Monday, 01 June, 2026 / 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM IST
Theater, Exhibit Showcase
Viewing our orientation is the best way to start your experience at Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference. Whether you’re attending for the first time or you’re returning to us, this session highlights the features and activities we have incorporated into the conference. Please click HERE to watch the Conference Orientation.
Monday, 01 June, 2026 / 8:15 AM - 8:30 AM IST
Theater, Exhibit Showcase
Exhibitors and their staff are encouraged to attend this session to familiarize themselves with the venue, onsite support and services, best practices for a successful conference, as well as a live Q&A with the Gartner team. Thank you for being an important part of the conference and the attendee experience!
Monday, 01 June, 2026 / 9:30 AM - 10:15 AM IST
Grand Ballroom 1, 2 & 3, Ground Level
Agentic AI is a fundamental shift for I&O, demanding new operational paradigms like cloud once did. This keynote will explore concrete agentic AI application for I&O, emphasizing the needs for resilient infrastructure, automation and governance to navigate this shift. A focus on Continuous Operations will show how adopting mature techniques from tech leaders can ensue relentless innovation and operational stability. Get equipped with a roadmap to a new I&O operating model, highlighting effective patterns for behavior and operating practices to lead in the next era of I&O.
Monday, 01 June, 2026 / 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM IST
Theater, Exhibit Showcase
As IT environments grow more distributed & dynamic,the gap between insight & action continues to widen and traditional observability often fall short.This session will explore how AI-driven observability bridges that gap by transforming fragmented signals into actionable intelligence.Join us to discover how your enterprises can proactively detect anomalies,streamline incident response & build resilient operations that scale with business demands.
Monday, 01 June, 2026 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM IST
Grand Ballroom 1
This session will focus on the key challenges and trends impacting infrastructure and operations, and what leadership actions will generate success in 2026 and beyond. We will address how you must work with leaders, stakeholders, and customers to understand the relative business value of the services your team delivers today or could deliver, going forward. I&O leaders should use these insights to enhance their strategic vision, delivery programs and prioritize services.
Monday, 01 June, 2026 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM IST
Grand Ballroom 2
Most enterprises continue to mature their network security policies and address the obvious vulnerabilities. The business risks are real as the average cost of security data breach is over 23 Crore per incident. This presentation looks at five evolving internal and external enterprise cybersecurity threats that I&O leaders don’t realize may already exist on in their enterprise and why they must do now to prevent them.
Monday, 01 June, 2026 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM IST
Grand Ballroom 3
Clients undertake I&O automation initiatives for tactical and strategic reasons, but frequently run into roadblocks on realizing the value they are seeking. This session will address the top five reasons that automation initiatives struggle, and offer practical advice on how to rescue them.
Monday, 01 June, 2026 / 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM IST
Theater, Exhibit Showcase
Take a walk through the Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms. This presentation will unravel the latest trends, key players and groundbreaking technologies transforming how businesses harness observability platforms for strategic advantage.
Monday, 01 June, 2026 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 1
AI applications introduce risk across four layers: models, agents, data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure. Most organizations lack full visibility, leaving gaps for attacks like prompt injection or PII exposure. This session provides a four-pillar framework to transition from reactive tools to proactive, context-driven security. Learn to manage high-velocity AI agents and assess if your current tools cover unique AI-specific attack vectors.
Monday, 01 June, 2026 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 3
Modernize your infrastructure to address rising cloud costs, security, and performance challenges. As enterprises accelerate Hybrid AI adoption, AI inferencing is becoming critical for faster, data-driven decisions. Together, Lenovo and Intel deliver scalable on-premises and hybrid cloud solutions that provide greater control, compliance, and operational efficiency - enabling secure, future-ready business transformation and innovation.
Monday, 01 June, 2026 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 2
As organizations in India and across the globe race to adopt Generative AI, the definition of "resilient infrastructure" is shifting. AI is no longer just an application sitting on top of our stack; it has become a core component of the infrastructure itself, introducing a sprawling new attack surface of "Shadow AI," over-privileged agents, and hidden data paths.
Monday, 01 June, 2026 / 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 1
Taking on a new role as the head of I&O is tough, whether moving in from another enterprise or stepping up internally, with multiple stakeholders across IT and the business who all have demands from you and are waiting for you to deliver. In this session, we will set out five key areas to focus on during your first year in role, that will help you succeed and grow your career.
