Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference
15 – 16 May 2023 | Sydney, Australia
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Empowering the Anywhere Business
15 – 16 May 2023 Sydney, Australia
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Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference 2023, 15 – 16 May, in Sydney, Australia,
Businesses across the globe are challenged to bring value and innovation wherever their customers are. Infrastructure and operations (I&O), and cloud leaders have a critical role to play in transforming and enhancing their capabilities to empower the anywhere business. The focus is on enhancing customer experiences and developing staff and skills while building and operating resilient, sustainable, secure, and scalable platforms and systems.
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At the virtual Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference, you benefit from unparalleled, unbiased guidance on topics such as anywhere infrastructure, disruptive technologies and trends, I&O automation and much more.
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Keynotes
Our powerful lineup of keynote speakers helps you expand your thinking and discover new approaches to make smarter business decisions.
Gartner keynotes
Opening Keynote: I&O Forward — Leading the Next Phase of Growth
Karen Brown
Director Analyst
Mark Cleary
Senior Director Analyst
Padraig Byrne
When people from diverse backgrounds and perspectives come together, their unique thoughts pave a path for innovation, which drives business differentiation, talent engagement and retention. Diversity is a business innovation enabler versus a compliance necessity that successful organizations are leveraging as a competitive differentiator.
Closing Keynote: Collective Unhiding Diversity of Thought Is Critical for Business Innovation and Talent Retention
Infrastructure and operations face stresses from inside and out. Dramatic global shifts and talent shortages intensify the ever-present need to accelerate innovation. I&O leaders must rewrite their future and set their sights on a new horizon. Learn how to leverage intelligent automation, embrace platform engineering, deploy multicloud operations and intertwine I&O throughout your organizational fabric.
Senior Director, Advisory
Neha Kumar
Tracks
Gain actionable insights from topic-based tracks and spotlight tracks.
Four tracks covering your top priorities
Spotlight tracks
Spotlight tracks let you explore key topics and perspectives in detail. Understand the impact of new trends, and consider ways to support your career and business goals.
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A. Leadership, Organization and Skills B. Disruptive Practices, Trends and Technologies C. Operations: Centralized, Distributed, Cloud D. Platform Engineering and Infrastructure Agility
The demands on leaders are constantly changing. Attracting the best staff and retaining your skilled workforce is vital in a hypercompetitive world. This track focuses on the changing face of I&O, the people and culture issues, the rapidly developing skill and competency requirements and the evolving role of the leader.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Technical Insights
Cloud Journey Sourcing, Procurement and Vendor Management Enabling Security
As infrastructures and enterprises evolve, usage of cloud services continues to grow. Gain a clear understanding of the steps to take, in the right sequence, and the pitfalls to avoid in developing a successful cloud strategy.
Cloud Journey
Spotlight Tracks
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.
Sourcing, Procurement and Vendor Management
I&O security is a critical component of an effective I&O infrastructure that supports operational resilience, security, and compliance. This track focuses on guiding I&O leaders in securing and defending their increasingly anywhere organizations from exposures and threats, while integrating security, recovery and compliance best practices.
Enabling Security
Learn how to recruit and retain diverse talent and upskill your existing workforce. Create a culture of continuous exploration. Foster diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) as a fundamental lever for motivation and engagement.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
The Senior Leadership Circle
Created for the most senior infrastructure and operations leaders, the Senior Leadership Circle is a unique opportunity to engage with Gartner experts as well as your I&O peers and attend recommended sessions to optimize your conference experience. As part of this program, we suggest attending the sessions in the leadership track, as well as the sessions exclusive to the program. An application to participate is required. Attendance is by invitation only and space availability. Conference attendees can request admission to the Senior Leadership Circle. All qualified registrants will be considered and will be confirmed based on qualifications defined below. Access to the Senior Leadership Circle is based on eligibility requirements.
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Presented by experts from our Gartner for Technical Professionals organization, Technical Insight sessions are designed for drill-down analysis of critical topics within the infrastructure, operations and cloud strategies arena.
Technical Insights
Ask the Expert: Vendor Management Best Practices Clinic: Gartner's Top 10 Tips, Tactics and Tricks to Enhance Your Technology Negotiation Playbook Contract Negotiation Clinic: Software as a Service How Leaders Can Support Women in IT Keynote: I&O Forward — Leading the Next Phase of Growth Keynote: Unhiding Diversity and Inclusion Beyond the Checkboxes That Drives Innovation and Talent Retention Leadership Vision for 2023: Infrastructure and Operations Roundtable: Inflation, Energy Prices, and Global Issues vs. Your IT Infrastructure Workshop: How to Combat Inflation During Vendor Negotiations
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Enterprises are challenged to rethink business models as they embrace disruptive practices, trends and technologies, forcing them into fundamental change. This track explores the balance between ensuring operational stability and embracing disruptive influences.
