Walker Black is a Sr. Specialist Analyst in the Emerging Technologies and Trends (ETT) Group, a center of excellence for Emerging Tech and Trends across Gartner. This group focuses on C-Level advice for providers, adopters, and innovation leaders. Research brands include Impact Radars, Emerging Tech Hype Cycles, Futures Lab, Tapestry, Top 10 Strategic Trends, Predicts, Maverick, Executive Bets and more. The group's mission is to hunt out the edge of emerging tech, trends and innovation to help strategy and innovation leaders decide if, when, and how to invest in and monetize key futures across emerging technologies and overall strategic trends. Walker's primary coverage and area of research focus include agentic AI, advanced reasoning models, DSLMs, AI markets and trends and other GenAI topics. He also covers intelligent simulation and digital twins, and physical AI. Additionally, Walker covers preemptive cybersecurity and the global attack surface grid.
Prior to joining Gartner, Walker completed his education in Economics and Business at Vanderbilt University.
Emerging Technologies and Trends Impact on Products and Services
BA in Economics at Vanderbilt University, class of 2023
Agentic AI
Intelligent Simulation
Reasoning Models
Digital Twins
Preemptive Cybersecurity