Sunday, 13 September, 2026 / 6:30:00 PM - 6:45:00 PM BST
Theater 1, Exhibit Showcase
Exhibitors and their staff are encouraged to attend this session to familiarize themselves with the venue, onsite support and services, best practices for a successful conference, as well as a live Q&A with the Gartner team. Thank you for being an important part of the conference and the attendee experience!
Monday, 14 September, 2026 / 8:15:00 AM - 8:35:00 AM BST
Arcadia 1
This is the best way to start your on-site experience! Whether or not it's your first time here, you'll walk away from this session with insights into the conference's key topics and content, and how to get the most out of your conference experience.
Monday, 14 September, 2026 / 9:30:00 AM - 10:15:00 AM BST
Arora 6
In the race to operationalize AI across applications, workflows, and development tools, most technology leaders struggle to scale deployments, drive adoption, and show ROI. The goal is to get tangible value without creating “AI slop,” accelerating tech debt, or undermining user trust. We’ll provide insights and examples for practical transformation that emphasize human-AI partnership as a force multiplier for delivering AI solutions that get results.
Monday, 14 September, 2026 / 10:30:00 AM - 10:50:00 AM BST
Theater 1, Exhibit Showcase
Many teams let LLMs brute-force repetitive work, driving up token costs and unpredictable results. This talk shows a sustainable path: using Conductor, an open-source workflow orchestration engine, as the nervous system for workflows combining human oversight, deterministic scripts, and AI tasks. Learn how we scaled from human-in-the-loop to greater automation, using AI to build workflow logic instead of repeating costly, tedious tasks.
Monday, 14 September, 2026 / 10:30:00 AM - 10:50:00 AM BST
Theater 2, Exhibit Showcase
Many organizations invest in AI but struggle to move beyond pilots. Fragmented applications, disconnected data and complex integration limit business value. Join SEEBURGER for a live demonstration of how agentic AI, reusable assets and a unified integration foundation accelerate onboarding and integration delivery. We will show how AI-assisted automation guides setup, recommends reusable assets and helps modernize hybrid IT environments.
Monday, 14 September, 2026 / 11:00:00 AM - 11:30:00 AM BST
Arora 1
Empirical data confirms a structural shift: AI is automating tasks based on codified knowledge, resulting in a 13% relative decline in employment for early-career engineers in AI-exposed roles. This session addresses the leadership challenge of securing the future senior talent pipeline. We provide actionable strategies to redesign career ladders and adapt the interview process away from testing commoditized coding skills. Learn how to proactively focus training and hiring on the new high-value skills: system architecture, deep debugging and AI orchestration.
Monday, 14 September, 2026 / 11:00:00 AM - 11:30:00 AM BST
Arora 6
In a heavily hyped market, Heads of Enterprise Applications must ensure that their strategic investments in AI embedded within business applications turn promise into profits by delivering measurable business value. Leaders must also evaluate which platforms are truly equipped to support future business needs so they can make informed decisions about where to invest for long-term success. In this session, hear Gartner's insight into the future of the market, and learn how to ensure that current modernization efforts are compatible with future AI Agent investments, avoiding the waste of scarce resources on systems that will quickly become outdated.
Monday, 14 September, 2026 / 11:00:00 AM - 11:30:00 AM BST
Arora 7
By 2030, 100% of integrations will be machine-built, and 90% of new connections will be ephemeral and dynamic in response to environmental changes. Learn the changes you need to make to your integration strategies to ensure you remain relevant in the span of five years.
Monday, 14 September, 2026 / 11:00:00 AM - 11:30:00 AM BST
Peninsula A
Thriving in times of intense economic and social volatility requires organizations to find new ways to empower their software engineering teams to increase productivity, efficiency and effectiveness. This session will provide Gartner's latest and best guidance on the actionable trends' software engineering leaders and their teams should be tracking in 2026 and beyond.
Monday, 14 September, 2026 / 11:00:00 AM - 11:30:00 AM BST
Peninsula B
Heads of enterprise architecture (EA) who don’t proactively use AI to optimize EA activities will become a roadblock to increasing demand from business and IT stakeholders. This session provides a roadmap for heads of EA to reimagine their operating model and serve as exemplars in harnessing AI.
Monday, 14 September, 2026 / 11:00:00 AM - 11:20:00 AM BST
Theater 2, Exhibit Showcase
A digital twin of an organization (DTO) is a dynamic software model that relies on operational and contextual data to understand how an organization operationalizes its business model, connects with its current state, responds to changes, deploys resources, simulates future states and delivers customer value. A DTO platform is a technology platform that supports the creation, management and operationalization of a DTO. Join this session to know more.
Monday, 14 September, 2026 / 11:00:00 AM - 11:20:00 AM BST
Theater 1, Exhibit Showcase
Generative AI technologies and techniques are evolving at an unprecedented pace, accompanied by significant hype, making it challenging for leaders to navigate this dynamic landscape. IT leaders can leverage this Hype Cycle to identify the innovations most worth pursuing as they shape and execute their AI strategies.
