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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

02:15 PM - 03:00 PM IST

Ask the Expert: How CIOs Can Capture AI-Driven Productivity Gains Across the SDLC
Manjunath Bhat, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Measuring efficiency gains from AI at the task level fails to capture real productivity impact because task-level time savings do not translate to system-level gains. In this ask-the-expert session, come with your questions to learn how CIOs in leading organizations realize substantial, system-level productivity gains from AI across the software development life cycle. ... Show More Show Less

03:00 PM - 03:30 PM IST

SAP: Driving Growth and Efficiency with AI, Data, and Integrated Apps
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 SAP customers are applying these approaches to improve decision making, streamline operations, and manage risk and cost at scale. ... Show More Show Less

03:45 PM - 04:15 PM IST

6 Measures That Will Enhance Your IT Business Value Story
Bryan Hayes, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Communicating IT’s business value can be challenging. What makes a good business value story? What metrics should CIOs use to communicate IT’s value to business leaders and board members? This session will propose six universal value measures, explain how to build value metrics and when to use them in your business value narratives. ... Show More Show Less
Tuesday, 18 November, 2025

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM IST

CIO Circle Workshop: New-to-Role CIO — A Structured Approach to Accelerate Your Speed to Value
Devendra Dhawale, Sr Executive Partner, Gartner
New-to-role CIOs must balance near-term performance objectives while building for the future. Whether you are a first-time CIO, new to the company/industry or a seasoned high performer, this session will help you drive success in your role through a structured and practical approach to accelerate value. ... Show More Show Less

11:45 AM - 12:15 PM IST

Fortinet: From Risk to Resilience: Scaling with AI-Led, Cloud-Ready Security Platforms
Vishak Raman, VP OF SALES - INDIA SAARC, SEA AND ANZ, Fortinet
Modern enterprises need cybersecurity that grows in step with their business and supports digital innovation. In this session, Fortinet will highlight real-world customer deployments that delivered measurable business outcomes. Discover how an AI-led, cloud-ready platform approach simplifies operations, accelerates detection and response, strengthens resilience, and reduces complexity across hybrid, OT, and cloud environments. ... Show More Show Less

01:40 PM - 02:00 PM IST

SAP: From Trust to Transformation: The 300+ AI Agents of Change @ SAP
Varun Thamba, REGIONAL HEAD OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, SAP India
While you debate AI, your core business platform already has use cases to unlock millions in savings and growth with 300+ trusted business agents.
This session shows how businesses are accelerating cash flow, cutting costs and innovating core processes—without massive change programs to deliver real in business processes.
Come join in to learn why you should be acting now, or risk having to explain why 2025 was another of year of AI experiments. ... Show More Show Less

02:30 PM - 03:00 PM IST

How To Make IT Cost Optimization a Business Decision
Bryan Hayes, Sr Director 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

02:30 PM - 03:15 PM IST

Ask the Expert: How to Communicate the Value of Enterprise Architecture to Leadership
Akshay Jhawar, Sr Principal Analyst, Gartner
CIOs and heads of EA must unlock EA’s strategic potential by effectively communicating EA value. Get answers to your questions on how CIOs and heads of EA can shift perceptions and position EA as a driver of business value during this interactive, Q&A style discussion. Questions might include: How can I build a value proposition for EA? What communication strategies can I use to present EA's value? ... Show More Show Less

03:15 PM - 03:45 PM IST

Mendix: The AI-Powered CIO: Shifting from Technology Custodian to Strategic Innovator
Sudhama Vemuri, DIRECTOR - MENDIX INDIA, Mendix
Braj Panda, HEAD OF DIGITAL, DR REDDYS LABORATORIES
Manu Augustine, Head of Operations Technology Strategy Business Excellence & Transformation (BE&T), JLL
The role of the CIO is undergoing a profound transformation. Historically viewed as a technology custodian responsible for maintaining systems and managing IT infrastructure, the modern CIO must now be a strategic innovator & a steward of enterprise-wide digital transformation. We will discuss the key challenges & opportunities in this evolution, including how to identify and prioritize AI initiatives that deliver tangible business value. ... Show More Show Less

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