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Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2025 is the premier event for understanding how to tackle key challenges and emerging trends in data, analytics, and AI.

Scheduled for March 3–5, 2025, at the Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center in Orlando, Florida, this meticulously curated event offers actionable insights for senior data professionals–CDOs, data scientists, IT leaders, and other decision-makers.
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This article will offer a sneak peek of what to expect at the Gartner Data and Analytics Summit 2025.

Table of Contents #

  1. Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2025: What to expect
  2. Gartner D&A Summit 2025: Key tracks
  3. Gartner D&A Summit 2025: Session types
  4. Atlan at Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2025
  5. Don’t miss out on the data, analytics, and AI event of 2025
  6. FAQs about the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2025
  7. Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2025: Related reads

Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2025: What to expect #

Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2025 is set to bring together 5,000+ data, analytics, and AI leaders, 50+ Gartner experts, and 120+ solution providers, making it the ultimate event for future-thinking data professionals.

The event will offer the space to uncover the latest insights in data governance, management, architecture, and data trends, while engaging in meaningful conversations with industry experts and peers.

The theme for the Gartner Summit 2025 is covering emerging trends and key challenges in data, analytics and AI:

Data, analytics and AI strategies are in transition. Leaders must balance opportunity and risk, while delivering value to their organization as a priority.

The summit offers a comprehensive program designed to help you:

  1. Reimagine your strategy by attending track sessions, keynotes, ask-the-expert sessions, one-on-one meetings with Gartner experts, and more
  2. Strengthen your network with roundtables, workshops, and social engagements to connect with peers and industry specialists
  3. Accelerate your business by consulting with experienced solution providers and learning about the data landscape (Magic Quadrant and Hype Cycle sessions)

Gartner D&A Summit 2025: Key tracks #

The summit’s five core tracks reflect the pressing priorities of senior data professionals:

  1. Track A: Leadership
  2. Track B: AI
  3. Track C: Analytics
  4. Track D: Data management
  5. Track E: Governance

The event will also have an exclusive program for data and analytics leaders called The CDAO Circle, and three spotlight tracks:

  • Emerging Concepts & Best Practices
  • Fundamentals
  • New to Role

Gartner D&A Summit 2025: Session types #

Gartner D&A Summit 2025 will feature:

  • Keynotes from data, analytics, and AI leaders and experienced Gartner analysts
  • Ask the Expert sessions where you can ask questions to Gartner experts in intimate, topic-driven settings
  • Executive Stories from D&A leadership on real-world challenges, success factors, and lessons
  • Roundtables facilitated by Gartner experts to exchange insights and best practices with your peers around a specific issue
  • Solution Provider Sessions with real-world case studies, advice, and best practices
  • Theater Sessions that offer a snapshot of the current solution landscape, including findings from Gartner Magic Quadrant™ research and the Gartner Hype Cycle™ methodology
  • Track Sessions from experts and leaders in their fields on the conference’s tracks, such as AI, Governance, Data management, and more
  • Workshops – hands-on sessions to explore proven solutions to real-life challenges
  • CDAO Circle Program, designed exclusively for Chief Data and Analytics Officers to find ways to increase business value

Note: The list of sessions and speakers is still being updated.

Let’s explore some of these events further.

Keynotes at Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2025 #


2025’s opening keynote is ‘Scale Data and Analytics on Your AI Journeys’. VP Analysts Gareth Herschel and Carlie Idoine will share Gartner’s perspective on enhancing your D&A and AI capabilities to innovate and experiment successfully.

Gartner has also invited guest speakers Dr. Michelle Dickinson, an engineer and nanotechnologist, and Mike Ebeling, Founder and CEO at Not Impossible Labs to deliver guest keynotes.

Ask the Expert sessions #


These sessions feature Gartner analysts offering insights on various topics from D&A strategy to AI and data quality challenges. Some of these sessions are:

Theater Sessions #


The conference will also analyze Gartner’s latest magic quadrants and hype cycles, such as:

Track Sessions #


Track sessions will help you uncover the latest in data trends, as well as strategies in data management, data trends, governance, data architecture, and more.

The sessions will tackle pressing topics ranging from top data and analytics predictions in 2025 to MDM to AI for data governance.

Find more information about the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2025 schedule on the Track-specific agenda here.

