Monday, 15 June, 2026 / 3:30 PM - 6:00 PM AEST
Ground Floor
Registration and information hours for the day.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 7:00 AM - 9:00 AM AEST
Pyrmont Theatre Foyer
Welcome to Gartner Data & Analytics Summit! Head to the Pyrmont Theatre Foyer to find arrival refreshments such as Poached Egg & Smoked Bacon English Muffin with red cheddar cheese and BBQ sauce, Acai Bowls made with fruits, Bondi coconut yogurt, Amaranth and coconut granola, and Sliced Seasonal Fruits. There will be plenty of barista coffee for those that want to kick start their day. If you have any dietary requirements, please update your registration profile or contact GlobalConferences@gartner.com so we can accommodate your request.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 7:00 AM - 5:30 PM AEST
C2.3
Join us in the Exclusive Member Lounge where you can enjoy barista coffee and snacks each day! Rest your feet, charge your devices, network among peers, meet with a Gartner Executive Partner, or find a quiet space to get some work done. If you’d like to book a private meeting room, just ask us for more information at the welcome desk! Rooms are available for you on a first come first served basis. We look forward to hosting you! For more information regarding your conference benefits, please visit your [Exclusive Member Experience page](https://www.gartner.com/en/attendees-navigator/apac/bi20a/member-experience).
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 7:00 AM - 5:30 PM AEST
Pyrmont Theatre Foyer
Discover cutting-edge tools, diagnostics and actionable resources at the Gartner Showcase. Visit our demo space for a personalized walkthrough of our business and technology insights platform and learn how Gartner's leading tools like AskGartner, Accelerators, D&A Business Value Benchmark and AI Use Case Insights can help you make faster, smarter decisions on your mission-critical priorities.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 7:00 AM - 6:45 PM AEST
Ground Floor
Registration and information hours for the day.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 8:00 AM - 8:45 AM AEST
C3.6
With so much to see and experience, kick off the CDAO Circle with this engaging session that sets the stage for an exciting day. Discover key highlights, including sessions, peer activities, the Exhibit Showcase and valuable resources, as well as what to expect during breakfast, lunch, leadership exchanges and more. Afterward, grab a coffee and start networking with fellow attendees.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 8:15 AM - 8:30 AM AEST
Theater 1
Exhibitors and their staff are encouraged to attend this session to familiarize themselves with the venue, onsite support and services, best practices for a successful conference, as well as a live Q&A with the Gartner team. Thank you for being an important part of the conference and the attendee experience!
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM AEST
Pyrmont Theatre
AI is accelerating new possibilities for data and analytics everywhere. Success isn’t always about being the fastest, but about finding your own path to value, while managing risk and cost. Join our Gartner’s Opening Keynote to discover how a thoughtful approach to speed and direction helps you prepare for what’s next, no matter where you are today.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 9:45 AM - 10:30 AM AEST
Exhibit Showcase, The Gallery
Join us for snacks, coffee and tea during a brief break between sessions. This morning's break items will be Cinnamon Scrolls, Mushroom, Caramlised onion and Egg Tartlet served with ricotta cheese and chives, and House-Made Cookies. Fresh Seasonal Fruits will also be available. Barista coffee will be served on the Exhibit Showcase.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 9:45 AM - 6:45 PM AEST
The Gallery, Level 2
Visit the Exhibit Showcase Xpo to evaluate industry offerings that can move your business forward. Engage with your peers, Gartner analysts, and exhibitors. Attend a theater session to see technology in action.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 9:45 AM - 6:45 PM AEST
Exhibit Showcase, The Gallery
Welcome to the IBM Engagement Zone. This is your exclusive opportunity to see data and AI in action and discover how IBM powers the official Masters app to revolutionise the tournament experience for fans worldwide. Think you have what it takes to beat the course? Step up to our interactive Putting Challenge, where physical obstacles on the green represent real-world data points. The more you engage with IBM, the more power you earn to manipulate these data blocks and reshape the green to your ultimate advantage. Come explore the technology, optimise your strategy, and prove that with the right data insights, you can conquer any challenge—on or off the course.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM AEST
Theater 1
The Lakehouse was built for human analytics and classic AI. Agents are different: continuous, contextual, and intolerant of stale or ungoverned data. In this session, Ashwin Rajeeva explores what agent-ready data architecture requires — federated access across hybrid environments, continuous observability, and runtime governance — plus a four-phase maturity model for scaling enterprise AI agents into production.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM AEST
Theater 2
Investing in your data and creating a solid foundation is a great strategy, but what are you building towards? In this session, Aware Super will share how they’re creating hyper-personalised moments for over 1.3 million members using ML, Gen AI and a strong data foundation, why it matters for Australians' retirement futures, and what lessons they'd share with anyone starting that same journey.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM AEST
C3.6
Join an interactive executive discussion on emerging trends from the 2026 CDAO Agenda Survey, highlighting cost optimization for D&A, scalable design patterns and the use of AI to improve D&A operations. Discover how these insights can drive efficiency and innovation across your organization.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM AEST
C2.5
In this roundtable discussion with peers from the public sector, share methods and metrics for demonstrating the value of data in policies and services. Explore approaches to measuring social, economic and operational impact, as well as strategies for engaging stakeholders and justifying investments in data initiatives.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM AEST
Cockle Bay 2
Data and analytics governance has historically lagged in innovating. We are at a tipping point where D&A governance can be a single point of failure for AI. To succeed, D&A leaders must evolve governance for the future while reinforcing proven practices. This session provides a forward-looking perspective on D&A governance, including governance of AI, by AI and for AI.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM AEST
Parkside Ballroom 2
This session details how Agentic AI will impact existing data management architecture and technologies, which new use cases it enables in data management and engineering, and which skills will be needed or become obsolete. We’ll also cover how to prepare budgets, teams, and operating models for these changes. These are now valid, frequently debated questions as Agentic AI evolves.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM AEST
C3.3
This session will provide a blueprint for the comprehensive data, analytics, and AI capabilities and services that leaders need to build to enable their organization's AI ambition. It will explore the implications of your AI ambition archetype on your buying, deployment, and organization strategies.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM AEST
C3.4
Data lakehouses continue to be hyped, but do they replace or complement data lakes and data warehouses? Where do we stand from an architectural perspective? What is hype, and what is real? What should be expected in the coming years?