Monday, 01 June, 2026 / 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 2
Reducing technical debt is a longstanding priority for I&O leaders, yet budget proposals for this work often go unfulfilled due to competing priorities and cost pressures. This session will share ways to strengthen proposals that have proven to be successful for securing critical infrastructure modernization investments.
Monday, 01 June, 2026 / 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 3
Identify the AI use cases relevant to IT support in infrastructure and operations and reveal which of these will transform tomorrow. I&O leaders can use this information to identify the best AI for ITSM use cases for their IT service desk organizations, based on use case feasibility and business value.
Monday, 01 June, 2026 / 2:05 PM - 2:25 PM IST
Theater, Exhibit Showcase
Rising cloud costs and complex architectures are limiting scalability for modern teams. This session explores how organizations can optimize cloud spend while maintaining performance using simplified, high-efficiency infrastructure. Learn practical strategies to reduce costs, improve workload efficiency, and scale globally without the overhead of traditional cloud models.
Monday, 01 June, 2026 / 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 1
How NSE has achieved: - Mission-Critical Reliability: Zero outages for mission critical Exchange’s Technology infrastructure at massive scale. - Ultra-Low Latency: Microsecond responses that withstand peak market spikes. - Governance & Compliance: Resilience and governance by design that support investors across 99.85% of India’s pin codes. - Security at the core: Built-in cybersecurity aligned to global benchmarks including Ransomware resilience readiness.
Monday, 01 June, 2026 / 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 3
This story highlights how large enterprises can incorporate open virtualization as part of a broader virtualization strategy, gaining the flexibility, engineering strength, and operational agility needed to support a modern infrastructure.
Monday, 01 June, 2026 / 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 2
GenAI costs can rapidly escalate due to poor architectural decisions, a lack of operational know-how and inadequate governance. In this session, we outline the top ten best practices that I&O leaders can adopt to optimize costs, enabling them to achieve quicker business value and operational efficiency.
Monday, 01 June, 2026 / 3:15 PM - 3:45 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 2
AI infrastructure has changed the physics of data center design. Vertiv addresses the growing infrastructure deficit by delivering converged physical infrastructure — integrating power, thermal, white space, controls, and services as a single interoperable system.
Monday, 01 June, 2026 / 3:15 PM - 3:45 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 1
In this fireside chat, learn how Asian Paints is modernising IT service delivery to improve visibility, control, and efficiency. With a legacy ITSM system limiting reporting and insight, they moved to a modern, cloud-based platform to unify workflows and bring clarity across service and asset data. Learn how to accelerate time-to-value, streamline workflows, & use real-time insights to deliver responsive IT services & better employee experiences.
Monday, 01 June, 2026 / 3:15 PM - 3:45 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 3
Enterprises are racing to host AI workloads, but most stop at deploying models. The real challenge is delivering them securely at scale, preventing data leakage, and governing how AI behaves in production. This session shows a complete reference architecture using F5’s Big-IP Next Kubernetes [BNK] for secure, high-performance data and model delivery, layered with AI Security controls: automated Red Teaming to find jailbreaks and prompt injection paths, and Guardrails to enforce policy, PII redaction, and safety in real time.
Monday, 01 June, 2026 / 3:50 PM - 4:10 PM IST
Theater, Exhibit Showcase
AI-ready infrastructure architecture for high-density data centers supporting HPC and accelerated compute workloads. Covers GPU-optimized platforms, rack-level power distribution, DC-powered architecture, liquid cooling technologies, and high-throughput storage integration. Focuses on improving power utilization efficiency, thermal performance, scalability, rack density, and operational reliability across enterprise, hyperscale, and colocation environments.
Monday, 01 June, 2026 / 4:15 PM - 4:45 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 1
Today's teams frequently lack the skills required to proactively meet business needs. The rapid pace of ongoing transformations renders existing skills inadequate for many organizations. I&O leaders must prioritize development plans to cultivate the most essential skills within their teams. This session provides guidance on effective upskilling methods that benefit both employees and organizations.
Monday, 01 June, 2026 / 4:15 PM - 4:45 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 2
Organizations have had to rethink traditional backup infrastructure and invest in technology that provides the best chance of protecting corporate data and recovering from devastating cyber events. This session will provide guidance steps on the recovery strategies and infrastructure required to enhance cyber resilience.
