and Sustain a Cost Optimization Program
  • Advance technical skills to support emerging technologies and innovation.
  • Foster cross-functional collaboration to drive successful project outcomes.
  • Enhance problem-solving capabilities to address complex technical challenges.

Sample sessions:

  • Technical Insights: VMware Migration — Assessing the Technical Challenge
  • Technical Insight: Should I Migrate to Cloud: Assessing the Cost Implications of Lift and Shift
  • Technical Insights: A Super Villain’s Guide to Misusing AI
  • The Field Guide to VMware Alternatives
  • Ask the Expert: From Cloud Center of Excellence to Cloud Operating Model

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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.

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.
  • Pre-conference
  • During the conference
  • Post-conference

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.
  • 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).

“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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