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM AEST
C2.2
Economic uncertainty and inflation complicate tech purchase decisions for Data and Analytics Leaders. This clinic presents a four-step playbook for greater cost savings and avoidance in vendor negotiations. Participants will gain negotiation tips, templates and checklists to help their teams apply these steps in their organizations.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM AEST
Theater 1
Data and governance platforms help organizations design and enforce governance policies for data and its derived assets across its life cycle. Wile augmented data quality solutions streamline the identification of quality issues and automate key data quality processes. In this session, we'll present the latest Magic Quadrant for both markets, discussing vendors, their capabilities and market trends to help you choose the best tool for your needs.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM AEST
C2.1
This session will explore how generative AI technology will evolve over the next decade, moving from large, general-purpose models to agentic, multimodal and deeply personalized systems. IT leaders will gain foresight into the architectural, ethical, and strategic shifts that will define the next wave of enterprise AI.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM AEST
Pyrmont Theatre
Most organisations have AI pilots. Few have AI agents running reliably in production at enterprise scale. The gap is in the data foundation, architecture, governance and operating model. This session explores what Commonwealth Bank built with IBM, what broke, and what they’d change – offering a practical framework for assessing agentic AI and data readiness, and hard-won lessons on architectural decisions, resilience and trust.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM AEST
Parkside Ballroom 2
AI is reshaping intelligence, but without transparency, risks outweigh the promise. In the intelligence domain, explainability is essential for internal confidence and external credibility. This session explores how Victoria Police use SAS to build transparent and human-centred AI. Learn how they bridge the gap between complex analytics and operational decisions to build trust with officers and the community while responsibly scaling ethical AI.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM AEST
C3.3
SAP Business Data Cloud is redefining what’s possible with your most critical data. By unifying SAP and non-SAP data with preserved business semantics through zero-copy partnerships across Databricks, Snowflake, Google, AWS, and Microsoft, SAP delivers the AI-ready foundation modern enterprises need. In this session you'll see how simple it is to bring data together and build a business fabric - enabling faster decisions and trusted AI outcomes
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM AEST
Cockle Bay 2
Everyone talks about “AI ready data." Few have it. This session challenges the perfection myth and shows CDAOs, CIOs, and AI leaders how to turn flawed, fragmented data into fast, trusted outcomes. Learn how pragmatic ways to strengthen trust through quality, transparency, and governance to unlock the confidence to scale decisions and real AI results.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM AEST
C3.4
Autonomous agents remain limited without context, leading to hallucination and disconnected reasoning. Building dependable agents requires a fundamental shift in data architecture. Learn how Electronic Arts (EA) achieved 10× faster time-to-insight and improved agent reliability through graph-based context engineering - proof that the future lies in Context Graphs, not simple context windows.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM AEST
C4.6
The program kicks off with an overview of the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit and the unique experience that CDAOs and senior data & analytics leaders have at the conference. You’ll hear directly from our leadership team on how the conference has evolved and where it is heading. You’ll also receive an exclusive inside view into the audience and insights on their objectives in attending. Lunch will be served.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM AEST
C3.3
One key to AI confidence is ensuring data as utilized by models is reasonable, representative and responsible. AI Ready data is a continuous effort to assure the data is appropriate--whether prepared prior to the AI model or as within the AI implementation itself. We discuss how active metadata is how data talks to models, models are validated by humans, and how humans communicate with models.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM AEST
C3.4
Data engineering faces increasing pressure to deliver AI-ready data that meets agentic AI requirements. This session explores changes in data engineering functions, practices, architectures and technologies.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM AEST
Parkside Ballroom 2
As AI shapes business decisions, making unstructured data AI-ready is a key governance priority. The quality, accessibility and security of unstructured data directly determine the performance of AI applications, particularly for GenAI. To unlock its value for AI initiatives, data and business leaders should evolve their governance strategies to effectively manage, protect and utilize unstructured data, ensuring it is AI-ready while meeting compliance and security requirements.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM AEST
Pyrmont Theatre
AI agent adoption transforms data and analytics strategy and operations. In this session, we will examine the top trends across three key themes: agentic D&A, semantics at the core and D&A platformization.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM AEST
Cockle Bay 2
Analytics and business intelligence (ABI) platforms are increasingly integrating AI agents to transform how data is analyzed and insights are delivered. Data and analytics leaders need to proactively understand these shifts to maximize AI's business impact and ensure organizational readiness. Join this session to learn more.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM AEST
C2.1
Discover the essential steps for developing a successful AI strategy. This session will provide guidance on aligning AI initiatives with business goals to drive innovation and gain a competitive advantage.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 12:15 PM - 12:30 PM AEST
Exhibit Showcase, The Gallery
Get an insider’s look at the Exhibit Showcase with a private tour and begin to picture what your presence could look like.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM AEST
Exhibit Showcase, The Gallery
Head to the Exhibit Showcase for a bite to eat! Engage with your peers, Gartner experts, and exhibitors while enjoying delicious food and beverages. Evaluate industry offerings that can move your business forward. Attend a Theater session to see technology in action. A hot buffet lunch will be served and includes vegetarian and gluten free options. Please click [here](https://emtevp.gcom.cloud/events/bi20a/assets/15054018_15054018.pdf) for the full menu. Dietary requirements have been incorporated into each buffet. If you have any questions, please speak with any member of the venue staff who will be able to help you.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM AEST
C3.6
Join Priyanka Paranagama, CTO and Executive General Manager of AI Transformation at Suncorp Group, alongside Gartner Executive Partner for AI, Stijn (Stan) De Lathouwers, for an engaging discussion on Suncorp’s AI journey. In this session, Priyanka and Stijn will examine the critical enablers behind Suncorp’s progress in AI. From its strong foundations in data and analytics, through to the evolution toward an AI-enabled enterprise. They’ll explore what are the lessens learned from guiding large transformation. What were the right flavours of technology, influence, capability, and executive drive that keeps Suncorp at the forefront of innovation, AI adoption and leadership in Australia/New Zealand
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM AEST
C2.5
Scaling AI is no longer just a technology challenge-it is an operational and governance challenge. Success depends on critical pillars including real-time data and visibility, intelligent automation, and trusted AI-ready data foundations. Join the roundtable to explore what's driving value at AI velocity-and uncover the fourth critical, lesser-understood pillar emerging in the era of frontier AI models.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM AEST
