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Gartner Application Innovation
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Application and software engineering leaders must take charge of reshaping their strategies, tactics and cultures to help their organizations drive business change, enable digital innovation, and deliver business value. To drive business value is to deliver software that meets the functional, operational, and economic needs of the business. Building the skills to take advantage of, rather than be swamped by, the relentless pace of technology change, is key to success.
Join a world-class community of Gartner application and software engineering experts as well as thousands of industry peers at Gartner Application Innovation & Business Solutions Summii to drive business value as you reshape software delivery. Hear and share the latest insights into application strategies, software engineering leadership, API strategies, development platforms, emerging technologies and more.
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Our guest keynote speakers, experienced practitioners and unbiased Gartner experts will help you expand your thinking and discover new approaches to make smarter business decisions.
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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 this Gartner keynote to find out.
Gartner Opening Keynote: Turtles All The Way UP — Climbing the Ladder of Abstraction in 2023 and Beyond
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Business and society totally depend on each other. Innovation and business solutions cannot be seen separate from how it affects society. But society isn't functioning very well currently, and every business is affected by that. How socially active should your organization be? In four provocative global scenarios we'll explore what you should do to address social fracture, and benefit in the process.
How Every Business Is Impacted By Social Fracture
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Gartner Opening Keynote: Turtles All The Way UP — Climbing the Ladder of Abstraction in 2023 and Beyond
Danny Brian, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner Research & Advisory
Danny Brian, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner Research & Advisory
Frank Buytendijk, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner Research & Advisory
Jason Wong, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner Research & Advisory
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 this Gartner keynote to find out.
Join a community of the best and brightest application and software engineering leaders from across every industry —
all driven by a common purpose and
under one roof.
• Four keynotes
• 115+ sessions
• A dynamic, vibrant Exhibit Showcase
• Planned and unplanned peer networking
• In-the-moment insights
Together, you’ll explore industry-shaping insight in an unforgettable atmosphere
of excitement and camaraderie beyond
a screen.
Gartner in-person application and software engineering leaders conferences offer unique destination experiences designed for top leadership teams to connect face-to-face with Gartner experts, peers and a wide array of solution providers.
Gartner Application Innovation & Business Solutions Summit in-person experience:
Develop Effective People Managers to Build and Retain High-Performing Teams
Mbula Schoen, Senior Director Analyst, Gartner Research & Advisory
Disability and Innovation: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
Haben Girma, Author of “Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard”
Guest keynote
Jason Wong, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner Research & Advisory
The success and ability of an organization to achieve its digital ambitions depend 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.
Develop Effective People Managers to Build and Retain High-Performing Teams
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Mbula Schoen, Senior Director Analyst, Gartner Research & Advisory
Disabled people are the largest historically underrepresented group, numbering over one billion worldwide. Reaching a group of this scale creates value for everyone. Organizations that prioritize accessibility benefit by gaining access to a much larger audience, improving the experience for both disabled and nondisabled people, and facilitating further innovation. In this keynote, Haben Girma shares how she became an advocate, and what we can do to make our communities more inclusive.
Disability and Innovation: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
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Haben Girma, Author of “Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard”
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Gain actionable insight from topic-based tracks that span the entire agenda.
Six tracks covering your top priorities
Spotlight tracks
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Technical Insights
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A. Reshaping Leadership, Strategy and Culture
B. Aligning the Enterprise Applications Strategy with Business Objectives
C. Transforming Software Engineering Practices for Successful Product Delivery
D. Accelerating Value Creation with Software Engineering Platforms and Technologies
E. Adopting Modern Architectures to Adapt to Change
F. Augmenting, Accelerating and Automating Your Business with Integration and Data
D. Delivering the Right Workloads — Anywhere
E. Staffing and Leadership
Application and software engineering leaders must attract and retain the best engineering talent to build high-performing teams, and foster the organizational culture and environment for them to flourish — all while facing the realities and trade-offs of tight budgets. This track explores trends in hybrid work, solutions to talent shortages, skill-building and career-pathing, and the evolution of organizational models, leadership and management for a digital, postpandemic world.
A. Reshaping Leadership, Strategy and Culture
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Enterprise application leaders must deliver a portfolio of applications that improves business outcomes, particularly during times of economic disruption, and that differentiates their customer and employee experiences. This track explores how successful application leaders manage applications as products, maintain application roadmaps, leverage business technologists to improve application delivery, and continually modernize/innovate their application portfolios.
B. Aligning the Enterprise Applications Strategy with Business Objectives
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To securely deliver high-quality valuable digital products, at scale and at the speed of the business, software engineering leaders need to transform their teams and practices. You must become a world-class software engineering organization. This track highlights ways to devise and continually adapt your software engineering practices to achieve this goal.
