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Gartner Application Innovation & Business Solutions Summit 2025 dives deep into key topics for enterprise application and software engineering leaders around AI agents, intelligent applications, managing cultural change and more to help you address your organization’s mission-critical challenges in today’s rapidly shifting world.

2025 Conference Theme

Future Foundations: Connecting People, Technology and Value

Explore how AI, automation and new platforms are reshaping enterprise solutions. Learn essential leadership practices, technologies and architectures to succeed. Seize new opportunities to make your organization more agile and efficient for the future.

Explore our conference sessions below, all developed with this theme in mind.

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Monday, 08 September, 2025

11:45 AM - 12:15 PM BST

Fireside Chat: Team Topologies as the ‘Infrastructure For Agency’ With Humans and AI
Matthew Skelton, Co-Author of Team Topologies, Team Topologies Ltd
Gary Olliffe, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
As organizations race to adopt Agentic AI, many overlook the foundational structures essential for autonomous decision-making. Drawing from real-world successes—and failures—this session explores how principles from Team Topologies can provide the boundaries, interfaces, and culture needed for effective agency in both humans and AI. Join Matthew Skelton, co-author of Team Topologies, and Gary Olliffe, Distinguished VP Analyst, for a fireside chat featuring new case studies from the soon-to-be-released second edition of Team Topologies. Discover how to empower autonomous knowledge work and ensure sustainable success with Agentic AI. ... Show More Show Less

02:30 PM - 03:00 PM BST

Executive Story: Evolving Developer Effectiveness In a Complex Organisation — Lessons From the Frontline 

Adrian Spender, Technology Director, Engineering Effectiveness, Tesco
This session explores the evolution of software engineering practices at Tesco over the past decade. It highlights the shift from a focus on high growth with high empowerment to a more sustainable and cost-effective approach. We will share lessons learned, practices that worked, those that didn’t, and insights into the future direction of software engineering at Tesco. ... Show More Show Less
Tuesday, 09 September, 2025

12:00 PM - 12:30 PM BST

Executive Story: Driving Standards - How Ford Is Consolidating Its Tech Stack In Europe
Chris Hurley, Director - EU Enterprise Technology, Ford-Werke GmbH
This session will focus on why Ford has started a journey to a single tech stack spanning SaaS platforms and internally built products to support its business in Europe. We will cover the case for change, how we determined the vision and the challenges faced in adoption. Overview of EU Tech Stack: The EU Tech Stack aims to streamline technology across the region, reducing tech debt and eliminating redundant applications Governance: A governance process ensures alignment with the EU Tech Stack principles and strategy, requiring approval for significant changes and making trade-offs where needed Future State: The future state envisions a unified tech stack powering both our Ford Pro and Retail experiences by leveraging global platforms & standards. ... Show More Show Less

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