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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

11:15 AM - 11:45 AM AEST

How to Make IT Cost Optimization a Business Decision
James Anderson, VP Analyst, Gartner
Faced with calls to cut or optimize IT costs, CIOs instinctively turn to limited, tactical IT-led cost saving efforts. This session will help CIOs reframe IT cost decisions as business choices, enabling more effective trade-off decisions between saved IT costs and business impact. ... 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 - 12:45 PM AEST

Roundtable: Break Free from Vendor Lock-In and Unlock IT Savings, moderated by Rimini Street
Eric Helmer, EVP & GLOBAL CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER, Rimini Street
This roundtable will focus on strategies to escape the cycle of forced upgrades, overpriced support, and inflexible vendor contracts. Learn how to fund innovation, AI initiatives, and digital priorities by redirecting millions in savings from bloated enterprise software costs. You can expect an open exchange on how to take back control, reduce risk, and future-proof technology investments without compromising security or agility.

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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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03:00 PM - 03:30 PM AEST

How Do You Know If You Have a Good EA Practice?
Marcus Blosch, VP Analyst, Gartner
CIOs increasingly look to enterprise architects for insight and direction across the entire IT landscape. Architects are costly resources, so CIOs need to know that EAs are adding expected value for IT and business stakeholders. This session explores how CIOs can objectively measure and evaluate the effectiveness of architects and identify ways to close gaps between expected and actual outcomes. ... Show More Show Less

03:35 PM - 03:55 PM AEST

WalkMe Innovation Showcase: Real Stories of Adoption in Action
Adam Dinneen, DIRECTOR, SALES ENGINEERING ASIA PACIFIC, WalkMe
Shelina Amatya, SENIOR STRATEGIC CUSTOMER SUCCESS MANAGE, WalkMe
Join us for a high-impact showcase of how leading Australian organisations are pushing the boundaries with WalkMe. Through live demos and real-world results, see how IT leaders are solving the “last mile” challenge of digital transformation with innovative technology adoption strategies. ... Show More Show Less

04:00 PM - 04:45 PM AEST

Roundtable: Driving Business Value with AI & Trusted Data, moderated by SAP
Jon Gooding, SENIOR SOLUTION ADVISOR, SAP
Thorsten Freitag, INNOVATION ARCHITECT, SAP
SAP Business AI, featuring Joule and intelligent agents, transforms organisations with tailored AI capabilities for diverse personas - boosting efficiency and outcomes. This interactive session will explore the crucial role of reliable data in AI implementations and share best practices for enhancing business apps with trusted data fabric architectures and strategize on maximising AI to drive business value while addressing current challenges. ... Show More Show Less

04:45 PM - 05:45 PM AEST

Contract Negotiation Clinic: How to Negotiate With Cloud Providers (AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle)
Domenico Scriva, Sr Principal Analyst, Gartner
Cloud infrastructure and platform services contract negotiation involve substantial opportunities and risks. While the negotiation fundamentals are similar, each cloud vendor has specific commercials that clients must understand fully. In this interactive clinic, we will review the critical steps for negotiations, vendor differences and similarities to be aware of when negotiating to achieve the most optimal contract. ... Show More Show Less

04:45 PM - 05:30 PM AEST

Ask the Expert: Public Sector Procurement Agility
Luke Ellery, VP Analyst, Gartner
Many government sector organizations have already adopted agile approaches to procurement, while others are struggling. Join your peers for this interactive session, to hear how the public sector is adopting agility while addressing risk and probity to ensure business outcomes are achieved. ... Show More Show Less

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