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Sunday, August 2

Monday, August 3

1:00 PM
1:00 PM5:00 PM

AI Trainings, Powered by General Assembly [ADDITIONAL FEE REQUIRED]

We’ve partnered with General Assembly to offer a selection of pre-conference trainings as an add-on to your conference pass, for both technical and non-technical attendees.Learn more about these courses and register…

  • Workshop
1:00 PM2:00 PM

Attribute It. Govern It. Monetize It. Experience it in Action. [RSVP REQUIRED]

This event requires an RSVP; to attend, submit form hereEvery session this week will show you how to build and govern AI agents. This one shows you how to attribute spend and turn it into realized revenue.Eighty-one…

Dan Temkin (Kong Inc.)
Titian Ballroom 2306
  • Workshop
1:00 PM2:00 PM

Build a Customer Service AI Agent Live - Voice, Digital, and Governed [RSVP REQUIRED]

This event requires an RSVP; to attend, submit form hereYou are responsible to provide an environment for your organization to build, deploy, measure, and monitor agentic agents.In this scenario - your contact center is…

Gary Fingerhut (Kore.ai)
Titian Ballroom 2304
  • Workshop
1:00 PM2:00 PM

Designing Memory Systems for AI Agents [RSVP REQUIRED]

This event requires an RSVP; to attend, submit form hereAs AI agents move beyond chat experiences into production systems, memory becomes essential for maintaining context, coordinating long-running workflows, and…

Nina Lopatina (MongoDB)
Bellini Ballroom 2102
  • Workshop
1:00 PM2:00 PM

Energy-Efficient, Annealing Quantum Computers for Machine Learning [RSVP REQUIRED]

This event requires an RSVP; to attend, submit form hereSignificant machine learning progress has been realized in the past decade---from performing simple classification tasks to the advent of large language models…

Kevin Chern (D-Wave)
Veronese Ballroom 2504
  • Workshop
1:00 PM2:00 PM

From Idea to Production: Governing Agentic AI with Adaptive Orchestration [RSVP REQUIRED]

This event requires an RSVP; to attend, submit form hereAI is changing software delivery, but in regulated enterprises the bigger question is not whether AI can help teams move faster - it is whether AI can help them…

Ankur Trivedi (Digital.ai)
Venetian Ballroom G
  • Workshop
1:00 PM2:00 PM

Why Most AI Agents Never Make It to Production (And What You're Doing Wrong) [RSVP REQUIRED]

This event requires an RSVP; to attend, submit form hereEveryone's building AI agents, but most organizations are doing it entirely wrong. They are treating agents like advanced chatbots; building fragile toys instead…

Ken Judy (Stride)
Titian Ballroom 2302
  • Workshop
2:30 PM
2:30 PM3:30 PM

Agent Speedrun: Idea → Code → Deploy → Observe → Ship

This event requires an RSVP; to attend, submit form hereOne agent. Fully deployed to production before the workshop ends. We'll take you from a blank file to a running production agent using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and…

Sandhya Subramani (Amazon Web Services)
Venetian Ballroom G
  • Workshop
2:30 PM3:30 PM

Building Enterprise Agents That Don’t Go Rogue [RSVP REQUIRED]

This event requires an RSVP; to attend, submit form hereYour AI agent passed every test - but can you actually prove it won't cause harm the moment it hits production? Enterprises are racing to deploy autonomous agents…

Rohit Nichani (Emergence AI)
Titian Ballroom 2306
  • Workshop
2:30 PM3:30 PM

Building the AI Value Case: Securing Investment Beyond the Pilot [RSVP REQUIRED]

This event requires an RSVP; to attend, submit form hereAI is easy to pilot. Harder to fund. Hardest to scale. Join a hands-on working session where you'll turn one of your AI ideas into a measurable, board-ready value…

Robin Copland (Avanade), Spencer Hitchner (Avanade)
Bellini Ballroom 2102
  • Workshop
2:30 PM3:30 PM

Deploy AI Agents in Secure Development Environments [RSVP REQUIRED]

This event requires an RSVP; to attend, submit form hereJoin a hands-on workshop to explore how AI coding agents work inside secure, production-like development environments. No setup. No friction. Just real-world…

Dave Ahr (Coder Technologies)
Titian Ballroom 2304
  • Workshop
2:30 PM3:30 PM

Hands-On AI Security and Governance with Obot AI [RSVP REQUIRED]

This event requires an RSVP; to attend, submit form hereAs AI agents connect to more tools, APIs, and enterprise data, how do you keep those interactions secure, manageable, and visible? In this hands-on workshop, you…

Craig Jellick (Obot AI)
Titian Ballroom 2302
  • Workshop
4:00 PM
4:00 PM5:00 PM

Agent Development with LangChain and LangSmith - Workshop [RSVP REQUIRED]

This event requires an RSVP; to attend, submit form hereJoin Rahul Verma, Deployed Engineer @ LangChain, and Daniel Shea, Deployed Engineer @ LangChain for an interactive hands-on workshop on AI agent development. In…

Rahul Verma (LangChain), Daniel Shea (LangChain)
Titian Ballroom 2306
  • Workshop
4:00 PM5:30 PM

