After careful consideration, we have decided to run Gartner Application Innovation and Business Solutions Summit virtually, taking place over the same dates of 16 – 17 May, 2022. Gartner remains committed to delivering actionable, objective insights to help you and your team tackle your most critical priorities.
Gartner Application Innovation & Business Solutions Summit
16 – 17 May 2022 | EMEA | Virtual
Gartner Application Innovation and Business Solutions Summit is virtual
Architect for Growth, Build for Change
The relentless pace of technology change gives applications and software engineering leaders a major opportunity to not simply respond to change, but to lead it. By architecting, developing and modernizing systems to utilize emerging technologies, organizations can deliver solutions for improved operations, increased agility and better business outcomes. The result will be a strengthened foundation of trust in the solutions delivered by the organization.
From this foundation of trust, comes the confidence to build. To master the ability to create, buy and modify solutions that not only meet user and customer needs, but also predict and steer those needs. Software itself can become a catalyst for change: business change, cultural change – even world change. Rather than a liability or sunk cost, applications can become a source of innovation and competitive advantage.
It's time to build — together! Join us and hundreds of your peers at the virtual Gartner Application Innovation and Business Solutions Summit 2022, 16-17 May, to hear and share the latest insights into application strategy, software engineering leadership, API strategies, artificial intelligence (AI), enterprise architecture, customer experience and more.
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Innovation
Create a modern, agile applications organization capable of powering innovation and digital transformation.
Strategy
Help your organization to transform into an intelligent, composable business with an adaptable, resilient application and software engineering strategy.
Technology
Navigate the complexities of microservices, platform-as-a-service, APIs, cloud-native architectures, AI, digital experience platforms and more.
Gartner Application Innovation & Business Solution Summit
Hear from Conference Chair & Senior Director Analyst, Anthony Mullen to find out why you can't afford to miss this year's virtual conference. At this year's Summit we will be covering topics such as application and API strategies, enterprise architecture, software engineering and emerging technologies, portfolio management and much more! Join us this May to architect for growth and build for change.
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The pace of business change will continue to accelerate for the foreseeable future. Application and software engineering leaders must seize the opportunity to help their organizations to become intelligent composable businesses, driving superior business outcomes. Gartner Application Innovation & Business Solutions Summit gives you the chance to hear from industry experts, network with senior leaders and learn how to build a winning applications strategy to succeed in our new normal.
Anthony Mullen
Conference Chair and Senior Director Analyst, GartnerCalling all application and software engineering leaders
Gartner Application Innovation & Business Solutions Summit 2022 is built for application and software engineering leaders looking to craft leading-edge applications, architectures and strategies that enable composable enterprises.
Transform your organization into an intelligent, composable business
- Develop an application strategy that is modular, composable and resilient.
- Modernize your application portfolio while delivering innovation to the business.
- Drive business outcomes faster by working with non-IT resources.
- Advance your organization's cloud strategy.
Develop software engineering strategies to create successful teams, systems and experiences
- Develop the right skills and team structures for a modern software engineering organization.
- Understand the best practices for scaling agile.
- Transition from a project-centric to a product-centric delivery model.
- Explore the API approaches that are being used by the most successful organizations.
- Guide the cultural changes required for successful software engineering.
Create a new vision for enterprise architecture
- Redefine enterprise architecture (EA) and how it adds business value.
- Architect your organization for adaptability and change.
- Build a flexible, adaptive EA team.
- Support innovation, transformation and the use of new technologies.
Build agile architectures that continuously adapt and evolve to meet new and evolving business requirements
- Create an architecture that is flexible enough to both satisfy current demands and adapt to emerging demand.
- Develop strong agile architecture, DevOps and cloud-native skills.
- Optimize and refine application delivery to make it repeatable, effective and efficient.
Craft a pervasive integration strategy that meets the needs of a modern organization
- Design a future-proof business application integration strategy.
- Select the right integration platforms and technologies to support digital business.
- Implement a technical API strategy that allows the delivery of more integrations, faster.
- Learn how to integrate AI into your organization.
- Integrate cloud-based and on-premises applications.
Create multidisciplinary digital business teams to ensure successful digital transformation
- Align strategies between IT and the business.
