All 2025 Conference Topics

2025 Conference Topics at a Glance

The 2025 agenda delivers the latest technology, strategy and leadership insights most critical to IT and business leaders and their teams.

Artificial Intelligence

Develop a successful AI strategy and learn to get value from AI by reengineering processes and optimizing team structures. Discover best practices for scaling generative AI projects and explore the pillars of AI strategy for competitive differentiation.

Applications and Architecture

Learn to extract business value from technical debt management and navigate ERP implementations successfully. Discover strategic roadmaps for adopting modern application architectures and prepare for a renaissance of intelligent applications in your enterprise.

Cybersecurity

Strengthen your cybersecurity posture with insights into AI application security and cyber resilience. Explore emerging tactics for securing generative AI and develop strategies to protect your organization from evolving threats.

Emerging Technologies

Evaluate emerging technologies and explore top strategic trends. Learn to recognize and respond to disruptions for strategic advantage and communicate the business value of emerging technologies effectively.

Board Communications

Master the art of communicating technology strategies and outcomes to boards and executive teams. Learn how to articulate the value of IT investments, manage expectations, and foster a culture of transparency and trust.

Business Value of IT

Communicate the business value of IT with value metrics and reframe IT cost optimization as a business decision. Learn to manage technology investments strategically and align them with enterprise goals.

Culture

Cultivate a culture that embraces change, fosters innovation and promotes inclusion. Learn how to inspire teams, encourage continuous learning and build an environment where everyone can thrive.

Customer and Citizen Experience

Integrated, personalized digital experiences can serve as a big differentiator. Learn how to achieve total experience outcomes. Eliminate friction points in multichannel experiences by mapping, visualizing and redesigning employee, customer and citizen journeys.

Data and Analytics

Explore the future of analytics in the era of generative AI and examine top trends in data and analytics. Learn how these trends impact decision-making and drive strategic outcomes across your organization's data strategy.

Digital and Business Transformation

Learn from other industries to deliver business value from emerging technologies and drive enterprise growth. Explore the next wave of digital transformation and prepare for autonomous business with actionable strategic insights.

Governance and Risk Management

Traditional technology governance cannot match the needs of organizations when dispersed decision making, fostered by democratization and AI/GenAI, becomes the norm. Explore governance and risk management approaches that are adaptive and inclusive to keep pace.

Executive Leadership

Enhance your influence in the boardroom by balancing risk, value, and cost. Prepare for the evolving CIO role and explore leadership tactics that drive innovation, foster team engagement, and navigate complex business dynamics.

Infrastructure and Cloud

Optimize your cloud strategy in the age of AI and avoid common pitfalls. Learn to align cloud strategies with business objectives and enhance IT cost optimization for strategic impact.

Innovation

Rapid technological disruption is forcing enterprises to rethink their approaches to how they monitor, prioritize, deliver and deploy technology and innovations. Discover how to harness and apply innovation to drive disruption and achieve your digital and AI ambitions.

Organizational Change

Navigate the complexities of organizational change with confidence. Learn how to lead change initiatives, manage resistance, and create a change-embracing culture that drives business success.

Operating models

A higher demand for agility requires alignment of operating models with enterprise, information and technology strategies. Learn how to increase your influence across the enterprise. Find the right mix of project and product-based models within and beyond the IT function.

Sourcing and Suppliers

Optimize your sourcing and supplier strategies to enhance agility and resilience. Explore how to build strong partnerships, manage risks and leverage supplier capabilities to support business objectives.

Strategic Planning and Execution

IT leaders must create and execute strategies that build resilience and position their organization to thrive. Explore business model changes, innovation and growth investments, and enterprise business operations optimizations for profit growth and market success.

Sustainability

Explore how to elevate your executive influence by making IT more sustainable, particularly given new pressures from compute-intensive AI. Learn how to make environmental, social and governance more accessible, transparent and impactful.

Talent

Unlock the full potential of people in the age of AI by building and fostering diverse teams that bring unique perspectives. Learn how to inspire a spirit of curiosity and continuous learning that drives engagement and business value.