All 2025 Conference Sessions

Gartner dives deep into key topics for infrastructure, operations and cloud leaders around hybrid cloud, AI, leadership, cost & value, data centers and more to help you address your organization's mission-critical challenges.

2025 Conference Theme

Deliver Today. Transform Tomorrow.

Your organization’s future relies on agility, resilience, and innovation—while staying secure and efficient. As the skills gap grows, lead your team in adopting AI, mastering cloud cost optimization, and building resilient, secure, sustainable infrastructure.

Explore our conference sessions below, all developed with this theme in mind.

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Tuesday, December 09, 2025

09:30 AM - 10:15 AM PST

Gartner Opening Keynote: Navigating the Hype: Strategic Roadmap to I&O Success
Paul Delory, VP Analyst, Gartner
Autumn Stanish, Director Analyst, Gartner
Agentic AI is a fundamental shift for I&O, demanding new operational paradigms like cloud once did. This keynote will explore concrete agentic AI application for I&O, emphasizing the needs for resilient infrastructure, automation and governance to navigate this shift. A focus on Continuous Operations will show how adopting mature techniques from tech leaders can ensue relentless innovation and operational stability. Get equipped with a roadmap to a new I&O operating model, highlighting effective patterns for behavior and operating practices to lead in the next era of I&O. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM PST

The Future of Cloud, 2030
Dennis Smith, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Expanding cloud computing adoption will push the market beyond $1 trillion in worldwide spending by 2027. Cloud platforms (public and sovereign) are increasingly hosting AI implementations to transform business models in a highly volatile world. This presentation explores how to prepare enterprises for the future of cloud from now until 2030. ... Show More Show Less

12:30 PM - 01:00 PM PST

Leadership Vision 2026 Infrastructure and Operations
Nathan Hill, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
This session will focus on the key challenges and trends impacting infrastructure and operations, and what leadership actions will generate success in 2026 and beyond. We will address how you must work with leaders, stakeholders, and customers to understand the relative business value of the services your team delivers today or could deliver, going forward. I&O leaders should use these insights to enhance their strategic vision, delivery programs and prioritize services. ... Show More Show Less

12:30 PM - 01:15 PM PST

Ask the Expert: Cloud Security: Managing & Securing Public Cloud and SaaS
Charlie Winckless, VP Analyst, Gartner
Cloud security, whether IaaS, PaaS, SaaS or a combination of these, is a part of almost everyone’s security toolkit nowadays. This session offers an interactive opportunity to consult a Gartner expert about your cloud security challenges and questions related to governance approaches, skillsets and tools in this field. ... Show More Show Less

12:30 PM - 01:00 PM PST

Cloud Repatriation — The Reality and the Myth
Jeffrey Hewitt, VP Analyst, Gartner
Media entities report that cloud repatriation, the shift of applications from cloud providers back to on-premises, is a major trend today. This session will provide insights into the actual extent of this movement and the reasons behind repatriating certain applications. Additionally, it will offer recommendations for leveraging the trend of "optimal infrastructure." ... Show More Show Less

12:30 PM - 01:00 PM PST

Technical Insights: Redesign Your WAN for Zero-Trust and Cloud
Simon Richard, VP Analyst, Gartner
Do you even need an enterprise WAN anymore? You certainly need to meet your application SLA, but SASE and the various backbones and application acceleration functions offered as a service are transforming the WAN. This presentation will introduce the cloud network fabric, which connects users to workload, whether they reside in cloud providers or your data center. ... Show More Show Less

02:30 PM - 03:15 PM PST

Ask the Expert: From Cloud Center of Excellence to Cloud Operating Model
Lydia Leong, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Many organizations have started a CCOE, but struggle with maturing from centralized expertise to the empowerment and enablement of cloud excellence across the organization. Bring your questions about cloud-related organizational, cultural and people challenges, as well as those about the CCOE, the cloud operating model, skills and digital democratization (including “You Build It, You Run It”). ... Show More Show Less

02:30 PM - 03:15 PM PST

Ask the Expert: Mastering Cloud Financial Management and FinOps
Douglas Toombs, VP Analyst, Gartner
Cloud computing bills often skyrocket, catching IT leaders by surprise and leaving them scrambling to regain control over costs. In this session, Gartner analyst Douglas Toombs will answer your questions on how organizations are addressing their cloud financial management challenges. ... Show More Show Less

04:00 PM - 04:30 PM PST

Cloud Strategy in the Age of AI: A Cookbook Approach to Ensuring Business Focus
David Smith, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Many organizations have a cloud strategy that is disconnected from their business — they dive into the details without focusing on the “why.” With the increasing demand for AI, how your cloud strategy enables and utilizes AI is more important than ever. We take a cookbook approach to cloud strategy, starting with context and aligning it with other strategies and operational plans. ... Show More Show Less

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Cloud Architect, University of Rochester

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