Mike Gilpin spent ten years at Gartner and fifteen years at Forrester leading analyst teams covering software engineering. He's held leadership roles in product management and engineering — most recently as CTO of a digital agency building integrated product teams.

Mike Gilpin spent ten years at Gartner and fifteen years at Forrester leading analyst teams covering software engineering. He's held leadership roles in product management and engineering — most recently as CTO of a digital agency building integrated product teams. His book "The AI Development Paradox: Where AI Value Goes to Die" defines a new framework for enterprise software delivery in the agentic AI era. Mike is a practitioner, not just an analyst — he started his career as a developer and has shipped products and code in multiple languages and platforms. Now he is turning AI speed into business value for enterprise leaders.