Sunday, 20 September, 2026 / 4:30:00 PM - 7:30:00 PM IST
Convention Center Foyer
Collect your badge at Registration located in the Convention Centre. You will need to provide photo ID at registration. Badges must be worn throughout the conference. Information points are located throughout the venue and our friendly team can help with all of your questions. Or use the live chat on the app to ask us anything.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 7:30:00 AM - 9:30:00 AM IST
Grand Ballroom Foyer
Enjoy some light refreshments and coffee before the conference. Please click here (coming soon) to see our refreshment break menu.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 7:30:00 AM - 6:00:00 PM IST
Grand Ballroom Foyer
Discover cutting-edge tools, diagnostics and actionable resources at the Gartner Showcase. Visit our demo space for a personalized walkthrough of our business and technology insights platform and learn how Gartner's leading tools like Accelerators, D&A Business Value Benchmark, and AI Use Case Insights can help you make faster, smarter decisions on your mission-critical priorities.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 7:30:00 AM - 7:00:00 PM IST
Convention Center Foyer
Collect your badge at Registration located in the Convention Centre. You will need to provide photo ID at registration. Badges must be worn throughout the conference. Information points are located throughout the venue and our friendly team can help with all of your questions. Or use the live chat on the app to ask us anything.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 8:15:00 AM - 8:35:00 AM IST
Theater, Exhibit Showcase
Exhibitors and their staff are encouraged to attend this session to familiarize themselves with the venue, onsite support and services, best practices for a successful conference, as well as a live Q&A with the Gartner team. Thank you for being an important part of the conference and the attendee experience!
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 9:30:00 AM - 10:15:00 AM IST
Grand Ballroom 1, 2 & 3, Ground Level
AI is accelerating new possibilities for data and analytics everywhere. Success isn’t always about being the fastest, but about finding your own path to value, while managing risk and cost. Join our Gartner’s Opening Keynote to discover how a thoughtful approach to speed and direction helps you prepare for what’s next, no matter where you are today.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 10:15:00 AM - 11:00:00 AM IST
Exhibit Showcase
Join us in the Exhibit Showcase for coffee, tea, and some light snacks in a brief break between sessions. Please click here (coming soon) to see our refreshment break menu.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 10:15:00 AM - 6:00:00 PM IST
Exhibit Showcase
Visit the Exhibit Showcase to evaluate industry offerings that can move your business forward. Engage with your peers, Gartner experts, and exhibitors. Attend a theater session to see technology in action.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 10:30:00 AM - 10:50:00 AM IST
Theater, Exhibit Showcase
95% of GenAI projects fail to reach production because LLMs lack enterprise context. Learn how Knowledge Graphs power GraphRAG to improve accuracy by up to 3×. See how Prospa cut loan approval times from 48 hours to 2 hours using this approach, and gain practical insights for building more accurate, reliable, production-ready GenAI applications.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 11:00:00 AM - 11:30:00 AM IST
Grand Ballroom 1
D&A leaders play a central role in their organization's AI success by providing the critical accelerants needed to realize value from AI. Based on your organization's data, analytics, and AI ambition and where you are today, this session will unfold the vision for data and analytics in 2030. It will describe how your capabilities, operating model and practices need to evolve to realize that ambition.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 11:00:00 AM - 11:30:00 AM IST
Grand Ballroom 3
Many organizations pursue data products; however, sustaining their success seems challenging. This breakout session is a compilation of several case studies and best practice recommendations for D&A leaders who seek guidance in executing their data product strategy.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 11:00:00 AM - 11:30:00 AM IST
Grand Salon
While there is convergence in capabilities across D&A governance technology stack, D&A leaders need to validate, select and rationalize tools to drive the optimal outcomes from their D&A governance programs while maximizing ROI.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 11:00:00 AM - 11:30:00 AM IST
Grand Ballroom 2
The enormous potential business value of AI will not materialize spontaneously. AI leaders should guide their organizations toward an era in which AI is not only creating tangible business value but goes beyond to become a critical competitive differentiator and industry disruptor.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 11:00:00 AM - 12:00:00 PM IST
Studio 2
Join an interactive executive discussion on emerging trends from the 2026 CDAO Agenda Survey, highlighting cost optimization for D&A, scalable design patterns and the use of AI to improve D&A operations. Discover how these insights can drive efficiency and innovation across your organization.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 11:00:00 AM - 11:20:00 AM IST
Theater, Exhibit Showcase
In this session, you’ll explore a reference architecture that serves as a blueprint for future-proofing your data and analytics environment. Through practical, step-by-step guidance, you’ll learn how to align your technology stack with business objectives — whether you're modernizing an existing architecture or building one from the ground up.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 11:00:00 AM - 11:45:00 AM IST
Meeting Room 3
Join this Peer Meetup to discuss how organizations are evolving their data foundations to manage and derive value from unstructured data, including documents, emails, images, audio, and other content sources. What approaches are helping improve accessibility, governance, and AI readiness? What challenges are leaders encountering? And what opportunities are emerging as unstructured data becomes a critical asset for analytics and AI? Connect with fellow data and analytics leaders to share experiences, exchange ideas, and explore practical strategies for unlocking value from unstructured data at scale. Before you step into this session, think about a couple of areas where you have attempted and/or succeeded in your organization that your peers might find useful. Also, think about a couple of questions you would like answered by those who may be further ahead in their data governance and data quality journey.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 11:00:00 AM - 12:30:00 PM IST
Studio 1
D&A value relies on data storytelling, which engages audiences better than BI reports or data science notebooks. Join this session to learn the fundamentals of data storytelling and how to bridge the gap between data science experts and decision makers. Discover how to craft compelling stories and upscale data storytelling for the future in the GenAI landscape.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 11:45:00 AM - 12:15:00 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 1
AI could unlock over $500B in economic value for India by 2030, but success depends on turning data into a trusted, governed, AI-ready asset. Sriram Raghavan explores how the AI control gap can be closed through modern data foundations that unify data, enable real-time context, agent orchestration, governance & observability. CXOs and Data & AI leaders will gain practical insights into breaking silos and scaling trusted AI across the enterprise.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 11:45:00 AM - 12:15:00 PM IST
