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Manjunath Bhat
Distinguished VP Analyst
Gartner
Speaker Topics
- Using AI in Cybersecurity
- Security Awareness, Behavior and Culture
- AI Cybersecurity Governance
- Data Security
- Cybersecurity Management Governance and Policy
- Application Security
Speaker Bio
Manjunath (Manju) Bhat is a Distinguished Research VP and Gartner Fellow in the software engineering practice based in Sydney. He covers technologies and practices that span software engineering, AI engineering, security engineering and platform engineering. Manju views the impact of AI on software engineering through two perspectives - first, agentic software engineering and second, building agentic applications using the agent development life cycle. He has led foundational work and launched new markets and hype cycles - examples include eval-driven development, AI evaluations and observability platforms, AI Gateways, AI-native software software engineering, future of software engineering 2030, market for software supply chain security, Magic Quadrant for DevOps Platforms (2023) and Hype Cycle for Platform Engineering (2024).
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Sessions
Monday, 08 March, 2027 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM IST
Technical Insights: How to Govern and Secure AI in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Manjunath Bhat,
Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
This session is about governing and securing the use of agentic AI in the SDLC, which is imperative yet difficult. Security and risk leaders will take away actionable guidance on how to govern and secure the agentic software development life cycle. They will also learn about emerging market categories such as the agentic development governance platforms and sandbox platforms.
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Tuesday, 09 March, 2027 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM IST
Technical Insights: How to Secure the Agent Development Life Cycle (ADLC)
Manjunath Bhat,
Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Custom-built AI agents introduce risks such as privilege escalation, prompt injection and excessive agency. This session will focus on technical guidance to adopting secure-by-design principles for building and delivering AI agents. Attendees will learn about emerging market categories such as agentic development sandbox platforms.
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