Monday, 14 September, 2026 / 11:45:00 AM - 12:15:00 PM BST
Arora 1
Application platforms are necessary to future-proofing your enterprise applications, particularly for delivering differentiating and innovative capabilities. Join this session to learn about the newest practices.
Monday, 14 September, 2026 / 11:45:00 AM - 12:15:00 PM BST
Arora 7
As SAP's ECC hits the end of mainstream maintenance in 2027 and 2030, IT leaders and application managers must balance business value and their need for transformation with budget and time constraints. This research describes how IT leaders should proactively steer their SAP ERP transformations, rather than react to SAP’s recommended approach and timeline.
Monday, 14 September, 2026 / 11:45:00 AM - 12:15:00 PM BST
Peninsula B
Manual modernization is becoming obsolete. This session guides leaders to adopt AI-augmented modernization tools for code understanding, transformation, testing and automated documentation. Learn how AI code assistants and rule-based modernization tools are slashing costs, accelerating delivery and enabling continuous modernization.
Monday, 14 September, 2026 / 11:45:00 AM - 12:15:00 PM BST
Peninsula A
Legacy application systems based on outdated or degraded technology and application architectures carry significant technical debt that causes serious risks to agility and innovation. Application and software engineering leaders must develop a migration plan to reduce technical debt and adopt modern application architectures and technologies.
Monday, 14 September, 2026 / 11:45:00 AM - 12:15:00 PM BST
Arora 6
The future of software engineering lies in creativity and innovation rather than productivity. This playbook guides leaders in redefining success metrics, cultivating a founder’s mindset, and aligning AI-powered ideation and rapid prototyping with business goals. By prioritizing creative potential over traditional throughput, organizations unlock sustained value and reshape the next era of software engineering.
Monday, 14 September, 2026 / 12:30:00 PM - 1:00:00 PM BST
Peninsula A
AI-native startups are the pathfinders for the hottest trend in software engineering — tiny teams. What are tiny teams? They are teams of two to three people, augmented by AI agents. Instead of forming teams of seven or eight, startups are now organizing into these smaller units. In the most extreme case, a tiny team can be just one person working with AI agents. This session presents Gartner's research and guidance on tiny teams. Join us to understand how tiny teams work and how large organizations can leverage them.
Monday, 14 September, 2026 / 12:30:00 PM - 1:00:00 PM BST
Peninsula B
With the rise of agentic coding, AI token costs are spiraling, with $100+/month or even $1000+/month per developer. Should you tightly control spend or encourage experimentation? Which vendors support transparency? And will AI costs start to rival salary costs? In this session you will hear about how to address these challenges and learn best practices to deal with escalating token costs
Monday, 14 September, 2026 / 12:30:00 PM - 12:50:00 PM BST
Theater 1, Exhibit Showcase
If AI isn’t delivering major gains in ADM productivity, the issue may not be the model – it’s the context. In complex enterprise systems, an incomplete understanding of all dependencies leads to inconsistent outputs, heavy rework, and developer mistrust. This session shows how feeding AI deterministic architectural context drives accuracy beyond 80%, eliminates structural risk, and cuts token usage – unlocking AI adoption across the SDLC.
Monday, 14 September, 2026 / 12:30:00 PM - 12:50:00 PM BST
Theater 2, Exhibit Showcase
AI is reshaping every industry, but scaling it across the enterprise introduces new risks around data sovereignty, security and compliance. This session will explore how organizations can govern AI interactions across complex environments while maintaining control over their data and operations. You will learn, through concrete use cases and real deployment scenarios how to accelerate AI adoption without compromising trust, resilience or regulatory requirements
Monday, 14 September, 2026 / 12:55:00 PM - 1:15:00 PM BST
Theater 1, Exhibit Showcase
Enterprise architecture often struggles to keep pace with delivery while maintaining governance and controlling technical debt. This session explores how Intact Insurance took an incremental approach by embedding architecture into ServiceNow with ins-pi instead of creating new processes. Join us to learn practical lessons for improving governance, accelerating solution design and making architecture an active part of delivery.
Monday, 14 September, 2026 / 12:55:00 PM - 1:15:00 PM BST
Theater 2, Exhibit Showcase
Every team has a backlog. The question is what you do with it. Agentic development isn't a rip-and-replace; it's a progression. In this session, see how ServiceNow supports every stage: from adding AI to what you already own, to building net-new apps with agents that run, adapt, and improve on their own. Wherever you are today, there's a real next step. This session shows you what it looks like.
Monday, 14 September, 2026 / 1:20:00 PM - 1:40:00 PM BST
Theater 1, Exhibit Showcase
Shift left relied on trained developers in mature DevOps systems. AI made software creation universal, yet security judgment is rare. The focus has fundamentally shifted from how code is written to what is actually consumed. As poisoned packages prove, you cannot turn every non-developer into an AppSec expert. Attendees will gain a framework to assess exposure, build consumption controls, and automate remediation without slowing dev teams down.
