Afraz Jaffri
Senior Director Analyst, Gartner Author of the Gartner Hype Cycle for Artificial Intelligence, 2024. Advise thousands of data and analytics leaders on how to build and scale their AI and GenAI projects with knowledge graphs.
About this speaker
Afraz Jaffri is a Research Director at Gartner, where he focuses on Analytics, Data Science and AI. He advises Data and Analytics leaders on making the most from their investments in modern data science, machine learning and analytics platforms. He has particular focus on how to organize analytics and data science teams, implementing graph-based data management and analytics solutions and developing best practices for operationalizing machine learning models and generative AI systems.
Previously, Afraz worked as a Management Consultant for over a decade, advising clients on business intelligence, analytics, data science, and AI strategy and implementation. He delivered a number of enterprise-wide data science platforms and AI applications with responsibility for business case development, architecture and functional roadmaps.
Afraz has an academic research background in knowledge representation and the Semantic Web, where his research focused on identity resolution and ontology alignment and management. He has published several papers in leading conferences and journals.
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