Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM CEST
(05:00 AM - 05:30 AM EDT)
Daryl Plummer, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
For years, experts have told us that disruption will happen to us all. COVID-19 proved the point and illustrated that the most successful companies figured out how to be resilient and adapt to change. But many were not as fortunate because they could not adapt based on rigid architectures, technologies and culture. This keynote discusses a composability fitness routine that will make any organization more resilient and fit for change.
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM CEST
(05:45 AM - 06:15 AM EDT)
Yefim Natis, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
The fundamentals of composable business are rooted in the best practices of today’s leaders. In this session, learn the essentials of composable enterprise architecture. Discover how you are already on the path to the composable future of applications, and learn how to make that path more consistent, efficient and safe.
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM CEST
(05:45 AM - 06:15 AM EDT)
Mbula Schoen, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
A finite budget for initiatives and a backlog of postponed investments in the pipeline can make it seem impossible to accept any new requests. Yet demands for new initiatives keeps growing. This presentation will discuss how by following the principles of zero-based prioritization, IT leaders can:-
- Clear the portfolio of all current work efforts and define a framework for prioritizing initiatives based on business goals and outcomes
- Rebuild their portfolios and free up scarce resources for investments in new strategic business initiatives.
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 01:15 PM - 01:45 PM CEST
(07:15 AM - 07:45 AM EDT)
Lorri Callahan, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Organizations are turning to the Scaled Agile Framework to efficiently manage costs. Early wins from pilot agile teams create momentum to expand them and organizations realize additional structure is needed to optimize their use. We will address what PPM leaders must do to transition to LPM including:
● What are the new required roles?
● How do our portfolio management processes change?
● How is governance achieved?
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 01:15 PM - 01:45 PM CEST
(07:15 AM - 07:45 AM EDT)
Patrick Connaughton, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
This session will explore how enterprise applications like ERP, finance and procurement will evolve over the next three to five years, and how each trend will impact the way companies select, negotiate, implement and maintain these solutions.
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 01:15 PM - 02:00 PM CEST
(07:15 AM - 08:00 AM EDT)
Jo Ann Rosenberger, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
This clinic will illustrate Gartner’s BuySmart™ approach which is Gartner’s view of the end-to-end buying process. The clinic will illustrate the process with scenarios and examples focused on the importance of collaboration to determine requirements, select competitors and alternatives, analyze pricing proposals and contract T&Cs, and create the tactics and strategy to effectively negotiate the deal. Attendees will receive ready-to-use templates and checklists to help them put BuySmart in action in their organizations.
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 02:45 PM - 03:15 PM CEST
(08:45 AM - 09:15 AM EDT)
Mary Mesaglio, Managing Vice President, Gartner
It’s not just you. Everyone’s exhausted. COVID-19 has robbed us of daily routines, celebrating milestones, hugging loved ones, taking trips and vaccines aren’t the quick fix we thought they would be. But you still have work to do. So, how do you keep your team focused and motivated when it all feels like a slog? This session focuses on tactics you can implement immediately to combat fatigue and stay resilient.
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 02:45 PM - 03:15 PM CEST
(08:45 AM - 09:15 AM EDT)
Rachel Longhurst, Sr Principal, Advisory, Gartner
Sean Bankston, Director, Advisory, Gartner
Come to this session with your questions about leaders' role in organizational change. What are essential skills you will need. What are the actions an effective executive sponsor takes? How much time is allocated to these activities? How can organizational change skills foster agility in your enterprise? These are some of the questions we can explore. Have your tough questions ready!
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 02:45 PM - 03:30 PM CEST
(08:45 AM - 09:30 AM EDT)
Anthony Henderson, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
This workshop focuses on applying Gartner’s risk, value and cost optimization model to drive more timely investment decisions. At the end of this workshop you will have:
- Sharpened your business acumen and alignment to business outcomes.
- Customized narrative to work more effectively with your business executives.
- Customized framework for enabling credible and defensible business decisions to optimize investments and business outcomes.
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM CEST
(09:30 AM - 10:00 AM EDT)
Jim Scheibmeir, Director Analyst, Gartner
Apply chaos engineering techniques to assess and improve your SRE maturity. This session will focus on how chaos engineering can be applied to SRE and the metric improvements and outcomes that can be realized.
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM CEST
(09:30 AM - 10:00 AM EDT)
Marcus Blosch, VP Analyst, Gartner
Bridging the gap between business and IT to build a resilient enterprise with composable applications starts with business architecture. By using business architecture, application and business solutions leaders can focus on building adaptive applications that target changing business outcomes. In this session, we will examine why and how to use business architecture to design and build adaptive applications that link business strategy to technical execution at speed and scale.
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM CEST
(09:30 AM - 10:00 AM EDT)
Yefim Natis, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Once you are determined to build composable applications and strengthen the resilience of your business — you will need to understand what good looks like in composable enterprise. In this Q&A session learn how to assess, then plan, and track your journey to top-rated composability, agility and resilience.
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM CEST
(09:30 AM - 10:00 AM EDT)
Andrew White, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
This research explores the methods and practices by which data and analytics (D&A) is being used to help business leaders and their teams exploit business moments by reengineering how they take decisions. This is a perfect complement to a composable future and provides a roadmap to further integrate D&A and applications.
- The struggle with decision making
- How to reengineer your organization's decision taking process
- Where and how to leverage D&A in your application strategy
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM CEST
(09:30 AM - 10:00 AM EDT)
Dennis Gaughan, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
As organizations embrace composable business, they need to rethink their approach to delivering modern adaptable applications. For many, this means rethinking their strategy and relationship with the major application vendors. This session will look at how the different megavendors are helping (or not) accelerate their customers journey towards composable business.
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 03:30 PM - 05:15 PM CEST
(09:30 AM - 11:15 AM EDT)
Miles Gibson, VP, Advisory, Gartner
Kristin Mettraux, VP, Advisory, Gartner
Tzvetana Duffy, Director, Enterprise Applications - Sale, Autodesk
The product management model requires new resourcing models to achieve its promise of improved business and customer outcomes. This session, designed specifically for Heads of Applications and Software Engineering, will feature real-world case studies from Autodesk and Hilton and peer discussion on:
- What does the journey to successfully implementing a product management model look like?
- How do we balance resource efficiency and stability in product teams?
- How do we enable product teams to quickly understand and respond to customer needs?
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 04:15 PM - 04:45 PM CEST
(10:15 AM - 10:45 AM EDT)
Anthony Mullen, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Working in the public sector presents unique challenges and requirements for applications and software engineering leaders. Join this lightly facilitated session to share your experiences and ideas with your public sector peers.
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 04:15 PM - 04:45 PM CEST
(10:15 AM - 10:45 AM EDT)
Alexander Buschek, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Working in the midsized enterprise sector presents a unique set challenges and requirements for applications and software engineering leaders. Was there a key “AHA” moment or moments for you during the event so far? Compare notes and share your top take-aways with your MSE peers.
