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Gartner dives deep into key topics for infrastructure, operations and cloud leaders around hybrid cloud, AI, leadership, cost & value, data centers and more to help you address your organization's mission-critical challenges.

2025 Conference Theme

Deliver Today. Transform Tomorrow.

Your organization’s future relies on agility, resilience, and innovation—while staying secure and efficient. As the skills gap grows, lead your team in adopting AI, mastering cloud cost optimization, and building resilient, secure, sustainable infrastructure.

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Monday, 17 November, 2025

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM GMT

Win Support for Your Initiatives by Mastering the Art of Storytelling
Tori Paulman, VP Analyst, Gartner
Effective storytelling is crucial for gaining buy-in from peers, employees, and executives alike, but leaders often struggle to create concise, consistent and clear communications about their initiatives. Join this session to learn three rules that will virtually captivate and inspire action: 1) characters above all, 2) don't lose the beat and 3) titrate conflict. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM GMT

Emerging Use Cases of Agentic AI in I&O
Alessandro Galimberti, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Agentic AI will transform I&O by autonomously handling tasks like resource allocation, security and system optimization. It predicts and resolves issues in real time, cutting downtime and reducing human errors. Automating routine processes and adapting to complex environments, agentic AI boosts efficiency, scalability and resilience, enabling IT teams to focus on innovation and strategic growth. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM GMT

Top Technology Trends Shaping the Future of AI Infrastructure Strategy Development
Chirag Dekate, VP Analyst, Gartner
Explore five technology trends poised to redefine your AI infrastructure strategy. This session equips I&O leaders with insights to anticipate change, align investments and future-proof their architecture — ensuring their infrastructure strategy is ready to support the evolving AI demands and deliver a competitive advantage. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM GMT

Being Comfortable in the Hot Seat: Having Cybersecurity Conversations With Executives
Paul Furtado, VP Analyst, Gartner
Join this session to find out how to leverage outcome driven metrics to support your security program. We will cover three challenging scenarios and how to articulate the risk at the appropriate level and provide the right level of risk awareness to your executive leadership and board of directors. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM GMT

Optimize Infrastructure Costs During Vendor Negotiations With Gartner's Triple A Framework
Jo Ann Rosenberger, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
This session will walk through Gartner's Triple A Framework which encompasses the Ask-Analyze-Assert approach to ASK the right questions of vendors and stakeholders to identify critical cost and technology details. These details allow you to effectively ANALYZE vendor proposals with customized cost models to see the true and total cost impact of the deal. Then ASSERT your negotiation position using the cost analysis model as a powerful bargaining tool during negotiations. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM GMT

The Future of Cloud, 2030
Dennis Smith, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Expanding cloud computing adoption will push the market beyond $1 trillion in worldwide spending by 2027. Cloud platforms (public and sovereign) are increasingly hosting AI implementations to transform business models in a highly volatile world. This presentation explores how to prepare enterprises for the future of cloud from now until 2030. ... Show More Show Less

12:45 PM - 01:15 PM GMT

Future of Datacenters: Energy Shortages, Efficiency and AI
Tony Harvey, VP Analyst, Gartner
AI is driving changes to site selection, design, infrastructure and operations. In this session, we'll leverage Gartner's latest research to explore how data center infrastructures evolve and what to expect in the coming years. Gain insights to plan and develop data center strategies that thrive today and in the future. ... Show More Show Less

12:45 PM - 01:15 PM GMT

How to Address Risks in Your AI and GenAI Contracts
Ben Jepson, Director Analyst, Gartner
AI and generative AI introduce different contract risks related to customer data, responsible AI and agentic AI. Such risks are interwoven with continually evolving pricing models and metrics, making it difficult to compare commercials and avoid skyrocketing costs. In this session, IT SPVM leaders will gain insights on how to address the differences between traditional software/SaaS and AI/GenAI deals. ... Show More Show Less

12:45 PM - 01:15 PM GMT

Leadership Vision 2026 Infrastructure and Operations
Nathan Hill, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
This session will focus on the key challenges and trends impacting infrastructure and operations, and what leadership actions will generate success in 2026 and beyond. We will address how you must work with leaders, stakeholders, and customers to understand the relative business value of the services your team delivers today or could deliver, going forward. I&O leaders should use these insights to enhance their strategic vision, delivery programs and prioritize services. ... Show More Show Less

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