Grand Salon
The race to Agentic AI is on, but speed without governance is a fast track to failure. The ultimate challenge isn't achieving autonomy; it’s building autonomy you can trust. Join us to see how SAS combines agentic AI with embedded governance, explainability, and human oversight to deliver faster, trusted outcomes.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 11:45:00 AM - 12:15:00 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 3
Turning AI ambition into measurable business value is a top priority for CxOs. Learn how leading organizations are leveraging SAP's Autonomous Enterprise strategy to accelerate financial close, build resilient supply chains, elevate customer experiences, and boost operational efficiency. Attendees will gain a practical playbook to prioritize, scale, and govern AI investments for measurable business outcomes.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 11:45:00 AM - 12:15:00 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 2
Autonomous agents need the right context to reason reliably. Learn how Electronic Arts uses Neo4j Context Graphs to achieve 10× faster time-to-insight and improve agent reliability. Discover how graphs overcome context-window limitations and gain practical approaches to build more reliable, production-ready autonomous agents.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 11:45:00 AM - 12:30:00 PM IST
Meeting Room 4
As agentic AI shifts from pilots to production, organizations must convert fragmented data to trusted actions amid data quality issues, surging compute costs, and insight-action gaps. Join us to explore strategies: trusted data foundations, efficient full-context analytics, agentic frameworks unifying data/agents/assistants/platforms for scalable outcomes. Discuss how to empower both AI consumers and AI experience builders.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 11:45:00 AM - 12:30:00 PM IST
Meeting Room 5
As analytics moves from dashboards to dialogue, organizations are rethinking how insights get discovered, trusted, and acted on. This round table brings together practitioners to explore how conversational, AI-driven interfaces are making analytics accessible to non-technical users.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 12:30:00 PM - 1:00:00 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 1
This session will provide a blueprint for the comprehensive data, analytics, and AI capabilities and services that leaders need to build to enable their organization's AI ambition. It will explore the implications of your AI ambition archetype on your buying, deployment, and organization strategies.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 12:30:00 PM - 1:00:00 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 2
This session covers practical steps, common mistakes to avoid, and key factors for launching data and maintaining a data catalog. Discover how to assess your organization’s metadata requirements, define clear goals, and apply best practices for a smooth implementation and ongoing success.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 12:30:00 PM - 12:50:00 PM IST
Theater, Exhibit Showcase
Organizations should evaluate potential vendors in the context of their overall portfolio. This session will demonstrate a Gartner tool that can help organizations understand the breadth and depth of vendor offerings across the D&A ecosystem.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 12:45:00 PM - 1:15:00 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 3
There are seven key reasons organizations struggle with effective data governance. This session examines what consistently goes wrong and offers practical solutions to help make data governance work for your organization.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 12:45:00 PM - 1:15:00 PM IST
Grand Salon
AXA is spearheading global AI leadership by leveraging its Secure AI Model Garden, “SecureGPT,” and fostering cross-entity collaboration to deliver scalable and reusable AI solutions. However, as a federated organization—even with access to SecureGPT—AXA entities face the risk of fragmented development, leading to limited reusability, reduced scalability, and a proliferation of siloed AI solutions. To address this, AXA has embarked on a two-fold journey: 1. Global AI Assets Driving efficiency, standardization, and reduced implementation costs through shared, reusable AI capabilities. 2. Local AI & Data Foundations at Scale Enabling each entity to build strong local foundations, creating a compounding effect of scalable AI adoption across diverse landscapes.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 12:45:00 PM - 1:30:00 PM IST
Meeting Room 4
Data and analytics leaders must evolve their data management practice iteratively maturing and expanding based on AI use cases and not a rip-and-replace or one-size-fits-all solution. Join this interactive session to understand the key components in the data management architecture that are foundational to AI-ready data.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 12:45:00 PM - 1:30:00 PM IST
Meeting Room 5
Join this roundtable of trailblazers and thought leaders for peer discussions on advancing women in IT leadership. Women attendees are invited to explore opportunities and challenges, and to share best practices for successfully navigating the path to IT leadership.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 12:45:00 PM - 1:30:00 PM IST
Studio 1
Organizations are overwhelmed by the multitude of concepts, definitions, standards and exaggerated claims about AI agents from vendors. They seek clarity on what AI agents truly are and how they differ from other solutions. This session will clarify the real distinctions between AI agents and other technological solutions, provide insight into the current landscape and explore the future of next-generation AI agents.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 1:00:00 PM - 2:30:00 PM IST
Showroom Pavilion, Showroom Kitchen & Fifty Five East, Ground Level
Join us at Showroom Pavilion and Showroom Kitchen behind Exhibit Showcase to network with your peers and make new connections. Engage with your peers, Gartner Analysts, and exhibitors while enjoying delicious food and beverages. Click here (coming soon) to view the lunch menu. For specific dietary needs, please visit the dietary table located within (coming soon) space for further details and assistance.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 1:15:00 PM - 2:15:00 PM IST
Studio 2
Welcome to an exclusive CDAO Circle lunch which starts with a plated lunch service at 13:15 to 13:30. Our speaker Varun Nagaraj and Prasad lad will present from 13:30 till 14:15. As organizations accelerate AI adoption, leaders are increasingly challenged to balance investment costs with tangible business value. This panel brings together perspectives from academia, industry, and market research to explore how organizations can move beyond AI experimentation and focus on measurable outcomes. Join us for an engaging discussion on the economics of AI, strategies for maximizing return on investment, managing risks, and building sustainable competitive advantage in an AI-driven world.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 1:15:00 PM - 1:35:00 PM IST
Theater, Exhibit Showcase
Data delays limit the effectiveness of AI agents and slow decision-making. In this session, discover how a semantic metadata layer can automatically connect structured and unstructured data to provide real-time context for employees and AI agents. Learn how to automate context retrieval, reduce repetitive data preparation, and deliver trusted, governed and traceable insights that enable faster, more confident decisions at scale.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 1:40:00 PM - 2:00:00 PM IST
