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Gartner Announces Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo, October 20-23, in Orlando

STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT)

What:

Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo 2025
When: October 20-23, 2025
Where: Walt Disney World Resort, Orlando, Florida

Details: Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo 2025 is the world's most important gathering of CIOs and other IT executives. More than 8,000 CIOs and senior leaders will explore the technology, insights and trends shaping the future of IT and business, including generative AI, business transformation, cybersecurity, customer experience, data analytics, executive leadership and more. Over the course of four days, attendees will hear from over 140 Gartner experts and 180 solution providers in 350+ sessions spanning technology and information, leadership and business strategy.

Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo Theme: Agents of Change: Leading Through Intelligence
In today’s volatile world, CIOs and tech leaders face crucial choices. Now is the time to harness AI for successful digital transformation. As the lead change agent, leaders need:

  • Adaptive leadership to navigate complex challenges
  • Smart tech decisions on AI-ready data, cybersecurity, cloud sovereignty and cost optimization
  • Innovation and resilience to foster a change-ready culture
  • Actionable insights for prioritized strategies
  • A future-ready workforce for tomorrow

The Gartner Opening Keynote: Bridging the Value Divide, will focus on Gartner’s unique view on the growing value divide in organizations' AI efforts: 60% of CIOs see little return, while 40% see some but want more. To bridge this gap, Gartner will discuss how enterprises must rethink their workforce, operations, and even functional and organizational identities. The full agenda will provide the latest insights and expert guidance on the future direction of technology, best practices to define and validate IT strategies and real-world examples of how to execute on key initiatives.

The Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo Signature Series covers the most-anticipated insights and findings to help prepare attendees for the year ahead. This year’s Signature Series sessions include:

  • Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2026
  • CIO and Technology Executive Agenda for 2026
  • Top Strategic Predictions for 2026 and Beyond
  • CEO Agenda 2026
  • Emerging Technology Vision 2026

Special Programming
In addition to accessing the most important and relevant insights across a variety of formats, Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo offers a series of special programs to dive deeper into the most important trends and provides important face-to-face connection with peers and leading experts.

Learn more about the conference experience by program:

IT Xpo
IT Xpo is the solution showcase teeming with over 180 leading providers of IT solutions aimed at driving business imperatives. It will highlight the next steps in technology through live demonstrations, virtual meetings with exhibitors and fast-paced presentations on key technology directions.

For complete conference and registration details, please visit Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo 2025.

Press Registration: Full-time journalists from editorial publications are eligible for a press pass. Please contact Matt LoDolce for additional details and registration requests: Matt.LoDolce@Gartner.com.

Social Media: Join the discussion on social media using #GartnerSYM.

About Gartner for Information Technology Executives
Gartner for Information Technology Executives provides actionable, objective insight to CIOs and IT leaders to help them drive their organizations through digital transformation and lead business growth. Additional information is available at www.gartner.com/en/information-technology.

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About Gartner
Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT) delivers actionable, objective insight that drives smarter decisions and stronger performance on an organization’s mission-critical priorities. To learn more, visit gartner.com

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Gartner
Matt.LoDolce@Gartner.com

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