In today’s uncertain and volatile world, the choices CIOs and technology leaders need to make are crucial. Now is the moment to harness AI and make the strategic decisions that ensure success of your digital transformation.
As the lead change agent, you need:
● Adaptive leadership. Navigating fast changing, complex challenges with clarity and purpose.
● Smart technology decisions. AI-ready data, cybersecurity, cloud sovereignty, cost optimization and more.
● Innovation and resilience. Creating a culture ready to embrace change.
● Actionable insights. Gaining practical and prioritized strategies that create value.
● Future-ready workforce. Preparing your organization for a very different tomorrow.
Join us at Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo™ 2025 to make the critical choices that unlock the greatest potential of change for you, your organization and our society.
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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
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Tuesday, 28 October, 2025
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM JST
Gartner Opening Keynote: Walking The Golden Path to Value
Yoshi Matsumoto,
Distinguished VP, Advisory, Gartner
Andy Rowsell-Jones,
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.
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12:00 PM - 12:30 PM JST
[Luncheon] CCH Tagetik: Enterprise Data Platform for Next-Generation Management
Miho Akiba,
SENIOR PRESALES MANAGER, Tagetik Japan K.K.
As businesses expand and face growing pressure for carbon neutrality, management is becoming more complex. To drive sustainable growth and value, companies must rebuild their decision-making foundations.
This session highlights CCH Tagetik, a trusted solution used by top Japanese companies like Toyota, Honda, Ricoh, and Otsuka. It unifies financial and non-financial data to boost decision speed and accuracy.
Learn how CIOs can support the business through IT and become strategic partners in a complex environment. ... Show More Show Less
This session highlights CCH Tagetik, a trusted solution used by top Japanese companies like Toyota, Honda, Ricoh, and Otsuka. It unifies financial and non-financial data to boost decision speed and accuracy.
Learn how CIOs can support the business through IT and become strategic partners in a complex environment. ... Show More Show Less
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM JST
[Luncheon] Splunk Services: Data-Driven Resilience - IT Creates Growth and Trust
Motomichi Mori,
Japan Chief Technology Officer, Splunk Services Japan
As digital transformation accelerates, businesses increasingly depend on IT systems while facing rapidly changing market dynamics. Today, resilience means more than just minimizing risks from outages or cyber incidents (“defensive resilience”) — it also requires the agility to enhance customer experience and development speed (“offensive resilience”). This session proposes a new strategic vision: Data-Driven Resilience, where IT and security are redefined as core business enablers through actionable visibility and informed decision-making.
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12:00 PM - 12:30 PM JST
[Luncheon] KARAKURI: Transforming Enterprise AI—Local LLMs for Data-Sovereign Dev
Shimon Oda,
CEO, KARAKURI
With the emergence of locally deployable LLMs, enterprise AI strategies are at a turning point. This session explores practical approaches to in-house AI development that leverage legacy systems without APIs and tacit organizational knowledge while keeping proprietary data on-premises. Rather than replicating Western models, we present a phased implementation that respects Japanese corporate culture, avoiding departmental silos to achieve enterprise-wide optimization. We'll share real-world examples of practical solutions for breaking free from cloud dependency and securing data sovereignty.
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12:00 PM - 12:30 PM JST
[Luncheon] Sovablu: Information coming soon
Taiki Fukunaga,
Director of IS, Syngenta Japan K.K.
Natarajan Subramania,
Co-Founder & Representative Director, Sovablu KK
For organizations in a stable phase, accelerating transformation requires a new perspective.
The key is “component-based thinking” — breaking down and reconstructing business processes, tools, and technologies at the right level of granularity.
By evaluating each component and aligning priorities and timelines, transformation shifts from a one-time event to a continuous, sustainable process.
This session shares practical mindsets and methods for navigating complex challenges and steadily realizing new possibilities, with examples from large enterprises adopting this as a core management model. ... Show More Show Less
The key is “component-based thinking” — breaking down and reconstructing business processes, tools, and technologies at the right level of granularity.
By evaluating each component and aligning priorities and timelines, transformation shifts from a one-time event to a continuous, sustainable process.
This session shares practical mindsets and methods for navigating complex challenges and steadily realizing new possibilities, with examples from large enterprises adopting this as a core management model. ... Show More Show Less
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM JST
[Luncheon] UCHIDA YOKO: Driving Business Agility with Enterprise Data and AI Agents
Ryoi Yamaguchi,
General Manager, UCHIDA YOKO CO., LTD.
As AI agents draw growing attention, success depends on platforms that can quickly and accurately utilize existing enterprise data. Beyond model sophistication, data quality, flexibility, lifecycle management, and security are crucial. This seminar introduces Uchida Yoko’s “Mμgen” platform, showing how its integration with AI agents can transform business processes and support agile responses to change.
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12:40 PM - 01:00 PM JST
Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms
Hiroyuki Suzuki,
Director Analyst, Gartner
The key to choosing endpoint security is not simply to evaluate individual security detection capabilities or stand-alone products. Instead, organizations should focus on optimizing their operations and security capabilities by leveraging multiple device security functions and a platform that integrates them. This session will explain these concepts using insights from the Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms.
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12:40 PM - 01:00 PM JST
Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms
Takahiro Noda,
Director Analyst, Gartner
Today’s data science and machine learning platforms provide integrated code-based and low-code tools for collaboration among data science, business and IT teams. Supporting the full data science life cycle and a broad range of AI techniques, these platforms help data and analytics leaders accelerate enterprise AI initiatives. This session guides leaders in making informed platform choices.
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01:30 PM - 02:00 PM JST
Google Cloud: Offensive/Defensive DX, Next-Gen Security & Governance
Yoshiki Sato,
Head of Customer Engineering, Google Workspace and Gemini, Google Asia Pacific
Generative AI holds immense potential to transform businesses, but it also underscores the growing importance of building robust security and governance frameworks.
This session will delve into key approaches to strengthen both the "offensive" strategies that maximize AI's benefits and the "defensive" strategies that protect businesses from emerging risks.
We will support executives in building a balanced, integrated strategy to ensure sustainable growth and enhanced corporate value in the AI era. ... Show More Show Less
This session will delve into key approaches to strengthen both the "offensive" strategies that maximize AI's benefits and the "defensive" strategies that protect businesses from emerging risks.
We will support executives in building a balanced, integrated strategy to ensure sustainable growth and enhanced corporate value in the AI era. ... Show More Show Less
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