Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 9:30 AM - 10:15 AM PDT
Forum Ballroom
In the race to operationalize AI across applications, workflows, and development tools, most technology leaders struggle to scale deployments, drive adoption, and show ROI. The goal is to get tangible value without creating “AI slop,” accelerating tech debt, or undermining user trust. We’ll provide insights and examples for practical transformation that emphasize human-AI partnership as a force multiplier for delivering AI solutions that get results.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM PDT
Theater 1
Many enterprises have strong AI strategies but struggle to turn them into real outcomes due to fragmented integration landscapes and execution challenges. In this session, see how SEEBURGER BIS bridges the gap between AI ambition and execution by unifying integration and applying agentic AI across the full lifecycle—from design to execution to operations. Learn how a unified integration foundation delivers reliable, governed data flows across on premises, hybrid, and cloud environments—reducing risk, accelerating modernization, and enabling scalable AI driven growth.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM PDT
Theater 2
If AI isn’t delivering major gains in ADM productivity, the issue may not be the model – it’s the context. In complex enterprise systems, an incomplete understanding of all dependencies leads to inconsistent outputs, heavy rework, and developer mistrust. This session shows how feeding AI deterministic architectural context drives accuracy beyond 80%, eliminates structural risk, and cuts token usage – unlocking AI adoption across the SDLC.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM PDT
Forum 114
Through extensive interviews, trend analysis and scenario planning, Gartner reveals its predictions for the near- to mid-term future of software development and engineering. Where will the waves of innovation crashing down on us now take us tomorrow? How can we prepare now to ride these waves, rather than being drowned by them?
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM PDT
Forum 118
Application platforms are necessary to future-proofing your enterprise applications, particularly for delivering differentiating and innovative capabilities, and for determining when to build or buy AI application capabilities. Join this session to learn about the newest practices and recommendations for mananing your enterprise applications.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM PDT
Forum 130
With economic uncertainty and rising expectations for AI, software engineering leaders are under pressure to "do more with less". Boosting developer productivity and optimizing costs are top priorities for software engineering leaders in 2026, but they must ensure these efforts do not undermine teams' ability to deliver long-term value. This session will teach the necessary techniques, tools and metrics to enhance the impact of software engineering teams and investments.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM PDT
Forum 105
What are the major API trends in 2026? How does AI change API design, management and security? This session explores the most important API technology and practice breakthroughs for 2026, spanning multiple industries and use cases.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM PDT
Forum 122
Building AI capabilities into software is the top priority of software engineering leaders. However, it is also their biggest pain point. A roadmap is required to illuminate the path through cultural and technical barriers to surpass stuck prototypes and enable an AI-native organization. Join this session to learn more.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM PDT
Academy 410
AI systems are being deployed without due consideration for the threats that could impact them. Without understanding these threats, organizations will be exposed to excessive risk. This session will explore how to use threat modeling and adversarial thinking on AI systems before they wreak havoc.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM PDT
Alliance 303
Trust is a significant factor in determining whether users will accept or reject AI-enabled systems. As AI agents become increasingly prevalent in digital products, establishing and maintaining a high degree of user confidence is essential for ensuring successful product delivery and high user engagement. Learn how to design AI systems for transparency, understand key principles and fundamental design patterns that will result in products that your users trust.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM PDT
Academy 413
Heads of enterprise architecture (EA) who don’t proactively use AI to optimize EA activities will become a roadblock to increasing demand from business and IT stakeholders. This session provides a roadmap for heads of EA to reimagine their operating model and serve as exemplars in harnessing AI.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
Forum 114
The journey to AI at scale starts with modern enterprise foundations. Explore why modern ERP, integration, and cloud transformation are critical to becoming AI‑ready. Hear how organizations modernize their environments, connect processes and data across the enterprise, and prepare for more intelligent, automated decision‑making. With a customer perspective, explore how companies are laying the groundwork today for an adaptive, autonomous future.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
Forum 118
Scaling agentic AI requires recalibrating your business system down to the architecture. Join State Street and Appian to understand what is needed to embed AI agents into mission-critical operations, and how process acts as a deterministic harness that provides the certainty organizations need for probabilistic agents. We will explore how universal orchestration anchors agents to your enterprise architecture for scalable, reliable outcomes.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
Forum 122
AI-generated apps are arriving faster than enterprises can deploy them. The bottleneck isn't creativity; it's getting from prompt to production without breaking governance, integrations, or IT's sleep schedule. In this session, Jithin Bhasker, Group VP and GM of App Engine at ServiceNow, and a customer share how they cut deployment cycles, eliminated manual handoffs, and built apps that run autonomously from day one.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
Forum 130
AI agents are driving real value but also rising costs. As agentic workflows scale, token usage compounds, and most organizations lack visibility or governance to manage it. This session explores how enterprises are building sustainable AI economics through monetization models and governance frameworks - turning AI infrastructure into a competitive, revenue-generating advantage.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
Academy 410
Stop building generic agents. Your organization's true competitive advantage lives in whiteboard sketches and expert intuition, but translating them into software traditionally stalls. In this live session, see Papyrus Converse and IBM watsonx use multimodal AI to instantly transform a hand-drawn process into a digital asset. Capture your "Business DNA" to create a Digital Twin of expertise, scaling app delivery enterprise-wide.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
Academy 413
Every enterprise is deploying AI agents. Most aren't doing it well. Workato CIO Carter Busse walks through the MCP playbook he wishes every team had a year ago, including the decisions that determine whether those deployments succeed.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM PDT
Forum 114
AI agents’ deployment improves task-level automation by embedding GenAI-based reasoning frameworks and adaptive decision logic. However, the oversimplified narrative of AI agents as a direct substitute for human employees, fueled by marketing hype and early successes in limited tasks, often leads organizations to prematurely explore “hiring” AI agents for full-fledged roles. This rapid adoption trend is driving a fundamental shift in skill requirements and team structures. Join this session to learn more.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM PDT
Forum 118
You want to harness AI but your data is a mess? Application readiness starts with trusted data. AI-ready data enables AI-driven applications to provide better insights, automate task and improve decision making across business functions. This session will discuss how to assess the current state, improve data quality and measure outcomes to maximize your chances for success.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM PDT
Forum 122
Thriving in times of intense economic and social volatility requires organizations to find new ways to empower their software engineering teams to increase productivity, efficiency and effectiveness. This session will provide Gartner's latest and best guidance on the actionable trends' software engineering leaders and their teams should be tracking in 2026 and beyond.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM PDT
Forum 105
Are you wondering who should orchestrate your growing network of AI agents? Explore options between your enterprise application platform vendors' orchestrators, BOAT, AI Agent management platforms, and other orchestration platforms. Learn to create the decision criteria to select your platforms based on capabilities, modularity, use cases, enterprise application proximity, and more.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 1:10 PM - 1:30 PM PDT
Theater 1
Enterprise AI has crossed a critical threshold as agents move from advisory into operational roles. Can organizations govern them at scale and prevent sprawl? This session presents two structural prerequisites for governing enterprise agentic AI: a composable architecture and a decision governance layer—the Agentic Intelligence Architecture™. Apex Tools Group joins us with a case study on accelerating enterprise AI governance and deployment.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 1:10 PM - 1:30 PM PDT