Agentic AI: Build a Customer Service Agent with NVIDIA Computing and HPE Private Cloud AI [RSVP REQUIRED]

This event requires an RSVP; to attend, submit form hereWhether you're a researcher, an engineer, or a site decision-maker, Understanding AI best practices-and the technology to facilitate them-are critical. Learn how…

Akhila Aiyer (Hewlett Packard Enterprise), Mark Seither (HPE)
Bellini Ballroom 2102
  • Workshop
4:00 PM5:00 PM

Build Agents Your Security Team Will Approve: Skills, Loop Engineering, & Governance with Arcade.dev [RSVP REQ'D]

This event requires an RSVP; to attend, submit form hereCoding agents are confined to the terminal because they lack authenticated access to real systems. This workshop demonstrates how to bridge that gap using…

Thierry Damiba (Arcade.dev)
Venetian Ballroom G
  • Workshop
4:00 PM5:00 PM

Every Agent is Rogue by Default [RSVP REQUIRED]

This event requires an RSVP; to attend, submit form hereAn agent that reads production secrets it was never scoped to touch. Another that runs overnight and bills $800 in API calls. These aren't hypothetical breach…

Mallory Sword Glenn (Okta)
Titian Ballroom 2302
  • Workshop
4:00 PM4:25 PM

The Architecture of Motion in Motion: How to Harness Physical AI for Next-Era Human-Aware Bio-Robotics

The Architecture of Motion:Imagine a world where an artificial limb doesn't just replace a part, but restores human dignity, fluid intention, and athletic grace. This is the frontier of physical AI, bridging advance…

Yishay Falick (Bility)
Venetian Ballroom D
  • Secret Content

Tuesday, August 4

10:15 AM
10:15 AM10:35 AM

Agentic Model Risk Management: Industrializing Risk Ranking, Validation, and Monitoring

Model risk management today remains highly manual, sequential, and fragmented across development, validation, and monitoring, leading to slow cycle times, inconsistent outputs, and scaling bottlenecks. We are building…

Freddy Lecue (Wells Fargo)
Delfino Ballroom 4104
  • Infrastructure: AI Agents
10:15 AM11:00 AM

AI as Your Pair Programmer: How Developers Are Collaborating with Code Models

The way we write software is changing—fast. This panel brings together engineers and AI experts who understand AI powered coding to discuss how they are using AI daily to boost productivity, reduce bugs, and streamline…

Nick Patterson (Moderne), Justin Johnson (Renaissance Benefits), Ron Schmelzer (Forbes / Scalebrate), Byron Ellis (LinkedIn Corporation), Ankit Goyal (LinkedIn)
Lando Ballroom 4204
  • Software Engineering
10:15 AM11:00 AM

AI for Beginners: 0-1

This panel is designed to provide newcomers to AI with a comprehensive playbook for getting started on their AI journey. Panelists will break down the foundational concepts of AI, explain common use cases, and offer…

Emily Acosta Lewis (Sonoma State University), Paul Farnsworth (Dice), Allison Murphy (Axios), Andy Dingler (Daimler Truck North America)
Palazzo Ballroom L
  • Beginner Start Here
10:15 AM11:00 AM

AI vs AI: Cybersecurity in the Age of Generative Threats

As defenders adopt AI to detect and respond to threats faster than ever, attackers are using the same tools to launch increasingly complex, automated, and adaptive attacks. This panel explores the arms race between…

Krista Arndt (St. Luke's University Health Network), Parthasarathi Chakraborty (Broadridge Financials), Torrell Funderburk (Overspace), Stephen Franklin (NetWatch.AI), Alaa Abdulridha (SerpApi, LLC)
Marcello Ballroom 4404
  • Cybersecurity
10:15 AM11:00 AM

Building the Enterprise AI Stack: Strategies for Tools, Platforms, and ROI

As organizations accelerate their AI adoption, building the right software stack becomes a critical enabler of speed, control, and business value. This holistic panel brings together technology and platform leaders to…

Ali Abedini (Metropolitan Commercial Bank), Oscar Anaya (Lucien), Ilyse Liffreing (The Trade Desk), Drew Schlussel (Wasabi Technologies), Rahul Rajendra Prasad (Citizens Bank)
Palazzo Ballroom M
  • Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
10:15 AM11:00 AM

Command, Control & Compute: AI at the Defense Frontier

National defense and aerospace leaders are harnessing AI to rethink how missions are planned, executed, and supported. This panel explores real deployments, from edge intelligence in combat zones to predictive…

Chris Hume (Legion Intelligence), Eytan Eshel (Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI)), Paul Lasserre (Loft Orbital), Christine Keung (J2 Ventures)
Palazzo Ballroom B
  • Aerospace & Defense
10:15 AM11:00 AM

Deriving Real ROI from AI: How to Pick the Right Use Cases and Win

Too many AI initiatives deliver buzz but not business results. This panel brings together executives and practitioners who have cracked the code on achieving real ROI with AI. Panelists will explore how to identify…

