View the tracks for IT infrastructure, operations and cloud executives and dive into last year’s sessions while we work on the full 2026 agenda.
Conference Tracks at a Glance
This year’s theme is Accelerate Value. Deliver Intelligently. It is a rallying call for IT leaders to ignite transformation: Dive into tracks that illuminate data-driven intelligence, strategic AI and resilient solutions. Shape tomorrow — empower your teams and technology to thrive.
A: Evolving Leadership
This track is dedicated to supporting I&O leaders as they communicate with their leaders, design, transform and manage their functions, ensuring they have the right talent and skills in place to meet both current and future organizational needs.
B: Navigating Innovations and Disruptions
This track examines how I&O leaders can empower their teams to drive organizational success by embracing innovation and disruption.
C: Transforming Cloud Platforms
This track guides cloud leaders in developing and executing transformative strategies that harness the full potential of cloud platforms, ensuring they become powerful enablers of organizational goals and sustained competitive advantage.
There are hundreds of sessions happening each day. Filter to see sessions that align with your role and interests. After registering for the conference, craft your agenda and book priority sessions — all through Gartner Conference Navigator.
Agentic AI is a fundamental shift for I&O, demanding new operational paradigms like cloud once did. This keynote will explore concrete agentic AI application for I&O, emphasizing the needs for resilient infrastructure, automation and governance to navigate this shift. A focus on Continuous Operations will show how adopting mature techniques from tech leaders can ensue relentless innovation and operational stability. Get equipped with a roadmap to a new I&O operating model, highlighting effective patterns for behavior and operating practices to lead in the next era of I&O....Show MoreShow Less
Observability platforms are increasingly implementing intelligent agents to optimize or automate workflows with promises of productivity boosts and cost reduction. But what is realistic, and more importantly, how do you realize these benefits? This session will discuss best practices for adopting this disruptive technology, dealing with managing risk, cultural and process change, and shifting roles and responsibilities....Show MoreShow Less
Discover a pragmatic approach to build AI supercomputing infrastructure that balances cost, scalability and speed. This session delivers actionable strategies for I&O leaders to design and deploy AI ready environments — focusing on architecture, resource planning and real-world execution to drive AI outcomes....Show MoreShow Less
Masonya Scott,
SERVICE MANAGEMENT EVANGELIST, Atlassian
Kaushik Mitra,
GROUP PRODUCT MANAGER, Atlassian
Rick Westbrock,
Principal Engineer, 24 Hour Fitness
24 Hour Fitness saved 37% of its IT budget for Service Management solutions, and improved the employee and customer experience with fully visible, cross-functional service flows 17 internal teams, from Operations and Technology to HR. 24 Hour Fitness created a collaborative, decentralized service management system that integrated with their existing use of Jira and Confluence for IT and leveraged AI....Show MoreShow Less
Mark Chuang,
SR DIRECTOR PRODUCT MARKETING, VMWARE CSBU
Michael Melillo,
SENIOR DIRECTOR OF NETWORK MANAGEMENT, BROADCOM
Generative AI demands are crushing traditional infrastructure. Are your teams struggling to deploy resource-intensive AI at scale? Learn a blueprint for transforming your VMware environment into a high-performance AI powerhouse. Achieve speed, slash TCO, and operationalize performance using network observability and value stream management. We cover single platform efficiency, streamlined GPU deployment, and secure Private AI-as-a-Service....Show MoreShow Less
As cyber threats intensify, hybrid sprawl has become one of IT’s greatest risks—54% of organizations now manage data across both on-prem and cloud. In this session, discover how a unified control console with AI-driven insights delivers full command over resources, costs, and protection across complex environments. See how unified visibility and intelligent automation empower stronger protection, faster recovery, and measurable cost efficiencies....Show MoreShow Less
From noisy monitoring to self-healing systems, ITOps is evolving fast. Join Karthik Sj, GM of Edwin AI at LogicMonitor, to learn how enterprises are using AI investigation to summarize incidents, identify root causes, and recommend remediations—and how AI resolution is accelerating the path to autonomous IT. Walk away with real-world lessons on deploying full-stack AIOps that delivers real results....Show MoreShow Less
With the current disruption in the virtualization market, many organizations are looking to solve today’s challenges while laying the foundation for a future with AI and modern applications. Join us to explore practical and strategic considerations for helping platform engineers, and IT teams move faster—simplifying migrations, modernizing virtualization, and enabling cloud native and AI innovation....Show MoreShow Less
Christer Swartz,
DIRECTOR, INDUSTRY SOLUTIONS, Illumio
Join your peers to discuss how organizations are navigating the risks and opportunities of AI in cybersecurity. Share experiences and practical strategies for managing shared dependencies, reducing blind spots, and building more resilient security architectures in an evolving threat landscape....Show MoreShow Less
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