{"slug": "how-gartner-can-help-turn-your-ai-vision-into-business-reality", "title": "How Gartner can help turn your AI vision into business reality", "summary": "Gartner will host its Application Innovation and Business Solutions Summit 2026 in London on September 14-15, aiming to help enterprise leaders move AI projects from experimentation to production. The event addresses technical incompatibility, architectural complexity, and cultural change as key barriers to AI deployment, offering over 80 sessions and networking with peers.", "body_md": "# How Gartner can help turn your AI vision into business reality\n\nSource:\n\n[The Register](https://www.theregister.com)SPONSORED POST: Feeling stuck with your AI application projects? Gartner has the solution\n\nFor enterprise application, architecture, and software engineering leaders, the\n\n[artificial intelligence](/glossary/artificial-intelligence)conversation has moved past experimentation. Boards and finance committees expect pilot projects to graduate into production and to demonstrate measurable business value. A strategy deck no longer clears the bar. The expectation now is production-ready systems that deliver outcomes finance can measure: cost savings, staff redeployment to higher-value work, and a return on investment that survives committee scrutiny. Several converging realities make those goals harder to reach than they look on paper. According to research and advisory outfit Gartner, the biggest barrier to progress for three years running has been technical incompatibility and architectural complexity, because fragmented systems, legacy dependencies, and inconsistent data models hamper integration wherever documentation and governance fall short. Too few organizations have laid the technical foundations required to move AI trials into production. Scalable infrastructure, well-managed data pipelines, and security[guardrails](/glossary/guardrails)able to withstand production workloads all remain in short supply. Workforce upskilling adds another layer of difficulty, as does the cultural change that follows when AI reshapes job roles and workflows across the business. Turning AI vision into business reality Addressing these problems is the purpose of Gartner's Application Innovation and Business Solutions Summit 2026, which runs September 14-15 at the InterContinental hotel near the O2 arena in London and sets out to help delegates translate AI vision into working systems. Under the theme \"Deliver the future: Innovate, Lead, Act\", speakers drawn from Gartner's analyst ranks and industry practice will explain how to build and operate AI-enabled systems. Sessions cover application portfolio modernization and how to align AI strategy and organizational goals without letting costs spiral as pilots scale. Delegates will also examine the cultural change that determines whether AI initiatives succeed once they leave the lab. The program includes the chance to: Build a custom agenda from more than 80 sessions targeting the challenges specific to your organization Meet Gartner analysts for tailored guidance on your top priorities Network with more than 1,700 peers from across industries Engage with leading solution providers to see the latest in applications and AI in one place. Early-bird savings for the Application Innovation & Business Solutions Summit, held September 14 to 15, 2026 in London, are available until Friday, July 17. Register now to secure a place and see how modern technology and decisive leadership can turn AI ambitions into working systems. Sponsored by Gartner.Get AI news in your inbox\n\nDaily digest of what matters in AI.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-gartner-can-help-turn-your-ai-vision-into-business-reality", "canonical_source": "https://www.machinebrief.com/news/how-gartner-can-help-turn-your-ai-vision-into-business-reali-i3q4", "published_at": "2026-07-17 08:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-17 08:03:26.499364+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-policy", "ai-infrastructure", "ai-products", "ai-startups"], "entities": ["Gartner", "Application Innovation and Business Solutions Summit", "London", "InterContinental hotel", "O2 arena"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-gartner-can-help-turn-your-ai-vision-into-business-reality", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-gartner-can-help-turn-your-ai-vision-into-business-reality.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-gartner-can-help-turn-your-ai-vision-into-business-reality.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-gartner-can-help-turn-your-ai-vision-into-business-reality.jsonld"}}