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AI Agents: Strategic Imperatives for CIOs

Jul 27, 2026

Virtual / Online

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What you’ll learn
  • The current state of AI agent adoption and use cases

  • Key lessons from early implementations of AI agents

  • How AI agents are reshaping CIO priorities and the IT function

  • What it takes to prepare your organization and technology stack for AI agents

AI agents represent a significant evolution in enterprise AI, moving beyond automation to systems that can plan, reason and execute complex tasks. With this change, CIOs must reassess how technology, operations and the business interact.

This session examines the current state of AI agents, early lessons from deployment and the implications for CIO strategy. Gartner experts outline how CIOs can prepare an agent‑ready IT stack, increased automation in IT operations, new self‑service models for the business and emerging governance and security considerations as agentic AI expands across the enterprise.

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Jul 28, 2026

Virtual / Online

This webinar explores why product vision has become a critical differentiator in the AI race and how tech providers can avoid confusing AI feature roadmaps with true strategic direction. Attendees will learn why a strong AI product vision is essential for long-term success, how it helps align innovation with customer and business outcomes, and what it takes to execute that vision effectively. For providers struggling with customer adoption amid increasing competitive pressure, this session offers practical insights to help ensure AI investments are driven by purpose, not just technology.

What you’ll learn
  • Understand why a clear AI product vision is a competitive differentiator.

  • Learn best practices to create a compelling AI product vision.

  • Operationalize your product vision by tying it to the product strategy and roadmap.

Jul 29, 2026

Virtual / Online

Transformation efforts most often stall not because of technology, but because of human barriers: cognitive strain, emotional responses, and delayed rewards. GenAI can act as a force multiplier, helping CIOs anticipate resistance, personalize engagement, and deliver early wins that sustain momentum.

In this webinar, you’ll learn how to use GenAI to turn behavioral hot spots into catalysts for change, while avoiding the risks of misapplication that can deepen discomfort or erode trust. We’ll explore practical approaches to identifying hidden friction points, designing targeted interventions, and leveraging AI to support, not overwhelm, teams as they navigate change.

What you’ll learn
  • Identify key human factors, such as cognitive dissonance and emotional triggers, that stall transformation

  • Apply GenAI to overcome resistance and tailor engagement strategies by role and team

  • Recognize and mitigate unintended negative impacts of AI transformation, including distrust and employee overwhelm

Jul 30, 2026

Virtual / Online

In this webinar, we explore why CIOs must actively govern AI costs, regardless of where they originate across the enterprise. You’ll gain insight into the structural drivers of AI cost volatility and the critical actions CIOs can take to regain control, including building financial transparency, governing contract decisions that determine up to 80% of AI economics, and linking AI spend directly to business outcomes. 

Join this session to learn how leading CIOs are balancing AI innovation with cost control, providing a clear path to turning AI spend into sustained enterprise value.

What you’ll learn
  • How to build financial transparency across business‑led investments, including those outside IT control

  • How upstream contract decisions shape the majority of AI economics — and how to intervene early to manage risk and cost

  • How to establish value metrics and connect AI spending directly to improved enterprise outcomes and stakeholder confidence

Jul 30, 2026

Virtual / Online

As AI reshapes every aspect of the GTM life cycle, CMOs and product marketing leaders face a new imperative: building teams that not only deliver actionable insights but also possess the AI literacy needed to interpret signals, architect compelling narratives, design data-driven experiments and orchestrate seamless workflows. The future belongs to product marketers who can bridge human expertise and AI-powered intelligence to enable confident, high-impact business decisions. Join this complimentary Gartner webinar as our experts explore the evolving mandate for product marketers, revealing how decision enablement and AI literacy are reshaping the function’s value and influence.

What you’ll learn
  • Understand why product marketing must evolve into a decision-enablement function at the center of product strategy, go-to-market (GTM) strategy, execution and customer growth.

  • Learn how to build and operationalize an integrated “signal-to-action” framework, leveraging AI to turn market signals into actionable decisions.

  • Explore the new imperative for AI literacy: what skills, mindsets and practices product marketing leaders must develop to unlock the full value of AI adoption.

