Speaker Bio
Lydia Clougherty Jones is a Sr. Research Director in the Data and Analytics Group. Ms. Jones' research and coverage areas include D&A and AI strategy, AI use cases, value and risk assessment, global AI regulations and public policy, sovereign AI, explainable AI, responsible AI, D&A and AI monetization, and data sharing. She helps clients navigate stakeholder, business and equity value and risk challenges across D&A and AI leadership and functions, including emerging use cases for GenAI and AI Agents. Ms. Jones regularly discusses emerging D&A and AI legal trends with media outlets. She is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at Boston University and Vanderbilt University.
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Sessions
Tuesday, 28 April, 2026
02:30 PM - 03:00 PM BRT
How Will the National Sovereign AI Race Impact Your Enterprise?
Lydia Clougherty Jones,
Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Sovereign AI reflects a nation-state’s ambition to control its own AI, reducing reliance on foreign innovation, talent and vendors. Maturity and impact vary globally, creating commercial opportunity and nonobvious threat. This session explores what sovereign AI is, how your competitors are leveraging it, and what vendors are involved. Attendees will leave with a blueprint to identify value creation strategies while confronting geopolitical uncertainties.
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Tuesday, 28 April, 2026
04:00 PM - 04:30 PM BRT
How to Calculate the Value and Cost of AI Agents
Lydia Clougherty Jones,
Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Leaders responsible for AI must evaluate the potential benefits and costs of new agentic AI use cases. This insight offers a framework, model and specific numbers for building and simulating total cost and key value drivers at scale for AI agent use cases.
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Wednesday, 29 April, 2026
03:45 PM - 04:15 PM BRT
Generative AI’s Invisible Undercurrents: 10 Blind Spots CDAOs Aren’t Watching but Should
Lydia Clougherty Jones,
Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Overlooked risks and unintended consequences of GenAI can disrupt operations, ethics, security and value realization. CDAOs should understand the second- and third-order effects of GenAI adoption and proactively address hidden challenges to safeguard their organizations’ competitiveness and resilience.
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