Agenda
Wednesday, 13 September, 2023 / 09:00 AM - 09:45 AM BST
Mbula Schoen, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
The success and ability of an organization to achieve its digital ambitions is dependent on high-performing teams. However, the conditions under which a team becomes high-performing have shifted and organizations are struggling to retain top talent as IT employees are increasingly leaving not their jobs, but their managers. This keynote shares key characteristics IT leaders must focus on to develop quality people managers who can effectively lead, motivate and engage their teams.
Wednesday, 13 September, 2023 / 09:30 AM - 10:15 AM BST
Danny Brian, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Jason Wong, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Whether we’re building custom solutions, buying off-the-shelf applications, or borrowing from open source, one thing is certain: Yesterday’s platforms are today’s legacy, and today’s best practices become tomorrow’s antipatterns.
As technologists, we have all moved up the ladder in our processes and methodologies. So what does “build versus buy” look like in 2023, and how will it look in the future? Join us to find out!
Wednesday, 13 September, 2023 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM BST
Dave Micko, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
As software eats the world, software engineering teams play a critical role in creating new business value. IT and software engineering leaders can use this strategic roadmap to transform your software engineering organization to become more resilient, adaptable, and efficient in delivering business-changing digital products.
Wednesday, 13 September, 2023 / 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM BST
Do you feel like the more we talk about software engineers' engagement the worse it gets? We keep drilling down in search of the root causes, only to find that all arrows point to the culture which is the most ambitious thing of all. How can we lock this target to manage it? It's time to disentangle software engineers' motivation with the simple principle of Triple-A: Autonomy, Accountability and Achievement.
Wednesday, 13 September, 2023 / 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM BST
Akis Sklavounakis, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Attracting, developing and retaining talent continues to be one of the top challenges for software engineering leaders, despite the staffing adjustments carried out by big tech. This session will provide practical advice to software engineering leaders to strengthen all areas of the employment value proposition so they can attract and retain the right talent for their organization.
Wednesday, 13 September, 2023 / 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM BST
Rob O'Donohue, VP Analyst, Gartner
Common but avoidable mistakes can keep organizations from achieving diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) advancement. This session shows CIOs the DEI pitfalls to evade and how to develop a measurable action plan that leads to progress on this key organizational priority.
Wednesday, 13 September, 2023 / 02:30 PM - 03:15 PM BST
Dave Micko, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Every engineering leader wants to make their organization more effective at delivering business value, but what if you have to do that under hyperscale conditions? New projects, new responsibilities, and increased funding are all good challenges to have, but what worked with a small team will not necessarily work when your team increases dramatically, your scope is enterprisewide and leadership is expecting results. Hear some practical tips from organizations that Gartner has been talking to.
Wednesday, 13 September, 2023 / 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM BST
Simone Cleminson, Sr Principal, Advisory, Gartner
Negotiations on large IaaS agreements often involve substantial commitments and risk. Each cloud vendor has its own set of standards and exceptions that implicate the pricing outcome. In this interactive clinic, we will review the critical differences and similarities to be aware of when negotiating with these competing cloud providers to assist in achieving the most optimal contract.
Wednesday, 13 September, 2023 / 02:30 PM - 04:30 PM BST
Akriti Kapoor, Director, Research, Gartner
Despite delivering more software faster than ever, software engineering teams still struggle to maximize the value of their software, especially given the recent disruptive business environment. Generating greater value in this environment requires software engineering teams to continuously identify and capitalize on high-value opportunities. In this research, we will review real-world examples from Petrobras and Aon on how software engineering leaders can guide their teams on the path to value delivery.
Wednesday, 13 September, 2023 / 04:00 PM - 04:30 PM BST
Mukul Saha, Sr Director, Advisory, Gartner
Despite the benefits of agile, only 31% of organizations have adopted it widely. Many of these organizations even need to extend the benefits beyond their software development teams. We will explore three proven strategies that leaders can implement to unlock the full potential of organizational agility. All three examples are based on widely published case studies.
Thursday, 14 September, 2023 / 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM BST
Matthew Hotle, Distinguished VP, Advisory, Gartner
Organization design team reporting structures that support, rather than impede, agile and product delivery are key success factors for software engineering leaders. While it's true that there's no one 'right' organizational and reporting structure, there are a set of patterns - and anti-patterns - that form a set of best practices.
