Gartner Data & Analytics Summit

13 – 15 May 2024 | London, U.K.

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The World’s Most Important Gathering of Data and Analytics Leaders

Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2023 addressed the most signficiant challenges that data and analytics leaders face as they deliver business value. 

At the conference, the top 5 priorities that data & analytic leaders met on included:

  1. Delivering digital business success 
  2. Attracting the right talent and skills 
  3. Dispel the myths of AI 
  4. Understanding data ecosystems 
  5. Optimizeing intelligent decisions with competitive differentiators. 

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Understand how to establish the strategy, organization, culture and skills to align to business priorities and outcomes, and leverage key D&A trends:

  • Discover how to organize for success and not just survive but thrive.
  • Leverage key data and analytics trends to drive business outcomes.
  • Create a strategy to innovate business and accelerate change.
  • Foster the cultural changes needed to make the use of data and analytics pervasive to impact the business.
  • Align data and analytics with business outcomes and digital acceleration.

Gain insights into the tools and best practices to drive real business value and deliver innovation:

  • Create a strategy to innovate business and accelerate change.
  • Validate and benchmark strategy.
  • Infuse insight everywhere in the organization.
  • Align D&A to business value.
  • Empower the entire organization with access to the right tools and data.

Establish trusted and adaptable information and data management capabilities to support the changing needs of the organization:

  • Maximize your value to your organization.
  • Ensure data quality.
  • Build effective data governance programs.
  • Strive for the highest standards of ethics and trust.

Determining how best to architect products and solutions, which have the capabilities to deliver against your business objectives, is now paramount to digital success:

  • Deliver composable D&A architectures and data fabrics for the next decade.
  • Understand the latest trends and tools in D&A.
  • Prioritize investments in information, data and analytics applications, platforms and architectures.
  • Establish data quality and master data within the organization.
  • Plan and optimize for data and analytics cloud ecosystems.

Highlights

  • Roundtables.* Join your data and analytics peers from leading organizations and various industries to discuss relevant topics inspired by the latest research in these small-group sessions, moderated by a Gartner expert.
  • Peer conversations. Join peer-to-peer discussions organically throughout the conference. With more than 1,000 data and analytics leaders, discover how others are tackling the challenges you face every day.
  • End-user case studies. Detailed and documented case studies, by Gartner invitation, reveal lessons from your peers during their own organization’s implementations.
  • Bake-offs. See side-by-side scripted demonstrations of four leading modern analytics and BI solutions providers. Learn key features to consider, and how they compare in action, and how to improve your own evaluation process.
  • Social engagements. Have fun and build new business relationships with peers as you engage in welcome receptions and special evening events in varied settings.

*Preregistration is required. These sessions are available to end users only; space is limited

Network with experts and peers

At Gartner Data & Analytics Summit, attendees have the opportunity to connect with Gartner experts, industry-leading CDAOs and D&A senior leaders. Exchange ideas and experiences with others in similar roles or from similar organizations.

Build new relationships, broaden your perspectives and uncover ways to solve problems alongside other D&A leaders. When you engage with like-minded peers, you find opportunities to share your ideas and experiences. 

Prioritize what to accelerate, unlock resources for digital investments, make meaningful cultural changes and so much more. No matter where you are on your digital business acceleration journey, we’re here to help you get to your destination faster — with confidence.

Lean back and listen
Expect the best speakers, brightest minds and the latest big ideas. These sessions provide the inspiration and actionable insight to transform your most critical priorities into business results.

Highlights:

  • Guest speakers. Hear firsthand from guest keynote speakers and guest speakers about their experience.
  • Gartner Magic Quadrant™ sessions and Gartner Market Guides. Explore the Gartner Magic Quadrant™ methodology to help understand how well technology providers are executing against their stated vision.
  • Solution Provider sessions. When you’re looking to address a specific issue, these strategic roadmap presentations and user-case studies provide real-world advice.

Lean in and engage
Facilitated by Gartner experts, these sessions challenge you to solve problems together, exchange viewpoints and get to the core of the business imperatives that drive you and your peers.

Highlights

  • The CDAO Circle.* A Gartner exclusive, this program within the overall agenda is dedicated to and designed for chief data and analytics officers and those serving in the CDAO role. Participants have the opportunity to explore new strategies, share innovative ideas, grow their community of peers and have special access to Gartner experts in unique and highly educational, interactive sessions.
  • Workshops.* Collaborate with peers by taking the most important topics and learning how to apply them to your business in these small-scale and interactive sessions.
  • Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Track sessions and interactive experiences focus on issues relevant to diverse identities, including LGBTQ and neurodiversity, as well as corporate sustainability, equity and inclusion.

*Preregistration is required. These sessions are available to end users only. 

Our unbiased Gartner experts help you advance your most critical priorities through industry-leading insights, guidance and tools. Tap their unique expertise to make faster, smarter decisions. 

