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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

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM BST

The Key Components of a Successful Enterprise Application Strategy
Tad Travis, VP Analyst, Gartner
This presentation will outline the key components of a successful enterprise application strategy. Join this session to learn how to create an overarching strategy for my enterprise application portfolios, ensure alignment between the application strategy and business stakeholder priorities, and understand and measure business stakeholder priorities. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM BST

Prioritize Application Portfolio Management Opportunities With Business Architecture
Andrew Gianni, Director Analyst, Gartner
Application portfolio management can be an overwhelming challenge. It may be easy enough to identify opportunities for change in the portfolio, but how does one prioritize those changes? This session will introduce concepts in business architecture can be used to support prioritization of application portfolio management activities. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM BST

The Future of Developer Productivity
Frank O'Connor, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
What are the best strategies for measuring and enhancing developer productivity? We’ll explore how narrow approaches to measuring productivity fall short and why a more holistic approach is essential. Learn to measure true productivity with outcome-based metrics that align with business goals, focusing on quality, user satisfaction and collaboration. Discover strategies to balance AI automation with human expertise and foster a culture of continuous learning and innovation. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM BST

How Will Generative AI Affect Your API Strategy?
Andrew Humphreys, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Generative AI has impacted all things technology. APIs are no exception. Clients looking to embrace Generative AI as part of their API strategy need to be apprised of the quick wins and pitfalls associated with this decision. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM BST

How to Modernize Integration to Reduce Technical Debt
Keith Guttridge, VP Analyst, Gartner
As companies aim to move faster than ever before, integration is an essential component, providing the building blocks for IT agility. However, technical debt in integration leads to higher costs, poor reliability and quality issues that undermine organizational agility. This session will show how to manage technical debt by identifying and prioritizing the highest-impact items to be addressed. ... Show More Show Less

11:45 AM - 12:15 PM BST

How Heads of Enterprise Architecture Can Enable AI-Ready Data
Mehak Kaur, Director, Research, Gartner
There are high expectations for AI to give enterprise growth, but a lack of data quality to meet AI use-case requirements abounds. Heads of enterprise architecture must enable AI-ready data and apply adaptive governance to not inhibit innovation and responsiveness. ... Show More Show Less

11:45 AM - 12:15 PM BST

How AI Agents Will Disrupt Software Engineering
Joachim Herschmann, VP Analyst, Gartner
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. ... Show More Show Less

11:45 AM - 12:15 PM BST

Top 10 Reasons Why Generative AI Projects Fail and How to Fix It
Arun Chandrasekaran, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
More than 50% of generative AI projects fail. In this session, IT Leaders will learn the common causes of failures and understand the best practices to mitigate those failures and scale AI across the enterprise. ... Show More Show Less

11:45 AM - 12:15 PM BST

10 Best Practices to Get Your Enterprise Process Automation Initiative Back on Track
Arthur Villa, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
The automation of business processes is a top priority for most CEOs, but these initiatives can often stall or remain siloed within a single department. In this session, we'll share 10 tactics to reshape and relaunch your automation program. ... Show More Show Less

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