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 10:15 AM - 10:45 AM CEST
(04:15 AM - 04:45 AM EDT)
Bettina Tratz-Ryan, VP Analyst, Gartner
Employees expect conscious action and policy from their organizations amid heightened social and political movements. In this session, share your experiences of championing diversity, equity and inclusion in your organization — what barriers have you faced, what successes have you had? This is an interactive session, we’ll ask that you turn your cameras on and come ready to share with your peers!
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 10:15 AM - 10:45 AM CEST
(04:15 AM - 04:45 AM EDT)
Wan Fui Chan, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Working in the banking sector presents unique challenges and requirements for applications and software engineering leaders. Join this lightly facilitated session to share your experiences and ideas with your banking peers.
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM CEST
(05:00 AM - 05:30 AM EDT)
Mary Mesaglio, Managing Vice President, Gartner
It’s not just you. Everyone’s exhausted. COVID-19 has robbed us of daily routines, celebrating milestones, hugging loved ones, taking trips and vaccines aren’t the quick fix we thought they would be. But you still have work to do. So, how do you keep your team focused and motivated when it all feels like a slog? This session focuses on tactics you can implement immediately to combat fatigue and stay resilient.
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM CEST
(05:00 AM - 05:30 AM EDT)
Nile Rodgers, GRAMMY-winning, Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Songwriters Hall Of Fame inductee artist, composer, and producer,
Nile Rodgers is a Grammy Award-winning musician, composer, arranger, guitarist and co-founder of the band CHIC. He is one of the most influential producers in the history of popular music and has produced some of the biggest hits in the careers of Madonna, David Bowie, Duran Duran, Diana Ross and Daft Punk. In this keynote interview, Nile will discuss his 50 year career in music and the lessons he’s learned along the way about collaboration, composition, change, agility, cultural diversity, trendspotting and technology. This is a unique opportunity to hear from a cultural icon and music innovator.
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM CEST
(05:00 AM - 05:30 AM EDT)
Yefim Natis, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
The fundamentals of composable business are rooted in the best practices of today’s leaders. In this session, learn the essentials of composable enterprise architecture. Discover how you are already on the path to the composable future of applications, and learn how to make that path more consistent, efficient and safe.
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM CEST
(05:45 AM - 06:15 AM EDT)
Sarah Davies, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
As innovation becomes an important part of your organization's strategy, applying proper governance will optimize value potential against investments and inherent risk. EPMOs must create adaptive governance styles and mechanisms to shepherd the innovation to product journey.
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM CEST
(05:45 AM - 06:15 AM EDT)
Peter Adamo, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Traditional IT performance measures are insufficient for organizations focused on driving business outcomes. Here are three steps for IT and business leaders seeking greater value:
● Understand business outcomes
● How to define them
● Your role as a business application leader
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 11:45 AM - 12:30 PM CEST
(05:45 AM - 06:30 AM EDT)
Rob Geraghty, Executive Coach, Expert in Influence and Presenting
Diane Wilkinson, Executive Coach and Expert Influencer, The Wow Factor
Influencing stakeholders is hard work at the best of times. Right now it just got harder as you now need to influence through Teams and WebEx. How do you persuade someone of your point of view when they aren’t in the same room as you? In this session, you'll learn six principles of how to influence your stakeholders. And we’ll specifically talk about how you can use these in a virtual world where your stakeholders are at the other end of a webcam. Armed with these tools you'll feel more capable to influence Board Members, Customers and your own Team.
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 01:15 PM - 01:45 PM CEST
(07:15 AM - 07:45 AM EDT)
Mbula Schoen, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Deciding between two projects often becomes political as stakeholders battle for resources to achieve their objectives. This presentation discusses how PPM leaders can:
- Neutralize politics by introducing an objective decision framework for technology investments.
- Apply a set of principles that will institutionalize the decision framework and sustain quality decision making through business and executive transitions.
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 01:15 PM - 01:45 PM CEST
(07:15 AM - 07:45 AM EDT)
Michael Wodka, Director, Advisory, Gartner
Multidisciplinary digital business teams—or “fusion teams”—are critical to success in digital transformation but often struggle in delivering innovation. This session offers examples of how to enable fusion teams to innovate by tailoring IT support to their unique needs.
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 01:15 PM - 02:00 PM CEST
(07:15 AM - 08:00 AM EDT)
Christie Struckman, VP Analyst, Gartner
Application leaders know they need to increase the velocity and efficacy of upskilling but are often unsure how. The session based on Gartner’s agile learning manifesto which applies agile concepts to the discipline of learning, guides leaders how futureproof employees and deliver business outcomes.
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 02:45 PM - 03:15 PM CEST
(08:45 AM - 09:15 AM EDT)
Massimo Pezzini, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
As organizations venture to the composable business, software engineering leaders are under pressure to spot the proper technology enablers. The emerging application composition platform provides a framework they can use to identify the required capabilities and assess providers' offerings suitability. This session will discuss what are business drivers to the ACP, what are ACP critical capabilities and how software engineering leaders can incrementally build one.
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 02:45 PM - 03:30 PM CEST
(08:45 AM - 09:30 AM EDT)
Debra Christmas, Sr Executive Partner, Gartner
Kristin Root, Executive Partner, Gartner
Most of the time, women truly don’t know their brilliance. They are certain they “aren’t ready” to take on that next bigger role. They are more attuned to the ways they aren’t qualified than to the ways that they are. They are waiting for someone to validate, promote or discover them. Sound familiar? Join in the conversation to unlock those principles that will enable that step up or step out opportunity.
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM CEST
(09:30 AM - 10:00 AM EDT)
Mark O'Neill, VP Analyst, Gartner
Business capabilities are increasingly being composed through APIs rather than being created from scratch or sourced as full applications. These APIs may access internal systems, but are just as likely to come from third parties and the organization's own ecosystem. Prepare for the composable enterprise by building an API marketplace strategy, decomposing monoliths, and enabling integration.
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM CEST
(09:30 AM - 10:00 AM EDT)
Lars Mieritz, VP Analyst, Gartner
Anyone establishing or leading a PMO to support and improve the delivery of business outcomes is only too aware of the high failure rate of PMOs. This session offers a forum to explore questions such as: How do I best sell PMO to senior executives? What are the key PMO roles and functions? How do I maintain PMO relevance? What is the ideal PMO size? How do I best show PMO value?, and avoid common obstacles to PMO success.
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM CEST
(05:00 AM - 05:30 AM EDT)
Daryl Plummer, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
For years, experts have told us that disruption will happen to us all. COVID-19 proved the point and illustrated that the most successful companies figured out how to be resilient and adapt to change. But many were not as fortunate because they could not adapt based on rigid architectures, technologies and culture. This keynote discusses a composability fitness routine that will make any organization more resilient and fit for change.
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM CEST
(05:45 AM - 06:15 AM EDT)
David Smith, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
New concepts such as cloud native and multicloiud are increasingly showing up as principles in organizations’ cloud strategies. They can be instrumental in unlocking the power of cloud but they can also further confuse IT leaders. We examine their role in formulating pragmatic cloud strategies.
