Data, AI & Innovation Events 2025

Fuel your business growth by leading the data-driven innovation revolution.

Sponsor Data, AI & Innovation Events: Transforming Data Strategies for Growth

AI is reshaping how organizations leverage data to unlock insights, automate operations, and drive innovation. As data democratization rises, fostering a collaborative, data-driven culture is more crucial than ever. Our events focus on evolving data strategies, governance, and scalable insights, empowering enterprises to achieve long-term growth. Sponsorship connects you with leaders transforming data into actionable business value, setting the stage for future success

Key Topics

  • Real-world business results with generative AI
  • The links between AI strategy and data strategy
  • Has AI eaten business analytics, or turbocharged it?
  • The convergence of business automation and AI
  • Data quality management and governance for AI
  • AI implementation and integration at scale – new skills, tools, roles and responsibilities
  • Geopolitics, sovereign AI and cloud evolution – the effects on deployment
  • AI workloads and infrastructure choices
  • Beyond regulatory compliance with responsible AI
  • Reskilling and training employees for data and AI literacy

AI & Innovation Community at Our Events

1,400 + infrastructure technology buyers

Data, AI & Innovation Events 2025

Data & AI Summit

April 9, Paris, France, 60 delegates

Data & AI Xchange (European coverage)

May 12, Vienna, Austria, 50 delegates

Data & Gen AI Summit

May 22, Madrid, Spain, 100 delegates

Data & AI Summit

May 29, Lisbon, Portugal, 200 delegates

Data, Infrastructure & Sustainability Summit

October 14, London, UK, 80 delegates

Data & AI Summit

October 15, Milan, Italy, 80 delegates

GenAI Summit

November 5–6, Munich, 120 delegates

Quantify the Market Potential for your Sustainable Solutions

ESG requirements now top the risk list for businesses, surpassing cybersecurity and economic concerns. With the demand for sustainable IT solutions on the rise and IT departments playing a pivotal role in driving business value, it’s crucial to understand the market opportunity. That’s where IDC comes in.

In this comprehensive eBook, you will discover:

  • The operational challenges faced by organizations striving to achieve sustainability goals.
  • The driving factors behind your buyers’ adoption of sustainable technologies.
  • Critical questions that will inform your market assessment.
  • How to quantify the market opportunity for your sustainability solutions.

Take the first step towards success by making informed decisions and supporting your strategic planning. Download the eBook now.

Strategic Market Insights

Custom Solutions to Accelerate Your Business

When making pivotal business decisions—like identifying the right target audience, crafting effective messaging, choosing potential partners, or exploring new markets—integrate IDC Strategic Market Insights (SMI) into your strategy.

The SMI practice leverages IDC’s extensive global presence and the deep expertise of its analysts to support decision-making and optimize business results.

Introducing Rapid Modules to IDC’s Strategic Market Insights Offering:

IDC Barometer

What to use: Gain a thorough understanding of competitor performance, analyze industry spending in specific markets or regions, and assess the health and performance of partners.

How it works: Led by an expert IDC analyst who integrates Barometer data with their insights to offer vital guidance.

IDC Analyst Pulse

What to use: Obtain diverse perspectives from IDC analysts on key business questions, such as messaging impact, market entry hurdles, or product alternatives within particular industries.

How it works: Consists of a collaborative team of IDC analysts conducting online surveys or qualitative research for comprehensive insights.

Business leaders utilize IDC’s Strategic Market Insights to incorporate IDC analyst viewpoints, aiding in informed decisions related to:

  • Customer acquisition and retention
  • Market entry strategies, including new product launches and expansion into new industries or geographies
  • Analyzing macroeconomic impacts
  • Partner development
  • Sales and account growth

Seize the opportunity to enhance your business strategy with IDC’s Custom Solutions. Whether you aim to understand your competitive landscape, evaluate your market entry plans, or refine your messaging, our Strategic Market Insights Practice is designed to deliver the expert guidance you need.

Elevate Your Sales Game: The AI-Driven Success Blueprint for 2024

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Seize the competitive edge that AI offers in the dynamic landscape of sales! Our new eBook, “AI: Unleashing Strategic Sales – Driving Tech Investments in 2024,” is your strategic key to integrating AI with your sales tactics effectively.

What’s Inside for You:

  • Strategies to fuse AI with your organizational strengths for unparalleled growth.
  • Methods to translate the AI hype into substantial customer relationships and sales wins.
  • Actionable knowledge to prepare your sales team for the AI surge affecting 2024’s tech investments.

Your Quick Access Guide Contains:

  • Insights for practical sales empowerment.
  • An actionable framework for tech vendor tasks, aligned with strategic goals.
  • The secret to maintaining a balanced focus amidst AI’s market excitement.

Lead with Confidence in the AI Era

Still assessing whether your sales approach is future-ready? Don’t let indecision be your setback. This guide is your gateway to not just meet but exceed your sales objectives with AI integration.

Embark on Your AI Sales Journey Now: Fill out our brief form to download the complimentary eBook instantly.

Construct a Compelling Narrative Around Your Customers’ Strategic Priorities

Get the “Yes”!

