David Furlonger is a Distinguished Vice President and Gartner Fellow in Gartner’s CEO and Digital Business Leaders research group. David is responsible for conducting research and developing publications aimed at helping CEOs and other executive leaders better understand how long-term societal, business and technology trends impact industries and their enterprise, in particular due to digital innovations. Additional research areas include: blockchain business cases and strategy, digital assets/tokenization/DeFi, decentralization and ecosystems and the evolution of the programmable economy. In October 2019, David published a Harvard book: “The Real Business of Blockchain: How Leaders Can Create Value in a New Digital Age.”