C. Transforming Software Engineering Practices for Successful Product Delivery
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To accelerate and maximize sustainable value creation, software engineering leaders must adopt modern engineering platforms and technologies, which meet business objectives, improve software quality, and deliver exceptional user experiences. This track explores emerging themes and key insights on how to select and manage modern software engineering technologies and platforms.
D. Accelerating Value Creation with Software Engineering Platforms and Technologies
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To enable rapid response to opportunities and disruptions, application and solution architects must adopt modern patterns and practices that deliver agility, flexibility, and scalability. This track explores the “why” and “how” of modern application and solution architecture with a focus on delivering meaningful business outcomes rather than technical purity.
E. Adopting Modern Architectures to Adapt to Change
Tracks
May 22 – 24, 2023 | Las Vegas, NV
Gartner Application Innovation
& Business Solutions Summit
These are topic-specific sessions that span the entire agenda and have a distinct focus on:
A modern business needs integrated systems, automated processes and insightful data. This track examines the emerging themes, tried and tested approaches and key insights needed to optimize your organization’s use of integration, automation and data.
F. Augmenting, Accelerating and Automating Your Business with Integration and Data
Tracks
Application and software engineering leaders are in an influential position to advocate for, and become stewards of, DEI at their organization. Sessions in this spotlight track provide a forum to discuss DEI challenges and to explore how application and software engineering leaders can build a diverse culture and team with diverse business and IT skill sets.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Spotlight tracks
Organizations can only realize the promise of digital business when they take control of the underpinning architecture, data, and technology. This track showcases Gartner for Technical Professionals content and digs deeper into the technical details around how you can deliver the future of applications for your organization.
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Expand your sphere of influence and build your network. Join us at the premier Gartner conference designed specifically to equip applications and software engineering leaders and their teams with the objective insights, expert guidance, practical tools and frameworks they need to achieve their mission-critical priorities.
This conference is designed for application and software engineering leaders and their teams responsible for crafting leading-edge applications, architectures and strategies that enable innovation and deliver business value.
Who should attend
Senior application leaders
Software engineering leaders
Application integration managers
Application architects
Application development managers
Business technologists
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Learn how to:
• Develop your leadership skills to inspire your teams, develop the talent and shift the
culture in your organization
• Organize the application group to meet the challenges of digital business
• Engage effectively with business stakeholders to deliver business value
• Minimize technical debt and maximize organizational agility to continually modernize
and rationalize the application portfolio
• Attract and retain the best talent to build high performing teams
• Identify and capitalize on emerging technologies and trends that will impact your
application strategy
Senior application leaders
Who should attend
Software engineering leaders
Application integration managers
Application architects
Application development managers
Business technologists
Learn how to:
• Deliver a scalable, dependable, and secure digital platform
• Build, develop and retain successful software engineering teams
• Use proven techniques to deliver secure and scalable software that creates
competitive advantage
• Transition and scale to a product-centric agile delivery model that drives faster time to
market, continuous improvement, and innovation
• Implement effective API design, API management and API security as part of an overall
organizational API strategy
• Adopt user experience design practices, such as design systems and DesignOps, to
continuously improve engagement and value
Learn how to:
• Adopt agile delivery approaches that focus on business outcomes
• Choose the right integration approach for any given requirement to ensure that
connectivity among business applications is timely, functional, reliable, secure,
and sustainable
• Use proven API-centric and event-driven delivery patterns, practices, and technology to
deliver useful application capabilities, optimize integrations and increase agility
• Apply modern architectures and platform capabilities to build, replace or refactor
applications and integrations
• Improve your scalability, agility, and productivity, using integration and automation
• Develop emerging skills in integration to adapt to new technologies
Learn how to:
• Apply agile, distributed, composite and other application architectures that enable you
to innovate and adapt
• Create an application architecture that uses cloud-native capabilities to deliver agility,
scalability, reliability and composability
• Cultivate skills in agile, DevOps, cloud computing, decoupled APIs/services
and modernization
• Adopt the principles of microservices to deliver advanced agility and flexibility
• Utilize the patterns, principles and practices that guide the structure and design
of applications and products, to enable the move to a more composable business
Learn how to:
• Prioritize continuous improvement, design thinking and continuous learning to expand
development knowledge, skills and expertise.
• Adopt a product quality and business agility mindset with collaboration across development
and IT operations to enable continuous delivery of engaging experiences.
• Use technical expertise to effect and influence change in the way the organization
perceives, designs, and delivers value.
• Evaluate and adopt new frameworks, tools and languages in order to tackle new
business opportunities.