Monday, 14 September, 2026 / 1:20:00 PM - 1:40:00 PM BST
Theater 2, Exhibit Showcase
AI transformations often stall due to a lack of verified context with vital information often living in fragmented, undocumented processes - the invisible infrastructure of the business. With 40% of agentic AI projects at risk due to unclear value, leaders must treat documentation as infrastructure. In this session, you will learn how to scale clarity, transforming institutional knowledge into the trusted and verified logic AI needs to succeed.
Monday, 14 September, 2026 / 1:45:00 PM - 2:15:00 PM BST
Arora 1
The pace of AI innovation is staggering. Four frontier models get released in one week and you’re still trying to launch your agents to prod. AI spend has quietly become one of the largest line items on the enterprise budget, but translating this into your business value is hard. Learn how forward-thinking leaders are bringing costs under control, activating their data, and maintaining governance while keeping pace.
Monday, 14 September, 2026 / 1:45:00 PM - 2:15:00 PM BST
Arora 5
A new frontier model ships every few weeks. Your enterprise needs to keep up. Join MuleSoft as we share what's actually standing between your agents and production, the principles for fixing it, real customer architectures from enterprises already there, and live reveals of the latest MuleSoft innovations.
Monday, 14 September, 2026 / 1:45:00 PM - 2:15:00 PM BST
Arora 6
As AI becomes embedded across enterprise applications, organizations need a unified foundation for applications, data, integration, automation, and governance to deliver trusted business outcomes. In this session, explore how to modernize your application landscape, build context-aware AI agents, and strengthen security, governance, and resilience. See a demo of SAP Business AI Platform, then hear how Ericsson is using it to simplify architecture, accelerate AI adoption, and move closer to the autonomous enterprise.
Monday, 14 September, 2026 / 1:45:00 PM - 2:15:00 PM BST
Arora 7
AI coding tools have democratized software development, but they also redefine how business and technology work together. Through a real-world case study, we'll explore where business users can thrive, where technology teams must lead, why change management becomes the single most important thing in AI projects and how organizational design must evolve as AI agents become part of the workforce.
Monday, 14 September, 2026 / 1:45:00 PM - 2:15:00 PM BST
Peninsula A
AI agents need access to enterprise data and apps—through the right "enterprise skills"—to deliver real value. To enable this, a new class of AI gateway tech is emerging, including model gateways and MCP gateways, yet CIOs remain unsure of the actual benefits. This session explores how AI gateways combine into a unified AI control plane, with real examples of Workato customers putting this architecture to work.
Monday, 14 September, 2026 / 1:45:00 PM - 2:15:00 PM BST
Peninsula B
Generative agents now produce APIs and services faster than any team can review them. The visible cost is unreliable software. The deeper cost is context debt; systems that leadership can no longer fully see, attribute, or audit. This session reframes agentic engineering as a board-level assurance question: how do you scale AI-driven software while proving who built what, under whose authority, and within data-residency and security boundaries?
Monday, 14 September, 2026 / 2:30:00 PM - 3:00:00 PM BST
Arora 7
The rapid pace of change with artificial intelligence is leading to gaps with the ability of end users to engage and embrace the new era of intelligent applications. This session will provide practical guidance and a framework for organizations to effectively adopt and adapt to this new era.
Monday, 14 September, 2026 / 2:30:00 PM - 3:00:00 PM BST
Peninsula B
As megavendors like Microsoft, Google and Salesforce embed more GenAI and agentic AI capabilities into their solutions, IT increasingly struggles to keep up with the pace of change. Application leaders should join this session to learn how to establish both the organizational governance and the technical controls necessary to manage AI in their applications.
Monday, 14 September, 2026 / 2:30:00 PM - 3:00:00 PM BST
Arora 6
Enterprise application leaders are seeking smarter ways to advance their automation practices. The newly updated Hyperautomation Maturity Model reveals how to build a future-ready foundation, offering actionable insights on strategy, talent, organizational structure, metrics, automation priorities and technology selection for lasting business impact.
Monday, 14 September, 2026 / 2:30:00 PM - 3:00:00 PM BST
Arora 1
The next frontier of AI value isn't found in more code assistant automation, but in the disciplined application of systems engineering, strategic curation of context and the elevation of documentation from an afterthought to a primary fuel to drive AI alignment, enabling AI agents to accomplish more for your business.
Monday, 14 September, 2026 / 2:30:00 PM - 3:00:00 PM BST
Arora 5
There are many ways to structure an enterprise architecture practice and nearly as many ways to fail. In this session, we will discuss the most common factors that are external to the practice that you may not have thought of, such as how to align with the business strategy when there isn't one.
Monday, 14 September, 2026 / 3:15:00 PM - 3:45:00 PM BST
Arora 7
Most enterprises are stuck between in a AI gap between PoC and production. The gaps: reliability, risk, cost mgmt, and repeatability. Tyler Jewell, CEO of Akka, shares how industry leaders can embed policy enforcement, token use optimization, and failure containment directly in the app runtime to scale agentic automation--for both transaction volumes and use case types. This was a top-rated session at Gartner ABIS in Vegas this June.
