Gartner Data & Analytics Summit Texas 2020

Demand for data and analytics skills has doubled inside IT, and even more rapidly outside IT. New business models and sweeping technology change, including AI, are driving the need for a data and analytics-centric culture.

Data governance and ethics must be established and supported. Data literacy is an imperative. Creative thinking must be cultivated as a fundamental competency. Data and analytics leaders, including CDOs and CAOs, must evolve their organizational culture to survive and thrive in these times of change.

Gartner Data & Analytics Summit, September 21 – 24 in Grapevine, TX offers content for every member of your data and analytics team – from technical to senior level strategy. Join data and analytics leaders to gain the skills to build and execute a world-class strategy.

Business strategy Learn how to build an effective data and analytics strategy that will improve productivity, enable fact-based decision making and drive significant business value.

Technology Take a deep dive into the data and analytics tools that will change your organization, compare technology providers and separate hype from reality.

Leadership Develop the leadership skills to bridge the gap between business and IT, drive innovation, build resilient teams, and make data and analytics pervasive in your organizational culture.

The Gartner difference Gartner is the world’s leading research and advisory company. We equip leaders and their teams in every major business function with the indispensable insights, advice and tools to achieve their mission-critical priorities today and build the successful organizations of tomorrow. Across every industry and enterprise size, Gartner provides the expertise needed to tackle your key initiatives, stay ahead of competition and grow your organization’s value.

TRACKS AT A GLANCE Track A - Leadership and Culture: Build the Resilient Organization Learn how to drive innovation, build and manage teams, rewire culture, skills and roles, closing talent gaps, and learning what successful leaders do.

Track B - Business Outcomes and Strategy: Realize the Value See how data and analytics drives your mission critical priorities and how to select and prioritize the right set of investments to ensure success.

Track C - Trust and Governance: The Evolving Challenge Gain guidance for adaptive enterprise data, analytics and AI governance, data quality, data catalogs, master and application data, best practices around digital ethics and trusted data sharing.

Track D - Analytics Everywhere: Drive Pervasive Outcomes This track addresses how to make analytics fundamental to all parts of the business in a trusted way. Data & analytics leaders need to expand their use of analytics for greatest impact.

Track E - Technical Insights: The Art of the Pragmatic This track built on Gartner for Technical Professionals research, delivers actionable, technical insights into the best practices, methodologies such as DataOps, and tools needed to ensure deployment success. It provides advice on the pitfalls to avoid when scaling deployments of data and analytics in and beyond the enterprise and across the cloud.

Track F - Data Architecture: Effective Data Design Learn how to draw the disparate pieces together with a focus on enabling technology components such as cloud, analytics infrastructure, data lakes, data warehouses, blockchain and more.

Track G - AI, Data Science and Machine Learning: The Future Starts Now Understand technology trends, what’s real, what’s hype, skills development and talent recruiting needed for successful deployment and business impact.

Track H - Emerging Technologies: Disruption is a Given This track explores the emerging trends and approaches that will change your business and should not be ignored.

Spotlight Track - Master Data Management: Define a Consistent Foundation This spotlight track places MDM in the broader context of data and analytics by virtue of being embedded in each of the primary tracks. It addresses the fundamentals of MDM as well as advanced topics including the business value of MDM, practical MDM, MDM and digital commerce and growing complexities with MDM in the cloud as more and more business applications and analytics are distributed on multiple clouds and on premises.

Spotlight Track - Business Skills for Data and Analytics Leaders: Be the Change Maker This track focuses on critical skills necessary for success - gaining support and buy-in from peers and business leaders using storytelling, dealing effectively with organizational politics, engendering collaboration across the business, building and managing innovative and successful teams, and managing change.