• Implement DevOps to improve product delivery and increase customer value
• Establish an effective testing initiative to validate the quality of custom-developed
applications
Learn how to:
• Create and govern hybrid IT-business “fusion teams”
• Align strategies between IT and the business
• Forge a common view of value between IT and the business
by adopting shared metrics
Who should attend
Who should attend
Who should attend
Who should attend
Who should attend
The Five Steps of Culture Change for Your Application Strategy
Retain Top Talent and Power Their Performance With a Human-Centric Work Design
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Networks and Hierarchies:
How to Organize for Change, Value and Business Outcomes
Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2023
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The Key Components of a Successful Enterprise Applications Strategy
Building a Successful Business Case for an Application Modernization Program
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Want More Business Value from Your Enterprise Application Portfolios? Pivot to Business-Led IT
Use the Continuous Modernization Value Stream to Deliver Application and Cloud Migration Priorities
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Guiding the Three Superheroes of Product Development Toward Success Three Steps to Protect Against Software Supply Chain Security Attacks
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The Why, What and How of a Successful Agile Transformation
Dynamic Sourcing for Faster Solutions: Co-Create With Your Service Providers
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How to Select an Engineering Intelligence Platform to Measure Developer Productivity
Best Practices for Successfully Adopting Low-Code Application Platforms
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Open Source Is Turbocharging Digital: How Can Software Engineering Leaders Harness Its True Value
Building a Digital Future: The Metaverse
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What Have We Learned in a Decade of Microservices Architectures ... What Next?
Improve Customer and User Experiences Through Effective Front-End Architecture
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Cloud-Native Application Architecture Must Be Built and Cannot Be Bought
Use Enterprise Architecture to Plan a Journey to Mesh, App and Service Architecture
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How to Prepare your API Strategy for GraphQL, gRPC and AsyncAPI
Beyond RPA — How to Build Your Hyperautomation Strategy
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API Security Playbook for Software Engineering Leaders
Technical Insights: Integration As Code — A High-Code Approach to Integration
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Gartner Application Innovation & Business Solutions Summit has been created to allow you to engage with your peers and Gartner experts in a myriad of ways:
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One-on-one sessions
Roundtables
Ask the Expert sessions
May 22 – 24, 2023 | Las Vegas, NV
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Contract Negotiation
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Contract Negotiation Clinic
Get 30 minutes of undivided attention and support from a Gartner expert. Get feedback on a key initiative or share an urgent challenge. (Preregistration is required.)
One-on-one sessions
These interactive sessions are designed to help attendees to prepare for their next contract negotiations with strategic technology vendors and provide cost optimization tips and tactics.
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Ask the Expert sessions
These topic-driven sessions provide a more intimate discussion forum featuring one Gartner expert and end-user peers posing questions.
Preparing Your Applications for Machine Learning Models
DevSecOps — What Are Your Peers Doing to Integrate Security Into the SDLC?
Explore the API Approaches That Are Being Used by the Most Successful Organizations
Roundtables
These topic-driven end-user forums are moderated by Gartner experts. Learn what your peers are doing around particular issues and across industries. (Preregistration is required.)
How to Generate Big Ideas With Design Thinking
How to Apply Gartner's 5Rs Framework for Cloud Migration Decision Making
Kickstart Your Integration Modernization Strategy
Leveraging the Business Impact Analysis to Meet Your Application Development Needs
How to Contract for Custom Software Development Services
How to Select the Right Low-Code Tool for the Job
How to Use 3 Powerful Financial Models to Optimize Your Infrastructure and Cloud Negotiations
Improve the Software Engineers' Engagement With Autonomy, Accountability and Achievement
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These are expert led, small-scale and interactive sessions at which you can drill down on specific topics with a how-to focus. (Preregistration is required.)
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Gartner Hype Cycle™ sessions
Gartner Hype Cycle™ sessions
Explore Gartner Hype Cycle™ sessions for an objective guide across how solution providers are executing against their vision.
Essential Agile Development Skills
Getting Started With Test Automation
From a Whisper to a Scream: Growing Software Engineering Competency in Your Organization
How Platform Engineering Can Help Scale Agile and DevOps Efforts
Gartner's 8-Step Playbook to Optimize Software and SaaS Negotiations
How to Leverage Automated Testing to Accelerate and Improve Application Development
Microservices Architecture
The Good, Bad, and Ugly of Low-Code Evaluation, Adoption and Governance
Implementing API Management
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Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies
Hype Cycle for Software Engineering
Contract Negotiation Clinic: Follow Gartner's Top 10 Tips, Tactics and Tricks for Negotiation Success
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Research Discussions
How Can Software Engineering Leaders Drive Greater Business Value From Software Delivery?
Research Discussions
Despite delivering more software faster than ever, software engineering teams still struggle to maximize the value of their software solutions, especially given the disruptive business environment many organizations face. Generating greater value in this environment requires software engineering teams to continuously identify and capitalize on high-value opportunities. In this research, we review real-world examples of how software engineering leaders can guide their teams on their path to value delivery.