Monday, 14 September, 2026 / 3:15:00 PM - 3:45:00 PM BST
Peninsula A
AI agents are reshaping how enterprise architecture gets done. At EUROCONTROL, with OrbusInfinity as the repository foundation, the EA team is exploring what happens when agents become part of the architecture workflow and architecture-as-code becomes a real option. This session shares what agent-first EA could look like, what the team has already tested, and whether a vision can even be outlined when the ground keeps shifting.
Monday, 14 September, 2026 / 3:15:00 PM - 3:45:00 PM BST
Peninsula B
Harmoney's 4-day underwriting process wasn't a credit risk issue, it was a system limitation losing good applicants. Rebuilding with Agentic Orchestration (AO) cut decisions to 17 minutes (90x faster), reducing complex case drop-off by 20–30%. This session also covers regulated industry proof points like 40% fewer compliance errors, and how agentic orchestration adds rules, audit trails, and escalation that make real operational authority secure
Monday, 14 September, 2026 / 3:15:00 PM - 3:45:00 PM BST
Arora 1
Modernizing public services requires governed environments and enduring skills. Hear the take from a leading industry voice from the Crown Prosecution Service on scaling modernization, managing AI sprawl, the risks of ungoverned vibe-coding, the cultivation of enduring developer capabilities, and how to balance fast-paced innovation with strict compliance and security.
Monday, 14 September, 2026 / 3:15:00 PM - 3:45:00 PM BST
Arora 5
AI isn't just making software faster; it's changing how software is produced. That shift creates a defining new challenge: controlling autonomous systems in production. LaunchDarkly and Tiama Hanson-Drury, CPTO of Opus 2, share practical lessons from building their own AI software factories — how closed-loop runtime control keeps human engineers in charge at agent speed without sacrificing safety or governance.
Monday, 14 September, 2026 / 3:15:00 PM - 3:45:00 PM BST
Arora 6
Engineering teams face mounting pressure to ship faster without sacrificing quality. Agentic AI is emerging as a force multiplier, but separating hype from reality is becoming more present. In this session, learn which agentic engineering patterns are delivering measurable results today, the challenges early adopters face, and how to build a practical adoption roadmap for your organization.
Monday, 14 September, 2026 / 4:00:00 PM - 4:30:00 PM BST
Arora 1
The use of AI is now ubiquitous in software engineering, enabling faster delivery of higher quality products. We discuss findings from Gartner's Magic Quadrants for Enterprise AI Coding Agents and AI Application Development Platforms. Learn how Gartner defines these markets, mandatory and common features, op use cases, and how complementary these solutions are.
Monday, 14 September, 2026 / 4:00:00 PM - 4:30:00 PM BST
Arora 5
This session extends proven technical debt frameworks to address AI-specific risks. Attendees will learn practical criteria for detecting, classifying and prioritizing AI technical debt — including AI-generated code quality, model obsolescence risk, output reliability and cost trajectories. Software leaders will gain strategies to enhance their existing governance processes to manage AI technical debt before poor implementations compound into architectural crises.
Monday, 14 September, 2026 / 4:00:00 PM - 4:30:00 PM BST
Arora 7
AI is rapidly moving from experimentation to execution. As organisations deploy copilots, agents and increasingly autonomous workflows, the conversation is shifting from what AI can do to what it costs to do it at scale. In this session, Steve Westgarth explores the emerging economics of enterprise AI and asks whether the cost of intelligence could become a constraint on the ambitions organisations have for it. Drawing on a real-world customer service case study from Haleon, he will examine how agentic workflows can deliver meaningful improvements while creating new challenges around token consumption, model choice, orchestration and the cost of increasingly complex AI interactions. The session will explore practical strategies technology leaders can use to understand and manage AI unit economics without constraining innovation, and consider what comes next as intelligence becomes a metered enterprise utility: consumed on demand, embedded everywhere and carrying a cost every time we use it.
Monday, 14 September, 2026 / 4:00:00 PM - 4:30:00 PM BST
Peninsula B
Emerging technology radars are visualization tools that support the enterprise technology portfolio and guide IT leaders in planning for disruptive technologies in 2026. The four themes include the AI-powered enterprise, security by design, efficiency first, and foundational and frontier technologies.
Monday, 14 September, 2026 / 4:45:00 PM - 5:05:00 PM BST
Theater 2, Exhibit Showcase
Nearly nine in 10 AI-built apps never ship. Your teams can vibe-code an app in a day with Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor, but getting it to production takes weeks of infrastructure work nobody owns. This session shows a new way. Watch live as Tray Helix takes an app to production in minutes through one governed path, with IT in control of visibility, security, and spend. Leave with a model for saying yes to your own builders.
Monday, 14 September, 2026 / 4:45:00 PM - 5:05:00 PM BST
Theater 1, Exhibit Showcase
Jump-start your cloud ERP project with a clear, structured approach based on industry-proven best practices from SAP. Guided by the SAP Activate methodology and AI-enabled tools, and supported by industry usage data. Reduce risk, accelerate go-live, and build a scalable foundation from day one. Launch faster. Scale smarter. Grow without limits.