Monday, 01 June, 2026 / 4:15 PM - 4:45 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 3
Broadcom's acquisition of VMware has increased prices, uncertainty and risks, leaving many VMware customers looking for alternatives. Join the Gartner for Technical Professionals Team for a deep dive into the marketplace for VMware replacements, including Nutanix, Microsoft Azure Local and Hyper-V, KVM, OpenStack, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, and public cloud IaaS.
Monday, 01 June, 2026 / 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 1
Expanding cloud computing adoption will push the market beyond $1 trillion in worldwide spending by 2027. Cloud platforms (public and sovereign) are increasingly hosting AI implementations to transform business models in a highly volatile world. This presentation explores how to prepare enterprises for the future of cloud from now until 2030.
Monday, 01 June, 2026 / 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 2
Learn how to move beyond disaster recovery by implementing a resilience framework that addresses modern challenges. This session highlights the necessity of resilience in today's landscape and provides practical steps to begin the transformation.
Monday, 01 June, 2026 / 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 3
Explore five technology trends poised to redefine your AI infrastructure strategy. This session equips I&O leaders with insights to anticipate change, align investments and future-proof their architecture — ensuring their infrastructure strategy is ready to support the evolving AI demands and deliver a competitive advantage.
Tuesday, 02 June, 2026 / 9:30 AM - 10:15 AM IST
Grand Ballroom 1, 2 & 3, Ground Level
In this engaging and transformative talk, elite performance coach Paddy Upton draws on his experience coaching world champion athletes to help business professionals unlock their full potential. ‘The Corporate Athlete’ explores how high performers in sport and business share similar mental, emotional, and physical demands and how lessons from the sports arena can be applied in the boardroom. Blending storytelling with science-backed strategies, Paddy challenges traditional approaches to leadership, resilience, and productivity, offering a fresh blueprint for sustainable high performance in the corporate world.
Tuesday, 02 June, 2026 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM IST
Grand Ballroom 1
Many organizations think they have a working cloud strategy or lack one altogether. They often consider IT's needs without input from other parts of the organization. Likewise, they often operate under the false assumption that a cloud strategy is the same as a cloud implementation plan or a data center strategy. Here are the top 10 mistakes Gartner saw most often while reviewing hundreds of cloud strategy documents.
Tuesday, 02 June, 2026 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM IST
Grand Ballroom 2
Your enterprise network is evolving and moving into new territory as AI, cloud, compute and security demands grow. So how do you chart the best path for your network to meet these demands and deliver real business value with a limited budget? Join this session to learn how to build a strategic roadmap and guide your organization’s journey toward a more reliable, secure and cost-efficient AI- and automation-powered network to deliver your business needs.
Tuesday, 02 June, 2026 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM IST
Grand Ballroom 3
AI is driving changes to site selection, design, infrastructure and operations. In this session, we'll leverage Gartner's latest research to explore how data center infrastructures evolve and what to expect in the coming years. Gain insights to plan and develop data center strategies that thrive today and in the future.
Tuesday, 02 June, 2026 / 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM IST
Theater, Exhibit Showcase
AI applications in IT service management are tools that use AI to augment and extend ITSM workflows, offering intelligent advice and actions for I&O leaders and their IT support teams. This session will provide valuable market insights and guidance on critical capabilities that can be leveraged to optimize service desk practices.
Tuesday, 02 June, 2026 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 2
Sovereign AI - Own the Stack. Own the Outcomes brings together leaders from NTT DATA, Google Cloud, and industry to explore how enterprises can design AI systems with full control, compliance, and resilience. Join us for this exclusive session to gain practical insights on building secure, scalable AI stacks that translate sovereignty into measurable business outcome with an inside look at Google’s sovereign cloud and distributed cloud strategies
Tuesday, 02 June, 2026 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 1
Indian enterprises scaling AI face a critical hurdle: data fragmentation across edge, on-prem, and cloud. This session moves beyond the "pilot" phase to explore best practices for unifying data in place. Learn how to build sovereign, hybrid architectures that ensure compliance while slashing data preparation time. Attendees will gain a blueprint for accelerating GPU throughput and infrastructure ROI to move rapidly to industrialised AI.