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 01:15 PM - 01:45 PM CEST
(07:15 AM - 07:45 AM EDT)
Bill Swanton, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Your new applications for digital business and customer experiences will be composed from packaged business capabilities. But these new capabilities will need to work with your existing application portfolio, which can't be replaced quickly. This session will explore the techniques for short-term integration and long-term modernization of your portfolio.
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 02:45 PM - 03:15 PM CEST
(08:45 AM - 09:15 AM EDT)
Anne Thomas, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Microservices are awesome, right? So why are people abandoning this architecture? It turns out that microservices architecture isn't always the best option. This session discusses when developments teams should adopt microservices and when they shouldn't.
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 02:45 PM - 03:30 PM CEST
(08:45 AM - 09:30 AM EDT)
Christian Lundsson, Expert Partner, Practice, Gartner
Composable, service oriented and event driven micro services has been the remedy to many application architectural problems, but few organizations have achieved a truly composable and flexible architecture. This workshop covers key strategies that are based on observations (both successful and not so successful) from Gartner's consulting clients in service design, approach to processes and information management.
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM CEST
(09:30 AM - 10:00 AM EDT)
Traverse Clayton, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Come to this session to ask Gartner experts in cloud-native application development and infrastructure any questions about choosing containers, Kubernetes, or serverless platforms to run applications.
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM CEST
(09:30 AM - 10:00 AM EDT)
Mark O'Neill, VP Analyst, Gartner
Attacks and data breaches involving poorly secured APIs are increasing in frequency. API protection strategies include the use of API gateways, web application firewalls, access management, as well as specialist API security tools. As well as runtime protection, security should be applied to APIs at design time, including API security testing. In this session, we cover API security best practices
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM CEST
(05:00 AM - 05:30 AM EDT)
Nile Rodgers, GRAMMY-winning, Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Songwriters Hall Of Fame inductee artist, composer, and producer,
Nile Rodgers is a Grammy Award-winning musician, composer, arranger, guitarist and co-founder of the band CHIC. He is one of the most influential producers in the history of popular music and has produced some of the biggest hits in the careers of Madonna, David Bowie, Duran Duran, Diana Ross and Daft Punk. In this keynote interview, Nile will discuss his 50 year career in music and the lessons he’s learned along the way about collaboration, composition, change, agility, cultural diversity, trendspotting and technology. This is a unique opportunity to hear from a cultural icon and music innovator.
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM CEST
(05:45 AM - 06:15 AM EDT)
Gary Olliffe, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Microservices, APIs, event-driven architecture, APIs, cloud-native architectures, modern software, and application delivery are fluid, continuous and distributed. But to be sustainable and to enable composition, your organization needs a to govern this output in a way that enables productivity, embraces automation and self-service as well as encourages participation and sharing in near real-time, all while protecting itself from unintended consequences.
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 01:15 PM - 01:45 PM CEST
(07:15 AM - 07:45 AM EDT)
Tim Faith, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
ERP has traditionally been automated by a single monolithic block of software. This led to a view associating ERP with a vendor and managed by IT. This view is faulty. By 2022, 60% of enterprises will embark on transformation of processes involving business-IT collaboration. ERP will be at the center of the collaboration and composable ERP strategies will be the key to success.
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 02:45 PM - 03:15 PM CEST
(08:45 AM - 09:15 AM EDT)
Steve Deng, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
With the arrival of service mesh and container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes, you have more options to protect, govern, and manage your APIs and services. Come get unbiased expert help in choosing between API gateways, ingress proxy and service mesh.
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 02:45 PM - 03:15 PM CEST
(08:45 AM - 09:15 AM EDT)
Yefim Natis, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Cloud platform innovation promises great opportunities. But for many, the rapid change poses more questions than answers. Microservices and serverless functions; APIs and API marketplaces; hybrid integration and multicloud services; IoT and digital twins; events and streams; IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS — how will they support (or disrupt) your plans, your organization, and your market leadership role?
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM CEST
(05:00 AM - 05:30 AM EDT)
Daryl Plummer, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
For years, experts have told us that disruption will happen to us all. COVID-19 proved the point and illustrated that the most successful companies figured out how to be resilient and adapt to change. But many were not as fortunate because they could not adapt based on rigid architectures, technologies and culture. This keynote discusses a composability fitness routine that will make any organization more resilient and fit for change.
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM CEST
(05:45 AM - 06:15 AM EDT)
Akis Sklavounakis, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Wan Fui Chan, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Building high performing agile teams is a critical priority for application and software engineering leaders. Join this session to ask questions about what roles to have in agile teams, how to find the right people for agile teams and what is the number one predictor of high performance?
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM CEST
(05:45 AM - 06:15 AM EDT)
Massimo Pezzini, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
The common sense is that there is no software engineering activity associated with packaged business application initiative. Nothing could be farther from the truth: these packaged applications must be extended to fill functional gaps, integrated with other systems and participate in composable business applications. This session will cover how application leaders responsible for SaaS and traditional business application delivery should strategically address these challenges.
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM CEST
(05:45 AM - 06:15 AM EDT)
Joachim Herschmann, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
It’s been several decades since the first test automation tools were introduced. When implemented correctly, automated testing can deliver strong benefits to support organizations in delivering software with higher quality at a faster pace. Have your teams seen the success they had hoped for? Come, share your story and learn from the successes and failures of other organizations.
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 01:15 PM - 01:45 PM CEST
(07:15 AM - 07:45 AM EDT)
Jim Scheibmeir, Director Analyst, Gartner
Digital business endeavors require that teams embrace new skills while strengthening foundational ones. This talk focuses on supporting the modernization of application development skills and helps software engineering leaders to prioritize learning, mitigate the impedance factors, and create a learning climate and culture.
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 02:45 PM - 03:15 PM CEST
(08:45 AM - 09:15 AM EDT)
Kirk Knoernschild, VP Analyst, Gartner
Agile methods offer little software architecture advice. Yet, most agree that a resilient and maintainable software architecture is imperative. Additionally, speeding software delivery and increasing software quality require more than process improvement; it also requires adopting modern architecture paradigms. Increasing development and delivery agility requires us to also increase architectural agility.
This session addresses the following key issues:
● How is agile architecture different from traditional approaches to software architecture?
● What are necessary skills of an agile software architect?
● What practices are necessary for agile software architecture?
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 02:45 PM - 03:15 PM CEST
(08:45 AM - 09:15 AM EDT)
Mark Cortner, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Whether it be due to a merger or acquisition, divestiture, or the consolidation of an organization's pre-existing Microsoft 365 tenants, tenant-to-tenant migrations are complex and multi-facteted. This nitaitive requires application technical professionals to engage in cross-discipline topics and to lead the planning and execution roadmap for moving users and data between Microsoft 365 tenants.
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 04:15 PM - 04:45 PM CEST
(10:15 AM - 10:45 AM EDT)
Arun Batchu, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Software engineering leaders face many challenges. There is growing pressure to design and build applications faster using secure and highly available systems. At the same time, software engineering leaders must transform themselves and their organization's culture to be agile and product-focused. They must accomplish this in a competitive environment for talent, in a fast-evolving landscape. Join this lightly facilitated session to share your challenges, experiences, and ideas with your peers.
