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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
Andre Bridges, Director, Advisory, 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

11:45 AM - 12:15 PM PST

Commvault: Unified Cyber Resilience with AI for Hybrid & Cloud
Rahul Pawar, GLOBAL FIELD CTO, Commvault Systems
As cyber threats intensify, hybrid sprawl has become one of IT’s greatest risks—54% of organizations now manage data across both on-prem and cloud. In this session, discover how a unified control console with AI-driven insights delivers full command over resources, costs, and protection across complex environments. See how unified visibility and intelligent automation empower stronger protection, faster recovery, and measurable cost efficiencies. ... Show More Show Less

11:45 AM - 12:15 PM PST

Tanium: Autonomous IT: A new paradigm for secure endpoint management with AI in real-time
Harman Kaur, SVP, Technology Strategy & AI, TANIUM
As IT grows more complex and threats evolve faster, traditional endpoint management and security approaches struggle to keep up. This session explores how Autonomous IT—powered by agentic AI and real-time intelligence —can continuously observe, reason, and act to transform endpoint operations. Join us to learn how these workflows can detect vulnerabilities, make context-aware decisions, and remediate issues with or without human intervention. ... Show More Show Less

11:45 AM - 12:30 PM PST

Roundtable: AI and Cyber Resilience: Balancing Innovation with Risk, moderated by Illumio
Christer Swartz, DIRECTOR, INDUSTRY SOLUTIONS, Illumio
Join your peers to discuss how organizations are navigating the risks and opportunities of AI in cybersecurity. Share experiences and practical strategies for managing shared dependencies, reducing blind spots, and building more resilient security architectures in an evolving threat landscape. ... Show More Show Less

11:45 AM - 12:15 PM PST

Broadcom: Optimizing Private Cloud for Gen AI Scale, Performance, and Operations
Mark Chuang, SR DIRECTOR PRODUCT MARKETING, VMWARE CSBU
Michael Melillo, SENIOR DIRECTOR OF NETWORK MANAGEMENT, BROADCOM
Generative AI demands are crushing traditional infrastructure. Are your teams struggling to deploy resource-intensive AI at scale? Learn a blueprint for transforming your VMware environment into a high-performance AI powerhouse. Achieve speed, slash TCO, and operationalize performance using network observability and value stream management. We cover single platform efficiency, streamlined GPU deployment, and secure Private AI-as-a-Service. ... Show More Show Less

11:45 AM - 12:30 PM PST

Roundtable: High-Impact AI Use Cases for Retail, Manufacturing, Finance, and Government, moderated by Google Cloud
Brian Kracik, Head of Product Marketing - Cloud Infrastructure, Google Cloud
Nishant Kohli, Sr. Outbound Product Manager, Google
This roundtable, cuts through the hype to provide the IT architecture blueprint for deploying & managing a distributed fleet of AI apps. We will discuss architectural patterns & deployment strategies while exploring specific use cases that immediately translate into operational efficiency, accelerated decision-making, and increased revenue across key sectors - Manufacturing, Retail, Financial Services, & Government. Build your AI Anywhere strategy today. ... Show More Show Less

11:45 AM - 12:15 PM PST

Nutanix: Cloud Native & AI in a Multicloud World - The Platform for Now and the Future
Harsha Kotikela, SENIOR DIRECTOR, PRODUCT AND SOLUTIONS M, Nutanix
Manosiz Bhattacharyya, CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER, Nutanix
With the current disruption in the virtualization market, many organizations are looking to solve today’s challenges while laying the foundation for a future with AI and modern applications. Join us to explore practical and strategic considerations for helping platform engineers, and IT teams move faster—simplifying migrations, modernizing virtualization, and enabling cloud native and AI innovation. ... Show More Show Less

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