The 2026 agenda will deliver the latest technology, strategy and leadership insights across four conference tracks and two spotlight tracks, covering the challenges most critical to I&O leaders and their teams.
The 2026 agenda will deliver the latest technology, strategy and leadership insights across four conference tracks and two spotlight tracks, covering the challenges most critical to I&O leaders and their teams.
Track A. Maximizing Cloud Outcomes
Organizations demand greater value from cloud investments, emphasizing the cloud's strategic importance for emerging business innovations. I&O leaders can accelerate business outcomes by adopting a structured, coherent approach to cloud innovation, modernization, governance, adoption, and migration. This track helps cloud leaders develop and execute strategies to leverage cloud opportunities for business goals.
Track B: Delivering Resilient and Secure Infrastructure
Organizations are under immense pressure to meet rapidly changing business needs. I&O leaders face a world that requires increasingly complex architectures, effective integration patterns, expanded and responsive infrastructure capabilities, built in security and compliance. Learn how to effectively partner with security and compliance teams to mitigate risk, manage vulnerabilities, and embed security best practices into the foundation of I&O, ensuring agility and cost-effectiveness.
Track C: Transforming Operations & End User Services
Your operating environment spans from end-users to distributed, fragmented and complex infrastructures, creating management and operational nightmares. I&O and their end-user services leaders are challenged to evolve to meet the increasing demands of their end-users, while ensuring protection of assets and cost-optimized delivery models. This track focuses on how I&O leaders empower teams to deliver operational enhancements through efficiencies to maintain, administer and support digital workplace and hybrid infrastructures.
Track D: Elevating Leadership
In today’s fast paced VUCA environment, your leadership is key to equipping teams with the skills needed for next generation infrastructure and operations. This track focuses on both experienced and new to role I&O leaders and how they design, change and run their functions, and how to ensure they have the right people with the right skills to meet current and future organization needs.
Spotlight Track: Impactful AI
AI is embedded into the I&O operating environment. Developing skills and approaches to get value from AI is essential to take advantage of the productivity benefits that AI offers, as well as charting a course to incorporate AI into more use cases. This spotlight track focuses on guiding I&O leaders in these two endeavours and exploring the use cases and organizational needs they are challenged to meet.
Spotlight Track: Cost & Value
Cost optimization and value realization are fundamental requirements for I&O, yet they remain a persistent challenge year over year. Responding to economic volatility, inflation and talent shortages is key. This spotlight track for sourcing, procurement and vendor management leaders and I&O leaders focuses on how to optimize operational costs of software, services and infrastructure at the edge, cloud, and on-premises while maximizing value for the business.