Value at AI Velocity: Navigating the Now and Next
This year’s conference empowers data and analytics leaders to deliver value at AI speed — driving impact, scaling high-value initiatives and balancing risk. Learn to unlock data’s potential for today’s wins and future success.
Conference Topics at a Glance
The 2026 conference agenda will help you navigate disruption, drive innovation, and lead through change. Explore practical strategies for delivering value, advancing AI, and building resilient, future-ready organizations.
2026 Conference Theme
AI, GenAI and AI Agents
Get practical guidance for building and scaling AI, generative AI, and AI agents. Learn to optimize costs, manage risk and deliver business value from your AI investments.
Data, Analytics and AI Governance
Explore frameworks and best practices for data, analytics, and AI governance. Sessions cover risk, privacy, ethics and building a culture of trust and accountability.
Articulating the Business Value of Data and Analytics
Learn how to communicate and prove the value of data and analytics. Discover ways to build business cases, measure ROI, and show D&A’s impact on business goals.
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Hundreds of conference sessions were presented each day at the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2025. While we work to develop the 2026 agenda, filter to see sessions that align with your role and interests.
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Monday, 12 May, 2025
09:30 AM - 10:15 AM BST
Gartner Opening Keynote: Scale Data and Analytics on Your AI Journeys
Jorg Heizenberg,
VP Analyst, Gartner
Aura Popa,
Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
With high D&A ambitions and AI pilots becoming increasingly ubiquitous, focus is shifting toward consistent execution. We will share how to continue innovating and experimenting while scaling success. In this keynote, Gartner’s perspective will guide you on preparing for the expected and adapting to the unexpected. Learn to enhance your D&A and AI capabilities on the path to success.
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10:30 AM - 10:50 AM BST
Actian: The Hidden Reason AI Projects Fail: A Data Governance Wake-Up Call
Emma McGrattan,
CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER, Actian
Jennifer Jackson,
CMO, Actian, a division of HCLSoftware
Three out of four companies are betting big on AI – but most are digging on shifting ground. In this $100 billion gold rush, none of these investments will pay off without data quality and strong governance – and that remains a challenge for many organizations. Not every enterprise has a solid data governance practice and maturity models vary widely. As a result, investments in innovation initiatives are at risk of failure. What are the most important data management issues to prioritize? See how your organization measures up and get ahead of the curve with Actian.
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10:30 AM - 10:50 AM BST
Neo4j: Get Your Data AI-Ready: Knowledge Graphs & GraphRAG for GenAI Success
Michael Down,
FIELD ENGINEER, Neo4j
Enterprise-grade GenAI needs a unified data strategy for accurate, reliable results. Learn how knowledge graphs make structured and unstructured data AI-ready while enabling governance and transparency. See how GraphRAG (retrieval-augmented generation with knowledge graphs) drives real success: a major gaming company achieved 10x faster insights, while Data2 cut workloads by 50%. Discover how knowledge graphs and GraphRAG create a foundation for trustworthy agentic AI systems across retail, healthcare, finance, and more.
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10:30 AM - 10:50 AM BST
Ab Initio: Automating Creation of Data Products with AI
Rhys Duggan,
Field Consultant, Ab Initio
As we enter an increasingly AI-driven world, it is becoming increasingly clear that leveraging the power of LLMs presents considerable challenges. Hallucinations, trust issues, and governance risks cause considerable concerns. This session will demonstrate how comprehensive and relevant metadata forms the foundation of data understanding and governance. You'll see how Ab Initio’s platform enables the automation of trusted, well-documented, and end-to-end governed data products, ensuring AI models operate with greater reliability and confidence.
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10:45 AM - 12:15 PM BST
CDAO Circle: Leadership Exchange: State of D&A in 2025
Brian Foster,
Managing Vice President, Gartner
Cameron Roche,
Director, Research, Gartner
Michael Gabbard,
Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Candice Kenney,
VP, Team Manager, Gartner
D&A leaders and teams are at an AI-driven inflection point. They are crucial to enable business value through AI-readiness but must evolve their strategy and operating model to meet their organization’s AI ambitions. Reporting from the Gartner 2025 CDAO Agenda Survey, this session reveals actions successful D&A leaders have taken to deliver business outcomes from AI, data, and analytics, and what they need to do next year.
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11:00 AM - 11:30 AM BST
AI-Ready Data
Mark Beyer,
Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
AI-ready data is a key pillar for enabling AI-related ambitions. But how should you do this, and what are others doing? This session explores what we mean by AI-ready, what clients and vendors are doing, and what Gartner recommends you do.
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11:00 AM - 11:30 AM BST
How to Create a D&A Strategy for Real Business Results
Saul Judah,
VP Analyst, Gartner
Successful data and analytics strategies today are business-centric, focused on achieving tangible and measurable business outcomes. This session will discuss the anatomy of an effective data and analytics strategy that enables organizations to thrive in today’s highly challenging and dynamic business environments.
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11:00 AM - 11:30 AM BST
D&A Governance vs. Data Management Debate
Anurag Raj,
Director Analyst, Gartner
Andrew White,
Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Is D&A governance another data management initiative or is it more? Join us in this two-speaker debate session that clarifies the differences and synergies between the two practices, and why D&A leaders should care about making that differentiation. You will learn the best practices to complement D&A governance with data management practice.
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11:00 AM - 11:30 AM BST
Data Fabric: Building and Managing Your Foundational and Long-Term Data Management Architecture
Henry Cook,
Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Urgent Investments in data, analytics and AI use cases has put the spotlight once more on strong data management foundations. Is our Data even Ready for upcoming AI, analytics and data sharing initiatives is now top of mindshare for heads of data, CDAOs and their counterparts. Data Fabrics have emerged as a long term, foundational data management architecture that you should now pursue for sustained D&A success. This session will:
1. Help understand what data Fabrics are and what they mean for your data strategy and architecture
2. Help decide how to build and where to buy
3. Navigate the vendor landscape to assist in tech procurement decisions to aid your fabric journey ... Show More Show Less
1. Help understand what data Fabrics are and what they mean for your data strategy and architecture
2. Help decide how to build and where to buy
3. Navigate the vendor landscape to assist in tech procurement decisions to aid your fabric journey ... Show More Show Less
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