The Senior Leadership Circle Program

Designed specifically for most senior IT infrastructure and operations leader, the Senior Leadership Circle Program provides exclusive sessions for eligible infrastructure and operations leaders attending Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference to explore new strategies, share innovative ideas and grow your community of peers.

This experience includes:

Networking and knowledge-sharing opportunities with a group of infrastructure and operations attendees to swap experiences, trade best practices and expand your executive peer community. 

Access to exclusive sessions throughout the conference, including thought leader lunches, workshops, roundtables and research discussions, tailored to the most important topics for the heads of infrastructure and operations. 

Priority booking capabilities for limited-capacity sessions and One-on-One Meeting(s) with a Gartner expert to ensure you don’t miss out on these conference offerings.

Senior Leadership Cricle Program only sessions

Integrated within the broader conference agenda, the Senior Leadership Circle Program includes interactive discussions covering the top priorities of infrastructure, operations and cloud leaders as well as casual networking opportunities to connect with others from a variety of regions and industries. Through these sessions, participants connect over common initiatives and accelerate, validate and solidify their strategies. See examples below.
  • Workshops
  • Roundtables
  • Research discussions

Workshops

  • Workshop: Gartner's 5-Phase Approach for SaaS Renewal Negotiations
  • Workshop: How to Improve I&O Relationships With the Business in 100 Days
  • Workshop: Mastering Influence in the Fluid Stakeholder Landscape
  • Workshop: Create Your Digital Workplace Strategy and Understand AI Disruptions
  • Workshop: How to Estimate Power, Cooling and Infrastructure Costs Associated With Augmenting Data Centers to Support AI Transformations
  • Workshop: Building Financial Literacy: How IO Spending Impacts Enterprise IT Financial Planning
  • Workshop: How to Develop a Ransomware Playbook
  • Workshop: Maximize the Value AI Agents Deliver Through Your IO Operating Model
  • Workshop: Stop Managing Infrastructure Risk Reactively

Roundtables

  • Roundtable: How Are You Managing Technical Debt in I&O?
  • Roundtable: RAM Shock and Digital Supply Chain Disruption: Delay, Redesign and Rethink Infrastructure Demand
  • Roundtable: Implementing Product and Agile Mindsets in I&O
  • Roundtable: Transforming the IO Organization

Research discussions

  • Senior Leadership Circle: Welcome and Networking Breakfast
  • Ask the Analyst: Cybersecurity for I&O in the Age of AI
  • Mohini Dukes
  • Ask the Analyst: Navigating I&O Automation in the Agentic AI Age
  • Senior Leadership Circle Lunch
  • Ask the Analyst: The Strategic Value of Digital Humans in Augmenting Talent & Skills
  • Ask the Analyst: What Are the Roles and Skills Required for a Successful Infrastructure Platform Engineering Team
  • Contract Negotiation Clinic: How to Negotiate With Cloud Providers (AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle)
  • Ask the Analyst: How to Address Risks in Your AI and GenAI Contracts
  • Ask the Analyst: Storage for AI and the Required Trade-Offs
  • Ask the Analyst: The Future of Network Operations: Intelligent Automation and AI-Assisted Execution

"After a six-year hiatus from the conference, I’m thrilled to be back, now as part of the Senior Leadership Circle. The networking within the circle has been exceptional, and the keynote speakers have delivered truly insightful and thought-provoking sessions. "

George Throener
Johnson Controls Federal Systems

Apply to join the program

The Senior Leadership Circle Program is exclusive to eligible heads of infrastructure and operations attending The Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference. We recommend applying when you register for the conference as session seats are limited and fill up quickly.
How to qualify

Applicants must meet the following qualification criteria to participate:

  1. Most senior enterprise-wide IT infrastructure and/or operations leader, or
  2. Most senior business unit/ regional/ government agency IT infrastructure and/or operations leader responsible for:
    1. Private sector: $250+ million in revenue
    2.  Public sector: 1,000+ employees

IT infrastructure and operations leaders with client facing/ external responsibilities from a technology vendor or consultancy are not eligible to participate

You can apply to participate in the Senior Leadership Circle Program when you register for Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference. During the registration process, the program application will be prompted by answering ‘yes’ to the question, “Are you the most senior IT infrastructure or operations leader or do you serve in the most senior business role for your organization?”. You will be notified via email regarding the status of your application.

Application and approval are required for participation.

Log back into your Gartner conference profile, click “Edit” next to “Registration Profile,” and scroll down to answer the “Attendee Profile” questions.