Arun Chandrasekaran is a Distinguished Vice President, Analyst at Gartner, within the global CIO practice, where his research focus is on artificial intelligence. Arun spearheads Gartner's research and advisory on Generative AI, including leading popular research notes such as AI Predicts and Hype Cycle for Generative AI. Arun is a trusted advisor to executive and IT leaders, which includes the board of directors, CEOs, CIOs, CTOs, and their direct reports. He has advised thousands of CIOs, CTOs, and conducted hundreds of workshops for several Global 2000 organizations on AI, Cloud, and Innovation. In addition, he covers the start-up ecosystem closely, advising venture capitalists and tech CEOs. His views have been featured in media such as Wall Street Journal, New York Times, The Economist, BBC, Reuters, Bloomberg, Fortune, Fast Company, Forbes and Computerworld.
Before joining Gartner, Mr. Chandrasekaran headed research on cloud computing, data center equipment and services for Frost & Sullivan, in a practice offering consulting and research services to the leading vendors, service providers and end users in the Asia/Pacific region.
Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), Senior Network Engineer, 2 years
Frost & Sullivan, Research Director - Cloud Computing and Data Center Practice, 6 years
SSI Technologies, Member of Technical Staff, 5 years
Artificial Intelligence
Generative AI Resource Center
Establish a World-Class AI Strategy and Organization
Build, Engineer and Implement AI Initiatives
Artificial Intelligence Leadership
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Program, Stanford University
Certificate Program in Professional Communications, UC Berkeley
M.B.A., Strategic Management, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
B.E., Electronics and Communication Engineering, University of Madras, India
Harnessing the value of Generative AI
Crafting a robust AI strategy
Future of Artificial Intelligence
AI Execution Best Practices
Understand Key Technology Emerging Trends