Guiding CIOs and IT executives to accelerate digital business

12 – 14 September 2022 | Gold Coast, Australia

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Explore the technology, insights and trends shaping the future of IT and business

How we work, communicate and collaborate has changed drastically and will continue to change. CIOs and IT executives are expected to deliver value to their organizations like never before. From realizing the potential of digital to addressing environmental and societal challenges, IT leaders are looked upon to provide businesses a competitive edge — especially in times of uncertainty.

The Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo™ 2022 conference is the place where leadership, technology innovation and business strategy converge. Attendees will walk away with insights and expert guidance on the future direction of technology, best practices to define and validate their IT strategies and real-world examples on how to execute on key initiatives.

Over a thousand CIOs and IT leaders will come together on the Gold Coast to discuss key topics, including accelerating digital business, future of work, data, analytics and AI, cybersecurity, executive leadership and more. 

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Future Directions

Understand what’s next in a changing world. Explore the emerging technologies and trends that will impact your future planning.

Strategies for Success

Learn how to create best-in-class strategies for success to achieve your mission-critical priorities.

Critical Execution

Shift from strategy to execution. Explore best practices for implementing technologies, approaches and solutions that drive outcomes. 

Resilience and adaptability are crucial for business success. Our goal for IT Symposium/Xpo is to provide CIOs and IT executives with the insight and guidance they need to move forward with confidence. Building innovation, adaptability and resilience in their own digital business will not only future-proof their technology investments but will also use technology to help future-proof the business.

Kristian Steenstrup

Conference Chair and Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner

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    Join a global community of CIOs and IT executives

    The digital era has brought unprecedented change to technology, business and society. Beyond managing IT, CIOs are called to lead and inspire their teams and business stakeholders through deeply transformative business models, practices and cultures. Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo addresses the strategic needs of enterprise CIOs and their leadership teams. 

    This conference is designed for:

    Connect with CIOs across regions and industries, and gain new perspectives on the challenges and opportunities of business transformation. Learn how to:
    • Balance the need to innovate while “keeping the lights on”
    • Build on being an effective partner with business executives as a “trusted advisor”
    • Overcome the barriers of organizational culture, resources and talent to grow and scale your digital initiatives
    • Drive cost optimization to fund digital transformation initiatives

    Security, risk and compliance leaders can expect to walk away with insights to:
    • Transform security programs to deal with the challenges of digital business
    • Secure funding for security investments
    • Communicate effectively to the board
    • Build security and risk awareness across the organization
    • Juggle scarce human and financial resources
    • Adapt to bimodal IT

    Explore with chief data officers, chief analytics officers and senior data and analytics leaders how to:
    • Align your work to your CIO’s priorities
    • Enhance customer experience with data and analytics
    • Establish the right organization and tempo for the data and analytics business unit
    • Prioritize investments in information
    • Establish a data-driven culture

    Senior application leaders learn insights and best practices to:
    • Accelerate legacy modernization
    • Build agile architectures to support DevOps, service-oriented architecture, APIs, cloud-optimized patterns, in-memory computing and context awareness
    • Employ bimodal strategies to renovate and modernize core IT systems
    • Understand new agile, iterative, dynamic, ecosystem-based building blocks

    VPs of IT infrastructure and operations explore the tools and tactics to:
    • Move infrastructure and operations (I&O) strategy forward
    • Show value to the business
    • Effectively implement cost optimization
    • Assess old versus new technologies
    • Drive I&O leadership and culture change
    • Foster innovation and improve agility
    • Meet business objectives

    Topics at a Glance

    This year’s agenda delivers the latest technology, strategy and leadership insights across 14 key topic areas, covering the challenges most critical to CIOs and their leadership teams.
    Topic

    Cybersecurity and Risk Management

    Reframe cybersecurity as a business issue and manage risks in response to the disruption created by rapid changes in the digital world and a volatile geopolitical landscape. Rethink technology to enable composable trust and resilience.

    Topic

    Strategic Planning and Execution

    Learn how to create and execute dynamic strategies that build resilience and position your organization to thrive.

    Topic

    Executive Leadership

    Discover how to be a transformational leader, influence stakeholders and embrace the evolution of the CIO role. Acquire the competencies to anticipate, prepare and manage the onslaught of disruptions. Strive for high performance of a generationally and geographically diverse team.

    Topic

    Talent, Culture and DEI

    Learn how to recruit and retain diverse talent and reskill and upskill your existing workforce. Create a culture that encourages continuous exploration and the quest for game-changing business capabilities. Foster equity and inclusion as a fundamental lever for motivation and engagement.

    Topic

    Digital Business Acceleration

    Build, scale, refine and accelerate your digital business strategy. Shift to the next level of creating new products and business models that can change the dynamics of your industry.

    Topic

    Customer and Citizen Experience

    Discover how to create superior digital experiences that serve as a sustainable differentiator for customers and citizens. Explore ways to achieve total experience outcomes through linking with employee experience strategies.

    Topic

    Data, Analytics and AI

    Leverage technologies of artificial intelligence (AI) and data and analytics to drive innovation, growth and efficiencies at scale and respond to uncertainty. Move to a data-centric culture of self-service and business analytics.

    Topic

    IT Investment and Value

    Discover new funding models and cost and financial management frameworks that will help your organization prioritize investments that deliver the highest business value.

    Topic

    Cloud, Infrastructure and Operations

    Optimize cloud business models, leverage edge computing and multicloud to evolve infrastructure and operations. Respond to new geopolitical pressures, such as data sovereignty and security, while managing costs through FinOps.

    Topic

    Architecture, Platforms and Software Engineering

    Explore how to build and run applications and platforms that drive digital business strategy. Learn how to modernize legacy systems and accelerate software engineering practices with composable technologies, agile, DevOps and more.

    Topic

    Future of Work

    Explore digital workplace strategies, frameworks, blended human and AI workforces, and human-centric organizational designs to succeed in this new landscape of work.

    Topic

    Innovation and Disruption

    Drive innovation and harness disruption, leveraging emerging technologies and scenario planning to achieve your digital ambitions.

    Topic

    Operating Models

    Explore how to align operating models with enterprise and information and technology strategies, as well as adopting new operating models that are a better fit for the current environment.

    Topic

    Sustainable Business and ESG

    Improve quality, scale and prioritize sustainable technology investments and environmental, social and governance (ESG) data that will help your enterprise pursue new growth opportunities, optimize costs and mitigate risks.

    Health and safety measures

    We are excited and are prepared to return to in-person conferences this year. Over the coming months, we will continue to monitor and adhere to government, venue and health agency guidelines and recommendations as we plan our in-person programs.

    As part of our commitment to creating the safest possible environment for our community given current infection rates around the globe, we will be requiring all attendees, exhibitors, staff and partners to be fully vaccinated to participate in this year’s in-person conferences, in addition to completing a health status attestation prior to arrival.

    In addition to the above attendance criteria, we will implement a set of operational planning measures to help create a clean and safe conference. Please note that precautions may evolve prior to each event; however, the following measures will be followed at a minimum:

    • Increased cleaning and sanitizing of the event space
    • Decreased capacity and minimized congestion where possible across the venue, including more space in aisleways
    • Touchless or reduced contact interactions throughout the conference

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