Experience the difference. Meet your peers, talk with analysts, build your network and turn insights into action.
Dave Micko
VP, Team Manager
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,
VP, Team Manager, Gartner
AI is reshaping the human-digital experience -- the fundamental ways that people interact with software. This presents a significant opportunity for applicatoins and software engineering teams to utilize AI to drive business value. However, AI use caes can be deceptively difficult to get value from. This session will help you identify the right use cases, drive innovation and avoid pitfalls as you create your AI strategies on the way to 2030.
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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,
VP, Team Manager, 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,
VP, Team Manager, 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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