Theater, Exhibit Showcase
As organizations move from AI experimentation to enterprise-wide autonomy, SAP brings together intelligent agents, connected business processes, and trusted business data to transform how work gets done. In this session, experience live demonstrations of SAP’s autonomous business domain agents across Finance and Supply Chain, discover industry-specific AI innovations, and see how ERP migration agents can accelerate transformation.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 2:05:00 PM - 2:25:00 PM IST
Theater, Exhibit Showcase
Supply chains don't suffer from a lack of data; they suffer from a lack of context. Learn how AstraZeneca transformed Digital Supply Chain Maps into an AI-enabled intelligence platform powered by 4.1M+ node Enterprise Knowledge Graph, Conversational AI, and Digital Twin foundations. Learn how connected intelligence reveals dependencies, improves impact assessment, accelerates decision-making, and lays the groundwork for Self-Healing Supply Chain.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 2:30:00 PM - 3:00:00 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 1
The buzz: “Dashboards are dead.” Yet, they remain the backbone of enterprise analytics for operational oversight. GenAI is revolutionizing the space, promising to streamline migration and inject intelligence, but only 8% of new reports use it today. Explore the “death of dashboards” narrative, along with the opportunities and pitfalls of modenizing to next-gen analytics.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 2:30:00 PM - 3:00:00 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 3
Data engineering faces increasing pressure to deliver AI-ready data that meets agentic AI requirements. This session explores changes in data engineering functions, practices, architectures and technologies.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 2:30:00 PM - 3:00:00 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 2
Data and analytics leaders are turning to AI agents to automate data analysis and drive actionable insights with minimal human effort. The success of agentic analytics hinges on addressing the challenges of integration and reliability. In this session, discover how combining Knowledge Graphs, Ontologies, and Semantics with AI agents can enable scalable, context-aware, and trustworthy solutions.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 2:30:00 PM - 3:00:00 PM IST
Grand Salon
Organizations now have more options to build effective RAG systems, and those options come with confusion. Many organizations are looking to capitalize on new innovations such as long context windows, knowledge graphs, reasoning models, multi agent systems, and beyond. Attend this session to learn about seven challenges with RAG systems, their associated architectural choices, and best practices to improve their performance.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 2:30:00 PM - 3:15:00 PM IST
Meeting Room 3
Join this Peer Meetup to discuss how organizations are establishing effective AI governance frameworks to manage risk, ensure accountability, and build trust in AI. What governance approaches are working? What challenges have emerged? And how are leaders balancing innovation, compliance, and responsible AI adoption? Connect with fellow data and AI leaders to share experiences, exchange ideas, and explore practical strategies for governing AI at scale. Before you step into this session, think about a couple of areas where you have attempted and/or succeeded in your organization that your peers might find useful. Also, think about a couple of questions you would like answered by those who may be further ahead in their data governance and data quality journey.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 2:30:00 PM - 3:15:00 PM IST
Studio 1
The lakehouse architecture is becoming the cornerstone of modern data management for analytics and AI, yet it faces design challenges due to multiple interpretations of the purpose of data zones or medallion layers. This session provides clarity on the purposes and the design principles of the lakehouse architecture.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 3:15:00 PM - 4:00:00 PM IST
Boardroom 1
In this limited access session, discover how AI-driven interfaces and workflows are transforming analytics. Hear a Gartner expert share the future of dashboards, strategies for assessing team maturity and data readiness. What it’s like to partner with Gartner and how Gartner can help you prepare your business for next-gen investments.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 3:15:00 PM - 4:00:00 PM IST
Studio 2
In a recent Gartner survey, 89% of CDAOs said effective D&A governance is crucial for business, technology and AI innovation, yet almost 70% find their current D&A and AI governance practices, skills and technology insufficient to drive innovation and business value. This multigroup discussion will focus on sharing experiences and addressing how CDAOs are evolving their D&A and AI governance approaches, building the business case for foundational investments, and designing effective operating models.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 3:15:00 PM - 3:45:00 PM IST
Grand Salon
At AstraZeneca, we are harnessing AI builder platforms to turn data into a decisive business advantage. We aim to industrialise AI-ready data products that are self-validating, self-optimising, semantically enriched, and AI-ready from creation through retirement. In the session, learn how we are moving faster, simplifying architectures, and unlocking new use cases across R&D, manufacturing, and enterprise operations—securely and responsibly.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 3:15:00 PM - 3:45:00 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 2
Most AI initiatives never make it beyond the pilot phase. Drawing on real-world deployments across financial services, healthcare, manufacturing and retail, this session explores what it takes to scale AI successfully. Learn the organisational, governance and operational practices that separate production-grade AI from promising experiments and discover proven patterns for turning AI investments into measurable business outcomes.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 3:15:00 PM - 3:45:00 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 3
High-performing data infrastructures and AI models yield zero enterprise value if frontline teams don't actively trust and use them. This session reveals how to break the "shelfware cycle" by unifying hybrid data sources into a single governed semantic layer—powering both intuitive visual dashboards and AI powered conversational assistants. Learn how organizations are leveraging Tableau to scale conversational analytics, control query compute costs, and turn latent data investments into measurable, frontline ROI.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 3:15:00 PM - 3:45:00 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 1
In a world of growing data complexity and faster decision cycles, traditional analytics is no longer enough. Agentic Analytics enables organizations to move ahead from being reactive to proactive, with autonomous, intelligent, goal-driven decisioning. Join us to explore: • Key data and analytics challenges today • Transformative role of Agentic Analytics • Key tenets for successful Agentic Analytics solution • Live demos of Agentic Analytics
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 3:15:00 PM - 4:00:00 PM IST
Meeting Room 4