Monday, 14 September, 2026 / 5:15:00 PM - 6:00:00 PM BST
Arora 6
Even stimulating jobs, breathtaking works of art, an exciting new gadget, lose their sparkle after a while. We desensitize to what is wonderful around us. We also stop noticing what is not-so-great: cracks in a relationship, a culture of fraud that developed slowly within a company or the gradual rise of misinformation. It is not that we are lazy or stupid. It is simply that our brain evolved to respond to what is new and different, not to things that are constant or change gradually. As a result, we stop noticing what is suboptimal and so fail to try and make changes. We also stop noticing what is good in our lives and so we don’t feel the joy. But what if we could ‘dishabituate’? Based on her new book Look Again, Sharot shares what psychology and biology tell us about why we stop noticing both the great and not-so-great things around us and how to regain sensitivity in the office, at home, online, and at the store, so we can enjoy what is good and change what’s not.
Monday, 14 September, 2026 / 6:10:00 PM - 6:30:00 PM BST
Theater 1, Exhibit Showcase
Move fast. Stay in control. See how Agent Fabric discovers, governs, and orchestrates Agentforce, Data 360, and agents built anywhere from one control plane or headless in the tools you already use.
Tuesday, 15 September, 2026 / 9:00:00 AM - 9:45:00 AM BST
Arora 6
Your organization's leaders are at a pivotal time: AI hype hasn’t hit the P&L, but your executives have seen enough real wins to know value is there. Right now, your CIO is expected to see beyond the hype and realize value from AI investments immediately. When it comes to AI strategy, Gartner knows what works and what to avoid. This keynote gives you perspective on what matters to your CIOs and what the best organizations are doing right now to create a durable technology strategy. You’ll get proven ways to decide where to pivot, persist or pull the plug, instead of reacting to the hype.
Tuesday, 15 September, 2026 / 10:00:00 AM - 10:20:00 AM BST
Theater 1, Exhibit Showcase
AI agents promise faster access to enterprise information, but deploying them on business-critical data is still risky. Drawing on a real-world mission-critical AI deployment, this session shows how to deliver reliable, hallucination-free answers and govern user-built apps before they create chaos. You'll leave with a practical checklist of steps to establish the enterprise foundation needed to scale AI safely across your organization.
Tuesday, 15 September, 2026 / 10:00:00 AM - 10:20:00 AM BST
Theater 2, Exhibit Showcase
Invest Europe set out to make its research processes faster and more efficient without losing the expertise and judgement of its analysts. Together with Stefanini, it turned AI and automation from promising concepts into practical, scalable solutions embedded in day-to-day work. This case study explores how the partnership freed analysts from time-consuming tasks, accelerated research and analysis with 5x coverage.
Tuesday, 15 September, 2026 / 10:30:00 AM - 11:00:00 AM BST
Arora 1
AI is reshaping the human-digital experience. The way humans interact with software and how different software and solutions interact digitally, is creating a dynamic user experience. This boosts leaders to develop strategies that leverage successful AI use cases and avoids pitfalls associated with unproven applications that may pose serious security risks and other challenges. They must shape the future of software and applications within their organizations to drive critical business value and innovation while avoiding high costs, poor user experiences and wasted time.
Tuesday, 15 September, 2026 / 10:30:00 AM - 11:00:00 AM BST
Arora 6
IT leaders are under heavy internal and external pressure to increase AI adoption across their application strategy, leading many to think that they should take the "easy approach" — trust the vendors to guide their AI strategy. This session aims to describe why will this be a bad idea in the medium and long term and suggest actions to balance the right AI buying approach.
Tuesday, 15 September, 2026 / 10:30:00 AM - 11:00:00 AM BST
Arora 7
The battle is still on and back for it's third year - We'll look at the new developments across the API ecosystem, how they are faring in the maelstrom of AI and agentic use cases, and look at how API management and Agent governance are converging.
Tuesday, 15 September, 2026 / 10:30:00 AM - 11:00:00 AM BST
Peninsula A
Building AI capabilities into software is the top priority of software engineering leaders. However, it is also their biggest pain point. A roadmap is required to illuminate the path through cultural and technical barriers to surpass stuck prototypes and enable an AI-native organization. Join this session to learn more.
Tuesday, 15 September, 2026 / 10:30:00 AM - 11:00:00 AM BST
Peninsula B
EA needs to move beyond static plans and become more adaptive. Traditional EA struggles to keep up with rapid changes in technology and business. Instead, EA should use real-time data to continuously monitor progress and adjust its designs as needed. This dynamic approach helps organizations stay aligned with their business goals, respond quickly to changes and even rethink strategies when necessary.
Tuesday, 15 September, 2026 / 10:30:00 AM - 10:50:00 AM BST
Theater 1, Exhibit Showcase
Salesforce has made an enormous bet on Agentforce 360, putting it at the center of all product development and innovation. Join this session to examine Agentforce's product vision, capabilities, and pricing. This session will provide practical advice that you can use to update your Salesforce product roadmap and shape your enterprise application strategy.
