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

Dive into some of the key take-aways you may have missed from Gartner Application Innovation & Business Solutions Summit 2025.

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.

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.

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.

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Wednesday, June 04, 2025

03:30 PM - 04:00 PM PDT

Executive Story: Assessing the Health of Applications - An M&T Bank Example

Robin Thomas, Enterprise Architect – Commercial Lending & Capital Markets, M&T Bank
Application portfolios require ongoing evaluation and remediation to stay aligned with evolving business and technology demands. Join Enterprise Architect, Robin Thomas, as he highlights M&T Bank’s journey and growing maturity in assessing the health of its technology portfolio to drive strategic outcomes for the bank. ... Show More Show Less

03:30 PM - 04:00 PM PDT

Fireside Chat: ERP Reinvented: A ConocoPhillips Case Study in Anchored Agility and Execution Excellence

John Hood, Manager, Next Generation ERP Delivery and Assurance, Conoco Phillips
Come join IT executive John Hood and learn how ConocoPhillips delivered a modern ERP platform that drives business value, efficiency, and agility — powered by their unique Anchored Agility approach ... Show More Show Less

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