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Tori Paulman
VP Analyst
Gartner
Speaker Topics
- Business Value of IT
- Opening Keynote Aligned
- Talent and Skills
- AI Strategy and Business Alignment
- AI Value and Cost Management
- Emerging Technologies
Speaker Bio
Tori Paulman is a Vice President on Gartner’s CIO Tech & Digital Talent research team, where they help executives navigate the leadership, talent, and cultural shifts essential for success in the AI era. As co-leader of Gartner’s cross-functional Future of Work research community, Tori helps guide research that equips leaders to make future-ready decisions today.
In 2023, Tori launched Gartner’s inaugural Hype Cycle for the Future of Work, spotlighting the most transformative trends reshaping the workplace each year. Since 2022, they have led Gartner’s biannual Digital Worker Survey, the firm’s flagship study offering deep insights into how employees engage with workplace technology.
Tori describes their life’s work as ensuring that humans have an engaging, validating, and supportive experiences with technology, meeting them where they and empowering them to unlock their goals.
Top Issues I Help Clients Address:
- Developing an AI-ready workforce that achieves breakthrough productivity
- Maximizing the return-on-employee through human-centric AI strategies
- Strengthening experience through quantitative and qualitative listening
- Attracting and retaining top talent with a digital employee value proposition
- Activating workforce ambition to adopt AI and other emerging technologies
- Driving workforce transformation through future-of-work strategies
- Accelerating leadership impact with AI-driven insights and automation
- Shaping digital workplace innovation to enhance collaboration and productivity
- Advising executives on Gartner’s top strategic technology trends
Years of Experience:- 2021 beginning at Gartner- 25 years in IT industry- 7 Years Financial Services- 7 Years Entertainment- 6 Years Retail- 5 Years Professional Services for Non-Profit and Higher - 1 Year Software Development, specifically BPM
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In 2023, Tori launched Gartner’s inaugural Hype Cycle for the Future of Work, spotlighting the most transformative trends reshaping the workplace each year. Since 2022, they have led Gartner’s biannual Digital Worker Survey, the firm’s flagship study offering deep insights into how employees engage with workplace technology.
Tori describes their life’s work as ensuring that humans have an engaging, validating, and supportive experiences with technology, meeting them where they and empowering them to unlock their goals.
Top Issues I Help Clients Address:
- Developing an AI-ready workforce that achieves breakthrough productivity
- Maximizing the return-on-employee through human-centric AI strategies
- Strengthening experience through quantitative and qualitative listening
- Attracting and retaining top talent with a digital employee value proposition
- Activating workforce ambition to adopt AI and other emerging technologies
- Driving workforce transformation through future-of-work strategies
- Accelerating leadership impact with AI-driven insights and automation
- Shaping digital workplace innovation to enhance collaboration and productivity
- Advising executives on Gartner’s top strategic technology trends
Years of Experience:- 2021 beginning at Gartner- 25 years in IT industry- 7 Years Financial Services- 7 Years Entertainment- 6 Years Retail- 5 Years Professional Services for Non-Profit and Higher - 1 Year Software Development, specifically BPM
Sessions
Monday, 09 November, 2026 07:45 AM - 08:45 AM CET
Global Enterprise Executive Experience Morning Networking Session: Talent Development in the AI Era
Tori Paulman,
VP Analyst, Gartner
The continued growth of AI in the enterprise has a cascading effect on jobs, work, skills and more. AI forward organizations are aggressively assessing the impact of AI on their workforce by navigating three dimensions of this organizational transformation: work redesign, job and team redesign, and talent sourcing redesign. Join us to ask questions on these three dimensions and hear what your peers are doing from Gartner Analyst, Tori Paulman. Coffee and refreshments will be served.
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Wednesday, 11 November, 2026 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM CET
Signature Series: Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2027
Tori Paulman,
VP Analyst, Gartner
Technological breakthroughs are accelerating like never before, are you ready to keep up? Join us for this must-attend session where Gartner unveils the top strategic technology trends for 2027! Discover how following Gartner’s expert guidance can empower your organization to thrive in a rapidly changing digital world. We'll reveal 10 game-changing technologies every CIO should know to face the future with confidence & agility.
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Thursday, 12 November, 2026 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM CET
The AI-Shaped Organization: How CIOs Scale Value
Tori Paulman,
VP Analyst, Gartner
The AI‑shaped organization is a model built on a new, original dataset capturing which AI practices truly drive CEO‑recognized value. This session reframes three critical leadership challenges: how AI value scales, why agents succeed only when decision rights are deliberately delegated, and how AI delivers its greatest returns by expanding workforce capability rather than increasing productivity. Attendees will leave with a practical framework to transform boundaries, compound value and gain durable outcomes.
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