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 10:15 AM - 10:45 AM CEST
(04:15 AM - 04:45 AM EDT)
Keith Guttridge, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Application portfolios are changing faster than ever before, yet many need integrating to provide their full value. Join this lightly facilitated session to share your application integration experiences with your peers.
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM CEST
(05:00 AM - 05:30 AM EDT)
Nile Rodgers, GRAMMY-winning, Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Songwriters Hall Of Fame inductee artist, composer, and producer,
Nile Rodgers is a Grammy Award-winning musician, composer, arranger, guitarist and co-founder of the band CHIC. He is one of the most influential producers in the history of popular music and has produced some of the biggest hits in the careers of Madonna, David Bowie, Duran Duran, Diana Ross and Daft Punk. In this keynote interview, Nile will discuss his 50 year career in music and the lessons he’s learned along the way about collaboration, composition, change, agility, cultural diversity, trendspotting and technology. This is a unique opportunity to hear from a cultural icon and music innovator.
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM CEST
(05:45 AM - 06:15 AM EDT)
Manjunath Bhat, VP Analyst, Gartner
A frictionless onboarding experience is critical to attracting and retaining top software engineering talent. Join this session to ask questions about how to simplify the onboarding process to ensure new hires are productive, engaged and happy. We will cover remote onboarding practices which are increasingly becoming commonplace.
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM CEST
(05:45 AM - 06:15 AM EDT)
Matt Brasier, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
For many organizations, their integration delivery has not kept pace with the demands of the business. Agile software development, cloud services and new architectures all need integrating to deliver an end-to-end digital business but traditional models of specialist teams using a complex ESB or ETL tool cannot cope. This session will address the questions:
What does an agile integration delivery organization look like?
How do you build, manage and govern a diverse integration environment?
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 01:15 PM - 01:45 PM CEST
(07:15 AM - 07:45 AM EDT)
Keith Guttridge, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Developers want to use simpler code-based integration, but application leaders responsible for integration fear its impact on production stability. To safely support this approach, they must define a clear domain architecture, categorize integration patterns and govern when it can be used.
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 01:15 PM - 01:45 PM CEST
(07:15 AM - 07:45 AM EDT)
Matt Brasier, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Application integration is getting more complex every year. Cloud environments, IoT, streaming analytics, microservices architecture and digital process automation are creating new challenges for architects. Integration approaches need to be more agile using self-service integration platforms. Bring your application integration problems and queries, and have them answered by an analyst.
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 01:15 PM - 02:00 PM CEST
(07:15 AM - 08:00 AM EDT)
Kirk Knoernschild, VP Analyst, Gartner
Explore your inner child as we explore strategies and techniques to increase children’s interest in computer programming. We will explore different programming environments, examine how to accommodate different age groups, and guide you through the creation of a few scratch sample apps that you can take home with you and begin your journey in helping kids learn to love programming. This will be a hands-on workshop, so have your laptop ready. No software prerequisites necessary, beyond a browser.
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 02:45 PM - 03:15 PM CEST
(08:45 AM - 09:15 AM EDT)
Bill Holz, VP Analyst, Gartner
You've adopted agile. Great! You are doing scrum. Awesome! However, the team is failing to consistently deliver high-quality working software at the end of each sprint. This session will provide a set of skills and practices that every agile team needs to implement to enable the regular and consistent delivery of high-quality software.
Key issues:
● How can I improve the consistency of delivery of my scrum teams?
● What can I do to improve the overall quality of the applications developed using scrum?
● How can I improve communication and collaboration between the business and development?
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM CEST
(09:30 AM - 10:00 AM EDT)
Gary Olliffe, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Many organizations are well down a path to delivering software using microservices architecture, but not all of them have succeeded in delivering all the promised benefits. This session will focus on the top five (or more if I can fit them in) pitfalls we have identified, and what your organization can do to avoid or mitigate them.
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM CEST
(05:00 AM - 05:30 AM EDT)
Daryl Plummer, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
For years, experts have told us that disruption will happen to us all. COVID-19 proved the point and illustrated that the most successful companies figured out how to be resilient and adapt to change. But many were not as fortunate because they could not adapt based on rigid architectures, technologies and culture. This keynote discusses a composability fitness routine that will make any organization more resilient and fit for change.
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM CEST
(05:45 AM - 06:15 AM EDT)
Erick Brethenoux, VP Analyst, Gartner
AI engineering brings together various disciplines from across the organization to tame the AI hype, while providing a clearer path to value when operationalizing the combination of multiple AI techniques (including ModelOps). AI engineering also includes responsible AI, dealing with risk, trust, transparency, ethics, fairness and accountability. A sound AI engineering practice will increase organizations’ ability to move AI projects beyond pilots and prototypes into production, overcoming fatigue and skepticism, repositioning AI as a transformative and differentiating technology.
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 01:15 PM - 01:45 PM CEST
(07:15 AM - 07:45 AM EDT)
Anthony Mullen, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Ad hoc POCs across a zoo of natural language vendors create cognitive debt and a broken information architecture that will be difficult to recover from. Application and Software Engineering Leaders are challenged
with
1) Rapid technology changes in Natural Language and confusion over the vendor landscape
2) Reusing training data and natural language capabilities outside of narrowly constrained solutions
3) Unlocking the skills of staff and knowledge workers to develop, train and maintain systems.
This session will show Enterprises how to shift from tactical to strategic use of Natural language to ensure greater portability of language assets and models. To solve key business challenges and deliver natural-language-enabled enterprises, application leaders must see Natural Language solutions as a collective, fundamental whole.
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 02:45 PM - 03:15 PM CEST
(08:45 AM - 09:15 AM EDT)
Avivah Litan, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
We present Gartner's MOST framework for Managing AI Risk and a roadmap on the top five priorities within. MOST covers model operations, security and trustworthiness for AI.
a) What are the various components of an AI risk management program?
b) Who should manage our AI risk management program?
c) What are the top five priorities for AI risk management and what existing tools can help us?
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM CEST
(05:00 AM - 05:30 AM EDT)
Nile Rodgers, GRAMMY-winning, Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Songwriters Hall Of Fame inductee artist, composer, and producer,
Nile Rodgers is a Grammy Award-winning musician, composer, arranger, guitarist and co-founder of the band CHIC. He is one of the most influential producers in the history of popular music and has produced some of the biggest hits in the careers of Madonna, David Bowie, Duran Duran, Diana Ross and Daft Punk. In this keynote interview, Nile will discuss his 50 year career in music and the lessons he’s learned along the way about collaboration, composition, change, agility, cultural diversity, trendspotting and technology. This is a unique opportunity to hear from a cultural icon and music innovator.
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM CEST
(05:45 AM - 06:15 AM EDT)
Nick Jones, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Application strategy will be radically disrupted by emerging technologies and platforms. We explore the impact of new computing hardware and paradigms as silicon hits the wall of Moore’s law, 5G far edge services, innovative UX technologies, battery-free computation, universal location awareness, embedded AI, new platforms such as robots and consumer products, and sustainable computing.