Workshops #


Some of the Gartner D&A Summit 2025 workshops, scheduled to take place in Orlando, include:

  • Data Product Management: From Concept to Launch by Amy Bickel, Director Analyst, and Julie Slezak, Executive Partner, Domains: Learn about the end-to-end process of managing a data product, including product roadmap development, stakeholder management, and go-to-market strategies.
  • How to Gain Enterprise Support for Data Governance by Amy Bickel, Director Analyst, and David Newman, Executive Partner, Domains: Discover tips and strategies for ensuring executive buy-in and support for your data governance program.
  • How to Link Data & Analytics to Business Outcomes by Andrew White, Distinguished VP Analyst: Learn about the latest toolkit to connect data, analytics, and governance diagnostically, and their impact on business processes, decisions, and outcomes.

Note: As mentioned earlier, the list of sessions is still being updated. We’ll keep you posted as and when we know more.

Atlan at Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2025 #

Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2025 is an excellent opportunity to meet our humans of data, and see Atlan – the “Central Nervous System” for Data and AI – in action.

Atlan is the next-generation platform for data and AI governance. It acts as a metadata control plane, stitching together your disparate data infrastructure, cataloging data, and enriching it with business context and security.

As a result, your data and business teams can easily find, trust, and govern AI-ready data.

Why meet us? Because:

  1. We’re setting a new standard for modern data governance
  2. Our pioneering active metadata approach leverages metadata to catalyze action, spurring unprecedented levels of automation and collaboration
  3. We’ve emerged as the leader in the latest Forrester Wave for Enterprise Data Catalogs for DataOps
  4. We also topped the charts in five G2 categories, including data governance, data catalogs, and active metadata management (the sole leader since the category’s inception)

So, come say hi! Chat with our team and discover how industry giants like Cisco, Autodesk, Unilever, Ralph Lauren, FOX, Nasdaq, NextGen, and HubSpot got their data estates AI-ready.

Don’t miss out on the data, analytics, and AI event of 2025 #

The Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2025 is more than just an event—it’s a transformative opportunity to shape your organization’s future. Senior data professionals cannot afford to miss this landmark event.

Stay tuned for updates on sessions, speakers, and other announcements about the event.

FAQs about the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2025 #

1. When is the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit in 2025? Where is it being held? #


Gartner Data & Analytics Summit, 2025 is slated to take place on March 3-5, 2025 in Orlando, Florida.

Besides the United States, the summit will also take place at five other locations across the world:

  1. April 28-29, 2025 in Sao Paulo Brazil at Sheraton Sao Paulo WTC Hotel
  2. May 12-14, 2025 in London, UK at ExCeL London
  3. May 20-22, 2025 in Tokyo, Japan at Grand Nikko Tokyo Daiba
  4. June 2-3, 2025 in Mumbai, India at Grand Hyatt Mumbai
  5. June 17-18, 2025 in Sydney, Australia at ICC Sydney

2. What is the theme of the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit in 2025? #


The 2025 theme is ‘From Inspiring Exploration to Leading Execution’. All tracks, workshops, and other sessions will be developed with this theme in mind.

3. Who should attend the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2025? #


The Gartner Data & Analytics Summit is for senior data professionals focused on data, analytics, and AI. These roles include:

  • Heads of data and analytics, CDOs, CAOs, CDAOs
  • Analytics, BI, and IT leaders
  • Data scientists
  • Information management and MDM roles
  • Architects and IT practitioners

The event will also have several prominent data & analytics solution providers as exhibitors. This will help in learning about the current vendor landscape, analyzing product capabilities, comparing solutions, and building relationships with executives from vendor companies.

Some of the exhibitors at the Gartner D&A Summit 2025 in Orlando are Databricks, Salesforce, AWS, IBM, Snowflake, Atlan, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Monte Carlo, Denodo, Fivetran, and MicroStrategy.

4. Who are the speakers at Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2025 in Orlando, Florida? #


The speakers at Gartner’s D&A Summit 2025 in Orlando are some of the world’s leading data, analytics, and AI experts and thought leaders. Guest keynote speakers include:

Other featured Gartner experts include Distinguished VP Analysts Arun Chandrasekaran and Rita Sallam, VP Analysts Ehtisham Zaidi and Adam Ronthal, and Sr Director Analyst Donna Madeiros, to name a few.

Here’s the complete list of speakers at the Gartner D&A Summit 2025. Just like the sessions, the list of speakers is also being updated constantly.

5. How much will attending Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2025 cost? #


The early-bird price for Gartner D&A Summit 2025 in Orlando, Florida is $4,325. This is valid until January 17, 2025, after which the standard price is $4,750 per person.

