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

23 – 25 November 2020 | India | Virtual

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Join us at the center of technology, business, strategy and inspiration

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

Recent global events have reset the CIO’s relationship with the enterprise and executive team. Now is the time to embrace new approaches to leadership and strategic decision making to lead in a dynamic world.  

Join us virtually this November at our flagship conference, Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo®. Explore how to shape technology to respond to adversity and discover digital business strategic planning tools and techniques to achieve business continuity.

Connect with trusted Gartner experts, accomplished peers and top technology vendors to hone your leadership skills, refine your strategies and walk away with the insights, advice and tools needed for now and the future.

Business

Exploit the combined forces of data, analytics and artificial intelligence to deliver business value in and beyond the enterprise. Recognize the value of customer, citizen and employee experience in the business value proposition for digital business success. 

Technology

Create information and technology operating models that are agile, responsive and innovative. Lead digital business success by using digital design practices.

Inspiration

Defy conventional thinking during times of uncertainty to emerge as a winner. Start with culture change when embarking on digital transformation, instead of waiting to address it later.

We will distill the most critical advice for clients and deliver them at Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo. Now is the time to turn to Gartner for insights, advice, hope, and to discover how to thrive in a renewed economy. We will equip CIOs and IT executives with strategies, practical tools, and insights to enable compose a future winning strategy.

Arup Roy

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 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
    • Balance the need to innovate while “keeping the lights on.”
    • Become an effective partner with business executives; shift from “order taker” to “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 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
    • Establish the right organization and tempo for the data and analytics business unit
    • Prioritize your investments in information
    • Establish a data-driven culture

    Senior application leaders learn insights and best practices to:
    • 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 strategy forward
    • Show value to the business
    • Cost optimization
    • Old versus new technologies
    • Infrastructure and operations leadership and culture change
    • Innovation and agility
    • Meet business objectives

    Tracks at a Glance

    Actionable insights across three key focus areas

    Track A

    Business Strategy

    Digital business requires that leaders shape technology to serve opportunity and respond to adversity. Business continuity is one of many complex business challenges creating unanticipated market turbulence. This track provides CIOs and IT executives with digital business strategic planning tools and techniques to turn complexity and chaos into real strategy execution initiatives.

    Track B

    Leadership

    In times of rapidly evolving risks and opportunities, CIOs must embrace new approaches to leadership and strategic decision making. This track provides CIOs and IT executives with tools and techniques to help them lead and effectively make decisions in a dynamic world.

    Track C

    Technology & Information

    Enterprises must accelerate their digital transformation efforts into real changes, and technology uniquely underpins that promise. This track provides CIOs and IT executives with clear insights and understanding of the opportunities and risks in adopting emerging technologies to help shape your digital transformation journey and lead business recovery.

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