While we build to 2023 agenda, explore last year's tracks built upon our latest research that addressed the challenges most critical to applications & software engineering leaders. These topics kickstarted conversations around the priorities and initiatives of applications & software engineering so attendees could tackle what was most important to them.
Business growth requires strategies to maximize business values. In this track, we discuss strategic considerations and best practices for IT divisions to incorporate aspects such as composable business, innovation mindsets, digital business models, total experience, customer experience, digital twin and data utilization.
To make applications more agile and resilient to respond business changes demands strategic approaches to application initiatives. In this track, we discuss strategic considerations and best practices for major initiatives of modernization, hyperautomation, governance, and business application adoption.
To build applications responsive to business changes demands new ways of application development. In this track, we discuss major trends and best practices of modern application development with topics including agile enterprise, APIs, microservice, container, continuous interface, low-code development, RPA, and citizen development.
We discuss the latest trends and best practices in architecture styles for the future of applications, including composable architecture, mesh app and service architecture, event computing, and relevant technologies such as composition platforms, API security, Integration for composable enterprise, cloud for application, and data and analytics technologies.
Thursday, 16 June, 2022 / 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM JST
Kimihiko Iijima, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Mark O'Neill, VP Analyst, Gartner
Transform your business and gain competitive advantage with composable applications and design-led approach. This must be achieved in an agile and proactive manner, not only following reactively. This transformation demands a whole spectrum of initiatives including business model, organization, process, practice, application architecture and technologies. We start our summit with this key guidance.
Thursday, 16 June, 2022 / 11:35 AM - 12:05 PM JST
Tsuneo Fujiwara, VP Analyst, Gartner
How do you innovate new business models? You do not win by copying the same digital business models that competitors or disruptors are playing. Instead, explore untapped business model space. This may work in Silicon Valley, but what if everyone around you is afraid of failure and provides no budget, no resources, no executive support which are common barriers? This presentation provides a practical roadmap for developing a business model mindset.
Thursday, 16 June, 2022 / 01:00 PM - 01:30 PM JST
Hideaki Horiuchi, Managing Vice President, Gartner
In many organizations, how to use data better is a mission-critical priority. The background varies from organization to organization, but there are many common concerns around it. In this session, we will explain the points that should be understood in order to improve the data utilization capability, mainly from the viewpoint of organization and talent.
Thursday, 16 June, 2022 / 01:00 PM - 01:30 PM JST
Yefim Natis, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Incorporating composable architecture into digital business enables the enterprise or public agency to change and grow despite persistent uncertainty. IT leaders must build excellence in delivering composable application products, reflecting the architecture of the business and optimized for fast, safe and efficient change, as an essential tool of business resilience, adaptability and growth.
Thursday, 16 June, 2022 / 03:55 PM - 04:25 PM JST
Saul Brand, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Bridging the gap between business and IT to build a resilient enterprise with composable applications starts with business architecture. By using business architecture, fusion teams can focus on building adaptive applications that target changing business outcomes. In this session, we will examine why and how to use business architecture to build composable applications that link business strategy to technical execution.
Friday, 17 June, 2022 / 11:35 AM - 12:05 PM JST
Anthony Mullen, VP Analyst, Gartner
Today organizations develop one-off AI and VR/AR experiences with little consideration to a larger technical design and strategy. This session will outline the key technologies and architectures shaping the future of experiences and automation and prepare business leaders with tactics and strategies to capitalize on the trends
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Friday, 17 June, 2022 / 12:50 PM - 01:20 PM JST
Michelle Duerst, VP Analyst, Gartner
Application, software engineering, DW, CX leaders help the business compete based on great customer experience amd employee experience. However, CX and EX intitiatives are typically silos. Learn how to use total experience to interlink CX and EX strategies to identify and deliver resilient innovations with superior shared experiences for both customers and employees.
