Arnal Dayaratna

About Arnal Dayaratna

I am an AI thought leader, market strategist, and executive advisor who combines deep technical fluency with business and financial rigor to clarify where AI markets are headed and what that means for the organizations competing in them.I partner with executives and product leaders to shape strategy, positioning, and market narrative that stands up to technical scrutiny.Core Expertise •AI Thought Leadership: Evangelism: Translating complex AI developments into market-shaping narratives for executive audiences, conference stages, and public platforms — building the perspective that positions organizations ahead of the next shift. •Executive Advisory: Strategic Counsel: Advising C-suite executives and product leaders on AI market direction, competitive positioning, and enterprise adoption strategy — translating primary research into decisions that hold up under scrutiny. •Market Research: Competitive Intelligence: Designing quantitative models, sizing emerging AI categories, and delivering MarketScape evaluations and competitive frameworks used by Fortune 500 technology leaders to set strategy and allocate investment.•Go-to-Market Strategy: Positioning: Developing competitive positioning frameworks and messaging architectures that define how AI products are understood by buyers, analysts, press, and investors. •Strategic Communications: Translating complex AI capability into clear, defensible narratives for C-suite audiences across product launches, executive briefings, and major industry forums. •Category Creation: Market Narrative: Defining how emerging AI segments — generative AI, agentic systems, inference infrastructure — are framed, sized, and competed, shaping how the industry understands what is new and why it matters.

Experience

1. Vice President, Genai and Agentic Ai Developer Research

   国际数据公司

   Jun 2021 — Present · Needham, MA, US

   Expanded IDC’s developer modeling framework with more granular segmentations across languages, frameworks, and domains, and shifted focus toward generative AI, large language models, and AI-first development strategies. Built a research and advisory practice focused on agentic developer technologies and low-code/no-code tools, supporting product and GTM leaders across the software industry. Led IDC MarketScapes on AI coding platforms and software engineering tools, delivering vendor evaluations and decision frameworks to senior stakeholders. Shaped how emerging technologies were communicated by helping marketing and product teams distill technical trends into clear, strategic messaging for developers, executives, and buyers.

Education

• Choate Rosemary Hall

  High school diploma

• Cornell University

  Python for Data Science Certificate

• Duke University

  Ph.D.

• Princeton University

  AB