First look at Gartner Application Innovation & Business Solutions Summit 2026 Agenda

Deliver the Future: Innovate, Lead and Act

Applications and software engineering leaders are at a turning point where foresight must meet execution and business disruption is forcing dramatic changes. It’s time to go beyond admiring the AI-enabled promising future — it’s about actively building and delivering it.

Join us at the Gartner Application Innovation & Business Solutions Summit 2026 to gain insights on enterprise applications, adopting and scaling AI, cost optimization, modernizing software engineering and most of all — leading in the AI-native era. Here’s a sneak peek into the agenda that awaits you.

2026 preliminary agenda sessions

A: Leadership
  • HELP! My End Users Are Not Ready for Intelligent Applications
  • The Broken Rung: Redesigning the Talent Pipeline for the AI-Augmented Future
  • Navigating the AI Agent Landscape: A Strategic Guide for IT Leaders
  • Building Your AI Dream Team: How to Identify and Hire the AI Engineering Talent
  • Top Technology Trends in 2026 for Enterprise Applications
  • The Top Attributes of High-Performing Enterprise Application Programs
  • How Organizations Can Avoid a Budget Blowout When Buying AI & GenAI
  • Best Practices for Creating Future Proof Platforms
  • Creating AI-Enabled ERP Roadmaps: What to Do — and What to Avoid
  • Top Strategic Trends in Software Engineering for 2026
  • Magic Quadrant Power Session: AI Code Assistants and AI-Augmented Software Testing Tools
  • Beyond Traditional Technical Debt: Managing a New Class of AI-Specific Risks
  • Strategic Roadmap to Improve Software Engineering Productivity and Optimize Costs
  • How AI Will Transform Software Engineering Organizations, Roles, and Processes
  • Who Do You Trust to Orchestrate Your AI Agents for Automation?
  • Advance Automation With the Hyperautomation Maturity Model
  • Making Connections : Navigating the Multi Agent Landscape
  • How MCP Changes Integration: Is MCP Hype or Reality?
  • The State of APIs in 2026
  • Strategic Roadmap for Adopting Modern Application Architectures and Technologies
  • Break AI Before AI Breaks Everything
  • Use Business Architecture to Connect AI Investments with Business Objectives
  • Strategic Roadmap to Build AI Capabilities into Software and Integrations
  • Sovereign AI: What You Need to Know to Host LLMs and Agents Privately
  • Breakfast session: The AI Imperative: Application and Software Engineering Strategies for 2030
  • Workshop: Improve Value Delivery With Objective-Focused Feature Prioritization
  • Roundtable for Heads of Software Engineering: How to Unlock Productivity Across the SDLC with AI Agents
  • Roundtable for Heads of Enterprise Applications: Best Practices for Agentic AI in Enterprise Applications
  • Heads of EA Must Rewire EA for AI
  • Emerging Technologies Adoption Radar, 2026 for Heads of EA
  • EA Venture Capitalism: Mastering Cost Wins and Strategic Tech Bets
  • Maximize EA Value by Managing a Portfolio of EA Skills, Not Roles
  • Overcome External Challenges to EA Success

Join us from June 2 – 4, in Las Vegas, NV, to discuss the future of enterprise applications.

This is your chance to network with 2,300+ peers, meet 60+ solution providers and consult with a Gartner expert one-to-one to equip you and your teams with the objective insights, expert guidance, practical tools and must-see frameworks that you need to achieve your mission-critical priorities.

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