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Gartner Application Innovation
& Business Solutions Summit
Designed for applications and software engineering leaders and their teams, Gartner Application Innovation & Business Solutions Summit 2023 helps you craft leading-edge applications, architectures and strategies to enable innovation and deliver business value.
Your teams must learn new approaches, architectures and technologies. Those who learn how to deliver real business value will be the winners, using software to drive business change, exceed user expectations and enable digital innovation and competitive advantage.
Gartner Application
Innovation & Business Solutions Summit 2023
It’s time to build the skills to deliver the applications that help your business thrive! Join Gartner experts, leading technology providers and industry peers at Gartner Application Innovation and Business Solutions Summit, 13 – 14 September, in London, U.K., to hear and share the latest insights into application leadership and strategy, software engineering practices and technologies, API strategies, platform engineering, emerging technologies and more.
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Keynotes
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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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.
Keynotes
70+ sessions
Peer case study presentations
and roundtables
A dynamic, vibrant Exhibit Showcase
Formal and informal peer networking
In-the-moment insights through
one-on-one expert meetings
Gartner in-person application conferences are unique destination experiences designed for top leadership teams to connect face-to-face with Gartner experts, peers and a wide array of solution providers. Take advantage of:
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Develop Effective People Managers to Build and Retain High-Performing Teams
Turtles All The Way UP: Climbing the Ladder of Abstraction in 2023 and Beyond
Jason Wong, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner Research & Advisory
Danny Brian, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner Research & Advisory
Mbula Schoen, Senior Director Analyst, Gartner Research & Advisory
Gartner keynotes
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.
Mbula Schoen, Senior Director Analyst, Gartner Research & Advisory
Develop Effective People Managers to Build and Retain High-Performing Teams
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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 us to find out!
Danny Brian, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner Research & Advisory
Turtles All The Way UP: Climbing the Ladder of Abstraction in 2023 and Beyond
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Jason Wong, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner Research & Advisory
Disability & Innovation: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
Haben Girma. Disability Rights Lawyer and Author
Guest keynotes
Every Tool's a Hammer
Adam Savage, Hollywood Special Effects Designer; Editor-in-Chief, Tested.com; New York Times Bestselling Author; Former Co-Host and Executive Producer, 'MythBusters'
In this inspirational and informative presentation based on his book, Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It , Adam shares with audiences a refreshing and insightful look into his golden rules of creativity. Drawing on his forty plus years of experience as a maker and lessons learned along the way, Adam provides audiences with a toolbox of techniques to achieve personal and professional success. From finding what inspires you to following through on making an idea a reality, Adam encourages you to push the boundaries of what's possible and turn your curiosities into creations.
Adam Savage, Hollywood Special Effects Designer; Editor-in-Chief, Tested.com; New York Times Bestselling Author; Former Co-Host and Executive Producer, 'MythBusters'
Every Tool's a Hammer
Guest keynote
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. Join us for an engaging presentation where Haben Girma will share how she became an advocate and what we can do to make our communities more inclusive.
Haben Girma, Disability Rights Lawyer and Author
Disability & Innovation: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
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Tracks
Gain actionable insight from topic-based tracks that span the entire agenda.
Five 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. Accelerating Value Creation with Software Engineering Platforms and Technologies
D. Adopting Modern Architectures to Adapt to Change
E. 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 maximize sustainable value creation, software engineering leaders must adopt modern engineering platforms and technologies that support and enable modern engineering practices, improve software quality, and deliver exceptional user experiences. This track highlights emerging themes and key insights on implementing modern software engineering approaches, and the technologies and platforms that support them.
C. 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 architectures with a focus on delivering meaningful business outcomes rather than technical purity.
D. Adopting Modern Architectures to Adapt to Change
Tracks
Gartner Application Innovation
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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. Demand for integration, automation and analytics delivery is outpacing traditional delivery methods. To achieve your organization’s goals, you must adopt agile delivery approaches that focus on business outcomes. 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.
