The World’s Most Important Gathering of CIOs and IT Executives™

Name: Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo™ 2023
Start: 2023-09-11 00:00:00 UTC
End: 2023-09-13 00:00:00 UTC
Location: Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre

Guiding CIOs and IT executives through the future of technology and business

Thriving in times of intense economic and social volatility requires organizations to find new forms of efficiency in their operations, scale their productivity and pioneer new business models. To be effective, CIOs and IT executives must create a technology strategy that is resilient to change and flexible to deal with uncertainty.

The Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo™ 2023 conference explores innovative and transformational opportunities with a global community of experts and peers. Walk away with insights and expert guidance on the future direction of technology, best practices to define and validate IT strategies, and real-world examples on how to execute on key initiatives.

CIOs and IT leaders come together on the Gold Coast in Australia to dive into the technology, insights and trends shaping the future of IT and business, which include accelerating business transformation, cybersecurity, customer experience, data analytics, executive leadership and more. With extensive coverage on the impact of generative AI on every industry and job role.

WHY ATTEND?

⯌ Network with Gartner experts and technology executives

At Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo, attendees have the opportunity to connect with Gartner experts and industry-leading CIOs and technology executives. Experience unrivalled networking with top technology leaders across regions and industries to build new relationships, broaden your perspectives and uncover ways to solve problems alongside other CIOs and IT executives.

⯌ Meet the Experts

Join Gartner experts and your community of CIO and IT executive peers at Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo 2023 to participate in interactive and collaborative sessions, share experiences and access personalized tools to equip you with a detailed plan to support your mission-critical priorities.

Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo addresses the strategic needs of enterprise CIOs and their leadership teams.

⯌ Learn and Engage

Prioritise 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.

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.

Want to tailor your experience? With unparalleled networking and industry-specific insights, Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo™ 2023 has what you're looking for to unleash possibilitiy.

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Key Themes & Topics

Prepare to be inspired by the world’s leading IT experts, thought leaders and Gartner experts.

Our guest keynote speakers, experienced practitioners and objective Gartner experts help you expand your thinking and discover new approaches to make smarter business decisions.

The Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo™ 2023 conference delivers the latest technology, strategy and leadership insights across 14 key topic areas, covering the challenges most critical to CIOs and their leadership teams.

⯌ Applications, Platforms and Software Engineering

The role of the builder is on the rise. Explore how to architect, build and run applications and platforms that drive your digital business strategy. Learn how to build the foundations for the future by modernizing legacy systems and accelerating software engineering practices with composable technologies, agile, DevOps and more.

⯌ AI, Data and Analytics

Leverage the game-changing technologies of AI, such as foundation models, generative AI (the technologies driving ChatGPT), and data and analytics to drive innovation, growth and efficiencies at scale. Learn how this technology will impact all of enterprise software, talent and skills; risks; trust; and governance. Move to a data-centric culture of self-service and pervasive business analytics.

⯌ Cloud, Infrastructure and Operations

Optimize your cloud business models, leverage edge computing and multicloud to evolve your infrastructure and operations to facilitate extreme agility and autonomous and anywhere operations. Respond to new geopolitical pressures, such as data sovereignty and security, while managing costs through FinOps.

⯌ Customer and Citizen Experience

Discover how to create superior digital experiences that serve as a sustainable differentiator for customers and citizens. Explore ways to personalize engagements and achieve total experience outcomes through linking with employee experience strategies.

⯌ Cybersecurity and Risk Management

Reframe cybersecurity as a business issue and manage risks in response to the disruption created by rapid changes in the digital world and a volatile geopolitical landscape. Rethink technology to enable composable trust and resilience.

⯌ Digital and Business Transformation

Build, scale, refine and accelerate your digital business strategy. Shift toward the next era of digitalization focusing on autonomous business. Discover how to create new products and business models that transform the business and the dynamics of your industry.

⯌ Executive Leadership and Change Management

Discover how to be a transformational leader, influence stakeholders and embrace the evolution of the CIO role. Acquire the competencies to anticipate, prepare and manage the onslaught of disruptions and the last mile of value realization — change management. Strive for high performance of a generationally and geographically diverse team.

⯌ Technology Investments and Value

Identify new funding models and cost, financial and value management frameworks that will help your organization prioritize and optimize investments that deliver the highest business value.

⯌ Future of Work

Explore digital workplace strategies, frameworks, models, blended human and AI workforces, the future of management and human-centric organizational designs to improve the employee value proposition to produce results in this new landscape of work.

⯌ Applied Innovation

Harness and apply innovation to drive disruption, leveraging emerging technologies to achieve your digital ambitions. Learn techniques that generate disruptive ideas. Evaluate the future of emerging technologies and the impact to the enterprise.

⯌ Operating Models

Explore how to align operating models with enterprise and information and technology strategies, as well as adopting new operating models that are a better fit for the current environment.

⯌ Strategic Planning and Execution

Learn how to create and execute dynamic and adaptive strategies that build resilience and position your organization to thrive.

⯌ Sustainable and Responsible Business

Improve quality, scale and prioritize sustainable technology investments and environmental, social and governance data that will help your enterprise pursue new growth opportunities, improve brand, reduce costs and mitigate risks.

⯌ Talent, Culture and DEI

Learn how to recruit and retain diverse talent and reskill and upskill your existing workforce to deliver increased value and business outcomes. Create a culture that encourages continuous exploration and the quest for game-changing business capabilities. Foster diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) as a fundamental lever for motivation and engagement.

Learning Outcomes

Roundtable sessions:* Join your CIO and IT executive 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.

Workshops:* Work through the leading challenges facing CIOs and technology executives alongside your peers and Gartner experts.
Executive Insight sessions: Detailed and documented case studies, by Gartner invitation. In these sessions, expect top executives to reveal lessons from their own organizations.
Social engagements: Have fun and build new business relationships with peers as you engage in receptions and special evening events in varied settings.

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

Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo™ 2023

The World’s Most Important Gathering of CIOs and IT Executives™

Location

Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre

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Managed by

Gartner

Speakers

Keynote Speakers

Holly Ransom

Matthew Luhn

Peter Hinssen

Thought Leaders

Chan Cheow Hoe

Chris Fechner

Tom Nash

Speakers

Don Scheibenreif

Kristian Steenstrup

Mary Mesaglio

Neha Kumar

Rita Sallam

Sharon Hakkennes

Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo™ 2023

The World’s Most Important Gathering of CIOs and IT Executives™

Location

Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre

Stay Updated

Managed by

Gartner

Key Themes & Topics

Learning Outcomes

Who Should Attend

Speakers

Keynote Speakers

Holly Ransom

Matthew Luhn

Peter Hinssen

Thought Leaders

Chan Cheow Hoe

Chris Fechner

Tom Nash

Speakers

Don Scheibenreif

Kristian Steenstrup

Mary Mesaglio

Neha Kumar

Rita Sallam

Sharon Hakkennes