Arun Chandrasekaran is a Distinguished Vice President, Analyst at Gartner, where his research focus is on providing strategic advice to CTOs and CIOs on how to spur technology innovation within enterprise IT.
He is part of the core team that analyzes emerging technology trends and creates the annual Gartner top strategic technology trends research. His focus areas include emerging trends in AI, including Generative AI, Public Cloud, and Cloud-native architectures. He has a strong blend of technical and business skills and is a leading speaker on topics such as cloud computing, enterprise innovation, and artificial intelligence.
Before joining Gartner, Mr. Chandrasekaran headed research on cloud computing, data center equipment and services for Frost & Sullivan, in a practice offering consulting and research services to the leading vendors, service providers and end users in the Asia/Pacific region.
Frost & Sullivan
Research Director - Cloud Computing and Data Center Practice
Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)
Senior Network Engineer
SSI Technologies
Member of Technical Staff
I&O Operations Management
Software Engineering Technologies
Artificial Intelligence
CIO Technology and Innovation Leadership
Certificate Program in Professional Communications, UC Berkeley
M.B.A., Strategic Management, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
B.E., Electronics and Communication Engineering, University of Madras, India
1Architecting and implementing micro-services infrastructure (Containers, Serverless computing)
2Designing and implementing machine learning and AI infrastructure
3Implementing hybrid & multi-cloud strategies
4Harnessing the Value of and Operationalizing Generative AI
5Understand Key Technology Emerging Trends