2026 Applications 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

01:45 PM - 02:15 PM PDT

Top 5 Practices for Building and Deploying Successful AI Agents
Gary Olliffe, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
AI Agents are the hot topic when it comes to delivering "business value" from generative AI, but while creating an agent in the lab can be simple, getting them to production is challenging. This session will walk you through five top practices to help your organization's AI agent building efforts deliver on their promise. ... Show More Show Less

04:00 PM - 04:30 PM PDT

The Anatomy of a Multiagent Platform
Steve Deng, VP Analyst, Gartner
Using an LLM-based AI agent as the building block, this session delves into the architecture of a Multiagent platform (outer architecture), which functions as a distributed ecosystem in which multiple LLM-based agent instances operate, scale, interact, and are managed. The outer architecture is critical as it provides the necessary infrastructure for securing and governing multiple agents collectively in a predictable and consistent manner. ... Show More Show Less
Wednesday, June 03, 2026

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

The System Engineering Renaissance: How System Design, Context and Documentation Unlock Real AI Impact
Kevin Matheny, VP Analyst, Gartner
The next frontier of AI value isn't found in more code assistant automation, but in the disciplined application of systems design, strategic curation of context and the elevation of documentation from an afterthought to a primary fuel to drive AI alignment, enabling AI agents to accomplish more for your business. ... Show More Show Less

01:45 PM - 02:15 PM PDT

Heads of Enterprise Architecture Must Drive AI Direction
Fred Ganter, VP Analyst, Gartner
Now is the time for Enterprise Architecture to lead. The era of fragmented AI pilots is over. Regulatory pressure, escalating costs, poor return on investment and board-level scrutiny demand a unified enterprise AI direction. Heads of EA are uniquely positioned to lead by holistically connecting strategy, planning and execution, ensuring AI can deliver measurable business outcomes while managing risk and cost. By using these practical techniques, heads of EA can ensure AI becomes a repeatable, trusted capability rather than a fragmented liability. ... Show More Show Less

03:30 PM - 04:00 PM PDT

AI Agent Orchestration for Multiagent Systems
Keith Guttridge, VP Analyst, Gartner
Multiagent systems require AI agent orchestration to unlock their full potential, which has created a wave of vendors and frameworks looking to capitalize on this opportunity. Learn about three types of multiagent systems and the different ways technology providers address them. ... Show More Show Less

04:15 PM - 04:45 PM PDT

Trust, Truth and Verification: Using Large Language Models to Validate Other LLMs
Darin Stewart, VP Analyst, Gartner
Large language models are powerful generators of content and insight, but hallucinations, misattributions and simple mistakes make them unreliable without a verification layer. This session explores the fast-evolving practice of cross-model validation, using one LLM to validate the output of another, transforming AI from a creative assistant into a trusted collaborator. ... Show More Show Less

04:15 PM - 04:45 PM PDT

Why Your Individual Developers Are Productive With AI, But Your Teams Are Not
Manjunath Bhat, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Why doesn't AI-driven individual developer productivity translate into teamwide improvements? This session explores the causes of this gap and offers practical solutions to bridge it. Show Less
Thursday, June 04, 2026

02:45 PM - 03:15 PM PDT

How to Discover and Manage the Unseen Risks of Shadow AI
Darin Stewart, VP Analyst, Gartner
The use of unauthorized use of GenAI tools like shadow AI creates a significant governance blind spot. Over 55% of global users employ unapproved AI. This bypass of oversight leads to unseen and unmanaged risks. This session explains how to discover and mitigate risk and legal liability while also providing a competitive edge. ... Show More Show Less

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Aneez Zakaria
Product Manager, Blue Shield of California

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