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

Pragmatic AI Supercomputing: Strategy for Scalable Real-World AI Deployment
Chirag Dekate, VP Analyst, Gartner
Discover a pragmatic approach to build AI supercomputing infrastructure that balances cost, scalability and speed. This session delivers actionable strategies for I&O leaders to design and deploy AI ready environments — focusing on architecture, resource planning and real-world execution to drive AI outcomes. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM PST

How to Successfully Adopt Agentic AI in Observability to Realize Value
Matt Crossley, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Observability platforms are increasingly implementing intelligent agents to optimize or automate workflows with promises of productivity boosts and cost reduction. But what is realistic, and more importantly, how do you realize these benefits? This session will discuss best practices for adopting this disruptive technology, dealing with managing risk, cultural and process change, and shifting roles and responsibilities. ... 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: How Do You Deploy AI at Your Service Desk?
Chris Laske, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Join this lightly facilitated discussion to exchange best practices and challenges with defining and deploying AI at your service desk. Share your experiences (both good and bad!) and learn from your peers on what worked for them and what they would do differently next time. ... Show More Show Less

02:30 PM - 03:00 PM PST

Hype Cycle for Generative AI
Arun Chandrasekaran, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
GenAI continues to be a top priority for the C-suite, leading to accelerated innovation in new AI models and products to enable it. In this session, IT leaders can learn about the key techniques and technologies powering one of the most transformative technology trends of this decade. ... Show More Show Less

04:00 PM - 04:30 PM PST

AI Supercomputing Meets Quantum Computing for the Ultimate Accelerated Smackdown
Matthew Brisse, VP Analyst, Gartner
AI supercomputers offering extreme scale parallelism are crucial to driving innovation in advanced GenAI, data analytics and simulation environments. Leveraging the state-of-the-art innovations in computational acceleration, high-speed networks and specialized software will drive the next generation of complex, computationally intensive workloads that will change the way we think and the world. ... Show More Show Less

04:00 PM - 04:30 PM PST

What Will the I&O Professional Look like in 2030?
Joe Antelmi, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
The future powered by growing capabilities of GenAI and agentic AI is approaching. Over the next five years, AI is set to flip the script on I&O, transforming tasks, redefining roles and revolutionizing how we work. Join us to discover AI trajectories to plan for, the crucial AI-driven skills, and the strategies to lead your I&O team into a bold, AI-powered future! ... Show More Show Less
Wednesday, December 10, 2025

10:30 AM - 11:15 AM PST

Ask the Expert: How to Avoid the Failure of AI Infrastructure Investments?
Dennis Smith, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Organizations can enhance their chances of successful AI infrastructure investments and avoid common pitfalls associated with AI implementation by focusing on establishing clear governance, prioritizing AI readiness and aligning with AI strategy. Join this session to know more. ... Show More Show Less

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