Dive into some of the key take-aways you may have missed from Gartner Application Innovation & Business Solutions Summit 2025.
All 2025 Conference Sessions
Gartner Application Innovation & Business Solutions Summit 2025 dove deep into key topics for enterprise application and software engineering leaders around AI agents, intelligent applications, managing cultural change and more.
Session Take-Aways
Day 1 Take-Aways
The Key Components of a Successful Enterprise Applications Strategy
Speakers:
- Tad Travis, VP Analyst
Key take-aways
- Next generation of enterprise applications will feature embedded intelligence, an adaptive user experience and autonomous orchestration.
- Organizations should look for incremental improvements in process automation and knowledge sharing.
- Application strategy should be primarily top-down from the business objectives but use bottom-up for crucial modernization needs.
Day 2 Take-Aways
Research Discussion: Proven Practices to Boost Developer Productivity
Speakers:
- Frank O'Connor, Senior Director Analyst
- Brian Mining, Senior Director, Research
Key take-aways
- Challenge the status quo by exploring emerging themes, like AI and adopting leading practices.
- Enable teams to tailor productivity metrics and self-direct their improvement plans to better align with their specific context.
- Use developer-centric approaches to surface leading developer experience pain points.
Day 3 Take-Aways
Consumable Business Architecture for Smarter Business Decisions
Speakers:
- Lucas Kobat, Director Analyst
Key take-aways
- Business architecture helps clarify strategic impacts and recommend smarter investment decisions.
- Consumable business architecture guidance is timely and intuitive to business.
- Such guidance should be actionable and drive objective trade-off decisions.
Look Back at 2025 Conference Sessions
Hundreds of conference sessions were presented each day at the Gartner Application Innovation & Business Solutions Summit 2025. While we work to develop 2026’s agenda, filter to see last year’s sessions that align with your role and interests.
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Tuesday, June 03, 2025
09:30 AM - 10:15 AM PDT
Gartner Opening Keynote: Forging the Foundations for an AI-Native Era
Danny Brian,
Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Annie Hodgkins,
Director Analyst, Gartner
Patrick Connaughton,
VP Analyst, Gartner
The foundations of successful enterprise applications — technology, skills, and culture — are emphasized as we enter an “AI-native era,” and as technical debt hinders our progress. In this session, we'll provide Gartner's unique view on how application leaders can reestablish foundations by fostering adaptability, aligning skills with innovation, and managing risk to drive growth and transformation in a rapidly evolving landscape.
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10:30 AM - 10:50 AM PDT
DevGrid: How FIS developed an EngOps practice to drive Digital Banking Transformation
Duncan Mapes,
CEO, DevGrid
Corey Terrell,
Head of Architecture & Shared Services, FIS-US-FL
Ever wonder what providing technology solutions to thousands of financial institutions looks like from an operational standpoint? Discover how FIS’s Digital EngOps practice leveraged DevGrid's platform to proactively manage enterprise compliance and governance, while empowering app teams to deliver quickly and reliably. Gain practical insights into how to balance efficiency and governance by leveraging rich inventory tools and aggregations, unlocking speed to market while reducing risks.
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10:30 AM - 10:50 AM PDT
AgilePoint: The ROI Shift: Rapidly Transform Structured Automation into Real-Time Agentic Systems
Jesse Shiah,
CO-FOUNDER, AgilePoint, Inc.
Structured process automations that utilize AI agents as standalone 'bolt-ons' pose challenges for AI adoption and limit ROI. Real-time agentic systems, the next big thing in AI, employ multi-vendor agents for complex end-to-end workflows, ensuring cross-platform governance and minimizing hallucinations.
In this session, we will:
1) Discuss why a holistic abstraction and codeless, platform-agnostic composability are the key to enabling trusted real-time agentic systems.
2) Showcase practical use cases, including insurance claims, warranty fraud detection, multi-channel customer service, etc.
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In this session, we will:
1) Discuss why a holistic abstraction and codeless, platform-agnostic composability are the key to enabling trusted real-time agentic systems.
2) Showcase practical use cases, including insurance claims, warranty fraud detection, multi-channel customer service, etc.
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11:00 AM - 11:30 AM PDT
AI Governance Playbook: The What, Why and How
Svetlana Sicular,
VP Analyst, Gartner
Developers should not make decisions about AI alone. The criticality, scalability and democratization of AI require governance to balance the AI’s value with the new risks it poses. AI encompasses a continually evolving technological landscape in which there are trade-offs between scale, performance, explainability, accessibility, speed, skills and cost. Join this session to know more.
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11:00 AM - 11:30 AM PDT
3 Steps to Build a Culture of Value-Based Decision Making
James Boyle,
VP, Advisory, Gartner
The pace and volatility of digital transformation have changed the face of our organizations. However, many organizations are playing catch-up when it comes to a value-led culture. Are you and your leadership working to evolve your teams to focus on business outcomes? Join this session to explore building a culture of value-based decision making.
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11:00 AM - 11:30 AM PDT
Getting Started With Multimodal Generative AI
Bern Elliot,
Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Generative AI is moving beyond text to incorporate multiple forms of content. This multimodal approach opens up vast new possibilities for AI in the enterprise but requires new methods of development and content management. This session introduces how to evolve generative AI to the next level.
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11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
Workshop: Enterprise Applications Strategic Plan on a Page
Stephen Emmott,
Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
This workshop will take attendees through Gartner's strategic plan on a page format and help them develop a plan for their enterprise application portfolio. Attendees will leave the session understanding the format, its use and a draft plan for their return to the office.
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11:00 AM - 11:30 AM PDT
How Will Generative AI Affect Your API Strategy?
Shameen Pillai,
Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Generative AI has impacted all things technology. APIs are no exception. Clients looking to embrace Generative AI as part of their API strategy need to be apprised of the quick wins and pitfalls associated with this decision.
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11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
Workshop: Modernize Your Integration Strategy
Andrew Humphreys,
Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Integration capabilities have typically been implemented piecemeal or with a single tool, leading to inefficient and inflexible architectures. In this workshop, you'll learn how to use Gartner's integration capabilities framework to identify the required and existing integration technologies, and where you have gaps in order to determine the strategic integration technologies you require.
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