Our sales enablement program is based on a deep understanding of your markets and buyers and the depth of relationship you need to establish. IDC’s approach to enabling marketing, sales and customer success teams is research-based and designed around your specific business goals.

IDC’s sales enablement program is designed to be refined or augmented with additional tools to help you close the business and create lasting customer relationships.

We can help you:

  • Leverage the latest industry and business insights, to target your buyers’ priorities and establish trust
  • Technology market training for your sales team so they can confidently speak with various personas in the buying committee
  • Empower your sales conversations by linking the value of your solution
  • Create interactive tools and ROI calculators that help close the business

Improve Your Sales Performance Now

Best-In-Class Sales Enablement Tools

Empowering teams with insights and tools to engage the market

IDC’s Sales Enablement practice is focused on helping you, as a tech vendor, improve your sales approach to drive account potential. Through in-depth research, we have come to understand the various personas in your buying committee and their priorities. We know your customers and your competitors, and we educate and empower your teams to be able to communicate the impact you can make on your customer’s business outcomes.

IDC’s Sales Enablement Practice helps you:

  • Leverage the latest industry and business insights, to target your buyers’ priorities and establish a trusting relationship.
  • Empower your sales conversations by linking the value of your solution.
  • Create interactive tools and ROI calculators that help you close the business.

Contact us to learn more about how we can help you improve your sales performance.

GenAI Use Case Discovery & Prioritization Tool

Guiding Tech Buyers on Their AI Adoption Journey

According to IDC research, business leaders are increasingly scrutinizing generative AI (GenAI) projects for their business impact and return on investment, with a low tolerance for failure.

Our new tool allows your customers to select business outcomes based on their business function and receive curated GenAI use case recommendations. The tool also lets users benchmark prioritized use cases against data from IDC’s survey of 3,130 end-user organizations globally.

Key Features

  • Guidance: Empower your customers to understand where AI solutions can be deployed for maximum business impact.
  • Engagement: Foster interactive and personalized experiences that keep your audience engaged with your brand.
  • Business Case Building: Offer insights that enable your customers to justify and advocate for AI investments.

By integrating the GenAI Use Case Discovery & Prioritization Tool into your marketing programs or as an engagement tool for your sales teams, your organization can demonstrate thought leadership and a strong commitment to supporting the success of your customers’ AI adoption. It also enables you to position your solutions against identified use cases and desired outcomes.

Ready to Transform Your Client Engagement Strategy?

Experience the full potential of the GenAI Use Case Discovery & Prioritization Tool. Book a complimentary demo today and see firsthand how it can enhance your offerings. Simply fill out the form, mention your preferred date and time, and our team will be in touch with you soon.

Get in touch and book your complimentary demo today.

Deeper Insights. Personal Approach. One Partner.

As businesses evolve, the demand for deeper, more personalized insights grows. Custom analytics offer a tailored approach, allowing you to dive into specific aspects of your operations, customer behavior, and market trends that standardized data sets cannot provide. This personalized analysis is essential for strategic planning, enabling you to identify unique opportunities, optimize operations, and deliver enhanced customer experiences.

How can you determine if enhanced insights are necessary? When you need to ensure that your strategies are based on insights directly relevant to your organization’s objectives and challenges.

IDC offers more than one data solution. Our custom analytics solutions helps you:

  • Identify new opportunities or adjacencies with accuracy and confidence.
  • Answer questions related to specific consumer segments or niche markets, providing insights into their behaviors, preferences, and needs that standard data may not capture with sufficient granularity.
  • Stay ahead of the competition by providing insights into market trends, competitor activities, and emerging opportunities.
  • Dive deep into customer data to provide a more nuanced view of customer preferences, behaviors, and pain points, enabling you to tailor products, services, and customer interactions to better meet customer needs.

IDC Content for Every Stage of Your Buyer Journey

Maximize Your Content Marketing Performance

Create measurable digital marketing content that redefines your customer dialogue

Our experienced team in Europe works with you to define relevant success metrics and then build your campaigns with research-based content your buyers are looking for. We help:

  • Develop compelling digital content that will engage your target audience
  • Drive traffic and qualified leads to your website
  • Provide instant validation through IDC’s global market intelligence

Empower your content marketing with research-driven content tools and leverage proven, high-quality content from the world’s top technology analysts that converts prospects into buyers.

Contact us today to get started.

Generate New Leads. Accelerate New Business.

Contact us and learn more about IDC’s Custom Solutions

Helping You Plan, Market and Sell Your Solution

Every day we help our clients learn more about their customers and markets. Learnings indicate that customer-centric marketers severely lack high-quality customer data and sales professionals need to better understand their buyer’s challenges.

Market leaders leverage IDC’s Custom Solutions for:

  • Market intelligence to make better informed decisions and focus on the right markets and buyers
  • Digital marketing content that is trusted, strengthens customer engagement, and is effective throughout the buyer journey
  • Thought leadership content that elevates their brand positioning and drives leads
  • Sales and business value tools to empower sales teams, help them better understand the technology market dynamics, and enable them to shift conversations toward value selling

Contact us today to work together on programs designed to meet your specific business goals.