Discussion Topics: Leverage shared intelligence to better predict customer behaviors Drive diversity and inclusion agendas Execute on innovation and accelerate time to market Creating continuous long-term customer value through business innovation will ensure your organization not only survives but thrives in an unknown global market. Innovation is not siloed or a pure technology play. It must align with customer and market dynamics and patter...

The global pandemic has accelerated technology disruption, in addition to shifting buyer behaviors and increasing competition. At Gartner Tech Growth & Innovation Conference 2021, you’ll get a uniquely informed update on accelerating your growth in a new era of transformation, and the technology trends that are impacting your business. A post-pandemic guide to thriving and managing high growth for technology service providers. Discov...

Discussion Topics: Determine if your current strategies exacerbate the 3 key employee fatigue drivers Empower employees and managers to co-create new patterns of flexible work Safeguard employees’ mental health and well-being by reducing the risks of overwork The new work environment presents a number of challenges that HR executives must confront to design a hybrid model that works. Confronted with digital distractions, virtual overload...

Discussion Topics: Develop flexible work patterns that address new workplace expectations and requirements Communicate new organizational expectations by establishing new work principles Rethink the functional purpose of space to design high-value employee experiences The shift away from the office as the central work location dramatically impacts both workplace design and workforce planning. The postpandemic work environment demands radical f...

Discussion Topics: Understand what the U.S. executive order means to technology leaders in the federal ecosystem How the public and private sectors can forge a stronger cybersecurity partnership Steps government leaders can take right now to address their cybersecurity concerns Governments are moving faster and with more urgency to improve security standards in light of recent actions and events. The Biden Administration unveiled a comprehensi...

Discussion Topics: Learn how progressive companies take advantage of the new hybrid workforce reality Use external labor market data to diagnose your organization's employee value proposition (EVP) Target nontraditional hiring locations to fill remote and flexible work roles As organizations struggle with returning to a “normal” postpandemic work environment, they want to know how to retain, attract and recruit the talent they need...

Discussion Topics: Tools and techniques that can protect your APIs from attacks Best techniques to protect mobile applications that use APIs Ways to ensure the API your teams build are secure Gartner predicts that by 2022, application programming interface (API) attacks will become the most-frequent attack vector, causing data breaches for enterprise web applications. Already, many well-publicized API security vulnerabilities affected a wide r...

Discussion Topics: Understand the state of marketing budgets in 2021 Learn about major shifts in marketing spend and the reasons for reprioritization Gain real-world CMO input about innovation and marketing transformation when faced with budgetary challenges Chief marketing officers (CMOs) faced unique challenges in 2020. In-year marketing budgets were hit hard, with the majority of CMOs reporting budget cuts. However, CMOs were optimistic tha...

Discussion Topics: The Gartner forecast for IT Spending growth in 2021 and beyond Where commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software fits in building digital business The development technology that will win in 2025 In 2021, IT budgets will drive overall spending. While many companies still suffer revenue declines, IT spending is accelerating ahead of revenue expectations. However, this acceleration will be as uneven as the economic fallout from C...

Discussion Topics: Understand what is composite AI Know which business problems composite AI can most impact Get a look into the future of composite AI Composite AI (artificial intelligence) combines different AI techniques to achieve better results. It offers two main benefits in the short term: 1. Dealing with "small data;" and 2. Helping to expand the scope and quality of AI applications through increased generalization and better abstracti...