All 2026 #GartnerAPPS Sessions

The 2026 agenda dives deep into key topics for enterprise application and software engineering leaders around AI, leadership, modernization, cost optimization and more to help address your organization’s mission-critical challenges.

2026 Applications Conference Theme

Deliver the Future: Innovate, Lead, Act.

Applications and software engineering leaders are at a turning point where foresight must meet execution and business disruption is forcing dramatic changes. The 2026 conference empowers you to go beyond admiring the AI-enabled promising future — it's about actively building and delivering it. Learn how modern technology, visionary leadership and decisive action can transform your organization’s aspirations into reality. 

Explore our applications conference sessions below, all developed with this theme in mind. Join us to grow the skills and insights needed to deliver an adaptive and autonomous transformation journey.

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Monday, 14 September, 2026

04:00 PM - 04:30 PM BST

Executive Story: The Hidden Cost of AI: When Intelligence Goes on the Meter
Steve Westgarth, Global Head of Engineering & Architecture, Haleon
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. ... Show More Show Less
Tuesday, 15 September, 2026

12:00 PM - 12:30 PM BST

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03:45 PM - 04:15 PM BST

Executive Story: Emirates Flight Catering: Start With the Code - Rebuilding a 25-Year-Old System in Four Weeks
Tad Nadolny, Vice President, IT Information Systems, Emirates Flight Catering
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. ... Show More Show Less

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“The discussion around AI agents and their practical applications was particularly engaging, providing a solid foundation for understanding how these technologies can be integrated into existing IT architectures. The session also did a great job of highlighting real-world use cases and anticipating future industry shifts, which made the material even more impactful.”

Federica Cavazzini
Solution Architect, Barilla

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