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Autumn Stanish
Director Analyst
Gartner
Speaker Topics
- Cost and Value
- Digital Workplace, End-user Services
- Generative AI, Agentic AI and AI
- Cloud Computing
- Leadership, Organizational and Cultural Change
- Reliability, Resilience and Recovery
- IT Infrastructure Management
- I&O Automation
- I&O Metrics and Business Value
- IT Operations Management
- I&O Maturity, Strategy and Process Improvement
Speaker Bio
Autumn Stanish is a Director Analyst with Gartner in the Digital Workplace I&O group. Her research addresses IT sustainability and the role of I&O in corporate ESG initiatives. In addition to sustainability, she also supports IT leaders with employee device trends and procurement strategies, including DEX tools, persona creation, lifecycle planning and vendor selection.
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Sessions
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.
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Tuesday, December 09, 2025 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.
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Wednesday, December 10, 2025 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM PST
Simple Actions to Kickstart Your DEX Journey in IT Operations
Autumn Stanish,
Director Analyst, Gartner
A digital employee experience strategy is crucial for identifying and eliminating digital friction that hampers workforce productivity. Attendees will learn what simple actions can kickstart the journey to effectively enhance DEX in IT operations and drive organizational success.
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Thursday, December 11, 2025 12:15 PM - 01:30 PM PST
Senior Leadership Circle: Lunch: Wrap-Up Session
George Spafford,
VP Analyst, Gartner
Autumn Stanish,
Director Analyst, Gartner
This session will review the important topics covered during the senior leadership circle (SLC) program and provide an opportunity for discussion at the table. Attendees find a take-away session valuable because it brings the key findings together and allows them to compare notes with peers.
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Thursday, December 11, 2025 04:15 PM - 04:45 PM PST
Train Employees on Cost-Optimized Best Practices for the Use of GenAI
Autumn Stanish,
Director Analyst, Gartner
Every time an employee uses GenAI, the compute costs for that generated response is calculated in "tokens." To assist the organization's GenAI and FinOps goals, the end-user services team plays a critical role in educating employees on when and when not to use GenAI, and in supplying employees with standard prompts to improve their results the first time. This session will provide frameworks and guidance for training employees to use GenAI efficiently.
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