C2.6
As agentic AI shifts from pilots to production, organizations must convert fragmented data to trusted actions amid data quality issues, surging compute costs, and insight-action gaps. Join CIOs/execs to explore strategies: trusted data foundations, efficient full-context analytics, agentic frameworks unifying data/agents/assistants/platforms for scalable outcomes. Discuss how to empower both AI consumers and AI experience builders.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 12:45 PM - 1:05 PM AEST
Theater 1
The proliferation of AI agents and models creates unprecedented challenges for data leaders. Shadow AI, ungoverned data flows, and fragmented pipelines threaten data quality and compliance. Learn how leading executives gain visibility and control over AI ecosystems through strategies for discovering assets, implementing governance frameworks, orchestrating data flows, and ensuring lineage. Walk away ready to govern AI without stifling innovation.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 12:45 PM - 1:05 PM AEST
Theater 2
Why do 95% of GenAI projects fail to reach production? Because an LLM without enterprise context is “brain-dead,” a powerful engine with no nervous system to connect it to business data. This explores why context engineering is the missing link, how Knowledge Graphs power GraphRAG to improve accuracy up to 3x, and how Prospa, Australia’s leading online business lender, cut loan approval times from 48 hours to 2 using this approach.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 1:10 PM - 1:30 PM AEST
Theater 1
At Gartner Australia, Bigeye will show how enterprises can build trust in AI agents as they move into business workflows. Bigeye Agent Trust Hub connects agent activity to data quality, governance, lineage, ownership, policy, usage, and cost signals, giving data, AI, risk, and business leaders the visibility, auditability, and controls needed to move from fragmented AI activity to operational AI trust safely, efficiently, and accountably.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 1:10 PM - 1:30 PM AEST
Theater 2
This session explores how leading brands like Xero and Dell are using AI to deliver consistent, grounded answers across every channel without losing trust or control. You'll learn how to ground generative AI in approved content to avoid hallucinations and inconsistent answers across channels, and how to link self-service, search, and resolution data to measurable ROI from case deflection to cost-to-serve.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 1:35 PM - 1:55 PM AEST
Theater 1
This session will demonstrate how dbt bridges the gap between AI acceleration and the need for data trust and governance. Attendees will gain practical strategies for implementing governed data transformation, supported by real-world examples and measurable outcomes.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 1:35 PM - 1:55 PM AEST
Theater 2
What if your biggest AI bottleneck isn't your model — it's your data platform? As analytics turn conversational and observability becomes agentic, legacy architectures are quietly breaking under the pressure. We'll examine three shifts reshaping data infrastructure, expose the hidden costs of the wrong platform choice, and leave you with a framework to future-proof your stack before the switching costs become irreversible.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM AEST
C3.3
D&A leaders struggle to prioritize and justify data management spend, especially amid cloud-driven cost unpredictability. Value stream analysis links data production to direct and indirect business outcomes, driving quantifiable benefits. This session will link core research on cost management and FinOps with a means of using active metadata to measure value resulting in holistic cost optimization.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM AEST
Cockle Bay 2
Many organizations are wondering how GenAI will impact their D&A governance and management tools, and by extension, their D&A governance operations. This research provides an overview of how key D&A markets are incorporating GenAI capabilities and how these will change the nature of D&A governance.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM AEST
Parkside Ballroom 2
The buzz: “Dashboards are dead.” Yet, they remain the backbone of enterprise analytics for operational oversight. GenAI is revolutionizing the space, promising to streamline migration and inject intelligence, but only 8% of new reports use it today. Explore the “death of dashboards” narrative, along with the opportunities and pitfalls of modenizing to next-gen analytics.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM AEST
C3.4
Prioritizing data and AI literacy programs directly impacts the core measures of a firm’s financial performance. Investing in data and AI literacy is the fastest way for D&A leaders to achieve payback in their D&A maturity journey, especially in early stages of maturity.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM AEST
Pyrmont Theatre
The AI agent ecosystem is rapidly advancing, characterized by considerable hype and overwhelming choices. In this session, we provide an overview of the AI agent ecosystem, highlight key players and outline evolving deployment models to help IT leaders drive business value.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM AEST
C3.6
This multigroup session will focus on questions like: How should data and analytics teams be structured to maximize business value, align with strategy, and support governance, AI and data quality across distributed environments? Join this session to learn more.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM AEST
C2.2
This session covers the use and output of Gartner’s AI-Ready Data Toolkit, which includes practices for both structured and unstructured data. The process develops metrics that “stack” as you progress from POCs to multicontext data use, operationalization and production support. The session also explains how to customize the toolkit with your own thresholds and readiness analysis.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM AEST
C2.1
Agentic analytics can deliver transformative improvements in the effectiveness and adoption of analytics for organizations that are ready to adopt it successfully. This workshop will help you assess your current readiness, identify strengths and pinpoint areas for improvement to ensure you are fully equipped to adopt agentic analytics.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 2:45 PM - 3:15 PM AEST
Pyrmont Theatre
Discover how Defence (ADF) is using governed data and AI to enable deeper insights, faster decision-making and secure innovation at scale. Nasa Walton, CTO ADF will share how ADF built a trusted data foundation that supports AI adoption while maintaining governance, security and compliance. Attend this session to gain practical insights into modern data strategy, AI enablement and the critical role governance plays in delivering trusted outcomes.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 2:45 PM - 3:15 PM AEST
C3.3
Successful deployment of Agentic AI depends on LLMs powered by trusted data and metadata. The foundation of the Ab Initio platform is a knowledge fabric that orchestrates data management and now Agentic AI at enterprise scale. We will describe how the world’s most progressive enterprises now use a single control plane combining scaled operational workloads with high value use cases using AI agents to solve increasingly complex problems.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 2:45 PM - 3:15 PM AEST
Parkside Ballroom 2
Only 1 in 20 AI deployments deliver measurable ROI. Why? What can enterprise leaders do about it? New research from Actian reveals a clear connection between data products, data contracts and AI success. In this session, Actian will share the biggest findings from our global survey of enterprise data leaders, along with practical data governance and operational guidance to successfully scale AI deployments and avoid dead-end experimentation.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 2:45 PM - 3:15 PM AEST
Cockle Bay 2
