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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

02:30 PM - 03:15 PM BST

Roundtable: Application Leadership Skills (Multi-group)
Tad Travis, VP Analyst, Gartner
Leading an enterprise application program requires more than just application knowledge and technical skills. Stakeholder management, team development and strategic planning skills are equally important. Join this roundtable session with peers to discuss best practices, lessons learned and new perspectives on application leadership. ... Show More Show Less

03:15 PM - 03:45 PM BST

LeanIX: Streamlining SAP S/4HANA Transformations with Integrated Toolchain.
Join us for an engaging fireside chat with Al Majdouie exploring their innovative approach to SAP S/4HANA transformation through integrated toolchain strategies. This interactive session will cover the practical challenges faced during their migration, key strategic decisions, and measurable benefits achieved. ... Show More Show Less

04:00 PM - 04:45 PM BST

Ask the Expert: Impact of Agentic AI on the Future of ERP
Greg Leiter, VP Analyst, Gartner
Over the past 18 months, ERP vendors have announced numerous AI initiatives driven by the ongoing hype around the latest breakthrough, Agentic AI. This session will highlight the current state of AI in the ERP market and explore how Agentic AI is poised to alter the future of ERP. ... Show More Show Less

04:00 PM - 04:30 PM BST

Effective Enterprise Application Governance and Strategy
David Penny, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Prioritization is key to effective delivery. But how should enterprise application leaders prioritize? Having the right governance instruments and a strategic plan is essential to decision making. This session will lay out the essential elements necessary to govern and manage enterprise applications, including policies and plans. ... Show More Show Less
Tuesday, 09 September, 2025

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM BST

How to Start Your Journey to the New Future of ERP Era
Denis Torii, VP Analyst, Gartner
The future of ERP strategies is driven by improving overall operations and turning this into an adaptive and headless ERP experience. Application leaders must attend this session to understand how to start their journeys towards this promising but complex journey. ... Show More Show Less

12:00 PM - 12:30 PM BST

Be Ready to Embrace or Reject RISE With SAP
David Penny, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
RISE with SAP complexities presents risks and considerable change and needs investment to achieve business outcomes. Prepare your boardroom position to defend in-house IT or embrace ERP as a service to deliver return on investment from new technology. Will technical debt, new processes and clean-core efforts add to your transformation burden? Retain your differentiation and ensure your critical system delivers resilience, agility and future-proofing. ... Show More Show Less

12:00 PM - 12:30 PM BST

Move Over Traditional and Generative AI: Agentic AI Is the Next Big Hype in Enterprise Applications
Greg Leiter, VP Analyst, Gartner
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 will explore how agentic AI will change the future of the enterprise applications experience. ... Show More Show Less

03:45 PM - 04:15 PM BST

Build vs. Buy Strategy: Top Principles for Enterprise Applications
Tad Travis, VP Analyst, Gartner
"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. ... Show More Show Less

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