Thursday, 14 September, 2023 / 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM BST
Rob O'Donohue, VP Analyst, Gartner
Application leaders and teams have embraced a hybrid model of work. However, culture challenges have emerged in this new way of working and can be a limiting factor for productivity. At this roundtable, application leaders will share their culture challenges and explain the practical steps they've taken to ensure employees remain aligned and connected to the evolving culture.
Thursday, 14 September, 2023 / 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM BST
Anne Thomas, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Akriti Kapoor, Director, Research, Gartner
Although women make up nearly half of the global workforce, women are only 31% of IT employees. Unlike other professions where women have made significant strides to reach leadership positions, only 22% of IT leaders are women. This Roundtable discussion will explore the questions:
1) What holds women back from attaining leadership roles in IT?
2) What keys to success can we learn from women CIOs, software engineering leaders, and female senior business executives in technology companies?
3) What changes are being tried to better attract, retain, and promote women in IT?
Thursday, 14 September, 2023 / 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM BST
Mbula Schoen, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
The unpredictable nature of work is changing how we address skills development. Application leaders need to think beyond current job-related skills and upskill employees holistically for a future-ready workforce. In this session application leaders will learn to utilize a progressive-layering model to develop well-rounded employees.
Thursday, 14 September, 2023 / 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM BST
Rob O'Donohue, VP Analyst, Gartner
With complexity and uncertainty on the rise, application leaders must now overcome new problems and priorities that require them to look for new ways to lead. Application leaders can apply insights taken from non-obvious disciplines to become more effective and thrive.
Thursday, 14 September, 2023 / 02:00 PM - 02:45 PM BST
Mbula Schoen, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
The radical change in people's mindset toward work and the new ways of working has shifted the expectations of employees. This has led to new conditions under which a team becomes high-performing.
In this session, we will discuss the new seven characteristics of a high-performing team.
Thursday, 14 September, 2023 / 03:45 PM - 04:15 PM BST
Dave Micko, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Engineering leaders are faced with the challenge of delivering software in complex ecosystems, and existing in an organization that is not necessarily optimized for software delivery. This session will illustrate how to ask teams to visualize and express their architectural context in tandem with their understanding of their place in the organizational structure, creating a shared vision of optimizing both to deliver business value.
Wednesday, 13 September, 2023 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM BST
Matthew Hotle, Distinguished VP, Advisory, Gartner
This presentation will outline the key components of a successful enterprise application strategy and will answer the questions 1) How do I create an overarching strategy for my enterprise application portfolios? 2) How do I ensure alignment between the application strategy and business stakeholder priorities? 3) How do I understand and measure business stakeholder priorities?
Wednesday, 13 September, 2023 / 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM BST
Yefim Natis, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Composability promises business modern agility, resilience, adaptability and growth. Understanding the fundamentals of composable architecture, the initial steps and the roadmap to maturity helps leading organizations control the risks and costs of change, while gradually advancing the modern digital business experience. This session will cover why a change of mindset is essential for sustainable digital modernization toward advanced composable business experience.
Wednesday, 13 September, 2023 / 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM BST
As organizations seek global operations enablement and cost optimization opportunities, consolidating different ERP applications and instances turns into a priority in application strategies. This presentation is aimed at application leaders that need to address the typical challenges and pitfalls of such approaches and discuss alternatives to the usual "single global instance of ERP.."
Wednesday, 13 September, 2023 / 04:00 PM - 04:30 PM BST
Tim Nelms, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Technology has been the great enabler of distributed and hybrid work and application leaders now co-own employee experience. But your organization will fall short in readying for the future of work if you rely on a tech-led approach. Join this session for guidance down the path to transforming your workplace and workforce.
Thursday, 14 September, 2023 / 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM BST
Yefim Natis, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
As enterprises modernize their technology platforms to deal with the accelerating pace of change, they need to shift from a "build vs. buy" strategy to a "build and buy and assemble" one which drives a major shift in the role of the application megavendors and global system integrators for your organization. This session will highlight the strategies of your strategic vendors to help inform strategy and architecture decisions.
