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] 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] 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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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
AWS: A Leader's Guide to Agentic AI
Matthias Patzak,
Executive in Residence, Amazon Web Services, Inc
In a landscape of rapid AI evolution, senior leaders need clarity on what agentic AI means for their business. This session cuts through the noise to provide a practical understanding of autonomous AI agents and their strategic implications. We'll demystify agentic AI and focus on what matters most to leaders. We'll share how both management and architecture models must evolve to get value from autonomous AI systems.
*This session will be delivered in English with Japanese simultaneous interpretation.
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*This session will be delivered in English with Japanese simultaneous interpretation.
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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.
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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.
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01:30 PM - 02:00 PM JST
WalkMe: Human-Centered Transformation That Unlocks Any AI, Any Application
Takaaki Kobayashi,
Executive Officer, Director Sales Div., WalkMe
With DX, the number of business applications continues to grow, and more and more companies are focusing on leveraging AI in their operations. At the same time, challenges have emerged: how to address increasingly complex business processes, the proliferation of AI applications, and the ongoing evolution of LLMs—while effectively incorporating them into the organization and turning them into a source of competitive advantage.In this session, we will introduce a human-centered transformation that enables organizations to harness any AI and any application to drive competitiveness.
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01:30 PM - 02:00 PM JST
DevRev: Integrated AI Agents: Moving Beyond Summarization to Automation
Dheeraj Pandey,
Founder and CEO, DevRev, Inc.
Every leader knows that AI matters, but we're all still learning exactly how. Siloed business data has been the main obstacle - but no more. Learn how DevRev solves this problem, unifying existing structured data like tickets, backlogs, and CRMs with unstructured data like emails, chats, and documents into an AI-native Knowledge Graph, powering integrated AI agents that create, read, update, and delete, not simply summarize. The result? Happier customers, empowered employees, and finally, ROI from AI.
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