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 01:15 PM - 01:45 PM CEST
(07:15 AM - 07:45 AM EDT)
Magnus Revang, VP Analyst, Gartner
Automation has entered an accelerated phase. To meet the increasing demands and expectation of automaton hungry business stakeholders, the software engineers have to arm themselves with a toolbox of technologies. From RPA, Cognitive AI Services and Process Engines to more emerging categories supporting Composable Business and Decision Engineering. This session will give an overview of the technologies with guidance on what to go all in on, conduct trials or wait and see.
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 02:45 PM - 03:15 PM CEST
(08:45 AM - 09:15 AM EDT)
Soyeb Barot, VP Analyst, Gartner
As AI becomes an integral part of composable business architectures. Enterprises struggle to integrate - analytic, ML, and application development pipelines, resulting in scalability and operational challenges. This session examines:
● How DataOps, MLOps, and ModelOps can be leveraged to build a Platform Ops model and
● Design an AI Orchestration Platform to help integrate the different pipelines and better manage - data, model, and code artifacts.
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 02:45 PM - 03:30 PM CEST
(08:45 AM - 09:30 AM EDT)
Whit Andrews, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Artificial intelligence projects are disrupting analytics project inside banking organizations. Figuring out the right use case for your organization is often the key to successful AI implementation. In this workshop, we will explore how to identify the right use case for your situation and apply that to overall changing business dynamics across the value chain.
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM CEST
(09:30 AM - 10:00 AM EDT)
Svetlana Sicular, VP Analyst, Gartner
Graph technology has played a powerful role in a small community of visionaries. Now that digital business has introduced expanded tools, platforms and techniques, application leaders can leverage graph techniques to deliver new solutions. Get enlightened on:
What is graph?
Why graph is popular now?
What it is good for?
How to take advantage of graph technologies?
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM CEST
(09:30 AM - 10:00 AM EDT)
Soyeb Barot, VP Analyst, Gartner
Conversational platforms are helping build the conversational interfaces, integration, and operational components required for the individual chatbots. Within this session, we will focus on chatbot architecture best practices and scaling the deployments for simple chatbots to virtual assistants.
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM CEST
(05:00 AM - 05:30 AM EDT)
Daryl Plummer, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
For years, experts have told us that disruption will happen to us all. COVID-19 proved the point and illustrated that the most successful companies figured out how to be resilient and adapt to change. But many were not as fortunate because they could not adapt based on rigid architectures, technologies and culture. This keynote discusses a composability fitness routine that will make any organization more resilient and fit for change.
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM CEST
(05:45 AM - 06:15 AM EDT)
Ed Thompson, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Jim Davies, VP Analyst, Gartner
This session will answer questions about the basics of customer experience initiatives including what it is, measuring it, getting your organization started on it, understanding your customers, and other topics foundational to customer experience. It will explain some of the key customer experience tools like personas and customer journey maps, and will illustrate “what good looks like” for them and others.
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM CEST
(05:45 AM - 06:15 AM EDT)
Sandy Shen, VP Analyst, Gartner
COVID-19 has accelerated digital commerce adoption and will have profound impact on the future commerce business models and technologies. This session looks at the 10 areas where long-term impacts will take place and how organizations can leverage those.
- What are the ten areas COVID-19 will change in digital commerce?
- How can organizations adapt their commerce portfolio to the post-pandemic world?
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 01:15 PM - 01:45 PM CEST
(07:15 AM - 07:45 AM EDT)
Jason Wong, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Total Experience (TX) is a strategy that creates superior shared experiences by interlinking multiexperience (MX), customer experience (CX), employee experience (EX) and user experience (UX). Organizations need a TX strategy because customer and employee experiences have become more mobile, virtual and distributed, mainly because of COVID-19. TX is more than improving the experience of one constituent — it improves experiences at the intersection of multiple constituents to achieve transformed business outcomes.
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 01:15 PM - 02:00 PM CEST
(07:15 AM - 08:00 AM EDT)
Tad Travis, VP Analyst, Gartner
The rise of citizen development and imperatives to improve customer experience are opportunities for IT and business departments to transform their service delivery practices. Join this session to meet with peers who are changing their CX and CRM application delivery practices to support total experience objectives.
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 02:45 PM - 03:15 PM CEST
(08:45 AM - 09:15 AM EDT)
Don Scheibenreif, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Composable Business represents exciting opportunities for organizations to enhance their Customer Experiece efforts, especially in turbulent times. In this presentation we’ll discuss how the principles of composability can be applied to CX, and what organizations need to do to stay agile and flexible in their approach to customers over the next 12 months.
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM CEST
(05:00 AM - 05:30 AM EDT)
Nile Rodgers, GRAMMY-winning, Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Songwriters Hall Of Fame inductee artist, composer, and producer,
Nile Rodgers is a Grammy Award-winning musician, composer, arranger, guitarist and co-founder of the band CHIC. He is one of the most influential producers in the history of popular music and has produced some of the biggest hits in the careers of Madonna, David Bowie, Duran Duran, Diana Ross and Daft Punk. In this keynote interview, Nile will discuss his 50 year career in music and the lessons he’s learned along the way about collaboration, composition, change, agility, cultural diversity, trendspotting and technology. This is a unique opportunity to hear from a cultural icon and music innovator.
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM CEST
(05:45 AM - 06:15 AM EDT)
Irina Guseva, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Application leaders can not meet market needs or business objectives with monolithic digital experience platforms and must update tech stacks, decompose monoliths and deliver task-oriented capabilities. To future-proof the stack, a composable DXP must be used to deliver composable user experiences.
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 01:15 PM - 01:45 PM CEST
(07:15 AM - 07:45 AM EDT)
Brent Stewart, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
The majority of modern UX design relies on the reuse and assembly of well-established and proven interaction design patterns. However, many designers unnecessarily continue to craft experiences from scratch, leading to poor usability, visual and behavioral inconsistencies, and longer design cycles. How do application leaders leverage established design patterns to increase UX quality, consistency and speed? This session advocates for the use of design systems as a repository of reusable design assets, code components and standards to design and develop the best presentation layer possible in the least amount of time.
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 02:45 PM - 03:15 PM CEST
(08:45 AM - 09:15 AM EDT)
Derek Miers, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Designing and delivering innovative outcomes, different processes, and fundamentally new experiences is a real challenge — especially when you need to do this at scale and your organizational processes, systems and culture are rooted in the past. The session will help:
● Develop sublime experiences by breaking the mold and reworking problems outside-in.
● Build engagement and commitment across the enterprise with design thinking and co-creation.
● Scale change without losing momentum.
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM CEST
(09:30 AM - 10:00 AM EDT)
Tad Travis, VP Analyst, Gartner
Thousands of organizations have aimed customer processes optimization with new digital tools, but Gartner estimates that 4% of B2B CRM implementations are optimized for customer experience. Join this session to learn practices from leading organizations that have put B2B customer experience at the core of their digital optimization programs.