As AI agents move from experimentation into core business operations, they introduce a new class of enterprise risks—from accountability and decision rights to security, compliance, resilience, and financial exposure. For Chief Risk Officers, CTOs and Risk Leaders, the challenge is not simply enabling AI at scale, but doing so with the right guardrails, controls and governance in place. Join the discussion to explore what it takes to scale AI agents responsibly in complex, regulated enterprises—from establishing risk frameworks and accountability models to defining controls, governance mechanisms, and oversight. Discuss how leading organisations are balancing innovation with risk appetite, regulatory expectations and measurable business value & ROI. In this session you will: -Discuss how to scale AI agents responsibly across complex, regulated enterprises -Drive readiness and accelerate regulatory compliance for Model Risk Management and Data Governance -Exchange approaches for risk frameworks, accountability models & controls -Define effective governance mechanisms & oversight -Balance innovation with risk appetite & regulatory expectations -Ensure AI initiatives deliver measurable business value & ROI Who should attend: -Chief Risk Officers -CTOs -Risk Leaders
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 3:15:00 PM - 4:00:00 PM IST
Meeting Room 5
AI agents are writing code, sending emails, booking meetings, even moving money. But how far should we let them go? In this roundtable, leaders share where they are deploying agents, how much autonomy they allow, what actions are off-limits, and how they enforce guardrails. We will examine trust, risk frameworks under pressure, and the evolving balance between bold innovation and firm control.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 3:45:00 PM - 4:15:00 PM IST
Exhibit Showcase
Join us in the Exhibit Showcase for coffee, tea, and some light snacks in a brief break between sessions. Please click here (coming soon) to see our refreshment break menu.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 3:50:00 PM - 4:10:00 PM IST
Theater, Exhibit Showcase
AI success depends heavily on the data platform that feeds it enterprise ground truth and context. However, assuming perfection in data platforms is a recipe for failure. This session explores how enterprises can leapfrog stages and work around major gaps to achieve proven ROI in production.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 4:15:00 PM - 4:45:00 PM IST
Grand Salon
Most enterprises don't have a data problem — they have a connection problem. Precise numbers live in tables, meaning lives in documents, and the relationships that tie them together are invisible to both. That gap is why AI answers sound confident but can't be trusted or explained. This session shows how to move from managing data as static, siloed inventory to orchestrating it as a connected, context-aware foundation: what "metadata by design" looks like when business context is required at creation time instead of enriched after the fact, how knowledge graphs make relationships explicit for GraphRAG and agentic workflows, and why production benchmarks show 60-80% reductions in hallucination when semantic structure is in place. You'll walk away with a concrete playbook — not another dashboard, but a blueprint for turning fragmented data into answers your business can actually act on.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 4:15:00 PM - 4:45:00 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 2
AI agent adoption transforms data and analytics strategy and operations. In this session, we will examine the top trends across three key themes: agentic D&A, semantics at the core and D&A platformization.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 4:15:00 PM - 4:45:00 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 3
Data management platforms emerge through the convergence of several individual data management capabilities. D&A leaders keen on data platform modernization should join this breakout session to learn about the dynamics of this emerging market and the benefits of reducing architectural silos to meet data demands for both current and innovative use cases.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 4:15:00 PM - 4:45:00 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 1
Organizations are charged with being more productive, and while AI is an answer to many such opportunities, organization and program structure can be far more impactful on productivity than using AI. This session will weave together data and analytics governance, MDM, and data quality into one organized initiative that will simplify complexity. Join this session to learn more.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 4:15:00 PM - 5:00:00 PM IST
Studio 1
RAG has emerged as a powerful approach for building advanced AI systems that combine the strengths of large language models with external knowledge sources. However, RAG solutions struggle with reliability and require a lot of experimentation. This session will address key questions to help determine the best design pattern and optimization for RAG implementations.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 4:15:00 PM - 5:00:00 PM IST
Meeting Room 5
Data and analytics leaders and their data engineering teams are tasked with evaluating and selecting data integration tools. However, there are many options, which can be confusing. This session will explain the various types of data integration tools and technologies available in the market and help you select the right data integration tool for your needs.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 4:15:00 PM - 5:00:00 PM IST
Meeting Room 4
Organizations are overwhelmed by the multitude of concepts, definitions, standards and exaggerated claims about AI agents from vendors. They seek clarity on what AI agents truly are and how they differ from other solutions. This session will clarify the real distinctions between AI agents and other technological solutions, provide insight into the current landscape and explore the future of next-generation AI agents.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 5:00:00 PM - 5:30:00 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 1
AI agents have become one of the most hyped, and most abused, terms in the technology market. Like any good counterintelligence officer, you need to be able to spot agents and assess their impact, risk and value. This session cuts through the hype to the insights you need and a framework for assessing AI agent use cases, tools and risk to help AI agents deliver value for your organization.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 5:00:00 PM - 5:30:00 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 3
Analytics has always been "ground zero" for citizen developers and the low-code/no-code movement. However, the shift toward generative AI and the avalanche of analytics content will overwhelm current analytics operating models, which are already struggling to scale delivery.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 5:15:00 PM - 5:45:00 PM IST
Grand Salon
Sovereign AI reflects a nation-state’s desire to control its own AI, reducing reliance on foreign innovation, talent, and vendors. Impact and maturity vary globally, creating commercial opportunities and nonobvious threat. This session explores what sovereign AI is, how your competitors are leveraging it, and what vendors are involved. Attendees will leave with a blueprint to identify value creation strategies while confronting geopolitical uncertainties.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 5:15:00 PM - 5:45:00 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 2
Continued investment in AI and related technologies has opened groundbreaking possibilities for those with ambition and imagination. In this keynote address, we explore the convergence of multiple trends that point to a post-AI world and their implication for data professionals. From the digital twin of the earth to quantum entanglement, there are inspirational futures in our midst today. This session will draw from futures lab trends, our quantum research, healthcare examples, and data from our Board and CEO surveys.
