For Healthcare & Life Sciences Leaders: Transform Care Through Technology

Healthcare and life sciences organizations are navigating a profound shift—balancing clinical innovation, regulatory complexity, and operational efficiency while accelerating adoption of AI, data, and digital platforms.

Leaders must modernize fragmented systems, unlock the value of data, and ensure trust, security, and compliance across the ecosystem. At the same time, AI and advanced analytics are reshaping everything from patient care and research to operational execution and decision-making.

Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo helps healthcare and life sciences leaders drive this transformation.

You’ll learn how to:

  • Scale AI and data-driven innovation across clinical and business domains
  • Build trusted, secure digital health and life sciences platforms
  • Modernize infrastructure and operating models for agility and resilience
  • Deliver measurable outcomes in patient care, research, and operations

This is where healthcare and life sciences leaders turn innovation into better outcomes and sustainable impact.

Connect with healthcare technology experts and peers

  • Industry Networking
  • Highlights
  • Meet a Gartner Analyst
  • Explore Sessions
Industry Networking

Join industry interactive sessions

Interactive sessions allow you to engage with a small group of your industry peers - facilitated by Gartner - on specific topics and issues*

Networking activities

From breakfasts and lunches to breaks and evening receptions, Gartner provides plenty of opportunities to organically meet peers and make connections. 

Find your industry peers

Download the Conference Navigator mobile app and opt-in to Attendee Networking. Search for peers by role, org size, industry sector and region. 

*Pre-registration is required. These sessions are available to end users only; space is limited.
Highlights
  • A one-on-one meetings with a Gartner analyst to directly address your key initiatives and challenges, tailored to give you the answers you need
  • Roundtable sessions to connect with peers from leading organizations to discuss relevant topics, inspired by the latest research and hosted by Gartner
  • Peer networking events designed to provide natural conversations away from a screen
  • Access to our IT Xpo including the leading technology solution providers innovating essential business capabilities
Meet a Gartner Analyst

Take the opportunity to meet with a Gartner analyst who specializes in healthcare and life sciences while attending Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo. Each conference ticket includes two one-on-one meetings with a Gartner analyst to explore any topic of your choosing.
2026 Program Sessions

Hear directly from Gartner analysts specializing in healthcare and life sciences and connect with peers in your industry through key sessions, including: 

  • Hype Cycle for Healthcare and Life Science Data, Analytics and AI, 2026
  • Healthcare: Engineering Trust With an AI-Enabled Infrastructure

Explore the full agenda

Additional recommended sessions include: 

  • Gartner Opening Keynote: Reaching Escape Velocity - Shaping an Effective Enterprise AI Economy
  • Signature Series: Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2027
  • Navigating the AI Agent Landscape: A Strategic Guide for IT Leaders
  • The Technology of Strategy: How CIOs Use AI to Rewrite Strategic Planning
  • 3 Essential Steps to Evolve Your Operating Model in the Age of AI and Volatility
  • Decision Intelligence: Getting Value From AI Agents and Multiagent Systems
  • Governing the AI Portfolio: Balancing Innovation, Risk and Business Value
  • The Future of Data and Analytics Governance
  • 7 Practical Things You Can Do to Improve Data Governance Today
  • Strategic Operating Model Transformation: Mapping the Multiyear ITOM Journey
  • The CIO Imperative: Scaling AI Value Through Process Redesign, Not More Use Cases
  • The CIO Playbook for Mastering Cloud FinOps: Pivoting Toward Business Value
  • The CIO 2027 Cybersecurity Radar
  • How to Increase Board Confidence in Cybersecurity
  • AI’s Real Strategic Value: Boost Resilience in Times of Disruption
  • AI-Infused Strategy Execution: Unlocking Sustainable Competitive Advantage
  • Introducing the Platform for the Future: Autonomous Business Platform
  • IT 2030: The AI Future of Work and Tech
  • 7 Disruptions You Might Not See Coming: 2026–2031

“Great to see over the horizon of AI and into the quantum future, so important for the future of personalised medicine.”

Paul Siemers
GM Strategy & Architecture, Healthscope