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Experience Gartner expertise: 2025 summit session highlights

Watch below as Gartner renowned industry experts shared exclusive, actionable insights on future-looking trends and topics for enterprise application and software engineering leaders. Attending the summit means you will:

  • Benchmark your strategy with 1,700+ peers tackling similar challenges.
  • Explore practical frameworks to modernize applications, architecture and delivery.
  • Gain exclusive insights from Gartner experts on emerging applications and AI trends.
  • Maximize impact by attending as a team — align strategies and drive results together.

Explore Top Rated Sessions Below

Business process automation technologies are rapidly evolving with overlapping of RPA, BPA and agentic AI. While customers are looking for end to end capabilities, the vendors are offering a consolidated platform built around orchestration, connectivity and agentic AI. Gartner calls these business orchestration and automation technologies (BOAT). Join this session to learn more about BOAT.

Speaker: Arthur Villa, Senior Director, Business and Technology Insights

The AI hype cycle continues with the next breakthrough — agentic AI — which has the potential to fulfill the autonomous business future envisioned by Gartner. This session explored how agentic AI will change the future of the enterprise applications experience.

Speaker: Greg Leiter, Vice President, Business and Technology Insights

Due to their pretraining and wide use-case applicability, generative AI models are a major AI advance, but the dynamic and unpredictable model ecosystem can be complex for IT leaders to navigate. In this session, we learnt the best practices for selection, deployment and how to align them with future use cases.

Speaker: Arun Chandrasekaran, Distinguised Vice President, Business and Technology Insights

AI agents in software engineering step beyond AI code assistants to act as autonomous autopilots for software development and testing tasks. Software engineering leaders can use this research to assess the opportunities and risks of implementing AI agents into their development process.

Speaker: Joachim Herschmann, Vice President, Business and Technology Insights

Every organization uses or builds APIs. REST has dominated the landscape for a decade, but is that dominance safe in the face of new challengers, like MCP and A2A, emerging for use cases like AI agents and AI automation? In this session, we assessed the current landscape, how to decide when and where to use the right API style, and what to invest in to protect and manage them.

Speaker: Gary Olliffe, Distinguished Vice President, Business and Technology Insights

"Buy vs. build" is a recurring theme for enterprise application leaders. This session is focused on helping leaders understand the new factors that need to be incorporated into this decision, from cloud techniques and AI-enabled coding to diverse costing models, showing examples of typical challenges that customers are facing in this new application strategy era.

Speaker: Tad Travis, Vice President, Business and Technology Insights

Enterprise architecture organizations seldom receive advance notice of technology decision making, yet are tasked with upholding governance against potentially tactical or ill-informed choices. Unfortunately, this often creates a negative feedback loop, portraying enterprise architecture as a punitive internal enforcer and hindrance, rather than a collaborative partner. This session focused on how to modernize architectural reviews, apply adaptive governance and promote holistic collaboration.

Speaker: Duncan Robson, Senior Director, Business and Technology Insights

Saying the business software is old isn't getting your teams the time they need to fix technical debt. Effective technical debt management starts with helping business partners understand how architectural decisions can affect the business outcomes they care about. Learn how to reframe, rebrand and reposition technical debt into decisions in your business partners’ self-interest.

Speaker: Aaron Harrison, Director, Business and Technology Insights

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