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Rita Sallam
Distinguished VP Analyst
Gartner
Speaker Topics
- Agentic Analytics and AI
- Trends and Futures
Speaker Bio
Rita Sallam is a Distinguished VP analyst and Gartner Fellow in the Data and Analytics team. Mrs. Sallam's focus includes tracking market trends, vendor assessment and selection, and identifying best practices for realizing business value from data, analytics and AI investments. Of particular interest is how leaders can leverage disruptions in AI to create sustainable competitive advantage. She is also focused on building frameworks for selecting and valuing data and analytics portfolios including AI investments, including Generative AI.
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Sessions
Monday, March 09, 2026 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM EDT
How to Calculate the Value and Cost of AI Agents
Rita Sallam,
Distinguished VP 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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Tuesday, March 10, 2026 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM EDT
Signature Series: Top Data and Analytics Predictions for 2026
Rita Sallam,
Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
This session of Gartner’s top D&A predictions for 2026 will guide data and analytics leaders as they plan for the impact of AI across all aspects of data and analytics, including leadership, governance, talent, market, and the need for AI-ready data and a FinAI competency for value realization.
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