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21 – 22 November 2022 | London, U.K.
Empowering the Anywhere Business
Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations
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21 – 22 November 2022 | London, U.K.
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Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference 2020
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21 – 22 November 2022 | London, U.K.
Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations
& Cloud Strategies Conference
Businesses across the globe are challenged to bring value
and innovation wherever their customers are. Infrastructure
and operations (I&O) 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.
is the place to find objective answers and topic coverage in addition
to top trends analysis. Gain the insights and guidance you need to create an effective pathway to the future.
Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference 2022, 21 – 22 November, in London, U.K.,
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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.
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21 – 22 November 2022 | London, U.K.
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By 2025,
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 that lies ahead. Learn how to leverage intelligent automation, embrace platform engineering, deploy multicloud operations and intertwine I&O throughout your organizational fabric.
By 2022,
Gartner keynote
Guest keynote
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.
Adaptive Resilience to Empower the Anywhere Business
Gartner keynotes
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 that lies ahead. This keynote discusses how to leverage intelligent automation, embrace platform engineering, deploy multicloud operations and intertwine I&O throughout your organizational fabric.
I&O Forward: Leading the Next Phase of Growth
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Becoming a Backable Leader
Suneel Gupta, Author, Professor
and CEO, RISE
Adaptive Resilience to Empower the Anywhere Business
Dennis Smith, VP Analyst, Gartner
Julia Palmer, VP Analyst, Gartner
Douglas Toombs, VP Analyst, Gartner
Dennis Smith,
VP Analyst, Gartner
Julia Palmer
VP Analyst, Gartner
Douglas Toombs,
VP Analyst, Gartner
I&O Forward: Leading the Next Phase of Growth
Director Analyst
Karen Brown
Mark Cleary
Senior Director Analyst
Doug Toombs
VP Analyst

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Tracks
Gain actionable insights from five topic-based tracks that span the entire agenda.
Five 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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21 – 22 November 2022 | London, U.K.
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A. Disruptive Practices, Trends and Technologies
B. Cloud Cookbook
C. Platform Engineering
D. Operations: Centralized, Distributed, Cloud
E. Skills, Organization and Leadership
Enterprises are now challenged more than ever to rethink business models as they embrace disruptive practices, trends and technologies, forcing them into fundamental change. How they leverage and enable ecosystems is disrupted further by pressures to reduce environmental footprints and embrace sustainability initiatives. This track explores the balance between ensuring operational stability and embracing these disruptive influences.
A. Disruptive Practices, Trends and Technologies
Tracks
Organizations with a cloud strategy and roadmap are in a better position to achieve better outcomes from cloud computing than those without one. They have more coherent approaches to cloud usage, costs, and cloud migrations. They anticipate both the benefits and potential downsides of cloud use, attempting to exploit the benefits while minimizing the downsides. This track explores how to meet your organization’s stakeholder and business needs for cloud by creating and developing a strategy and roadmap of how to enable and exploit cloud and demonstrate value.
B. Cloud Cookbook
Tracks
Many organizations are under immense pressure to deliver agile application and integration architectures and agile user experiences to meet rapidly changing anywhere business needs. I&O leaders face a world that requires increasingly complex architecture, effective integration patterns, expanded platform capabilities, disciplined yet federated delivery practices and versatile skills. This track explores how to use a product-focused mindset, infrastructure as code and aggressive automation to establish and develop platforms that enable the agility required to empower the anywhere business.
C. Platform Engineering
Tracks
The anywhere business is increasingly distributed, fragmented and complex, creating a management and operational nightmare. Hybrid workload operations, centralized core systems and cloud management require new approaches. This track focuses on how operations teams maintain, administer and support centralized, distributed and cloud operations practices and technologies.
D. Operations: Centralized, Distributed, Cloud
Tracks
The demands on leaders are constantly changing. The need to attract the best
staff and retain your skilled workforce is vital in a hyper-competitive world. I&O operating models and structures must evolve as enterprises embrace disruptions like cloud adoption, DevOps and product-focused delivery in an effort to meet customers' increased expectations and demands. The changing relationship between I&O, peer IT domains, IT leadership and customers is heavily influenced by the changing relationship between employees and employers and the future
of work. 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.