Theater 2
Shift left assumed code is written by trained developers. AI coding tools broke that assumption: anyone can now ship software, but few grasp package trust, transitive dependencies, or supply chain risk. The control point has shifted from how code is written to what code is consumed. This session presents a new security model built on consumption controls, with a framework to assess exposure, architect controls, and automate remediation.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 1:35 PM - 1:55 PM PDT
Theater 1
In the era of AI, transformation decisions are moving faster but enterprise context often arrives too late. This session shows how architects can bring EA and portfolio data into the moment of decision-making, helping early ideas evolve into architecture-informed scenarios through visual collaboration and AI-native capabilities. The result: faster alignment, stronger decisions, and architecture positioned where it can create the greatest impact.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 1:35 PM - 1:55 PM PDT
Theater 2
Agentic QA promises speed and autonomy, but without guardrails and governance, it risks inconsistency and loss of control. This session explores how enterprises can operationalize agentic testing with built-in accountability, human oversight, and policy-driven frameworks—ensuring AI-driven QA delivers reliable, scalable, and production-ready outcomes.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 1:45 PM - 2:15 PM PDT
Forum 114
The rapid pace of change with artificial intelligence is leading to gaps with the ability of end users to engage and embrace the new era of intelligent applications. This session will provide practical guidance and a framework for organizations to effectively adopt and adapt to this new era.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 1:45 PM - 2:15 PM PDT
Forum 118
Integration is key to executing strategic priorities like AI and digital transformation, but many organizations struggle with fragmented tools, specialist skills, and rigid governance, making integration slow and complex. This session outlines a structured approach to deliver integration at scale, respond to change, and support initiatives. Learn how to audit your integration landscape, identify gaps and overlaps, and consolidate tools to reduce complexity and boost agility.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 1:45 PM - 2:15 PM PDT
Forum 122
AI Agents are the hot topic when it comes to delivering "business value" from generative AI, but while creating an agent in the lab can be simple, getting them to production is challenging. This session will walk you through five top practices to help your organization's AI agent building efforts deliver on their promise.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 2:00 PM - 2:20 PM PDT
Theater 1
Most AI agents fail in production because the infrastructure beneath them is incomplete. This session covers the 5-layer stack required for enterprise-grade agents: durability, coordination, safety, observability, and evaluation. Learn how Agentspan, the open source framework for durable AI agents, compiles agent definitions into resilient workflows with retries, persistence, human approvals, and full execution traceability.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 2:00 PM - 2:20 PM PDT
Theater 2
Autonomous AI agents are reshaping how we access information, interact with enterprise data, and decide between building or buying applications. But they also introduce risks, especially with business-critical data. In this session, you’ll learn how to ensure reliable, hallucination-free answers, avoid chaos from user-built apps, and build a strong enterprise foundation to scale AI safely.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
Forum 114
As a wave of senior technical staff approaches retirement, periodic reductions in force become unavoidable and some essential staff inevitably move on, organizations must act swiftly to capture their hard-won expertise and prevent operational disruptions. A multifaceted knowledge transfer strategy can maintain continuity in the enterprise. Join this session to know more.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
Forum 118
In a heavily hyped market, Heads of Enterprise Applications must ensure that their strategic investments in AI embedded within business applications turn promise into profits by delivering measurable business value. Leaders must also evaluate which platforms are truly equipped to support future business needs so they can make informed decisions about where to invest for long-term success. In this session, hear Gartner's insight into the future of the market, and learn how to ensure that current modernization efforts are compatible with future AI Agent investments, avoiding the waste of scarce resources on systems that will quickly become outdated.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
Forum 122
AI is revolutionizing software engineering — redefining skills, reshaping roles and reinventing team structures. To stay ahead in this AI-native era, software engineering leaders must fundamentally rethink their talent strategies. This session reveals the new blueprint for building future-ready software engineering talent: the rise of tiny talent-dense teams, creativity and domain expertise as the ultimate differentiators, and “AI-shoring” as the new outsourcing.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
Forum 130
Discover how Applied AI and Digital platform transformed a fragmented B2B landscape into a unified, intelligent global product serving millions of traditional trade customers. This session shares proven architecture patterns, product-led models, and strategies that enabled rapid expansion across the globe by accelerating innovation while maintaining reliability, resilience, and scale.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
Forum 105
Two organizations can choose the same AI augmented low code platform and get very different results — the difference lies in the operating model. Top performers succeed with clear ownership, governance, and change management. Drawing from our experience with hundreds of clients, I’ll share what sets automation leaders apart and the key ingredients of a high-performing model for consistent, scalable success.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
Academy 410
Legacy application systems based on outdated or degraded technology and application architectures carry significant technical debt that causes serious risks to agility and innovation. Application and software engineering leaders must develop a migration plan to reduce technical debt and adopt modern application architectures and technologies.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
Academy 413
Reducing the operating cost of your application portfolio is a constant challenge for all leaders, and IT rationalization initiatives rarely produce the desired results. Instead, learn the best practices for preparing and executing application rationalization initiatives, how to sidestep the common pitfalls, and how to showcase the benefits.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 2:30 PM - 2:50 PM PDT
Theater 1
Software engineering leaders' top priority is infusing AI into products. AI application development platforms streamline the process of building AI agents, assistants and multimodal applications. Use this evaluation to identify suitable vendors based on your organization’s needs.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 2:30 PM - 2:50 PM PDT
Theater 2
Over the past year, the enterprise architecture tools market has undergone significant transformation, characterized by a series of strategic mergers, acquisitions, consolidations and the entry of new vendors. This dynamic shift has attracted heightened attention from EA practitioners, private equity firms and IT software vendors, all keen to capitalize on the evolving landscape. Join this session to know more.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 3:15 PM - 3:45 PM PDT
Forum 130
The smartest CX teams are asking: “which jobs should AI handle?” Not every customer experience needs fully autonomous AI, and for regulated industries, it may be the wrong move entirely. Automation, generative AI, and agentic AI each solve different CX problems. Inbenta CTO Merlin Bise delivers a practical guide for deciding which fits where, what production-ready looks like, and why governance is the factor most programs get wrong.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 3:15 PM - 3:45 PM PDT
Academy 410
Join BECU's staff architects Jole Sack and Alex Duff as they share their AI journey so far with Gordon Cooper, field chief architect with Orbus Software. They'll touch on how they began, where they are today, and what's next in their quest to ensure BECU's Death star of Knowledge becomes completely operational.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 3:15 PM - 3:45 PM PDT
Academy 413
Government IT leaders face a hard choice: bringing agentic AI to citizen services without compromising security or compliance. Hear how Peraton helped a local government modernize 45 apps and launch AI tools for 3M residents. Instead of a vendor pitch, learn the practical steps taken to navigate compliance friction. Leave with actionable strategies to scale responsible AI in regulated environments while cutting costs.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 3:15 PM - 3:45 PM PDT
Forum 114
The proliferation of AI agents and assets requires centralized governance. Discover how MuleSoft Agent Fabric and Omni Gateway provide the essential control, governance, and visibility layer to manage your entire agentic enterprise. Learn how to establish consistent guardrails across any API, AI, or MCP assets, empowering your teams to orchestrate securely and deliver faster at scale.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 3:15 PM - 3:45 PM PDT
