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.

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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

Elevating Infrastructure & Operations to the Boardroom
Mike Cisek, VP Analyst, Gartner
CIOs and I&O leaders feel that boardroom stakeholders often overlook crucial IT infrastructure and operations issues. To address this, CIOs and I&O leaders should strategically introduce these topics in boardroom discussions, highlighting their importance and establishing clear connections to both tangible and intangible business priorities. ... Show More Show Less

12:30 PM - 01:00 PM PST

Gartner Futures Lab: The Futures of Computing
Autumn Stanish, Director Analyst, Gartner
The future of computing is mostly not about new computing, storage or communication technologies. It is about new and innovative use cases. Computing is going to be more expensive, so we need more ambitious use cases. And advances in computing make new use cases possible. This provocative story takes you on a tour across three horizons, all the way to a deeper analysis of what really drives the future of computing: hypermachinity and hyperhumanity. ... 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

02:30 PM - 04:00 PM PST

Senior Leadership Circle Workshop: How to Drive High-Value Maturity Improvements With Your I&O Operating Model
Roger Williams, VP Analyst, Gartner
The pressure on heads of I&O to change their approach to getting work done continues to intensify. Unfortunately, improvement projects too often fall short of delivering promised benefits. Join this workshop to get practical guidance on where to target maturity improvement efforts, and how tuning your focus for improvements to your I&O operating model can deliver both value today and better positioning for tomorrow. ... Show More Show Less

02:30 PM - 03:00 PM PST

Stakeholder Engagement and Change Communication Tactics for Next Generation I&O Leaders
James Boyle, VP, Advisory, Gartner
Effective stakeholder involvement can make or break your transformation initiatives. This session will provide I&O leaders with pragmatic insight into action-oriented stakeholder engagement and change techniques to navigate the evolution of business-led IT as the rise of fusion teams increases the complexity of our stakeholder ecosystem. ... Show More Show Less

02:30 PM - 03:00 PM PST

I&O Skills: What's Needed Now, What's Needed in the Future
Mark Margevicius, VP Analyst, Gartner
Today's teams frequently lack the skills required to proactively meet business needs. The rapid pace of ongoing transformations renders existing skills inadequate for many organizations. I&O leaders must prioritize development plans to cultivate the most essential skills within their teams. This session provides guidance on effective upskilling methods that benefit both employees and organizations. ... 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

04:00 PM - 04:30 PM PST

Win Support for Your Initiatives by Mastering the Art of Storytelling
Tori Paulman, VP Analyst, Gartner
Effective storytelling is crucial for gaining buy-in from peers, employees, and executives alike, but leaders often struggle to create concise, consistent and clear communications about their initiatives. Join this session to learn three rules that will virtually captivate and inspire action: 1) characters above all, 2) don't lose the beat and 3) titrate conflict. ... Show More Show Less

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