E. Skills, Organization and Leadership
Tracks
Doing Big Things With Small Teams
Technical Insights
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Sourcing, Procurement and Vendor Management
Infrastructure Agility
Cloud Journey
Enabling Security
Optimizing Costs and Value
What does Agile even mean? Agile is a state of mind, a perspective: an organization pursues Agile, it doesn't do Agile. 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.
Infrastructure Agility
Spotlight Tracks
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
I&O security is a critical component of an effective I&O infrastructure that supports operational resilience, security and compliance. It is essential that efforts to mitigate risk will also maintain agility in delivering customer value while balancing cost. 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 into day to day operations.
Enabling Security
Spotlight Tracks
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.
Optimizing Costs and Value
Spotlight Tracks
Organizations with fewer than 100 IT staff and limited IT budgets face the same operational and security challenges as their larger cousins, albeit on a smaller scale. A smaller scale doesn’t translate to less complexity. The need to effectively deliver services and protection across the enterprise doesn’t change. Join your peers within this track to understand how to rightsize solutions and programs
to be effective within your organization.
Doing Big Things With Small Teams
Spotlight Tracks
These technical insight sessions are designed for drill-down analysis of critical topics within the infrastructure, operations and cloud strategies arena. They will be presented by analysts from our Gartner for Technical Professionals organization.
Technical Insights
Spotlight Tracks
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
Spotlight Tracks
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 infrastructure and operations 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 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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Sourcing, procurement and vendor management (SPVM) leaders must become catalysts for business-led IT sourcing while supporting diversity and sustainability. This spotlight track explores how 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
Spotlight Tracks

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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:
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21 – 22 November 2022 | London, U.K.
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Workshops
One-on-one sessions
Contract Negotiation Clinics
Roundtables
Ask the Expert
sessions
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Attend as a team
Accelerate learning and build a shared vision by attending as a group.
Group Rate Discount
Save on registration when you attend the conference with your colleagues:
1 for every 3 paid registrations
2 for every 5 paid registrations
3 for every 7 paid registrations
4 for every 10 paid registrations
Workshops
Measuring the Success of I&O Automation Initiatives
How to Combat Inflation During Vendor Negotiations
Making the Most of Your Scarcest Resource: Your Time
Roundtables
Ask the Expert sessions
Follow the Gartner 4-Step Framework to Optimize Your Megavendor Negotiations
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Contract Negotiation Clinics
A 30-minute consultation with a Gartner expert provides targeted, personalized advice to help you plan proactively and invest wisely. (Preregistration is required.)
One-on-One Sessions
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Discussion on Agile Practices in Infrastructure and Operations
Your Most Critical Issue: Training and Developing the I&O Workforce
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Ask the Expert: Scaling Infrastructure-as-Code Starts With the Right Foundations
SD-WAN
How to Embed Sustainability into Digital Workplace I&O
Senior Leadership Circle Exclusive: Ask the Expert — SRE Adoption
Gartner’s Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2023: Your Questions Answered
Ransomware Is Changing: Are You Ready?
How to Get Started With Blameless Postmortems
Senior Leadership Circle Exclusive: Ask the Expert — What Is Zero Trust?
Running Applications With Containers, Kubernetes and Serverless Platforms
Everything You Want to Know About Innovation in Storage, Hyperconverged and Integrated Systems
How Do I Mature My Cloud Adoption?
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Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure
Microsoft
Four Steps to Negotiate and Optimize Outsourced Infrastructure Services Costs
Gartner’s Top 10 Tips, Tactics and Tricks to Enhance Your Technology Negotiation Playbook
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21 – 22 November 2022 | London, U.K.
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Exhibitor Engagement Zone
Connect live with the world’s leading technology and service providers to accelerate your decisions.
Interactive sessions
Exhibitor
meetings
Gartner Magic Quadrant™ sessions
Solution Provider sessions
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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.
Exhibitor
meetings
Get a snapshot of the solution landscape, driven by Gartner research. Create your solution provider shortlist based on your assessment criteria.
Gartner Magic Quadrant™ sessions
Make educated investment decisions based on unbiased insights from Gartner, case studies and live interactions with solution providers.
Interactive sessions
When you’re looking to address a specific issue, these strategic roadmap presentations and user case studies provide real-world advice.
Solution Provider sessions
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