Forum 118
In an era where AI agents are reshaping how decisions are made and work gets done, your APIs can become a competitive edge or a serious liability. In this session, Postman Field CTO Harry Mower shares practical steps to modernize your API ecosystem, strengthen governance, and maximize AI readiness so you can confidently power intelligent agents and future‑proof your API strategy.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 3:15 PM - 3:45 PM PDT
Forum 122
Many organizations are experimenting with AI, but few successfully scale beyond pilots. This session explores how agentic business applications and AI agents are reshaping how work gets done, enabling teams to automate, adapt, and take action across enterprise systems. Learn how organizations are operationalizing agents to move from isolated experimentation to scalable, enterprise-ready solutions that drive real outcomes.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM PDT
Forum 114
Boards expect enterprise applications proposals to be strategic, not technical. Learn how to frame application initiatives around business value, risk and cost to gain executive buy-in and avoid common pitfalls in boardroom presentations.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM PDT
Forum 130
This session will provide an update on how Gartner rates ERP vendors in our two Magic Quadrants for Cloud ERP, one for service-centric enterprises and one for product-centric enterprises. Gartner views the markets for these solutions quite differently.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM PDT
Forum 122
This session extends proven technical debt frameworks to address AI-specific risks. Attendees will learn practical criteria for detecting, classifying and prioritizing AI technical debt — including AI-generated code quality, model obsolescence risk, output reliability and cost trajectories. Software leaders will gain strategies to enhance their existing governance processes to manage AI technical debt before poor implementations compound into architectural crises.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM PDT
Forum 105
The automation of business processes is a top priority for most CEOs, but these initiatives can often stall or remain siloed within a single department. In this session, we'll share 10 tactics to reshape and relaunch your automation program.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM PDT
Forum 118
The proliferation of AI technologies threatens to erode business value, cascading integration complexity, and rendering existing governance frameworks obsolete. This presentation will guide software engineering leaders in leveraging MCP to lead their teams in building a secure, governed, and scalable AI ecosystem for mission-critical applications.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM PDT
Academy 410
Software architects must identify the core components to design, implement, and deploy LLM-based AI agents. This session explores the inner architecture — the software design of a single agent runtime and its encapsulated components. Learn how goal-driven agents use the Agent Orchestrator for planning and execution, Memory management for functional coherence, and tool use to take actions. Understand how this architecture acts as the scaffolding to ground the LLM's stochastic behavior and integrates agent observability and evaluation.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM PDT
Alliance 303
As AI reshapes how organizations build and operate digital capabilities, leaders face the challenge of modernizing core platforms while the business continues to move at speed. This fireside chat explores how Mastercard is approaching platform modernization as a business led transformation, balancing innovation, resilience, and long-term readiness. Join this session to hear executive perspectives on navigating technology change in a complex enterprise environment.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM PDT
Academy 413
Emerging technology radars are visualization tools that support the enterprise technology portfolio and guide IT leaders in planning for disruptive technologies in 2026. The four themes include the AI-powered enterprise, security by design, efficiency first, and foundational and frontier technologies. This session will cover what themes and emerging technology Heads of EA should be aware of.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 4:40 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
Theater 2
Enterprise AI is no longer limited by models but by execution. While organizations are rapidly experimenting with AI, most struggle to operationalize it across real systems and processes. The challenge is not the model. It is connecting AI to the systems that run the business. In this session, you will see how enterprises move from pilots to production by connecting AI, orchestrating workflows, and governing execution at scale.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 4:40 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
Theater 1
What if building integrations was as simple as describing what you want? In this technical session, we’ll demonstrate how modern hybrid integration enables rapid, AI-assisted development; turning prompts into working integrations, APIs, and workflows in minutes. See how teams can accelerate delivery, reduce complexity, and move from idea to execution faster using intuitive, AI-driven tooling designed for real enterprise environments.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 5:15 PM - 6:00 PM PDT
Forum Ballroom
In a world where disruption has become the default setting, uncertainty isn’t the exception — it’s the new operating system. The role of data and analytics leaders has never been more critical, nor more complex. In this keynote, Peter Hinssen explores how applications and software engineering leaders can thrive in the Never Normal — an era defined by relentless change and exponential opportunity. Drawing on his latest book, The Uncertainty Principle, he shows how applications and software engineering leaders can turn volatility into a source of innovation, build organizations that adapt at the speed of technology, and shape a future where AI augments leadership, foresight, and creativity. The question isn’t how to survive the storm — but how to lead when the storm becomes the climate.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PDT
Exhibit Showcase, Summit 216
Join us for a networking reception on the Exhibit Showcase where you can engage with your peers, Gartner experts, and exhibitors while enjoying delicious food and beverages. Evaluate industry offerings that can move your business forward. Attend a theater session to see technology in action.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 6:35 PM - 6:55 PM PDT
Theater 1
AI reshapes software delivery, fragmented toolchains slow quality efforts and raise risk. This session explores how integrated, AI‑supported quality workflows can connect teams, reduce friction, improve traceability, and embed quality across the SDLC in highly regulated industries. A real-world case study will show how unified workflows modernize delivery while aligning with business and regulatory goals.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 / 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Academy 415
After a full day of sessions, join Microsoft and Heineken for a reception built for easy conversation and new connections. A little less formal, a little more fun — and a great place to keep the momentum going.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM PDT
Forum 114
Application leaders need strong financial acumen and due diligence to make confident, outcome-focused portfolio decisions. This session shows how financial literacy, transparent risk management, and a shared financial language with business and finance partners can improve IT portfolio health. Gain strategies to strengthen oversight, reduce uncertainty and boost portfolio impact.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM PDT
Forum 130
CRM don't grow wild because of bad technology - it fails when demand outpaces vision. This session explores why CRM portfolios grow wild and how to restore focus by getting closer to customers, removing employee barriers, owning a clear CRM vision, and rigorously linking business targets to CRM capabilities—turning complexity into control and measurable value.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM PDT
Forum 105
Enterprise application and software engineering leaders often overlook the most critical metric in AI: the cost of an error. This cost is intrinsic to the specific application. It can range from a few minutes of employee frustration to losing millions of dollars or human lives. Starting AI discussions with this question gives leaders and teams a structured decision-making framework. This session provides a risk-focused perspective to AI production.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM PDT
Forum 122
Heads of EA must identify and evaluate high-potential, opportunistic technology investments as part of their efforts to design an IT investment portfolio that balances cost, value and risk. This presentation guides Heads of EA to proactively steer IT investments for growth, cost optimization, productivity and risk while identifying technology investment opportunities that boost long-term enterprise value with a venture capitalist mindset in 2026 and beyond.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
Forum 118
Join this session to watch simultaneous, scripted demonstrations of three leading vendors in business orchestration and automation technologies (BOAT). Learn about the key features to consider and how they compare in action, the main strengths and weaknesses of the vendors, and the innovations expected in the future.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