Ask the Expert: Scaling Infrastructure as Code Starts With the Right Foundations The Future for Digital Workplace Infrastructure and Operations Ransomware Is Changing — Are You Ready? Roundtable: Are We Really Ready to Recover From a Ransomware Attack? Servers, Storage, Networking and Sustainability: What to Measure and How to Make Your Infrastructure Sustainable State of Containers: 2022 to 2025 Strategic Roadmap for Sustainability in I&O Workshop: I&O Leaders Playbook to Use 3 Powerful Financial Models for Negotiation Leverage and Bargaining Power
B. Disruptive Practices, Trends and Technologies
C. Operations: Centralized, Distributed, Cloud
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Many organizations are under pressure to deliver agile application and integration architectures and agile user experiences. This track explores using a product-focused mindset, infrastructure as code and aggressive automation to develop platforms that empower the anywhere business. Additionally, we‘ll explore how agile I&O does not mean a cloning of agile development. Instead, I&O must seek to embrace agile concepts that can be applied to I&O, as it strives to meet increasingly demanding business needs to deliver infrastructure platforms and services.
Jump-Start Your SRE Journey Kick Your Infrastructure as Code Journey Into High Gear Network Automation: From Fragile to Agile Roles, Skills and Training to Build a Successful Infrastructure Platform Engineering Team Roundtable: Beyond the Hype — Real-World SASE Roundtable: Discussion on Agile Practices in Infrastructure and Operations Roundtable: How to Implement SRE in Your Organization Use Platform Engineering to Scale Your DevOps Practices Across People, Process, Technology and Culture Use SASE to Power Your Anywhere Business
D. Platform Engineering and Infrastructure Agility
FinOps or CloudOps? Embedding Cloud Financial Management in Your Cloud Operating Model How to Handle Cloud Service Outages Jump-Starting Your AIOps Journey Is Public Cloud Cheaper Than My Data Center?
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Ask the Expert: Observability, Monitoring, Application Performance Monitoring Ask the Expert: Avoiding the Top Mistakes in Your Cloud Strategy Ask the Expert: Do I Really Need a Multicloud Strategy? Ask the Expert: How to Integrate ITSM Teams With Product Teams Build the Right Cloud Operating Model to Deliver Better Business Outcomes Building an Edge Computing Strategy Do I Really Need a Multicloud Strategy? Benefits and Challenges of Multicloud Adoption Does Cloud Pose Impossible Systemic Risks? Roundtable: How to Reduce Technical Debt and Strengthen Infrastructure Life Cycle Management Technical Insights: FinOps or CloudOps?
A. Leadership, Organization and Skills
The anywhere business is increasingly distributed, fragmented and complex, creating a management and operational nightmare. This track focuses on how operations teams maintain, administer and support centralized, distributed, and cloud operations practices and technologies.
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Embedding Cloud Financial Management in Your Cloud Operating Model Technical Insights: How to Handle Cloud Service Outages Technical Insights: Is Public Cloud Cheaper Than My Data Center? Technical Insights: Jump-Starting Your AIOps Journey Time to Modernize ITSM Practices Top 10 Ways to Improve the Digital Employee Experience Magic Quadrant for SD-WAN Review Cloud Computing: Literally Off the Hype Cycle Charts? Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring and Observability Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software Solutions
Interactive
This conference is designed so you can engage with and learn from peers and Gartner experts in myriad ways.
Workshops
One-on-one sessions
Contract Negotiation Clinics
Roundtables
Ask the Expert sessions
How to Combat Inflation During Vendor Negotiations How to Reduce Technical Debt and Strengthen Infrastructure Life Cycle Management I&O Leaders' Playbook to Use 3 Powerful Financial Models for Negotiation Leverage and Bargaining Power
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Are We Really Ready to Recover From a Ransomware Attack? Beyond the Hype: Real-World SASE Discussion on Agile Practices in Infrastructure and Operations How to Implement SRE in Your Organization How to Reduce Technical Debt and Strengthen Infrastructure Life Cycle Management Inflation, Energy Prices, and Global Issues vs. Your IT Infrastructure
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Avoiding the Top Mistakes in Your Cloud Strategy Do I Really Need a Multicloud Strategy? How to Integrate ITSM Teams With Product Teams Observability, Monitoring, Application Performance Monitoring Scaling Infrastructure as Code Starts With the Right Foundations Vendor Management Best Practices
Follow the Gartner 4-Step Framework to Optimize Your Megavendor Negotiations
A 30-minute consultation with a Gartner expert provides targeted, personalized advice to help you plan proactively and invest wisely. (Preregistration is required.)
Gartner's Top 10 Tips, Tactics and Tricks to Enhance Your Technology Negotiation Playbook Software as a Service
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Teams
Businesses around the world are transforming how they deliver on customer value, requiring agile, scalable, secure platforms and workplaces anywhere, anytime. As central players in this transformation, leaders of infrastructure, operations and cloud are faced with a critical mandate and opportunity: Adapt and innovate IT I&O to deliver competitive advantage in a world full of disruption. Tackle this and more by attending
Accelerate learning and build a shared vision by attending as a group.
Businesses around the world are transforming how they deliver on customer value, requiring agile, scalable, secure platforms and workplaces anywhere, anytime. As central players in this transformation, leaders of infrastructure, operations and cloud are faced with a critical mandate and opportunity: Adapt and innovate IT I&O to deliver competitive advantage in a world full of disruptGartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference as a team.
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