Ignite Team Success: Bring Your Team to Gartner I&O Conference

Accelerate learning and build a shared vision by attending as a group

Businesses around the globe are transforming how they deliver on customer value, requiring agile, scalable, secure platforms and workplaces anywhere, anytime. As central players in this transformation, infrastructure, operations and cloud leaders are faced with a critical mandate and opportunity: Adapt and innovate IT I&O to deliver competitive advantage in a world full of disruption.

Tackle this and more by attending Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference as a team.

Join us and be in the best position to learn how you can:

Amplify learning
Divide sessions and maximize coverage; each leader gains insights tailored to their specialty.

Evaluate exhibitors and solution providers
Compare solutions for all stakeholders across your business.

Meet as a team with analysts
Discuss your challenges and validate your strategies. 

Tips for attending the conference as a team

Align your vision as you forge strong relationships and a deeper, shared understanding with your colleagues and peers to help drive your strategies forward.
  • Recommended Team Agenda
  • Pre-conference
  • During the conference
  • Post-conference

We’ve outlined example sessions for every member of your infrastructure and operations teams, based on the 2026 agenda. 
  • Signature Series: 2027 Infrastructure and Operations Leadership Vision: Transformation through AI and Cloud
  • The Strategic Roadmap for I&O in 2031
  • Organizing I&O Teams for the AI-Driven Enterprise
  • A Workforce Planning Guide for Multigenerational I&O
  • How to Improve I&O Relationships With the Business in 100 Days
  • Signature Series: The Future of Cloud in 2031
  • Modernizing Cloud Strategies for a Fragmented World: The Road to Private / Hybrid / Multi / Sovereign Cloud Futures
  • The Dangers of Sovereignty: When Geopatriation Becomes a Risk
  • Ask the Analyst: Evolving the Cloud Operating Model for the Age of AI
  • Ask the Analyst: Implementing Multicloud Management and Governance
  • How To Control ServiceNow Costs While Maximizing Platform Value
  • Why Infrastructure Platform Engineering is the Key to Sovereign Cloud
  • Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms
  • Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Storage Platforms
  • Magic Quadrant for IT Service Management Platforms
  • Magic Quadrant for IT Service Management Platforms
  • Operationalising Sovereignty for AI-Native Operations
  • Make Continuous Operations A Core Part of Your I&O Strategy
  • The Future of Observability: Human-AI Collaboration for Intelligent Operations
  • Autonomous Reliability: Unleashing Agentic AI to Drive Self Healing IT Operations
  • How To Control ServiceNow Costs While Maximizing Platform Value
  • Turning the Tables: Strategies for Managing Toxic Vendor Relationships
  • How to Address Risks in Your AI and GenAI Contracts
  • Reduce Software, Cloud and AI Costs by Uniting ITAM and FinOps
  • Regain Leverage and Cut Costs by Reinventing Your Microsoft Relationship
  • Contract Negotiation Clinic: How to Negotiate With Cloud Providers (AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle)

Pre-conference

  • Have a team-planning meeting to set key objectives.
  • Decide a strategy for how to divide and conquer the agenda (which sessions you attend collectively could be as important).
  • Agree on how you will share key lessons.
  • Create a document repository for notes, slides, etc., on Google Drive or other file-sharing platform.

During the conference

  • Create a Microsoft Teams/Slack/Google Hangout channel to stay in touch during the conference.
  • Share sessions with your teammates — make notes of times they would find especially helpful.
  • Make a plan to share a coffee or lunch break together as a team.
  • Set up a.m. or p.m. meetings to discuss what you hope to learn, what you did learn, and stay connected.

Post-conference

  • Set up a meeting to review key take-aways and create an action plan for how you will apply what you have learned. What are you going to start doing/stop doing/do differently as a result of what you have learned?
  • Connect on LinkedIn with any peers you met during the conference.
  • Schedule follow-up meetings with any exhibitors that piqued your interest (through the Gartner Conference Navigator).

Ready to register your team?

If you are interested in receiving a group rate or learning more about bringing your team to a Gartner conference, please email GlobalConferences@gartner.com or contact your Gartner representative.

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Group Rate Discount

Save on registration when you attend the conference with your colleagues. Receive complimentary registration(s) when you register as a team.*

  • 1 for 3 paid registrations
  • 2 for 5 paid registrations
  • 3 for 7 paid registrations
  • 4 for 10 paid registrations

*See Group Rate Discount terms and conditions.

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