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Looking back at 2025’s conference speakers
Gartner experts and global CIO and IT executive thought leaders delivered the latest insights at Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo™ 2025 conference in Kochi.
Keynote Speakers
Guest Speakers and Executive Stories
Learn from guest speakers bringing best practices from years of success in their fields.
Deepak Jayaraman
Sounding Board, Author, Podcaster
Play to Potential
Sakthi Kathiresan
Head of IT
Accenture
Siva Padmanabhan
MD & Head of Global Innovation & Technology Center
Astra Zeneca
Nick Swann
Senior Business IT Executive, and VP of the ExxonMobil Technical Computing Company
ExxonMobil Information Technology
Manish Gupta
Group CIO
Aditya Birla Group
Featured Gartner Experts
Meet a selection of Gartner experts dedicated to turning industry trends into actionable, objective guidance.
Ganesh Ramamoorthy
Managing Vice President
Gartner
Gene Alvarez
Distinguished VP Analyst
Gartner
Kristin Moyer
Distinguished VP Analyst
Gartner
Christie Struckman
Distinguished VP Analyst
Gartner
Dave Aron
Distinguished VP Analyst
Gartner
Anushree Verma
Sr Director Analyst
Gartner
Richard Addiscott
VP Analyst
Gartner
Shubhangi Vashisth
Director Analyst
Gartner
Soyeb Barot
Distinguished VP Analyst
Gartner
Gartner Experts
Get industry-leading insights straight from Gartner experts.
Richard Addiscott
VP Analyst
Gene Alvarez
Distinguished VP Analyst
Ishan Anand
Principal Analyst
Dave Aron
Distinguished VP Analyst
Soyeb Barot
Distinguished VP Analyst
Manjunath Bhat
Distinguished VP Analyst
Padraig Byrne
VP Analyst
Arun Chandrasekaran
Distinguished VP Analyst
Ricardo Chang
Sr Director Analyst
Apoorva Chhabra
Sr Principal Analyst
Galliopi Demetriou
VP Analyst
Devendra Dhawale
Sr Executive Partner
Stephen Emmott
Sr Director Analyst
David Furlonger
Distinguished VP Analyst
Milind Govekar
Distinguished VP Analyst
Anjali Grover
VP, Team Manager
Matt Hancocks
Sr Director Analyst
Bryan Hayes
Sr Director Analyst
Akshay Jhawar
Sr Principal Analyst
Sanjay Kotha
Executive Partner
Madhwesh Kulkarni
Executive Partner
DD Mishra
VP Analyst
Kristin Moyer
Distinguished VP Analyst
Gunjita Mundeja
Sr Principal Analyst
Deven Pandey
MVP, Service Delivery
Ganesh Ramamoorthy
Managing Vice President
Saikat Ray
VP Analyst
Arup Roy
Distinguished VP Analyst
Daniel Sanchez Reina
VP Analyst
Benjamin Seesel
VP, Advisory
Laurie Shotton
VP Analyst
Naresh Singh
Sr Director Analyst
Peter Skyttegaard
VP Analyst
Kevin Smith
Sr Director Analyst
Sanil Solanki
VP, Team Manager
Kristian Steenstrup
Distinguished VP Analyst
Nicholas Tharakan
Associate Director, Conferences
Shubhangi Vashisth
Director Analyst
Anushree Verma
Sr Director Analyst
Jason Wong
Distinguished VP Analyst
Ehtisham Zaidi
VP, Team Manager
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