Executive Summit

In today’s fast-moving tech and security landscapes, disruption is inevitable—but it doesn’t have to derail your team’s performance. In this high-energy, 30-minute keynote, Dr. Vijay Pendakur will explore why disruption often leads teams to get stuck and how this stagnation threatens business success. Vijay will share his Alchemy of Talent model and explain how leaders can increase productivity and efficiency on their teams, even when it feels like we’re working in an endless earthquake!

Attendees will learn:

• Why disruption can lead to stuck teams and how to avoid it
• The critical impact of stuck teams on business performance and results
• How to make your teams more resilient, adaptable, and willing to learn from failure

The need for intelligent observability, powered by predictive analytics and generative assistants, is increasingly important to protect and drive business revenue. However, IT leaders often face challenges in enabling total stack visibility: uncontrolled cloud expenses, complex software architectures, rapid innovation, emerging security threats, ever-increasing customer experience expectations, and more.

Join this session to discuss:

• How observability can evolve from reactive troubleshooting to a proactive, strategic enabler
• How embedded AI assistants are democratizing access to system health insights
• Why observability is foundational for governing agentic AI workflows

No business leader invests in technology for its own sake—they seek measurable improvements in productivity, agility, and business outcomes. AI is no different, but its rapid evolution can make it difficult to determine where to start and how to scale. The key to unlocking ROI lies in identifying high-impact use cases, optimizing AI adoption, and ensuring teams have the right tools and skills to drive sustainable value.

Join this boardroom to explore:

• How to choose AI use cases that generate revenue, enhance productivity, and establish clear KPIs for ROI tracking
• Navigating the evolving AI ecosystem to align technology investments with business priorities
• Building and educating teams to support AI adoption, streamline implementation, and drive long-term impact

In today's digital landscape, enterprises manage an ever-growing array of technologies across multiple clouds, with the average organization using 1,000 applications and thousands of physical assets. Generative AI is set to boost developer productivity by nearly 40%, leading to a surge in AI-embedded applications. This complexity can cause inefficiencies and vulnerabilities.

Join this session to learn how to:

• Create visibility across disparate systems for informed decision-making
• Streamlining integrations to increase productivity and accelerate delivery
• Maintain compliance by managing integrations centrally to prevent shadow IT

Connect with like-minded peers in a one-on-one setting through Gartner C-Level Community’s Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.

The future of business is rapidly evolving — a future where AI agents are part of the workforce, almost any process or workflow can be automated, and customers expect better, more intelligent experiences across their unstructured data. Whether that means automating loans or onboarding employees faster, applying intelligence to your unstructured data can be a pathway to stay ahead of the competition.

Join this interactive session to explore:

• Practical approaches to building an unstructured data strategy
• Robust content workflows and use cases including agentic AI
• Leadership lessons for organizing and upskilling the workforce

As consumers, our experiences across different touchpoints shape our expectations from all businesses and a great experience with one company will raise expectations for other organizations. Seamless, personalized experiences that anticipate customers’ needs are a strategic differentiator, no matter the industry or scale of competition. Think about the last memorable experience you had as a consumer - is your organization meeting that same standard? Would you be your own customer?

Join this session to discuss:

• Unifying and activating data to deliver personalized experiences and earn customer loyalty
• Crafting strong customer and stakeholder feedback loops
• Sharing best practices across industries to foster trusted engagement

As digital business priorities touch every part of the enterprise, the collaboration between CFOs and CIOs is indispensable for optimizing technology investments and spurring innovation. Effective partnership is key to synchronizing financial strategies with technological progress and maximum business impact.

Join this session to discuss:

• Fortifying the CFO-CIO alliance to facilitate data-driven IT ROI decisions
• Align IT investments with financial strategies and implementing projects with measurable business outcomes
• Bridging business and technology priorities to support, optimize, and transform for enterprise-wide success