Analyst Profile

Alexander Linden

VP Analyst

7 years at Gartner , 35 years industry experience
Germany

Roles and Responsibilities

Alexander Linden is a Research VP, specializing in data science, machine learning and advanced algorithms. Dr. Linden helps clients with making buy vs. built vs. outsource decisions, various themes of data science governance, and aims to track the cutting edge in machine learning and artificial intelligence. (Note: His coverage does not include data infrastructure, business analytics, reporting, RPA, conversational interface, chatbots.)

Alexander Linden's Recent Gartner Activity

Latest Research

Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms
11-Feb-2020
3 Types of Machine Learning for the Enterprise
29-Jan-2020
Follow 4 Data Science Best Practices to Achieve Project Success
06-Jan-2020

Upcoming Gartner Events

Gartner Data & Analytics Summit
08 March 2020 - 11 March 2020
Gartner Data & Analytics Summit
22 March 2020 - 26 March 2020

Background

Previous Experience

Prior to rejoining Gartner, Dr. Linden was an entrepreneur, advising The World Bank and Fraunhofer, and he founded two companies himself, one of which, clickworker.com, is still at the forefront of applying microwork (crowdsourcing) to text and image analytics, metadata extraction, and open innovation. Dr. Linden had his first stint at Gartner from 1998 to 2006, where he left as Research VP, Emerging Technologies. During that time, he was worldwide lead on advanced analytics, data mining and semantic technologies, and he initiated Gartner's ongoing series of annual Hype Cycle special reports. Before that, Dr. Linden assumed various midlevel to senior roles at GE and Dresdner Bank as a Data Scientist.

Professional Background

GE, Senior Data Scientist, 2 years
GMD German National Lab for Computer Science, Computer Scientist, 5 years
Gartner, Research VP, Emerging Trends and Technologies, 11 years

Industry Awards/Accolades

GE Management Award 1997 (built in-memory analytics that uncovered $xx million of losses)
Gartner Silver Award 2003 (initiated annual Hype Cycle Special Report)
Postdoctoral Fellowship 1994, International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley

Education

M.S., Computer Science (Computational Linguistics minor), Bonn University
Ph.D., Machine Learning/Computer Science, Bielefeld University
Postdoc, UC Berkeley

Languages

English
German

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13 November 2019
The Healthcare Supply Chain Top 25 for 2019 In its 11th year, the Healthcare Supply Chain Top 25 highlights supply chains that successfully advance healthcare by improving patient outcomes and controlling costs. Supply chain leaders in the healthcare industry can use lessons from these leading organizations to improve their own operations.

19 February 2020
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Technology general managers face a future of changing customer needs, competitive challenges and demand for new innovative solutions. How general managers prioritize, participate and provoke their organization forward are critical to success. The availability of new technologies and the continued transition to service-based business models require general managers to be leaders as well as chief product managers. In this complimentary IT services webinar, we break down the results of the Gartner for General Managers 2020 survey of more than 200 technology GMs and recommendations for how you can raise your performance.

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Analyst Profile

Alexander Linden

VP Analyst

Roles and Responsibilities

Alexander Linden's Recent Gartner Activity

Latest Research

Upcoming Gartner Events

Background

Previous Experience

Professional Background

Industry Awards/Accolades

Education

Languages

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