Data & analytics leaders can deliver increasing value to their organizations. This session will uncover new research and trends which will enable you to find new powerful ways to connect with stakeholders, address skills shortages and build trust to overcome cultural resistance to change. Learn how to attract and retain a world-class D&A team and lead with purpose to ensure the data-driven transformation required for success.

Get feedback on initial findings from new research and potential ways to create new content or repeatable benchmarks for clients and come back to check their progress. We will share the EVE toolkit in an interactive session to get your input on how to make it actionable.

Where Next is an important theme at Gartner, focusing on the changing workforce (and customers). This interactive session will provide attendees with the chance to discuss the future of women in IT. Attendees will share challenges faced, and how they addressed them, sprinkled with insights from Gartner research, moderated by Gartner analysts Michelle Duerst and Melissa Hilbert.

Modernize your analytics and BI capabilities by identifying the products that best meet your needs. See side-by-side, scripted demonstrations of three leading vendors: Microsoft, Qlik and Salesforce (Tableau). What are the key features to consider and how do they compare in action? What are the main strengths and weaknesses of these vendors? What innovations are coming?

This session will provide attendees an opportunity to see analytics and BI tools being applied in a controlled, consistent setting via a demonstration of product capabilities. Vendors will demonstrate their platform capabilities. This session is educational to help prospective buyers and influencers understand the analytic process and the look, feel, use and application of each tool.
Featuring Course5 Intelligence, Datamatics, and Domo.

Most of our clients across practices struggle to create and demonstrate their value to the organization. This session covers how to use Gartner's enterprise value equation framework to help you to optimize enterprise value for both for-profit and not-for-profit organizations and make D&A strategic to your organization's success.

Gartner's top predictions for data and analytics provide a forwarding looking perspective on how markets, skills and organizations will evolve to help you build a data and analytics strategy to return to growth, drive innovation and create value from uncertainty.

The bake-offs are fast-paced, informative sessions that let you see three vendors side-by-side using scripted demos and a common data set in a controlled setting. This bake-off focuses on data science and machine learning vendors with significant momentum in the market. What are the key features to consider and how do they compare in action? What are the main strengths and weaknesses of these vendors? What innovations are coming?