Scaling AI is easy to announce. Getting it into production is something else entirely. Two data leaders from complex, data-intensive industries share what it actually took: transforming culture, governing data at scale, and building a knowledge layer AI can genuinely trust. Not a pilot. Not a proof of concept. AI that works in production.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 2:45 PM - 3:30 PM AEST
C2.5
Let’s flip the script and take a candid look at what drives faster value with lower costs; preserving business context, eliminating unnecessary copies, and building a governed data framework that scales. With an unrivalled partner ecosystem, SAP data through SAP Business Data Cloud is now more open and accessible than ever, unlocking real AI and analytics possibilities. Join us to discuss what’s working, what’s not, and your options to get there.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 3:15 PM - 3:45 PM AEST
Exhibit Showcase, The Gallery
Join us for snacks, coffee and tea during a brief break between sessions. This afternoon's break items will be Pork and Fennel Sausage Rolls with spiced tomato relish, House-Made Cookies and fresh Seasonal Fruit Skewers. Barista coffee will be served on the Exhibit Showcase.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 3:15 PM - 3:45 PM AEST
C2.3
Learn from your peers and share your insights from Day 1 of the conference with a facilitated peer conversation by Executive Partner Stijn De Lathouwers.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 3:20 PM - 3:40 PM AEST
Theater 2
Most organisations are still making decisions on gut feel, not because they lack data, but because the right information never reaches the right people fast enough. Omnia explores what it means to be AI-native: organisations that encode their best thinking, surface the right signals at the right moment, and build institutional memory into every decision. Drawing on real-world challenges, this session shows what that future looks like in practice.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 3:20 PM - 3:40 PM AEST
Theater 1
AI is only as valuable as the data behind it. As highly regulated organisations accelerate AI adoption, the challenge is delivering trusted, governed, real-time data that AI systems can act on securely and responsibly. This session explores how streaming data, governance, and AI-ready architectures are helping organisations reduce latency, improve decisions, and unlock AI value at scale, with practical client insights and experiences.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 3:45 PM - 4:15 PM AEST
Cockle Bay 2
No data? No AI! No metadata? No data! Gartner codified AI-ready data concepts and crafted the language in mid-2022. Practices have evolved for the four AI-ready data modes and 30 expected data evaluation and preparation steps. In this session, we recap the approach combined with how organizations are using AI data readiness as a foundation to evolve toward standardizing data for production AI.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 3:45 PM - 4:15 PM AEST
C3.3
Have you ever struggled to secure buy-in to a no-brainer MDM strategy? MDM programs exist to support business outcomes, yet business cases often focus on the “how” not the “why,” leaving stakeholders disengaged. In this session, we will explore what constitutes a strong MDM value proposition that will engage stakeholders from the business case, through execution and stewardship.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 3:45 PM - 4:15 PM AEST
Parkside Ballroom 2
D&A value is not possible without data storytelling that offers a better way to engage communication findings than just BI reporting or data science notebooks. Join this session to know about the fundamentals of data storytelling and how to fill the gap between data science speakers and decision makers. It further discusses how to tell the best data storytelling and how to upscale data storytelling for future in landscape of GenAI.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 3:45 PM - 4:15 PM AEST
Pyrmont Theatre
Implement your target AI governance operating model by mapping governance pillars to key AI components and differentiating AI capabilities. This model should connect with other governance bodies and extend existing governance models to AI-specific considerations of trust, transparency and diversity.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 3:45 PM - 4:15 PM AEST
C3.4
AI spending has reached "material levels" your CFO must report, yet only few leaders can confidently answer their questions. This session provides an updated, practical guide to mastering GenAI financials. Leave with a clear understanding of cost-scaling factors, hidden financial risks, and a proven method for changing your funding decisions to maximize and report on measurable business value.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM AEST
C2.2
Engage with peers to explore actionable insights and practical frameworks for enhancing your organization's digital literacy and AI consciousness. This discussion will focus on both successes and challenges, with the ultimate goal of optimizing the benefits of these technologies while preparing for future challenges.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 3:45 PM - 4:05 PM AEST
Theater 1
Analytics and BI platforms and data Science and machine learning platforms are important technologies that drive insight-driven decision making and allow AI systems to be built and operationalized throughout the enterprise. This session unpacks the Magic Quadrants of both markets and gives inisght on the trends that you should be aware of.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM AEST
C2.2
Successful data and AI transformation hinges on effective change management and stakeholder buy-in. Connect with fellow attendees to discuss simple strategies for shifting mindsets, building cross-functional teams, and navigating organizational change. Explore approaches for fostering a data-driven culture and improving data and AI literacy across your organization. Share what’s helped you drive adoption and gather new ideas to support your transformation journey.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM AEST
C2.2
With hype around AI raising expectations and austerity putting pressure on budgets, communicating the value of Data & Analytic investments to agency executives is essential. This session will provide you with opportunity to discuss with your peers guidance and tips on how articulate the business value brings to the agency. Practical steps for setting up AI governance
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM AEST
C2.5
Explore what AI agents truly are, how they autonomously operate in digital and physical worlds, and why multiagent systems will revolutionize business. Join our roundtable to separate hype from reality, discover the real capabilities and limits of AI agents, and how this can be applied in your industry setting.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM AEST
C2.1
Data and analytics leaders must view their data management practice as an evolution, iteratively maturing and expanding based on AI use cases and not a rip-and-replace or one-size-fits-all solution. Join this interactive session to understand the key components in the data management architecture that are foundational to AI-ready data.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM AEST
C3.6
China’s AI is evolving along a unique trajectory, characterized by widely recognized trends and emerging dynamics. Key themes shaping the landscape include open-source leadership, a focus on model efficiency, development of data flywheel effects, rapid development and expansion of AI infrastructure, rise of agentic AI and early leadership in physical AI. In this session, we will share the latest progress on these topics.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM AEST
C2.2
Women continue to shape the future of data, analytics and AI. Join your peers in this session to share experiences, challenges, and strategies for advancing your career, building leadership skills, and supporting other women in the field. Discuss mentorship, sponsorship, and overcoming barriers to leadership.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 4:30 PM - 5:15 PM AEST
Pyrmont Theatre