Friday, 17 June, 2022 / 02:10 PM - 02:40 PM JST
Kensuke Kawabe, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
By now, many Japanese companies are working on improving CX to be competitive for growth, but some superficial approach is not enough. You should effectively improve and generate every kind of “experiences” that happen between customers and employees by comprehensively surveying them and leveraging recent digital technologies. In this session, we will introduce the methods and best practices, and then suggest how to put them into practice.
Friday, 17 June, 2022 / 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM JST
Don Scheibenreif, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Customers aren't just looking for products anymore — they want experiences. But how do you build for experience when so many parts of the organization use technology to engage customers in different ways? In this session, we will share Gartner's vision for a new business architecture designed to drive lasting and valuable customer relationships in a disrupted world .
Friday, 17 June, 2022 / 03:30 PM - 04:15 PM JST
Kensuke Kawabe, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Yusuke Suzuki, Director, IM Digital Lab Inc.,
We will discuss Mitsukoshi Isetan's actual achievements for their superior customer experience through digital technology with Mr. Suzuki, the speaker of the case study session prior to this AUR. Attendees are expected to talk about their own thoughts and experiences. They can also ask questions to him.
Friday, 17 June, 2022 / 04:20 PM - 05:05 PM JST
Kimihiko Iijima, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Mark O'Neill, VP Analyst, Gartner
During the conference, you have learned how to use modern application and software engineering strategy to make a business impact. This strategy includes taking design-led approach, building composable applications and leveraging new innovations. In the closing keynote, we describe who to take this guidance and apply it in your own organization.
Thursday, 16 June, 2022 / 11:35 AM - 12:05 PM JST
Paul Vincent, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Citizen technologists play a crucial role in contributing to an organization’s low-code automation and development efforts. This session guides CIOs/application and software engineering leaders in creating an adaptive governance model to identify the unique needs of every organization, select the right mix of tools and scale citizen-development programs to drive business innovation.
Thursday, 16 June, 2022 / 11:35 AM - 12:35 PM JST
Tsuyoshi Ebina, VP Analyst, Gartner
SAP continue to facilitate its transition to the S/4HANA, promote indirect and digital access adoption, and drive cloud services' growth. This interactive clinic will help sourcing, procurement and vendor management leaders develop a negotiation strategy and leverage tactics to mitigate risk and mazimize deal value.
Thursday, 16 June, 2022 / 01:00 PM - 01:30 PM JST
Koji Motoyoshi, VP Analyst, Gartner
Gartner foresees that the future of ERP will be composable with more flexibility and agility. In this session, while considering the market trend towards composable ERP, we will sort out the typical anti-patterns of ERP projects observed over 20 years of its history and show how to avoid them.
Thursday, 16 June, 2022 / 03:55 PM - 04:25 PM JST
Ryuichi Tsuchiya, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
There're not a small number of companies which are struggling how to conclude appropriate agile contracts with outsourcers in charge of scrum masters or system development. This session will focus on five topics that Gartner's customers often deem as a challenge and will explain how to find directions to solve.
Thursday, 16 June, 2022 / 03:55 PM - 04:40 PM JST
Koji Motoyoshi, VP Analyst, Gartner
In this session, the expert will explain an overview of typical anti-patterns of ERP projects and answer questions from participants facing various challenges in reality.
Friday, 17 June, 2022 / 11:35 AM - 12:05 PM JST
Saikat Ray, VP Analyst, Gartner
CIOs have a wide array of overlapping options for digital process automation in their technology portfolio. Many have already invested in robotic process automation, low-code, business process management tools, or even integration platform as a service. In this session, CIOs learn how to make the optimal choice and build an investment plan for the future.
Friday, 17 June, 2022 / 11:35 AM - 12:35 PM JST
Ryuichi Tsuchiya, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
The complexity of Microsoft's licensing scheme and the number of contractual options often make it difficult for IT leaders to negotiate contracts and renewals. This interactive clinic describes strategies for IT leaders to successfully negotiate such contracts, which encourage both risk reduction and value maximization.
Friday, 17 June, 2022 / 12:50 PM - 01:20 PM JST
Gary Olliffe, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
As organizations strive to be more flexible and adaptable, composable architecture promises to speed the delivery of new business solutions. But achieving composability comes at a cost. This session will help you decide when to invest in composable application capabilities and how to establish a composable mindset and the architecture to support it.