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM CEST
(09:30 AM - 10:00 AM EDT)
Gene Phifer, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Digital workplace and employee experience technologies are generally disconnected, siloed solutions, leading to inefficiency, quality issues, lack of agility, and employee dissatisfaction. Application leaders are looking for something to deliver a unified and holistic solution set, and the architectural framework of a digital workplace framework will be the key.
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM CEST
(05:45 AM - 06:15 AM EDT)
Ed Thompson, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Jim Davies, VP Analyst, Gartner
This session will answer questions about the basics of customer experience initiatives including what it is, measuring it, getting your organization started on it, understanding your customers, and other topics foundational to customer experience. It will explain some of the key customer experience tools like personas and customer journey maps, and will illustrate “what good looks like” for them and others.
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 01:15 PM - 02:00 PM CEST
(07:15 AM - 08:00 AM EDT)
Tad Travis, VP Analyst, Gartner
The rise of citizen development and imperatives to improve customer experience are opportunities for IT and business departments to transform their service delivery practices. Join this session to meet with peers who are changing their CX and CRM application delivery practices to support total experience objectives.
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM CEST
(05:45 AM - 06:15 AM EDT)
Peter Adamo, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Traditional IT performance measures are insufficient for organizations focused on driving business outcomes. Here are three steps for IT and business leaders seeking greater value:
● Understand business outcomes
● How to define them
● Your role as a business application leader
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 01:15 PM - 01:45 PM CEST
(07:15 AM - 07:45 AM EDT)
Michael Wodka, Director, Advisory, Gartner
Multidisciplinary digital business teams—or “fusion teams”—are critical to success in digital transformation but often struggle in delivering innovation. This session offers examples of how to enable fusion teams to innovate by tailoring IT support to their unique needs.
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 02:45 PM - 03:15 PM CEST
(08:45 AM - 09:15 AM EDT)
Derek Miers, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Designing and delivering innovative outcomes, different processes, and fundamentally new experiences is a real challenge — especially when you need to do this at scale and your organizational processes, systems and culture are rooted in the past. The session will help:
● Develop sublime experiences by breaking the mold and reworking problems outside-in.
● Build engagement and commitment across the enterprise with design thinking and co-creation.
● Scale change without losing momentum.
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM CEST
(09:30 AM - 10:00 AM EDT)
Gene Phifer, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Digital workplace and employee experience technologies are generally disconnected, siloed solutions, leading to inefficiency, quality issues, lack of agility, and employee dissatisfaction. Application leaders are looking for something to deliver a unified and holistic solution set, and the architectural framework of a digital workplace framework will be the key.
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 02:45 PM - 03:15 PM CEST
(08:45 AM - 09:15 AM EDT)
Kirk Knoernschild, VP Analyst, Gartner
Agile methods offer little software architecture advice. Yet, most agree that a resilient and maintainable software architecture is imperative. Additionally, speeding software delivery and increasing software quality require more than process improvement; it also requires adopting modern architecture paradigms. Increasing development and delivery agility requires us to also increase architectural agility.
This session addresses the following key issues:
● How is agile architecture different from traditional approaches to software architecture?
● What are necessary skills of an agile software architect?
● What practices are necessary for agile software architecture?
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 02:45 PM - 03:15 PM CEST
(08:45 AM - 09:15 AM EDT)
Mark Cortner, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Whether it be due to a merger or acquisition, divestiture, or the consolidation of an organization's pre-existing Microsoft 365 tenants, tenant-to-tenant migrations are complex and multi-facteted. This nitaitive requires application technical professionals to engage in cross-discipline topics and to lead the planning and execution roadmap for moving users and data between Microsoft 365 tenants.
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM CEST
(09:30 AM - 10:00 AM EDT)
Traverse Clayton, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Come to this session to ask Gartner experts in cloud-native application development and infrastructure any questions about choosing containers, Kubernetes, or serverless platforms to run applications.
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM CEST
(05:45 AM - 06:15 AM EDT)
Gary Olliffe, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Microservices, APIs, event-driven architecture, APIs, cloud-native architectures, modern software, and application delivery are fluid, continuous and distributed. But to be sustainable and to enable composition, your organization needs a to govern this output in a way that enables productivity, embraces automation and self-service as well as encourages participation and sharing in near real-time, all while protecting itself from unintended consequences.
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM CEST
(05:45 AM - 06:15 AM EDT)
Matt Brasier, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
For many organizations, their integration delivery has not kept pace with the demands of the business. Agile software development, cloud services and new architectures all need integrating to deliver an end-to-end digital business but traditional models of specialist teams using a complex ESB or ETL tool cannot cope. This session will address the questions:
What does an agile integration delivery organization look like?
How do you build, manage and govern a diverse integration environment?
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 01:15 PM - 01:45 PM CEST
(07:15 AM - 07:45 AM EDT)
Matt Brasier, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Application integration is getting more complex every year. Cloud environments, IoT, streaming analytics, microservices architecture and digital process automation are creating new challenges for architects. Integration approaches need to be more agile using self-service integration platforms. Bring your application integration problems and queries, and have them answered by an analyst.
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 02:45 PM - 03:15 PM CEST
(08:45 AM - 09:15 AM EDT)
Bill Holz, VP Analyst, Gartner
You've adopted agile. Great! You are doing scrum. Awesome! However, the team is failing to consistently deliver high-quality working software at the end of each sprint. This session will provide a set of skills and practices that every agile team needs to implement to enable the regular and consistent delivery of high-quality software.
Key issues:
● How can I improve the consistency of delivery of my scrum teams?
● What can I do to improve the overall quality of the applications developed using scrum?
● How can I improve communication and collaboration between the business and development?
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 02:45 PM - 03:15 PM CEST
(08:45 AM - 09:15 AM EDT)
Soyeb Barot, VP Analyst, Gartner
As AI becomes an integral part of composable business architectures. Enterprises struggle to integrate - analytic, ML, and application development pipelines, resulting in scalability and operational challenges. This session examines:
● How DataOps, MLOps, and ModelOps can be leveraged to build a Platform Ops model and
● Design an AI Orchestration Platform to help integrate the different pipelines and better manage - data, model, and code artifacts.
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 02:45 PM - 03:15 PM CEST
(08:45 AM - 09:15 AM EDT)
Steve Deng, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
With the arrival of service mesh and container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes, you have more options to protect, govern, and manage your APIs and services. Come get unbiased expert help in choosing between API gateways, ingress proxy and service mesh.
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM CEST
(09:30 AM - 10:00 AM EDT)
Soyeb Barot, VP Analyst, Gartner
Conversational platforms are helping build the conversational interfaces, integration, and operational components required for the individual chatbots. Within this session, we will focus on chatbot architecture best practices and scaling the deployments for simple chatbots to virtual assistants.
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM CEST
(09:30 AM - 10:00 AM EDT)
Gary Olliffe, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Many organizations are well down a path to delivering software using microservices architecture, but not all of them have succeeded in delivering all the promised benefits. This session will focus on the top five (or more if I can fit them in) pitfalls we have identified, and what your organization can do to avoid or mitigate them.