Bill Dwoinen (Mural), Jim Jacob (Cummins Inc), Momei Qu (PSP Growth), Preeti Vaidya (Morgan Health, JPMC)
Palazzo Ballroom D
  • Oversight: AI ROI
10:15 AM6:00 PM

Exhibit Hall Open

Halls B&C
  • Exhibit Hall
10:15 AM6:00 PM

Experience Tesla at Ai4 2026

Meet the latest Tesla vehicle lineup and experience Full Self-Driving (Supervised) for yourself. Tesla Advisors will be available to answer any questions you have about our latest innovations and the Tesla ownership…

Halls B&C
  • Exhibit Hall
10:15 AM11:00 AM

From Molecule to Market: How AI Is Reshaping Drug Discovery

This panel brings together pharma leaders and AI scientists to discuss the evolving drug discovery pipeline. Learn how machine learning is being used to identify new targets, design molecules, and simulate trials—all in…

Patrick Loerch (Gilead Sciences), Aman Thukral (AbbVie), Tala Fakhouri (Parexel), Bryson Tombridge (Tono Health), Laura Boykin Okalebo (Nebius)
Titian Ballroom 2304
  • Healthcare: Life Sciences & Biotech
10:15 AM11:00 AM

Governing the Autonomous: Risk Management for Agentic AI

As artificial intelligence evolves from providing recommendations to taking autonomous actions, the enterprise governance paradigm must fundamentally shift. This panel explores how organizations can build robust…

Nereida Parks (Olympus Corporation), Navrina Singh (Credo AI), Harry McCracken (Fast Company), Gabriel Tinoco (Openlayer), Darren Cambridge (University of Maryland)
Lando Ballroom 4203
  • Oversight: AI Explainability Governance & Model Risk
10:15 AM11:00 AM

How Generative Models Are Built and Deployed

Hear from builders and users some of the most powerful generative systems in use today. Panelists will explore the engineering choices behind LLMs, diffusion models, and hybrid architectures, along with lessons from…

William Tran (Meta), Johannes Plambeck (Pfizer Inc.), Shane Snider (DCK), Philip Kiely (Baseten)
Veronese Ballroom 2504
  • Generative AI (technical)
10:15 AM11:00 AM

Leading the AI Transformation

How are today’s CIOs and CAIOs driving real AI value? In this executive panel, top enterprise tech leaders will share practical strategies for AI implementation—from aligning with business goals to managing…

Alan Hester (Nividous), Tim Martin (Audible), Amy Ritualo (U.S. Department of State), Grace DeGraaf (Harvard Business School), Josh Noble (Tray.ai)
Palazzo Ballroom G
  • CAIO CIO & It Leaders
10:15 AM11:00 AM

Leveraging AI Agents to Drive Value: Success Stories from Leading Organizations

Explore how pioneering organizations across sectors such as finance, healthcare, retail, and manufacturing are achieving significant business outcomes with advanced AI agents. Industry executives and technology experts…

Kevin Lee (NiCE), Michelle Hawley (VKTR), Nitesh Soni (Sanofi), Anuj Maheshwari (CVS Health), Chris Han (ThinkingAI)
Venetian Ballroom D
  • AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
10:15 AM10:55 AM

Recommendation Systems: A Practical Framework for Building at Scale

Ever wondered how Netflix knows what you'll watch next, or how YouTube always seems to know your taste before you do?Recommendation systems now sit at the heart of how users discover content, products, and decisions…

Prashanth Vinod (JPMorgan Chase & Co)
Bellini Ballroom 2102
  • Recommendation & Ranking Systems (technical)
10:15 AM11:00 AM

Redesigning the Classroom: What AI Means for Learning

From chatbots that coach students to AI that adapts in real-time to learning styles, education is being reinvented. In this panel, educators and edtech leaders explore how AI is improving learning outcomes while also…

Anjelina Belakovskaia (Arizona State University, Thunderbird School of Global Management), Lin Zhou (Texas Tech University), Jason Baker (Regent University), Gregory Triplett, Jr. (Saint Louis University)
Palazzo Ballroom E
  • Education
10:15 AM11:00 AM

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Use Cases: Unlocking Business Value with Smarter AI

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is emerging as a key enabler of enterprise-grade generative AI, bridging the gap between static models and dynamic, real-time data. This use- case oriented panel will explore how…

Richa Singh (Lexington Partners), Ameen Kazerouni (Purpose Brands), Chirag Shah (University of Washington), Nicholas Ginsberg (Morgan Stanley), Joe Gaska (GRAX)
Titian Ballroom 2306
  • Enterprise Unlocks: RAG & Proprietary Data
10:15 AM10:35 AM

Scalable Agent Alignment with GRPO: Methods, Reward Design and Training Dynamics

Scalable Agent Alignment with GRPO: Methods, Reward Design, and Training Dynamics presents a practical framework for fine-tuning agents with Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) to reliably match domain-specific…

Ashish Bansal (The Vanguard Group)
Venetian Ballroom E
  • AI Agents (technical)
10:15 AM11:00 AM