Key Issues:
1) How do you define composability for your organization?
2) When should you prioritize composable architecture?
3) How do you deliver a composable architecture for application delivery?
Friday, 17 June, 2022 / 02:10 PM - 02:40 PM JST
Tsuyoshi Ebina, VP Analyst, Gartner
There is an urgent need for enterprises to acquire "intelligence" that will enable them to respond quickly to the latet business trends. To this end, AI implementation is being attempted in a variety of fields with the cooperation of external vendors. It is not uncommon for enterprises to outsource goal setting and AI training to vendors, but overreliance can jeopardize success. In this session, a Gartner expert will discuss tips that IT leaders should keep in mind in order to achieve the desired results.
Friday, 17 June, 2022 / 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM JST
Jason Wong, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Gartner has found that business technologists, those who don't work in IT, created technology output for an average of 4.2 automation initiatives in a year. Almost 80% self-reported they were successful in achieving their business objectives. Application and software engineering leaders need to check for these 10 factors to drive successful business outcomes .
Thursday, 16 June, 2022 / 11:35 AM - 12:05 PM JST
Wataru Katsurashima, VP Analyst, Gartner
With the progress of agile development and application architecture, the requirements for application infrastructure are undergoing major changes. Containers, Kubernetes and other new platform technologies such as service mesh play an important role there. In this session, we share market trends and best practices that IT leaders should understand, like use cases, challenges and required skills as well as case studies.
Thursday, 16 June, 2022 / 11:35 AM - 12:05 PM JST
Harutoshi Katayama, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
This session will show SWEL leaders who are thinking of adopting agile development method or expanding their current agile transformation efforts key points for driving agile transformation.
Thursday, 16 June, 2022 / 12:45 PM - 01:30 PM JST
Harutoshi Katayama, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
There is growing interest in agile methodology in Japan. However, many Japanese companies do not know how to start it and how to drive adoption of agile in the organization. This session is to answer questions about driving adoption of agile methodology in the organization.
Thursday, 16 June, 2022 / 01:00 PM - 01:30 PM JST
Jason Wong, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Low-code tools are accounting for a significant percentage of new application development. But will these technologies leave a trail of applications with lock-in to vendors, high amounts of technical debt and potential security weak points in your IT stack? Learn how software engineering leaders can mitigate these challenges of low-code development .
Thursday, 16 June, 2022 / 03:55 PM - 04:25 PM JST
Akash Jain, Principal, Advisory, Gartner
Low code is a marketing term used by vendors across different market segments, which often makes it difficult for SWELs to select a right platform for their use case. This presentation will be a deep dive into what low code means in the context of application development, process automation, and integration.
Friday, 17 June, 2022 / 11:35 AM - 12:05 PM JST
Arun Batchu, VP Analyst, Gartner
Broken app flows, inconsistent design and errors contribute to a debilitating 50% loss in work effectiveness and employee engagement. What got us here will not work in the increasingly VUCA world we live in. This session will introduce new trends in front-end architecture, design and technology to create a humane app experience that your employees and customers will love.
Friday, 17 June, 2022 / 12:50 PM - 01:20 PM JST
Bill Holz, VP Analyst, Gartner
DevOps is all the rage — but what does DevOps really mean? Organizations all around the globe are scrambling to adopt DevOps without understanding what the term means and what is required to adopt it. This presentation will help you to better understand :
• What DevOps is and what it is not?
• The keys critical to DevOps success.
• How to build your DevOps practice into your SDLC ?
Friday, 17 June, 2022 / 02:10 PM - 02:40 PM JST
Steve Deng, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Digital business has accelerated the pace at which organizations support new apps, multichannel experiences and custom integrations. APIs are fundamental to effective app, microservice and integration architectures, but designing the API correctly determines adoption and success. The session discusses a five-step process to design the optimal API with an effective delivery and management strategy .
