Joachim Herschmann is a Senior Director, Analyst on the Application Design and Development team. He helps CIOs, IT and Software Engineering Leaders build their software design, development, and people strategies. He is an expert in the areas of software quality and testing, AI-augmented development and testing technologies and DevOps. Current research focuses on continuous quality, and the evolving concept of building digital immunity to improve software quality. He is chairman of the Americas Virtual Gartner Application Innovation & Business Solutions Summit.