Gartner, Inc.

R&D teams are under increasing pressure to deliver breakthrough innovation faster — and with fewer resources. Agentic AI offers a powerful new advantage by autonomously managing parts of the ideation, planning, and design process, helping R&D leaders shorten development cycles and boost productivity. In this session, you’ll learn how to identify the highest‑value use cases for agentic AI, understand where the technology can (and cannot) meaningfully support R&D workflows, and explore real‑world examples of how leading organizations are already deploying it. We’ll discuss how to:

• Choose high‑value, high‑feasibility use cases for agentic AI within R&D

• Understand how other organizations have deployed agentic AI through practical use‑case snapshots

• Determine when agentic AI is the right fit — and when human‑driven methods remain essential

To elevate IT’s impact on the business, CIOs need a strategic cost optimization program that proactively reduces costs, strengthens technology delivery and improves the value of tech investments. In this complimentary Gartner webinar, you’ll learn a practical approach to strategic cost optimization with the key steps to take for implementation. We will also introduce a tool to assess and improve organizational maturity.

• Understand the key preparation required to successfully launch an SCM program.

• Learn how to strengthen and improve SCM execution across your organization.

• Gain guidance on the steps needed to formalize and sustain a mature SCM program.

Tech services practice leaders enter 2026 navigating fluctuating growth, converging markets, intensifying competition, and a fundamental shift driven by AI‑enabled service delivery. At the same time, asset‑based offerings and AI continue to cannibalize traditional services models, demanding a bold re‑examination of practice strategy, differentiation, and operating rhythm. This webinar outlines the most critical priorities for Tech Services Practice Leaders in 2026 and the actions required to set the pace for practice success. 

• Operationalize AI holistically across your practice — in delivery models, workforce capabilities, and client engagements

• Adapt service strategies as tech markets converge, establishing a clear forward vision and competitive positioning for sustainable impact

• Reinvent services differentiation, building distinctive offerings, strengthening your ecosystem, and shaping innovative commercial models

AI agents and multiagent systems are quickly becoming essential resources that augment workforce capacity and reshape how work gets done. CIOs are uniquely positioned to guide how these agentic capabilities scale beyond IT and influence standards, governance and enterprise value.

In this complimentary Gartner webinar, a Gartner expert will outline where the strongest opportunities for agentic AI lie and how CIOs can steer responsible adoption. Attendees will gain clear, actionable guidance on how to strengthen governance, align with executive peers and ensure AI agents deliver measurable impact across the enterprise.

You will learn:

• Why CIOs must co‑lead agentic AI scaling to avoid fragmented deployments and unmanaged risks

• How to shift ownership of outcomes, costs and accountability to product teams using IT foundations

• How to partner with the CHRO to support job redesign and ensure smoother enterprise adoption

Gartner’s Impact Radars analyze more than 500 emerging technologies and trends, giving tech providers a clear view of where the market is headed and how to stay competitive in the accelerating AI race. This webinar spotlights the most consequential technologies for 2026, grouped into three themes reshaping the landscape: physical and embodied intelligence, optimized models and AI agents, and security, sovereignty and governance. Learn how to:

• Determine which emerging technologies and trends are most critical to your business success

• Incorporate high‑impact technologies into your strategic planning and product roadmaps

• Guide investment decisions across key areas such as embodied intelligence, AI agents, and sovereignty‑driven architectures

• Understand the market opportunities and challenges as these technologies advance

AI‑augmented ZTNA provides public‑sector organizations with a proactive, data‑driven approach to cybersecurity. By continuously validating every access request and automating threat remediation, agencies can better protect sensitive citizen information, maintain regulatory compliance, and stay ahead of evolving threats. Successful adoption depends on strong data governance, a phased implementation approach, and ongoing skills development.

In this complimentary Gartner webinar, a Gartner expert will share practical ways to integrate AI with Zero Trust frameworks, mitigate vulnerabilities and support secure deployment in military environments.

• Learn how to accelerate AI adoption while implementing Zero Trust

• Mitigate AI‑specific vulnerabilities during Zero Trust deployment

• Understand how AI and Zero Trust work are interconnected.

• Explore steps to take when implementing Zero Trust with AI.

Modernizing industry core systems is essential for scaling AI and unlocking business value, yet most organizations still struggle with fragmented data, rigid processes and modest budgets. CIOs must reposition modernization as an AI enabler that directly supports faster deployment, improved data accessibility and resilient operations.

This complimentary Gartner webinar introduces a four‑stage journey designed to help CIOs modernize with purpose: reframing the mandate, implementing AI‑ready architectures, transforming operating models and shifting to outcome‑based metrics. Discover how to connect modernization investments to AI outcomes, make smarter architecture decisions and drive measurable enterprise value.

• Learn how to reframe modernization as a driver of AI readiness and enterprise KPIs.

• Explore approaches for AI‑ready architecture decisions that influence scale and flexibility.

• Understand how to update operating models and KPIs to measure value from AI‑enabled core processes.

Many AI initiatives fall short because they are not aligned to the business capabilities that drive real value. CIOs and AI leaders can accelerate success by using business capability maps to identify high‑impact opportunities, prioritize the right use cases and ensure AI investments are tied directly to strategic outcomes.

In this complimentary Gartner webinar, learn how capability maps help teams focus on the data, applications and AI techniques needed to scale AI effectively. Discover how to align strategy and technology, streamline decision making and deliver measurable business value from AI.

• Leverage industry-specific business capability maps to identify high‑impact AI opportunities.

• Use Gartner’s standardized capability map templates to ensure alignment between business strategy, technology investments and operational priorities.