Thursday, 14 September, 2023 / 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM BST
Richard Watson, VP Analyst, Gartner
Learn how to apply the Gartner 5Rs framework to cloud migration decisions and what lessons clients have learned the hard way over 10 years of controversial cloud migration and decision making. This session takes a use-case approach to illustrate the important migration criteria to uncover and prioritize when deciding between rehost, revise, rearchitect, rebuild and replace cloud migration decisions.
Thursday, 14 September, 2023 / 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM BST
Philip Allega, VP Analyst, Gartner
Some believe such concepts are many abstraction layers away from your daily work. Some may say, "If it's not code, I don't need to know." If you're on product teams, fusion teams, or supporting the justification of fixing something in production or doing something new, you need this today. Explore the rules of developing such models and develop use cases within this interactive workshop.
Thursday, 14 September, 2023 / 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM BST
Jason Wong, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Superapps is one of Gartner's top strategic technology trends in 2023 because its reach is becoming global and its impact is not just on consumers but also on workforces. Learn why superapps will become an essential part of the digital employee experience, what are the technologies behind them and how CIOs can create a successful superapp strategy.
Thursday, 14 September, 2023 / 04:30 PM - 05:00 PM BST
Akriti Kapoor, Director, Research, Gartner
Traditional linear-value models and ROI assessments focus too narrowly on shareholder value, and fail to provide a comprehensive view of the impact of software development initiatives. To ensure value-driven decisions, and build compelling business cases and funding requests, this session will guide software engineering leaders to effectively link their technology outcomes to business outcomes.
Thursday, 14 September, 2023 / 04:30 PM - 05:00 PM BST
Dixie John, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Moving away from traditional ERP support models is turning into a goal for many organizations seeking to better align with continuous improvement approaches. This presentation aims to provide guidance on the best practices and how should customers start that journey, beyond applying methodologies, which are not always enough to address all the challenges for complex packaged apps like ERP.
Wednesday, 13 September, 2023 / 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM BST
Paul Vincent, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Organizations are increasingly adopting low-code application platforms (LCAPs) to enable developers in IT and business to quickly deliver new solutions and modernize business capabilities. Join this session to learn how applications and software engineering leaders can use the Enterprise LCAP Magic Quadrant to navigate the vast and diverse vendor landscape.
Wednesday, 13 September, 2023 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM BST
Joachim Herschmann, VP Analyst, Gartner
Software engineering leaders are under continuous pressure to adopt modern architectures and technologies. To do this well, these leaders and their teams need to know which trends have the greatest potential impact for their digital business efforts within an actionable planning horizon. This session will provide Gartner's latest and best guidance on the trends these leaders and their architects and engineers should be tracking, and taking action upon in 2023 and beyond.
Wednesday, 13 September, 2023 / 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM BST
Kyle Davis, VP Analyst, Gartner
This session will allow attendees to ask a Gartner expert on low-code, questions related to the evaluation, adoption and governance of low-code platforms and get responses that highlight the good, the bad and the ugly about low code.
Wednesday, 13 September, 2023 / 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM BST
Akriti Kapoor, Director, Research, Gartner
To deliver high-value software in the face of increasing disruption and the need for responsiveness, progressive software engineering leaders are shifting a growing share of delivery work from projects to product-centric delivery models. However, this requires significant transformations to your resourcing and funding models. This session will provide insights to help software engineering leaders get product-centric funding and resourcing right, supported by real-world examples.
Wednesday, 13 September, 2023 / 12:30 PM - 01:15 PM BST
Bill Blosen, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
In this interactive session, the expert will aim to dispel the myths and misconceptions surrounding platform engineering. For example, attendees can ask questions about the difference between platform engineering and DevOps and how it differs from infrastructure and operations, what managing platforms as products mean, and how to kickstart a platform engineering initiative.
Wednesday, 13 September, 2023 / 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM BST
Van Baker, VP Analyst, Gartner
AI and ML models are changing the nature of applications. Many software engineers do not have an understanding of AI and ML models and how they can impact application performance. This session will describe use cases for AI and ML models, how models work, and the potential impact on application performance, scaling, usability, and operations.
Wednesday, 13 September, 2023 / 04:00 PM - 04:45 PM BST
Van Baker, VP Analyst, Gartner
Enterprises are awash in data that can be used to build machine learning models. These models can predict the next best actions, score prospects, assess risk, classify unstructured content, automate manual processes, and many other capabilities that deliver valuable insights to the workforce. Models are increasingly embedded in applications to automate or enhance business processes.
