--- title: "Join Atlan at Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo 2026" url: "https://atlan.com/event/gartner-it-symposium/" description: "Meet Atlan at Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo 2026 in Orlando, Oct 19 to 22. See the context layer behind 5x more accurate AI, watch live agent demos, and book a 1:1 executive session on the Xpo floor." keywords: "gartner it symposium 2026, gartner itse, atlan gartner, context layer, ai context platform, orlando" --- > Atlan is hosting Context Conference, bringing together the leaders and builders at the frontier of giving AI the context it needs to understand their business. It runs online on October 28, 2026, from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM ET. Atlan co-founder Prukalpa Sankar opens and closes the day. Leaders from AstraZeneca, BNY and Verizon share why they invest in context and what they get from it. Registrants get early access to The AI Context Gap, a new study from MIT Technology Review Insights. Register: https://atlan.com/context-conference/ Atlan's page for Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo 2026. Gartner says AI context platforms are the most critical enabling tech for 2027. Meet Atlan to learn what context actually is, what a context platform looks like, how you can start building your own, and what it returns in production. Details as listed on the page: - **Dates:** Oct 19 to 22, 2026 - **Venue:** Walt Disney World, Orlando, FL - **Where to find Atlan:** the Xpo floor - **Book a meeting:** [https://atlan.com/gartner-it-symposium-meeting/](https://atlan.com/gartner-it-symposium-meeting/) ## See the context layer, live Every AI initiative on your roadmap depends on context: what your data means, how your business runs, what's allowed. See Atlan's automated, open, and self-learning context layer at Gartner IT Symposium. - **Up to 80%** higher agentic AI accuracy for organizations that prioritize semantics (Gartner, May 2026) - **Up to 60%** lower AI costs from that same semantic investment (Gartner, May 2026) - **5x** more accurate AI with context from Atlan (Atlan customer results) - **Days** to enrich context that used to take 12 months (Atlan customer results) The architecture diagram, top to bottom: - **Interfaces & Agents:** custom agents, vertical agents, general purpose agents, tools - **Open & Portable Context:** context repos - **Enterprise Context Layer:** - AI-Ready Data: the integrated, trusted, and AI-ready representation of an enterprise's data and knowledge assets. ([Connectors](https://atlan.com/connectors/), [Data Lineage](https://atlan.com/data-lineage/)) - Semantics & Ontology: the map of the business, its entities, metrics, and relationships. ([Context Agents](https://atlan.com/context-agents/)) - Agent Skills: reusable, versioned, testable units of procedural knowledge. ([Context Engineering Studio](https://atlan.com/context-engineering-studio/)) - **Business Systems:** systems of record, systems of semantics, systems of data, systems of knowledge Gartner quotes shown on the page: - "By 2028, the majority of enterprises running AI agents in production will standardize on a dedicated context platform rather than build and govern context separately for every agent." Gartner, Market Overview for AI Context Platforms, August 2026 - "Leaders responsible for AI should implement these platforms to develop context into a first-class enterprise asset, rather than rebuild it separately for every agent." Gartner, Market Overview for AI Context Platforms, August 2026. Atlan is named among the report's example vendors. ## A leader across every context category - **G2:** 95% of G2 users see Atlan as a true partner. Summer 2025 badges shown: Grid Leader, Momentum Leader, Enterprise Grid Leader, Easiest to Use, Best Relationship, Europe Regional Leader, Europe High Performer. [Read the G2 report](https://atlan.com/g2-leader/) - **Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Metadata Management Solutions:** "The Metadata Lakehouse forms the core foundation, built on an open and highly performant architecture. It is designed to be Iceberg-native and includes a knowledge graph for business domains, vector storage, and analytics, which is purpose-built for AI." [Read the Gartner MQ report](https://atlan.com/gartner-magic-quadrant-metadata-management-solutions-2025/) - **Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data & Analytics Governance:** "Atlan stands out in AI-native governance through context-based partnerships, agentic stewardship and orchestration of enterprise agentic systems. They take a partnership and co-innovation based approach, which is reflected in their App Framework as a marketplace for context." [Read the Gartner D&A report](https://atlan.com/gartner-magic-quadrant-data-governance-2026/) - **A Leader and a Customer Favourite in the Forrester Wave™** (Data & Analytics Governance Solutions and Enterprise Data Catalogs): [Forrester Wave Leader 2024](https://atlan.com/forrester-wave-2024/), [Forrester Wave Leader 2025 and Customer Favorite 2025](https://atlan.com/forrester-wave/) ## Trusted by AI-forward enterprises Customers shown: Mastercard, HubSpot, Zoom, Dropbox, Autodesk, Nasdaq, Fox, PPG, GitLab, Virgin Media O2, Unilever, Workday, Elastic, NHS, Affirm, General Motors, easyJet, Medtronic, New York Life, Grainger. - "AI initiatives require more context than ever. Atlan’s metadata lakehouse is configurable, intuitive, and able to scale to hundreds of millions of assets." Andrew Reiskind, Chief Data Officer, Mastercard. [Watch Mastercard's story](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/mastercard-context-by-design/) - "Atlan’s open and extensible foundation helps our technical team build applications to improve customer experiences in the AI era." Ashfaq Mohiuddin, VP, Enterprise Data & AI, HubSpot - "We have Atlan as the metadata plane across our tech stack, independent of where technology is. We have one place to define the data, understand what it means, and where it comes from." Oliver Gomes, VP, Analytics & Strategy, Fox. [Read Fox's story](https://atlan.com/customers/fox-governance-atlan/) - "Atlan has been a partner since day 1 in our journey in just one yer, we have onboarded 6,000 people. Conversational analytics will go even further to reach every employee." Mauro Flores, Executive Vice President, Data Democratization, Virgin Media O2. [Watch VMO2's story](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/virgin-media-o2-context-for-all/) - "Atlan captures Workday’s shared language to be leveraged by AI via its MCP server. As part of Atlan’s AI labs, we're co-building the semantic layer that AI needs." Joe DosSantos, VP, Enterprise Data and Analytics, Workday. [Watch Workday's story](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/workday-context-as-culture/) - "We're focused on how we can scale context development as much as possible, and where can we leverage Atlan AI to build the most robust definitions across our data estate and make sure we're propagating it upstream and downstream." Takashi Ueki, Head of Enterprise Data & Analytics, Elastic. [Watch Elastic's story](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/hidden-strategies-behind-ai-ready-tech-pioneers/) - "Atlan has been a really good partner in helping us figure out how to register AI models and applications, and what metadata to put in place to meet the transparency requirements that [AI Governance] legislation asks for." Sherri Adame, Data Governance Lead, General Motors. [Watch General Motors' story](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/contracts-context-and-cars-general-motors/) [See all customer stories](https://atlan.com/customers/) ## Find us on the Xpo floor See the platform working on a live estate, and leave with a read on where your own context stands. - **Live agent demos:** watch the Operational Agent and Talk to Data Agent answer real questions on a live estate. - **1:1 executive sessions:** bring your AI roadmap. Leave with a context assessment and a plan your team can run next quarter. - **Customer proof:** how Mastercard, Workday, and General Motors put context to work for production AI.