Tuesday, 15 September, 2026 / 10:30:00 AM - 10:50:00 AM BST
Theater 2, Exhibit Showcase
APIs are the backbone of modern software engineering and are being extended by emerging AI technologies such as MCP and AI agents. In this session we will provide insights into the fast evolving market of API and MCP testing tools to enable engineering teams to ensure the quality of their APIs and AI agent connectivity.
Tuesday, 15 September, 2026 / 11:15:00 AM - 11:45:00 AM BST
Arora 1
Veolia's Group Architecture leaders share how they turned documentation waste into strategic architecture across 50+ countries and three business lines. This session covers what actually changes when EA becomes a live practice - real-time impact scenarios inside architecture committees - plus plans for plain-language business queries via MCP, bringing Ardoq's knowledge graph into everyday tools. An EA practitioner's story. No rubbish.
Tuesday, 15 September, 2026 / 11:15:00 AM - 11:45:00 AM BST
Arora 6
As AI reshapes software delivery, fragmented toolchains slow quality efforts and raise risk. This session explores how integrated, AI‑supported workflows can connect teams, reduce friction, improve traceability, and embed quality across the SDLC in highly regulated industries. A real-world case study will show how unified workflows modernize delivery while aligning with business and regulatory goals.
Tuesday, 15 September, 2026 / 11:15:00 AM - 11:45:00 AM BST
Arora 7
Stop building generic agents. Your organization's true competitive advantage lives in whiteboard sketches and expert intuition, but translating them into software traditionally stalls. In this live session, see Papyrus Converse and IBM watsonx use multimodal AI to instantly transform a hand-drawn process into a digital asset. Capture your "Business DNA" to create a Digital Twin of expertise, scaling app delivery enterprise-wide.
Tuesday, 15 September, 2026 / 11:15:00 AM - 11:45:00 AM BST
Peninsula A
AI agents are driving real value but also rising costs. As agentic workflows scale, token usage compounds, and most organizations lack visibility or governance to manage it. This session shares real enterprise examples of building sustainable AI economics. Learn how to establish monetization models, implement governance frameworks, and adopt metrics to control AI infrastructure costs.
Tuesday, 15 September, 2026 / 11:15:00 AM - 11:45:00 AM BST
Peninsula B
How does one of the UK's largest government bodies turn an unmanaged capability into a governed practice serving 1,000+ users, with 89% faster compliance validation? Join HMRC and Avolution to trace that journey, and learn how HMRC turned compliance gaps into a mandate for change, scaled process governance, and built a true enterprise-wide architecture spanning capability, process, people, strategy and cost.
Tuesday, 15 September, 2026 / 12:00:00 PM - 12:30:00 PM BST
Arora 1
Boards expect enterprise applications proposals to be strategic, not technical. Learn how to frame application initiatives around business value, risk and cost to gain executive buy-in and avoid common pitfalls in boardroom presentations.
Tuesday, 15 September, 2026 / 12:00:00 PM - 12:30:00 PM BST
Arora 6
An abundance of choice exists when it comes to AI assistants for supporting everyday AI needs. Enterprise cloud and SaaS providers offer their own versions that coexist with incumbent services, while best-of-breed AI vendors compete with cutting-edge features. Learn about the key factors that application leaders should consider in selecting a foundational enterprise AI assistant.
Tuesday, 15 September, 2026 / 12:00:00 PM - 12:30:00 PM BST
Peninsula A
AI Agents are the hot topic when it comes to delivering "business value" from generative AI, but creating an agent in the lab, and getting them to production is non-trivial. This session will walk you through five top practices to help your organization's AI agent building effort deliver on their promise.
Tuesday, 15 September, 2026 / 12:00:00 PM - 12:30:00 PM BST
Arora 7
What began as a product experiment to connect organisational goals, decisions, evidence and delivery led to a broader discovery about organisational coherence. Join Gareth Faull from London Stock Exchange Group as he explores how product discovery exposed gaps in the connections between goals, products, teams, decisions and work — and why those gaps matter for both people and AI. The central insight: if an organization cannot make sense of its own goals, decisions and actions, AI agents will not resolve that ambiguity. They will operate within it, only faster and at greater scale. This session explores what it might take for organizations to become understandable to themselves before becoming truly agent-enabled.
Tuesday, 15 September, 2026 / 12:00:00 PM - 12:30:00 PM BST
Peninsula B
Evaluating and testing AI-infused software is a new challenge. Traditional software testing assumes a predictable system. AI systems are unpredictable, uncertain and unreliable, which creates risk for AI products. This session provides insights about challenges, best practices and focus areas to give AI teams confidence in the reliability of their AI and ML applications.
