David Gratton

David Gratton is the co-founder of the Agentics Foundation, a global community advancing sound agentic engineering practices, and an Agentic AI instructor at Northeastern University's Khoury College of Computer Sciences. He is the Senior Partner of 021:Events and serves as VP of Product and Operations at Theory+Practice, an ML and AI company building production AI systems for retail and CPG organizations including Nestle, Loblaws, L'Oreal, and London Drugs.

A frequent speaker on practical AI adoption, David's talk to studio heads at the Game Developers Conference in 2025 generated immediate demand for hands-on agentic AI training across multiple studios. That response directly led to the founding of 021:Events.

Through 021:Events, David works directly with product, engineering, and leadership teams to design, build, and deploy agentic AI systems that create immediate business value. His core belief is that live, hands-on workshops are the most effective forcing function for building real AI capability inside organizations fast.

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

Over a 25-year software career he has built and led products across AI, SaaS, video games, and consumer platforms, working with organizations including Boeing, Asana, Microsoft, Apple, EA, and Budweiser.