Disruptive trends and technologies are challenging for incumbent enterprises, forcing them to rethink their business models to support and enable business initiatives. This track explores the balance between ensuring operational stability and tapping into emerging trends and technologies.

Enterprise IT has embraced the concept of multi-cloud as an accepted delivery model for many enterprise applications. This track explores concerns about how best to balance between cloud computing as “the answer” and cloud computing as one of many options for IT to support the business.

Modern, cloud-based applications and infrastructure are increasingly distributed, fragmented and complex, creating a management nightmare. This track is focused on new approaches to managing workloads and operations, wherever they are, based on the concepts of systems observability.

I&O leaders must redefine the mission of IT operations to focus on delivering positive, secure, business outcomes. This track focuses on the infrastructure and operational processes, technologies and human capabilities that enable rapid development and delivery of workloads and applications for the business.

Leadership matters now more than ever. New roles demand a view across infrastructure, software and services, focused on delivering maximum customer and business value. This track focuses on the need for essentialism in leadership today, while tapping into new key roles across the organization.

This track focuses on guiding I&O leaders to manage and defend their increasingly anywhere organizations from exposures and threats, while integrating security, recovery and compliance best practices into day-to-day processes.

This track guides I&O leaders in executing an automation strategy by identifying required processes, skills and technologies.

To accelerate development and enable continuous delivery of customer value, organizations need to reach the next level in their agile and DevOps practices. I&O leaders must actively focus on value stream management to maximize flow, improve delivery efficiency and drive innovation.

A critical focus for I&O leaders, optimizing costs and assuring funding is allocated to the right things is a critical part of managing I&O effectively. Recent times and the emerging new normal makes this a challenge to many: how to keep costs down and optimize operational costs, both on-premises and off, while growing.

These technical insights sessions are designed for drill-down analysis of critical topics within the I&O and cloud strategies arena, presented by Gartner for Technical Professionals experts.

Not all cloud journeys are the same but there are similarities. A business-driven strategy coupled with a pragmatic adoption/migration plan are critical. But knowing where you are and where you are headed is critical to success. Journeys range from infrastructure replacement to digital transformation, with many others in between. This session brings all the ingredients together to enable the right journey for you.

Created for the most senior infrastructure and operations leaders, the Senior Leadership Circle is a unique opportunity to engage with Gartner experts as well as your I&O peers and attend recommended sessions to optimize your conference experience. An application to participate is required. As part of this program, we suggest attending the sessions in the Staffing and Leadership track as well as sessions exclusive to the program.