All Gartner Data & Analytics 2026 Conference Sessions

The 2026 agenda dives deep into key topics for data, analytics and AI leaders around agentic AI, governance, leadership, data architecture and more to help you address your organization's mission-critical challenges.

2026 Conference Theme

Value at AI Velocity: Navigating the Now and Next

As AI accelerates change across industries, leaders must deliver immediate impact while preparing for future developments. This year’s conference focuses on overcoming challenges like scaling AI, managing disruption, and balancing risk using governance—helping leaders unlock data’s full potential for lasting success.

Explore our conference sessions below, all developed with this theme in mind. Take a look at the list of tracks available onsite. 

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Monday, March 09, 2026

09:30 AM - 10:15 AM EDT

Gartner Opening Keynote: Navigate AI on Your Data & Analytics Journey to Value
Adam Ronthal, VP Analyst, Gartner
Georgia O'Callaghan, Director Analyst, Gartner
AI is accelerating new possibilities for data and analytics everywhere. Success isn’t always about being the fastest, but about finding your own path to value, while managing risk and cost. Join our Gartner’s Opening Keynote to discover how a thoughtful approach to speed and direction helps you prepare for what’s next, no matter where you are today. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM EDT

Ask the Expert: How to Design and Optimize RAG
Sumit Agarwal, VP Analyst, Gartner
RAG has emerged as a powerful approach for building advanced AI systems that combine the strengths of large language models with external knowledge sources. However, RAG solutions struggle with reliability and require a lot of experimentation. This session will address key questions to help determine the best design pattern and optimization for RAG implementations. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT

Advance Your AI Strategy For Success in an Era of Constant Change
Arun Chandrasekaran, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
The enormous potential business value of AI will not materialize spontaneously. AI leaders should guide their organizations toward an era in which AI is not only creating tangible business value but goes beyond to become a critical competitive differentiator and industry disruptor. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT

Autonomous AI & Multi-Agent Systems: Where is the Value?
Erick Brethenoux, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
AI agents are becoming a critical AI trend as they enable levels of business adaptability, flexibility and agility that can’t be achieved with traditional AI systems trained for a specific task. Their flexibility is valuable in unpredictable operating environments and real-time monitoring and control aren’t practical. Autonomous behaviors have significant societal, legal and ethical implications, but are the answer to the increasing complexity paralyzing our enterprise systems. ... Show More Show Less

12:45 PM - 01:15 PM EDT

Magic Quadrant Power Session: Analytics and BI and Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms
Kjell Carlsson, VP Analyst, Gartner
Analytics and BI platforms and data Science and machine learning platforms are important technologies that drive insight-driven decision making and allow AI systems to be built and operationalized throughout the enterprise. This session unpacks the Magic Quadrants of both markets and gives inisght on the trends that you should be aware of. ... Show More Show Less

12:45 PM - 01:15 PM EDT

How to Design the AI Organization
Mike Rollings, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
AI leaders must strategically structure their organizations to maximize the business value of AI. This session equips you with practical guidance to build effective and scalable AI operating models and organizations. ... Show More Show Less

02:30 PM - 03:00 PM EDT

How to Calculate the Value and Cost of AI Agents
Rita Sallam, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Leaders responsible for AI must evaluate the potential benefits and costs of new agentic AI use cases. This insight offers a framework, model and specific numbers for building and simulating total cost and key value drivers at scale for AI agent use cases. ... Show More Show Less

02:30 PM - 03:00 PM EDT

How to Build a Foundation for BI and AI Success With Data Quality & Data Observability Tools
Melody Chien, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Data quality and data observability tools provide significant capabilities to ensure good data for your BI and AI. Data observability tools give organizations integrated visibility into the health of their data, data pipelines and data landscape. Data quality tools enable business users to manage data at its sources by setting rules and policies. Together, these tools help organizations build a strong foundation in data management for BI and AI initiatives. ... Show More Show Less

02:30 PM - 03:00 PM EDT

Data Storytelling in the Realm of Generative AI
Jamie O'Brien, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
D&A value is not possible without data storytelling that offers a better way to engage communication findings than just BI reporting or data science notebooks. Join this session to know about the fundamentals of data storytelling and how to fill the gap between data science speakers and decision makers. It further discusses how to tell the best data storytelling and how to upscale data storytelling for future in landscape of GenAI. ... Show More Show Less

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“The conference open our minds to an entire world of analytics opportunities for improving data decision making of the companies.”

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Inter American Development Bank

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