Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference 2024 - Las Vegas | Gartner, Inc. | 10 December 2024 | The Venetian Resort Las Vegas, 3355 South Las Vegas Boulevard Las Vegas, Nevada 89109 USA

Next-Generation I&O: Available, Intelligent and Resilient
Your future is being built at an ever-accelerating rate, as Generative AI is changing almost every aspect of your organization. Balancing value against resilience and risk is critical to your success, as is transforming your technology platforms. Your people have new expectations of what work is and are looking to you to help navigate the skills and practices that are needed for success. You must be the visionary leader to tackle these challenges and to build the teams and technologies that keep delivering your future.

The conference brings the world’s technology leaders together to hear top trends, find objective answers and topic coverage in addition to best practices. Gain the insights and guidance to create an effective pathway to the future and network with your peers.

I&O Executives/Heads of I&O:
Create an I&O vision, gauge I&O maturity and evaluating the current state of critical enablers — such as staffing expertise, capacity, the operating model and organization design — all while supporting the ability to deliver valuable results quickly:

• Balance the need to innovate while "keeping the lights on.”
• Become an effective partner with business executives; shift from “order taker” to “trusted advisor.”
• Overcome the barriers of organizational culture, resources and talent to grow and scale your digital initiatives.
• Drive cost optimization to fund digital transformation initiatives.

Infrastructure Leaders:
Discover the best practices to improve service and support agility:

• Get the latest tools and methodologies for agile and rapid development.
• Deliver a user experience that customers and employees will embrace.
• Develop mobile apps that transform business processes and deliver exceptional user experiences.

IT Operations Leaders:
Discover the latest insights to engage and inspire today’s workforce:

• Embrace emerging trends to enhance business value.
• Learn how to approach DevOps.
• Understand the importance of people and culture with DevOps transformation.
• Discover how to approach bimodal from a strategy perspective.

Cloud leaders:
Explore how to lead the transformation within your organization:

• Understand the impact of cloud and edge services.
• Learn how cloud can integrate with your existing IT infrastructure.
• Discover the latest cloud computing technologies and trends that will enable digital business.

Sourcing, procurement and vendor management leaders (SPVM):
Be a catalyst for business-led IT sourcing:

• Focus on business outcomes through partnering with I&O leaders for speed and agility
• Explore and pioneer new sourcing and vendor management techniques to balance cost, risk and value
• Optimize costs through new and innovative negotiation techniques

Technical Professionals:
Provide the foundation that drives digital transformation:

• Benchmark your strategy and learn from experts and peers on how to design and create a reliable, secure infrastructure and operations.
• Dive into greater technical depth in the areas of architecture and design.
• Explore trends and insight into how to adopt CX practices that empower the anywhere business.

I&O Security Leaders:
I&O leaders involved with security will:

• Learn how to secure and defend your organizations from exposures and threats
• Discover how to effectively create collaboration between I&O and security leaders
• Hear from peers on their best practices and experience in their day-to-day operations.

2024 Speakers

KEYNOTES SPEAKERS:

Carla Harris
Senior Client Advisor, Morgan Stanley

Dr. Paul Redmond
Director of Student Experience and Enhancement University of Liverpool

Autumn Stanish
Director Analyst, Gartner

Hassan Ennaciri
Sr Director Analyst, Gartner

Roger Williams
VP Analyst, Gartner

Charles Duhigg
Bestselling Author & Pulitzer Prize-Winning Columnist

GUEST SPEAKERS AND EXECUTIVE STORIES:

Om Maniyar
Vice President of Infrastructure, Cloud and Operations, American Airlines

Vickie Montpetit
Director, Digital Platforms, Hydro-Quebec

Ashley O'Hara
Lead Governance & Strategy, Humana

Evy Poumpouras
Former Secret Service Special Agent and Interrogator, Co-Host of Bravo TV’s “Spy Games”

Marjan Rajabi
Technical Leader, Digital Transformation, Southern California Edison

Hope Shacklette
Technology Lifecycle Management Executive, Humana

Robert Sullivan
Chief Information Officer; Chief Security Officer, Agero Inc.