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3_Dec_CTO_Must Attend Tech Events in USA by Gartner in 2025

Explore These Seven Gartner Conferences in 2025

Gartner’s tech events are essential for CTOs, IT executives, and industry leaders focused on the future of technology and business. Featuring a comprehensive agenda filled with keynote presentations, expert discussions, and interactive sessions, these events provide valuable insights about the IT industry, including the latest advancements, strategies, and the road map ahead. Moreover, it offers opportunities to connect with top and like-minded professionals in the field.

To help you plan your year ahead, we’ve compiled a list of Gartner’s 2025 tech events happening in the USA. Get the latest tech event schedules, updates, and insights right here in this article below.

1. Gartner Data & Analytics Summit

March 3 – 5, 2025

Orlando, FL

Gartner Data & Analytics Summit willfocus on the evolving landscape of data, analytics, and AI strategies, empowering leaders to balance innovation with execution while delivering measurable business value. Explore tracks designed to help navigate the complexities of opportunity, risk, and implementation.

Some topics that will be covered:

  • How to gain enterprise support for data governance
  • Hype cycle for data and analytics governance
  • Top analytics and AI challenges and how to handle them
  • What keeps data management leaders up at night in 2025
  • Avoiding the top mistakes through best practices in data storytelling and much more.

For more information visit:

https://www.gartner.com/en/conferences/na/data-analytics-us

2. Gartner Tech Growth & Innovation Conference

March 10 – 11, 2025

Grapevine, TX

From AI transformation to people transformation, get a closer look at how big tech companies are reshaping businesses and setting new standards for innovation and creativity by adopting a winning approach. Gain actionable guidance on how to leverage emerging technologies – to drive growth, foster collaboration, and make substantial contributions to the global digital economy.

Some topics that will be covered:

  • Scale with innovative product portfolios
  • High-impact marketing to fuel growth
  • Differentiate through new and emerging tech
  • Next-gen go-to-market models for growth
  • New service offerings and value propositions that accelerate critical business outcomes
  • Insight to ignite growth — analyst relations as a partner to the business and much more

For more information visit:

https://www.gartner.com/en/conferences/na/tech-growth-us

3. Gartner Digital Workplace Summit

March 12 – 13, 2025

Grapevine, TX

Discover the insights needed to prepare for the digital evolution.

Join the event to learn how to create an intelligent, continuously improved digital workplace that empowers employees to collaborate, be productive, and enhance business outcomes. You will also learn how to adopt a strategic and holistic approach that encompasses technology, culture, and organizational processes. 

Some topics that will be covered:

  • Buy, build, and blend your digital workplace
  • Magic quadrant for collaborative work management
  • Improve digital workplace maturity with a worker survey
  • Top ways to improve the digital employee experience in 2025
  • The state of digital workplace maturity in 2025 and much more

For more information visit:

https://www.gartner.com/en/conferences/na/digital-workplace-us

4. Gartner Application Innovation & Business Solutions Summit

June 3 – 5, 2025

Las Vegas, NV

The opportunities for application innovation are nearly limitless — with top leaders and technologists at the helm. Gartner Application Innovation & Business Solutions Summit 2025 is the destination conference to navigate these opportunities and challenges head-on, with the most bleeding-edge expert insights, vendor innovations, and peer success stories. Learn to maximize the value of existing application investments and optimize the impact of new software capabilities.  And know how to drive new working practices and skills while meeting the changing expectations of customers, users, and developers. 

Some topics that will be covered:

  • Leading teams to deliver speed, value and innovation with AI
  • Enabling future-proof enterprise application strategies
  • Architecting fundamentals to enable the future of applications
  • Aligning strategies to business outcomes while delivering innovations and much more

For more information visit:

https://www.gartner.com/en/conferences/na/applications-us

5. Gartner Enterprise Risk, Audit & Compliance Conference

September 8-9, 2025

Grapevine TX

Join Gartner Enterprise Risk, Audit & Compliance Conference to discuss and learn how to better assess, monitor, and respond to rapid shifts in today’s business and risk environment. Know how to refine your strategic leadership capabilities and actualize your organizational vision. Gain insights on how to make informed decisions that will drive business performance while considering risks and compliance.  

Some topics that will be covered:

  • Third-party risk management
  • Business risk ownership
  • Governance, risk and compliance tools
  • Compliance program effectiveness
  • Digital audit function
  • Emerging risk landscape

For more information visit:

https://www.gartner.com/en/conferences/na/enterprise-risk-audit-compliance-us

6. Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo

October 20 – 23, 2025

Orlando, FL

The Gartner IT Symposium/ Xpo conference is the place where leadership, technology innovation, and business strategy converge. Explore the technology, insights, and trends shaping the future of IT and business, including accelerating digital business through the cloud, the future of work, data, analytics and artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, executive leadership and more.

Some topics that will be covered:

  • Learn what emerging technologies are on the horizon that must be on the CIO’s radar.
  • Making IT more sustainable, particularly given new pressures from compute-intensive 
  • The evolution of the leaders’ role amid challenging business dynamics
  •  Fostering diverse teams that bring unique perspectives
  • Funding and investments in technology to drive growth

For more information visit:
https://www.gartner.com/en/conferences/na/symposium-us

Now that you have the list ready – embrace the chance to learn, connect, and be part of a vibrant community that drives innovation and shapes the future of technology. Grab your conference pass and get ready to embark on a journey of professional growth and endless possibilities!

In brief

Attending a tech event is one of the fastest ways to stay up to date in the tech world. Just one event or conference can bring a positive turn-around in your business outcome and leadership career.

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Gizel Gomes

Gizel Gomes is a professional technical writer with a bachelor's degree in computer science. With a unique blend of technical acumen, industry insights, and writing prowess, she produces informative and engaging content for the B2B leadership tech domain.