Missed Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo in Barcelona? ON2IT was there. Four days, more than 6,500 CIOs and IT executives, and AI on almost every stage. For security leaders, one question kept coming back: how do you stay in control when AI speeds up both your business and your attackers?
We went back through the security track and put what matters on three pages. So your debrief can be shorter, and if you could not make it, you know what was said.
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Six security takeaways, three pages
From patch speed and AI agents to shadow AI, the SOC, vendor consolidation and quantum. What Gartner put on the screen, what we think it means, and one action for Monday morning per topic.
Commentary by Tim Timmermans, CISO. No form, no email address.
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The event at a glance
- What: Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo 2026, Gartner’s yearly conference for CIOs and IT executives.
- When and where: 9-12 November 2026, International Barcelona Convention Center.
- Who: more than 6,500 CIOs and IT executives, according to Gartner.
- Theme: “Ignite Intelligence”, with AI on almost every stage.
Want to talk it through for your organization? Get in touch for twenty minutes with Tim Timmermans, our CISO. No slides, no product pitch.
Statistics in the PDF are as presented by Gartner, not independently verified. Selection, interpretation and “Our view” are ON2IT’s own and not endorsed by Gartner.
Tim Timmermans is CISO Netherlands at ON2IT and a specialist in Zero Trust, compliance and governance.