Thursday, 14 September, 2023 / 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM BST
Kyle Davis, VP Analyst, Gartner
Danny Brian, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Low code application platforms (LCAPs) aim to provide companies with rapid development tools to deliver business outcomes rapidly. To be successful, these platforms must cater to both professional developers and citizen developers. This crossfire session helps you evaluate use cases and adoption considerations for LCAPs in the enterprise as it relates to software delivery, governance, security and operations.
Thursday, 14 September, 2023 / 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM BST
Akis Sklavounakis, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Digital technology initiatives are the top strategic business priority. Software engineering leaders can use this strategic roadmap to transform how the software engineering organization works with key stakeholders to build and deliver digital products and experiences to drive business results.
Thursday, 14 September, 2023 / 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM BST
Joachim Herschmann, VP Analyst, Gartner
Applying AI and machine learning to quality assurance will help determine the value of automation for QA and testing, and help identify how automation can support new ways of working in agile and DevOps environments. This session covers:
• What are the main use cases for AI in testing?
• How can you prepare for the impact of a future of AI-driven testing?
Thursday, 14 September, 2023 / 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM BST
Van Baker, VP Analyst, Gartner
Generative AI is the hottest buzzword in the Industry as AI models have evolved to create human-like artifacts such as text, images, video and even code. While generative AI is a major AI advance, its risks aren’t fully understood. In this session, we share lessons learned from real-world implementations and outline best practices for its safe usage.
Thursday, 14 September, 2023 / 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM BST
Bill Blosen, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Modern application delivery aims to be fluid, continuous and distributed. But the patterns and practices we adopt to deliver our microservices, cloud-native architectures, DevOps, and multi-channel apps drive up the cognitive load on our development teams. In this session, we'll learn how to use a platform engineering approach to deliver a developer experience that balances productivity and control.
Thursday, 14 September, 2023 / 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM BST
Kyle Davis, VP Analyst, Gartner
Hundreds of low-code tools claim to do very similar things. How do application leaders ensure that the right tools are selected for the use cases that you need to address? Come join this workshop for a Gartner framework to help determine the right tool for the job.
Thursday, 14 September, 2023 / 03:45 PM - 04:15 PM BST
Mukul Saha, Sr Director, Advisory, Gartner
Gartner’s technology adoption roadmap for software engineering leaders helps clients benchmark their technology adoption plans for multiple software engineering domains. This roadmap harnesses the collective wisdom of your peers to identify trends in deployment plans, value and risk factors for 47 technologies across experience and design, deployment and operations, security and verification, and development platforms and tools.
Thursday, 14 September, 2023 / 04:30 PM - 05:00 PM BST
Anne Thomas, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
In 2019, Oracle changed its licensing model for Oracle Java SE. Since then, Oracle has revised its licensing model and support subscriptions a few times, generating confusion amongst users. This session will explain the licensing and subscription requirements, as well as discuss alternatives to Oracle Java SE and a framework for choosing a Java runtime.
Wednesday, 13 September, 2023 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM BST
Philip Allega, VP Analyst, Gartner
Leaders of software engineering are buffeted by problems of the moment, new opportunities for investment today, and new IT on the horizon. Jumping from one-time horizon to another is firefighting. Simultaneously connective past risk, today’s investments, and the future of 2 or more years is the new imperative. Use this session to learn how to visualize the state of change beyond today's budget alone.
Wednesday, 13 September, 2023 / 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM BST
Anne Thomas, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Legacy application systems based on outdated technology and archaic application architectures carry significant technical debt that causes serious risks and stymies agility and innovation. Software engineering leaders must develop a migration plan to reduce technical debt and adopt modern application architectures and technologies.
Wednesday, 13 September, 2023 / 04:00 PM - 04:30 PM BST
Aaron Harrison, Director, Advisory, Gartner
Happier developers are more productive. Enable developer autonomy and self-service through platform teams. Learn how adidas' central platform engineering team offers standardization of common activities as an attractive, value-add service that enables product teams to create high-quality solutions faster without reducing their autonomy in higher-value activities.