Scaling AI Systems with Modern AIOps Platforms

Join platform engineers, AIOps leaders, and cutting edge technologists as they share what it takes to scale ML in production. Panelists will discuss real-world stacks, vendor integrations, and the tooling behind…

Keyao An (OpenAI), Ronak Nathani (LinkedIn), Nicolas Bievre (Meta), Ankita Chaudhari (Bloomberg)
Bellini Ballroom 2104
  • Agentic Ops & Platforms (technical)
10:15 AM11:00 AM

Scaling Smart: How AI Is Driving Marketing Efficiency and Precision

AI is enabling marketing teams to do more with less—faster. This panel features leaders who are using AI to automate creative generation, tailor campaigns, and boost conversion rates with data-driven precision. We’ll…

Marjorie McCarthy (ISS North America), Onney Crawley (Goodwill Industries International), Kathleen Booth (Sequel.io), Christy Borrowman (Colgate-Palmolive), Monica Ho (SOCi)
Marcello Ballroom 4403
  • Marketing & Growth
10:15 AM11:00 AM

Scaling Strategies: From Initial Pilots to Enterprise-Wide Adoption

Scaling AI agents from initial pilots to full enterprise adoption requires deliberate strategy and careful execution. This panel will highlight successful approaches organizations have taken to expand AI agent…

Raghu Vatte (AISquared), Reena Solomon (Airbus), Seth Siegler (eXp Realty), Alina Rivilis (Fairstone Bank of Canada), Tracy St.Dic (Zapier)
Venetian Ballroom H
  • AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
10:15 AM11:00 AM

Strategic Foundations: Aligning AI Agents with Enterprise Goals

In order to reach the end goal of deploying AI agents at scale, organizations must first align clear business objectives with technological capabilities. This cross-industry panel dives into the structural and strategic…

Rob DiNuzzo (Nimble), Tarun Sood (American Century Investments), Amit Patel (Plug and Play Ventures), Mark Bloom (Gallagher), Geetesh Iyer (WisdomAI)
Venetian Ballroom F
  • AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
10:15 AM11:05 AM

The AI Education-Industry Pact: Ethics, Impact & What's Next [RSVP REQUIRED]

This event requires an RSVP; to attend, submit form hereWhat happens when education and industry stop chasing AI trends and start shaping AI's future-together?The next wave of AI adoption is transforming education and…

Miguel Kanto (University of Arizona Global Campus), Karen Ivy (University of Arizona Global Campus), Tahereh Daneshi (University of Arizona Global Campus), Michael Hayden (University of Arizona Global Campus), Pete Limon (University of Arizona Global Campus), Carl Marquez (University of Arizona Global Campus)
Room 305
  • Roundtable
10:15 AM11:00 AM

The AI-Enabled Lawyer: From Research to Risk Management

This panel features in-house counsel,law firm leaders, and AI leaders using AI to reduce time spent on low-value work and increase precision in high-stakes matters. Attend this panel to understand how the cutting edge…

John Buyers (CMS LLP), Blake Rooney (Wells Fargo), Eric Tan (Goodwin), Hamid Kohan (Practice AI), Emily Drazan Chapman (DragonGC)
Delfino Ballroom 4103
  • Legal
10:15 AM11:00 AM

The State of AI Research — Breakthroughs, Gaps, and the Road Ahead

AI research is moving at unprecedented speed, with advances in large language models, multimodal systems, world models, and agent architectures reshaping what’s possible. Yet key challenges remain unsolved: reasoning…

Jason Hiner (The Deep View), Alan Brown (Boeing Research and Technology), Michael Caiola (Credence), James OKane (Arcova), Pedro Alves (Thoth AI), Ravi Ummadisetti (Toyota North America)
Venetian Ballroom A
  • AI Research Summit (technical)
10:15 AM11:00 AM

The Talent Blueprint: Architecting the Future Workforce

Building an AI-powered company requires more than just buying software; it requires a complete rethink of how talent is deployed. This panel features HR visionaries and operational leaders discussing the "top-down"…

Aisha Lawrey (Johns Hopkins University, Whiting School of Engineering), Kristin Stoller (Fortune), Kathleen Walch (Project Management Institute), Paul LaForge (Western Governors University), Lilian Ajayi Ore (Columbia University)
Titian Ballroom 2302
  • Workforce Upskilling For The AI Era
10:15 AM11:00 AM

Where AI Is Headed

As capital floods into AI, venture capitalists are placing high-stakes bets on the future of intelligence—backing not just models, but infrastructure, vertical applications, agent frameworks, and entirely new paradigms…

Ashlyn Lackey (Prudential), Elizabeth Stockton (Overlap Holdings), Lior Mallul (Battery Ventures), Ray Wu (Alumni Ventures), Claire Xie (Women in AI)
Venetian Ballroom G
  • AI Startups & VCs
11:05 AM
11:05 AM11:25 AM

A New System of Trust: The Control Plane for Agentic Systems

AI agents are operating inside critical business workflows, making decisions, taking actions, and interacting with enterprise systems with increasing autonomy. But the infrastructure enterprises rely on was never…

Krishna Gade (Fiddler AI)
Bellini Ballroom 2104
  • Agentic Ops & Platforms (technical)
11:05 AM11:25 AM

