Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference
22 – 23 November 2021 | EMEA | Virtual
Transform Infrastructure and Operations to Empower the Anywhere Business
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Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference 2020
The emergence of a new normal has changed how businesses around the world 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.
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 with the knowledge and tangible actions you can take to build the workforce you need to facilitate adaptive digital resilience.
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.
The Virtual Experience
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Tracks
5 tracks covering your top priorities
Spotlight tracks
Spotlight tracks let you explore key topics and perspectives in detail. Understand the impact of new trends. Consider ways to support your career and business goals.
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A. Disruptive Technologies and Trends B. Cloud Migration Strategies C. Cloud and Operations Management
D. Delivering the Right Workloads — Anywhere E. Staffing and Leadership
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
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.
Technical Insights
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 this 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 is critical. But knowing where you are and where you are headed is critical to success. Journeys range from infrastructure replacement to digital transformation, with many others in between. This session 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
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.
C. Cloud and Operations Management
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.
D. 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.
E. Staffing and Leadership
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I&O Security and Infrastructure Resilience Automation DevOps and Agile Cost Optimization
Technical Insights Cloud Journey
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:
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. • Follow the Gartner 4-Step Framework to Optimize Your Megavendor Negotiations
Contract Negotiation Clinic
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
Gartner Magic Quadrant™ and Hype Cycle™ sessions
Contract Negotiation Clinics
Magic Quadrant and Critical Capabilities for Unified Endpoint Management Tools Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software Solutions Magic Quadrant for Global Network Service Providers Magic Quadrant for Managed Network Services: A Global Guide to Top Performing “Managed NOC Services Providers” Hype Cycle for Infrastructure Strategies 2021
Dan Wilson Dennis Smith Michael Hoeck Neil Rickard Neil Rickard Nathan Hill
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JoAnn Rosenberger
Attracting and Retaining Women in I&O Building and Sustaining Your Automation Pipeline Women in IT: A Conversation Among Women and Men on Gender Diversity NetDevOps: Increase Network Agility (Without Getting Fired) Senior Leadership Circle Roundtable: Hacking Your Way to Culture Change in I&O
Debra Logan Chris Saunderson Debra Logan Andrew Lerner Ross Winser
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How to Enhance Reliability and Resilience Using SRE and Chaos Engineering Practices How Do I Select the Right Cloud Management Tooling? Use the Gartner S-A-V-E Methodology for Infrastructure Cost Optimization Opportunities Creating a Bulletproof Infrastructure With Constant Threat From Ransomware. Fact or Fiction? Platform Ops to Support and Scale DevOps Cloud Cost Management and Optimization Infrastructure as Code Senior Leadership Circle: Ask The Expert — Essentialism
Hassan Ennaciri Dennis Smith JoAnn Rosenberger Fintan Quinn Hassan Ennaciri Marco Meinardi Chris Saunderson Duncan Prosser
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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 acceoerate your technology decisions.
Solution Provider sessions
Interactive sessions
Exhibitor meetings
Gartner Magic Quadrant™ 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.
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.
Get a snapshot of the solution landscape, driven by Gartner research. Create your solution provider shortlist based on your assessment criteria.