Your industry, your profession and the role you play are constantly evolving. You need to be in the best position to discover new trends and meet challenges head-on. The Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo™ 2024 conference brings together actionable insight, new technologies and lasting connections to help you navigate disruption, tackle AI and lead your organization.
Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo™
4 – 7 November 2024 | Barcelona, Spain
CIOs and IT executives convene on the future of technology and business
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Share and collaborate
Join a large and diverse group of CIOs and IT executives at a conference that prioritizes meaningful interactions and powerful connections.
2024 Topics at a Glance
Explore conference topics informed by emerging trends and challenges facing CIOs and IT executives.
Artificial Intelligence
Leverage AI to drive disruptive innovation, growth and productivity at scale. Explore how to communicate AI’s opportunities and risks; strategize, pilot and scale; and manage AI’s impact on enterprise software, talent and skills, risk, trust and governance.
Emerging Technologies
CIOs struggle to keep up with the record pace of technology innovation and its impact, opportunities and risks for the enterprise. Learn what emerging technologies are on the horizon that must be on the CIO’s radar.
Cybersecurity
Reframe cybersecurity as a business issue in response to changes in the digital world and geopolitics. Rethink technology to enable composable trust and resilience. Refocus on teams that secure enterprise data, strengthen partnerships with the business and support secure behaviors
Digital and Business Transformation
The effects of generative AI, labor and supply chain disruptions, and volatile geopolitical environments require decisions on how enterprises compete and operate at a level not seen in decades. Discover how to create transformative new digital products, services and business models.
Continuous Change Leadership
Embrace today’s fast-paced, intense and ever-evolving world by gaining a keen understanding of change dynamics, a forward-thinking mindset and the promotion of a change-embracing culture.
Strategic Planning and Execution
IT leaders must create and execute strategies that build resilience and position their organizations to thrive. Explore business model changes, innovation and growth investments, and enterprise business operations optimizations that can lead to profit growth and market success.
Rewind: Moments from 2023
Watch a few of the sessions that made 2023’s Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo impactful.
The Next Era — We Shape AI, AI Shapes Us
The Gartner Opening Keynote met key AI questions head-on to ensure CIOs stay out in front in this new era of human-machine relationships.
Gartner’s Top Strategic Technology Trends
As customer expectations and business models evolved with AI, the 2024 Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends helped organizations build and protect while generating value.
CIO Agenda 2024: Franchising Digital Delivery
Informed by insights from more than 2,400 CIOs and IT executives, the 2024 CIO Agenda highlighted the leadership, organizational and technology priorities CIOs needed to address in 2024.
Join peers
Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo is an opportunity to connect with your community and our experts. You’ll build and diversify your network of CIOs, CISOs, chief data officers, chief analytics officers, VPs of IT infrastructure and operations and senior application leaders.
CIOs
Connect with CIOs across regions and industries, and gain new perspectives on the challenges and opportunities of business transformation. Learn how to:
- Balance the need to innovate while “keeping the lights on”
- Build on being an effective partner with business executives as a trusted advisor
- Overcome the barriers of organizational culture, resources and talent to grow and scale your digital initiatives
- Drive cost optimization to fund digital transformation initiatives
CISOs
Chief information security officers (CISOs) and security, risk and compliance leaders can expect to walk away with insights to:
- Evolve cybersecurity operating models
- Transform security programs to deal with the challenges of digital business
- Secure funding for security investments
- Communicate effectively to the board
- Build security and risk awareness across the organization
- Juggle scarce human and financial resources
Chief data and chief analytics officers
Explore with chief data officers, chief analytics officers and senior data and analytics leaders how to:
- Align your work to your CIO’s priorities
- Enhance customer experience with data and analytics
- Establish the right organization and tempo for the data and analytics business unit
- Prioritize investments in information
- Establish a data-driven culture
VPs of IT infrastructure and operations
VPs of IT infrastructure and operations explore the tools and tactics to:
- Move infrastructure and operations (I&O) strategy forward
- Show value to the business
- Effectively implement cost optimization
- Assess old versus new technologies
- Drive I&O leadership and culture change
- Foster innovation and improve agility
- Meet business objectives
Senior application leaders
Senior application leaders learn the insights and best practices to:
- Accelerate legacy modernization
- Build agile architectures to support DevOps, service-oriented architecture, APIs, cloud-optimized patterns, in-memory computing and context awareness
- Employ bimodal strategies to renovate and modernize core IT systems
- Understand new agile, iterative, dynamic, ecosystem-based building blocks
The World’s Most Important Gathering of CIOs and IT Executives™
See why over 20,000 technology leaders attended one of our global IT Symposium/Xpo conferences last year.
“Really informative content providing great ideas and inspiration to take back to my organisation. Met lots of like-minded individuals and shared ideas, challenges and plans for the future.”
Sean Rushton
Head of Technology, Lloyds Bank
Discover what it’s like to attend the biggest week in IT.
Special programs
Enhance your Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo experience with additional programs tailored to you.
The CIO Circle Program
This exclusive program is designed for CIOs to focus on delivering digital transformation, pivoting personal leadership and adapting the IT operating model to drive value and agility (formerly the CIO Experience).
Women in Technology
Designed exclusively for women executives, the Gartner Women in Technology Program provides unparalleled access to an environment dedicated to helping women in tech leadership succeed and find their voices.
Midsize Enterprise
Enhance your on-site experience with exclusive Gartner-led and interactive sessions and networking opportunities, tailored to the size, scale and scope of midsize enterprise attendees.
Industry-specific insight
Dedicated industry content is woven throughout the week. Get the opportunity to contextualize the strategic technologies, insight and hot-button issues affecting different industries.
International Barcelona Convention Centre
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