Application Innovation & Business Solutions Summit
9 – 10 September 2024 | London, U.K.
New Intelligence, New Value, New Skills
Welcome to the future of applications, where new user experiences, new capabilities and new platforms are constantly vying for your attention and investment. In a world where everyone is a builder, application and software engineering leaders must navigate new and challenging paths to deliver true business value.
To thrive in the face of constant disruption, you must maximize the value of existing application investments and optimize the impact of new software capabilities. The disruptive forces of AI and other emerging technologies are inspiring all stakeholders to dream big. This is driving new working practices and skills, as well as changing the expectations of customers, users and developers. To deliver new value, you must embrace these changes and enable them.
The opportunities for application innovation are nearly limitless — with strong leaders and technologists at the helm. Join 32+ World Events experts, 50+ vendors and 1700+ peers in London, UK on 9-10 September to navigate these opportunities and challenges head-on, and get practical advice and strategic insights on topics like generative AI, intelligent apps, low-code, platform engineering, attracting, developing and retaining great software engineering talent and more.
Join enterprise application and software engineering peers
Join a world-class community of World Events application and software engineering experts and thousands of industry peers from across every industry at World Events Application Innovation & Business Solutions Summit 2024, in London, U.K
Expand your sphere of influence and build your network. Join us at the premier World Events conference designed specifically to equip enterprise application and software engineering leaders and their teams with the objective insights, expert guidance, practical tools, and must-see frameworks that they need to achieve their mission-critical priorities. Bring your team to maximise learnings. Participate in relevant sessions together or split up to cover more insights and share your take-aways later.
Transform your organization into an intelligent, composable business that meets the demands of the future.
Learn how to:
- Align enterprise strategy with business objectives
- Develop an enterprise application team
- Modernize enterprise applications
- Organize the application organization to meet the challenges of digital business
- Evaluate and adopt intelligent application capabilities
Elevate your software engineering strategies to deliver successful business results across your mission-critical priorities.
Learn how to:
- Attract, develop and retain great talent
- Ensure product management, design, security and engineering work well together
- Deliver more value to business stakeholders and customers
- Improve developer productivity and developer experience
- Build and deliver digital products to drive business results.
- Kick-start platform engineering to improve the developer experience and accelerate value delivery
Build agile architectures that continuously adapt and evolve to meet new and evolving business requirements.
Learn how to:
- Create an architecture that is flexible enough to both satisfy current demands and adapt to emerging demand
- Develop strong agile architecture, DevOps and cloud-native skills
- Optimize and refine application delivery to make it repeatable, effective and efficient
- Adopt new application architectures that take advantage of APIs and services
Craft a pervasive integration strategy that meets the needs of a modern organization.
Learn how to:
- Design a future-proof business application integration strategy
- Select the right integration platforms and technologies to support digital business
- Implement a technical API strategy that allows the delivery of more integrations, faster
- Learn how to integrate AI into your organization
- Integrate cloud-based and on-premises applications
Create multidisciplinary digital business teams to ensure successful digital transformation.
Learn how to:
- Align strategies between IT and the business
- Create hybrid IT-business “fusion” teams
- Develop a common view of value by establishing shared metrics
- Transition from a project-centric to a product-centric delivery model
Network with Gartner experts and industry peers
At World Events Application Innovation & Business Solutions Summit, attendees can connect with world-class World Events experts and thousands of industry-leading software engineering and application peers in an environment built for dialogue.
Attendees can exchange ideas and experiences with others, as they join the premier conference for application and software engineering executives. Benefit from unparalleled networking with peers through planned and unplanned networking, all under one roof.
Highlights
- Roundtable sessions. These small-scale, interactive sessions emphasize group participation, providing participants with an opportunity to share experiences and ideas, develop skills, explore best practices and solve current issues. (Preregistration is required.)
- Workshops. Workshops are expert-led, small-scale and interactive sessions where you drill down on specific topics with a how-to focus. (Preregistration is required.)
- Ask the Expert sessions. These group sessions enable attendees to ask a World Events expert questions directly. (Preregistration is required.)
- Social engagements. Have fun and build new business relationships with peers as you engage in networking receptions.
This conference is designed to equip application and software engineering leaders and their teams with the objective insights, expert guidance and practical tools they need to elevate their strategy as they discover new approaches to making smarter business decisions.
No matter where you are on your transformation and innovation trajectory, we are here to help you get to your destination faster, with confidence.
Lean back, listen and prepare to be inspired
Expect the best speakers, brightest minds and innovative ideas and research. These sessions provide the inspiration and actionable insights to help guide you to transform your mission-critical business priorities into business results.
Highlights
- Guest speakers. Hear firsthand from thought-provoking guest speakers and industry peers.
- World Events Magic Quadrant™ sessions. Explore World Events Magic Quadrant™ sessions for an objective guide across how solution providers are executing against their vision.
- Contract Negotiation Clinics. These interactive sessions are designed to help attendees to prepare for their next contract negotiations with strategic technology vendors and provide cost optimization tips and tactics.
Lean in and engage and prepare to be inspired
Facilitated by World Events experts, these sessions challenge you to solve problems together, exchange viewpoints and get to the core of the business imperatives that drive you and your peers.
Highlights
- Roundtables. These small-scale, interactive sessions emphasize group participation, providing participants with an opportunity to share experiences and ideas, develop skills, explore best practices and solve current issues. (Preregistration is required.)
- Workshops. Workshops are expert-led, small-scale and interactive sessions where you drill down on specific topics with a how-to focus. (Preregistration is required.)
Our unbiased World Events experts help you advance your most critical priorities through industry-leading insights, guidance and tools. Tap their unique expertise to make faster, smarter decisions.
World Events one-on-one meetings.* Meet one-on-one with World Events experts for tailored advice to help you achieve your most critical priorities. These popular meetings offer you the undivided attention of a World Events expert who will listen and guide you on the matters most critical to your success.
Ask the Expert sessions.* Topic-driven sessions provide a more intimate discussion forum, featuring one World Events expert and end-user peers posing questions.
*Preregistration is required. These sessions are available to end users only; space is limited.