The 2020s are full of wild promises — blockchain, metaverse, AI — yet real progress now depends on turning hype into tangible outcomes. Every organization now lives in perpetual beta: plans expire quickly, strategies need constant remixing, and yesterday’s breakthrough becomes tomorrow’s baseline. This keynote explores the art and discipline of Futurecraft — how leaders can separate signal from noise, prototype futures instead of predicting them, and build cultures that transform uncertainty into momentum. It’s a practical framework for moving from Wow! to Whoa! to Grow! — from hype to habit, from noise to usefulness. Inspired by the ideas in How to Make AI Useful, Magnus Lindkvist reveals how to make progress itself a craft worth mastering.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 5:15 PM - 6:45 PM AEST
Exhibit Showcase, The Gallery
Join us for a Networking Reception on the Exhibit Showcase Engage with your peers, Gartner experts, and exhibitors while enjoying delicious food and beverages. Explore industry offerings that can move your business forward as you network in a vibrant setting. Savor a variety of live food stations, including Steak & Frites, Gnocchi Parisienne, Beignets, and a French Alpine Cheese Station. A selection of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, and canapés will also be served throughout the reception. If you have provided specific dietary requirements during registration, please visit the dietary table and speak to the venue staff with any questions. Responsible Host: Gartner manages functions and events with a view to the responsible consumption of alcohol and the avoidance of alcohol-related harm. Gartner has and always will remain mindful of ensuring the wellbeing of attendees.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 5:25 PM - 5:45 PM AEST
Theater 1
AI is set to reshape every industry, but most organisations are stuck on the same challenges. Data is fragmented across the business, governance is siloed, and too many AI projects that don't reach production. Join this session to see how a unified Data Intelligence Platform helps organisations harness their data, govern it with confidence, and accelerate value through agentic AI.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 5:25 PM - 5:45 PM AEST
Theater 2
Scaling AI agents introduces risk vectors conventional frameworks weren't designed to handle, from cascading automated decisions to opaque multi-agent chains. This session explores how risk concepts must be redesigned for agentic AI, and makes the case for continuous assurance tooling that gives organisations live visibility across their agent landscape.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM AEST
Exhibit Showcase, The Gallery
Join us for an exclusive opportunity to meet Guest Keynote Speaker Magnus Lindkvist and receive a complimentary signed copy of his book How to Make AI Useful: Moving Beyond the Hype to Real Progress in Business, Society and Life.
Tuesday, 16 June, 2026 / 5:50 PM - 6:10 PM AEST
Theater 1
Your AI ambitions are only as trustworthy as the data beneath them. Versent shows how to move from governance to governed self-service in days, not quarters: AI compresses a full DMBOK assessment into a one-week sprint, then Snowflake Cortex Analyst and Agents turn governed data into accurate, self-service answers in seconds. See how to diagnose where you stand and activate insight your teams actually trust.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM AEST
Pyrmont Theatre Foyer
Welcome to Gartner Data & Analytics Summit! Head to any of the foyers to find arrival refreshments such as Breakfast Burritos made with scrambled eggs, potato hash, sour cream, pico de gallo, cheedar cheese and a guacamole dip, Bondi Natural Jersey Milk Yoghurt with vanilla bean, coconut granola, mango and passionfruit compote, Malfroy’s Gold ironbark honey, and also sliced Seasonal Fruits. There will be plenty of barista coffee for those that want to kick start their day. If you have any dietary requirements, please update your registration profile or contact GlobalConferences@gartner.com so we can accommodate your request.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM AEST
C2.3
Join us in the Exclusive Member Lounge where you can enjoy barista coffee and snacks each day! Rest your feet, charge your devices, network among peers, meet with a Gartner Executive Partner, or find a quiet space to get some work done. If you’d like to book a private meeting room, just ask us for more information at the welcome desk! Rooms are available for you on a first come first served basis. We look forward to hosting you! For more information regarding your conference benefits, please visit your [Exclusive Member Experience page](https://www.gartner.com/en/attendees-navigator/apac/bi20a/member-experience).
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM AEST
Pyrmont Theatre Foyer
Discover cutting-edge tools, diagnostics and actionable resources at the Gartner Showcase. Visit our demo space for a personalized walkthrough of our business and technology insights platform and learn how Gartner's leading tools like AskGartner, Accelerators, D&A Business Value Benchmark and AI Use Case Insights can help you make faster, smarter decisions on your mission-critical priorities.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 8:00 AM - 8:45 AM AEST
C2.2
As AI becomes an indispensable tool for advancing governmental strategic objectives, the imperative for sovereign AI, autonomous control over AI infrastructure, data, operational capabilities and solutions continues to grow. This session examines the complex landscape of sovereign AI adoption in the public sector, and its challenges and emerging opportunities.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM AEST
Ground Floor
Registration and information hours for the day.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM AEST
Pyrmont Theatre
This keynote responds to what many organisations are feeling: AI is accelerating fast, social anxiety and disconnection are rising, and many of our existing models of leadership, learning, and communication no longer feel fit for purpose. This keynote explores what remains essentially human in an AI-led world. Drawing on connection profiling and a research dataset of 25,000 responses, it looks at how attention, emotion, relationships, and purpose are changing, and why human development now needs to evolve beyond information and skills alone.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 9:45 AM - 10:15 AM AEST
Exhibit Showcase, The Gallery
Join us for snacks, coffee and tea during a brief break between sessions. This morning's break items will be Mini Almond Croissants, Roast Chicken, spinach, tasty cheese, zuni pickles and dijonnaise torpedo Milk Rolls, and House-Made Cookies. Fresh Seasonal Fruit will also be available. Barista coffee will be served on the Exhibit Showcase.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 9:45 AM - 3:30 PM AEST
The Gallery, Level 2
Visit the Exhibit Showcase Xpo to evaluate industry offerings that can move your business forward. Engage with your peers, Gartner analysts, and exhibitors. Attend a theater session to see technology in action.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 9:45 AM - 3:30 PM AEST
Exhibit Showcase, The Gallery
Welcome to the IBM Engagement Zone. This is your exclusive opportunity to see data and AI in action and discover how IBM powers the official Masters app to revolutionise the tournament experience for fans worldwide. Think you have what it takes to beat the course? Step up to our interactive Putting Challenge, where physical obstacles on the green represent real-world data points. The more you engage with IBM, the more power you earn to manipulate these data blocks and reshape the green to your ultimate advantage. Come explore the technology, optimise your strategy, and prove that with the right data insights, you can conquer any challenge—on or off the course.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 9:50 AM - 10:10 AM AEST
Theater 1
The race to Agentic AI is on, but speed without governance is a fast track to failure. The ultimate challenge isn't achieving autonomy, it’s building autonomy you can trust. Join us to see how SAS combines agentic AI with embedded governance, explainability & human oversight to deliver faster, trusted outcomes. You’ll see a live scenario detecting coordinated risk & driving real time decisions that protect customers, citizens & frontline workers.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 9:50 AM - 10:10 AM AEST