Monday, 21 September, 2026 / 5:30:00 PM - 7:00:00 PM IST
Exhibit Showcase
Join us for a networking reception at the Exhibit Showcase where you can engage with your peers, Gartner analysts, and exhibitors while enjoying delicious food and beverages. Evaluate industry offerings that can move your business forward. Attend a stage session to see technology in action. Please click [here](https://css-cf-pbl.emt.aws.gartner.com/events/bii14/assets/15441950_15441950.pdf) to view the reception offerings.
Tuesday, 22 September, 2026 / 8:30:00 AM - 9:30:00 AM IST
Grand Ballroom Foyer
Enjoy some light refreshments and coffee before the conference. Please click here (coming soon) to see our refreshment break menu.
Tuesday, 22 September, 2026 / 8:30:00 AM - 5:30:00 PM IST
Grand Ballroom Foyer
Discover cutting-edge tools, diagnostics and actionable resources at the Gartner Showcase. Visit our demo space for a personalized walkthrough of our business and technology insights platform and learn how Gartner's leading tools like Accelerators, D&A Business Value Benchmark, and AI Use Case Insights can help you make faster, smarter decisions on your mission-critical priorities.
Tuesday, 22 September, 2026 / 8:30:00 AM - 5:30:00 PM IST
Convention Center Foyer
Collect your badge at Registration located in the Convention Centre. You will need to provide photo ID at registration. Badges must be worn throughout the conference. Information points are located throughout the venue and our friendly team can help with all of your questions. Or use the live chat on the app to ask us anything.
Tuesday, 22 September, 2026 / 9:30:00 AM - 10:15:00 AM IST
Grand Ballroom 1, 2 & 3, Ground Level
This keynote responds to what many organisations are feeling: AI is accelerating fast, social anxiety and disconnection are rising, and many of our existing models of leadership, learning, and communication no longer feel fit for purpose. This keynote explores what remains essentially human in an AI-led world. Drawing on brain profiling, connection profiling, and meaning profiling, it looks at how attention, emotion, relationships, and purpose are changing, and why human development now needs to evolve beyond information and skills alone.
Tuesday, 22 September, 2026 / 10:15:00 AM - 11:00:00 AM IST
Exhibit Showcase
Join us in the Exhibit Showcase for coffee, tea, and some light snacks in a brief break between sessions. Please click here (coming soon) to see our refreshment break menu.
Tuesday, 22 September, 2026 / 10:15:00 AM - 4:15:00 PM IST
Exhibit Showcase
Visit the Exhibit Showcase to evaluate industry offerings that can move your business forward. Engage with your peers, Gartner experts, and exhibitors. Attend a theater session to see technology in action.
Tuesday, 22 September, 2026 / 10:30:00 AM - 10:50:00 AM IST
Theater, Exhibit Showcase
This talk will explore how AI is reshaping how organizations access, interact with, and act on enterprise data, moving from dashboards to dynamic, conversational analysis. You’ll see how blending natural language interfaces, governed data, and federated access breaks the BI backlog, radically accelerates insight velocity, and drives alignment across teams without sacrificing trust or control.
Tuesday, 22 September, 2026 / 11:00:00 AM - 11:30:00 AM IST
Grand Ballroom 1
Almost every GenAI use case requires organizations to extract, qualify and govern significant volumes of unstructured data. Data management leaders must deliver workflows that orchestrate entity extraction, vector data embeddings and semantic data enrichment with structured data pipelines to deliver GenAI-ready data. Join this session to learn more.
Tuesday, 22 September, 2026 / 11:00:00 AM - 11:30:00 AM IST
Grand Salon
Prioritizing data and AI literacy programs directly impacts the core measures of a firm’s financial performance. Investing in data and AI literacy is the fastest way for D&A leaders to achieve payback in their D&A maturity journey, especially in early stages of maturity.
Tuesday, 22 September, 2026 / 11:00:00 AM - 11:30:00 AM IST
Grand Ballroom 3
AI governance is no longer optional. This session will explore practical strategies for embedding AI governance directly into the design and development of AI architectures, ensuring that compliance, transparency and ethical standards are upheld from the ground up.
