Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference
December 6 – 8, 2021 | Americas | Virtual
Transform Infrastructure and Operations to Empower the Anywhere Business
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The emergence of a new normal has changed how businesses across the globe are delivering on customer value. More than ever infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders must embrace agility, and enable scalable, secure, resilient platforms and workplaces anywhere at any time if they are to empower business to meet its customers wherever they are.
Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference 2021
is the place to find your answers with objective topic coverage and focus on top trends. Gain the clarity to create an effective pathway to the future.
Join us at this year’s conference virtually and learn how to:
Reimagine digital to empower the anywhere mindset Deliver customer value for your most critical initiatives Embrace agility to maximize efficiencies with cost optimization Create, secure and scale platforms to deliver workloads anywhere to enable business outcomes
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Hear from our keynote speakers
Our powerful lineup of keynote speakers helps you expand your thinking and discover new approaches to make smarter business decisions.
Gartner keynotes
Adaptive Resilience to Empower the Anywhere Business
Tina Nunno, Distinguished VP Analyst
Over the past 18 months, I&O professionals have demonstrated they can satisfy fast-changing business needs that are driven by unpredictable global events. But the future will be even more dynamic as businesses move quickly to exploit new opportunities. Join us as we discuss how to transform I&O into an adaptive and resilient organization that can empower the anywhere business.
Powering Your I&O Success With Diversity and Inclusion
Reshaping and transforming I&O requires a resilient and change-ready workforce. This resilience can be accelerated by creating diverse and inclusive teams. In this keynote, you learn that this is the key to your success. You leave with the knowledge and tangible actions you can take to build the workforce you need to facilitate adaptive digital resilience.
Over the past 18 months, I&O professionals have demonstrated that they can satisfy fast-changing business needs driven by unpredictable global events. But the future will be even more dynamic as businesses move quickly to exploit new opportunities. This session discusses how to transform I&O into an adaptive and resilient organization that can empower the anywhere business.
Reshaping and transforming I&O requires a resilient and change-ready workforce. This resilience can be accelerated by creating diverse and inclusive teams. In this keynote, you learn that this is the key to your success. Leave this keynote with the required knowledge and tangible actions you can take to build the workforce you need to facilitate adaptive digital resilience.
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At the virtual Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference, you benefit from objective insight and expert guidance on topics such as anywhere infrastructure, disruptive technologies and trends, I&O automation and much more.
The virtual experience
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Tracks
5 tracks covering your top priorities
Seven tracks covering your top priorities
Spotlight tracks
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A. Disruptive Technologies and Trends B. Cloud Migration Strategies C. Anywhere Infrastructures D. Cloud and Operations Management
E. Impact and Evolution of Edge Environments F. Delivering the Right Workloads — Anywhere G. Staffing and Leadership
I&O Security and Infrastructure Resilience Automation DevOps and Agile Cost Optimization
Midsize Enterprise Cloud Journey
I&O Security and Infrastructure Resilience
This track focuses on guiding I&O leaders to manage and defend their increasingly anywhere organizations from exposures and threats, while integrating security, recovery and compliance best practices into day-to-day processes.
This track guides I&O leaders in executing an automation strategy by identifying required processes, skills and technologies.
Automation
To accelerate development and enable continuous delivery of customer value, organizations need to reach the next level in their agile and DevOps practices. I&O leaders must actively focus on value stream management to maximize flow, improve delivery efficiency and drive innovation.
DevOps and Agile
A critical focus for I&O leaders, optimizing costs and assuring funding is allocated to the right things is a critical part of managing I&O effectively. Recent times and the emerging new normal makes this a challenge to many: how to keep costs down and optimize operational costs, both on-premises and off, while growing.
Cost Optimization
Midsize enterprises 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. Dedicated sessions and networking opportunities in this track are designed with your scale and operational environment in mind.
Midsize Enterprise
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. An application to participate is required. As part of this program, we suggest attending the sessions in the Staffing and Leadership track as well as sessions exclusive to the program.
Senior Leadership Circle
Not all cloud journeys are the same, but there are similarities. A business-driven strategy coupled with a pragmatic adoption/migration plan are critical. But knowing where you are and where you are headed is crucial to success. Journeys range from infrastructure replacement to digital transformation, with many others in between. This track brings all the ingredients together to enable the right journey for you.
Cloud Journey
Disruptive trends and technologies are challenging for incumbent enterprises, forcing them to rethink their business models to support and enable business initiatives. This track explores the balance between ensuring operational stability and tapping into emerging trends and technologies.
A. Disruptive Technologies and Trends
Enterprise IT has embraced the concept of multicloud as an accepted delivery model for many enterprise applications. This track explores concerns about how best to balance between cloud computing as “the answer” and cloud computing as one of many options for IT to support the business.
B. Cloud Migration Strategies
The pace and scope of the digital era requires robust, secure, resilient, on-demand infrastructure that scales to meet rapidly changing customer needs anywhere and at any time. This track explores how to develop on-demand infrastructures anywhere to meet modern digital business needs.