Forum 114
Government enterprise application and software engineering leaders are the architects of modernization. This session shows how to operationalize AI and analytics, embed governance for trust and compliance, build a data-driven culture and deliver quick wins that drive efficiency and value. Walk away with actionable strategies to improve efficiency, accelerate decisions and drive measurable mission impact.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
Forum 122
Applications and software engineering leaders must think creatively about cost optimization and savings programs. This session will show how to energize savings initiatives by framing them around a fun, sprint-based approach. Learn how an organization launched and implemented a "Celebrate Savings" 5-week sprint that inspired the IT workforce to participate and discover innovative and unconventional ways to achieve both short- and long-term savings.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
Forum 105
Large language models are powerful generators of content and insight, but hallucinations, misattributions and simple mistakes make them unreliable without a verification layer. This session explores the fast-evolving practice of cross-model validation, using one LLM to validate the output of another, transforming AI from a creative assistant into a trusted collaborator.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 10:35 AM - 10:55 AM PDT
Theater 1
Agentic AI is accelerating software delivery, yet many leaders struggle to scale it into predictable business outcomes. Through two real-life cases, Softtek shows how organizations operationalize native AI across the full build‑and‑run lifecycle with one accountable partner. Learn how AI arbitrage—rather than labor arbitrage—improves cost predictability, reduces build and test effort, and enables funding delivery by outcomes instead of activity.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 10:35 AM - 10:55 AM PDT
Theater 2
AI is rapidly changing how software is built, but trust hasn’t kept up. As AI generates more of the software stack—especially the backend, where critical logic lives—the challenge is governing what it produces before it reaches production. In this session, we’ll cover four steps to control AI-generated code at scale, plus a live demo of how teams move from prompt to production with confidence.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM PDT
Forum 114
Enterprise AI runs on context. Context engineering is the discipline of designing the skills, data, APIs, governance, and messaging that give agentic systems what they need to act reliably. Done well, it earns trust and unlocks autonomy. Done poorly, it produces hallucination, compliance failures, and stalled adoption. This session defines context engineering, makes the case for urgency, and provides a practical framework for getting it right.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM PDT
Forum 118
CITY Furniture is modernizing its 30-year-old legacy system to double revenue every four years, using IBM webMethods iPaaS for growth and omni-channel excellence. Discover how integration operationalizes AI at scale, while IBM DataPower Interact Gateway provides native governance for agents, APIs and MCP tools—enabling secure, real-time AI actions without new infrastructure. Essential for organizations balancing legacy systems with AI innovation.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM PDT
Forum 122
Enterprise GenAI is difficult to scale because they sit on top of fragmented systems instead of inside core workflows. This session covers what an Enterprise AI Architecture should look like to enable scaling Agentic AI, spanning integrations, data, workflows, applications, and autonomous agents… and how it forms the foundation of an AI Operating System for the Enterprise.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM PDT
Forum 130
How does a major health system assess 1,100 applications, engage 700+ owners, and find $16M in savings in 20 weeks? Join Ochsner Health and Slalom for a fireside chat on visualizing IT landscapes, eliminating redundancy, and building scalable governance. You will leave with strategies to drive stakeholder engagement at scale, uncover hidden cost savings and tech debt, and a practical playbook to block future application duplication.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM PDT
Academy 410
Most enterprises are stuck between AI prototypes and production. The gaps: reliability, risk, and repeatability. Tyler Jewell, CEO of Akka, shares how industry leaders can embed policy enforcement, compliance, and failure containment directly in the agentic runtime to scale confidently across teams. Join us to learn why bolt-on governance fails and how embedding compliance in the agentic runtime can close the pilot-to-production gap, scale agentic AI across teams, and prepare for evolving AI compliance requirements.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM PDT
Academy 413
As a leading modernization company, we are the only provider that leverages AI to create pure Java systems or other open systems, normalize and migrate data, incorporate IT trends such as generative AI, and integrate functional enhancement. Drawing on our experience from over 950 migration projects, we'd like to share key considerations to help avoid pitfalls and unexpected outcomes, and ensure added value, superior quality and cost efficiency.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
Forum 114
AI expedites experimentation but creates "innovation sprawl" that increases risk and stalls value. Software engineering leaders must avoid AI-driven pilot purgatory by instilling innovation discipline: reduce uncertainty in ideas, create explicit scaling requirements and institutionalize learning.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
Forum 118
Agent Sprawl — where too many agents are shared freely with little oversight — is becoming a significant challenge across enterprise applications. As major productivity platforms such as Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace enable easier agent creation, organizations should act to keep their users and data safe. Join this session for a deep dive on how to establish the right governance and guardrails to mitigate risk, while allowing the organization to unlock value with safe use of AI agents.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
Forum 122
The future of software engineering lies in creativity and innovation rather than productivity. This playbook guides leaders in redefining success metrics, cultivating a founder’s mindset, and aligning AI-powered ideation and rapid prototyping with business goals. By prioritizing creative potential over traditional throughput, organizations unlock sustained value and reshape the next era of software engineering.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
Forum 105
The battle is still on and back for it's third year - We'll look at the new developments across the API ecosystem, how they are faring in the maelstrom of AI and agentic use cases, and look at how API management and Agent governance are converging.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 12:15 PM - 1:00 PM PDT
Forum 130
Every enterprise is deploying AI agents — but few are governing them. As agentic workloads proliferate across platforms, clouds, and business units, the real competitive advantage lies not in the agents themselves, but in the control plane that orchestrates them. Learn how forward-thinking enterprises are shifting to a headless, API-federated architecture — turning services into MCP endpoints, discovering agents and enforcing governance at scale.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 12:25 PM - 12:45 PM PDT
Theater 1
Most teams are racing to adopt Model Context Protocol (MCP) but few have it under control. Meanwhile, business teams are demanding new MCP-powered services faster than IT can safely deliver them. You'll watch a complete, end-to-end MCP delivery from creating tools and connecting to enterprise apps, to deploying and governing it all live on stage. One session. Production-ready patterns. Real questions answered in real time.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 12:25 PM - 12:45 PM PDT
Theater 2
Every platform shift rewrites the rules of enterprise control, and AI is no exception. As app creation spreads across the business, governance becomes harder—and more critical. This session explores how enterprises move from point-in-time quality gates to continuous governance, and how Worksoft’s AI-driven testing platform provides the assurance and control IT needs without slowing innovation.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 12:50 PM - 1:10 PM PDT
Theater 1
As organizations rapidly deploy AI agents across functions, maintaining visibility and control becomes increasingly difficult. This session introduces a mission control layer that orchestrates systems, people, and AI agents to enable controlled end-to-end execution with robust governance and guardrails. You’ll leave with practical strategies for restoring oversight and accountability as AI scales, plus actionable governance best practices.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 12:50 PM - 1:10 PM PDT
Theater 2
Agentic systems often fail due to a lack of governance and unpredictable outputs. This session moves beyond the hype to share how organizations overcome these obstacles. Explore proven design patterns including reflection, planning, tool use, multi-agent collaboration and RAG, combined with expert feedback and human-in-the-loop controls. Through a realistic fictitious e-commerce customer support scenario, we demonstrate how these patterns work together to create reliable and trustworthy agentic systems. We also share a real-world initiative that delivered $1.13M in cost savings as proof of the results. Leave with a practical framework for building auditable, governed agents that deliver measurable ROI.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM PDT
