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Carlton E. Sapp
Distinguished VP Analyst
Carlton Sapp is the Managing Vice President of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategies team for the Global Enterprise Executive Research practice. The AI Strategies team provides thought-leading strategic and tactical AI insights for global executives. In addition to managing the global AI Strategies team, Dr. Sapp provides guidance to executives and their teams on responsible generative AI strategies and algorithms, AI-driven agent-based systems, digital transformation optimization, decision intelligence, data management strategies, and Industrial Internet of Things for machine intelligence. Dr. Sapp provides data-driven insights and responsible design strategies based on more than 25 years of executive and practitioner experience and research. He is known for using systems thinking approaches to solve complex technical and business challenges for global clients.
Previous experience
Dr. Sapp has more than 25 years of advanced technology management and development. Prior to joining Gartner, Dr. Sapp led large-scale research and development teams for public sector programs focusing on complex systems and digital transformations. He's also spent years as a consultant in technology professional services focusing on rapid modernizations.
In previous practitioner roles, Dr. Sapp designed bio-inspired neural networks and digital assets, agent-based systems, digital twins for modeling and simulation, data and analytics architectures for decision support, and machine learning algorithms for machine intelligence.
Professional background
Department of Defense Contracts, Advanced Computing, Research, Technology, 14 years
IBM, Software Engineering and Product Consultant, 6 years
National Science Foundation, Management of Information Systems, 3 years
Areas of coverage
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Analytics and Artificial Intelligence
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Artificial Intelligence
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Analytics and Artificial Intelligence for Technical Professionals
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Artificial Intelligence Leadership
Education
Ph.D., Systems Engineering, George Washington University
M.S., Information Systems Technology, George Washington University
B.S., Business Management, North Carolina State University
Top Issues That I Help Clients Address
How to architect and build machine learning, artificial intelligence and advanced analytic systems
How to build an effective AI strategy
How to defend, grow and differentiate my business with AI
How to calculate and show the value of investments in AI
How to ensure cross organization buy-in for your AI strategy