Innovation can come in many forms, including corporate social responsibility, approach to sustainability, customer experience and employee experience (CX and EX), technology and digital capabilities. This track explores the practices, trends and technologies that will drive innovation in your business.

Cloud is at the center of most recent and emerging technological innovations. Those able to demonstrate more coherent approaches to cloud innovation and modernization, governance, adoption and migration are better positioned to deliver successful business cases and more likely to accelerate business outcomes. This track explores how to meet your business goals by developing and executing strategies to exploit the cloud to its fullest potential.

I&O leaders face a world that requires increasingly complex architecture, effective integration patterns, expanded platform capabilities, security and compliance built in, disciplined yet federated delivery practices and versatile skills. This track explores how to use a product-focused mindset, infrastructure as code and aggressive automation to establish and develop platforms that enable the agility required to empower the anywhere business.

The anywhere business is distributed, fragmented and complex, creating management and operational nightmares. Hybrid workload operations, centralized core systems and cloud management require new approaches. This track focuses on how operations teams maintain, administer and support centralized, distributed and cloud operations practices and technologies.

Edge computing initiatives are rapidly being added to the operating environment in different ways, often resulting in operational and data silos. Designing edge systems is challenging due to their technical diversity and integration complexity. This track focuses on how organizations can integrate, deploy and operate edge systems to enable the anywhere business.

Security is a critical enabler of an effective I&O infrastructure. This track focuses on guiding I&O leaders in securing and defending their increasingly anywhere organizations from exposures and threats, partnering effectively with their security and compliance peers, and integrating security, recovery and compliance best practices into day-to-day operations.

Constantly evolving business requirements, rapid technological change and challenging recruitment make workforce planning extremely difficult. For I&O leaders this means planning must happen in tandem. This track focuses on how to ensure I&O has the right people with the right skills to meet current and future organization needs.

I&O organization leaders face unprecedented challenges in the platform revolution. Creating a vision and designing a strategy and roadmap is a critical yet complex and ongoing process. This track focuses on I&O leaders and how they design, change and run their functions, how they create the right environment for their teams to grow and thrive while embracing change and fostering innovation.

Optimizing costs while delivering value is a constant challenge and fundamental requirement for effective I&O management. Responding productively to challenging economic conditions of volatility, inflation and talent shortages is key. This track focuses on how to optimize operational costs at the edge, cloud and on-premises while maximizing value for the anywhere business.

As organizations work to address ongoing issues surrounding diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), there remains an intense focus on the lack of gender diversity. Despite being half of the workforce, women are grossly underrepresented. Add other attributes such as race and ethnicity to the mix, and the numbers are abysmal. This track discusses current issues and presents concrete actions to move the dial.

Automation promises significant efficiency, quality and speed improvements, resilience and reliability, and cost optimization opportunities. This track helps I&O leaders develop and execute an automation strategy by identifying required processes, skills and technologies and offering guidance on how to implement them to deliver on the anywhere business

Sourcing, procurement and vendor management (SPVM) leaders must become catalysts for business-led IT sourcing while supporting diversity and sustainability. Leaders should reinvent the role by focusing on business outcomes through digitally enabled processes and tools, and provide value by leveraging data.

Created for the most senior infrastructure and operations leaders, the Senior Leadership Circle provides a unique opportunity to engage with Gartner experts as well as your I&O peers, and attend recommended sessions to optimize your conference experience. An application to participate is required. As part of the track, we suggest attending the sessions in the Skills, Organization and Leadership track as well as sessions exclusive to the program.

Midsize enterprises (MSEs) face many of the same challenges as large organizations but have a fraction of the resources with which to execute. Small teams of IT versatilists, limited budgets and small-scale environments make certain strategies and tactics universally beneficial. Also, fundamentally greater agility and lower bureaucratic overhead can provide the edge on larger competitors. Dedicated sessions and networking opportunities in this track are designed with your scale and operational environment in mind.

The Technical Insights spotlight track offers sessions that provide drill-down analysis of critical I&O topics. They are designed for attendees that desire greater technical depth in areas of architecture and design. The sessions are presented by Gartner for Technical Professionals experts.

Organizations are increasingly challenged to adapt their IT I&O to the ESG and sustainability objectives of the enterprise but lack specific guidance around where to begin.