Michael Forrester

Michael Rishi Forrester is the AI Business Stream Lead for Organizations, Enterprises, and Leaders at Accenture LearnVantage, where he leads enterprise AI enablement across workforce transformation, adoption strategy, and AI security governance. Over 25+ years he has worked from CTO to individual contributor across operations, AI, cloud, and platform engineering, including time at AWS, ThoughtWorks, Red Hat, and Honeywell. His training has reached more than a million engineers, and he speaks at KubeCon, CNCF-hosted events, and the AI Engineer World's Fair on Claude Code, MCP, and AI safety for platform engineers. His thesis: tools don't transform organizations, people do.