All 2027 Conference Sessions

Gartner Product Leadership Conference dives deep into key topics for product, tech and services leaders, including AI economics, product innovation, go-to-market strategy, client adoption and revenue growth to help them address their organizations’ mission-critical challenges.

2027 Conference Theme

Winning in the AI Economy: Growing Revenue in a Trust Recession

As AI reshapes the competitive landscape, product leaders must look beyond incremental innovation to deliver meaningful business value. Discover how to turn AI investment into revenue growth, build products and services that drive customer adoption, and establish trust as a competitive advantage in an increasingly uncertain market.

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Monday, March 08, 2027

09:30 AM - 10:15 AM CST

Gartner Opening Keynote: Winning in an AI Economy
Anthony Bradley, Senior Vice President, Gartner
Daryl Plummer, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
"Winning in an AI Economy," focuses on aligning value with risk and safety with governance. It explores managing AI spend inflation during a trust recession, highlighting key battlegrounds like physical AI, cybersecurity, and more. A fundamental paradigm shift that renders legacy strategies obsolete, we will review a comprehensive playbook to guide organizations away from minor efficiency tweaks and toward a "total reconstruction of the enterprise". ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM CST

Ask the Analyst: Overcoming the Scale Barrier Optimize AI for Cost and Performance
Radu Miclaus, VP Analyst, Gartner
Defaulting to massive, proprietary frontier models for every enterprise workload is no longer sustainable. To overcome cost and scale bottlenecks, providers must embrace a 'right-sized' AI architecture by strategically deploying small, open-weight models and cost-efficient architectures. Providers must re-envision their AI solutions to match compute intensity to task complexity. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM CST

Autonomous PM Agents Are Coming to Assist Your Product Teams
Charles Sutherland, VP Analyst, Gartner
AI tools and agents already support more than 70% of product management tasks. Over the next two years, orchestration will increasingly shift to AI, enabling autonomous product management agents. These agents will process information, make decisions and manage every aspect of a product with minimal human intervention. In the right environment, they could operate as fully functioning product managers. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM CST

Chasing Shadows: When Model Drift Misguides GTM Decisions
Sabine Zimmerhansl, VP Analyst, Gartner
AI models are changing faster than most business leaders realize. Model drift quietly drives up costs and distorts customer experiences, but can also mislead product teams into making costly GTM decisions. We'll explore how unseen model drift can derail retention, trigger unnecessary messaging and product changes, and waste valuable resources. Learn to spot the warning signs, align GTM strategy and address root causes before they impact the bottom line. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM CST

Top Emerging Tech Disruptors: Innovation that Will Redesign the Future of Every Tech Business
Dave Aron, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Join this session to explore why neurosymbolic AI is the future, with vendor and end-user examples of supernormal value creation. Show Less

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM CST

Top Technology Economics Disruptors That Will Shape Your Future
George Brocklehurst, Managing Vice President, Gartner
Join this session as we discuss how cheaper AI tokens bring higher costs, consolidation and margin pressure as agents reshape software and services. Show Less

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM CST

Workshop: The Shift From Time and Materials to Value Pricing to Protect AI Revenue
John Santoro, VP Analyst, Gartner
AI may be improving your application development productivity, but if you are pricing your engagements based on time and materials, it also reduces your revenue and decreases your margins. However, convincing clients to pay based on value rather than on cost is proving to be a stubborn challenge. In this workshop, we will review the many pricing model options and then try to apply them to your real engagements (don’t worry, no names required). ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM CST

Workshop: Transformational AI Use Cases; Where's the Money Going?
Kiumarse Zamanian, VP Analyst, Gartner
Daniel Sun, VP Analyst, Gartner
Transformative AI use cases create new sources of business growth — not merely extend existing processes — requiring product leaders to study frontier use cases and deliberately scale innovations at the edge of adoption. ... Show More Show Less

11:45 AM - 12:15 PM CST

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“Excellent conference tailored for product leaders in an agentic AI world. The topics are a good mix of industry, focus, and product management methodologies. I also liked that you could switch different tracks and attend a diverse set of topics."

Sidharth Nabar
Product Management Lead, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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