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Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo™ 2025 conference dives deep into key topics for CIOs around AI, cybersecurity, executive leadership and more to help you address your organization’s mission-critical challenges.

2025 Conference Theme

Agents of Change: Leading Through Intelligence

In today’s volatile world, CIOs and tech leaders face crucial choices. Now is the time to harness AI for successful digital transformation. As the lead change agent, you need:

  • Adaptive leadership to navigate complex challenges
  • Smart tech decisions on AI-ready data, cybersecurity, cloud sovereignty and cost optimization
  • Innovation and resilience to foster a change-ready culture
  • Actionable insights for prioritized strategies
  • A future-ready workforce for tomorrow

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Monday, October 20, 2025

10:00 AM - 10:45 AM EDT

Gartner Opening Keynote: Walking The Golden Path to Value
Daryl Plummer, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Alicia Mullery, VP Analyst, Gartner
AI isn't everything, but it's touching everything. To achieve the next level of value, you must navigate the blinding hype surrounding AI readiness and the lagging progress of human readiness. Join Gartner’s Opening Keynote to discover how CIOs, AI leaders and IT leaders can chart their own "golden path" – navigating vendor choices, reimagining the workforce and redefining organizational identities – to be agents of change. ... Show More Show Less

11:30 AM - 12:15 PM EDT

Ask the Expert: Navigating International AI Laws and Regulations
Whit Andrews, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Join this session to understand the evolving landscape of AI laws and regulations, and their impact on your organization. This session will equip CIOs with the knowledge to ensure compliance and mitigate risks associated with AI deployment. Gartner does not offer legal advice. ... Show More Show Less

12:05 PM - 12:25 PM EDT

Automation Anywhere: The Future of AI Agents: Going from Personal Productivity to Enterprise-Wide ROI
Peter White, Chief Product Officer, Automation Anywhere
The challenge in enterprise automation isn’t starting—it’s achieving measurable impact. Too many AI efforts stall in personal productivity. This session explores how Agentic AI transforms siloed tools into goal-driven processes that deliver ROI. Learn how to orchestrate end-to-end workflows, unlock 10x value, and accelerate adoption with Agentic Process Automation, already live at 1,500+ enterprises. ... Show More Show Less

12:05 PM - 12:25 PM EDT

Cisco: Simplifying AI Complexity—Empowering Digital Resilience With Splunk
Chris Crocco, Director of Technical Interlock for O11y/Assurance, Splunk
Visibility and performance across distributed architectures and applications are becoming increasingly complex. This session explores how integrating Cisco’s networking, security, and data center solutions with Splunk’s observability platform enables organizations to turn data into actionable insights. Learn how this approach helps IT teams identify and resolve issues faster, improve reliability, and align IT performance with business objectives. ... Show More Show Less

12:05 PM - 12:25 PM EDT

Google Workspace: Use Agents to Automate Work and Amplify Productivity
Verne Smith, Head of Platform Product Marketing, Google Workspace, Google
Learn how new capabilities in Google Workspace empower anyone to build powerful agents in minutes. Learn how these AI agents can orchestrate tasks across Workspace and other essential business applications, powering users and organizations to make smarter decisions and drive faster innovation.

We'll share how automating work and building AI agents is accessible for users of any skill level, and show how easy it is to get started. ... Show More Show Less

12:05 PM - 12:25 PM EDT

Okta: Securing AI Innovation at Scale

AI agents are transforming businesses by autonomously acting, deciding, and integrating across systems. But with this autonomy comes risk. Data leaks, stale permissions, and compliance blind spots compromise security. In this session, discover how Auth0 for AI Agents delivers fine-grained identity, consent, and access controls so you can innovate with AI securely and at scale. ... Show More Show Less

12:30 PM - 01:00 PM EDT

Maximize the Value of AI in Banking
Benjamin Seesel, VP, Advisory, Gartner
The failure to strategically and holistically integrate AI across technologies, processes, and human skills will prevent banking CIOs from realizing the full potential and sustainable value of their technology investments. AI that fails to embed into banking operations and work design will remain a “shiny object” disconnected from practical activities that create enterprise value. This session will explore how CIOs need to rethink workflows to maximize human-AI synergy and boost returns. ... Show More Show Less

12:45 PM - 01:15 PM EDT

Top Trends in Data and Analytics 2025
Gareth Herschel, VP Analyst, Gartner
AI is having a huge impact, but is not the sole factor driving change in data and analytics with societal, technological and organizational implications. We examine trends in areas, such as complexity, trust and empowerment leaders and teams face as they make decisions in all aspects of their bet-the-business D&A strategy. ... Show More Show Less

01:15 PM - 01:35 PM EDT

Boomi: From Zero to ROI: How to Design, Govern, and Orchestrate Enterprise-Ready AI Agents
Chris Chan, Director of Product Marketing for Boomi AI,
Barry Gerdsen, CTO - CHANNELS & ALLIANCES, Boomi
90% of AI projects stall in pilots due to a lack of enterprise readiness. In this live demo, Boomi’s Field CTO will show how to move beyond chatbots to agentify business workflows and turn AI potential into measurable ROI. See how agents gain context from enterprise systems, reason through options, and take secure action. Learn how Boomi provides the connectivity, governance, and speed to value needed to scale agentic transformation, with a real-world use case proving business impact. ... Show More Show Less

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Rahul Deep 
Vice President of Technology, Curi, Inc.

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