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

04:30 PM - 05:15 PM GST

Guest Keynote : Everyday Future - Ignoring the Fluff and Making Things Happen
Magnus Lindkvist, Futurologist, Magnus Lindkvist AB.
Whenever "The Future" is mentioned as a title or theme, it conjures images of shiny gadgets, burning planets, and big words. Useful in books and movies. Less so for leaders and managers. In a real-time world, the future must be transformed from a tirade of clichés into a management tool. Futurologist Magnus Lindkvist spent the pandemic years crafting actionable insights from how companies, entrepreneurs, and leaders made "future" an activity, not just a theory. Why is success toxic? What is exaptation and how can it spawn innovation? Why should we follow aliens? And what can we all learn from the Bee Gee's? Get answers to these questions and many more during Lindkvist's keynote session. ... Show More Show Less
Tuesday, 07 October, 2025

09:30 AM - 10:15 AM GST

Guest Keynote: Walking Your Golden Path — Navigating AI Readiness, Human Readiness, and Transcending Limits
CIOs and IT leaders are at a defining moment. They must balance AI’s rapid technical readiness with the slower pace of human and organizational change. This panel will explore what it takes to walk your own golden path—cutting through the hype, making deliberate choices, and preparing your enterprise for a future where what got you here won’t get you there. ... Show More Show Less
Wednesday, 08 October, 2025

09:30 AM - 10:15 AM GST

Guest Keynote: Embracing an Opportunity Mindset Science-backed Leadership Strategies to Thrive during Change
Shade Zahrai, Director, Influenceo Global Inc
During times of change, the default human response is often to experience overwhelm and to enter crisis mode'. Yet the most successful, most productive and most fulfilled professionals are those who understand how to master their mindset and focus on the plethora of opportunities that change and challenges present.
Shade Zahrai will guide you through the neuroscience research behind how to embrace an opportunity mindset, how to feel more empowered and focused, and how to more effectively influence others. She will reveal some of the latest evidence-based practices to transform your performance, supercharge your impact, and optimise team engagement. ... Show More Show Less

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