Theater 2
In partnership with the EDM Association, Ab Initio will demonstrate how the FIBO ontology can be materialised into metadata and data to orchestrate business outcomes. As a semantic data platform, Ab Initio will uniquely bring to life the promise of harnessing your entire data estate and an industry ontology to provide trusted context for knowledge workers and AI agents to meet regulatory obligations and improve business results.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM AEST
C3.6
As the CDAO role continues to evolve in the AI era, organizations face critical decisions about the direction and impact of their data leadership. This session explores the future of the CDAO through three distinct archetypes: Expert, Collaborator and Pioneer. Attendees will learn how to assess and choose the archetype that best aligns with their organization’s AI ambition and strategic goals. Attendees will leave with actionable insights to define their CDAO journey and position themselves and their organizations for success in a rapidly changing digital landscape.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM AEST
C2.5
Join this interactive session to engage with your peers and explore proven methods for demonstrating the value of data and analytics programs. Gain new insights and ideas from the experiences of other leaders to effectively communicate positive impacts and tangible results within your organization.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM AEST
C2.2
The primary goal of this workshop is to equip participants with strategies and practical techniques to secure enterprisewide support for data governance initiatives. The workshop focuses on building a compelling business case, engaging key stakeholders and demonstrating the value of data governance to the organization.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 10:15 AM - 10:45 AM AEST
Pyrmont Theatre
Organizations are charged with being more productive, and while AI is an answer to many such opportunities, organization and program structure can be far more impactful on productivity than using AI. This session will weave together data and analytics governance, MDM, and data quality into one organized initiative that will simplify complexity. Join this session to learn more.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 10:15 AM - 10:45 AM AEST
Cockle Bay 2
Analytics has always been "ground zero" for citizen developers and the low-code/no-code movement. However, the shift toward generative AI and the avalanche of analytics content will overwhelm current analytics operating models, which are already struggling to scale delivery.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 10:15 AM - 10:45 AM AEST
C3.4
As governments worldwide intensify initiatives to responsibly implement artificial intelligence (AI) in pursuit of enhanced operational efficiency and public service delivery, recurring challenges and systemic barriers persist. This session will examine the essential strategic pillars enabling successful AI adoption within the public sector, highlighting best practices and case studies where governments have effectively navigated obstacles to achieve measurable impact. Participants will gain actionable insights into overcoming common hurdles and leveraging AI to meaningfully impact government operations.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 10:15 AM - 10:45 AM AEST
Parkside Ballroom 2
The role of the artificial intelligence leader has rapidly emerged as essential for enterprise survival. Gartner's AI leaders survey shows that 91% of high-maturity organizations report having dedicated AI leaders, and it is crucial for AI-driven transformation. This session discusses the essentials of the AI leader role and how it fulfills its purpose of creating an AI-first enterprise.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 10:15 AM - 10:35 AM AEST
Theater 1
Generative AI technologies and techniques are evolving at an unprecedented pace, accompanied by significant hype, making it challenging for leaders to navigate this dynamic landscape. AI leaders can leverage this Hype Cycle to identify the innovations most worth pursuing as they shape and execute their AI strategies.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM AEST
Parkside Ballroom 2
Fragmented logic silos leave CDAOs struggling with inconsistent data and spiraling costs. Learn how a universal semantic layer unifies data fabric into an AI-ready foundation, delivers $3.4M in savings, and slashes compute costs by 50% without vendor lock-in. This session features a fireside chat with Robert King of ResMed on aligning cross-functional departments, scaling metrics across multiple platforms, and ensuring trusted logic for AI.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM AEST
Pyrmont Theatre
While many organisations rush to implement AI, most quickly discover their data isn't ready. Join Informatica Field CTO Nick Dobbins and GHD Data Management Leader Pinder Johal as they cut through the hype and share what it really takes to build AI foundations that work. Drawing on GHD's real-world journey of championing data governance under pressure and building the trust needed to get AI into production, they explore why getting the foundations right is what turns AI ambition into real outcomes.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM AEST
C3.3
AI and analytics demand trusted data delivered at speed, but legacy architectures often struggle to scale. Judo Bank modernized its data ecosystem with Snowflake and implemented Ataccama as its data trust layer to automate data quality, monitoring, and validation across critical workflows. Learn how Judo Bank improved scalability, increased trust in data, and delivered cleaner data faster for AI-ready operations.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM AEST
Cockle Bay 2
NSW Health manages a $34B budget across 226 hospitals, but insights often rely on traditional reporting. FinBot is an agentic AI assistant letting executives query complex financial data in plain language. Developed by eHealth NSW and the Ministry of Health around the NSW Government AI Assurance Framework, it ensures responsible AI. This session covers the architecture, pilot lessons, and realities of deploying agentic AI at public sector scale.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM AEST
C2.5
Join this interactive session to explore how law enforcement applies explainable, human centred AI in an evolving intelligence landscape. Through shared experiences and discussion, examine how transparency connects complex analytics to real-world decisions, supporting confident, accountable outcomes while strengthening trust within organisations and across communities.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM AEST
C3.4
Almost every GenAI use case requires organizations to extract, qualify and govern significant volumes of unstructured data. Data management leaders must deliver workflows that orchestrate entity extraction, vector data embeddings and semantic data enrichment with structured data pipelines to deliver GenAI-ready data. Join this session to learn more.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM AEST
Cockle Bay 2
To position their teams as a must-have discipline that can fulfill cross-functional use cases, D&A leaders must optimize their organizational model. The optimal model balances enterprisewide capabilities focused on enablement with decentralized needs focused on outcomes. Discover the design principles that underpin the ideal model and learn how to strike a balance between centralized consistency and decentralized agility.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM AEST
Pyrmont Theatre
AI leaders must strategically structure their organizations to maximize the business value of AI. This session equips you with practical guidance to build effective and scalable AI operating models and organizations.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM AEST
Parkside Ballroom 2
Urgent investments in AI-ready data and operational use cases have put the spotlight on foundational data management. The Data Fabric has emerged as a long-term data management architecture that you should now pursue for sustained data, analytics, and AI success. This session will help participants understand what data fabrics are and their implications for your data architecture. It will also address how to build and where to buy data fabrics.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 11:45 AM - 12:05 PM AEST
