All 2025 Conference Sessions

Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference 2025 dove deep into key topics for infrastructure, operations and cloud around hybrid cloud, AI, leadership, cost and value, data centers and more.

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Gartner  Opening Keynote: Navigating the Hype: Strategic Roadmap to I&O Success

Speakers:

  • Autumn Stanish, Director Analyst
  • Paul Delory, VP Analyst

Key take-aways

  • Agentic AI is a Major Shift for I&O: The emergence of agentic AI represents a fundamental change for Infrastructure & Operations, similar in scale and impact to the introduction of cloud computing. New ways of working are required to keep up.
  • Focus on Resilience, Automation, and Governance: Successfully adapting to agentic AI means organizations must build stronger, more resilient infrastructure, automate more processes, and increase their focus on governance to safely manage this transition.
  • Adopt Continuous Operations and Proven Practices: Organizations should look to mature techniques and continuous operations models used by tech leaders. Following these proven patterns will help ensure ongoing innovation and operational stability, providing a practical roadmap to lead in the next phase of I&O.

Track Session: Avoiding the Top Mistakes in Your Cloud Strategy

Speaker:

  • Ted McHugh, Senior Director Analyst

Key take-aways

  • Establish a cloud strategy council with key members from across the enterprise, including business units. 
  • Collaborate with noncloud technology experts (such as enterprise architects) to build a cloud strategy with an open mind. 
  • Align your own cloud strategy with the organizations strategic plans. 

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      Monday, 17 November, 2025

      09:30 AM - 10:15 AM GMT

      Gartner Opening Keynote: Navigating the Hype: Strategic Roadmap to I&O Success
      Paul Delory, VP Analyst, Gartner
      Autumn Stanish, Director Analyst, Gartner
      Agentic AI is a fundamental shift for I&O, demanding new operational paradigms like cloud once did. This keynote will explore concrete agentic AI application for I&O, emphasizing the needs for resilient infrastructure, automation and governance to navigate this shift. A focus on Continuous Operations will show how adopting mature techniques from tech leaders can ensue relentless innovation and operational stability. Get equipped with a roadmap to a new I&O operating model, highlighting effective patterns for behavior and operating practices to lead in the next era of I&O. ... Show More Show Less

      04:30 PM - 05:15 PM GMT

      Gartner Keynote: Lighthouse Leaders Cultivate Human Success
      Tori Paulman, VP Analyst, Gartner
      Shawn Murphy, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
      In an era of relentless change and uncertainty, your greatest leadership asset isn’t technology — it’s your ability to be a clear, steady signal that cultivates human potential. This keynote will show you how to lead like a lighthouse: not by controlling the storm, but by empowering your teams to navigate it with confidence, curiosity, and resilience. ... Show More Show Less
      Tuesday, 18 November, 2025

      09:00 AM - 09:45 AM GMT

      Guest Keynote: The Trouble with Automation
      Hannah Fry, Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics, Cambridge University
      We like to think of ourselves as master decision makers; as perfectly rational creatures, grounded in reason and logic. It’s a nice idea, but the reality is rather different. In truth, humans are a mess of competing incentives, of bad memories and of blind, impulsive biases. The modern era of AI is, in some sense, an attempt to automate our decision making, iron out some of the fallibilities and biases built in to our choices. But decisions driven by data have blind spots too. And all this leaves us to a conundrum: humans are flawed, machines are flawed. So who do we want to leave in charge of our decision making. Who should be the ultimate arbiter when there are very real dangers of leaving any one side in charge? This can be a session with lots of audience interaction, that aims to uncover some of the hidden flaws in our own decision making, as well as those of the systems we’ve built to replace us. It aims to explore some of the greatest ironies of automation and puts into perspective some of the hardest challenges facing the future. ... Show More Show Less

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