Tuesday, 22 September, 2026 / 11:00:00 AM - 11:30:00 AM IST
Grand Ballroom 2
AI is moving faster than ever. AI techniques should bring adaptability to an uncertain world in constant flux. However, despite its extraordinary power and early promises, AI has not been leveraged to its full potential. What is missing? Where did we go wrong? Join us as we discuss our ambition for the future of AI and AI should do for us to deliver the value that we are expecting.
Tuesday, 22 September, 2026 / 11:00:00 AM - 11:45:00 AM IST
Meeting Room 5
Delve into the critical aspects of risk management for AI models and agents in analytics and AI. Bring your questions and learn how to identify potential risks, triage and prioritize them, and implement effective mitigation strategies to safeguard your organization’s digital assets to be able to deliver AI projects.
Tuesday, 22 September, 2026 / 11:00:00 AM - 12:30:00 PM IST
Studio 2
AI agents can upend traditional AI use cases and unlock transformative potential, but the real danger isn’t overhyping their power — it’s overestimating your organization’s readiness. D&A leaders must see past the hype, sidestep common pitfalls, and build the foundation needed for true AI success.
Tuesday, 22 September, 2026 / 11:00:00 AM - 11:45:00 AM IST
Meeting Room 3
Join this Peer Meetup to discuss experiences, challenges, and best practices for scaling Agentic AI across the enterprise. How are organizations balancing autonomy, governance, risk, and business value? What approaches are delivering results, and what lessons have been learned along the way? Connect with fellow data and AI leaders to exchange ideas, share practical insights, and explore strategies for driving successful and responsible adoption of Agentic AI. Before you step into this session, think about a couple of areas where you have attempted and/or succeeded in your organization that your peers might find useful. Also, think about a couple of questions you would like answered by those who may be further ahead in their data governance and data quality journey.
Tuesday, 22 September, 2026 / 11:00:00 AM - 12:30:00 PM IST
Studio 1
This workshop will cover the end-to-end process of managing a data product, from ideation to launch. It will include product roadmap development, stakeholder management and go-to-market strategies.
Tuesday, 22 September, 2026 / 11:45:00 AM - 12:15:00 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 2
Organizations need reusable, governed data products that are ready for analytics and agentic AI, not another data silo. This session shows how a semantic data fabric connects enterprise metadata, lineage, policies and business meaning in a governed knowledge graph. A live demonstration will show how this foundation accelerates discovery, assembly and delivery of trusted data products with clear provenance and operational control.
Tuesday, 22 September, 2026 / 11:45:00 AM - 12:15:00 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 3
Attendees will gain insights into real-world implementations of Agentic AI while handling sensitive data intelligently via Skyflow by leading companies like Visa, Servicenow, Flipkart, AngelOne, Bigpanda to name a few.
Tuesday, 22 September, 2026 / 11:45:00 AM - 12:15:00 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 1
Every business conversation starts with generative AI but ends with data. In the AI era, success is not determined by models alone but by the strength of an organisation’s data foundation. With 77% of enterprises citing data as the top barrier to AI adoption, this session by IBM will cover how businesses can modernise fragmented data environments into intelligent, scalable platforms.
Tuesday, 22 September, 2026 / 11:45:00 AM - 12:30:00 PM IST
Meeting Room 4
LLMs are powerful, but without access to trusted enterprise knowledge and context, their potential remains limited. This executive roundtable will explore the role of a knowledge layer in connecting fragmented data, grounding AI responses, and improving the reliability of GenAI applications. Exchange perspectives on how organizations can build a scalable foundation for moving from GenAI experimentation to production.
Tuesday, 22 September, 2026 / 12:30:00 PM - 1:00:00 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 1
Data governance has traditionally encompassed analytics governance, managing most risks and value in traditional analytics. However, AI introduces new risks and considerations that D&A governance may not be equipped for. Should D&A governance evolve to govern AI or is it time for a separate discipline with a fresh mandate? This session explores conflicting accountabilities, leadership and operating models between these disciplines.
Tuesday, 22 September, 2026 / 12:30:00 PM - 1:00:00 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 2
Leaders responsible for AI must evaluate the potential benefits and costs of new agentic AI use cases. This insight offers a framework, model and specific numbers for building and simulating total cost and key value drivers at scale for AI agent use cases.
Tuesday, 22 September, 2026 / 12:30:00 PM - 12:45:00 PM IST
Meeting Room 5
The data scientist's role is undergoing a massive paradigm shift from traditional modeling to full-scale application operationalization and model deployment. With GenAI technologies, data scientists must upskill themselves to be able to build composite AI systems that include traditional AI techniques like machine learning and deep learning, as well as GenAI models. Join this session to know more.
Tuesday, 22 September, 2026 / 12:30:00 PM - 12:50:00 PM IST
Exhibit Showcase
In this session, you’ll explore a Lakehouse architecture which is becoming the cornerstone of modern data management initiatives. Through practical, step-by-step guidance, you’ll gain clarity on the purposes of data zones and the design principles of the Lakehouse architecture.
Tuesday, 22 September, 2026 / 12:45:00 PM - 1:15:00 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 3
Enterprise investments in Business Intelligence have created thousands of dashboards, yet the struggle to turn metrics into timely business action is real. This session offers a blueprint for evolving beyond dashboards to governed decision products that become integral to strategy and execution. Starting with the business goal, the approach combines shared metric definitions, a trusted semantic layer, proactive signals, AI-assisted narratives, and conversational analytics to deliver intelligence and context for human users and authorized agents. The discussion also examines how professional roles evolve in this environment. Attendees will gain practical strategies to improve how stakeholders consume data, apply GenBI by pairing strong BI foundations with generative AI techniques, build confidence in the answers, and shorten the path from insight to measurable value.