C. Anywhere Infrastructures
Modern, cloud-based applications and infrastructure are increasingly distributed, fragmented and complex, creating a management nightmare. This track is focused on new approaches to managing workloads and operations, wherever they are, based on the concepts of systems observability.
D. Cloud and Operations Management
I&O leaders must be willing to rethink the technology architecture, processes and people required for next-generation workloads, including IoT, cloud and edge environments. This track focuses on how edge will impact I&O decisions and strategies.
E. Impact and Evolution of Edge Environments
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I&O leaders must redefine the mission of IT operations to focus on delivering positive, secure, business outcomes. This track focuses on the infrastructure and operational processes, technologies and human capabilities that enable rapid development and delivery of workloads and applications for the business.
F. Delivering the Right Workloads — Anywhere
Leadership matters now more than ever. New roles demand a view across infrastructure, software and services, focused on delivering maximum customer and business value. This track focuses on the need for essentialism in leadership today, while tapping into new key roles across the organization.
G. Staffing and Leadership
Technical Insights
These technical insights sessions are designed for drill-down analysis of critical topics within the I&O and cloud strategies arena, presented by Gartner for Technical Professionals experts.
Interactive
During these unusual times, it may feel like interacting with and learning from your peers is not a possibility. Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference has been created to allow you to engage with your peers and Gartner experts in a myriad of ways:
Workshops
These are small-scale and interactive sessions at which you can drill down on specific topics with a how-to focus. (End-user only and preregistration is required.) • Follow the Gartner Four-Step Framework to Optimize Your Megavendor Negotiations • 9 Steps to Manage Software Audits, and Tips and Tactics to Negotiate Audit Settlements
These topic-driven end-user forums are moderated by Gartner experts. Learn what your peers are doing around particular issues and across industries. (End-user only and preregistration is required.)
Roundtables
These topic-driven sessions provide a more intimate discussion forum featuring one Gartner expert and end-user peers posing questions.
Ask the Expert sessions
Gain Gartner insights, tactics and concrete guidance to help cost-optimize your assets and save money when you’re preparing for vendor contract negotiations. • How to Use 3 Powerful Financial Models to Optimize Your Infrastructure and Cloud Negotiations • How to Repair a Failing IT Services Deal • Four Steps to Negotiate and Optimize Outsourced Infrastructure Services Costs
Contract Negotiation Clinics
A 30-minute consultation with a Gartner expert provides targeted, personalized advice to help you plan proactively and invest wisely. (End-user only and preregistration is required.)
Gartner one-on-one meetings
Communicating a Successful DevOps and Agile Strategy for Digital Transformation Infrastructure Modernization — Strategies That Actually Get Proper Funding and Support Demystifying Chaos Engineering It’s Time to Step Up, Brilliant Women — Top Principles for Bringing Your Brilliance Forward in Leadership Hacking Your Way to Culture Change in I&O Attracting and Retaining Women in I&O
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SASE Adoption NetDevOps: Increase Network Agility (Without Getting Fired) Creating a Bulletproof Infrastructure With Constant Threat From Ransomware. Fact or Fiction?
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Four Steps to Negotiate and Optimize Outsourced Infrastructure Services Costs Cloud Cost Management and Optimization Infrastructure as Code The Edge: What’s Really Happening Out There How to Enhance Reliability and Resilience Using SRE and Chaos Engineering Practices On-Premises Data Centers Essentialism Data Center Infrastructure — Converged, Hyperconverged, Composable or Distributed Cloud?
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Cloud Networking Across Multiple Cloud Use the Gartner S-A-V-E Methodology for Infrastructure Cost Optimization Opportunities Lift-and-Shift Is Not Bad: When Rehosting to Public Cloud Makes Sense Creating a Bulletproof Infrastructure With Constant Threat From Ransomware. Fact or Fiction? How to Follow Enterprise Network Best Practices in a Work From Home World How Do I Select the Right Cloud Management Tooling? Modern Infrastructure and Application Monitoring A Midsize Enterprise Approach to Working With Public Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Providers
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Exhibitor Engagement Zone
The virtual Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference helps you gain access to exhibitors within your own workspace and at your own pace. Take advantage of access to some of the world’s leading technology and solution providers to help you accelerate your technology decisions.
Interactive sessions
Exhibitor meetings
Gartner Magic Quadrant™ sessions
Solution Provider sessions
Meet with exhibitors and receive individual guidance tailored to your goals and challenges. You’ll be offered tangible next steps to immediately implement solutions and achieve business priorities.
Get a snapshot of the solution landscape, driven by Gartner research. Create your solution provider shortlist based on your assessment criteria.
Make educated investment decisions based on unbiased insights from Gartner, case studies and live interactions with solution providers.
When you’re looking to address a specific issue, these strategic roadmap presentations and user-case studies provide real-world advice.
