All 2025 Conference Sessions

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.

Explore our conference sessions below, all developed with this theme in mind.

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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

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM GMT

Ask the Expert: How to Get Better at Managing Cloud Costs?
Marco Meinardi, VP Analyst, Gartner
Join this session to discover ways to enhance your cloud financial management capabilities. Whether you aim to improve your collaboration model, leverage tools more effectively or find answers to your pressing FinOps questions, this session offers the strategic advice and practical solutions necessary to advance your FinOps journey. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM GMT

Top 5 Reasons Your I&O Automation Initiative Is Suffering (and What to Do About It)
Chris Saunderson, VP Analyst, Gartner
Clients undertake I&O automation initiatives for tactical and strategic reasons, but frequently run into roadblocks on realizing the value they are seeking. This session will address the top five reasons that automation initiatives struggle, and offer practical advice on how to rescue them. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM GMT

Unlock "Hidden" Cost Savings Opportunities With Disciplined IT Vendor Management
Joanne Spencer, VP, Advisory, Gartner
Vendor costs don’t stop when the contract is signed. This session offers insights and perspectives on how postcontract management of vendors can create value and savings well beyond the negotiation stage. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM 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

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM GMT

Contract Negotiation Clinic: 8-Step Playbook to Negotiate VMware Software Deals With Broadcom
Jo Ann Rosenberger, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
This session will guide I&O and SPVM leaders on how to use a playbook with eight powerful steps to plan renewal negotiations with VMware. These steps include understanding VMware’s overall roadmap and motivators, how to request pricing for cost transparency, assessing the TCO of all viable options, and developing and executing a powerful negotiation strategy. These 8 steps are crucial for I&O leaders to follow due to the vast and ongoing licensing and pricing changes causing cost risk and budget overruns. Attendees will receive ready-to-use templates and checklists to use during negotiations for cost optimization and risk mitigation. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM GMT

Workshop: IT Services Outsourcing Viability & Risk Calculator
Andrea Lanzavecchia, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
When readiness for outsourcing is not assessed and evaluated, outsourcing decisions can lead to delays in transition, service instability, dissatisfied customers, and even competitive disadvantage.

This workshop will provide tool with Outsourcing Viability and Risk decision factors to drive the right approach through effective outsourcing decisions. ... Show More Show Less

12:00 PM - 12:30 PM GMT

Wasabi: Building AI-Ready Cloud Storage
This session covers the fundamentals of building scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient storage for AI workloads. Leave with actionable best practices to architect your infrastructure for speed, security, and future growth. ... Show More Show Less

12:45 PM - 01:15 PM GMT

9 Approaches to Optimize Short-, Mid- and Long-Term External Spend Costs
Jaswant Kalay, VP Analyst, Gartner
This session will focus on short-, mid- and long- term cost optimization strategies as they pertain to external spend costs. Show Less

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