Gartner Expert

Aakanksha Bansal is a Principal research with Emerging Technologies and Trends (ETT) Group in Gartner's High Tech and Invest (HTI) practice. She helps technology leaders (C-suite leaders, Board of Directors, CIOs, and IT Leaders across industry verticals, General Managers, Chief Product Officers, Product Managers, and Product Marketers) with their digital business strategy and emerging technology implementation. She advices technology product leaders on emerging technologies trends, their maturity, their impact on product strategy, roadmaps, and product development and evolution. She also helps them develop and evaluate their tech and product roadmap by providing case-based research and data-driven insights on emerging technologies. She advises both leaders in technology provider organizations and end users/adopters on AI strategy, Agentic AI, AI Agents, Earth Intelligence and other emerging technologies.

Aakanksha has three core areas of ETT coverage: Agentic AI (and Agent Marketplaces), Earth Intelligence and AI marketplaces. Other coverage areas include Gartner's Emerging Technology Benchmark for High Tech Leaders, Open gen AI models, Large Quantitative Models (LQM), AI Services

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