IBM at Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo™ 2025

8 – 10 September 2025
Gold Coast, Australia

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In today’s AI-driven world, standout leaders don’t just react—they execute with precision. Like a Formula 1 team, they dominate through telemetry, trust, and razor-sharp decision making.

Thanks for joining IBM this September at Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo™ 2025 on the Gold Coast to explore IBM’s formula for performance.

With trusted AI, intelligent automation, and governed cloud operations, IBM enables clients to shift from reaction to prediction–and lead confidently in the age of intelligence.

Agenda
Solution Provider Session (SPS)

AI in the Fast Lane: Ferrari and IBM’s GenAI Transformation Playbook

From the racetrack to the enterprise, Ferrari and IBM share a winning formula—turning bold AI ambition into lasting advantage. In this session, learn how Ferrari reimagined the digital customer experience with GenAI, and how IBM realised $3.5M in productivity gains through AI-driven transformation. Two visionary brands, one powerful story: strategic bets, breakthrough technology, and GenAI that delivers measurable business results.

Speakers: Richie Paul, Generative AI and Strategy and Transformation Lead, IBM

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Solution Provider Session (SPS)

The Winning Formula: Lessons on Balancing Investment & Innovation

As AI-fuelled transformation accelerates, leaders must finely tune the balance between performance, cost, and innovation. In this powerful panel, senior leaders from Commonwealth Bank Australia, Apptio and IBM share how they are driving innovation while maintaining financial accountability and transparency.

Hear how they’re leveraging Technology Business Management (TBM) and Strategic Portfolio Management to gain full visibility into technology spend, to optimise resources, and ensure every dollar drives maximum value for customers and citizens. Walk away with new ideas to sharpen cost control, reimagine resource allocation, and unlock the full potential of AI and automation.

Speakers: Sunil Thomas, General Manager - Technology Finance, Commonwealth Bank Australia | Matt Pinter, APAC Field CTO, Apptio | Matt O’Hara, Partner - Application Operations, IBM | Juleigh Cook, National Manager - Automation and Artificial Intelligence Branch, Services Australia

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Xpo Stage Session (XSS)

The 15-Minute AI Agent Demo Challenge: Play, Build, Automate!

Get ready for a high-energy, action-packed session where speed meets agentic AI! This fast-paced demo will show how to quickly build and deploy a task-ready AI agent using watsonx Orchestrate that integrates with over 80 enterprise tools. If we miss the timer, you win a prize! Discover how watsonx supports no-code, low-code and pro-code, making intelligent automation accessible for every skill level. You'll also learn how to manage multiple agents through a centralised chat interface and discover proven strategies to boost value from AI.

Speakers: Nicholas Renotte, Head of AI Developer Advocacy, IBM

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Xpo Stage Session (XSS)

Automated IT Resilience in the Fast Lane: Improving Productivity & ROI from Tool Sprawl

Managing enterprise applications across hybrid cloud environments is increasingly complex and resource intensive.

Organisations are burning time and resources keeping the wheels on, instead of driving real innovation. Despite all the dashboards, alerts and manual checks, outages still happen and delays in remediation can cost you the podium. It's time to shift gears.

This high-octane demo shows how IBM Concert can proactively spot risks, autonomously analyse app-specific data and deliver tailored recommendations to accelerate response time. See how your teams can design no-code workflows and leverage AI agents for continuous resilience and compliance assessment.

Speaker: Kevin Shen, Principal Product Manager, IBM Concert, IBM | Annie Lin, IT Automation Technology Leader, IBM

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Roundtable

Agentic AI in the Driver’s Seat: How to Accelerate AI Adoption Without Losing Control

In the race to lead with intelligence, agentic AI acts like a race engineer — driving performance, navigating complexity and making autonomous decisions at speed. Smart automation must operate within strict guardrails to ensure governance and enterprise-readiness. When outcomes, risk and compliance are on the line, you need more than a passenger. But where do you begin? Join IBM and industry peers in an interactive discussion on how businesses are transitioning to agentic AI with built-in governance – delivering autonomy with accountability to drive real business value.

Speakers: Michal Chorev, Trustworthy AI Lead, IBM | Kieran Hagan, Data and AI Segment Leader, IBM

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Roundtable

Navigating to Success with AI-Driven IT Operations, moderated by IBM

Start your engines for a high-octane roundtable with IBM and your peers as we navigate the track to autonomous IT operations. Join us to discuss the role of AI-driven automation in transforming IT operations from reactive to predictive. We'll explore both foundational and transformational considerations when building the future of autonomous work.

Discover how to enhance system resilience through self-healing capabilities powered by AI-driven automation. We'll also debate the benefits of intelligent runbook execution to streamline operations, and discuss strategies for optimising resource utilisation while minimising operational overhead. Just like a high performance racing team fine-tunes for peak performance, you’ll gain insights to drive agility, efficiency, and innovation across your IT landscape

Speaker: Matt O'Hara, Partner - Application Operations, IBM | Gabriel Deepak, Practice Lead - AI Operations, IBM

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