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Infotech IGNITE Austin

A two-day regional Info-Tech Research Group conference bringing IT leaders together for practical guidance on leadership, execution, and enterprise technology transformation.

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What is Infotech IGNITE Austin about?

IGNITE Austin brings CIOs and senior IT leaders together for two days of focused discussion on leadership, execution, and the technologies reshaping the enterprise. The event is powered by Info-Tech LIVE and follows the same guiding theme as the flagship conference: transform IT, transform everything.

The agenda leans heavily into agentic AI, covering its adoption, governance, and the architecture decisions it forces onto enterprise IT organizations. Sessions are built for CIOs, security and privacy leaders, and IT roles more broadly, with the throughline being how to move from AI hype to measurable value.

For network and DDI teams, agentic AI is not an abstract topic. Autonomous agents need a network foundation that can identify them, resolve them, and govern how they reach infrastructure. Discussions about agentic enterprise design are, in practice, discussions about the visibility and control that DNS, DHCP, and IP address management provide underneath.

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Inside the event

Across the two days, keynotes trace agentic AI from early hype toward operational evidence: opening sessions frame the shift toward autonomous systems and what it means to design for that kind of autonomy, while later sessions bring in results and a talent-focused look at where IT skills need to go next. A client and expert panel brings CIOs into the conversation directly, weighing how AI is actually landing inside IT organizations.

BlueCat’s Paul Gray, SVP of engineering for LiveAction and BCIA, presents a breakout session on AI-native networking, connecting the event’s agentic AI focus to what it demands of the underlying network platform.

IGNITE Austin is part of Info-Tech Research Group’s expanded 2026 regional series, extending its flagship conference experience into local markets through a smaller, focused two-day format.

By the numbers

100+

IT leaders attend IGNITE Austin over the two-day program

Over30000

IT professionals worldwide rely on Info-Tech Research Group

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BlueCat’s Paul Gray, SVP of engineering for LiveAction and BCIA, leads a breakout session on AI-native networking. It’s a natural fit for a program built around agentic AI: as IT organizations hand more decisions to autonomous agents, the network underneath has to be observable and ready to keep pace.

Who should attend?

Infotech IGNITE Austin is for CIOs and senior IT leaders looking for practical guidance on leadership, execution, and agentic AI adoption across the enterprise.

Solving these challenges with BlueCat

Agentic AI raises the bar for what your network needs to do: agents making decisions in real time require infrastructure that is visible, responsive, and built to keep up. BlueCat gives IT teams the network observability and control to support that shift, so autonomous systems run on a foundation you can actually see and trust. The result is an enterprise ready to act on agentic AI, not just talk about it.

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1. Image (About the event): https://www.infotech.com/events/ignite/austin-tx

2. Statistics: https://www.infotech.com/events/ignite, https://www.infotech.com/research/ss/the-crisis-management-playbook

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