Technology & Innovation
Forum East

The IT singularity has arrived: the moment when AI is everywhere, always on, and no longer a differentiator on its own. Advantage now shifts to tech leaders who realize that the old model of IT is breaking down and who don’t blindly serve AI initiatives. Instead, they make AI work on their terms, driving outcomes the business can see, trust, and sustain while strengthening their authority and impact. That shift starts at home. Some of the fastest gains come from accelerating software development, reinventing operations, and using AI to modernize data engineering, governance, and insight generation. But it will take more than new tools. The singularity demands rearchitected operating models, upgraded skills, and clear governance and accountability across technology leadership so that AI serves strategy.

At Forrester’s Technology & Innovation Forum, we will focus on how CIOs, chief data officers, chief AI officers, and their teams take control of AI — aligning it to business priorities, strengthening modern data and technology foundations, embedding trust and resilience by design, and scaling responsibly. The payoff is higher-performance IT through faster delivery, more adaptive operations, and stronger executive confidence without losing control, credibility, or influence when it matters most.

Exchange perspectives with technology leaders facing shared challenges and tradeoffs.

Access practical frameworks and direct insights from Forrester analysts.

Unify executives, architects, and data leaders around shared priorities and decisions.

Take home proven approaches you can implement immediately across your organization.

Hear real-world examples from peers navigating complexity, cost, and change.

Bring strategy, architecture, and delivery teams together to execute with confidence.

AI has reached a pivotal moment. Organizations are investing more, experimenting faster, and expecting greater returns, yet many are still struggling to turn AI into meaningful impact beyond paltry productivity wins. In this opening keynote, Srividya Sridharan will frame what high adopters do differently, both in terms of the traits they demonstrate and the focus areas they lean in on. Hint: Focusing on customers will get you unstuck in your AI voyage to create your unique AI advantage. Attendees will walk away with a shared perspective to navigate AI with confidence, focus, and purpose.

Speaker: Srividya Sridharan, VP, Group Research Director

Technology Executives
Align strategy and enterprise architecture to manage complexity, optimize spending, and drive growth.

Architecture And Delivery Leaders
Align applications, development, and infrastructure to simplify complexity, modernize cloud, and automate delivery.

Data, AI, And Analytics Leaders
Break down silos to enable trusted data, AI‑driven insights, and smarter decision-making.

Use ready-to-share materials to show how attending supports stronger technology strategy, smarter AI and data decisions, and alignment across architecture, operations, and business leaders.

AI is reshaping technology strategy fast. Learn how leaders make confident choices on platforms, investments, talent, and planning to stay relevant and avoid outdated decisions.

Discover how leaders modernize architecture, infrastructure, and operations to support AI—improving resilience, productivity, and experience while evolving skills, governance, and performance at scale.

Build strong data foundations for AI success. Learn to measure value, modernize data architecture, develop consistent data products, and apply governance that enables safe, scalable AI.

Enable AI at the pace your organization can sustain. Learn how leadership, skills, and operating models must evolve to confidently embed AI into technology delivery.