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Frank Buytendijk
Distinguished VP Analyst
Gartner
Speaker Topics
- AI Technology and Infrastructure
- Emerging Technologies
Speaker Bio
Frank Buytendijk is a Distinguished VP and Gartner Fellow in Gartner's Emerging Trends and Technologies team. His work mostly takes a futurist approach, researching the edges of what he covers. Mr. Buytendijk pioneers the topics of "the future," digital ethics and digital society helping organizations to do the right thing with technology and avoid messing up. He further covers data and analytics.
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Sessions
Tuesday, 10 November, 2026 12:15 PM - 01:15 PM CET
CIO Circle Think Tank: The Countless Ways Your AI Initiatives Will Be Sabotaged
Frank Buytendijk,
Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Join this interactive, advanced Think Tank discussion and come prepared to engage and share. Sentiment about AI is changing, an AI backlash is under way. In the next 12-24 months, chances are you will have to deal with silent subversion, up to downright AI sabotage. What kind of sabotage can you expect, and what can you do about it? In this exclusive Think Tank session, we will put our Maverick hats on, and go out-of-the-box.
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Wednesday, 11 November, 2026 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM CET
CIO Circle Think Tank: On the Journey to Autonomy Skynet or JARVIS
Frank Buytendijk,
Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Join this interactive, advanced Think Tank discussion and come prepared to engage and share. With physical and agentic AI moving forward at a breathtaking speed, we need to zoom out and consider the consequences. We are creating an actor next to people in business and society. In order for this to work, we need to ask ourselves big questions. Do we need robotic rights and responsibilities? How do we instill meaningful purpose in the agents we create? How far do we want to take the agency of AI?
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Wednesday, 11 November, 2026 05:00 PM - 05:30 PM CET
Maverick Insights: The Far Future According to Maverick
Frank Buytendijk,
Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
An instant classic format at IT symposium, discussing our wackiest, wildest, weirdest Maverick "what if ... " predictions. A must-attend for anyone who wants to get provoked and be dragged kicking and screaming to unavoidable yet unacceptable conclusion. It's not a presentation, it's a thrill-ride.
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Thursday, 12 November, 2026 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM CET
Signature Series: Emerging Trends Vision 2027 - Rethinking HumanAI Collaboration
Frank Buytendijk,
Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Every year, we pick one of the most important emerging trends and explore that deeper. For 2026, there is no doubt: human-AI relationships. AI brings agency to technology; how will that change the way we relate to AI? Should robots have rights and responsibilities? In a connected world, can you even own AI? How do we overcome fear? Within these new relationships, let’s keep it real: AI is not your friend or teammate, but a toolmate.
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