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Experience Gartner expertise: 2025 summit session highlights

Watch below as Gartner renowned industry experts shared exclusive, actionable insights on future-looking trends and topics for enterprise application and software engineering leaders. Attending the summit means you will:

  • Benchmark your strategy with 2,300+ peers tackling similar challenges.
  • Explore practical frameworks to modernize applications, architecture and delivery.
  • Gain exclusive insights from Gartner experts on emerging applications and AI trends.
  • Maximize impact by attending as a team — align strategies and drive results together.

Explore Top Rated Sessions Below

Every organization uses or builds APIs. REST has dominated the landscape for a decade, but is that dominance safe in the face of new challengers, like MCP and A2A, emerging for use cases like AI agents and AI automation? In this session, we assessed the current landscape, how to decide when and where to use the right API style, and what to invest in to protect and manage them.

Speaker: Gary Olliffe, Distinguished Vice President, Business and Technology Insights

The AI hype cycle continues with the next breakthrough — agentic AI — which has the potential to fulfill the autonomous business future envisioned by Gartner. This session explored how agentic AI will change the future of the enterprise applications experience.

Speaker: Greg Leiter, Vice President, Business and Technology Insights

The Gartner top 10 strategic technology trends for 2025 highlight the most important innovations that will have the biggest impact on business over the next decade. In this session, we reviewed the trends and contextualized them for application leaders.

Speaker: Stephen Emmott, Senior Director, Business and Technology Insights

Disruptions such as the rapid adoption of AI and other evolving business requirements and technology advancements require software engineering teams to constantly evolve and grow their skillsets. They cannot maintain the status quo and remain relevant. This session provides a framework for identifying and prioritizing which skills you need to learn and then how to apply continuous learning practices to make learning new skills a natural part of your day-to-day work activities.

Speaker: Brad Dayley, Vice President, Business and Technology Insights

The evolution of AI is disrupting the way we work, what we produce and how we operate the enterprise. Watch this session to learn about a comprehensive and practical roadmap. It will guide you from setting your AI ambition to realizing the AI value within the next 12 to 18 months. The roadmap comprises four phases: ambition, assessment, action and achievement, each with core capabilities and best practices.

Speaker: Saikat Ray, Vice President, Business and Technology Insights

App leaders are often the ones tasked to pinpoint where to introduce generative AI to boost productivity. However, GenAI doesn’t always increase productivity; some workers actually decline in performance with GenAI. Watch this session to understand who gets faster and who gets slower with GenAI, deployment impacts, workforce change impact, and why HR leaders must be key players in creating and executing your GenAI strategic plan.

Speaker: Nate Suda, Senior Director, Business and Technology Insights

Explore how highly motivated teams achieve superior performance and how leaders can sustain this motivation through challenges. This session delves into theories like intrinsic motivation and Maslow's hierarchy of needs, which have been adapted for software engineering. Gain insights into building a theoretical foundation and best practices to ensure your teams remain motivated and resilient, creating a solid foundation for future success.

Speaker: Arun Batchu, Vice President, Business and Technology Insights

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