Gartner Expert

Anthony Mullen

VP Analyst

Anthony Mullen covers complex distributed socio-technical systems theory, design and development. This includes semantic modelling and grounding, AI Design, AI Debt Management as well as enabling technologies and architectures for agentic AI and simulation.

Previous experience

Mr. Mullen's work has been with Fortune 500 organizations, supporting them from research, ideas generation and prototyping through to development and deployment of innovative products, architecture and services.

During his career, he has been instrumental in delivering a number of industry firsts across telecom, media, social and wearables technology.

He studied AI in the 80s and during the following decades worked as a consultant on capabilities such as emerging behavioural targeting in ecommerce through to leading R&D at a data science team exploring machine learning, big data, analytics and AI techniques to unlock answers to complex problems in areas like customer journeys, mobility, smart cities, wearables, health, automotive and retail.

He most recently led AI content planning at Gartner for four years during the rise of Generative AI and is an experienced and passionate public speaker with the BBC, Economist, The Times, Marketing Week, Bloomberg, Information Age, Financial Times and CNET among the publishers who seek his opinion.

Professional background

Profusion - Data Science Consultancy, Practice Lead - R&D and Consulting, 1 years

Forrester Research, Senior Analyst for Emerging Technology, 3 years

Global telecom and media companies, Mobile and Innovation Consultant, 20 years

Areas of coverage
  • AI Strategy and Business Transformation

  • Data Management

  • Prepare the Data and Knowledge Foundation for AI

Education

Honors Degree in Computer Science

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Top Issues That I Help Clients Address

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How to understand and apply AI effectively

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Strategy and tactics for Artificial Intelligence

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How to develop information architecture to support agentic automation

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How should I tackle AI Debt?

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What AI KPI's should I report to the board and how do I measure them