All 2025 Conference Tracks

Organizations demand greater value from cloud investments, emphasizing its strategic importance for business innovations. I&O leaders can accelerate outcomes by adopting a structured approach to cloud innovation, modernization, governance, and migration. This track helps cloud leaders develop strategies to leverage cloud opportunities for business goals.

Organizations face immense pressure to meet changing business needs. I&O leaders require complex architectures, effective integration, responsive infrastructure, built-in security, and versatile skills. This track explores data center and infrastructure modernization, automation, and infrastructure as code to adopt modern platforms enabling agility and resilience.

Your environment spans end users to distributed, complex infrastructures, creating management challenges. I&O and end-user services leaders must evolve to meet increasing demands while protecting assets and optimizing costs. Shifting from reactive actions to autonomous services is key. This track focuses on empowering teams to enhance operations, maintaining and supporting digital workplace and hybrid infrastructures.

Security is critical to effective I&O infrastructure. Integrated collaboration is essential to mitigate risk efficiently while maintaining agility and cost-effectiveness. I&O struggles with managing vulnerability disclosures, increasing risk. This track guides I&O leaders to secure organizations from threats, partnering with security peers, and integrating security, recovery, and compliance practices.

I&O leaders face challenges creating an adaptable vision. Designing a strategy and roadmap is critical, with successful implementation essential. Changing business requirements and tech changes complicate workforce planning. This track focuses on how I&O leaders design, change, and run functions, ensuring they have the right people and skills for current and future needs.

Cost optimization and value realization are fundamental for I&O yet remain a challenge. Responding to economic volatility, inflation, and talent shortages is key. Managing technology sourcing, procurement, and vendor relationships to maximize outcomes is critical. This track focuses on optimizing operational costs of software, services, and infrastructure while maximizing business value.

AI is embedded in the I&O environment. Developing skills to leverage AI is essential for productivity benefits and incorporating AI into more use cases. I&O must enable AI in their organization, supporting business initiatives to utilize and gain value from AI. This track guides I&O leaders in these endeavors, exploring organizational needs and potential use cases. 

Organizations face immense pressure to meet changing business needs. I&O leaders deal with complex architectures, integration needs, platform capabilities, security, compliance, and versatile team skills. This track explores using a product-focused mindset, infrastructure platform engineering, infrastructure as code, and automation to develop platforms enabling agility to meet these challenges.

Sourcing, procurement and vendor management (SPVM) leaders must become catalysts for business-led IT sourcing while supporting diversity and sustainability. This track helps SPVM leaders reinvent their role by focusing on business outcomes through digitally enabled processes and tools, and provide value by leveraging data to make better decisions.

Created for the most senior infrastructure and operations leaders, the Senior Leadership Circle Program is an exclusive opportunity to engage with Gartner experts, as well as your I&O peers and attend recommended sessions to optimize your conference experience. An application is required.

When organizations try to do big things with small teams, they face limited budgets, resources, and smaller-scale environments that necessitate certain strategies. Medium size organizations have greater agility and less bureaucracy, providing an edge over larger competitors. This track offers sessions and networking designed for your scale and environment.

This spotlight track offers sessions that provide in-depth analysis of critical I&O topics. These sessions are designed for attendees who desire greater technical detail in areas of architecture and design, and are presented by Gartner for Technical Professionals experts.

Navigating innovation is crucial to remain competitive. Organizations harnessing innovation gain an edge by exploiting technology for business innovations driven by team engagement. Innovation includes corporate responsibility, sustainability, customer and employee experience, and tech advancements. This track explores how I&O leaders empower teams through practices, trends, and technologies to unleash innovation.