Your first look at the agenda

We’re currently curating the full agenda for Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference 2023, 15 – 16 May, in Sydney, Australia. We are covering the most pressing topics in infrastructure, operations and cloud, such as anywhere infrastructures, disruptive technologies and trends, information and operations (I&O) automation, leadership, cloud and edge computing, delivering workloads everywhere and so much more.   

Below is a sample of the sessions we’ve currently selected for the 2023 agenda.*

*Agenda subject to change

Preliminary agenda sessions

The demands on leaders are constantly changing. Attracting the best staff and retaining your skilled workforce are vital in a hypercompetitive world. This track focuses on the changing face of I&O, people and culture issues, rapidly developing skill and competency requirements, and the evolving role of the leader.

Recommended sessions

  • Avoiding the Top Mistakes in Your Cloud Strategy
  • Do I Really Need a Multicloud Strategy? Benefits and Challenges of Multicloud Adoption
  • How Leaders Can Support Women in IT
  • Leadership Vision for 2023: Infrastructure and Operations
  • Strategic Roadmap for Sustainability in I&O

Keynotes

Hear big-picture insights from Gartner that will catalyze your strategic discussions throughout the conference — and all year.
 
  •  I&O Forward: Leading the Next Phase of Growth
  • Unhiding Diversity and Inclusion Beyond the Checkboxes, Which Drives Innovation and Talent Retention

Ask the Expert session

Dive deeper into a specific topic by bringing questions to a Q&A session led by a Gartner expert.
 
  • Vendor Management Best Practices

Clinics

In these interactive sessions, gain Gartner insight, tactics and concrete guidance to help you achieve cost optimization.
 
  • Gartner’s Top 10 Tips, Tactics and Tricks to Enhance Your Technology Negotiation Playbook
  • Contract Negotiation Clinic: Software as a Service

Roundtable

Focused on peer perspectives and best practices, these small-group sessions are facilitated by Gartner and allow you to share insights while learning from the lessons and experiences of diverse attendees around you.
 
  • Inflation, Energy Prices and Global Issues Versus Your IT Infrastructure

Workshop

Small-scale and interactive: Collaborate with peers by taking the most important topics and learning how to apply them to your business.
 
  • How to Combat Inflation During Vendor Negotiations

Enterprises are challenged to rethink business models as they embrace disruptive practices, trends and technologies, forcing them into fundamental change. This track explores the balance between ensuring operational stability and embracing disruptive influences.

Recommended sessions

  • Network Automation: From Fragile to Agile
  • Ransomware Is Changing — Are You Ready?
  • Servers, Storage, Networking and Sustainability: What to Measure and How to Make Your Infrastructure Sustainable
  • State of Containers: 2022 to 2025
  • The Future for Digital Workplace Infrastructure and Operations
  • Top 10 Ways to Improve the Digital Employee Experience
  • Technical Insights: How to Handle Cloud Service Outages

Ask the Expert session

Dive deeper into a specific topic by bringing questions to a Q&A session led by a Gartner expert.
 
  • Scaling Infrastructure as Code Starts With the Right Foundations

Roundtable

Focused on peer perspectives and best practices, these small-group sessions are facilitated by Gartner and allow you to share insights while learning from the lessons and experiences of diverse attendees around you.
 
  • Are We Really Ready to Recover From a Ransomware Attack?

Workshop

Small-scale and interactive: Collaborate with peers by taking the most important topics and learning how to apply them to your business.
 
  • I&O Leaders Playbook to Use 3 Powerful Financial Models for Negotiation Leverage and Bargaining Power

The anywhere business is increasingly distributed, fragmented and complex, creating a management and operational nightmare. This track focuses on how operations teams maintain, administer and support centralized and distributed cloud operations practices and technologies.

Recommended sessions

  • Building an Edge Computing Strategy
  • Time to Modernize ITSM Practices
  • Avoiding the Top Mistakes in Your Cloud Strategy
  • Build the Right Cloud Operating Model to Deliver Better Business Outcomes
  • Is the Public Cloud Cheaper Than My Data Center?
  • Technical Insights: FinOps or CloudOps? Embedding Cloud Financial Management in Your Cloud Operating Model
  • Technical Insights: From Cutting Costs to Measuring the Value of Cloud Deployments
  • Technical Insights: Jump-Starting Your AIOps Journey

Ask the Expert sessions

Dive deeper into a specific topic by bringing questions to a Q&A session led by a Gartner expert.
 
  • Avoiding the Top Mistakes in Your Cloud Strategy
  • Do I Really Need a Multicloud Strategy?
  • Observability, Monitoring, Application Performance Monitoring
  • How to Integrate ITSM Teams With Product Teams

Roundtable

Focused on peer perspectives and best practices, these small-group sessions are facilitated by Gartner and allow you to share insights while learning from the lessons and experiences of diverse attendees around you.
 
  • How to Reduce Technical Debt and Strengthen Infrastructure Life Cycle Management

Many organizations are under pressure to deliver agile application and integration architectures and agile user experiences. This track explores using a product-focused mindset, infrastructure as code and aggressive automation to develop platforms that empower the anywhere business. In addition, we explore how agile I&O does not mean a cloning of agile development. Instead, I&O must seek to embrace agile concepts that can be applied to I&O as it strives to meet increasingly demanding business needs to deliver infrastructure platforms and services.

Recommended sessions

  • Jump-Start Your SRE Journey
  • Kick Your Infrastructure-as-Code Journey Into High Gear
  • Roles, Skills and Training to Build a Successful Infrastructure Platform Engineering Team
  • Use SASE to Power Your Anywhere Business
  • Use Platform Engineering to Scale Your DevOps Practices Across People, Process, Technology and Culture)

Roundtables

Focused on peer perspectives and best practices, these small-group sessions are facilitated by Gartner and allow you to share insights while learning from the lessons and experiences of diverse attendees around you.
 
  • Discussion on Agile Practices in Infrastructure and Operations
  • Beyond the Hype: Real-World SASE
  • How to Implement SRE in Your Organization