Value at AI Velocity: Navigating the Now and Next
This year’s conference focuses on overcoming challenges like scaling AI, managing disruption, and balancing risk using governance — helping leaders unlock data’s full potential for lasting success.
Conference Topics at a Glance
The 2026 conference agenda will help you navigate disruption, drive innovation, and lead through change. Explore practical strategies for delivering value, advancing AI, and building resilient, future-ready organizations.
2026 Conference Theme
AI, GenAI and AI Agents
Get practical guidance for building and scaling AI, generative AI, and AI agents. Learn to optimize costs, manage risk and deliver business value from your AI investments.
Data, Analytics and AI Governance
Explore frameworks and best practices for data, analytics, and AI governance. Sessions cover risk, privacy, ethics and building a culture of trust and accountability.
Articulating the Business Value of Data & Analytics
Learn how to communicate and prove the value of data and analytics. Discover ways to build business cases, measure ROI, and show D&A’s impact on business goals.
Look back at 2025 conference sessions
More than 70 conference sessions were presented throughout the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2025. While we work to develop the agenda for the next edition, filter to see sessions that align with your role and interests.
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Monday, 28 April, 2025
09:30 AM - 10:15 AM BRT
Gartner Opening Keynote: Scale Data and Analytics on Your AI Journeys
Jorg Heizenberg,
VP Analyst, Gartner
With high D&A ambitions and AI pilots becoming increasingly ubiquitous, focus is shifting toward consistent execution. We will share how to continue innovating and experimenting while scaling success. In this keynote, Gartner’s perspective will guide you on preparing for the expected and adapting to the unexpected. Learn to enhance your D&A and AI capabilities on the path to success.
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11:00 AM - 11:30 AM BRT
How to Realize Value From D&A and AI: The Journey
D&A and AI leaders including CDAOs continue to struggle to prove the value of D&A and AI. This session will provide a roadmap for gaining stakeholder buy-in on D&A initiatives, quantifying the value and building the business case, learning from the success of other organizations, and continuously measuring results and adjusting.
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11:00 AM - 11:30 AM BRT
Create Metrics That Matter
Jamie O'Brien,
Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Organizations have a lot of metrics, but few have the kind of metrics that move the needle on performance. This presentation discusses techniques you can apply to create metrics that compel users to run to their dashboards every morning.
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11:00 AM - 11:45 AM BRT
GenAI Peer Meetup: Exploring the Impact of Generative AI in Your Organization
Dive into an open discussion about the transformative potential of Generative AI. Share experiences, challenges, and insights with fellow peers as you explore how this technology is reshaping industries and creating new opportunities. Join this Peer Meetup and share your projects and ideas with your peers. Peer Meetups are networking sessions that allow you to connect and share with a small group of your peers, without Gartner facilitation. Please make every effort to attend your Peer Meetup as other attendees will be looking forward to meeting with you.
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11:00 AM - 12:30 PM BRT
CDAO Circle Leadership Exchange: State of D&A in 2025
Candice Kenney,
VP, Team Manager, Gartner
Marcio Weikersheimer,
Executive Partner, Gartner
D&A leaders and teams are at an AI-driven inflection point. They are crucial to enable business value through AI-readiness but must evolve their strategy and operating model to meet their organization’s AI ambitions. Reporting from the Gartner 2025 CDAO Agenda Survey, this session reveals actions successful D&A leaders have taken to deliver business outcomes from AI, data, and analytics, and what they need to do next year.
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11:00 AM - 11:30 AM BRT
AI Agents: Are You Ready to Set Your AI Free?
Lydia Clougherty Jones,
Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
AI agents are emerging as an important trend since they enable levels of business adaptability, flexibility and agility that traditional AI systems can’t achieve. This flexibility is valuable in unpredictable environments where real-time monitoring and control aren’t practical. Autonomous behaviors, despite significant societal, legal and ethical implications, are the answer to the increasing complexity in our enterprise systems.
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11:00 AM - 11:45 AM BRT
Ask the Expert: Sustaining Data Governance and Stewardship Programs
Nate Novosel,
VP Analyst, Gartner
The most difficult part of establishing a data governance program is getting it to stick. This session will discuss challenges with identifying, motivating, and supporting data governance, ownership and stewardship roles as well as tactics to build momentum for the program.
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11:00 AM - 11:30 AM BRT
Emerging Practices for Decision Intelligence: The Next Leap for Data, Analytics and AI
Pieter den Hamer,
VP Analyst, Gartner
Decision intelligence is quickly gaining traction as the discipline that aims to connect analytics and decision making. But how to make decision intelligence a reality? Where to start, which approach to follow, how to go about the reengineering and modeling of decisions and which decision intelligence platforms are available? This session will address these and other emerging practices to improve your business impact.
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11:00 AM - 11:20 AM BRT
Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools
Nina Showell,
Principal Analyst, Gartner
Data integration tools help organizations access, process, move and transform data. They support use cases like data engineering, modern data architecture, less-technical/business user support, and operational data integration. In this session, we'll present the latest Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools, discussing vendors and technologies to help you choose the best tool for your needs.
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