  • Identify the core capabilities of the AI-literate product marketer: strategic sense-making, data-driven experimentation, workflow design, cross-functional translation and brand stewardship.

Jul 31, 2026

Virtual / Online

Many organizations struggle to translate AI investments into meaningful outcomes, often due to workforce misalignment and unclear enablement strategies. As a result, initiatives stall before delivering value.

This session explores how CHROs, CIOs, CFOs and business executives can diagnose barriers to AI adoption and take targeted action to address them. Gartner experts share practical approaches to assess readiness, engage the workforce and build the capabilities needed to support successful AI adoption. The discussion focuses on how to unlock productivity, strengthen innovation and improve the impact of AI across the organization.

What you’ll learn
  • Common organizational pitfalls that cause AI initiatives to stall

  • How to assess workforce readiness for AI adoption

  • How to design enablement programs that drive employee engagement

  • How to accelerate AI adoption across the enterprise

Aug 3, 2026

Virtual / Online

Traditional methods for calculating risk management fail to capture the true breadth of costs and are often disconnected from decision making that protects value. Building stronger supplier resilience — the ability to absorb disruption and recover while still delivering measurable returns — requires three priorities: a comprehensive assessment of risk management activities, alignment with organizational risk appetite and a disciplined focus on cost effectiveness.

The goal of this session is to help procurement leaders move from reactive fire-fighters to proactive value creators by mastering the math behind the chaos and rethinking fundamental total cost metrics.

What you’ll learn
  • Recognize the actual expansive risk management costs and how they differ from traditional views.

  • Learn the importance of aligning stakeholder risk appetite to ensure spending matches stakeholder expectations.

  • Confirm your strategy is cost-effective in reducing risk vulnerabilities and protecting your value.

Aug 3, 2026

Virtual / Online

Legal spends 21% of their capacity on contracting, more than any other activity, making it the largest opportunity to apply both traditional systems and emerging AI tools. Yet the contracting technology landscape is complex. An overload of vendors, unclear categories and inconsistent labels make it easy to select the wrong tools. Most failures result from poor system design, not lack of legal expertise. Manual, high-touch approaches cannot keep pace with AI-augmented contracting. 

Join this session and cut through the noise, avoid common pitfalls, and design a contract tech stack that delivers business value.

What you’ll learn
  • Adopt a capabilities-based approach to technology prioritization and selection

  • Create an enabling contracting ecosystem that drives technology RO

  • Transition from operator to architect as a general counsel

Aug 4, 2026

Virtual / Online

When AR and IR operate in silos, organizations risk leaving boards exposed to significant market threats. Maintaining a “business‑as‑usual” approach in today’s intelligence‑driven environment can lead to missed signals and lost value. 

This session outlines a strategic approach for AR and IR leaders to establish a “value handshake” that connects industry insight with financial perspective. By bringing these views together, organizations can create a more continuous flow of insight. Join us to learn how to present a unified front of market intelligence, test AI‑assisted earnings messaging and better equip your C‑suite to navigate geopolitical shifts, workforce changes and the AI SaaS-pocalypse.

What you’ll learn
  • The risks of siloed analyst relations (AR) and investor relations (IR) during market disruption

  • How to better align industry insights with financial communications

  • Practical ways to strengthen collaboration between AR and IR teams

  • How to apply structured approaches to test messaging while maintaining disclosure controls

Aug 4, 2026

Virtual / Online

Fast‑moving geopolitical dynamics are increasing risks to government services, requiring leaders to move beyond traditional data protection toward a broader digital sovereignty strategy. These risks are no longer theoretical — sanctions, legal conflicts and vendor decisions can directly disrupt operations.

This session explores how CIOs can assess risks across operational control, technology dependencies and supply chains. Gartner experts provide a practical framework to identify, prioritize and mitigate these risks across the technology stack. The discussion also highlights how leaders can reduce dependency exposure and build more resilient, sovereign‑aligned strategies to help ensure service continuity in an evolving global environment.

