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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.

“Done right, integrating applications and AI can enhance your work and the solutions you deliver.” Hear why you can’t miss out on #GartnerAPPS 2025 from our Conference Chair, Gary Olliffe.
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Monday, 08 September, 2025

10:30 AM - 10:50 AM BST

Bizzdesign: Successful Practices to Elevate Business Value with Architecture
Simon Bobbitt, GLOBAL PRESALES/PARTNER DIRECTOR, Bizzdesign
Is your Enterprise Architecture (EA) program perceived as noisy, useful, trusted, or influential? Great EA delivers business value and earns its place at the table by delivering results, sparking confidence, and building strong connections with IT/ business leaders. Join this session to learn how leaders build credibility and influence with best practices, key learnings from case studies and insights on the evolving EA landscape. ... Show More Show Less

01:45 PM - 02:15 PM BST

SAP: Electrifying Transformation Onto SAP S/4HANA Private Cloud With SAP BTP
Emily Mui, SR. DIRECTOR, SAP
Karthik Seshasayee, ERP SERVICE OWNER / SOLUTION ARCHITECT, Polestar Performance AB
Learn how Polestar future-proofed its application landscape using SAP’s Business Technology Platform with its leading iPaaS and agile application development solutions for modernization and innovation. Get best practices on design guardrails, automated testing, and validation to simplify upgrades and reduce technical debt. Discover how they modernized onto SAP S/4HANA in a private cloud environment, streamlined integration, and enhanced user experience to drive business impact. Take away proven practices for resilience, governance, and scalability in modernizing your application landscape. ... Show More Show Less

01:45 PM - 02:15 PM BST

Workato: From Buzz to Breakthroughs- The CIO’s Guide to the Agentic Enterprise
Mike Kiersey, GLOBAL VP SOLUTION CONSULTING, Workato
Massimo Pezzini, HEAD OF RESEARCH- FUTURE OF THE ENTERPRI, Workato
AI adoption is accelerating, but real impact often lags behind the hype. In this candid session, Workato shares what it really takes to scale AI-powered business processes. Learn how orchestration brings together apps, data, systems, AI and teams to drive intelligent outcomes. Hear real-life success stories and cautionary tales from the field and learn why trust and context are key to making AI work.

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02:30 PM - 03:00 PM BST

A Roadmap for Adopting Event-Driven and Streaming Application Architectures
Matt Brasier, VP Analyst, Gartner
Event-driven and streaming application and integration architectures are popular because they offer scaling and flexibility, and are the foundation of cloud-native applications. However, adopting a cloud-native architecture requires new skills, technologies and patterns. This session outlines a roadmap that will build your event-driven application architecture capability, whether you are building your first application or looking to scale to wider organizational adoption of events. ... Show More Show Less

03:15 PM - 03:45 PM BST

Mendix: From Tactical to Strategic: Reframing Low-Code in Enterprise Architecture
Lauren Dally, Technology Director, Everywhen (The Ardonagh Group)
Customer demands, acquisitions, and new business opportunities required faster IT response from leading insurer, Everywhen. When high code could no longer keep up, they turned to Mendix. Now, Everywhen can develop complex apps 2-3x faster – including a first-of-its kind comparison site – enabling them to lead in untapped markets. Hear how they established a strategic low-code capability that promotes agility, resilience, and customer-centricity. ... Show More Show Less

03:15 PM - 03:45 PM BST

Airia: AI Agents Are Here to Stay: Orchestrating Secure Enterprise Deployment
Rich Wham, VP EMEA, Airia
Enterprise AI success requires more than powerful models—it demands sophisticated orchestration. This session explores how AI orchestration platforms enable organizations to securely deploy, manage, and scale AI agents across their enterprise while maintaining strict security and compliance standards.

Through real-world examples, discover how leading organizations use orchestration solutions to transform disconnected AI experiments into unified, secure AI ecosystems. Learn best practices for building security-first orchestration architecture that accelerates AI adoption while mitigating risks. Key takeaways include orchestration fundamentals, security implementation strategies, compliance frameworks, and practical steps for scaling AI initiatives across your organization with confidence. ... Show More Show Less

04:00 PM - 04:30 PM BST

Microservices Are Dead, Long Live the Monolith: How to Balance Monoliths and Microservices
Dave Micko, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Over recent years, as microservices proliferated, many organizations now grapple with reduced agility stemming from architectural complexity. This session emphasizes how monoliths remain a viable choice in various industries to address scalability issues remaining less complex. We'll explore the modern approach of leveraging modular monoliths to reduce complexity as well as use cases when microservices are still a relevant choice ... Show More Show Less

04:00 PM - 04:45 PM BST

Ask the Expert: Identifying & Assessing AI Agents, Agentic AI Platforms, Use Cases and Risks
Gary Olliffe, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
The concept of AI agents is often hyped and misused in the technology market. It’s crucial to identify agents, and assess their impact, risk and value. In this “Ask the Expert” session, bring your questions about AI agent use cases, tools and risks to learn how to deliver AI agents that add value to your organization. ... Show More Show Less

06:10 PM - 06:30 PM BST

Cockroach Labs: Supporting OpenAI in managing identity at scale for 800M+ weekly active ChatGPT users
Jeff Hickman, HEAD OF CUSTOMER ENGINEERING, Ory
Rob Reid, TECHNICAL EVANGELIST, Cockroach Labs
With over 800M weekly users, ChatGPT needed a scalable IAM system. This session explores how OpenAI built a resilient identity infrastructure using Ory’s modular IAM and CockroachDB’s distributed SQL. Learn how to meet high availability demands, ensure data residency, and maintain developer agility without sacrificing security or UX—for the world’s most demanding workloads. ... Show More Show Less

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