Friday, 17 June, 2022 / 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM JST
Mark O'Neill, VP Analyst, Gartner
The world of APIs is changing, with graph APIs, including GraphQL, growing in popularity. At the same time, API management is also changing, as organizations increasingly use multiple API gateways across their application architecture. This includes the use of microservices and service mesh. In this session, attendees will learn about new API trends and how their organization can adapt and react.
Friday, 17 June, 2022 / 03:30 PM - 04:15 PM JST
Kimihiko Iijima, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Hikaru Isomoto, Assistant Manager, IT Planning & Promotion Dept., Japan Airlines Co. Ltd. (JAL),
Daisuke Hidaka, Assistant Manager, IT Planning & Management Dept., Japan Airlines Co.,Ltd. (JAL),
Rapid business changes demands breaking away from a scratch-based custom development to a fast development style of leverage or composing existing components in a fit-to-standard manner. Rapid increase of diversified and quick development requests from business divisions makes business-user driven citizen development inevitable. In this session, we invite guest speakers of JAL to discuss fast development style with innovation of mindset and business-and-IT relationship to enhance capabilities to address business changes, based on JAL’s case study session.
Thursday, 16 June, 2022 / 11:35 AM - 12:05 PM JST
Brad Dayley, VP Analyst, Gartner
Accelerating the digital business requires application architecture that supports agility, flexibility and scalability as well as improved customer experiences and workforce productivity. A multigrained mesh app and service architecture (MASA) approach centered around mediated APIs and mesh applications provides a highly agile architecture, but is a significant shift from traditional monolithic applications. This session provides best practices to create an app, API and services architecture to increase your agility and enable composability.
Thursday, 16 June, 2022 / 01:00 PM - 01:30 PM JST
Lydia Leong, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Application architects in organizations with multicloud adoption of IaaS and PaaS must not only decide which cloud provider to use as an application's "home environment," but they must also decide which cloud services to adopt from the "home" provider, and whether to adopt any third-party cloud services for application components. We'll examine both strategic and tactical considerations for workload placements .
Thursday, 16 June, 2022 / 03:55 PM - 04:25 PM JST
Mark O'Neill, VP Analyst, Gartner
As API breaches become commonplace, API security has grown in importance. APIs are now widely used in application development and integration, but are attractive targets since they access applications and data. In this session, you will learn the typical threat surface for APIs, vulnerability paths, and examples of breaches. You will then learn what techniques and technologies can protect APIs .
Thursday, 16 June, 2022 / 03:55 PM - 04:25 PM JST
Keith Guttridge, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Ambitions for composable business empower organizations to innovate and disrupt but also entail tackling integration issues in a daunting array of applications, data, events and ecosystems. Hybrid integration platform capabilities are becoming a precondition for organizations of any kind, to be in business and adaptable to rapid change .
Friday, 17 June, 2022 / 11:35 AM - 12:05 PM JST
Gary Olliffe, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Event-driven architecture and streaming data patterns are permeating the enterprise as architects and engineers discover the limits of their historical go-to approaches. This session explains the trends in cloud architectures, platforms, open-source and skills that are making event-driven patterns a critical capability for modern application, integration and data architecture .
Key Issues:
1) What are the use cases for event-driven architecture today?
2) What skills, technologies and practices do you need to succeed?
3) What impact does working with events and streams have on your existing technology?
Friday, 17 June, 2022 / 11:35 AM - 12:05 PM JST
Paul Vincent, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
As organizations move to agile composable business models, software engineering leaders need to consider application composition technology and exploiting new models of reuse of new and existing packaged software business capabilities. This session will discuss what are the composition technologies and how software engineering leaders can build their composition technology set and why this helps agility.
Friday, 17 June, 2022 / 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM JST
Tatsuya Ichishi, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Data and applications are tight linked, and the trends that are considered essential for data and analytics will have no small impact on applications. This session will cover some of the key trends that Gartner has identified as essential to D&A, including data fabrics and DataOps. We will discuss why they are essential and how to address them, keeping in mind the perspective of application leaders.