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM CEST
(05:45 AM - 06:15 AM EDT)
Mbula Schoen, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
A finite budget for initiatives and a backlog of postponed investments in the pipeline can make it seem impossible to accept any new requests. Yet demands for new initiatives keeps growing. This presentation will discuss how by following the principles of zero-based prioritization, IT leaders can:-
- Clear the portfolio of all current work efforts and define a framework for prioritizing initiatives based on business goals and outcomes
- Rebuild their portfolios and free up scarce resources for investments in new strategic business initiatives.
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 01:15 PM - 01:45 PM CEST
(07:15 AM - 07:45 AM EDT)
Lorri Callahan, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Organizations are turning to the Scaled Agile Framework to efficiently manage costs. Early wins from pilot agile teams create momentum to expand them and organizations realize additional structure is needed to optimize their use. We will address what PPM leaders must do to transition to LPM including:
● What are the new required roles?
● How do our portfolio management processes change?
● How is governance achieved?
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 02:45 PM - 03:30 PM CEST
(08:45 AM - 09:30 AM EDT)
Anthony Henderson, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
This workshop focuses on applying Gartner’s risk, value and cost optimization model to drive more timely investment decisions. At the end of this workshop you will have:
- Sharpened your business acumen and alignment to business outcomes.
- Customized narrative to work more effectively with your business executives.
- Customized framework for enabling credible and defensible business decisions to optimize investments and business outcomes.
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM CEST
(05:45 AM - 06:15 AM EDT)
Sarah Davies, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
As innovation becomes an important part of your organization's strategy, applying proper governance will optimize value potential against investments and inherent risk. EPMOs must create adaptive governance styles and mechanisms to shepherd the innovation to product journey.
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 01:15 PM - 01:45 PM CEST
(07:15 AM - 07:45 AM EDT)
Mbula Schoen, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Deciding between two projects often becomes political as stakeholders battle for resources to achieve their objectives. This presentation discusses how PPM leaders can:
- Neutralize politics by introducing an objective decision framework for technology investments.
- Apply a set of principles that will institutionalize the decision framework and sustain quality decision making through business and executive transitions.
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM CEST
(09:30 AM - 10:00 AM EDT)
Lars Mieritz, VP Analyst, Gartner
Anyone establishing or leading a PMO to support and improve the delivery of business outcomes is only too aware of the high failure rate of PMOs. This session offers a forum to explore questions such as: How do I best sell PMO to senior executives? What are the key PMO roles and functions? How do I maintain PMO relevance? What is the ideal PMO size? How do I best show PMO value?, and avoid common obstacles to PMO success.
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM CEST
(05:45 AM - 06:15 AM EDT)
David Smith, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
New concepts such as cloud native and multicloiud are increasingly showing up as principles in organizations’ cloud strategies. They can be instrumental in unlocking the power of cloud but they can also further confuse IT leaders. We examine their role in formulating pragmatic cloud strategies.
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 02:45 PM - 03:15 PM CEST
(08:45 AM - 09:15 AM EDT)
Rachel Longhurst, Sr Principal, Advisory, Gartner
Sean Bankston, Director, Advisory, Gartner
Come to this session with your questions about leaders' role in organizational change. What are essential skills you will need. What are the actions an effective executive sponsor takes? How much time is allocated to these activities? How can organizational change skills foster agility in your enterprise? These are some of the questions we can explore. Have your tough questions ready!
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 02:45 PM - 03:30 PM CEST
(08:45 AM - 09:30 AM EDT)
Christian Lundsson, Expert Partner, Practice, Gartner
Composable, service oriented and event driven micro services has been the remedy to many application architectural problems, but few organizations have achieved a truly composable and flexible architecture. This workshop covers key strategies that are based on observations (both successful and not so successful) from Gartner's consulting clients in service design, approach to processes and information management.
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM CEST
(09:30 AM - 10:00 AM EDT)
Marcus Blosch, VP Analyst, Gartner
Bridging the gap between business and IT to build a resilient enterprise with composable applications starts with business architecture. By using business architecture, application and business solutions leaders can focus on building adaptive applications that target changing business outcomes. In this session, we will examine why and how to use business architecture to design and build adaptive applications that link business strategy to technical execution at speed and scale.
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 01:15 PM - 01:45 PM CEST
(07:15 AM - 07:45 AM EDT)
Michael Wodka, Director, Advisory, Gartner
Multidisciplinary digital business teams—or “fusion teams”—are critical to success in digital transformation but often struggle in delivering innovation. This session offers examples of how to enable fusion teams to innovate by tailoring IT support to their unique needs.
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 02:45 PM - 03:15 PM CEST
(08:45 AM - 09:15 AM EDT)
Derek Miers, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Designing and delivering innovative outcomes, different processes, and fundamentally new experiences is a real challenge — especially when you need to do this at scale and your organizational processes, systems and culture are rooted in the past. The session will help:
● Develop sublime experiences by breaking the mold and reworking problems outside-in.
● Build engagement and commitment across the enterprise with design thinking and co-creation.
● Scale change without losing momentum.
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM CEST
(05:45 AM - 06:15 AM EDT)
Yefim Natis, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
The fundamentals of composable business are rooted in the best practices of today’s leaders. In this session, learn the essentials of composable enterprise architecture. Discover how you are already on the path to the composable future of applications, and learn how to make that path more consistent, efficient and safe.
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM CEST
(05:45 AM - 06:15 AM EDT)
Akis Sklavounakis, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Wan Fui Chan, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Building high performing agile teams is a critical priority for application and software engineering leaders. Join this session to ask questions about what roles to have in agile teams, how to find the right people for agile teams and what is the number one predictor of high performance?
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM CEST
(05:45 AM - 06:15 AM EDT)
Massimo Pezzini, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
The common sense is that there is no software engineering activity associated with packaged business application initiative. Nothing could be farther from the truth: these packaged applications must be extended to fill functional gaps, integrated with other systems and participate in composable business applications. This session will cover how application leaders responsible for SaaS and traditional business application delivery should strategically address these challenges.
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM CEST
(05:45 AM - 06:15 AM EDT)
Erick Brethenoux, VP Analyst, Gartner
AI engineering brings together various disciplines from across the organization to tame the AI hype, while providing a clearer path to value when operationalizing the combination of multiple AI techniques (including ModelOps). AI engineering also includes responsible AI, dealing with risk, trust, transparency, ethics, fairness and accountability. A sound AI engineering practice will increase organizations’ ability to move AI projects beyond pilots and prototypes into production, overcoming fatigue and skepticism, repositioning AI as a transformative and differentiating technology.
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM CEST
(05:45 AM - 06:15 AM EDT)
Sandy Shen, VP Analyst, Gartner
COVID-19 has accelerated digital commerce adoption and will have profound impact on the future commerce business models and technologies. This session looks at the 10 areas where long-term impacts will take place and how organizations can leverage those.
- What are the ten areas COVID-19 will change in digital commerce?
- How can organizations adapt their commerce portfolio to the post-pandemic world?
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM CEST
(05:45 AM - 06:15 AM EDT)
Joachim Herschmann, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
It’s been several decades since the first test automation tools were introduced. When implemented correctly, automated testing can deliver strong benefits to support organizations in delivering software with higher quality at a faster pace. Have your teams seen the success they had hoped for? Come, share your story and learn from the successes and failures of other organizations.