Forum 114
The digital giants like Microsoft, Amazon and Google can often be arrogant, unresponsive and difficult, however they can also be strategic, innovative and even your business partner! This session covers how to engage with the digital giants, how to set the stage, what is realistic and how to punch above your weight to achieve your strategic objectives.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM PDT
Forum 118
Stepping into a new leadership position is both exhilarating and challenging, but it can be perilous. This session will equip you with proven best practices for navigating your first days, building a powerful personal brand, and avoiding career-limiting pitfalls that can derail your progress. Discover actionable insights and insider tips to ensure you not only secure your new role—but excel in it.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM PDT
Forum 122
AI-native startups are the pathfinders for the hottest trend in software engineering — tiny teams. What are tiny teams? They are teams of two to three people, augmented by AI agents. Instead of forming teams of seven or eight, startups are now organizing into these smaller units. In the most extreme case, a tiny team can be just one person working with AI agents. This session presents Gartner's research and guidance on tiny teams. Join us to understand how tiny teams work and how large organizations can leverage them.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 1:15 PM - 1:35 PM PDT
Theater 1
As engineering shifts from developer seats to token consumption, is AI actually accelerating delivery? Based on Jellyfish’s 2026 analysis of 200K engineers, 37M PRs, and 700+ companies, this session uncovers the “Agentic Stall”—when AI-generated output overwhelms human review capacity. Learn how to measure true AI ROI, manage rising human-in-the-loop costs, and adopt new metrics like Cycle-Time-per-Token to better align spend with outcomes.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 1:15 PM - 1:35 PM PDT
Theater 2
MCP is becoming the standard for connecting AI agents to enterprise systems, but getting it right starts with choosing the right approach. Build it yourself? Use an OpenAPI spec? Deploy a native server? Adopt a platform? Each has trade-offs across security, governance, scalability, and maintainability. We'll break down each path, where it works and where it fails, then go hands-on to show what production-ready enterprise MCP looks like.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 1:40 PM - 2:00 PM PDT
Theater 1
Salesforce has made an enormous bet on Agentforce 360, putting it at the center of all product development and innovation. Join this session to examine Agentforce's product vision, capabilities, and pricing. This session will provide essential insights to update your Salesforce product roadmap and shape your enterprise application strategy.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 1:40 PM - 2:00 PM PDT
Theater 2
Generative AI technologies and techniques are evolving at an unprecedented pace, accompanied by significant hype, making it challenging for leaders to navigate this dynamic landscape. IT leaders can leverage this Hype Cycle to identify the innovations most worth pursuing as they shape and execute their AI strategies.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 1:45 PM - 2:15 PM PDT
Forum 114
People are technological beings. We improve ourselves through the use of technology. Technology has not only become closer to our bodies, but is disappearing into our bodies as well. What if most of our interactions with technology take place within our bodies? What is we, human beings, are the application? What are the ethical consequences of this? Are these plausible futures? What do we deem desirable and undesirable?
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 1:45 PM - 2:15 PM PDT
Forum 118
Autonomous ERP is no longer a theory: AI and composable architectures are giving enterprise systems the ability to reason, act and adapt without human intervention. But thinking for itself and thinking well are very different things. This session will dive into the 5 levels of ERP evolution to help application leaders separate true platform intelligence from vendor hype and make the right strategic bets.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 1:45 PM - 2:15 PM PDT
Academy 410
AI-augmented software engineering tools are context-aware, data-driven and increasingly autonomous tools, enabling the faster delivery of higher quality products. We discuss findings from Gartner's Magic Quadrants for AI coding assistants and AI-augmented software testing tools. We address questions around how Gartner defines these markets, the mandatory and common product features, the best vendors for your organization, the main use cases, and how complementary these solutions are.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 1:45 PM - 2:15 PM PDT
Forum 130
A walkthrough of Revvity’s experience, key factors, and decisions that led to the adoption of AI‑native development and the Tiny Teams concept. The session will discuss the approach to spec‑driven development to drive innovation across the organization at scale, as well as showcase a tool developed to ensure that the speed of AI‑generated artifacts is matched with the processes required to meet quality, compliance, and testing standards in the life sciences industry.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 1:45 PM - 2:15 PM PDT
Forum 105
Using an LLM-based AI agent as the building block, this session delves into the architecture of a Multiagent platform (outer architecture), which functions as a distributed ecosystem in which multiple LLM-based agent instances operate, scale, interact, and are managed. The outer architecture is critical as it provides the necessary infrastructure for securing and governing multiple agents collectively in a predictable and consistent manner.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 1:45 PM - 2:15 PM PDT
Forum 122
How does a famously decentralized company — where every business unit operates autonomously — navigate the AI revolution? Nucor experienced viral adoption of AI tooling, leading to a sprawl of citizen-developed applications trapped on local PCs with no governance, no master data, and no software engineering or infrastructure standards. This session tells the story of what happened next — Lightspeed, a rapid-response program assembling Nucor's best minds to build enterprise-grade architecture standards, orchestrated AI agents, and a reimagined SDLC at startup speed.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 1:45 PM - 2:15 PM PDT
Academy 413
Now is the time for Enterprise Architecture to lead. The era of fragmented AI pilots is over. Regulatory pressure, escalating costs, poor return on investment and board-level scrutiny demand a unified enterprise AI direction. Heads of EA are uniquely positioned to lead by holistically connecting strategy, planning and execution, ensuring AI can deliver measurable business outcomes while managing risk and cost. By using these practical techniques, heads of EA can ensure AI becomes a repeatable, trusted capability rather than a fragmented liability.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
Forum 114
AI agents are the most transformative capability enterprises have gained in a generation, and most are wasting them as drop-in replacements for human steps in processes built around handoffs, working hours and cognitive limits. The future belongs to organizations that redesign from scratch: new processes built for agentic capabilities, on open standards that are machine-executable and human-governable. A blueprint for leaders ready to move first.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
Forum 118
When an AI agent calls GitHub, accesses your CRM, or triggers a workflow on behalf of a user, who authorized that action — and how do you know it stayed within bounds? Most organizations cannot answer that question today. This session maps the full agent security stack: establishing agent identities, governing MCP tool registries, enforcing fine-grained authorization based on intent, and building the observability layer that makes all of it auditable. Attendees will leave with a framework for evaluating and closing the security gaps in their agentic deployments.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
Forum 122
AI coding agents fail at scale, not from model limits, but lack of structured codebase understanding. Without it, agents hallucinate dependencies, break downstream logic, and ship changes that fail in production. Agent Grounding gives AI machine-readable intelligence before it acts. Leave with a diagnostic framework, a grounded development model, and real results: 70% LLM cost reduction, 25/26 on IBM Bob vs.16/26 ungrounded.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
Forum 130
AI agents now write production code faster than any team can review it. Verification debt is the result. This session introduces the Agent Centric Development Cycle (AC/DC), a Guide-Verify-Solve framework for governing AI-authored code at enterprise scale. Attendees leave with a practical model for multilayered verification that keeps pace with agentic development.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
Academy 410
The gap between an AI pilot and a production-ready enterprise is defined by your API and integration stack. Without a modern, secure foundation, AI remains isolated from the systems, data, and users it's meant to serve. This session features real-world insights from Axway and Ciena on industrializing AI. Learn how to architect a governance-first integration strategy that keeps your AI initiatives secure, compliant, and ready for global scale.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
Academy 413