Tuesday, 22 September, 2026 / 12:45:00 PM - 1:15:00 PM IST
Grand Salon
A uniform and configurable operating model ensures speed, agility, and consistency in how data and analytics teams stand up their individual implementations. D&A leaders can use Gartner’s D&A operating model framework to configure and design their own models for successful reuse across all D&A initiatives.
Tuesday, 22 September, 2026 / 12:45:00 PM - 1:30:00 PM IST
Meeting Room 4
Data and analytics leaders must view their data management practice as an evolution, iteratively maturing and expanding based on AI use cases and not a rip-and-replace or one-size-fits-all solution. Join this interactive session to understand the key components in the data management architecture that are foundational to AI-ready data.
Tuesday, 22 September, 2026 / 1:00:00 PM - 2:30:00 PM IST
Showroom Pavilion, Showroom Kitchen & Fifty Five East, Ground Level
Join us at Showroom Pavilion and Showroom Kitchen behind Exhibit Showcase to network with your peers and make new connections. Engage with your peers, Gartner Analysts, and exhibitors while enjoying delicious food and beverages. Click here (coming soon) to view the lunch menu. For specific dietary needs, please visit the dietary table located within (coming soon) space for further details and assistance.
Tuesday, 22 September, 2026 / 1:15:00 PM - 2:15:00 PM IST
Studio 2
Welcome to an exclusive CDAO Circle lunch which starts with a plated lunch service at 13:15 to 13:45. Join us for an exclusive opportunity to hear more from Guest Keynote Speaker Dr. Ali Walker from 13:45 to 14:15 and ask questions as we dive deeper into the Human Connection After AI.
Tuesday, 22 September, 2026 / 1:15:00 PM - 1:35:00 PM IST
Theater, Exhibit Showcase
Enterprises have spent decades unifying data, yet AI still struggles with fragmented operational reality. This session explores why unified data platforms alone are insufficient for enterprise AI, and introduces a new architectural layer built on continuously synchronized Digital Twins and Enterprise Memory. Learn how this approach enables AI to reason over real-world operations with greater context, trust, and decision intelligence.
Tuesday, 22 September, 2026 / 1:40:00 PM - 2:00:00 PM IST
Theater, Exhibit Showcase
AI won't fix analytics chaos. It makes it worse. Enterprise analytics assets are growing 77% a year, but 79% of reports go unused, dataset reuse sits at 14%, and a third of reports still run on flat files. This session is about how PepsiCo is fixing this layer. Ayan Ray Chaudhuri, Director of Data, Analytics & AI, and Datalogz CEO Logan Havern will walk through the move from fractured reporting to governed, AI-powered decision consoles.
Tuesday, 22 September, 2026 / 2:05:00 PM - 2:25:00 PM IST
Theater, Exhibit Showcase
Many organizations want to expand analytics and AI but are held back by high costs, limited data access, and reliance on specialist teams. Learn how NCDEX transformed its analytics environment to empower business users, reduce database licensing costs by 96.6%, lower infrastructure costs by 27.8%, and cut IT data requests by 77%. Discover how a modern data foundation can accelerate insights and support AI-driven decision-making.
Tuesday, 22 September, 2026 / 2:30:00 PM - 3:00:00 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 1
No data? No AI! No metadata? No data! Gartner codified AI-ready data concepts and crafted the language in mid-2022. Practices have evolved for the four AI-ready data modes and 30 expected data evaluation and preparation steps. In this session, we recap the approach combined with how organizations are using AI data readiness as a foundation to evolve toward standardizing data for production AI.
Tuesday, 22 September, 2026 / 2:30:00 PM - 3:00:00 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 2
Explaining AI models and their outputs to nontechnical stakeholders can be challenging due to their complexity or business expectations. This decreases the trust and adoption of models in production. This session will discuss a few practices that can help D&A professionals enhance explainability and trust in model predictions, facilitating responsible and ethical use of AI across various domains.
Tuesday, 22 September, 2026 / 2:30:00 PM - 3:00:00 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 3
Analytics and BI platforms and data Science and machine learning platforms are important technologies that drive insight-driven decision making and allow AI systems to be built and operationalized throughout the enterprise. This session unpacks the Magic Quadrants of both markets and gives inisght on the trends that you should be aware of.
Tuesday, 22 September, 2026 / 2:30:00 PM - 3:00:00 PM IST
Grand Salon
AI and analytics depend on trusted data, yet many organisations still rely on fragmented governance and manual controls. In this executive story session, Bejoy John will share how data governance, quality, observability and DataOps are being integrated to build trusted data products at scale. The session will explore how AI can recommend data quality rules, refine observability controls, detect operational breaks and support end-to-end monitoring. Attendees will gain practical insights into combining clear ownership, intelligent recommendations and scalable operating models to improve reliability, accelerate issue resolution and strengthen the data foundation for analytics and AI.
Tuesday, 22 September, 2026 / 2:30:00 PM - 3:15:00 PM IST
Meeting Room 3
Join this Peer Meetup to discuss the successes, failures, and lessons learned in addressing data governance and data quality challenges across your organization. As AI and analytics initiatives continue to expand, how are leaders establishing data ownership, improving accountability, ensuring regulatory compliance, and maintaining trusted, high-quality data at scale? What approaches have delivered meaningful results? Which strategies fell short? And what are you planning to try next? Meet with fellow data and analytics leaders to exchange practical experiences, share ideas, and explore ways to build a strong foundation of trusted data that supports better business outcomes and successful AI adoption. Before you step into this session, think about a couple of areas where you have attempted and/or succeeded in your organization that your peers might find useful. Also, think about a couple of questions you would like answered by those who may be further ahead in their data governance and data quality journey.
