The World’s Most
Important Gathering of
CIOs and IT Executives™

8 – 12 November 2020 | Barcelona, Spain

For CIOs and IT Executives

Discover the unknown, prioritize the right products, and demonstrate the business value of IT to your organization. Attend Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo 2020 in Barcelona, Spain.

Through trusted research-backed insights that are aligned to short and long term goals, facilitated peer connections, Gartner experts and external technology vendors, CIOs and IT executives will acquire the strategy needed to stay ahead of the competition and grow profitably amid constant change.

Highlights from the 2019 conference include:

  • Inspiring conversations from guest speakers, such as Daniel Pink, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Dame Stella Rimington and more
  • Insights from Gartner experts to guide CIOs and IT executives to develop and execute winning strategies
  • Discussions on key topics, including data and analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), culture, customer experience, cybersecurity and more
  • Meaningful connections between peers to work through common challenges faced by CIOs and IT executives
  • Technology solutions to help attendees meet their mission-critical priorities

Manage IT Like a Business 

Challenge how you think about leadership in a digital society and discover new approaches for each level of leadership and the enterprise culture as a whole.

Leverage Technology & Information

Examine the opportunities and risks in adopting emerging technologies such as AI, the Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain and digital twins to help shape and accelerate your digital transformation journey.

Plan and Execute IT Strategy

Enterprise business model success requires strategies and tactics to make complex business challenges simpler. Discover business strategy tools and techniques to turn complexity and chaos into real strategy execution initiatives.

The Gartner difference

Gartner is the world’s leading research and advisory company. We equip leaders and their teams in every major business function with the indispensable insights, advice and tools to achieve their mission-critical priorities today and build the successful organizations of tomorrow. Across every industry and enterprise size, Gartner provides the expertise needed to tackle your key initiatives, stay ahead of competition and grow your organization’s value.

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    Join a global community of CIOs and IT executives

    The digital era has brought unprecedented change to technology, business and society. Beyond managing IT, CIOs are called to lead and inspire their teams and business stakeholders through deeply transformative business models, practices and cultures. Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo addresses the strategic needs of enterprise CIOs and their leadership teams. This conference is designed for:

    • CIOs interested in the opportunity to connect with peers across regions and industries, and gain new perspectives on the challenges and opportunities of digital business
    • IT executives focused on executing on the mission-critical priorities of their CIO and helping to shape their organization’s long-term IT strategy and technology investments

    2020 Topics at a Glance

    The conference covers challenges most critical to CIOs and their leadership teams. Preview some of the featured topics that will be covered at Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo 2020.

    Business Intelligence and Advanced Analytics

    The rate of technology change is accelerating. Explore how to move to a culture of self-service business analytics in a world of big data, with machine learning techniques, natural language interfaces and a focus on data storytelling.

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    Customer and User Experience

    Customers are more empowered than ever before. With customer experience (CX) management at the top of most CEOs’ agendas, discover how to create a superior CX that serves as a sustainable differentiator.

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    Digital Business Transformation

    Discover the steps needed to achieve digital transformation for your organization, and understand how to align the physical and digital worlds for employees, partners and customers.

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    Emerging and Disruptive Technologies

    Dive into blockchain, IoT, AI and robotic process automation to truly transform your organization.

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    Leadership, People and Culture

    Learn how to differentiate cultural characteristics from operating model constructs, and recruit and retain the talent needed to succeed.

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    Security, Risk and Compliance

    Explore the risks brought by the digital revolution and how to adapt your IT security requirements to encompass digital and cyber-physical needs.

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    Novel Coronavirus update

    Gartner is closely monitoring developments related to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), including guidance from the World Health Organization (WHO) as well as regional and national government directives and guidance.

    We continue to evaluate the situation on a daily basis with regard to the health and safety of our attendees, employees, and partners, as well as our ability to deliver the conference experience our participants expect.

    We will communicate any updates directly to all registered attendees and exhibitors. 

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