Strict compliance and unsecured consumer tools hindered AI adoption at Mercury Systems. Using Mendix, Mercury built a scalable AI orchestration layer to support ecosystems like AWS Bedrock and Copilot. Join this session to learn how to experiment and fail fast. Walk away with actionable strategies to deliver enterprise AI solutions securely within a centrally governed infrastructure despite regulatory friction.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 3:05 PM - 3:25 PM PDT
Theater 1
Every team has a backlog. The question is what you do with it. Agentic development isn't a rip-and-replace; it's a progression. In this session, walk away knowing how to add AI to apps you already own, how to build net-new apps with agents that handle work autonomously, and how teams are using ServiceNow to ship faster without starting from scratch. Real steps, applied to where you are today.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
Forum 114
Application modernization and digital transformation requires investment, most notably in the latest cloud, AI enabled enterprise applications. The business case for modernization can be elusive. This session will provide application leaders with a practical strategy for balancing the costs and the benefits of application modernization.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
Forum 118
AI and GenAI are more costly for vendors to deliver than a typical software or SaaS application. This creates margin risk for vendors, who pass it on to unsuspecting customers via pricing and packaging. Attend this session to learn four ways you can mitigate risks and prevent a costly budget shock.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
Forum 105
Manual modernization is becoming obsolete. This session guides leaders to adopt AI-augmented modernization tools for code understanding, transformation, testing and automated documentation. Learn how AI code assistants and rule-based modernization tools are slashing costs, accelerating delivery and enabling continuous modernization.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
Forum 122
Multiagent systems require AI agent orchestration to unlock their full potential, which has created a wave of vendors and frameworks looking to capitalize on this opportunity. Learn about three types of multiagent systems and the different ways technology providers address them.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
Academy 413
Traditional IT metrics and dashboards are not enough to showcase the impact of software engineering initiatives. Instead, software engineering leaders must understand the art and techniques of executive storytelling. This session will showcase the leadership skills and best practices needed to create a narrative at the right altitude for your executive
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
Academy 410
As SAP's ECC hits the end of mainstream maintenance in 2027 and 2030, IT leaders and application managers must balance business value and their need for transformation with budget and time constraints. This research describes how IT leaders should proactively steer their SAP ERP transformations, rather than react to SAP’s recommended approach and timeline.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
Forum 130
Join this session with Amex’s SVP and Unit CIO for practical insights from managing operating systems that process tens of millions of transactions daily, including how to move beyond traditional monitoring, reduce alert fatigue, and detect issues in real time.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 4:15 PM - 4:45 PM PDT
Forum 114
Why doesn't AI-driven individual developer productivity translate into teamwide improvements? This session explores the causes of this gap and offers practical solutions to bridge it.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 4:15 PM - 4:45 PM PDT
Forum 118
An abundance of choice exists when it comes to enterprise AI assistants for supporting everyday AI needs. Enterprise cloud and SaaS providers offer their own versions that coexist with incumbent services, while emerging AI vendors compete with cutting-edge features. Learn about the key criteria that digital workplace leaders should consider in selecting their enterprise AI assistants.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 4:15 PM - 4:45 PM PDT
Forum 122
The traditional software development life cycle can’t keep pace with the AI era. This session introduces a streamlined, AI-native pattern: Design & Experiment and Engineer & Scale. See how generative prototyping shortens design phase from weeks to days, creating new synergy between business and tech. Leaders will get a practical framework for adopting this two-phase model to accelerating feedback loop and rapidly validate customer value.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 4:15 PM - 4:45 PM PDT
Forum 105
With Model Context Protocol appearing in every vendor product with any AI ambition, organizations are questioning what this means for their current integration practices. Here, we cut through the hype, and take the lessons learnt from early adopters and provide guidance on the true impact on integration delivery.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 4:15 PM - 4:45 PM PDT
Academy 410
The next frontier of AI value isn't found in more code assistant automation, but in the disciplined application of systems design, strategic curation of context and the elevation of documentation from an afterthought to a primary fuel to drive AI alignment, enabling AI agents to accomplish more for your business.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 4:15 PM - 4:45 PM PDT
Forum 130
An augmented workforce is a practice where organizations intentionally combine human experience with machine efficiency and insights to amplify impact. AI agents will be a key amplifier and no-code agent builders are the primary tools to go from worker automation to augmentation. Learn how application leaders can harness these powerful yet immature tools for optimal business outcomes.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 4:15 PM - 4:45 PM PDT
Academy 413
AI offers capabilities that can be beneficial across the enterprise. This means that it can be easy to lose focus on tying investments in AI technology to the value they deliver. This session will show how business architecture can be used to identify AI investments that will deliver the most value.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 4:15 PM - 4:45 PM PDT
Alliance 303
Don’t let rigid roles limit your enterprise architecture team’s impact. Manage a portfolio of EA skills — not roles — to flexibly deploy talent, close critical gaps and maximize value in a fast-changing business landscape. This approach enables targeted upskilling and agile resourcing, ensuring your architects deliver the right expertise to the right initiatives at the right time.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 4:45 PM - 6:15 PM PDT
Exhibit Showcase, Summit 216
Join us for a networking reception on the Exhibit Showcase where you can engage with your peers, Gartner experts, and exhibitors while enjoying delicious food and beverages. Evaluate industry offerings that can move your business forward. Attend a theater session to see technology in action.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 4:55 PM - 5:15 PM PDT
Theater 1
Explore recent AI and other functional developments planned for the next releases of SAP Cloud ERP Private solutions to help you prepare for adoption, build your road map, and accelerate time to value
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 4:55 PM - 5:15 PM PDT
Theater 2
AI transformations often stall due to a lack of verified context with vital information often living in fragmented, undocumented processes - the invisible infrastructure of the business. With 40% of agentic AI projects at risk due to unclear value, leaders must treat documentation as infrastructure. In this session, you will learn how to scale clarity, transforming institutional knowledge into the trusted and verified logic AI needs to succeed.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 5:20 PM - 5:40 PM PDT
Theater 1
Context engineering—designing the skills, data, and governance that make AI agents reliable—is easier to show than explain. In a live demo, watch an AI coding agent equipped with platform-specific skills, integration best practices, and structured governance build enterprise integrations in real time. See how well-designed context turns a general-purpose model into a domain-aware builder you can trust. No slides. Just proof.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 5:20 PM - 5:40 PM PDT
Theater 2
AI teams face a market where the best model keeps changing, provider performance is inconsistent, and prices continue to rise. Drawing on Kilo’s real-world model usage data across 40 trillion tokens, we’ll show where multi-model AI improves cost, speed, and reliability. Learn how CTOs and engineering leaders can adopt multi-model workflows, reduce vendor risk, and build resilient AI systems.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 5:45 PM - 6:05 PM PDT
Theater 1
Abridge builds AI for healthcare with a simple philosophy: if they're asking doctors to trust AI, their engineers should too. 90%+ of engineers at Abridge use Cursor and Claude Code daily. But speed without security isn't a strategy. Trey Caliva, Head of Platform Engineering, will share how Abridge secures their AI software supply chain with Chainguard, achieving a 95% reduction in vulnerabilities and a trusted source for AI development.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 / 5:45 PM - 6:05 PM PDT
Theater 2
Enterprise work happens in two orchestration shapes. Structured processes where the steps are defined. Dynamic work where the outcome matters more than the path. Most AI transformation strategies cover one. UiPath's Business Orchestration and Automation Platform covers both, with agents, deterministic automation, and human in the loop coordinated end-to-end.