Tuesday, 22 September, 2026 / 2:30:00 PM - 3:15:00 PM IST
Meeting Room 5
AI’s impact goes far beyond boosting productivity or reducing human effort. Join this roundtable session for an engaging discussion on the broader opportunities AI brings, such as innovation, new business models and enhanced experiences, and learn how to unlock greater value in your organization.
Tuesday, 22 September, 2026 / 2:30:00 PM - 4:00:00 PM IST
Studio 1
Organizations struggle to scale AI governance, mitigate risk and effect compliance while delivering value. Current governance processes are not effective to deliver value at scale. In this session, you will learn how to address culture and behavior, prioritize what capabilities your organization needs to add to the tech stack from complimentary tools. That is, to effectively govern AI, and make an investment decision in an AI governance platform, if appropriate.
Tuesday, 22 September, 2026 / 3:15:00 PM - 3:45:00 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 1
Legacy data architectures often fail to meet the needs of continuous, contextual agents. In this session, discover a four-phase maturity model to assess your organization's readiness for agent-driven automation and learn actionable steps to progress from pilot to production.
Tuesday, 22 September, 2026 / 3:15:00 PM - 3:45:00 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 2
Everyone talks about “AI ready data." Few have it. This session challenges the perfection myth and shows CDAOs, CIOs, and AI leaders how to turn flawed, fragmented data into fast, trusted outcomes. Learn how pragmatic ways to strengthen trust through quality, transparency, and governance to unlock the confidence to scale decisions and real AI results.
Tuesday, 22 September, 2026 / 3:15:00 PM - 3:45:00 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 3
Organizations struggle to convert AI experiments into value due to a trust gap. Alteryx bridges this by grounding AI in transparent, auditable business logic, ensuring outcomes are visible and repeatable. By automating critical workflows before scaling to autonomous agents, companies can move beyond experimentation to drive significant productivity and operational trust.
Tuesday, 22 September, 2026 / 3:45:00 PM - 4:15:00 PM IST
Exhibit Showcase
Join us in the Exhibit Showcase for coffee, tea, and some light snacks in a brief break between sessions. Please click here (coming soon) to see our refreshment break menu.
Tuesday, 22 September, 2026 / 4:15:00 PM - 4:45:00 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 1
This session discusses whether AI will replace business intelligence (BI) or simply transform it. As BI interfaces become gateways to AI analytics, trust and precision are crucial — users won’t tolerate AI errors. Join this session to explore if AI will deepen insights and automate action, or will BI adapt and survive in a changing landscape.
Tuesday, 22 September, 2026 / 4:15:00 PM - 4:45:00 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 2
This session of Gartner’s top D&A predictions for 2026 will guide data and analytics leaders as they plan for the impact of AI across all aspects of data and analytics, including leadership, governance, talent, market, and the need for AI-ready data and a FinAI competency for value realization.
Tuesday, 22 September, 2026 / 4:15:00 PM - 4:45:00 PM IST
Grand Salon
When automated data pipelines break, manual log analysis and blast-radius tracing consume vital engineering capacity and stall business decisions. In this session, Ford shares the journey of building PROACT, an agentic AI solution that automates failure triage, diagnostic enrichment, ownership routing, and cross-incident learning. Learn how Ford cut resolution times by ~40% and reclaimed substantial engineering hours monthly, and walk away with a practical playbook for deploying Agentic AI into your own enterprise operations.
Tuesday, 22 September, 2026 / 4:15:00 PM - 4:45:00 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 3
We are at the start of a massive, AI-driven feedback loop. A loop between a universal language, Python, a universal engine, Spark, and universal storage, Open Table Formats, that will accelerate us from simple automation to fully agentic, automated data management. This session helps D&A leaders assess their strategy for navigating this disruptive transition and its opportunities and risks.
Tuesday, 22 September, 2026 / 4:15:00 PM - 5:00:00 PM IST
Meeting Room 5
The most difficult part of establishing a data governance program is making it stick. This session will discuss challenges with identifying, motivating, and supporting data governance, ownership, and stewardship roles and tactics to build momentum for the program.
Tuesday, 22 September, 2026 / 5:00:00 PM - 5:30:00 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 1
This session details how Agentic AI will impact existing data management architecture and technologies, which new use cases it enables in data management and engineering, and which skills will be needed or become obsolete. We’ll also cover how to prepare budgets, teams, and operating models for these changes. These are now valid, frequently debated questions as Agentic AI evolves.
Tuesday, 22 September, 2026 / 5:00:00 PM - 5:30:00 PM IST
Grand Ballroom 2
The ability to influence decisions is the fundamental objective of data, analytics, and AI initiatives but historically D&A capabilities did not reach that far on the Data to Decision to Impact value chain. With the emergence of Decision Intelligence Platforms and Agentic AI, this is changing, and changing rapidly. This session will cover the options organizations have to enable better decision making including the new MQ for Decision Intelligence Platforms.
Tuesday, 22 September, 2026 / 5:00:00 PM - 5:30:00 PM IST
Grand Salon
While AI is gaining the attention of business leaders, data science remains an important business capability for driving decision making that should not be neglected. The choice is not between AI and data science but on how to combine predictive and prescriptive techniques so organizations can leverage the best of both worlds to create better solutions.
Tuesday, 22 September, 2026 / 5:30:00 PM - 6:00:00 PM IST
Grand Ballroom Foyer
Join us for high tea after the insightful sessions. We have delicious delicacies to bid adieu. Please click here (coming soon) to see the full menu.