Afraz Jaffri is a Research Director at Gartner, where Mr. Jaffri focuses on new innovations in Analytics and AI. He advises Data & Analytics and IT leaders on making the most from their investments in AI across AI Agents, Generative AI, Knowledge Graphs and Machine Learning. He has particular focus on AI platforms, tools and technologies that can be used to reliably build and scale AI solutions. He also specializes in graph technologies and tools that can be used to build semantic and context layers including ontologies and graph-based data models.