David Gratton

David Gratton is a product leader, operator, and educator. He is focused on helping individuals and teams move from AI experimentation to real-world capability. He believes live workshops with active hands-on support are the ideal forcing functions to create momentum for change in both individuals and organizations.

He is the Senior Partner of 021:Events, a practitioner-led training platform designed to take individuals and organizations from zero to one in AI adoption. Through hands-on workshops, and embedded support David works directly with product, engineering, and leadership teams to design, build, and deploy agentic AI systems that create immediate business value.

David is also the co-founder and Chairman of the Agentics Foundation, a global community advancing the development and adoption of sound agentic engineering practices. His work sits at the intersection of technology, product strategy, and organizational transformation. He helps others reshape their AI decision-making, workflows, and execution.

Over a 25-year software career, David has built and led products across AI, SaaS, video games, and consumer platforms. He brings a deeply practical perspective to AI focused on execution and adoption.

David is a proponent the Nodes of Judgement Architecture. A practical framework for designing AI systems where critical decisions are explicitly owned, evaluated, and controlled. Rather than treating AI as a black box, this approach defines where human and system judgment must sit, how decisions are verified, and how risk is managed in production systems.