E. 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.
Technical Insights
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Expand your sphere of influence and build your network. Join us at the premier Gartner conference designed specifically to equip you with the objective insights, expert guidance, practical tools and frameworks needed to achieve your 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 secure and scalable software that creates competitive advantage
• Deliver a scalable, dependable, and secure digital platform
• Build, develop and retain successful software engineering teams
• Transition to a product-centric agile delivery model that drives faster time
to market and innovation
• Implement effective API design, API management and API security
• Adopt user experience design practices, such as design systems and DesignOps,
to continuously improve engagement and value
Learn how to:
• Improve your scalability, agility and productivity, using integration and automation
• Choose the right integration approach 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
• 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
Hybrid work, remote work, radical flexibility
Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)
Agile learning, high-performing teams
Organizational design, organizational change management, attracting amazing talent
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Leadership through disruption
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• Modernization, rationalization, consolidation
• Cloud migration, agile
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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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System architecture, solution architecture, cloud-native architecture
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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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Workshops
One-on-one sessions
Roundtables
Ask the Expert sessions
Gartner Application Innovation
& Business Solutions Summit
Get targeted, personalized advice on a key initiative to help you plan proactively and invest wisely, or discuss an urgent challenge during an exclusive one on one meeting with a Gartner expert.
One-on-one sessions
Ask the Expert sessions
These topic-driven sessions provide a more intimate discussion forum featuring one Gartner expert and end-user peers posing questions.
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.)
Improve the Software Engineers’ Engagement with Autonomy, Accountability and Achievement
Preparing Your Applications for Machine Learning Models
How to Select the Right Low-Code Tool for the Job
How to Apply Gartner's 5Rs Framework for Cloud Migration Decision Making
Application Developers and Engineering Leadership Guide to Business Capability Mapping
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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 Magic Quadrant™ sessionsii
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Gartner Magic Quadrant™ sessions
Explore Gartner Magic Quadrant™ sessions for an objective guide across how solution providers are executing against their vision.
Microservices Architecture Gary Olliffee
From a Whisper to a Scream: Growing Software Engineering Competency in Your Organization Dave Micko
The Good, Bad, and Ugly of Low-Code Evaluation, Adoption and Governance Kyle Davis
How Platform Engineering Can Help Scale Agile and DevOps Efforts
Oleksandr Matvitskyy
The New Art of Building High-Performing Teams Mbula Schoen
ERP Implementation and Consolidation Do’s and Don’ts Dixie John, Tomas Kienast
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Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms Paul Vincent
Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Integration Platform as a Service Keith Guttridge
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Improve the Software Engineers’ Engagement with Autonomy, Accountability and Achievement Oleksandr Matvitskyy
Preparing Your Applications for Machine Learning Models Van Baker
How to Select the Right Low-Code Tool for the Job Kyle Davis
How to Apply Gartner's 5Rs Framework for Cloud Migration Decision Making Richard Watson
Application Developers and Engineering Leadership Guide to Business Capability Mapping Phil Allega
Applications Strategy Through the Lens of Total Experience Tim Nelms
Preparing Your Applications for Machine Learning Models Van Baker
The Culture Shift: New Practices and Norms That Make Hybrid Work “Work”
Rob O’Donoghue
How Leaders Can Support Women in IT Anne Thomas, Akriti Kapoor
Spendesk: An Actionable Framework for Building an API developer Platform
Ryan Clifford, Spendesk
JP Morgan Chase: Ignite the Power of your People with Communities of Practice
Phi Reid, JP Morgan Chase
The LEGO Group: Building a Total Experience for B2B Partners from the Ground Up Sebastien Fabre, LEGO Group
Implementing a Successful Open-Source Program Office at the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration Karel Rietvel, Dutch Tax and Customs Administration
Hargreaves Lansdown: Building a Great Working Experience to Enable Great Work Matt Bonetti, Hargreaves Lansdown
Spendesk: An Actionable Framework for Building an API developer Platform
JP Morgan Chase: Ignite the Power of your People with Communities of Practice
The LEGO Group: Building a Total Experience for B2B Partners from the Ground Up
Implementing a Successful Open-Source Program Office at the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration
Hargreaves Lansdown: Building a Great Working Experience to Enable Great Work
Microservices Architecture
From a Whisper to a Scream: Growing Software Engineering Competency in Your Organization
The Good, Bad, and Ugly of Low-Code Evaluation, Adoption and Governance
How Platform Engineering Can Help Scale Agile and DevOps Efforts
The New Art of Building High-Performing Teams
ERP Implementation and Consolidation Do’s and Don’ts
Applications Strategy Through the Lens of Total Experience
Preparing Your Applications for Machine Learning Models
The Culture Shift: New Practices and Norms That Make Hybrid Work “Work”
How Leaders Can Support Women in IT
Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms
Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Integration Platform as a Service
