2026 Applications Conference Sessions

The 2026 agenda dives deep into key topics for enterprise application and software engineering leaders around AI, leadership, modernization, cost optimization and more to help address your organization’s mission-critical challenges.

2026 Applications Conference Theme

Deliver the Future: Innovate, Lead, Act.

Applications and software engineering leaders are at a turning point where foresight must meet execution and business disruption is forcing dramatic changes. The 2026 conference empowers you to go beyond admiring the AI-enabled promising future — it's about actively building and delivering it. Learn how modern technology, visionary leadership and decisive action can transform your organization’s aspirations into reality. 

Explore our conference sessions below, all developed with this theme in mind. Join us to grow the skills and insights needed to deliver an adaptive and autonomous transformation journey.

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Tuesday, June 02, 2026

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM PDT

Roundtable: How to Plan for Escalating AI Token Costs
Luke Parker, Sr Principal Analyst, Gartner
With the rise of agentic coding, AI token costs are spiraling, with $100+/month or even $1000+/month per developer. Should you tightly control spend or encourage experimentation? Which vendors support transparency? And will AI costs start to rival salary costs? Join this roundtable discussion to share challenges, learn best practices and hear how peers are planning for these increases. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM PDT

Roundtable: Is Product-Centric Delivery in Government Achievable — or Just Rhetoric?
Ron Blankenship, Executive Partner, Domains, Gartner
Join public-sector technology peers for a candid, peer-led discussion on shifting from projects to products in government. Explore real barriers and breakthroughs in team structure, funding, culture and accountability. Share your experiences and learn what’s truly working — and what’s not — across agencies. ... Show More Show Less

12:30 PM - 01:15 PM PDT

Enterprise Architecture Roundtable: Starting & Restarting an EA Practice
Jeff Fitzgerald, Executive Partner, Domains, Gartner
Gartner survey data consistently shows that roughly two-thirds of EA leaders have recently rechartered, are in the process of recharting, or plan to recharter their EA function. In this Roundtable, you’ll hear from peers about best practices and lessons learned when undergoing an EA makeover. ... Show More Show Less

02:30 PM - 03:15 PM PDT

Senior Leadership Circle Roundtable: Best Practices for Agentic AI in Enterprise Applications
Tad Travis, VP Analyst, Gartner
The majority of organizations surveyed by Gartner are beyond testing agentic AI in their applications and report that it holds promise for improving processes. Questions remain about build vs. buy approaches, multiagent integration and estimating ROI. Join this session to trade, share and learn best practices for maturing your agentic AI implementations. ... Show More Show Less

02:30 PM - 03:15 PM PDT

Senior Leadership Circle Roundtable: How to Unlock Productivity Across the SDLC With AI Agents
Philip Walsh, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Early gains from AI code assistants plateau quickly. Join this facilitated discussion with software engineering leaders to discuss the shift to AI agents that can plan, execute and orchestrate SDLC workflows. Learn where they deliver the most value, what architecture/context is required to scale, and the governance and hidden costs leaders must manage. ... Show More Show Less

04:00 PM - 04:45 PM PDT

Roundtable: Women in IT Leadership: Culture and Career Design
Fatima Ahmed, Sr Principal Analyst, Gartner
Despite progress, women remain underrepresented in IT leadership. What can organizations do to change the narrative? This session explores how intentional culture, sponsorship and career design can support and advance women in engineering leadership roles. ... Show More Show Less
Wednesday, June 03, 2026

09:00 AM - 09:45 AM PDT

Roundtable: How Are Manufacturers Modernizing for Agility, AI and the Connected Plant?
Ron Blankenship, Executive Partner, Domains, Gartner
Join manufacturing technology leaders for a peer-led discussion on modernizing legacy applications, integrating AI and achieving plant connectivity. Share strategies for balancing production demands, technical debt and OT/IT boundaries. Learn what’s working — and what’s still challenging — in pursuit of the connected plant vision. ... Show More Show Less

09:00 AM - 09:45 AM PDT

Roundtable: How Are You Using AI & Prompt Engineering in Public Sector Work?
Ryan Wilson, Executive Partner, Domains, Gartner
Join this lightly facilitated peer discussion to exchange best practices, lessons learned and challenges with using AI and prompt engineering in day-to-day public sector workflows. Share your wins, failures and strategies for organizational adoption —including approaches for policy controls —with fellow enterprise applications and software engineering leaders. ... Show More Show Less

01:45 PM - 02:30 PM PDT

Senior Leadership Circle Roundtable: Modernize Enterprise Applications
Tristan Iles, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Heads of enterprise applications must establish a strategic approach that aligns application and business goals to overcome complexity and technical debt. This requires continuous modernization and portfolio rationalization, including consolidating or decommissioning applications. Join this lightly facilitated roundtable with your peers to discuss. ... Show More Show Less

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Aneez Zakaria
Product Manager, Blue Shield of California

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