Recent IDC research shows that as Nordic organizations explore how to apply AI across their application estates and operations, many are also uncovering significant opportunities for improvement. While more than half encounter readiness barriers including skill gaps, integration complexity, aging delivery platforms, and data governance challenges these same areas represent high‑impact levers for future value creation. Capabilities such as automated incident detection, root‑cause analysis, self‑healing, and workflow automation are already being tested, and there is substantial upside as organizations move from experimentation toward scaled adoption.

This readiness gap is emerging at a pivotal moment: IDC finds that over half of Swedish organizations believe they must reinvent themselves within the next five years to remain competitive. Yet few feel they’ve fully made the changes needed to capture the next wave of business transformation. This growing disconnect between ambition and execution underscores a clear opportunity: while AI sits high on strategic agendas, strengthening operational foundations is essential to translating intent into meaningful outcomes. Modernizing Application Operations has therefore become a critical enabler for CIOs aiming to close this gap, reduce operational drag, and unlock the capacity to shift from “run” to “innovate.”

This IDC and IBM Executive Dinner provides a private forum to share thought leadership, experiences, compare strategies, and discuss how modern, autonomous, or “zero‑touch” Application Operations models can unlock new capacity, resilience, and business value. During this exclusive event, we will address:

• What’s holding back modern Application Operations?
  We’ll uncover today’s roadblocks, from manual processes and fragmented estates to skills pressures and operational silos.
• Preparing for an automation‑ and AI‑first future: moving from pilots to scale
  Understanding where automation and AI are already delivering value, why so many initiatives stall before scaling, and what foundations are needed to achieve more autonomous or “zero‑touch” operations.
• Rebalancing Run vs. Change: Creating capacity to reinvest in innovation
  How optimizing Application Operations can unlock budget, capacity, and talent allowing CIOs to accelerate AppDev, modernization, and business‑driven transformation initiatives.

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