The 2027 agenda will deliver the latest technology, strategy and leadership insights across four conference tracks and three spotlight tracks, covering the challenges most critical to I&O leaders and their teams.
The 2027 agenda will deliver the latest technology, strategy and leadership insights across four conference tracks and three spotlight tracks, covering the challenges most critical to I&O leaders and their teams.
Track A: Leading I&O Organizations, Talent and Skills
Explore how I&O leaders are reshaping their organizations for an increasingly disrupted and technology-enabled world. This track focuses on leadership, operating-model transformation, workforce development and organizational change, helping leaders build the skills, structures and culture needed to navigate disruption, strengthen accountability and deliver business outcomes at scale.
Track B: Transforming Cloud and Digital Platforms
Enable business agility and innovation through a strategic platform approach spanning cloud, SaaS, edge and existing environments. This track helps I&O leaders modernize technology foundations, build scalable platform capabilities, improve developer and user experiences, and govern increasingly distributed technology environments.
Track C: Modernizing Infrastructure, Security and Resilience
Build secure, resilient and future-ready infrastructure that supports business continuity and growth. This track explores how I&O leaders can modernize data centers, compute, storage, networks and distributed infrastructure while embedding security, improving recoverability and strengthening resilience across hybrid environments
Track D: Enabling Intelligent Operations and Maximizing Value
Transform infrastructure, technology and end-user operations through automation, data and intelligent decision-making. This track helps I&O leaders improve service quality, reliability, employee experience and productivity while strengthening cost transparency and demonstrating the value of technology investments.
Spotlight Track: Enabling AI Value
AI is critical to the I&O operating environment. Developing approaches to utilize AI and realize tangible value from AI is essential, as well as charting a course to incorporate AI into more of your use cases. It is also critical that I&O become an enabler of AI in their broader organization, supporting business initiatives to introduce, utilize and gain value from 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.
Spotlight Track: Technical Insights
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 in spotlight track are presented by Gartner for Technical Professionals analysts.
Spotlight Track: Executive Toolkit
This spotlight track features proprietary Gartner tools, frameworks, roadmaps, playbooks and Gartner Magic Quadrant™ inights, and is designed to highlight the unique value of Gartner. The IOCS team has been the leader in building in pragmatic and actionable content into our program, and this spotlight track content showcases all the resources available to clients/prospective clients.