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Sumit Agarwal
VP Analyst
Gartner
Speaker Topics
- Agentic Analytics and AI
- Governance for AI
Speaker Bio
Sumit Agarwal is a technologist with a practitioner mindset and extensive experience on solutions implementations across data and AI technologies. He has a research focus on Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Advanced Analytics and Data Science. He provides guidance on AI topics including end-to-end solution implementations, architectures, frameworks and best practices related to cloud AI, responsible AI (explainability, privacy, fairness, adversarial robustness), skills development and organization structure, governance, technical strategy and open-source components.
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Sessions
Monday, March 09, 2026 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM EDT
Ask the Expert: How to Design and Optimize RAG
Sumit Agarwal,
VP Analyst, Gartner
RAG has emerged as a powerful approach for building advanced AI systems that combine the strengths of large language models with external knowledge sources. However, RAG solutions struggle with reliability and require a lot of experimentation. This session will address key questions to help determine the best design pattern and optimization for RAG implementations.
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Monday, March 09, 2026 04:30 PM - 05:00 PM EDT
Crossroads Debate: GenAI Build vs. Buy
Sumit Agarwal,
VP Analyst, Gartner
Kjell Carlsson,
VP Analyst, Gartner
GenAI solutions include several choices and trade-offs. A critical decision is: should you build custom AI solutions in-house or buy off-the-shelf products? This session brings together a debate on the trade-offs, risk and rewards of each approach. The session will be based on scenarios and use-cases to highlight key considerations such as cost, reliability , flexibility and speed for different decisions such as LLMs vs. SLMs, RAG vs. AI agents, packaged platform capability vs. bespoke custom solution, packaged vs. open-source.
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Tuesday, March 10, 2026 12:15 PM - 01:00 PM EDT
Ask the Expert: How to Design and Optimize RAG (Repeat)
Sumit Agarwal,
VP Analyst, Gartner
RAG has emerged as a powerful approach for building advanced AI systems that combine the strengths of large language models with external knowledge sources. However, RAG solutions struggle with reliability and require a lot of experimentation. This session will address key questions to help determine the best design pattern and optimization for RAG implementations.
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Wednesday, March 11, 2026 02:45 PM - 03:15 PM EDT
Integrate AI Governance With AI Architectures
Sumit Agarwal,
VP Analyst, Gartner
AI governance is no longer optional. This session will explore practical strategies for embedding AI governance directly into the design and development of AI architectures, ensuring that compliance, transparency and ethical standards are upheld from the ground up.
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