We are bringing you news and highlights from the Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference, taking place this week in London. Below is a collection of the key announcements and insights coming out of the conference.

On Day 1 from the conference, we are highlighting the Gartner opening keynote presentation, sharing key tips on how to avoid mistakes in your cloud strategy and how to attract and retain IT talent. Be sure to check this page throughout the day for updates.

Presented by Karen Brown, Director Analyst; Douglas Toombs, VP Analyst and Mark Cleary, Sr Director Analyst at Gartner

Dramatic global shifts and talent shortages intensify the ever-present need to accelerate innovation, forcing infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders to rewrite their future and set their sights on a new horizon. In this session, Gartner analysts Karen Brown, Douglas Toombs and Mark Cleary, explored how I&O leaders need to move I&O forward to continually match their organization's digital ambitions and capabilities.

• Immerse yourselves in the organization

  • "Our data shows that at least 84% of companies and 59% of government entities have set up "fusion teams" - and 43% already report outside of IT to be closer to the point of value delivery."

  • "Organizations operating with a distributed and simultaneous approach are 2.5 times faster than organizations that run initiatives in one centrally managed IT team."

• Accelerate the adoption of automation and platform engineering

  • "Adopting a platform engineering approach is vital. I&O leaders use platform engineering to deliver shared infrastructure platforms."

  • While Gartner predicts that by 2025, 70% of new applications will be developed with low-code/no-code approaches, platform engineering helps I&O leaders use this trend to their advantage.

• Retool your I&O workforce

  • "Develop the right skills in your workforce, empowering them, and putting them in the right spots at the right times."

• Build an innovative engine

  • "Consider an innovation lab as your innovation engine that draws in new technologies, tests and evaluates them. Then generate the best of the best candidates for further development and implementation."

  • "Design matters. Build your innovation engine right, and it will drive your I&O forward."

Watch this space for more updates throughout the day.