Innovation can come in many forms, including corporate social responsibility, approach to sustainability, customer experience and employee experience, technology advancements and digital capabilities. This IT IOCS conference track explores how to enable I&O leaders to empower their teams to be proactive in supporting business success through practices, trends and technologies that will drive innovation.

Those able to optimize through a demonstrated, more coherent approach to cloud innovation and modernization, governance, adoption and migration are better positioned to deliver successful business cases and more likely to accelerate business outcomes. Designed for cloud leaders, this Gartner IT I&O & Cloud Strategies Conference track explores how to meet your business goals by developing and executing strategies to exploit the cloud to its fullest potential.

This track for I&O leaders explores data center and infrastructure modernization, aggressive automation and infrastructure as code to establish and develop infrastructure to support and enable modern platforms that enable the agility and resilience demanded by today’s organizations.

The business demands innovation in the way I&O teams deliver complex, distributed operations to meet customer expectations. I&O leaders seek new and innovative approaches to support hybrid workloads, distributed operations, edge, centralized core systems and cloud optimization. This track focuses on how I&O leaders can transform operations teams adopting new practices and technologies to meet their increasingly complex operational environments.

This conference track focuses on how I&O leaders empower their operations teams to deliver operational enhancements through efficiencies to maintain, administer and support centralized, distributed, hybrid and cloud operations practices and technologies.

Security is a critical enabler of an effective I&O infrastructure. It is essential that integrated efforts to mitigate risk also maintain agility in delivering customer value while balancing costs. This IT IOCS conference track focuses on guiding I&O security leaders in securing and defending their organizations from exposures and threats, partnering effectively with their security and compliance peers, and integrating security, recovery and compliance best practices into day-to-day operations, infrastructure and platforms.

Evolving the operating model and organization design forces reassessment of workflows, role definitions and skill requirements. For I&O leaders, this means that strategy development and workforce planning must happen in tandem. Finding and retaining talent and evolving the skills of a generationally diverse workforce has never been as crucial. Effective skills development underpins the success of all I&O activities. This IT IOCS conference track focuses on how to ensure you as an I&O leader have the right people with the right skills to meet current and future organization needs.

I&O leaders face continued unprecedented challenges with demands to create an adaptable vision for their organization. Designing an ongoing strategy and roadmap is complex but critical and so is its implementation. Constantly changing business requirements, rapid technological change, multigenerational workforces, and challenging recruitment market conditions make workforce planning extremely difficult. This track focuses on I&O leaders and how they design, change and run their functions, and how to ensure they have the right people with the right skills to meet current and future organization needs.

Cost optimization, combined with delivering value, is a constant challenge and fundamental requirement for effective I&O management. Responding to challenging economic conditions of volatility, inflation and talent shortages is key. Managing sourcing, procurement and vendor management to maximize cost and value outcomes is critical and demanded by the business. This IT IOCS conference track for sourcing, procurement and vendor management leaders focuses on how to optimize operational costs of software, services and infrastructure at the edge, cloud, and on-premises while maximizing value for the business.

Created for the most senior infrastructure and operations leaders, the Senior Leadership Circle Program provides an exclusive opportunity to engage with Gartner experts as well as your I&O peers and attend recommended sessions to optimize your conference experience. An application to participate is required. As part of the IT IOCS conference track for I&O leaders, we suggest attending the sessions in the Redefining the Talent and Skills track as well as the Leading Adaptable Organizations track in addition to those sessions exclusive to the program.

AI is being embedded into the I&O operating environment. It is essential that I&O takes advantage of the productivity benefits that generative AI offers, as well as to chart a course to incorporate more use cases for I&O. It is also critical that I&O become an enabler of GenAI in the broader organization, supporting business initiatives to introduce and utilize AI. This spotlight track focuses on guiding I&O leaders in these two endeavors, and exploring the use cases and organizational needs they are challenged to meet.

Edge computing initiatives are becoming integral to your operating environment, often resulting in operational and data silos. Designing and operating edge systems is challenging due to their technical diversity and integration complexity. This spotlight track focuses on how organizations can integrate, deploy and operate edge systems to enable the anywhere business.

Organizations are under immense pressure to meet rapidly changing business needs. I&O leaders face increasingly complex architectures, a need for effective integration patterns, expanded platform capabilities, security and compliance built in, disciplined yet federated delivery practices and versatile skills. This spotlight track for I&O leaders explores how to use a product-focused mindset, infrastructure platform engineering, infrastructure as code and automation to establish and develop platforms that enable the agility required to meet their challenges.

SPVM leaders must become catalysts for business-led IT sourcing while supporting diversity and sustainability. This spotlight track explores the ways in which they should reinvent the role by focusing on business outcomes through digitally enabled processes and tools and provide value by leveraging data to make better decisions.

Midsize enterprises face many of the same challenges as large organizations but have a fraction of the resources with which to execute. Small teams of IT versatilists, limited budgets and small-scale environments make certain strategies and tactics universally beneficial. These organizations have fundamentally greater agility and lower bureaucratic overhead that can provide the edge on larger competitors. Dedicated sessions and networking opportunities in this spotlight track are designed with your scale and operational environment in mind.

The Technical Insights spotlight track for I&O leaders offers sessions that provide in-depth analysis of critical I&O topics. They are designed for attendees that desire greater technical detail in areas of architecture and design. The sessions are presented by Gartner for Technical Professionals experts.