Wednesday, 13 September, 2023 / 04:00 PM - 04:30 PM BST
Paul Vincent, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Low-code technologies often get misinterpreted as being for citizen developers. But rapid application development, process engineering, decision engineering and more have always been relevant to software teams. Join this session to understand where these fit and when to use them.
Thursday, 14 September, 2023 / 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM BST
Paul Vincent, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
What is the engineering process and who are the actors in application composition? How do your enterprise architects contribute, and how do you decide to build or buy your business services representing your core capabilities?
Thursday, 14 September, 2023 / 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM BST
Gary Olliffe, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Microservices architecture is becoming commonplace, but many organizations struggle with finding the "right size" for services and microservices. The answer is not some arbitrary number of lines of code, nor is it "as small as possible." This session provides pragmatic guidance for determining when and why to split services apart and when to keep them together.
Thursday, 14 September, 2023 / 03:45 PM - 04:15 PM BST
Richard Watson, VP Analyst, Gartner
You can buy cloud services, platforms and frameworks, but they don't replace the work of skilled architects and engineers. You need to build the things you need. This session maps your cloud adoption goals, through characteristics of the cloud model, to cloud-native architecture principles as expressed in Gartner's LIFESPAR acronym and design patterns for implementation.
Thursday, 14 September, 2023 / 03:45 PM - 04:30 PM BST
Gary Olliffe, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Microservices architecture is popular, but many organizations are still coming up to speed on when, why and how to apply this pattern to increase agility, flexibility and scalability. This session provides an opportunity to speak directly with a Gartner expert on microservices architecture.
Thursday, 14 September, 2023 / 04:30 PM - 05:00 PM BST
Matt Brasier, VP Analyst, Gartner
A microservices architecture requires multiple services to work together to deliver an outcome, yet coordinating microservices is often done as an afterthought. Choreography provides scaling and flexibility benefits, but makes it hard to ensure end-to-end outcomes. Microservices orchestration frameworks are an emerging approach for orchestrating processes. This session will explain the patterns of microservices orchestration and demonstrate how these emerging frameworks can help.
Wednesday, 13 September, 2023 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM BST
Keith Guttridge, VP Analyst, Gartner
Use of AI within integration technologies shows early promises for integrating systems, platforms and things that are multiplying so quickly that humans struggle to amass them. Software Engineering leaders responsible for integration will need to determine how auto-adjusting or self-learning AI approaches offer new ways and create alliance between human and digital integrators.
Wednesday, 13 September, 2023 / 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM BST
Matt Brasier, VP Analyst, Gartner
Integration is often seen as the domain of iPaaS and ETL, but many organizations are seeking to harness their application developers and platforms to deliver integration logic. This session will show you how to ensure that your application delivery teams can leverage their existing tools and languages to build integration logic while ensuring they deliver on the integration goals and principles of your enterprise.
Wednesday, 13 September, 2023 / 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM BST
Gary Olliffe, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
APIs have transformed our approach to software and integration architecture. They are the foundation of digital business agility, microservices and composability. But the ubiquitous REST API has limitations that GraphQL, gRPC and AsyncAPI aim to address. This session will explore their various capabilities, impact and when you should use them.
Wednesday, 13 September, 2023 / 04:00 PM - 04:30 PM BST
Akash Jain, Sr Principal, Advisory, Gartner
Enterprises are producing and consuming APIs at a rate that far outpaces the maturity of application and network security practices and technologies. Unmanaged and unsecured APIs create vulnerabilities that could accelerate multimillion-dollar security incidents. This presentation will focus on the key facets of API security in terms of tools, technologies and practices.
Thursday, 14 September, 2023 / 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM BST
Keith Guttridge, VP Analyst, Gartner
Enterprise integration platform as a service (iPaaS) is a second generation, cloud-based integration technology used to connect on-premises, cloud-based and mobile applications and data. In this session, we discuss how the provider landscape is changing and how you can discern what’s the best type of iPaaS for your needs.
Thursday, 14 September, 2023 / 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM BST
Henry Cook, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Data is too often left as an afterthought by software and applications teams. Understanding the key elements and patterns of the data landscape will help your teams make better decisions and smooth the path to support your organizations' data and analytics strategy. In this session we'll cover the key data architecture patterns that applications teams need to learn and the data use cases they support.