Adaptive Recommendations at Scale Using AI

As recommendation systems evolve from batch-based personalization to adaptive, real-time discovery engines, infrastructure must transform too. This talk draws from large-scale experiences powering billions of…

Mallika Rao (Zocdoc (ex-Netflix, Walmart, Twitter))
Bellini Ballroom 2102
  • Recommendation & Ranking Systems (technical)
11:05 AM11:25 AM

Beyond Adoption: Building AI Judgment in the Flow of Work

Most enterprises can tell you whether their people use AI — but not whether their people are getting any better at it. That gap matters more than it sounds: recent field studies show that fast adoption can quietly erode…

Sharahn McClung (Nebius Academy)
Titian Ballroom 2302
  • Workforce Upskilling For The AI Era
11:05 AM11:25 AM

Building Your AI Co-Creator: Helping Educators Stress Less & Reach Every Student, Every Day

Exhausted by the lack of planning time and the pressure to meet every student's needs? It’s time to reframe AI from a feared competitor to a fatigue-reducing co-creator. This session cuts through the tech hype to give…

Maggie Mosher (University of Kansas)
Palazzo Ballroom E
  • Education
11:05 AM11:15 AM

Dark Factories Ship Slop: Scale Human + AI Craft with Lights On

Organizations are racing to scale AI output through automation, but without visibility and control, that speed becomes a dark factory: more throughput at the cost of quality, context, and product differentiation. In…

Zak Mandhro (Lit Factory)
Venetian Ballroom G
  • AI Startups & VCs
11:05 AM11:25 AM

Foundation-first Approach with Agentic AI

Businesses have a mandate to incorporate AI and do it now - but no one wants to commit to a stack that's obsolete in three years. Agents are the headline, but they are a means, not an end. Agents are the fastest…

Harry Murphy (Siemens - Intelligence Center X)
Venetian Ballroom F
  • AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
11:05 AM11:25 AM

From Pilot to Profit: A Chief Commercial Officer's Take On What AI Looks Like When It Works

What separates the companies compounding AI returns from the ones still waiting for ROI to arrive?Drawing on my experience as Chief Commercial Officer across Fortune 500 CPG companies and mid-size growth companies—…

Santhi Ramesh (Pampered Chef)
Palazzo Ballroom L
  • Beginner Start Here
11:05 AM11:25 AM

From Prompts to Playbooks: Turning Your Best Lawyers' Judgment into AI Workflows

Most law firms have bought the AI tools; far fewer have turned them into repeatable process efficiency. Jackson Walker Chief Innovation Officer Greg Lambert shares the firm's working method: extract an experienced…

Greg Lambert (Jackson Walker LLP)
Delfino Ballroom 4103
  • Legal
11:05 AM11:25 AM

From Readiness to Agentic Execution

Many enterprises are excited about agentic AI, but most are not yet ready for autonomous or semi-autonomous workflows. The real challenge is not simply building a chatbot, deploying a model, or creating a single AI…

Hadis Bergman (Burns & McDonnell)
Delfino Ballroom 4104
  • Infrastructure: AI Agents
11:05 AM11:25 AM

How to Eliminate Revenue Blindspots with Agentforce Sales, Powered By Momentum

Every customer interaction holds a revenue signal. Most never get captured in your CRM. Agentforce Sales, powered by Momentum, changes that — automatically capturing and analyzing every call, email, meeting, SMS, and…

Jordan Nettles (Salesforce), Ashley Blackwell-Guerra (Salesforce)
Venetian Ballroom D
  • AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
11:05 AM11:25 AM

ONTEX: Ontology for Tactical Execution — Autonomous Decision-Making Through Agent-Based C.A.R.E. Loop

AI is becoming smarter, yet enterprise decisions remain fragmented. What if the missing ingredient isn't another model, but a shared understanding of the enterprise? This session explores how ontologies can transform…

Sada Narayanappa (Lockheed Martin)
Palazzo Ballroom B
  • Aerospace & Defense
11:05 AM11:25 AM

Patients are Waiting: The AI Productivity Paradox

Why does it still take so long to get life-changing treatments to patients? We know it’s not a lack of data or tools.In this session, I’ll talk about what’s actually slowing us down and why most solutions haven’t fixed…

Kris Kaneta (Norstella)
Titian Ballroom 2304
  • Healthcare: Life Sciences & Biotech
11:05 AM11:25 AM

Presentation by Nataliya Kosmyna, MIT

Nataliya Kosmyna (MIT Media Lab)
Venetian Ballroom A
  • AI Research Summit (technical)
11:05 AM11:25 AM

Presentation by UnifyApps: Join the 5%: What Gets Enterprise AI to Production in Weeks

Why do nearly 95% of enterprise AI initiatives stall in the pilot phase despite widespread adoption? The bottleneck is not the model itself, but a pre-AI architecture that bolts intelligence onto fragmented systems and…

Waseem Bhatti (UnifyApps)
Venetian Ballroom H
  • AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
11:05 AM11:25 AM