Tuesday, 15 September, 2026 / 12:45:00 PM - 1:15:00 PM BST
Peninsula B
Software engineering organizations are undervaluing AI because they measure the easiest returns first: faster individual tasks and potential cost savings. In this session we will show how AI creates broader returns in software engineering, from developer productivity to delivery-system capacity, validated business impact, and future opportunity and how you can use the AI Score for Software Engineering to calculate AI value
Tuesday, 15 September, 2026 / 12:45:00 PM - 1:15:00 PM BST
Peninsula A
The top, high-performing enterprise application programs govern differently and have the performance statistics to prove it. This includes managing technical debt and life cycles, planning for intelligent applications, and determining when to build or buy AI application capabilities. Join this session to learn about these attributes and get advice to improve your application governance practices.
Tuesday, 15 September, 2026 / 12:45:00 PM - 1:05:00 PM BST
Theater 1, Exhibit Showcase
Most organizations have AI pilots, but few achieve measurable business value. Discover how leading enterprises are connecting data, AI and applications to move from isolated use cases to governed, outcome-driven execution. Learn how knowledge graphs, AI agents and low-code orchestration work together to deliver business results while maintaining trust, control and accountability.
Tuesday, 15 September, 2026 / 12:45:00 PM - 1:05:00 PM BST
Theater 2, Exhibit Showcase
In 20 minutes we will demonstrate what AI Governance looks like in practice: an agent that can only see what the signed-in user is authorized to see, with every interaction logged. Attendees will see how governed AI can be delivered across customer, employee and partner experiences and leave with an answer to the question their security team will ask first: who authorised this agent to see that data?
Tuesday, 15 September, 2026 / 1:10:00 PM - 1:30:00 PM BST
Theater 1, Exhibit Showcase
As organizations rapidly deploy AI agents across functions, maintaining visibility and control becomes increasingly difficult. This session introduces a mission control layer that orchestrates systems, people, and AI agents to enable controlled end-to-end execution with robust governance and guardrails. You’ll leave with practical strategies for restoring oversight and accountability as AI scales, plus actionable governance best practices.
Tuesday, 15 September, 2026 / 1:10:00 PM - 1:30:00 PM BST
Theater 2, Exhibit Showcase
Insert AbstractEnterprise AI adoption isn't being limited by models - it's being limited by operating models. Based on enterprise AI maturity research, this session explores why organizations struggle to scale AI beyond individual developers, what distinguishes mature AI engineering organizations, and the practical capabilities required to deliver measurable business value from AI across the software development lifecycle.
Tuesday, 15 September, 2026 / 1:35:00 PM - 1:55:00 PM BST
Theater 1, Exhibit Showcase
Every organization already knows how to trust people with real power: identity, a defined role, scoped access, oversight, and consequences. Now AI agents are joining the workforce, with real authority and machine speed, and those structures need to be set up. That gap is why so many agent initiatives stall between pilot and production. In this session, Brent Hunter shows how enterprises are establishing confidence in their agentic workforce by applying the same accountability they'd require of any employee: naming every agent, bounding every action, and tracing every outcome, with real demos of how organizations are running agents in production today.
Tuesday, 15 September, 2026 / 2:00:00 PM - 2:30:00 PM BST
Arora 1
Why doesn't AI-driven individual developer productivity translate into teamwide improvements? This session explores the causes of this gap and offers practical solutions to bridge it.
Tuesday, 15 September, 2026 / 2:00:00 PM - 2:30:00 PM BST
Arora 5
Agent Sprawl — where too many agents are shared freely with little oversight — is becoming a significant challenge across enterprise applications. As major productivity platforms such as Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace enable easier agent creation, organizations should act to keep their users and data safe. Join this session for a deep dive on how to establish the right governance and guardrails to mitigate risk, while allowing the organization to unlock value with safe use of AI agents.
Tuesday, 15 September, 2026 / 2:00:00 PM - 2:30:00 PM BST
Arora 6
Software development teams have always needed a high-quality developer experience to do their best work, but this is even more true as AI fundamentally changes software delivery. While organizations implement AI-augmented tools and agents, developer experience continues to fall short — only 32% of developers are satisfied with the AI capabilities they use for work. Featuring the latest developer experience survey insights, this session will show how to provide a great developer experience in an AI-native environment.
Tuesday, 15 September, 2026 / 2:00:00 PM - 2:30:00 PM BST
Arora 7
As enterprises increasingly seek control over their data and AI infrastructure, digital sovereignty emerges as a strategic imperative. This session explores the critical considerations for deploying LLMs and AI agents within private environments. Attendees will gain insights into architectural requirements, operational trade-offs and governance frameworks necessary to ensure compliance, performance and security.
Tuesday, 15 September, 2026 / 2:00:00 PM - 2:30:00 PM BST
Peninsula B
AI agents are shifting from novelty assistants to primary users of your apps and APIs. This session explains what “Agent Experience (AX)” means, why chat-only UX fails at scale, and how to redesign workflows, interfaces, and controls so agents act safely, audibly, and productively—especially through MCP-style tool and UI integrations.