Tuesday, 02 June, 2026 / 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 1
The pressure on I&O leaders to change their approach to getting work done continues to intensify. Unfortunately, improvement projects too often fall short of delivering promised benefits. Join this session to get practical guidance on where to target maturity improvement efforts, and how tuning your focus for improvements to your I&O operating model can deliver immediate value and better positioning for the future.
Tuesday, 02 June, 2026 / 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 2
Agentic AI promises transformation, as well as challenges to the management of IT infrastructure and operations. This session outlines key actions I&O leaders must take to reimagine their infrastructures, I&O operating models and information about the overall environment in order for AI agents to provide maximum value to their organization.
Tuesday, 02 June, 2026 / 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 3
Gartner research reveals that 79% of technology purchases are regretted. This session provides five practices to adopt that replace risk-averse, process-intensive buying with agile buying, a critical business capability for strategic execution. IT organizations must leverage insights from experienced providers to best achieve strategic outcomes.
Tuesday, 02 June, 2026 / 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 1
Observability costs are escalating out of control, with 44% of Gartner clients now spending more than $1M per year on observability, up from 36%. Technical and procurement teams express frustration but lack direction on how to rein in spending. This session will show you how 5 practical steps that I&O leaders can use to optimize spend while increasing the business value of observability.
Tuesday, 02 June, 2026 / 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 2
Infrastructure platform engineering is the future of I&O. It is a modern infrastructure delivery approach that involves leveraging software engineering practices with a product model to deliver reliable, secure and scalable infrastructure platform. The platforms are offered via self-service or API. This session will cover the three critical keys to success: roles, skills and training.
Tuesday, 02 June, 2026 / 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 3
Agentic AI will transform I&O by autonomously handling tasks like resource allocation, security and system optimization. It predicts and resolves issues in real time, cutting downtime and reducing human errors. Automating routine processes and adapting to complex environments, agentic AI boosts efficiency, scalability and resilience, enabling IT teams to focus on innovation and strategic growth.
Tuesday, 02 June, 2026 / 3:15 PM - 3:45 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 1
Discover the power of hybrid cloud storage, which integrates on-premises, edge and public cloud environments. This session covers how to overcome integration challenges and explores six common use cases. Learn about key vendors and products, and how to enable GenAI workloads for a hybrid future. Gain insights into best practices for selecting providers and uncover case studies from your peers.
Tuesday, 02 June, 2026 / 3:15 PM - 3:45 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 2
Organizations are becoming increasingly concerned about their reliance on international cloud hyperscalers due to the shifting geopolitical landscape. This session supports I&O leaders who are tasked with evaluating and reducing their reliance on large international cloud hyperscalers.
Tuesday, 02 June, 2026 / 3:15 PM - 3:45 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 3
Philips is rethinking IT operations as a connected system that can sense, decide, act and communicate. In this session, Ram Viswanathan shares how Philips combines observability, AI-driven operations, automation and conversational support to reduce response times, avoid incidents and improve employee support. Attendees will learn the architecture, operating model and practical lessons behind building a more proactive, resilient and autonomous IT organization.
Tuesday, 02 June, 2026 / 4:15 PM - 4:45 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 1
Are you finding it challenging to navigate the FinOps landscape and determine "what to do next" for effective cloud financial management? This session offers insights into advancing maturity across the Gartner's FinOps framework to prioritize investments and set realistic goals for your practice. Join us to gain clarity on your current position and chart a path to where you aspire to be tomorrow.
Tuesday, 02 June, 2026 / 4:15 PM - 4:45 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 2
Discover how structured patch management processes can enhance confidence, maintain business continuity, and secure your environment. Learn strategies to integrate patching within broader workflows, automate effectively and prioritize security needs. Join us to transform your patch management approach!
Tuesday, 02 June, 2026 / 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 1
Infrastucture and Operations leaders often struggle to firstly adopt successful agile ways of working and to also then build on this in their teams to deliver on the expected iterative product mindsets as they adopt more of a platform led delivery model of their services. This session helps set and build on the agile practices foundations to enable a product iterative led approach
Tuesday, 02 June, 2026 / 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 2
AI and generative AI introduce different contract risks related to customer data, responsible AI and agentic AI. Such risks are interwoven with continually evolving pricing models and metrics, making it difficult to compare commercials and avoid skyrocketing costs. In this session, heads of I&O and their leaders will gain insights on how to address the differences between traditional software/SaaS and AI/GenAI deals.