TCO of going Open Weight: A Framework

Open-weight models have closed the performance gap. GLM 5.2, Gemma 4, Kimi K3 and others now hold up against closed frontier alternatives on real benchmarks. What's left unanswered is cost: what it actually takes to run…

Ansh Singh (Simplismart)
Palazzo Ballroom M
  • Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
11:05 AM11:25 AM

The AI Decisions Gap: Why Model Explainability is Only Half the Battle

When a regulator, a court, or an inspector general reviews an AI-driven decision, the first question is never "how does your model work" - it's "who decided? what did they know? and can you prove it?" Model…

Todd Barr (Axonis)
Lando Ballroom 4203
  • Oversight: AI Explainability Governance & Model Risk
11:05 AM11:25 AM

The Dumbest Questions People Still Ask About Securing AI

Are you still asking "can we jailbreak the model?" when the real vulnerabilities are already inside your pipeline?Security teams keep treating AI risk like a chatbot parlor trick instead of identifying the gap where…

Liv Porter (Gray Swan)
Veronese Ballroom 2504
  • Generative AI (technical)
11:05 AM11:25 AM

The Future of RAG: Real-Time, Multimodal, and Personalized

In this session, we’ll explore what it really takes to build scalable multimodal and personalized RAG systems for real-world applications. How do you search across images and text simultaneously to surface the most…

Bonnie Chase (Vespa.ai), Harini Gopalakrishnan (Vespa.ai)
Titian Ballroom 2306
  • Enterprise Unlocks: RAG & Proprietary Data
11:05 AM11:25 AM

The Hidden Risks of AI Coding Tools

Your IDE now executes instructions it finds in a README, on your behalf, with your keys. Coding agents run with your full permissions and still can't separate your instructions from the text they read, so prompt…

Jacob Rideout (HiddenLayer)
Marcello Ballroom 4404
  • Cybersecurity
11:05 AM11:25 AM

The Hidden Tax on AI: How Connectivity and Identity Unlock Real AI ROI

What if the biggest barrier to successful AI adoption isn’t your model but the infrastructure around it?Most companies are not trying to train their own models. They are trying to integrate AI into real products…

Remy Guercio (Tailscale)
Palazzo Ballroom G
  • CAIO CIO & It Leaders
11:05 AM11:25 AM

The Missing Half of AI Coding

AI coding agents have solved the easy problem. The hard part, Verification, remains broken. In this talk I'll introduce the Code World Model: the infrastructure layer that lets AI agents simulate production before a…

Gal Vered (Checksum)
Lando Ballroom 4204
  • Software Engineering
11:05 AM11:25 AM

The ROI Illusion: Why Most Enterprise AI Isn’t Paying Off

Most companies aren't failing at AI because the technology is weak. They're failing because they're automating workflows that were never designed for AI in the first place, and calling it transformation. Gururaj Bhat…

Guru Bhat (Evalueserve)
Palazzo Ballroom D
  • Oversight: AI ROI
11:05 AM11:25 AM

Winning the AI Agents Edge Race

AI agents are advancing from prototypes to production, yet large organizations often face challenges such as fragmented workflows, noisy context, tool failures, cost constraints, and inadequate evaluation. This talk…

David Chun (Columbia University)
Venetian Ballroom E
  • AI Agents (technical)
11:05 AM11:25 AM

Your Martech Stack Doesn't Need Another Dashboard. It Needs a Nervous System.

The average enterprise marketing team now manages roughly 90 marketing cloud services, and yet campaign velocity and attribution haven't meaningfully improved in a decade. The problem isn't a lack of data or tooling…

Vivek Vaidya (Kana)
Marcello Ballroom 4403
  • Marketing & Growth
11:30 AM
11:30 AM11:50 AM

AI as an Operating System, Not a Tool: How Operators Drive ROI

The real barrier to AI ROI is not intelligence; it is decision latency. Most organizations already have the signals, the data, and smart people, but value leaks while information moves through handoffs, reports, and…

Sriram Ganapathy (tarte cosmetics)
Palazzo Ballroom D
  • Oversight: AI ROI
11:30 AM11:50 AM

Applying AI in Performance Marketing: Practical Lessons from Operating at Scale

In this fireside chat, James Croom and Wesley ter Haar will share practical perspectives on applying AI in performance marketing within a large, globally distributed marketing organization. The discussion will focus on…

Kristin Stoller (Fortune), Wesley Haar (Monks), James Croom (Google)
Marcello Ballroom 4403
  • Marketing & Growth
11:30 AM11:50 AM

Beyond the IDE: Agent-Based Engineering 101

If you're already using Cursor or Claude Code, you're closer to agent-based engineering than you think. This talk is a practical on-ramp for engineers ready to move past IDE autocomplete and into agents that live in…

Justin Johnson (Renaissance Benefits)
Lando Ballroom 4204
  • Software Engineering
11:30 AM11:50 AM

Do your AI Agents dream of vibe coded sheep? Managing durable agent memories

The systems around agents make them smarter and better equipped, with systems like memory and session management. Learn how to build an AI system that self-improves by generating, storing, and improving agent…