For attendees from the public sector (national government, state or local government, public administration), the pricing is $3825 per person.

The full registration price offers access to:

  • Keynote sessions
  • Two Gartner expert one-on-ones of 30 minutes each (subject to availability)
  • Roundtables (requires online pre-registration)
  • Workshops (requires online pre-registration)
  • Ask the Expert sessions (requires online pre-registration)
  • Agenda planning
  • Chief Data Analytics Officer (CDAO) Circle Program (requires online pre-registration)
  • Bake-Offs
  • Exhibitor Showcase

6. How can you preregister for roundtables, workshops, etc. during the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2025? #


Pre-registration will be available through Gartner Conference Navigator, Gartner’s online agenda-building tool. The Gartner Conference Navigator app will act as the conference hub, helping you to check out the sessions, build an agenda, pre-register for interactive experiences, and schedule meetings.

  Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2025 Event Details
    name: "Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2025"
    description: "The premier event for understanding how to tackle key challenges and emerging trends in data, analytics, and AI."
    date:
      start: "2025-03-03"
      end: "2025-03-05"
    location:
      venue: "Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center"
      address: "6000 W. Osceola Parkway, Kissimmee, FL 34746"
      city: "Orlando"
      state: "Florida"
      country: "USA"
    theme: "Data, analytics, and AI strategies are in transition. Leaders must balance opportunity and risk while delivering value to their organization as a priority."
    attendees:
      expected_count: "5,000+"
      profile:
        - "Chief Data Officers (CDOs)"
        - "Data Scientists"
        - "IT Leaders"
        - "Decision-makers in data and analytics"
    tracks:
      - name: "Leadership"
        description: "Designed for CDAOs, Data, Analytics, and AI Leaders tasked with creating a strategy and operating model that delivers business value."
        topics:
          - "AI Ready Data"
          - "Data, Analytics, and AI Governance"
          - "Business Value of Data, Analytics, and AI"
      - name: "Artificial Intelligence"
        description: "Harness the growing power of AI effectively and responsibly for decision augmentation, process optimization, and even autonomous operations."
        topics:
          - "AI Strategy"
          - "Responsible AI"
          - "Generative AI"
          - "Scalability"
      - name: "Analytics"
        description: "Focuses on self-service analytics, modernization, the impact of generative AI, ecosystems, and decision intelligence."
        topics:
          - "Self-Service Analytics"
          - "Modernization"
          - "Impact of Generative AI"
          - "Decision Intelligence"
      - name: "Data Management"
        description: "Addresses data fabric, data products, data observability, cost optimization, and resilience of data management architectures."
        topics:
          - "Data Fabric"
          - "Data Products"
          - "Data Observability"
          - "Cost Optimization"
      - name: "Data & Analytics Governance"
        description: "Focuses on alignment, risk, trust, privacy, ethics, literacy, and accountability in data governance."
        topics:
          - "Risk"
          - "Trust"
          - "Privacy"
          - "Ethics"
          - "Literacy"
          - "Accountability"
    special_programs:
      - name: "The CDAO Circle Program"
        description: "Designed exclusively for Chief Data and Analytics Officers to accelerate their data and analytics strategy and operating model to increase business value."
      - name: "Emerging Concepts & Best Practices"
        description: "Focuses on cutting-edge topics that data leaders need to consider."
      - name: "Fundamentals"
        description: "Helps newcomers to data, analytics, and AI roles get grounded quickly."
      - name: "New to Role"
        description: "Assists those recently promoted to CDAO or new to an organization in making a quick and significant impact."
    session_types:
      - "Keynotes"
      - "Ask the Expert sessions"
      - "Executive Stories"
      - "Roundtables"
      - "Solution Provider Sessions"
      - "Theater Sessions"
      - "Track Sessions"
      - "Workshops"
    faqs:
      - question: "When is the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit in 2025?"
        answer: "March 3-5, 2025."
      - question: "Where is it being held?"
        answer: "Orlando, Florida, USA, at the Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center."
      - question: "Who should attend the summit?"
        answer: "The summit is ideal for Chief Data Officers (CDOs), Data Scientists, IT Leaders, and other decision-makers in data and analytics."
      - question: "What is the main theme of the summit?"
        answer: "The theme focuses on balancing opportunity and risk in data, analytics, and AI strategies while delivering value to organizations."

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