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Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo™ 2025 conference dives deep into key topics for CIOs around AI, cybersecurity, executive leadership, and more to help you address your organization's mission-critical challenges.

2025 Conference Theme

Agents of Change: Leading Through Intelligence

In today's volatile world, CIOs and tech leaders face crucial choices. Now is the time to harness AI for successful digital transformation. As the lead change agent, you need:

  • Adaptive leadership to navigate complex challenges.
  • Smart tech decisions on AI-ready data, cybersecurity, cloud sovereignty, and cost optimization.
  • Innovation and resilience to foster a change-ready culture.
  • Actionable insights for prioritized strategies.
  • A future-ready workforce for tomorrow.

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Monday, 08 September, 2025

09:30 AM - 10:30 AM AEST

Gartner Opening Keynote: Walking The Golden Path to Value
Alicia Mullery, VP Analyst, Gartner
Daryl Plummer, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
AI isn't everything, but it's touching everything. To achieve the next level of value, you must navigate the blinding hype surrounding AI readiness and the lagging progress of human readiness. Join Gartner’s Opening Keynote to discover how CIOs, AI leaders and IT leaders can chart their own "golden path" – navigating vendor choices, reimagining the workforce and redefining organizational identities – to be agents of change. ... Show More Show Less

10:45 AM - 11:05 AM AEST

Kyndryl: Unlocking Agentic AI: A Path to Responsible Innovation
Peter Hogg, ASSOCIATE PRACTICE LEADER - APPLICATIONS, Kyndryl
Agentic AI has the potential to transform how people work, but business leaders face challenges in accessing and leveraging this technology for responsible actions and success. This presentation describes Kyndryl's experience in developing its Agentic AI Platform, focusing on how it distributes AI development to accelerate agentic AI capabilities. It will also address design challenges related to data privacy and security that have been overcome. ... Show More Show Less

10:45 AM - 11:05 AM AEST

Docusign: AI in the Hands of Every Employee to Drive Meaningful Impact
Venkatesh Babu Kesavan, VP, ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE, Docusign
Unlock the transformative power of AI by empowering every employee with the tools and confidence to drive innovation, efficiency, and real business value across your organisation. We’ll share practical strategies to roll out AI responsibly, engage people across the company, and build the skills they need to use it confidently. Leave with actionable insights and practical steps to democratise AI and drive meaningful impact at every level. ... Show More Show Less

10:45 AM - 11:05 AM AEST

Atlassian: Agentic AI in real-world IT, Software, and Support Teams
Shihab Hamid, HEAD OF PRODUCT, Atlassian
Join Atlassian to explore how IT, software, and support teams are leveraging Rovo Studio to build powerful action-driven AI agents without writing a single line of code. Explore how teams can design and implement systems that self-manage complex workflows and drive organisational impact without disrupting existing processes. ... Show More Show Less

10:45 AM - 11:05 AM AEST

AWS: Build a Data Foundation to Fuel Generative AI
Lucy Birdsey, SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT, Amazon Web Services
Organizations investing in generative AI often face a critical challenge: ensuring their data is ready to power AI solutions effectively. In this session, discover how to build a robust data foundation that enables tailored AI applications for your business. We'll explore proven techniques for:
• Data preparation and governance frameworks that optimize AI model performance
• Techniques for building AI applications that know your business and customer
• Tools required in an end-to-end data to AI pipeline
Through real customer use cases, we'll demonstrate how organizations can transform their data estates to achieve measurable AI outcomes. Learn practical steps to assess your data readiness and create a foundation that maximizes your generative AI investments.
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11:15 AM - 11:45 AM AEST

CIOs: Deploying AI Agents as Enterprise Services to Drive Business Value
Carlton Sapp, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
AI agents are becoming a critical AI trend as they enable levels of business adaptability, flexibility and agility that can’t be achieved with traditional AI systems trained for a specific task. Their flexibility is valuable in unpredictable operating environments and real-time monitoring and control aren’t practical. Autonomous behaviors have significant societal, legal and ethical implications, but are the answer to the increasing complexity paralyzing our enterprise systems. ... Show More Show Less

11:15 AM - 12:00 PM AEST

Roundtable: AI-Steady or AI-Accelerated? Use Cases in Action
Roy Kannan, Sr Executive Partner, Gartner
Corey Snell, Sr Executive Partner, Gartner
AI adoption is entering a period of significant acceleration, putting stress on the cycle time at which traditional management, governance and business processes are running. What steps is your organisation taking to move at speed? Give examples of use-cases you have deployed and time to impact you have experienced. We also examine the unforeseen in trying to adopt AI use cases. ... Show More Show Less

12:00 PM - 12:30 PM AEST

Workday: Governing Shadow Agents - Managing AI Sprawl and Optimising Agent Capabilities
Shan Moorthy, Chief Technology Officer, APAC, Workday, Inc.
CIOs face a critical challenge: unmanaged AI proliferation, including "shadow agents." These autonomous AI capabilities, adopted outside IT governance, offer efficiency but risk data privacy, security, and compliance. Join us to transform this challenge into a strategic advantage. We'll explore practical frameworks to manage AI risks, ensure safe deployment, and position AI as a core, value-driven component of your platform, cutting through "AI Washing." ... Show More Show Less

12:00 PM - 12:30 PM AEST

SAP: Driving Growth and Efficiency with AI, Data, and Integrated Apps
Simon Davies, APAC PRESIDENT, SAP Asia Pte Ltd
Sanja Galic, GENERAL MANAGER EVOLVE PROGRAM, Ventia
Chris Ellis, Executive Director - Head of Software Engineering & IT, Telstra
Discover how SAP is harnessing AI, data, and integrated applications to navigate uncertainty and foster growth. This session will provide practical insights into risk mitigation, cost optimisation, and enabling faster time to value by shifting IT from a service provider to a strategic business co-creator. Hear how Telstra and Ventia are applying these approaches to improve decision intelligence, streamline operations, and manage risk and cost at scale.
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