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
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM PDT
Roundtable: Transitioning Into Enterprise Applications Leadership
Jim Elliott,
Executive Partner, Domains, Gartner
This interactive roundtable session is designed for professionals newly appointed to the leadership role in enterprise applications. It aims to provide a collaborative platform for new-to-role leaders to share experiences, discuss challenges and explore strategies for success.
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11:00 AM - 11:45 AM PDT
Roundtable: Agile Reset: Let's Get it Right This Time!
Tom Bast,
Executive Partner, Domains, Gartner
Come share your experiences and hear from your peers on this timely topic. Pitfalls and challenges, cultural change, scaling, metrics, tools, upskilling talent — anything is fair game!
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12:30 PM - 01:15 PM PDT
Roundtable: Application Leadership Skills
Tad Travis,
VP Analyst, Gartner
Leading an enterprise application program requires more than just application knowledge and technical skills. Stakeholder management, team development and strategic planning skills are equally important. Join this roundtable session with peers to discuss best practices, lessons learned and new perspectives on application leadership.
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12:30 PM - 01:15 PM PDT
Enterprise Architecture Roundtable: Technical Debt Partnerships
Bart Kaplan,
VP, Executive Partner, Gartner
Heads of enterprise architecture are often tasked with developing tech debt reduction strategies, but they need buy-in from application and infrastructure leaders to execute. Join this Roundtable to discuss techniques your peers are using to develop effective apps, and infrastructure and operations partnerships.
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02:30 PM - 03:15 PM PDT
Roundtable: Making the Software Engineering Workforce AI-Ready
Philip Walsh,
Director Analyst, Gartner
AI adoption isn’t just about tools — it’s about people. This roundtable explores how to foster an AI-ready culture through change management, a learning mindset and skill development. Join this session to discuss strategies for driving adoption, enhancing productivity and creating a culture of learning that ensures AI becomes an integral part of software engineering.
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02:30 PM - 03:15 PM PDT
Roundtable: Navigating the Future of Software Engineering (Multi-group)
Brad Dayley,
VP Analyst, Gartner
Manjunath Bhat,
Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
AI is pushing boundaries and upending established ways of working and operating models in software development. This session invites attendees to brainstorm and explore key strategic shifts that will reshape software engineering by 2030. Discussion topics include the impact of AI on engineering roles and team structures, the SDLC and software architectures.
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04:00 PM - 04:45 PM PDT
Roundtable: Will Homegrown AI Replace Enterprise Applications?
Tad Travis,
VP Analyst, Gartner
Homegrown AI capabilities, like LLMs and agentic AI, will not replace commercial applications soon. However, the change is coming. Join this session with fellow enterprise application leaders to discuss strategies for introducing AI into your application portfolios, explore how to balance build vs. buy considerations and determine if you should replace your applications with custom-made AI solutions.
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04:00 PM - 04:45 PM PDT
Roundtable: How Can Application Leaders Mitigate the Risk of Operating in an Uncertain Geopolitical Landscape
Marty Resnick,
VP Analyst, Gartner
Application leaders must operate within the realities of the geopolitical impacts that we now face. These include increasing focus on contingency planning for diverse vendor selection, avoiding reliance on products or technologies that may be subject to trade policies or other restrictions and confronting increased costs.
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Wednesday, June 04, 2025
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
Roundtable: GenAI Success Stories in Your Software Development Life Cycle
Jim Elliott,
Executive Partner, Domains, Gartner
Come share your GenAI lessons learned as applied to your SDLC with a group of your peers. What's worked? What's challenging?
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