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 01:15 PM - 01:45 PM CEST
(07:15 AM - 07:45 AM EDT)
Anthony Mullen, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Ad hoc POCs across a zoo of natural language vendors create cognitive debt and a broken information architecture that will be difficult to recover from. Application and Software Engineering Leaders are challenged
with
1) Rapid technology changes in Natural Language and confusion over the vendor landscape
2) Reusing training data and natural language capabilities outside of narrowly constrained solutions
3) Unlocking the skills of staff and knowledge workers to develop, train and maintain systems.
This session will show Enterprises how to shift from tactical to strategic use of Natural language to ensure greater portability of language assets and models. To solve key business challenges and deliver natural-language-enabled enterprises, application leaders must see Natural Language solutions as a collective, fundamental whole.
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 01:15 PM - 01:45 PM CEST
(07:15 AM - 07:45 AM EDT)
Jim Scheibmeir, Director Analyst, Gartner
Digital business endeavors require that teams embrace new skills while strengthening foundational ones. This talk focuses on supporting the modernization of application development skills and helps software engineering leaders to prioritize learning, mitigate the impedance factors, and create a learning climate and culture.
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 01:15 PM - 01:45 PM CEST
(07:15 AM - 07:45 AM EDT)
Patrick Connaughton, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
This session will explore how enterprise applications like ERP, finance and procurement will evolve over the next three to five years, and how each trend will impact the way companies select, negotiate, implement and maintain these solutions.
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 02:45 PM - 03:15 PM CEST
(08:45 AM - 09:15 AM EDT)
Kirk Knoernschild, VP Analyst, Gartner
Agile methods offer little software architecture advice. Yet, most agree that a resilient and maintainable software architecture is imperative. Additionally, speeding software delivery and increasing software quality require more than process improvement; it also requires adopting modern architecture paradigms. Increasing development and delivery agility requires us to also increase architectural agility.
This session addresses the following key issues:
● How is agile architecture different from traditional approaches to software architecture?
● What are necessary skills of an agile software architect?
● What practices are necessary for agile software architecture?
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM CEST
(09:30 AM - 10:00 AM EDT)
Jim Scheibmeir, Director Analyst, Gartner
Apply chaos engineering techniques to assess and improve your SRE maturity. This session will focus on how chaos engineering can be applied to SRE and the metric improvements and outcomes that can be realized.
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM CEST
(09:30 AM - 10:00 AM EDT)
Yefim Natis, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Once you are determined to build composable applications and strengthen the resilience of your business — you will need to understand what good looks like in composable enterprise. In this Q&A session learn how to assess, then plan, and track your journey to top-rated composability, agility and resilience.
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM CEST
(09:30 AM - 10:00 AM EDT)
Andrew White, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
This research explores the methods and practices by which data and analytics (D&A) is being used to help business leaders and their teams exploit business moments by reengineering how they take decisions. This is a perfect complement to a composable future and provides a roadmap to further integrate D&A and applications.
- The struggle with decision making
- How to reengineer your organization's decision taking process
- Where and how to leverage D&A in your application strategy
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 / 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM CEST
(09:30 AM - 10:00 AM EDT)
Mark O'Neill, VP Analyst, Gartner
Attacks and data breaches involving poorly secured APIs are increasing in frequency. API protection strategies include the use of API gateways, web application firewalls, access management, as well as specialist API security tools. As well as runtime protection, security should be applied to APIs at design time, including API security testing. In this session, we cover API security best practices
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM CEST
(05:45 AM - 06:15 AM EDT)
Manjunath Bhat, VP Analyst, Gartner
A frictionless onboarding experience is critical to attracting and retaining top software engineering talent. Join this session to ask questions about how to simplify the onboarding process to ensure new hires are productive, engaged and happy. We will cover remote onboarding practices which are increasingly becoming commonplace.
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 01:15 PM - 01:45 PM CEST
(07:15 AM - 07:45 AM EDT)
Magnus Revang, VP Analyst, Gartner
Automation has entered an accelerated phase. To meet the increasing demands and expectation of automaton hungry business stakeholders, the software engineers have to arm themselves with a toolbox of technologies. From RPA, Cognitive AI Services and Process Engines to more emerging categories supporting Composable Business and Decision Engineering. This session will give an overview of the technologies with guidance on what to go all in on, conduct trials or wait and see.
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 01:15 PM - 02:00 PM CEST
(07:15 AM - 08:00 AM EDT)
Kirk Knoernschild, VP Analyst, Gartner
Explore your inner child as we explore strategies and techniques to increase children’s interest in computer programming. We will explore different programming environments, examine how to accommodate different age groups, and guide you through the creation of a few scratch sample apps that you can take home with you and begin your journey in helping kids learn to love programming. This will be a hands-on workshop, so have your laptop ready. No software prerequisites necessary, beyond a browser.
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 02:45 PM - 03:15 PM CEST
(08:45 AM - 09:15 AM EDT)
Bill Holz, VP Analyst, Gartner
You've adopted agile. Great! You are doing scrum. Awesome! However, the team is failing to consistently deliver high-quality working software at the end of each sprint. This session will provide a set of skills and practices that every agile team needs to implement to enable the regular and consistent delivery of high-quality software.
Key issues:
● How can I improve the consistency of delivery of my scrum teams?
● What can I do to improve the overall quality of the applications developed using scrum?
● How can I improve communication and collaboration between the business and development?
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 02:45 PM - 03:15 PM CEST
(08:45 AM - 09:15 AM EDT)
Massimo Pezzini, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
As organizations venture to the composable business, software engineering leaders are under pressure to spot the proper technology enablers. The emerging application composition platform provides a framework they can use to identify the required capabilities and assess providers' offerings suitability. This session will discuss what are business drivers to the ACP, what are ACP critical capabilities and how software engineering leaders can incrementally build one.
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM CEST
(09:30 AM - 10:00 AM EDT)
Mark O'Neill, VP Analyst, Gartner
Business capabilities are increasingly being composed through APIs rather than being created from scratch or sourced as full applications. These APIs may access internal systems, but are just as likely to come from third parties and the organization's own ecosystem. Prepare for the composable enterprise by building an API marketplace strategy, decomposing monoliths, and enabling integration.
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM CEST
(09:30 AM - 10:00 AM EDT)
Svetlana Sicular, VP Analyst, Gartner
Graph technology has played a powerful role in a small community of visionaries. Now that digital business has introduced expanded tools, platforms and techniques, application leaders can leverage graph techniques to deliver new solutions. Get enlightened on:
What is graph?
Why graph is popular now?
What it is good for?
How to take advantage of graph technologies?
Thursday, 17 June, 2021 / 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM CEST
(09:30 AM - 10:00 AM EDT)
Soyeb Barot, VP Analyst, Gartner
Conversational platforms are helping build the conversational interfaces, integration, and operational components required for the individual chatbots. Within this session, we will focus on chatbot architecture best practices and scaling the deployments for simple chatbots to virtual assistants.