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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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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