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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

11:15 AM - 11:45 AM AEST

CIO Board Presentation Preparation: Less Pain, More Gain
Tina Nunno, Managing Vice President, Gartner
Preparing a presentation for your shareholder board can be both time consuming and stressful. This session focuses on how to strengthen your strategic position as a CIO by creating high impact presentations with less effort and greater returns. ... Show More Show Less

12:00 PM - 12:30 PM AEST

NRI Australia & New Zealand: Grow Fast. Scale Smart. Run Lean: Perspectives from the Frontlines of Transformation
Cameron Curtis, GENERAL MANAGER, IT ADVISORY, NRI Australia & New Zealand
Graham Cronin, CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER, Device Technologies
Adrian Law, PROGRAM MANAGER, ADELAIDE AIRPORT LIMITED
Today’s leaders are challenged to match strategy with execution across a complex landscape of platforms, partners, and priorities. This panel explores what it takes to realise, extend, and evolve transformation, drawing on real world programs across three distinct growth journeys—fast growth with Adelaide Airport, a digitally ambitious gateway, scaling smart with Device Technologies, a leading distributor of advanced medical tech, and running lean with Airservices, Australia’s national air traffic authority. ... Show More Show Less

02:15 PM - 04:15 PM AEST

Research Discussion: Who Runs Tech? Navigating the Evolution of Tech Leadership for CIOs and Tech Execs
Jaime Capella, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
In the race to harness AI to boost business performance in uncertain times, tech has become more critical and distributed. This is prompting a reexamination of tech exec leadership roles and structures. This interactive session explores how enterprises divide exec leadership of tech across Enterprise IT, OT, CX, R&D, and product development. Discover essential design elements of cutting-edge tech leadership models, including strategic alignment, reporting, org design, and their benefits and limitations. ... Show More Show Less

02:15 PM - 02:45 PM AEST

Government CIOs: 3 Critical Leadership Strategies for Success
Mike Shevlin, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Government CIOs must balance the demands for efficiency, democratized innovation, rapid adoption of emerging technologies and scaled value delivery amid ongoing uncertainty. This session will highlight three key areas where government CIOs can focus their leadership efforts to enhance operations, engage effectively with executives and deliver efficiencies. ... Show More Show Less

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

03:00 PM - 03:30 PM AEST

Signature Series: CIOs and Technology Executive Agenda
Hung LeHong, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
This session outlines the CIO's next 18-months agenda, identifying job obstacles and strategies to overcome them. It details their ambitions, the path to achieve them, and the technologies involved. Additionally, it examines the budgets required to achieve critical business outcomes, ensuring a clear understanding of priorities and resource allocation. ... Show More Show Less

04:45 PM - 05:15 PM AEST

The AI Future of Leadership and Management
Kristin Moyer, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Is AI going to replace you? Do you not even need entry level workers anymore because of AI? This session cuts through the hype of how AI will really impact leadership and management. Show Less

04:45 PM - 05:15 PM AEST

How to Capture More Business Value on Your Transformation Journey
Brian Prentice, VP Analyst, Gartner
The pressure is on to deliver business results now. Improve your organization’s level of digital business maturity using the 9 building blocks of digital business. Enhance your ability to identify the right opportunities, accurately assess their value and effectively scale them to maximize realized business value. Discover how to transform pressure into performance and drive impactful results today. ... Show More Show Less

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