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 - 11:30 AM PDT

Secure AI Before AI Breaks Everything
Aaron Lord, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
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. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM PDT

Strategic Roadmap to Build AI Capabilities Into Software and Integrations
C.A. Swan, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
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. ... Show More Show Less

11:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

Kong: AI Economics in the Agentic Era: Balancing Context and Token Economies
Dan Temkin, Senior Technical Product Marketing, KongHQ
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. ... Show More Show Less

11:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

Workato: Enterprise MCP at Scale: Win on AI Adoption — and Keep the Token Costs in Check
Carter Busse, Chief Information Officer, Workato
Purchasing AI is the easy part. The board is excited. And then adoption stalls. Organizations are discovering that AI adoption only works when agents have the right context, secure enterprise access, and the ability to take action inside existing workflows. Workato CIO Carter Busse shares the architectural decisions, governance frameworks, and lessons learned working with enterprises to scale AI without costs scaling faster. The question isn't whether this will happen to you. It's whether you'll be ready.
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02:30 PM - 03:00 PM PDT

Strategic Roadmap for Adopting Modern Application Architectures and Technologies
Annie Hodgkins, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
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. ... Show More Show Less

04:00 PM - 04:30 PM PDT

The Anatomy of an LLM-Based AI Agent: A Software Architect’s Guide
Steve Deng, VP Analyst, Gartner
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. ... Show More Show Less

04:00 PM - 04:30 PM PDT

Unlocking AI Velocity: Why MCP Belongs in Your Engineering Plan
Alex Coqueiro, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
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. ... Show More Show Less

04:40 PM - 05:00 PM PDT

SnapLogic: From AI Experiments to Outcomes | The Execution Layer You’re Missing
Bhavin Patel, PRINCIPAL SOLUTIONS ENGINEER, SnapLogic
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. ... Show More Show Less
Wednesday, June 03, 2026

09:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Workshop: How to Prioritize and Sell Technical Debt Remediation
Aaron Harrison, Director Analyst, Gartner
Less than 20% of applications and software engineering leaders are very effective at managing technical debt, yet 44% of organizations say it is a top challenge. Leaders must urgently update their approaches and use Gartner’s Plan, Address, Ignore and Delay (PAID) model to evaluate and prioritize the highest risk items. Join this session to learn more. ... Show More Show Less

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