• Gain insight into how leading organizations use capability maps to prioritize use cases and drive measurable outcomes faster.

Generative AI, autonomous agents, and AI‑enhanced workflow systems are fundamentally reshaping how communications operate. These tools promise faster content creation, stronger message resonance, and dynamic audience engagement informed by real‑time data — yet they also introduce new challenges around capabilities, governance, ethics, and change fatigue. As CCOs prepare their teams for an AI‑enabled future, they must understand not only what AI makes possible, but how to implement it responsibly, sustainably, and at scale. In this webinar, you will learn how to:

• Understand the key risks and emerging opportunities AI creates for the communications function

• Prioritize and implement high‑value AI use cases aligned to communications and enterprise outcomes

• Drive adoption within communications teams through training, readiness, and change‑management strategies

• Redesign the communications operating model to deliver higher value in an AI‑enabled organization

Discover what’s ahead for IT spending and generative AI innovation in 2026 and beyond. In this webinar, you’ll gain the latest view on IT spending patterns, learn how GenAI developments are set to reshape the technology landscape over the next five years and understand the supply‑ and demand‑side realities shaping the “Trough of Disillusionment.”

As GenAI moves through the trough, its trajectory will significantly influence demand, CIO priorities in 2026 and new or ongoing enterprise investments as expectations reset. The technology vendor community will face challenges, including setbacks, market disruptions and consolidation. We’ll examine why some GenAI vendors are faltering, how M&A activity is accelerating shifts across the market, and which emerging areas are likely to gain traction as GenAI capabilities advance.

• Discover GenAI trends shaping 2026 and the next five years.

• Learn what it means to move through the “Trough of Disillusionment.”

• Explore which new markets and opportunities are emerging from GenAI.

AI is not just a powerful technology delivering business value — it is a force that requires CIOs to look beyond deploying new tools and instead rethink how IT operates, delivers value, and prepares for the future. As AI’s influence grows, leaders must make deliberate choices about talent, processes, and technology to ensure their organizations are positioned for long‑term success. This session will outline the key decisions CIOs face as they navigate this shift. We’ll share what it takes to reinvent IT for the AI era, highlight emerging pitfalls, and offer a preview of approaches to help IT organizations plan and move forward.

• Determine your “North Star” destination for the future of your IT organization

• Establish function‑specific transition and reskilling plans that match your destination and pace

• Look beyond an AI‑ready technology stack and build a roadmap toward a democratization‑ready technology stack

Three out of four CEOs now view AI as essential to driving growth and resilience — yet most admit their supply chain operating models are not built for an AI‑driven future. Incremental add‑ons to legacy systems aren’t enough. To unlock AI’s full potential, CSCOs must embrace a bold shift toward the AI‑native supply chain: an operating model intentionally designed around AI’s strengths rather than human constraints. In this session, Gartner will share insights from AI‑native transformation initiatives, outlining how to redesign operating models, evolve organizational structures with new AI‑aligned roles, and upgrade the technology foundation needed to deliver scalable, enterprise‑wide AI value. 

• Understand the defining characteristics of an AI‑native supply chain

• Reimagine the operating model around AI’s potential — not legacy human‑only processes

• Redesign organizational structures and roles to support AI‑native ways of working

• Make targeted technology investments that strengthen and modernize the supply chain foundation

• Balance innovation and risk to ensure AI adoption is responsible, scalable, and sustainable

Procurement is reinventing itself for an AI‑first world. This Gartner webinar presents 5 predictions for how AI will reshape procurement’s operating model, technology roadmap and talent mix — and what that means for chief procurement officers. Join us to explore how foundations like data quality and process visibility enable agentic and AI‑native workflows, why regulatory and technological shifts are elevating multitier supplier transparency, and how roles, skills and governance will evolve as AI moves from isolated pilots to orchestrated, enterprise‑scale impact.

• Understand the five prediction themes shaping AI‑first procurement, including foundations, visibility, talent and orchestration.

• Identify near‑term priorities to improve data, process and cross‑functional alignment so AI use cases can scale beyond pilots.

• Explore talent and operating model implications as AI automates routine tasks and rebalances work toward higher‑value, human‑AI collaboration.

Choosing the right cybersecurity technologies is challenging, especially in an environment marked by rising costs, budget uncertainty, vendor consolidation and rapid growth of AI cybersecurity products., This webinar helps cybersecurity leaders make smarter technology investments by considering peer adoption of 40 cybersecurity technologies across cyber GRC, IAM, data security, application security, security operations, and infrastructure security. Discover Gartner’s top 10 recommendations based on an analysis of the demonstrated benefits and obstacles to successful deployment of each technology.

• Which cybersecurity technologies your peers are currently investing in across key domains such as IAM, data and application security, security operations, infrastructure security and AI security.

• What key organizational and technical factors to consider when deciding to adopt a cybersecurity technology.

• How to evaluate and navigate the most common benefits and risks of deploying top technologies, including AI solutions.

Organizations are operating in a fast‑moving regulatory landscape shaped by rapid adoption of generative AI. As CEOs pursue growth in this environment, general counsel must help the business balance risk with opportunity, while compliance leaders determine which activities remain essential to effective risk management.

This session explores how legal and compliance leaders are developing comprehensive approaches to governing AI risk, supporting responsible innovation and ensuring the compliance function continues to deliver strategic value in an AI‑disrupted world.

• Develop a strategic AI governance roadmap grounded in responsible decision making.

• Identify, assess, prioritize and respond to AI‑related risks across the organization.

• Align AI initiatives with business goals while ensuring critical risk management activities remain intact.

• Clarify roles and responsibilities across legal, compliance and the business to govern AI adoption.