Gartner one-on-one meetings.* Meet one-on-one with Gartner experts for tailored advice to help you achieve your most critical priorities. These popular meetings offer you the undivided attention of a Gartner expert who will listen and guide you on the matters most critical to your success.

Ask the Expert sessions.* Topic-driven sessions provide a more intimate discussion forum, featuring one Gartner expert and end-user peers posing questions.

*Preregistration is required. These sessions are available to end users only; space is limited.

Lead for Purpose, Make an Impact 

Leaders and their teams have shown perseverance, creativity and ingenuity in the face of a disruptive global environment. As companies push to transform and accelerate data and analytics, it’s up to you as CDAOs and D&A leaders to execute purposeful strategies that maximize capabilities.

To harness data and analytics’ true power, your team needs to scale cohesive ecosystems across your organization while using AI to ethically manage data and privacy. Taking a human-centric approach to sourcing and retaining talent will also be critical to success.

Join us at Gartner Data & Analytics Summit to address the most significant challenges you’ll face as you empower the innovative and adaptable organizations of the future. You’ll leave this conference ready to:

  • Implement strategies and innovations backed by data and analytics to navigate disruption.

  • Lead purposefully by balancing trust, accountability, governance and security with adaptability and responsiveness.

  • Scale your purpose beyond organizational silos, across value chains and ecosystems to foster societal perseverance.

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    2023 Tracks at a Glance

    Attendees had access to over 100 sessions of the latest Gartner research specifically designed to help data & analytics leaders meet the demands of the future. Each track had a particular area of focus that helped deliver what matters most to you and your organization.
    Track A

    Leadership, Skills and Culture

    CDAOs and D&A leaders must be purposeful in driving the organizational and cultural transformation necessary to become a data-driven enterprise. This track explores how to hire and retain individuals and lead teams for business productivity, employee retention and professional growth.

    Track B

    Data Management

    Data is now widely recognized as the most important asset of an organization, central to applications, analytics, AI and machine learning (ML). This track highlights the current and future data management strategies such as data ecosystems and financial governance as well as the full set of tools, metadata management and MDM.

    Track C

    Analytics

    To increase the impact of analytics on an organization, D&A leaders must change their mindsets, shifting their focus beyond the implementation of analytics capabilities toward the delivery of business outcomes. This track navigates those analytics capabilities and how to organize them, plan to deliver them and align them to stakeholder needs.

    Track D

    Strategy and Value

    Data and analytics is part of every business discussion about digital transformation. This requires creating a D&A strategy that can make an impact to the organization’s mission-critical priorities, establish and manage value expectations, and build an operating model to execute. This track explores how to identify, assign value and prioritize data and analytics investments as well as develop a coordinated strategy and operating model to ensure success

    Track E

    Data Science, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

    Scaling and operationalizing data science, ML and AI are critical to driving value and impacting how decisions within the organization are made. This track explores the technology trends, organizational requirements, skill development and talent needed for successful deployment

    Track F

    Trust, Governance and Privacy

    To exploit business opportunities and challenges, organizations must establish the right foundations for data and analytics governance. Trust, privacy, ethics and accountability are central to this foundation. This track provides guidance for putting trusted, agile data and analytics, and AI governance practices in place.

    The CDAO Circle*

    As the role evolves, CDAOs must focus on creating business value, nurturing data and analytics talent, creating a data-driven culture and providing the supporting technology infrastructure. The CDAO Circle provides targeted content, workshops and networking opportunities. Join us and form valuable connections with peers and Gartner experts. (*Application is required.)

    Spotlight Track

    Recession Proofing your D&A Strategy

    In times of economic uncertainty, executive decision making is always looked at acutely. Critical business decisions range across cost optimization (for cash-strapped organizations) to strategic investments to “win in the turns” and exploit the opportunity (for those with funds). Data, analytics and AI will be more important than ever to every organization.

    Spotlight Track

    Master Data Management

    MDM is a foundational building block for digital transformation but also for the business agility required to navigate uncertain times more broadly. A technology-enabled business initiative, this spotlight track addresses the fundamentals across people, process, technology and the MDM market.

    Spotlight Track

    Technical Insights for Data and Analytics Practitioners

    Gartner for Technical Professionals research explores insights into the best practices, methodologies, tools and infrastructure needed to ensure operational success. This spotlight track provides actionable insights into architecting, implementing and operationalizing data and analytics and AI.

    Spotlight Track

    Environment, Social, Governance

    Data, analytics and artificial intelligence increasingly play a pivotal role in supporting ESG topics such as sustainability, diversity and human rights. On the other hand, attention is needed for the growing environmental footprint of data processing and machine learning. This spotlight track offers a much-needed ESG perspective on D&A.

    Spotlight Track

    Innovation

    D&A is both a driver and enabler of innovation across the organization. This spotlight track will clarify innovative D&A technologies as well as best practices in using D&A to drive innovation.

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