Speaker Bio
Sumit Agarwal is a technologist with a practitioner mindset and extensive experience on solutions implementations across data and AI technologies. He has a research focus on Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Advanced Analytics and Data Science. He provides guidance on AI topics including end-to-end solution implementations, architectures, frameworks and best practices related to cloud AI, responsible AI (explainability, privacy, fairness, adversarial robustness), skills development and organization structure, governance, technical strategy and open-source components.
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Sessions
Monday, 21 September, 2026
12:30 PM - 01:00 PM IST
The Intelligence Capabilities Canvas: The D&A Foundation You Need to Drive Innovation and Resilience
Sumit Agarwal,
VP Analyst, Gartner
This session will provide a blueprint for the comprehensive data, analytics, and AI capabilities and services that leaders need to build to enable their organization's AI ambition. It will explore the implications of your AI ambition archetype on your buying, deployment, and organization strategies.
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Monday, 21 September, 2026
04:15 PM - 05:00 PM IST
Ask the Analyst: How to Design and Optimize RAG
Sumit Agarwal,
VP Analyst, Gartner
RAG has emerged as a powerful approach for building advanced AI systems that combine the strengths of large language models with external knowledge sources. However, RAG solutions struggle with reliability and require a lot of experimentation. This session will address key questions to help determine the best design pattern and optimization for RAG implementations.
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Tuesday, 22 September, 2026
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM IST
Integrate AI Governance With AI Architectures
Sumit Agarwal,
VP Analyst, Gartner
AI governance is no longer optional. This session will explore practical strategies for embedding AI governance directly into the design and development of AI architectures, ensuring that compliance, transparency and ethical standards are upheld from the ground up.
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