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Enrique Castera
Sr Director Analyst
Mr. Castera is a Senior Director Analyst at Gartner, specializing in Infrastructure & Operations for IT Leaders. His main areas of expertise include Generative AI (GenAI), Cloud AI, AI Accelerators infrastructure and Quantum Computing. He is particularly interested in the design and architecture of the next generation of AI Infrastructure, AI Agents and enterprise-level Large Language Models, Small Language Models and RAG systems and their implications for infrastructure.
Previous experience
Mr. Castera brings 25 years of experience in engineering, architecture, and technology sales from working with Intel, Microsoft, Nokia, and Telefonica. Throughout his career, he has held various roles such as Solution Architect, Technical Sales, Product Engineering, and Product Management. His journey began in telecommunications and network infrastructure, eventually transitioning to software and hardware. He has collaborated extensively with IT departments, OEMs, ISVs, SIs, and CIOs/CISOs at Fortune 500 companies.
Professional background
Intel Corporation, Senior Solution Architect EMEA CTO Office, 10 years
Microsoft, Senior Product Manager, 2 years
Nokia and Novarra Inc., Senior Product Manager, 7 years
Nokia Networks, Senior Systems Engineer, Mobile Operators, 7 years
Telefonica, Database Expert, 2 years
Education
MSC Telecommunication Engineer, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Top Issues That I Help Clients Address
GenAI infrastructure and deployment strategies
AI cloud service providers offering, infrastructure, accelerators, solution stack, agentic AI
AI PC and NPU for local inferencing
LLM, SLM, RAG pipelines