Fresh C-Suites, Adding AI Engineering Talent, and the Walled-Garden Question
AR Intelligence: Live | Quick Shots with Carter Lusher - What Analyst-Firm Hiring Signals for AR — and What the Room Was Asking
May 7, 2026 · AR Intelligence: Live #8
AR Intelligence: Snapshot
The May 7th Quick Shots session covered three topics: the wave of C-suite and AI-engineering hires reshaping Info-Tech, IDC, and Gartner — and the conspicuous quiet at Forrester; a follow-up Q&A on questions left unanswered from the April 16th AR Intelligence: Live | Conversations with Gerry Van Zandt on IDC Directions 2026; and an open Ask-Me-Anything driven by the chat, where the conversation pushed into walled gardens, AI-mediated research, “where you work” integrations, and whether Gartner’s culture is built for an AI-plus-human relationship model.
Replay: Available on Zoom. Passcode: 0!JJ$JHK
Slides: Available upon request — Inquiry@LusherAdvisory.com
Paid members (aka subscribers to AR Intelligence Substack): the full transcript and chat log are below. As is becoming the pattern for this series, the chat carried much of the substantive content — Tim Banting, John Rockhold, Christopher Miller, Irwin Lazar, Ken Burns, and Jose Garakis all pushed on key questions in real time, and several of the sharpest exchanges in this issue came directly out of the room.
Webinar held May 7, 2026, Speaker: Carter Lusher
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