The 2024 agenda delivers the latest technology, strategy and leadership insights across 13 key topic areas, covering the challenges most critical to CIOs and IT executives.
Agenda
Hone your IT leadership skills, refine your strategies, and discover the latest innovative technologies at Gartner CIO & IT Executive Summit in Dubai, UAE.
2024 topic highlights
Applications, Platforms and Software Engineering
The role of the builder is on the rise. Explore how to architect, build and run applications and platforms that drive your digital business strategy. Learn how to build the foundations for the future by modernizing legacy systems and accelerating software engineering practices with composable technologies, agile, DevOps and more.
AI, Data and Analytics
Leverage the game-changing technologies of AI, such as foundation models, generative AI (the technologies driving ChatGPT), and data and analytics to drive innovation, growth and efficiencies at scale. Learn how this technology will impact all of enterprise software, talent and skills, along with risks, trust and governance. Move to a data-centric culture of self-service and pervasive business analytics.
Customer and Citizen Experience
Discover how to create superior digital experiences that serve as a sustainable differentiator for customers and citizens. Explore ways to personalize engagements and achieve total experience outcomes through linking with employee experience strategies.
Cloud, Infrastructure and Operations
Optimize your cloud business models and leverage edge computing and multicloud to evolve your infrastructure and operations to facilitate extreme agility and autonomous and anywhere operations. Respond to new geopolitical pressures, such as data sovereignty and security, while managing costs through FinOps.
Digital and Business Transformation
Build, scale, refine and accelerate your digital business strategy. Shift toward the next era of digitalization focusing on autonomous business. Discover how to create new products and business models that transform the business and the dynamics of your industry.
Executive Leadership and Change Management
Discover how to be a transformational leader, influence stakeholders and embrace the evolution of the CIO role. Acquire the competencies to anticipate, prepare and manage the onslaught of disruptions and the last mile of value realization — change management. Strive for high performance with a generationally and geographically diverse team.
Technology Investments and Value
Identify new funding models and cost, financial and value management frameworks that will help your organization prioritize and optimize investments that deliver the highest business value.
Future of Work
Explore digital workplace strategies, frameworks, models, blended human and AI workforces, the future of management and human-centric organizational designs to improve the employee value proposition to produce results in this new landscape of work.
Applied Innovation
Harness and apply innovation to drive disruption, leveraging emerging technologies to achieve your digital ambitions. Learn techniques that generate disruptive ideas. Evaluate the future of emerging technologies and the impact to the enterprise.
Operating Models
Explore how to align operating models with enterprise and information and technology strategies, as well as adopting new operating models that are a better fit for the current environment.
Strategic Planning and Execution
Learn how to create and execute dynamic and adaptive strategies that build resilience and position your organization to thrive.
Sustainable and Responsible Business
Improve quality, scale and prioritize sustainable technology investments and environmental, social and governance data that will help your enterprise pursue new growth opportunities, improve brand, reduce costs and mitigate risks.