- Create hybrid IT-business “fusion” teams.
- Develop a common view of value by establishing shared metrics.
- Transition from a project-centric to a product-centric delivery model.
Deliver quality applications with increased agility
- Explore the frameworks, tools and practices to design and develop modern applications and platforms.
- Learn how to use automation and other approaches to enable developers.
- Adopt DevOps practices and architect applications to leverage the benefits of low-code, cloud platforms, multigrained services and extreme automation.
- Cross traditional IT-business boundaries to work together to optimize the entire application delivery life cycle and improve business outcomes.
Develop a dynamic approach to program and portfolio management
- Use zero-based principals to refocus portfolios on strategic business initiatives.
- Use your EPMO to mange the innovation to product journey.
- Successfully start lean portfolio management.
- Depoliticize project prioritization.
Tracks at a Glance
Attendees in 2022 will have access to over 65+ sessions of the latest Gartner research specifically designed to help application and software engineering leaders meet the demands of the future. Each track has a particular area of focus that helps deliver what matters most to you and your organization. Take a look at the full agenda.
Track A
Driving Change Through Leadership, Culture and Talent
Application and software engineering leaders responsible for delivering their organizations’ digital ambitions must leverage the ‘great opportunity’ by attracting and retaining the best engineering talent, building high performing teams and fostering the environment for them to flourish. This track explores trends in hybrid work, solutions to talent shortages, skill building and career pathing, and the evolution of leadership and management for a post-pandemic world.
Track B
Strategies for Modernizing Application and Enterprise Architecture
Application and enterprise architecture leaders must deliver a flexible application landscape in order to rapidly respond to opportunities and disruptions. This track explores trends in technology innovation and application and enterprise architectures that enable greater agility while still retaining stability, performance and cost effectiveness.
Track C
Accelerating Integration, Automation and Analytics
Application and Software Engineering Leaders need to deliver solutions to the business that allow for flexible composition of applications in order to streamline business outcomes. This track brings together the technologies and practices to help organizations automate and integrate their processes, applications, APIs, data and analytics.
Track D
Surfing Disruptions and Leveraging Trends
Innovations across hardware, software, AI and data continue to proliferate, unlocking new economies of scale and business opportunity. IT and business leaders must view this landscape of change through a socio-technical lens to enable growth while withstanding waves of disruption. This track examines trends and disruptions you cannot ignore.
Track E
Lead Software Engineering to Build for Change
To compete in the digital economy, organizations must build solutions which deliver business value and differentiate your organization. Whether building in code, low code or customizing off the shelf leaders must build modern, adaptive engineering organizations. This track highlights the crucial strategic and technical trends to develop and govern custom software to power your digital transformation.
Track F
Building Great Digital Experiences for Customers and Employees
Application and Software Engineering leaders must deliver solutions that are optimized for customers, employees, and users. This requires a justified investment in design thinking and practices. This track provides insights and fundamentals for working on CX, UX, and EX initiatives that must be considered when designing and developing digital solutions.
Spotlight Track
Technical Insights
Organizations can only realize the promise of digital business and their digital workplace when they take control of the underpinning architecture, data and technology. This track showcases Gartner for Technical Professionals content and digs deeper into the technical details around how you can deliver the future of applications for your organization.
Spotlight Track
Strategic Portfolio Management: Navigating an Uncertain Future
To survive in today’s tumultuous business climate, organizations must expect, embrace, and adapt to increasing uncertainty and change. This spotlight track will highlight the application of strategic portfolio management approaches to align strategic objectives to execution, shepherd change and innovation, and deliver tangible present and future value.
Spotlight Track
Bridging the Gap Between IT and the Business
Building an organization capable of capitalizing on its talent and technology to deliver value requires a close alignment between IT and the Business. This track will show you how to align strategies between IT and the business, create hybrid IT-Business Fusion teams, and create a common view of value by adopting shared metrics.
Spotlight Track
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Issues of race, color, creed, sex, and sexual orientation are top of mind for all organizations. Sessions in this spotlight track provide a forum to discuss these challenges and to explore how applications and software engineering leaders can build a diverse culture and team with diverse business and IT skill-sets.
