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Dave Micko
Sr Director Analyst
Gartner
Speaker Topics
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Agents
- Managing and Developing Staff
- Creating a Digital Business Strategy
- Software Engineering and Application Development
- Emerging and Disruptive Technologies
- Leadership
- Developing an Application Strategy
Speaker Bio
Helping software engineering leaders get the most out of Gartner's extensive research and analysis on practices, methods and patterns of software engineering. Focused on engineering team leadership and organization design, as well as architecting for fast flow, micro-service architectures, visual system design and building world class software engineering teams.
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Sessions
Tuesday, June 02, 2026 07:45 AM - 08:45 AM PDT
Senior Leadership Circle Breakfast: The AI Imperative: Application and Software Engineering Strategies for 2030
Brad Dayley,
VP Analyst, Gartner
Dave Micko,
Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
AI is reshaping the human-digital experience. The way humans interact with software and how different software and solutions interact digitally, is creating a dynamic user experience. This boosts leaders to develop strategies that leverage successful AI use cases and avoids pitfalls associated with unproven applications that may pose serious security risks and other challenges. They must shape the future of software and applications within their organizations to drive critical business value and innovation while avoiding high costs, poor user experiences and wasted time.
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Tuesday, June 02, 2026 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
Senior Leadership Circle Workshop: Advance Your AI Strategy for Success in an Era of Constant Change
Dave Micko,
Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
The enormous potential business value of AI will not materialize spontaneously. IT leaders should guide their organizations toward an era in which AI is not only creating tangible business value but goes beyond to become a critical competitive differentiator and industry disruptor.
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Thursday, June 04, 2026 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM PDT
How AI Will Transform Software Engineering Organizations, Roles, and Processes
Dave Micko,
Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Once AI’s impact on software engineering has transformed the organization, the focus shifts from optimizing developer’s productivity to enhancing their creative ability to solve business challenges. This will require hiring more developers to address an ever-growing demand for AI-fueled applications, with profound implications for software engineering organizational structures and ways of working.
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