Irma Fabular is a Vice President and Team Manager within Gartner’s High Tech and Invest (HTI) Practice, with responsibility for insights focused on vertical markets. She leads the Industry Tech and Markets team, for high-tech product leaders and services executives driving growth across key industries, including automotive and transportation, energy and utilities, government, healthcare, manufacturing, national defense, and retail.
Her team’s research helps leaders translate AI driven disruption into durable competitive advantage by:
• Anticipating how AI and digital innovation are reshaping industry value chains
• Identifying where and how competition is converging or fragmenting
• Assessing vendor capabilities, market economics, and risks in the AI vendor race
• Defining differentiated product and go to market strategies
• Enabling informed decisions about where to invest, how to compete, and how to shape markets
Previously, Ms. Fabular led research teams covering U.S. federal, state, and local governments, as well as global governments and national defense. In those roles, she oversaw executive research agendas for CIOs, AI leaders, and technology and service providers, with a focus on mission critical, regulated, and high stakes markets.
Prior to Gartner, Ms. Fabular held IT leadership and operational management positions supporting law enforcement, fire and emergency medical services, healthcare, software product development, medical device manufacturing, and oceanographic research. In those positions, she designed, developed, implemented, and managed IT solutions for 911 emergency communications and dispatching, enterprise resource planning, human resources and payroll, financial management, and patient care management.
Gartner Consulting, Vice President and Industry Practice Leader, 17 years
The Warner Group (acquired by Gartner), Senior Manager, 5 years
City of San Diego, Fire-Rescue Department, IT Director, Emergency Communications Systems, 2 years
Global Government Technology Insights
Product Strategy and Go-to-Market Execution in Industries
M.S., Systems Management, University of Southern California, Viterbi School of Engineering
B.S., Business Administration, with an emphasis in Information Systems, San Diego State University
Accelerating IT modernization and digital transformation initiatives in government
Developing go-to-market strategies for U.S. federal and state and local government markets
Understanding government buyer behavior, challenges and opportunities
Determining adoption and investments by governments in AI and emerging technologies
Messaging and positioning of technology products and IT services to government executives and other stakeholders