Gain early insights into the key trends and solutions empowering technology leaders to drive smarter, faster and more resilient outcomes. The Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo™ 2026 conference agenda is being crafted to address your top challenges, providing actionable guidance to accelerate your organization.
A: Agentic AI, Emerging Tech and Operationalization
Explore the frontier of agentic AI and emerging technologies that have the potential to disrupt your industry or sector. Invest in the future prudently by taking action to optimize costs. Move beyond hype to operationalize new capabilities, scale autonomy, and stay ahead, as intelligent systems reshape how business gets done.
B: Strategic Planning, AI Strategy and Innovation
Actively shape your organization’s future by embedding AI into the core business strategy, moving beyond efficiency to redefine business models. Gain clarity on regulatory and market realities, including transparency requirements and localization, helping CIOs anticipate rising costs and establish a strategy for harnessing momentum for sustainable AI transformation.
C: Leadership, Change Management and AI Adoption
Navigate evolving board expectations and organizational politics to deliver measurable value. Champion tech-execution with clarity and conviction, unite the C-suite around a shared vision, and implement change management to turn disruption into strategic opportunity. Overcome resistance, energize teams, and convert AI-driven disruption into organizational advantage.
D: Cybersecurity, Architecture and Engineering
Protect your organization in a time of entrenched uncertainty. Invest in enterprise architecture to support business process redesign that leverages the opportunity provided by AI, agentic AI, and guardian AI. Build resilience by protecting critical assets from new threats while investing in people, processes and technologies to quickly recover from disruptions.
E: Talent, Skills and AI Literacy
Accelerate your workforce’s readiness for the AI era. Build critical skills, nurture adaptability, and empower teams to thrive alongside intelligent technology as work intensifies. Proactively address talent gaps, redesign roles amid talent market challenges, and cultivate a culture of continuous learning and change to remain resilient and competitive.
F: Modern Operating Models, Sourcing and Ecosystem
Redefine how IT delivers value with adaptive operating models and smart sourcing. Achieve agility, resilience, and sovereignty while navigating complex vendor landscapes. Navigate negotiation dynamics, enforce governance, and position your organization to capitalize on disruption and opportunity — ensuring IT remains a driver of enterprise success.
G: Business Value, ROI and Cost Optimization
Showcase IT’s impact by leading cost optimization as a data-driven, governed discipline that ensures every technology investment delivers measurable value and aligns spend to enterprise outcomes. Learn actionable strategies for reducing unnecessary spend and reinvesting in growth drivers to achieve higher returns and strengthen long-term competitive position.
H: Data, Analytics and Digital Product Experience
Explore how to turn data and analytics into a durable foundation for innovation and growth, with model context as the critical layer that makes AI insights relevant, trusted, and actionable. Learn how to make data AI‑ready, modernize platforms and architectures, and elevate AI‑enabled digital products with transparency, traceability, and governance.
I: Infrastructure, Cloud and Technology Platforms
Existing technology investments are inadequate to meet the future demands of AI and business priorities. Discover what the future of cloud and infrastructure looks like and learn how to build and govern your technology estate to support innovation, while operationalizing safety and reliability.