Alys Woodward is a Senior Director in the CIO research group advising midsize enterprise CIOs on data and analytics. Prior to this she worked in the Emerging Technologies and Trends group within Technology and Service Provider Business and Technology Insights at Gartner. Ms. Woodward's key areas of focus are AI, synthetic data, augmented analytics, analytic platforms, decision intelligence, data fabric, AI maturity and AI software market forecasting. Prior to becoming an analyst, Ms. Woodward was a consultant in data and analytics building data and analytics systems for healthcare, retail, manufacturing and telecommunications organizations.