Thursday, 14 September, 2023 / 03:45 PM - 04:15 PM BST
Aaron Harrison, Director, Advisory, Gartner
Make it easy and adapt security hygiene into every step. Learn how to promote shared accountability and leverage agile tools into the security process. Scale their information security teams into DevOps using a security champion/coach model.
Thursday, 14 September, 2023 / 03:45 PM - 04:15 PM BST
Keith Guttridge, VP Analyst, Gartner
Interest in event-driven architecture (EDA) is increasing but pick the wrong technology and you will struggle to deliver. Come learn about the latest trends in EDA, the four major use cases of EDA and some tips and tricks to ensure success.
Thursday, 14 September, 2023 / 04:30 PM - 05:00 PM BST
Akash Jain, Sr Principal, Advisory, Gartner
Hyperautomation is one of the top growth-related priorities for application & SWEL leaders as they adapt to evolving expectations about the future of work. We will explore strategies and tools leaders can adopt to unlock the full potential of Hyperautomation.
Wednesday, 13 September, 2023 / 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM BST
Rob O'Donohue, VP Analyst, Gartner
Common but avoidable mistakes can keep organizations from achieving diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) advancement. This session shows CIOs the DEI pitfalls to evade and how to develop a measurable action plan that leads to progress on this key organizational priority.
Thursday, 14 September, 2023 / 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM BST
Anne Thomas, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Akriti Kapoor, Director, Research, Gartner
Although women make up nearly half of the global workforce, women are only 31% of IT employees. Unlike other professions where women have made significant strides to reach leadership positions, only 22% of IT leaders are women. This Roundtable discussion will explore the questions:
1) What holds women back from attaining leadership roles in IT?
2) What keys to success can we learn from women CIOs, software engineering leaders, and female senior business executives in technology companies?
3) What changes are being tried to better attract, retain, and promote women in IT?
Wednesday, 13 September, 2023 / 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM BST
Matt Brasier, VP Analyst, Gartner
Integration is often seen as the domain of iPaaS and ETL, but many organizations are seeking to harness their application developers and platforms to deliver integration logic. This session will show you how to ensure that your application delivery teams can leverage their existing tools and languages to build integration logic while ensuring they deliver on the integration goals and principles of your enterprise.
Wednesday, 13 September, 2023 / 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM BST
Gary Olliffe, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
APIs have transformed our approach to software and integration architecture. They are the foundation of digital business agility, microservices and composability. But the ubiquitous REST API has limitations that GraphQL, gRPC and AsyncAPI aim to address. This session will explore their various capabilities, impact and when you should use them.
Thursday, 14 September, 2023 / 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM BST
Kyle Davis, VP Analyst, Gartner
Danny Brian, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Low code application platforms (LCAPs) aim to provide companies with rapid development tools to deliver business outcomes rapidly. To be successful, these platforms must cater to both professional developers and citizen developers. This crossfire session helps you evaluate use cases and adoption considerations for LCAPs in the enterprise as it relates to software delivery, governance, security and operations.
Thursday, 14 September, 2023 / 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM BST
Gary Olliffe, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Microservices architecture is becoming commonplace, but many organizations struggle with finding the "right size" for services and microservices. The answer is not some arbitrary number of lines of code, nor is it "as small as possible." This session provides pragmatic guidance for determining when and why to split services apart and when to keep them together.
Thursday, 14 September, 2023 / 03:45 PM - 04:15 PM BST
Richard Watson, VP Analyst, Gartner
You can buy cloud services, platforms and frameworks, but they don't replace the work of skilled architects and engineers. You need to build the things you need. This session maps your cloud adoption goals, through characteristics of the cloud model, to cloud-native architecture principles as expressed in Gartner's LIFESPAR acronym and design patterns for implementation.
Thursday, 14 September, 2023 / 04:30 PM - 05:00 PM BST
Matt Brasier, VP Analyst, Gartner
A microservices architecture requires multiple services to work together to deliver an outcome, yet coordinating microservices is often done as an afterthought. Choreography provides scaling and flexibility benefits, but makes it hard to ensure end-to-end outcomes. Microservices orchestration frameworks are an emerging approach for orchestrating processes. This session will explain the patterns of microservices orchestration and demonstrate how these emerging frameworks can help.