Tuesday, 15 September, 2026 / 2:00:00 PM - 2:30:00 PM BST
Peninsula A
The era of fragmented AI pilots is over. Regulatory pressure, escalating costs, poor return on investment and board-level scrutiny demand a unified enterprise AI direction. Heads of EA are uniquely positioned to lead by holistically connecting strategy, planning and execution, ensuring AI can deliver measurable business outcomes while managing risk and cost. By using these practical techniques, heads of EA can ensure AI becomes a repeatable, trusted capability rather than a fragmented liability.
Tuesday, 15 September, 2026 / 2:45:00 PM - 3:15:00 PM BST
Arora 5
Most AI spend is still treated like a software license, while costs behave like a portfolio. Boards are asking what the money bought — and few teams can answer, because they scored activity, not return. Tokens and usage are easy to report. Outcomes per dollar of intelligence are not. Join us for a discussion with SpaceXAI's Field CTO on maximizing ROI on Intelligence.
Tuesday, 15 September, 2026 / 2:45:00 PM - 3:15:00 PM BST
Arora 6
Most mainframe modernisation stalls in pilots. PHEAA put it into production: 16,000+ MIPS of COBOL loan servicing moved to Java in the cloud with zero disruption to millions of borrowers, while delivering an 80% reduction in operational costs. Hear PHEAA's CIO on video, then hear from Ian, who ran Heirloom's delivery team. PHEAA can now further modernise quickly, apply AI SME's, and automate documentation. For leaders modernising at scale.
Tuesday, 15 September, 2026 / 2:45:00 PM - 3:15:00 PM BST
Arora 7
AI agents generate working code faster than ever, but consistently verifying it to meet enterprise standards can take as long as writing it by hand. In this session, you'll learn how to implement the Agent Centric Development Cycle (AC/DC) that can reduce the risk of AI Coding related outages by 44% and increase the efficiency of agent code generation by up to 36% - We'll walk through a practical framework for guiding agents with architectural context and coding standards so they produce contextually correct code from the first prompt, verifying their output with deterministic analysis, and efficiently solving found issues by automating remediation before code reaches the PR review. We'll walk through the inner loop (real-time verification during generation) and the outer loop (CI-level quality gates and remediation agents), showing how to get reliable, accurate, and consistent results from AI-generated code.
Tuesday, 15 September, 2026 / 3:45:00 PM - 4:15:00 PM BST
Arora 6
Major technology vendors play a critical role in many organizations' digital strategies. This session examines how IT leaders can engage effectively with these providers, set the foundation for productive partnerships, align expectations, and maximize their influence to achieve strategic outcomes.
Tuesday, 15 September, 2026 / 3:45:00 PM - 4:15:00 PM BST
Arora 5
Stepping into a new leadership position is both exhilarating and challenging, but it can be perilous. This session will equip you with proven best practices for navigating your first days, building a powerful personal brand, and avoiding career-limiting pitfalls that can derail your progress. Discover actionable insights and insider tips to ensure you not only secure your new role—but excel in it.
Tuesday, 15 September, 2026 / 3:45:00 PM - 4:15:00 PM BST
Arora 1
Without a clear, differentiating personal brand, applications and software engineering leaders are assumed to be technical experts, rather than strategic thinkers and innovators. Join this session to understand the steps to cultivate and exhibit a compelling personal brand to maximize your leadership influence and impact.
Tuesday, 15 September, 2026 / 3:45:00 PM - 4:15:00 PM BST
Arora 7
When one of Emirates Flight Catering’s business-critical application reached the end of life, the vendor quote to modernize it was twelve months. We rebuilt it in four weeks, with two developers and agentic AI. This session covers what we did, the guardrails that made it safe to do, the three things that went wrong, and the six lessons we would give anyone attempting it.
Tuesday, 15 September, 2026 / 4:30:00 PM - 5:00:00 PM BST
Arora 1
Autonomous ERP is no longer a theory: AI and composable architectures are giving enterprise systems the ability to reason, act and adapt without human intervention. But thinking for itself and thinking well are very different things. This session will dive into the 5 levels of ERP evolution to help application leaders separate true platform intelligence from vendor hype and make the right strategic bets.
Tuesday, 15 September, 2026 / 4:30:00 PM - 5:00:00 PM BST
Arora 5
Automating business processes is a top priority for CEOs, yet many initiatives lose momentum or stay confined to one department. This session reveals 10 proven tactics to revitalize and expand your automation program, helping you break down silos, accelerate adoption and achieve broader organizational impact.
Tuesday, 15 September, 2026 / 4:30:00 PM - 5:00:00 PM BST
Arora 7
Multiagent systems require AI agent orchestration to unlock their full potential, which has created a wave of vendors and frameworks looking to capitalize on this opportunity. Learn about three types of multiagent systems and the different ways technology providers address them.
Tuesday, 15 September, 2026 / 4:30:00 PM - 5:00:00 PM BST
Arora 6
AGI won't arrive as packaged software. It requires a world. Software engineering provides that world first: feedback loops, causal transparency and scalable learning environments. Within 24 months, vendors will pitch AGI-level software engineering systems. These claims will be technically credible yet strategically misleading. Understanding that paradox will separate those that capture value from AGI and those that chase it.