2026 Conference Sessions

The 2026 agenda dives deep into key topics for enterprise application and software engineering leaders around AI, leadership, modernization, cost optimization and more to help address your organization’s mission-critical challenges.

2026 Applications Conference Theme

Deliver the Future: Innovate, Lead, Act.

Applications and software engineering leaders are at a turning point where foresight must meet execution and business disruption is forcing dramatic changes. The 2026 conference empowers you to go beyond admiring the AI-enabled promising future — it's about actively building and delivering it. Learn how modern technology, visionary leadership and decisive action can transform your organization’s aspirations into reality. 

Explore our conference sessions below, all developed with this theme in mind. Join us to grow the skills and insights needed to deliver an adaptive and autonomous transformation journey.

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Tuesday, June 02, 2026

12:30 PM - 02:00 PM PDT

Enterprise Architecture Roundtable: Starting & Restarting an EA Practice
Jeff Fitzgerald, Executive Partner, Domains, Gartner
Gartner survey data consistently shows that roughly two-thirds of EA leaders have recently rechartered, are in the process of recharting, or plan to recharter their EA function. In this Roundtable, you’ll hear from peers about best practices and lessons learned when undergoing an EA makeover. ... Show More Show Less

02:30 PM - 03:15 PM PDT

Senior Leadership Circle Roundtable: Best Practices for Agentic AI in Enterprise Applications
Tad Travis, VP Analyst, Gartner
The majority of organizations surveyed by Gartner are beyond testing agentic AI in their applications and report that it holds promise for improving processes. Questions remain about build vs. buy approaches, multiagent integration and estimating ROI. Join this session to trade, share and learn best practices for maturing your agentic AI implementations. ... Show More Show Less

02:30 PM - 03:15 PM PDT

Senior Leadership Circle Roundtable: How to Unlock Productivity Across the SDLC With AI Agents
Philip Walsh, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Early gains from AI code assistants plateau quickly. Join this facilitated discussion with software engineering leaders to discuss the shift to AI agents that can plan, execute and orchestrate SDLC workflows. Learn where they deliver the most value, what architecture/context is required to scale, and the governance and hidden costs leaders must manage. ... Show More Show Less

04:00 PM - 04:45 PM PDT

Roundtable: Women in IT Leadership: Culture and Career Design
Fatima Ahmed, Sr Principal Analyst, Gartner
Despite progress, women remain underrepresented in IT leadership. What can organizations do to change the narrative? This session explores how intentional culture, sponsorship and career design can support and advance women in engineering leadership roles. ... Show More Show Less
Wednesday, June 03, 2026

01:45 PM - 02:30 PM PDT

Senior Leadership Circle Roundtable: Modernize Enterprise Applications
Tristan Iles, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Heads of enterprise applications must establish a strategic approach that aligns application and business goals to overcome complexity and technical debt. This requires continuous modernization and portfolio rationalization, including consolidating or decommissioning applications. Join this lightly facilitated roundtable with your peers to discuss. ... Show More Show Less

01:45 PM - 02:30 PM PDT

Senior Leadership Roundtable: Value Storytelling for Software Engineering Leaders
Annie Hodgkins, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Software engineering leaders struggle to communicate the business value of their technical success to executives in an impactful way. Join this roundtable discussion to exchange practical approaches for crafting compelling narratives that resonate at the executive level. Share your experiences, learn new techniques and discuss how storytelling can elevate engineering’s influence across the organization. ... Show More Show Less

03:30 PM - 04:15 PM PDT

Enterprise Architecture Roundtable: Applying AI in EA (Multigroup)
Bart Kaplan, VP, Executive Partner, Gartner
As AI moves from isolated use cases to a core feature of enterprise business and operating models, it will drive demand for more scalable, automated support from EA. Join this roundtable to understand how your peers are leveraging AI to more effectively deliver EA services. ... Show More Show Less

03:30 PM - 04:15 PM PDT

Roundtable: Fix the Broken CRM
Ilona Hansen, VP Analyst, Gartner
There are many reasons why CRMs are not well established in organizations, including a lack of clear objectives, low user adoption, incomplete implementation, excessive customization and others. This roundtable provides Gartner clients an opportunity to share best practices for recognizing the symptoms of a broken CRM and discuss their experiences with successful CRM fixes. ... Show More Show Less
Thursday, June 04, 2026

10:30 AM - 11:15 AM PDT

Roundtable: Overcoming Biases in Application Portfolio Management
Aaron Harrison, Director Analyst, Gartner
Every dollar spent keeping low value products alive, starves future innovation. Pushback is common, especially when finishing in-progress work. Status quo and authority biases can distort decisions, even when data and customer insights say otherwise. ... Show More Show Less

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Product Manager, Blue Shield of California

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