Innovation can come in many forms, including corporate social responsibility, approach to sustainability, customer experience and employee experience (CX and EX), technology and digital capabilities. This track explores the practices, trends and technologies that will drive innovation in your business.

Cloud is at the center of most recent and emerging technological innovations. Those able to demonstrate more coherent approaches to cloud innovation and modernization, governance, adoption and migration are better positioned to deliver successful business cases and more likely to accelerate business outcomes. This track explores how to meet your business goals by developing and executing strategies to exploit the cloud to its fullest potential.

I&O leaders face a world that requires increasingly complex architecture, effective integration patterns, expanded platform capabilities, security and compliance built in, disciplined yet federated delivery practices and versatile skills. This track explores how to use a product-focused mindset, infrastructure as code and aggressive automation to establish and develop platforms that enable the agility required to empower the anywhere business.

The anywhere business is distributed, fragmented and complex, creating management and operational nightmares. Hybrid workload operations, centralized core systems and cloud management require new approaches. This track focuses on how operations teams maintain, administer and support centralized, distributed and cloud operations practices and technologies.

I&O organization leaders face unprecedented challenges in the platform revolution. Creating a vision and designing a strategy and roadmap is a critical yet complex and ongoing process. This track focuses on I&O leaders and how they design, change and run their functions, and how to ensure they have the right people with the right skills to meet current and future organization needs.

As organizations work to address ongoing issues surrounding diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), there remains an intense focus on the lack of gender diversity. Despite being half of the workforce, women are grossly underrepresented. Add other attributes such as race and ethnicity to the mix, and the numbers are abysmal. This track discusses current issues and presents concrete actions to move the dial.

Sourcing, procurement and vendor management (SPVM) leaders must become catalysts for business-led IT sourcing while supporting diversity and sustainability. Leaders should reinvent the role by focusing on business outcomes through digitally enabled processes and tools, and provide value by leveraging data.

Created for the most senior I&O leaders, the Senior Leadership Circle provides 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 the track, we suggest attending the sessions in the Skills, Organization and Leadership track as well as sessions exclusive to the program.

Many smaller enterprises face many of the same challenges as large organizations but have a fraction of the resources with which to execute. Small teams of IT versatilists, limited budgets and small-scale environments make certain strategies and tactics universally beneficial. Also, fundamentally greater agility and lower bureaucratic overhead can provide the edge on larger competitors. Dedicated sessions and networking opportunities in this track are designed with your scale and operational environment in mind.

The Technical Insights spotlight track offers sessions that provide drill-down analysis of critical I&O topics. They are designed for attendees that desire greater technical depth in areas of architecture and design. The sessions are presented by Gartner for Technical Professionals experts.

This track focuses on guiding I&O leaders in securing and defending their increasingly anywhere organizations from exposures and threats, while integrating security, recovery and compliance best practices into the anywhere business’s day-to-day operations.