Theater 1
Data integration tools help organizations access, process, move and transform data. They support use cases like data engineering, modern data architecture, less-technical/business user support and operational data integration. In this session, we'll present the latest Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools, discussing vendors and technologies to help you choose the best tool for your needs.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 11:45 AM - 12:30 PM AEST
C2.2
Connect with your peers to discuss straightforward strategies for recruiting, developing talent, and organizing teams. Share one actionable tactic that helped your team grow and learn new approaches to try.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 11:45 AM - 12:30 PM AEST
C2.2
Organizations cannot execute on business initiatives without a successful team — and D&A teams are no exception. Effective CDAOs recognize the importance of attracting the right talent and providing enticing opportunities to retain a top-notch team. This discussion will discuss: Offering creative opportunities and projects to lure D&A talent Reevaluating the skills needed to successfully execute on D&A initiatives Building a robust pipeline in a rapidly-evolving digital ecosystem
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 11:45 AM - 12:30 PM AEST
C2.2
Most governments are at various stages on their path to establishing a practical AI governance framework and operating model that connects with other governance bodies. This session will provide you with opportunity to discuss with your peers their approaches and lessons learned from rolling out their AI governance frameworks.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 11:45 AM - 12:30 PM AEST
C2.1
Data is the lifeblood of enterprises in the digital era, underpinning everything from operational decisions to revolutionary AI models. However, the promise of AI can only be fulfilled if the underlying data is trustworthy, accurate and readily available. This session provides an in‐depth exploration of data observability — what it is, why it is essential and how it plays a pivotal role in making your data AI-ready.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 11:45 AM - 12:30 PM AEST
C2.2
Women continue to shape the future of data, analytics and AI. Join your peers in this session to share experiences, challenges, and strategies for advancing your career, building leadership skills, and supporting other women in the field. Discuss mentorship, sponsorship, and overcoming barriers to leadership.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM AEST
Exhibit Showcase, The Gallery
Head to Exhibit Showcase for a bite to eat! Engage with your peers, Gartner experts, and exhibitors while enjoying delicious food and beverages. Evaluate industry offerings that can move your business forward. Attend a Theater session to see technology in action. A hot buffet lunch will be served and includes vegetarian and gluten free options. Please click [here](https://emtevp.gcom.cloud/events/bi20a/assets/15054019_15054019.pdf) for the full menu. Dietary requirements have been incorporated into each buffet. If you have any questions, please speak with any member of the venue staff who will be able to help you.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM AEST
C3.6
Please join us for an engaging fireside chat with Dr. Ali Walker, following her thought-provoking keynote on “Human Connection After AI.” Over lunch, connect with your CDAO peers and delve deeper into how AI is reshaping the way we learn, relate, and lead.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM AEST
C2.6
Operationalising data or AI at enterprise scale demands enormous effort. Scaling both data and AI on a single semantic backbone is the smartest option but requires the ability to focus on orchestration over execution. Join CDAO peers for a networking lunch centered on how leading organisations can deliver day-to-day while satisfying the often competing demands of regulators, internal stakeholders and shareholders. Sponsored by Ab Initio.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 12:30 PM - 12:50 PM AEST
Theater 1
This session explores how organizations can build data and AI capabilities at scale to drive innovation, improve decision-making, and prepare their workforce for the future. Through a real-world customer case study, attendees will gain practical insights into building a culture of continuous learning and accelerating enterprise-wide AI adoption.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 12:30 PM - 12:50 PM AEST
Theater 2
What if Tyro’s data engineers became architects of our intelligence layer? We’re uplifting our data foundations and engineering capability - shifting from pipelines to trusted, reusable data products. This enables faster access to high-quality data, powering growth and fuelling our AI-driven future - without trading off speed, trust, or cost.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 12:55 PM - 1:15 PM AEST
Theater 1
The AI era is creating an extraordinary opportunity for data teams, and organizations that modernize their infrastructure now will move decisively ahead. This session explores Open Data Infrastructure (ODI), a standards based foundation for AI at scale. Learn how companies like NAB, HubSpot, and Shutterstock use Fivetran to reduce costs, accelerate analytics, and build AI-ready architectures.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 12:55 PM - 1:15 PM AEST
Theater 2
AI is accelerating demand for data—but access models built on tickets and manual approvals can’t keep up. In this session, learn how to remove access bottlenecks, deliver governed data in real time, and enable AI without increasing risk. Walk away with a practical approach to scaling data access for both teams and AI—so your organisation can move faster without losing control.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 1:20 PM - 1:40 PM AEST
Theater 1
If your AI projects are stuck in pilots or struggling to scale, governance isn’t the constraint - it’s the missing operating model. This session explores governance as a critical accelerator for AI deployment across generative AI and autonomous agents. Learn how leading teams achieve 5x cost reduction, 18% higher accuracy and 17% faster performance through automated agent lifecycle governance - turning governance into a true driver of ROI.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 1:20 PM - 1:40 PM AEST
Theater 2
AI is only as good as the data behind it. High-performance AI demands governed, trusted data. This session reframes governance as the refinery layer that turns raw data into high-value fuel, unlocking better models and decisions. As oil prices shock global markets, despite years of warning, the parallel is clear: ungoverned data is your organisation’s own supply crisis, already underway.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 1:45 PM - 2:15 PM AEST
C3.4
Data management tools provide significant capabilities to ensure good data for your data and AI initiatives. For example, metadata tools help discover and inventory your data assets. Data quality tools help business users manage their data at sources by setting rules and policies. Data observability tools give organizations integrated visibility over the health of data, data pipeline and data landscape. Together the tools help organizations lay good foundation in data management for data and AI initiatives.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 1:45 PM - 2:15 PM AEST
Parkside Ballroom 2
The enormous potential business value of AI will not materialize spontaneously. AI leaders should guide their organizations toward an era in which AI is not only creating tangible business value but goes beyond to become a critical competitive differentiator and industry disruptor.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 1:45 PM - 2:15 PM AEST
Pyrmont Theatre
D&A leaders play a central role in their organization's AI success by providing the critical accelerants needed to realize value from AI. Based on your organization's data, analytics, and AI ambition and where you are today, this session will unfold the vision for data and analytics in 2030. It will describe how your capabilities, operating model and practices need to evolve to realize that ambition.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 1:45 PM - 2:15 PM AEST
