Experience the difference. Meet your peers, talk with experts, build your network, and turn insights into action.
Paige Kirk
Principal Analyst
Gartner
Speaker Topics
- Value and Outcomes
- DEX and Autonomous Mgmt. Tools
- FinOps and Tokenomics
- Technical Professionals
- Future of Work
- Trust, Risk and Security Management
- Organizational Change Management
- Leadership
- Agentic AI
- Everyday and Generative AI
Speaker Bio
Paige Kirk is a Principal analyst on the Software and AI Engineering team. She advises software engineering technical professionals on user experience design, agent experience, digital accessibility and product ownership.
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Sessions
Tuesday, March 02, 2027 09:00 AM - 09:45 AM PST
Gartner Keynote: Unlock the Human-AI Multiplier to Go From Pilot to Payoff
Jason Wong,
Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Paige Kirk,
Principal Analyst, Gartner
In the race to operationalize AI across applications, workflows, and development tools, most technology leaders struggle to scale deployments, drive adoption and show ROI. The goal is to get tangible value without creating “AI slop,” accelerating tech debt, or undermining user trust. We’ll provide insights and examples for practical transformation that emphasize human-AI partnership as a force multiplier for delivering AI solutions that get results.
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Tuesday, March 02, 2027 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM PST
Ask the Analyst: When AI Becomes a Collaborator: Building Effective Human-AI Partnerships
Paige Kirk,
Principal Analyst, Gartner
Workplace technology has traditionally functioned as a tool employees use to complete tasks and access information. AI agents introduce a new paradigm where software acts as a collaborator—retrieving information, making recommendations, coordinating workflows and executing tasks. As software evolves from tool to teammate, organizations must rethink how humans and AI share work, make decisions, validate outputs and orchestrate tasks. Learn principles for productive, responsible and sustainable human-AI collaboration.
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Tuesday, March 02, 2027 03:45 PM - 04:15 PM PST
From Navigation to Intent: How AI Is Reshaping Employee Experience
Paige Kirk,
Principal Analyst, Gartner
AI is rapidly reshaping the workplace. For decades, employees have had to adapt to applications, interfaces and predefined workflows to complete their tasks. AI is changing that model. As organizations invest in copilots, agents and AI-augmented experiences, software increasingly adapts to user intent, context and goals. While these new experiences promise greater usability and productivity, they also require employees to adopt fundamentally new ways of interacting with technology. This session explores the emerging interfaces of work, such as agent-mediated interactions, generative UI and zero-UI experiences. Learn what these shifts mean for employee productivity, digital workplace strategy and the future of human-computer interaction.
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