Jason Davenport (Google)
Venetian Ballroom E
  • AI Agents (technical)
11:30 AM11:40 AM

Everyone Is Building AI. Who is Rebuilding Their Business? The Three Waves of AI Transformation and Where Value Moves

Everyone is racing to build AI. Far fewer organizations are preparing for how AI will reshape where value is created and who captures it.Most companies are still focused on AI's first wave: improving productivity. But…

Brandon Barnett (Trigate Coaching)
Venetian Ballroom G
  • AI Startups & VCs
11:30 AM12:20 PM

From AI Curiosity to Readiness: Building AI Solutions That Matter for Nonprofits & Small Businesses [RSVP REQUIRED]

AI is no longer an experiment - the question is how small organizations turn adoption into lasting value. In a national survey of nearly 500 U.S. small-business decision-makers, 74% expressed interest in using AI or…

Thomasina Anane (Alliance of Community Health Plans (ACHP))
Room 305
  • Roundtable
11:30 AM11:50 AM

Generative AI for Grocery E-Commerce

In this talk, I will illustrate how Instacart leverages multimodal Large Language Models (VLMs) to transform grocery e-commerce by solving complex challenges in catalog intelligence and fulfillment. Traditional…

Pradeep Karuturi (Instacart)
Veronese Ballroom 2504
  • Generative AI (technical)
11:30 AM12:10 PM

How Journalists Used AI to Cover the Epstein Files

You've heard about the Epstein Files, but do you know how reporters used AI to cover the story? Three CNN journalists will explain how they used AI to analyze 3.5 million documents from the Jeffrey Epstein…

Marshall Cohen (CNN), Matt Stiles (CNN), Ryan Struyk (CNN)
Palazzo Ballroom M
  • Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
11:30 AM11:50 AM

Human Advantage: Building an AI-Ready Workforce Together

In the AI era, the advantage will go to universities, employers, and workers that can develop capabilities faster than their peers.As AI reshapes everyday work, the challenge is no longer just adoption. It is aligning…

Edmund Clark (The California State University)
Titian Ballroom 2302
  • Workforce Upskilling For The AI Era
11:30 AM11:50 AM

Human-Centric Engineering: Moving From What's Possible to What's Beneficial

How does human-centric engineering bridge the gap between technical delivery and user confidence? Implementing trustworthy AI practices is the right thing to do - and a market differentiator that accelerates adoption…

Pam Snively (TELUS)
Lando Ballroom 4203
  • Oversight: AI Explainability Governance & Model Risk
11:30 AM11:50 AM

Inside the Olympic AI Agenda: Blueprint for Transformation

What happens when AI not only analyses sport—but actively shapes it in real time?/In this talk, I will show how AI is becoming a system-level force across the Olympic Movement—from protecting athletes against online…

Alejandro Merino-Madrid (International Olympic Committee (IOC))
Venetian Ballroom D
  • AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
11:30 AM12:10 PM

Joint LLM-Infused Embeddings for Explainable Financial Recommendations at Scale

Traditional recommendation systems such as collaborative filtering and market-signal models often fail to capture investor intent and rarely provide meaningful explanations. In this talk, I will present a financial…

Alejandro Correa Bahnsen (Grupo Bursátil Mexicano)
Bellini Ballroom 2102
  • Recommendation & Ranking Systems (technical)
11:30 AM12:10 PM

Leveraging Agentic AI for Vulnerability Remediation

We have more than enough tools to find cybersecurity vulnerabilities; we need help fixing all the things we find.And security teams don't fix vulnerabilities, we find vulnerabilities. We've automated how to find…

Rick Doten (AiSuNe)
Marcello Ballroom 4404
  • Cybersecurity
11:30 AM11:50 AM

Measuring ROI and AI Innovation Impact: Success Stories

When generative AI emerged, many law firms viewed it as an existential threat to the traditional practice of law. DLA Piper chose a different path. This session tells the story of how the firm transformed AI from a…

Stephen Henn (DLA Piper LLP)
Delfino Ballroom 4103
  • Legal
11:30 AM12:15 PM

RAG Tools and Solutions: Building Effective Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become a cornerstone for enterprise AI, enabling models to ground outputs in proprietary knowledge and deliver trustworthy results. This panel will break down the critical…

Sam Newnam (Secuvy), Shubham Shukla (Nordstrom), Selim Mimaroglu (Fannie Mae), Luis Romero-Sevilla (Orbis Operations), Mark Menger (F5)
Titian Ballroom 2306
  • Enterprise Unlocks: RAG & Proprietary Data
11:30 AM11:50 AM

Rewriting Student Records Through Blockchain Innovation

What if student records were not just files but living, intelligent credentials that opened doors the moment learning happened? In this session, I will reveal how blockchain is poised to dismantle outdated transcript…

Pamela Luckett (Dallas College)
Palazzo Ballroom E
  • Education
11:30 AM11:50 AM

Right-sized Infrastructure for Agentic AI Workloads

Overbuilding wastes budget. Underbuilding stalls your roadmap. This session breaks down how the modular architecture of the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA lets developers start right-sized and expand compute, storage, or…

