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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, 17 November, 2025

03:45 PM - 04:30 PM IST

CIO Circle BFSI Roundtable: Making Organizational Resilience a Reality
Devendra Dhawale, Sr Executive Partner, Gartner
Defining what "resilience" means in your organizational context may help outline what business operations and outcomes must be maintained in a disruption, but operationalizing these requirements through adaptive strategic planning is what creates true resilience. Join us to share tips for communicating and guiding partners from just defining resilience to implementing it, and encountering challenges along the way. Come prepared to participate in a group discussion around this topic. ... Show More Show Less

03:45 PM - 04:15 PM IST

The Strategy, Leadership and Culture Nexus — Managing These in Parallel for Better Change And Performance
Kevin Smith, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
A CIO superpower is understanding the linkage between strategy, leadership and culture. Attend this session to learn about the performance that comes from leading strategy through an engaging and accountable culture.
Leaders that address these 3 competencies better lead and manage change for accelerated transformations and increased innovation while cultivating deep trust and collaboration ... Show More Show Less

03:45 PM - 04:15 PM IST

Signature Series: Top Strategic Predictions for 2026 and Beyond
Ganesh Ramamoorthy, Managing Vice President, Gartner
This session covers ten predictions of the future that represent opportunities — or threats. CIOs, tech providers and business leaders will need to decide which while acting swiftly. Show Less
Tuesday, 18 November, 2025

02:30 PM - 03:00 PM IST

Creating an IT Strategy in Times of Disruption: Pitfalls and Best Practices
Peter Skyttegaard, VP Analyst, Gartner
Creating and executing an IT Strategy is a key task for CIOs. 60% of CIOs see this as a top priority. In times of disruption, a clear strategy can make the difference between success and failure. To enable CIOs to create their IT Strategies with their own team, this session will present Gartner's templates & best practices for IT strategy, as well as share tactics to avoid typical pitfalls. ... Show More Show Less

04:00 PM - 04:30 PM IST

Autonomous Business: What's Next After Digital Business
Kristian Steenstrup, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
After 10 years, organizations are at various stages in their digital transformation journeys. However, AI is disrupting even these transformations. What will business look like when AI and automation changes the nature of competition and value, what a customer is, what a product is, your operating model, and the nature of leadership itself? In this presentation you will learn about Gartner's view of what's next: Autonomous Business. ... Show More Show Less
Wednesday, 19 November, 2025

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM IST

Celonis: Unlocking Enterprise-Scale AI with Process Intelligence
Discover how IT leaders can move beyond AI hype to drive real business impact. Learn how Process Intelligence provides the end-to-end context needed to deploy AI across enterprise processes, unlocking efficiency, reducing risk, and delivering measurable ROI.
Explore real-world use cases across sectors and industries that showcase how AI combined with Process Intelligence transforms operations and drives actionable insights. ... Show More Show Less

12:15 PM - 01:00 PM IST

Ask the Expert: How to Bridge IT and OT to Build Your Roadmap to the Factory of the Future
Kristian Steenstrup, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Explore how manufacturers can unlock the full potential of the factory of the future through effective collaboration between operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT). In this session, we will dive into where OT fits in, why aligning and integrating OT with IT is critical for innovation, and how to overcome cultural, technical and organizational barriers to building a factory of the future. ... Show More Show Less

03:45 PM - 04:15 PM IST

Seven Disruptions You Might Not See Coming: 2025-2030
Gene Alvarez, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
CIOs must deal with both expected and unexpected disruptions. The seven disruptions highlights critical disruptions that may be closer to happening that most CIOs believe. In this way, it helps CIOs see around corners and plan for what changes will fundamentally shift current thinking and timing on a topic. It is used as a foundation for how to recognize, prioritize and respond to disruption. ... Show More Show Less

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