Gartner Data & Analytics Summit

21 – 23 May 2024 | Tokyo, Japan

The World’s Most Important Gathering of Data and Analytics Leaders

Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2023 addressed the most signficiant challenges that data and analytics leaders face as they deliver business value. 

At the conference, the top 5 priorities that data & analytic leaders met on included:

  1. Delivering digital business success 
  2. Attracting the right talent and skills 
  3. Dispel the myths of AI 
  4. Understanding data ecosystems 
  5. Optimizeing intelligent decisions with competitive differentiators. 

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what was covered at the conference.

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Understand how to establish the strategy, organization, culture and skills to align to business priorities and outcomes, and leverage key data and analytics trends:

  • Discover how to organize for success and not just survive but thrive.
  • Leverage key data and analytics trends to drive business outcomes.
  • Create a strategy to innovate business and accelerate change.
  • Foster the cultural changes needed to make the use of data and analytics pervasive to impact the business.
  • Align data and analytics with business outcomes and digital acceleration.

Gain insights into the tools and best practices to drive real business value and deliver innovation:

  • Create a strategy to innovate business and accelerate change.
  • Validate and benchmark strategy.
  • Infuse insight everywhere in the organization.
  • Align data and analytics to business value.
  • Empower the entire organization with access to the right tools and data.

Establish trusted and adaptable information and data management capabilities to support the changing needs of the organization:

  • Maximize your value to your organization.
  • Ensure data quality.
  • Build effective data governance programs.
  • Strive for the highest standards of ethics and trust.

Determining how best to architect products and solutions, which have the capabilities to deliver against your business objectives, is now paramount to digital success:

  • Deliver composable data and analytics architectures and data fabrics for the next decade.
  • Understand the latest trends and tools in data and analytics.
  • Prioritize investments in information, data and analytics applications, platforms and architectures.
  • Establish data quality and master data within the organization.
  • Plan and optimize for data and analytics cloud ecosystems.

Highlights:

  • Roundtables.* Join your data and analytics peers from leading organizations and various industries to discuss relevant topics inspired by the latest research in these small-group sessions, moderated by a Gartner expert.
  • Peer conversations. Join peer-to-peer discussions organically throughout the conference. With data and analytics leaders, discover how others are tackling the challenges you face every day.
  • End-user case studies. Detailed and documented case studies, by Gartner invitation, reveal lessons from your peers during their own organization’s implementations.
  • Social engagements. Have fun and build new business relationships with peers as you engage in welcome receptions and special evening events in varied settings.

*Preregistration is required. These sessions are available to end-users only; space is limited.

Network with experts and peers

At Gartner Data & Analytics Summit, attendees have the opportunity to connect with Gartner experts, industry-leading chief data and analytics officers (CDAOs) and D&A senior leaders. Exchange ideas and experiences with others in similar roles or from similar organizations.

Build new relationships, broaden your perspectives and uncover ways to solve problems alongside other D&A leaders. When you engage with like-minded peers, you find opportunities to share your ideas and experiences. 

Prioritize what to accelerate, unlock resources for digital investments, make meaningful cultural changes and so much more. No matter where you are on your digital business acceleration journey, we’re here to help you get to your destination faster — with confidence.
 

Lean back and listen

Expect the best speakers, brightest minds and the latest big ideas. These sessions provide the inspiration and actionable insight to transform your most critical priorities into business results.

Highlights

  • Guest speakers. Hear firsthand from guest keynote speakers and guest speakers about their experience.
  • Solution Provider sessions. When you’re looking to address a specific issue, these strategic roadmap presentations and user-case studies provide real-world advice.
     

Lean in and engage

Facilitated by Gartner experts, these sessions challenge you to solve problems together, exchange viewpoints and get to the core of the business imperatives that drive you and your peers.

Highlights 

  • D&A Leaders Circle.* A Gartner exclusive, this program within the overall agenda is dedicated to and designed for chief data and analytics officers and those serving in the data and analytics leader’s role. Participants have the opportunity to explore new strategies, share innovative ideas, grow their community of peers and gain special access to Gartner experts in unique and highly educational, interactive sessions.

*Preregistration is required. These sessions are available to end users only. 

Our unbiased Gartner experts help you advance your mission-critical priorities through industry-leading insights, guidance and tools. Tap their unique expertise to make faster, smarter decisions. 

Gartner one-on-one meetings.* Meet one-on-one with a Gartner expert for tailored guidance to help you achieve your mission-critical priorities. These popular meetings offer you the undivided attention of a Gartner expert who listens and guides you on the matters most critical to your success.

Ask the Expert sessions.* These topic-driven sessions provide a more intimate discussion forum, featuring one Gartner expert and end-user peers posing questions.

*Preregistration is required. These sessions are available to end users only; space is limited.

Lead for Purpose, Make an Impact 

Leaders and their teams have shown perseverance, creativity and ingenuity in the face of a disruptive global environment. As companies push to transform and accelerate data and analytics (D&A), it’s up to you as Chief Data & Analytics Officers (CDAOs) and D&A Leaders to execute purposeful strategies that maximize capabilities.

To harness D&A’s true power, your team needs to scale cohesive ecosystems across your organization while using AI to ethically manage data and privacy. Taking a human-centric approach to sourcing and retaining talent will also be critical to success.

Join us at the Gartner Data and Analytics Summit, where we’ll address the most significant challenges you’ll face as you empower the innovative and adaptable organizations of the future. You’ll leave this summit ready to:

  • Implement strategies and innovations backed by data and analytics to navigate disruption.

  • Lead purposefully by balancing trust, accountability, governance and security with adaptability and responsiveness.

  • Scale your purpose beyond organizational silos, across value chains and ecosystems to foster societal perseverance.

2023 Tracks at a Glance

Attendees had access to many sessions of the latest Gartner research specifically designed to help data & analytics leaders meet the demands of the future. Each track had a particular area of focus that helped deliver what matters most to you and your organization.

Track A

Leadership, Skills and Culture

CDAOs and D&A leaders must be purposeful in driving the organizational and cultural transformation necessary to become a data-driven enterprise. This track explores how to hire and retain individuals and lead teams for business productivity, employee retention and professional growth.

Track B

Data Management

Data is now widely recognized as the most important asset of an organization, central to applications, analytics, AI and machine learning (ML). This track highlights the current and future data management strategies such as data ecosystems and financial governance as well as the full set of tools, metadata management and master data management.

Track C

Analytics

To increase the impact of analytics on an organization, data and analytics leaders must change their mindsets, shifting their focus beyond the implementation of analytics capabilities toward the delivery of business outcomes. This track navigates those analytics capabilities and how to organize them, plan to deliver them and align them to stakeholder needs.

Track D

Strategy and Value

Data and analytics is part of every business discussion about digital transformation. This requires creating a D&A strategy that can make an impact to the organization’s mission-critical priorities, establish and manage value expectations, and build an operating model to execute. This track explores how to identify, assign value and prioritize data and analytics investments as well as develop a coordinated strategy and operating model to ensure success.

Track E

Data Science, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

Scaling and operationalizing data science, ML and AI are critical to driving value and impacting how decisions within the organization are made. This track explores the technology trends, organizational requirements, skill development and talent needed for successful deployment.

Track F

Trust, Governance and Privacy

To exploit business opportunities and challenges, organizations must establish the right foundations for data and analytics governance. Trust, privacy, ethics and accountability are central to this foundation. This track provides guidance for putting trusted, agile data and analytics, and AI governance practices in place.