Cockle Bay 2
There are seven key reasons organizations struggle with effective data governance. This session examines what consistently goes wrong and offers practical solutions to help make data governance work for your organization.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 1:45 PM - 2:15 PM AEST
C3.3
CDAOs are often under time pressure to develop an effective data and analytics strategy that aligns with business value. Use these time-saving shortcuts to accelerate the strategy development process while also gaining business relevance and confidence in the process.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM AEST
C3.6
GenAI presents new threats and risks that are seldom addressed in cloud and SaaS contracts. This session covers the evolving trends that represent a significant change in the approach for contracting with GenAI-enabled vendors. Learn the clauses you need to negotiate to protect your organization’s data, intellectual property and integrity.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 1:45 PM - 2:30 PM AEST
C2.1
Learn about the best practices for optimizing your data ecosystem in this informative session. Bring your questions and discover techniques and strategies to enhance data integration, accessibility and performance across your organization.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 1:45 PM - 2:30 PM AEST
C2.2
Over 70% of organizations have Microsoft Power BI in their analytics landscape. As Microsoft Fabric redefines analytics within Azure’s offerings, data and analytics leaders face a pivotal decision: continue with Power BI or embrace Fabric’s unified, AI-driven platform. This session cuts through the hype and addresses the critical questions organizations must ask when considering a migration to Microsoft Fabric.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM AEST
Pyrmont Theatre
This panel brings together industry leaders from MUFG Pension & Market Services and NBN to share practical experiences from the front line of AI adoption. Hear how leading organisations are aligning executives, building capability, and scaling beyond pilots, alongside the pitfalls, trade-offs, and lessons learned along the way. Expect honest, actionable insights to help accelerate your own AI journey.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM AEST
Parkside Ballroom 2
Macquarie Group scales AI responsibly through strong governance. Learn how enterprise governance provides a platform for trusted data and evolving guardrails, enabling rapid AI adoption in a regulated environment. Discover how to transform governance into a source of strategic competitive advantage.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM AEST
C3.3
Moving from AI experiments to agentic outcomes requires more than models—it requires data you can trust. In this session, learn how MA Financial Group is building a data foundation for agentic AI by unifying data across business units, enriching it with critical context, and scaling governance. Discover the practical strategies and guiding principles that MA Financial is using to close the agentic AI data integrity gap and accelerate AI ROI.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM AEST
Exhibit Showcase, The Gallery
Join us for snacks, coffee and tea during a brief break between sessions. This afternoon's break items will be Dark Chocolate Dipped Profiteroles with Whipped Vanilla Jersey Milk Cream with House-Made Cookies and Seasonal Fruit Skewers. Barista coffee will be served on the Exhibit Showcase.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM AEST
C2.3
You’re invited to take a break and enjoy sweet treats in the Exclusive Member Lounge! This is a great time to network with your peers or learn more from your Gartner Executive Partner. We hope you’ll join us!
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 3:05 PM - 3:25 PM AEST
Theater 1
Moving AI from pilot to production often fails because traditional databases aren't built for agent workloads. This session explores three critical failure modes—performance bottlenecks, retrieval limits, and poor visibility—that emerge at the database layer. Learn what truly defines an AI-ready database for the next generation of real-time, scalable systems.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 3:05 PM - 3:25 PM AEST
Theater 2
This session explores how Kimberly-Clark transformed forecasting to a scalable trends driven process. By combining econometric modelling, governance frameworks, and 5.5M+ external datasets through Kimberly-Clark established a standardized forecasting engine that supports strategic planning, demand planning, commercial operations, and executive business reviews. What you'll walk away with Governance and trust-building principles that drive adoption and accountability Lessons on embedding forecasting into day-to-day business operations How integrating 5.5M+ external datasets improves forecast precision and responsiveness
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 3:15 PM - 4:00 PM AEST
C2.2
Discover the essential steps for developing a successful AI strategy. This session will provide guidance on aligning AI initiatives with business goals to drive innovation and gain a competitive advantage.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 3:15 PM - 4:00 PM AEST
C3.6
In a recent Gartner survey, 89% of CDAOs said effective D&A governance is crucial for business, technology and AI innovation, yet almost 70% find their current D&A and AI governance practices, skills and technology insufficient to drive innovation and business value. This multigroup discussion will focus on sharing experiences and addressing how CDAOs are evolving their D&A and AI governance approaches, building the business case for foundational investments, and designing effective operating models.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM AEST
C3.3
Data management platforms emerge through the convergence of several individual data management capabilities. D&A leaders keen on data platform modernization should join this breakout session to learn about the dynamics of this emerging market and the benefits of reducing architectural silos to meet data demands for both current and innovative use cases.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM AEST
C3.4
CDAOs implement SSA to enable data-driven decision making across their organizations. However, SSA initiatives often fail to deliver on their full potential due to governance, trust, scalability and adoption challenges. This presentation provides a framework for CDAOs to balance control and agility within SSA to drive meaningful business value from data.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM AEST
Parkside Ballroom 2
D&A and AI leaders, including CDAOs, continue to face challenges in demonstrating the value of D&A and AI initiatives. This session will provide a roadmap for gaining stakeholder buy-in, quantifying value and building a robust business case, learning from the successes of other organizations, and continuously measuring results and adjusting.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM AEST
Cockle Bay 2
A uniform and configurable operating model ensures speed, agility, and consistency in how data and analytics teams stand up their individual implementations. D&A leaders can use Gartner’s D&A operating model framework to configure and design their own models for successful reuse across all D&A initiatives.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 3:30 PM - 4:15 PM AEST
C2.5
Explore in this roundtable session how to build robust governance for data and AI by addressing policies, processes, responsibilities and tools. How can we ensure security, compliance and sustainable innovation while preparing organizations for future challenges? Join this session to learn more.
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 / 4:15 PM - 4:45 PM AEST
Pyrmont Theatre
AI is moving faster than ever. AI techniques should bring adaptability to an uncertain world in constant flux. However, despite its extraordinary power and early promises, AI has not been leveraged to its full potential. What is missing? Where did we go wrong? Join us as we discuss our ambition for the future of AI and AI should do for us to deliver the value that we are expecting.