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 - 11:45 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 - 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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12:30 PM - 01:15 PM BRT
CDAO Circle Roundtable: Innovation with GenAI: What Has Been your Role as a CDAO in the Generative AI Journeys?
Luiz Dorsa,
Executive Partner, Domains, Gartner
Vitor Mori,
Executive Partner, Domains, Gartner
Explore the crucial role of a CDAO in the implementation and innovation with Generative AI. Discuss in this roundtable with other leaders the best practices, challenges, and successful strategies for adopting GenAI projects, and especially the role of the CDAO in this innovative journey.
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12:30 PM - 01:15 PM BRT
Roundtable: Innovation with GenAI: Are You Already Transforming Your Business with Generative AI?
Jaime Gama,
Sr Executive Partner, Gartner
Fernanda Nascimento,
CEO, Stratlab
Join this roundtable to explore how Generative AI is revolutionizing business models across various industries. Discover valuable insights from your peers and share experiences on implementing GenAI to drive innovation and create value in your organization.
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12:30 PM - 01:00 PM BRT
Technical Insights: Best Practices for Enhancing AI Explainability
Maryam Hassanlou,
Director Analyst, Gartner
Explaining AI models and their outputs to non-technical stakeholders can be challenging due to their complexity or business expectations. This decreases the trust and adoption of models in production. This session will discuss a few practices that can help D&A professionals enhance explainability and trust in model predictions, facilitating responsible and ethical use of AI across various domains.
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12:30 PM - 01:00 PM BRT
Executive Story: Banco do Brasil: From Governance to Data Readiness for AI, a Successful Journey to Business Value
Learn how Banco do Brasil transformed its data quality approach into a structured process with a comprehensive framework that defines guidelines, metrics, and responsibilities, enabling the safe and efficient use of Artificial Intelligence models. Discover how Banco do Brasil is working on its data readiness for AI with an innovative methodology, developed to engage different business areas in the Data Quality strategy. Explore how the adoption of agile methodologies improved data governance, accelerated deliveries, and significantly increased performance. Also learn about the actions to promote an analytical culture and AcademIA BB, a program that engaged more than 24,000 people and paved the way for digital transformation and scaling of data products.
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02:30 PM - 03:15 PM BRT
Roundtable: Overcoming AI Governance Challenges in the Public Sector
Erick Sobreiro,
Sr Executive Partner, Gartner
Wagner Gomes,
Executive Partner, Gartner
Join this roundtable and share with your peers the AI governance challenges you have been experimenting in the public sector. Collaborate with other leaders to explore practical solutions and effective strategies that ensure the responsible and ethical implementation of artificial intelligence in government institutions.
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02:30 PM - 03:00 PM BRT
Data Shapes AI, AI Shapes Data: Foundations of Intelligent Systems
Deepak Seth,
Director Analyst, Gartner
Dive into the symbiotic relationship between data and Artificial Intelligence in this comprehensive session. Explore how robust data foundations are critical for developing effective AI systems and how AI, in turn, refines and enhances data quality. Gain actionable insights into transforming raw data into intelligent solutions and leveraging AI to drive business innovation.
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