Thursday, June 04, 2026 / 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM PDT
Forum Ballroom
In today’s fast-changing world, the most agile leaders are those who can think on their feet, lead with authenticity, and use humor as a competitive advantage—seriously. In this provocative and entertaining keynote, Stanford lecturer and bestselling author Naomi Bagdonas explores the behavioral science of humor and the principles of improvisation to reveal a powerful, often-overlooked leadership edge. Humor isn’t the opposite of seriousness; it’s a fast track to trust, an antidote to fear, and a spark for creativity when the stakes are high. Drawing from professional comedians and cutting-edge research, Naomi offers practical tools leaders can use to cultivate more agile teams, more joyful cultures, and more human organizations.
Thursday, June 04, 2026 / 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM PDT
Theater 1
Translating AI into real business ROI requires rewiring your enterprise to win in the age of AI. As AI investment accelerates, traditional architectures present challenges that stall scale beyond pilots. Drawing on insights from 200+ production agents, this session explores real AI use cases and how becoming AI-Native means enabling shared context across data, actions, and governance, delivered with agility and economic discipline.
Thursday, June 04, 2026 / 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM PDT
Theater 1
AI is everywhere, but it does not automatically change how work gets done. In this session, Microsoft shares what it learned as customer zero. Skilling works when it is tied to real roles, real expectations, and real outcomes, not generic training. If you are trying to make AI actually show up in everyday work, this session shows what it takes to make that happen.
Thursday, June 04, 2026 / 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM PDT
Forum 114
Without a clear, differentiating personal brand, applications and software engineering leaders are assumed to be technical experts, rather than strategic thinkers and innovators. Join this session to understand the steps to cultivate and exhibit a compelling personal brand to maximize your leadership influence and impact.
Thursday, June 04, 2026 / 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM PDT
Forum 118
IT leaders are under heavy internal and external pressure to increase AI adoption across their application strategy, leading many to think that they should take the "easy approach" — trust the vendors to guide their AI strategy. This session aims to describe why will this be a bad idea in the medium and long term and suggest actions to balance the right AI buying approach.
Thursday, June 04, 2026 / 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM PDT
Forum 122
Once AI’s impact on software engineering has transformed the organization, the focus shifts from optimizing developer’s productivity to enhancing their creative ability to solve business challenges. This will require hiring more developers to address an ever-growing demand for AI-fueled applications, with profound implications for software engineering organizational structures and ways of working.
Thursday, June 04, 2026 / 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM PDT
Forum 105
Explore the evolving iPaaS landscape with a deep dive into the latest Magic Quadrant. This session highlights top vendors, emerging trends and essential criteria — equipping you with the insights needed to select the right integration platform and accelerate your digital and agentic transformation.
Thursday, June 04, 2026 / 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM PDT
Alliance 303
AGI won't arrive as packaged software. It requires a world. Software engineering provides that world first: feedback loops, causal transparency and scalable learning environments. Within 24 months, vendors will pitch AGI-level software engineering systems. These claims will be technically credible yet strategically misleading. Understanding that paradox will separate those that capture value from AGI and those that chase it.
Thursday, June 04, 2026 / 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM PDT
Academy 410
The AI agent ecosystem is rapidly advancing, characterized by considerable hype and overwhelming choices. In this session, we provide an overview of the AI agent ecosystem, highlight key players and outline evolving deployment models to help IT leaders drive business value.
Thursday, June 04, 2026 / 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM PDT
Academy 413
EA needs to move beyond static plans and become more adaptive. Traditional EA struggles to keep up with rapid changes in technology and business. Instead, EA should use real-time data to continuously monitor progress and adjust its designs as needed. This dynamic approach helps organizations stay aligned with their business goals, respond quickly to changes and even rethink strategies when necessary.
Thursday, June 04, 2026 / 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM PDT
Forum 130
As megavendors like Microsoft, Google and Salesforce embed more GenAI and agentic AI capabilities into their solutions, IT increasingly struggles to keep up with the pace of change. Application leaders should join this session to learn how to establish both the organizational governance and the technical controls necessary to manage AI in their applications.
Thursday, June 04, 2026 / 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM PDT
Forum 114
AI tooling has scaled across the enterprise, but almost no one can reconstruct what agents consumed before producing a change. Context flows in from wikis, incident threads, and upstream systems with no classification, no provenance, and no audit trail. This session treats AI context as a supply chain problem—covering how to classify sources, govern what agents treat as authoritative, and tie changes back to their inputs.
Thursday, June 04, 2026 / 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM PDT
Forum 118
HCLSoftware and its clients are redefining what AI can do at scale orchestrating AI agents, humans, and autonomous operations into concrete action. This session shares real success stories from organization that have defined orchestration patterns to scale AI beyond isolated use cases—driving measurable performance improvements. Discover how this unified layer for governed, intelligent execution, orchestrates every process across every function.
Thursday, June 04, 2026 / 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM PDT
Forum 122
Every CTO has heard the promise: AI makes engineers 30% more productive. But what does the data actually show? In this session, join us as we share real before-and-after metrics from a deployment spanning thousands of engineers—PR velocity, test coverage, onboarding time, and code quality. No vendor spin. Just what worked, what didn’t, and learn how to build a business case your CFO will approve.
Thursday, June 04, 2026 / 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM PDT
Forum 114
Empirical data confirms a structural shift: AI is automating tasks based on codified knowledge, resulting in a 13% relative decline in employment for early-career engineers in AI-exposed roles. This session addresses the leadership challenge of securing the future senior talent pipeline. We provide actionable strategies to redesign career ladders and adapt the interview process away from testing commoditized coding skills. Learn how to proactively focus training and hiring on the new high-value skills: system architecture, deep debugging and AI orchestration.
Thursday, June 04, 2026 / 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM PDT
Academy 413
The top, high-performing enterprise application programs govern differently and have the performance statistics to prove it. This includes managing technical debt and life cycles, planning for intelligent applications, and determining when to build or buy AI application capabilities. Join this session to learn about these attributes and get advice to improve your application governance practices.
Thursday, June 04, 2026 / 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM PDT
Forum 122
AI’s explosive growth — especially agentic AI — has unleashed a new era of Opex volatility, outpacing the predictability we achieved with cloud FinOps. Unlike cloud, AI’s inference and token costs are elusive, often blindsiding organizations as adoption accelerates. This results in chaotic expenses. Platform engineering must make cost control a top priority, embedding financial accountability into every paved road to harness AI’s power without losing control of the bottom line.
