All 2025 Conference Sessions

Gartner CIO & IT Executive Conference 2025 dives deep into key topics for CIOs and IT business leaders around AI, executive leadership, the business value of IT and more to help you address your organization’s mission-critical challenges.

2025 Conference Theme

Drive Change. Build a Tech-Driven Future.

Gartner CIO & IT Executive Conference is dedicated to empowering leaders with the tools, strategies and actionable insight needed to drive growth in an uncertain environment. Join us as we delve into the critical role of innovation in shaping the future outcomes of business in a tech-driven world.

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Monday, 06 October, 2025

09:30 AM - 10:15 AM GST

Gartner Opening Keynote: Walking The Golden Path to Value
Jennifer Carter, Sr Principal Analyst, Gartner
Ed Gabrys, Managing Vice President, Gartner
AI isn't everything, but it's touching everything. To achieve the next level of value, you must navigate the blinding hype surrounding AI readiness and the lagging progress of human readiness. Join Gartner’s Opening Keynote to discover how CIOs, AI leaders and IT leaders can chart their own "golden path" – navigating vendor choices, reimagining the workforce and redefining organizational identities – to be agents of change. ... Show More Show Less

10:30 AM - 10:50 AM GST

FileOrbis: Turn chaos into control- Secure, federated, compliant, AI-Enabler document management
Hammam Abunaser, REGIONAL SALES DIRECTOR - MEA, FileOrbis
Traditional security tools overlook the documents where your most valuable data lives. FileOrbis closes this gap by enforcing document-level security, governance, and compliance across Filer Servers, Microsoft 365 and hybrid environments. This session explores how to protect unstructured data with persistent access control, auditing, and classification—without disrupting productivity. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM GST

The Secrets of High Performing Executive Leaders
Eyad Tachwali, VP, Advisory, Gartner
The behaviors, practices, and habits of executive leaders in high-performing organizations are different. The approaches and strategies they used to partner, learn, make decisions, prioritize, trust, influence, take risks, and build culture are what sets them apart from their peers in lower performing organizations. Findings from our executive leadership dynamics study illustrate this. In this session we reveal the secrets to their success. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM GST

Top Trends for Cybersecurity 2025
Christopher Mixter, VP Analyst, Gartner
This session highlights the most prominent cybersecurity risk management focus for security leaders when responding to persistent forces, often outside of their control, that are impacting their security programs. Key trends in 2025 are focused on enabling secure transformation and embedding resilience into the organization and the cybersecurity function. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM GST

Contract Negotiation Clinic: Follow Gartner’s 4 Step Framework to Optimize Your IT Services Megavendor Negotiations
Danny Kreidy, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Negoitiating with IT services vendors can be a crucial part of ensuring you get the best value for your money and the best services. This clinic will provide guidance on tips, tricks and strategies to CIOs on how to prepare for services contract negotiations with megavendors like Accenture, TCS, Infosys, IBM, etc. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM GST

Mastering Cloud Financial Management: Strategic Approaches for CIOs to Align Cost With Value
Douglas Toombs, VP Analyst, Gartner
CIO’s are facing enormous pressures to navigate the complexities of dynamic, real-time cloud spending within traditional IT funding models. This session explores proven strategies and practical insights from Gartner's comprehensive cloud financial management framework, empowering CIOs to link cloud costs to unit economics, foster a culture of cost accountability and ensure alignment with organizational goals. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM GST

Roundtable: At What Pace Are You Adopting AI in Your Org - Use Cases in Action
This session will provide a forum for organizations to share their experiences and use cases in deploying AI at varying speeds and scales. Technology leaders working with AI should attend this session to gain insights into successful AI implementations and benchmark their AI adoption strategies. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM GST

Ask the Expert: How to Build an Enterprise AI Literacy Program
Erick Brethenoux, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
In this session, we will discuss why AI literacy is now essential as AI grows more accessible and regulations emerge. We’ll explore the key elements of an effective AI literacy program, from defining a basic curriculum to making the program engaging and implementing it for different organizational personas. Learn how to move from AI awareness to true AI literacy, foster an AI-first culture and prepare your organization for a future where AI becomes part of its fabric. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM GST

How to Create an Optimal Data & Analytics Organizational Model
Afraz Jaffri, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
D&A leaders must optimize their organizational model to position their teams as essential for fulfilling cross-functional use cases. The ideal model balances enterprisewide capabilities focused on enablement with decentralized needs focused on outcomes. This session will cover the design principles of the right D&A organizational model and how to balance a centralized team (focused on enablement) with decentralized needs (focused on outcomes). ... Show More Show Less

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