The World’s Most Important Gathering of CIOs and IT Executives™

12 – 14 September 2022 | Gold Coast, Australia

Guiding CIOs and IT executives to accelerate digital business

CIOs and IT executives joined Gartner experts virtually, over three days to share valuable insights on accelerating digital business, future of work, cybersecurity and much more. Attendees explored how to build on their momentum to enhance customer engagement, generate new revenue and serve customers and citizens. The conference offered the tools, insights and guidance needed to prioritize what to accelerate, unlock resources for digital investments, and make meaningful cultural changes.

At the conference, the top 5 priorities that CIOs and IT executives met on included:

  1. Building successful ecosystems through partnerships
  2. Attracting and retaining top talent
  3. Mastering business composability
  4. Utilizing synthetic data for personal data sovereignty
  5. Reinventing hybrid work based on human-centricity

We hope you enjoyed the virtual 2021 Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo! If you weren't able to attend this year, view the agenda topics to see what was covered at the conference.

We are planning Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo 2022 and look forward to sharing the dates and program in the coming months.

Leading today and tomorrow

CIOs are demonstrating outstanding leadership. This year, build from that experience to embrace new approaches to leadership and strategic decision making to lead in a dynamic world.

Innovative technologies

What’s next in a changing world? Leverage emerging technologies to help shape alternative work styles, flexible supply chains and innovatively automated actions through artificial intelligence. 

Business continuity

Shape technology to respond to adversity. Discover digital business strategic planning tools and techniques to achieve business continuity.

We distilled the most critical advice for clients and delivered it at Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo™. Now is the time to turn to Gartner for insights, for direct advice and to discover how to thrive in a renewed economy. Knowing how to use technology for business outcome has never been so essential.

Brian Prentice

VP Analyst and Conference Chair

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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 addressed the strategic needs of enterprise CIOs and their leadership teams. Explore all of the networking opportunities from this year's conference.

    This conference is designed for:

    Connect with CIOs across regions and industries, and gain new perspectives on the challenges and opportunities of business transformation
    • 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

    2021 Tracks at a Glance

    Attendees had access to over 150 sessions of the latest Gartner research specifically designed to help data & analytics leaders meet the demands of the future. Each track had a particular area of focus that helped deliver what matters most to you and your organization.
    Track A

    Technology Innovation

    CIOs and IT executives walked away with clear insights and understanding of the opportunities and risks in adopting emerging technologies that help shape their digital transformation journey and innovation strategies, and lead their business recovery and growth.

    Track B

    Business Strategy

    This track provided CIOs and IT executives with business strategic planning tools and techniques to embrace the complexities and dynamics of a postpandemic world — and then execute the plans successfully while remaining adaptive to the changing and dynamic environment of 2022 and beyond.

    Track C

    Leadership

    CIOs and IT executives took away tools and techniques to help them lead effectively and overcome dynamically evolving constraints.

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