What you’ll learn
  • How to expand digital sovereignty beyond data to include operational and technology control

  • How to identify risks across your technology stack using a TPESTRE‑based lens

  • How to prioritize risks based on impact, likelihood and organizational capacity

  • How to translate insights into a clear, executive‑ready action plan

Aug 4, 2026

Virtual / Online

Cybersecurity leaders face an increasingly complex threat landscape, where prioritization is critical but often constrained by incomplete information. Aligning security efforts to business priorities requires a clear, structured view of evolving risks.

This session introduces the Gartner ThreatScape framework, which combines insights from security leaders with threat intelligence analysis to help organizations identify and prioritize key threats. Gartner experts outline how to interpret threat trends and respond with practical, business‑aligned actions.

What you’ll learn
  • How to prioritize threats across the evolving threat landscape

  • The key trends driving cybersecurity threats

  • How to align threat response with business priorities

  • How to act effectively amid uncertainty and incomplete information

Aug 5, 2026

Virtual / Online

AI is moving beyond insight generation toward autonomous, context-driven action. That shift raises a critical question for leaders: is the organization ready to delegate work to machines. Readiness is not just a technical issue. It depends on how well data, workflows, platforms, governance and talent support this new model. Without alignment across these areas, even strong AI capabilities can fall short in execution. In this session, you will learn how to evaluate readiness across five core pillars and move beyond “can we build it” to “how do we use it responsibly.” You will also explore how to apply an AI agent acceleration canvas to define a focused 90-day plan that deploys targeted use cases while managing risk.

What you’ll learn
  • Understand how agentic AI shifts value from insight generation to autonomous action

  • Assess readiness across data, processes, technology, governance and talent

  • Build a 90-day action plan to responsibly delegate work to AI agents

Aug 11, 2026

Virtual / Online

Siloed product and manufacturing data continue to create quality and compliance risks for process manufacturers. To address this, organizations are increasingly turning to product life cycle management (PLM) as a foundation for greater integration.

This session explores how a PLM‑based digital thread can connect data, processes and stakeholders across the product life cycle. Gartner experts outline how this approach can improve visibility, support regulatory compliance and help prepare organizations for more advanced, AI‑enabled capabilities.

What you’ll learn
  • How PLM can help break down product and process data silos

  • How a PLM‑based digital thread connects data, processes and stakeholders

  • How to improve product quality and regulatory compliance

  • How to build a foundation for AI‑ready manufacturing operations

Aug 13, 2026

Virtual / Online

In the AI era, traditional market segmentation approaches and go-to-market motions may no longer be enough. Enterprise AI buying journeys are increasingly complex, involving multiple stakeholders, competing priorities and evolving requirements.

Drawing on Gartner research, this session explores the buying dynamics that shape AI investment decisions, including the sources and impact of team conflict during the purchasing process. Gartner experts will share practical strategies to encourage more effective buying behaviors, improve collaboration and help high-tech sales and marketing teams better navigate enterprise AI buying journeys. The discussion focuses on driving stronger outcomes for both providers and customers as AI adoption continues to accelerate.

What you’ll learn
  • Common sources of team conflict that can hinder AI buying initiatives

  • How buying behaviors influence AI investment outcomes

  • Strategies to improve collaboration and decision making across buying teams

  • Practical approaches for navigating complex enterprise AI buying journeys

Aug 17, 2026

Virtual / Online

As enterprises scale AI agents across multiple vendors and platforms, orchestration is becoming a critical architectural and operating decision. In many organizations, multiple orchestration layers are emerging unintentionally — across SaaS, automation tools, cloud AI services and shadow deployments.

This complexity introduces new challenges. Existing governance models often do not extend to multi‑agent collaboration, while platforms across BOAT, BPA, iPaaS and agent ecosystems compete to become the control layer. At the same time, CIO priorities are shifting toward neutrality, observability and accountability over speed alone.

This session explores how CIOs can approach orchestration decisions with a structured framework — balancing vendor dynamics, closing governance gaps and establishing a trusted, enterprise‑wide approach to managing agentic workflows at scale.

What you’ll learn
  • Why multiple AI orchestration layers are emerging across the enterprise

  • Where governance gaps exist in managing multi‑agent workflows

  • How to evaluate competing orchestration platforms and vendor claims

  • What to prioritize to ensure control, accountability and trust

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