Thursday, June 04, 2026 / 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM PDT
Forum 118
Enterprise application leaders are struggling to understand and develop their automation practices. Using the recently updated Hyperautomation Maturity Model, attendees will gain valuable insight and practical tips on how to develop key automation pillars such as strategy, people, organization, metrics, automation focus and technologies used.
Thursday, June 04, 2026 / 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM PDT
Forum 105
As enterprises increasingly seek greater control over their data and AI infrastructure, private and self-managed AI deployments are becoming a strategic priority. This session explores the critical considerations for deploying LLMs and AI agents within private environments. Attendees will gain insights into key business requirements, operational trade-offs, and governance operation necessary to ensure compliance, performance, and security.
Thursday, June 04, 2026 / 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM PDT
Academy 410
AI is redefining the nature of how humans interact with software and applications. This will only accelerate on the way to 2030. This session provides a framework for leaders to capitalize on the AI opportunity as they rethink and reinvent the future of software and applications within their organizations to drive critical business value. It provides insights on how to identify and apply the best AI use cases while avoids pitfalls of cost overuns, security risks and other challenges.
Thursday, June 04, 2026 / 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM PDT
Forum 130
AI coding assistants are accelerating how fast we can write code, but writing code is only one step in the SDLC. If we optimize the art of writing Code without uplifting everything ahead and behind the fun part of a developer’s job, we will see all new productivity bottlenecks appearing in tasks like product design, story creation, peer reviews, testing, deployment, etc. Only by intelligently embedding AI and investing in automation across the full end to end SDLC workflow will we realize true developer productivity and quality at scale.
Thursday, June 04, 2026 / 12:45 PM - 1:05 PM PDT
Theater 2
AI accelerates software creation, but traditional testing can't keep pace with complex, machine-built code. This talk explores Agentic Testing: using autonomous agents to plan, execute, and adapt tests like real users. Learn why QA must evolve into a strategic intelligence layer to validate dynamic autonomous systems. Drawing from enterprise deployments, we’ll show how to move beyond fragile automation to ensure trust in the age of AI.
Thursday, June 04, 2026 / 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM PDT
Alliance 303
If a picture is worth a thousand words, a good architecture diagram is worth ten times as much. Unfortunately, it's far easier to create bad diagrams than good ones. Join this session to understand five key practices for making diagrams easier to create and understand.
Thursday, June 04, 2026 / 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM PDT
Forum 130
Software and SaaS costs are escalating at significant rates, materially impacting IT budgets. Price hikes are attributed to list price increases, the repackaging and rebundling of solutions, and changes to pricing metrics. This session will take you through three customer examples to demonstrate how you can effectively create leverage for negotiations to reduce uplifts.
Thursday, June 04, 2026 / 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM PDT
Forum 122
AI agents are shifting from novelty assistants to primary users of your apps and APIs. This session explains what “Agent Experience (AX)” means, why chat-only UX fails at scale, and how to redesign workflows, interfaces, and controls so agents act safely, audibly, and productively—especially through MCP-style tool and UI integrations.
Thursday, June 04, 2026 / 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM PDT
Academy 410
Enterprise application leaders are being pushed to use agentic automation, which claims to change how work gets done. However, this new technology is often overhyped and hard to plan for. This research gives five actions to get started with agentic automation so businesses can get better results.
Thursday, June 04, 2026 / 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM PDT
Forum 105
Software architecture is strategic business architecture. Every architectural decision — AI features, APIs, data flows — is a business model decision. At the speed of software, strategic choices multiply faster than leaders can keep up. This session provides mental models, frameworks, and culture hacks to help engineering leaders detect key signals, systematize innovation, and lead confidently — even when certainty is impossible. Attend to shape how AI and architecture drive your business forward.
Thursday, June 04, 2026 / 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM PDT
Academy 413
Unlock the full potential of Agentic AI by building on, rather than replacing your existing API management and integration investments. This session reveals how organizations can accelerate AI initiatives, drive innovation and maximize ROI by leveraging proven technology foundations, ensuring seamless, secure and scalable adoption of next-generation agentic solutions.
Thursday, June 04, 2026 / 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM PDT
Forum 118
Evaluating and testing AI-infused software is a new challenge. Traditional software testing assumes a predictable system. AI systems are unpredictable, uncertain and unreliable, which creates risk for AI products. This session provides insights about challenges, best practices and focus areas to give AI teams confidence in the reliability of their AI and ML applications.
Thursday, June 04, 2026 / 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM PDT
Forum 114
There are many ways to structure an enterprise architecture practice and nearly as many ways to fail. In this session, we will discuss the most common factors that are external to the practice that you may not have thought of, such as how to align with the business strategy when there isn't one.
Thursday, June 04, 2026 / 2:45 PM - 3:15 PM PDT
Forum 114
Secure by design is a security engineering approach that enables building software products that are foundationally secure and resilient. This session will review key tenets of the secure by design principle, such as threat modelling, secure by default and software supply chain security.
Thursday, June 04, 2026 / 2:45 PM - 3:15 PM PDT
Forum 118
The use of unauthorized use of GenAI tools like shadow AI creates a significant governance blind spot. Over 55% of global users employ unapproved AI. This bypass of oversight leads to unseen and unmanaged risks. This session explains how to discover and mitigate risk and legal liability while also providing a competitive edge.
Thursday, June 04, 2026 / 2:45 PM - 3:15 PM PDT
Forum 122
As software engineering organizations place a heavy emphasis on AI tooling to improve productivity and delivery outcomes, attention is shifting away from the developer experience. However, only 33% of AI-mature teams say they have a high-quality developer experience, limiting productivity gains from AI tools. This session will focus on how to enhance the developer experience for AI-native software delivery.
Thursday, June 04, 2026 / 2:45 PM - 3:15 PM PDT
Forum 105
Gartner estimates that more than 50% of applications are already at least five years behind the minimum requirements for modern applications, potentially hindering their ability to embrace autonomous business opportunities as AI evolves. This presentation will address the application-centric obstacles most organizations will need to address and practical advice on how to get there. Join this session to learn more.
Thursday, June 04, 2026 / 2:45 PM - 3:15 PM PDT
Forum 130
AI readiness is just the beginning. While it lays the groundwork, adopting an AI-first mindset is crucial for developing truly autonomous agentic AI capabilities. In this session, we’ll explore how composable architecture and AI-ready data pave the way toward an AI-native future.
Thursday, June 04, 2026 / 2:45 PM - 3:15 PM PDT
Academy 410
By 2030, 100% of integrations will be machine-built, and 90% of new connections will be ephemeral and dynamic in response to environmental changes. Learn the changes you need to make to your integration strategies to ensure you remain relevant in the span of five years.
Thursday, June 04, 2026 / 2:45 PM - 3:15 PM PDT
Academy 413
Engineering leaders struggle to quantify the true impact of GenAI on developer speed and software quality. We analyze the evolving market for developer productivity and software engineering intelligence platforms to help you select the right metrics. Discover how to cut through marketing hype, benchmark performance and leverage data-driven insights to maximize your GenAI investment.