Dive into some of the key take-aways you may have missed from Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo™ 2025.
All 2025 Conference Sessions
Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo™ 2025 dove deep into key topics for CIOs and IT leaders around AI, executive leadership, emerging tech and more.
Session Take-Aways
Day 1 Take-Aways
Enhancing AI Readiness Maturity and Leadership Roles: Strategic Insights for CIOs
Speakers:
Tatsuya Ichishi, Team Manager, Gartner
About the Session
The maturity of AI readiness significantly impacts business outcomes. How can AI readiness be matured? What responsibilities should be assigned to the key individuals driving this process? Join this session to gain insights into CIOs’ AI strategies using findings from Gartner’s CDAO Survey.
Day 2 Take-Aways
Leadership Greatest Hits — 2025 Edition: A Playlist of Actions for CIOs to Lead Better
Speakers:
Rob O’Donohue, VP Analyst, Gartner
CIOs are under pressure to lead through extreme change at a time when norms are being shattered. In this session, CIOs will discover a set of leadership tactics shaping executive success in 2025. These targeted actions will help CIOs adapt their leadership approach enabling them to lead better up to the CEO and Board, across the C-Suite, outside their organization, down into their organization, and, most crucially, help them lead better from within. Ideal for CIOs aiming to stay ahead, this session offers practical tools to elevate your leadership game.
Day 3 Take-Aways
How to Evaluate and Select Consulting Services
Speakers:
Tsuyoshi Ebina, VP Analyst, Gartner
The use of consulting services for system modernization and digital transformation is growing. However, few enterprises have a clear solution on how to evaluate the proposals and how to verify the cost-effectiveness of these services. In this session, a Gartner expert will discuss solutions to these issues.
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Hundreds of conference sessions were presented each day at the 2025 Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo™ conference. While we work to develop this year's agenda, filter to see sessions that align with your role and interests.
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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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11:00 AM - 11:45 AM JST
Guest Keynote: Outlook for Japanese Policy: Digital, AI, and Cybersecurity
Masaaki Taira,
Member of House of Representatives/Former Minister for Digital Transformation
In this session, we welcome Mr. Masaaki Taira, Member of the House of Representatives, former Minister for Digital Affairs, and Japan’s first Minister for Cybersecurity, as our keynote speaker. Mr. Taira will share insights into the process of formulating Japan’s national AI strategy and his initiatives in the field of cybersecurity. Drawing from his real-world experience, he will discuss the perspectives that guided his promotion of digital policies aimed at ensuring national security and economic growth. Mr. Taira will also share his leadership philosophy and his views on organizational management and talent development in an era of rapid change. Attendees will gain valuable insights into the latest trends in AI and cybersecurity, as well as the leadership that drove the digital transformation of Japan.
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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] SKILLUP NeXt:Strategy for AI & PoC Death Escape: Org. & Governance
Shinichi Tahara,
Representative Director, SKILLUP NeXt, Ltd.
Breaking Free from "PoC Hell": An Organizational and Governance Strategy for Successful Generative AI Collaboration. he root cause of "PoC Hell" with generative AI is not technology, but organization and governance issues. This session offers strategies for the organizational change required to achieve business transformation with AI. We will introduce our "Three Engines" framework (Education, Scalable Results, Culture) and a governance model for AI agents using "Machine ID" to manage risks. Take home a roadmap to break free from silos and gain a competitive advantage in the AI era.
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12:00 PM - 12:30 PM JST
[Luncheon] Sovablu: Considering Corporate Business Applications with Triage Thinking
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
Michitoshi Sakagami,
Assistant Manager, Sales Promotion Group, Insight Promotion Dept., Smart Insight Division, 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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