Info-Tech LIVE 2025 Day 2 Highlights: Bold Strategies for AI, IT Leadership, and Digital Disruption
The second day of Info-Tech LIVE 2025 continued to build momentum, spotlighting bold leadership insights, forward-looking AI strategies, and transformative playbooks to guide IT organizations through exponential change.
TORONTO, June 12, 2025 /CNW/ - Info-Tech LIVE 2025 brought another wave of powerful insights to the thousands of IT leaders gathered at the Bellagio in Las Vegas for the global research and advisory firm's annual industry conference. From AI's organizational impact to transformative leadership frameworks, the day-two sessions of the three-day event delivered strategic direction across the most pressing areas of enterprise technology.
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