Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2025, Orlando: Agenda, Speakers & How to Prepare

Updated February 05th, 2025

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What is the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit? #

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

Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2025 is scheduled for March 3–5 in Orlando, Florida, it brings together 5,000+ industry leaders, 50+ Gartner experts, and 120+ solution providers, making it the ultimate venue to connect with thought leaders and shape the future of data and AI governance.

This article will offer a sneak peek of what to expect at the Gartner Data and Analytics Summit 2025 in Orlando, FL.

Gartner’s Inaugural Magic Quadrant for D&A Governance is Here #


In a post-ChatGPT world where AI is reshaping businesses, data governance has become a cornerstone of success. The inaugural report provides a detailed evaluation of top platforms and the key trends shaping data and AI governance. Read the Magic Quadrant for D&A Governance

Table of Contents #

  1. What is the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit?
  2. Gartner D&A Summit 2025: Key tracks
  3. Gartner D&A Summit 2025: Session types
  4. Key tracks & sessions we’re watching
  5. Atlan at Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2025
  6. Atlan Featured Sessions
  7. FAQs about the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2025
  8. Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2025: Related reads

The summit offers a comprehensive program designed to help you:

  1. Reimagine your data and analytics 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 data leaders:

  • Track A: Leadership
  • Track B: AI
  • Track C: Analytics
  • Track D: Data management
  • Track E: Data and Analytics 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.

Why this year’s summit marks a pivotal moment in data governance #


The rise of AI has brought data governance to the forefront of business strategy. Traditional approaches—rigid, siloed, and slow—can no longer keep pace with today’s fast-evolving AI-driven world. The Gartner Summit provides a unique opportunity to explore modern scalable, adaptable, and collaborative governance models and tools.

Atlan’s recognition as a Visionary in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Data and Analytics Governance validates our position at the center of this industry transformation. Through our active metadata-powered platform, Atlan enables organizations to operationalize their data value chain and deliver faster, more trustworthy data, analytics, and AI products to every human of data.

Key tracks & sessions we’re watching #

The Gartner D&A Summit’s agenda is packed with sessions that promise deep and actionable takeaways. We’re especially excited about the following tracks as they represent the core areas where organizations are embracing innovation and where Atlan is actively building solutions to help data people thrive in the AI era:

Track B: AI #


ChatGPT was a pivotal moment for data and analytics because it revealed the true demand for transformative technologies like AI – 100 million users in two months is nothing to sneeze at! Gartner predicted that by 2026, more than 80% of enterprises will have used generative AI APIs or models, or deployed generative AI-enabled applications in production environments, up from less than 5% in 2023.

Enterprise AI is the promised land but what do you need to actually get there?

Explore innovative strategies for AI-ready data quality that go beyond traditional dimensions, enabling data leaders to build a holistic framework.

Learn how data observability and quality tools can drive the success of your BI and AI initiatives, ensuring reliable and actionable insights.

Gain insights from real-world use cases on how organizations are successfully preparing their data ecosystems for AI integration.

Track D: Data Management #


While data management remains fundamental to any data-driven organization, traditional approaches have relied on static, closed systems and manual processes that limit value realization. This track explores modern solutions that transform how organizations use their data—making it more accessible, reliable, and actionable.

Learn how organizations are shifting from passive to active metadata to improve data discoverability and governance.

A discussion on how organizations can combine both data fabric and data mesh to create a more effective data architecture.

Understand how to align data management strategies with business objectives to demonstrate tangible value.

Explore the key challenges data management leaders are grappling with and strategies for overcoming them.

Track E: Governance #


The rise of AI and data-driven decisions has transformed data governance from a compliance checkbox into a business essential. Today’s organizations need frameworks that go beyond—they need to ensure quality, build trust, and unlock value. This track explores new governance approaches that help organizations move faster while keeping their data reliable and secure.

Sessions:

A look at the latest trends and emerging technologies shaping data governance strategies.

Learn how trust models can serve as a foundation for effective data governance and organizational alignment.

A framework for evaluating governance platforms and ensuring they meet the evolving needs of an AI-driven enterprise.

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 working with modern and ambitious data teams from enterprises like GM, Medtronic, Autodesk, and Nasdaq
  2. Our pioneering active metadata approach leverages metadata to catalyze action, spurring unprecedented levels of automation and collaboration
  3. In Gartner’s inaugural Magic Quadrant for Data and Analytics Governance Platforms (2025), Atlan was named a Visionary, commended for our customer-centric, innovative approach to helping customers govern their complex and diverse data estates
  4. We emerged as the leader in the latest Forrester Wave: Enterprise Data Catalogs, Q3 2024
  5. We continue to be the end-user preferred solution. Atlan 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.

Medtronic’s Data Product Approach Gets Data Governed, Trusted, and Adopted March 3, 2025 | 2:00 PM EST Join Deytr Francisco, IT Program Manager at Medtronic, and Austin Kronz from Atlan to learn how Medtronic achieved 5x growth in adoption through data products and thoughtful domain engagement.

How General Motors and Atlan Operationalize Data Governance in the AI Era March 4, 2025 | 3:00 PM EST Join Sherri Adame, Enterprise Data Governance Leader at General Motors, and Austin Kronz to discover how GM leverages automation and data contracts to accelerate data product delivery across domains.

Connect with Atlan #


  • Visit Atlan’s booth #114 (Mar 2-5, 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM): Experience live demos and take back some fun merch for your family
  • Atlan Community Event (Mar 2, 7:00 PM): Join us for dinner and discussions
  • Champions Reception (Mar 3, 7:30 PM): Network with data leaders
  • Cool down with an ice cream, on us. (Mar 3-5, 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM, Opposite Keynote Ballroom)

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 does it cost to attend the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2025? #


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.

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