Sama Bali (NVIDIA), Robert Hartman (Dell Technologies)
Delfino Ballroom 4104
  • Infrastructure: AI Agents
11:30 AM11:50 AM

Scaling Enterprise AI in Asset Management

AI is delivering on its promise, and leading enterprises are already on the journey to scale its impact. As companies move beyond siloed pilots, the focus shifts to integrating AI into how the business actually runs…

Lily Li (Franklin Templeton)
Venetian Ballroom F
  • AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
11:30 AM11:50 AM

Shortcutting Time and Depth in Diffusion Models for Faster Agentic Applications

Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful alternative to conventional autoregressive LLMs, offering fast parallel token generation, built-in quality control, and native multi-modality support. However, their iterative…

Denis Gudovskiy (Panasonic North America)
Venetian Ballroom A
  • AI Research Summit (technical)
11:30 AM11:50 AM

The Art of the Possible, AI Enabled Unmanned Systems

AI isn't a feature you bolt onto a drone. It's the decision that determines whether your platform can operate independently, even when connectivity is lost and there's no one at the controls. In this session, I'll walk…

Sammy Hamilton (Heven Aerotech)
Palazzo Ballroom B
  • Aerospace & Defense
11:30 AM11:50 AM

The Death of the App: Zero-App Interfaces & the Rise of AI-Orchestrated Mobility Experiences

For twenty years digital experiences were built around a single assumption: users open an app, navigate menus, and adapt to product’s logic. That assumption is collapsing. The next interface is not a screen -- it’s…

Armin Prommersberger (HARMAN International)
Palazzo Ballroom G
  • CAIO CIO & It Leaders
11:30 AM12:10 PM

Transformation of Oncology R&D through AI

The AI transformation of drug design and clinical development is already under way.Multimodal foundation models and increasingly capable agents are increasing R&D capabilities at a scale that were inconceivable not a…

Jorge Reis-Filho (AstraZeneca)
Titian Ballroom 2304
  • Healthcare: Life Sciences & Biotech
11:30 AM11:50 AM

Under the Hood: A Unified ML Framework Driving AI Experiences in Mercedes-Benz Vehicles

Managing AI at Mercedes-Benz scale requires a seamless bridge between data and deployment. This session breaks down our unified ML framework: a single ecosystem orchestrating data pipelines, model training, fine-tuning…

Frankie Cancino (Mercedes-Benz Research & Development)
Bellini Ballroom 2104
  • Agentic Ops & Platforms (technical)
11:30 AM12:10 PM

What Happens to the Enterprise When Intelligence Becomes Abundant?

Most discussions about AI agents focus on deployment, scale, and governance. This session explores a different question: what happens if they succeed? Modern organizations were built on a simple premise: bringing…

Erin Boyd (The AES Corporation)
Venetian Ballroom H
  • AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
11:30 AM12:10 PM

Where Do Most Organizations and People Go Wrong With AI, What Are the Most Common Mistakes, and How to Get Ahead

We explore where most organizations and people go wrong with AI, what are the most common mistakes, and how to get ahead

Miguel Paredes (Kearney / AI Fund)
Palazzo Ballroom L
  • Beginner Start Here
11:55 AM
11:55 AM12:15 PM

AI Blind Spots: Why Ungoverned AI is Your Biggest Enterprise Risk - How to Mitigate it?

The rise of autonomous AI agents is transforming business, but unexplained, disconnected deployments are creating chaos. These AI blindspots lead to runaway costs, compliance failures, and severe data vulnerabilities…

Nitin Gupta (YASH Technologies)
Lando Ballroom 4203
  • Oversight: AI Explainability Governance & Model Risk
11:55 AM12:15 PM

AI for the Physical World: How Intelligent Systems Create Value Where Work Happens

AI’s next wave will be defined not by better answers, but by better decisions and execution in the places where physical work actually happens, including trucks, branches and stores, facilities, and equipment rooms…

Danny Rodriguez (CoolSys)
Palazzo Ballroom G
  • CAIO CIO & It Leaders
11:55 AM12:15 PM

AI Is Winning the Race. Losing the Room.

The AI race continues. Market leaders are pushing the boundaries, while everyone else is trying to keep up by developing, integrating, and selling their own AI solutions. The problem is: product capabilities have moved…

Laura Nespoli (Article Group)
Marcello Ballroom 4403
  • Marketing & Growth
11:55 AM12:15 PM

Autonomous Driving Humanoid Robot

Let me ask you a question first: what if a robot could think like a human and drive autonomously on real roads?I will explain an Autonomous Driving Humanoid Robot, where AI and robotics are integrated to combine…

Sungho Kim (Hyundai Global Software Center)
Venetian Ballroom A
  • AI Research Summit (technical)
11:55 AM12:15 PM

Driving ROI and Operational Excellence in Insurance using AI

What does it take to move artificial intelligence beyond experimentation and turn it into a trusted engine for operational excellence in a highly regulated insurance environment? This talk will explain how insurers can…

Douglas Benalan (CURE Insurance), Khyati Sharma (CURE Insurance)
Delfino Ballroom 4103
  • Insurance
11:55 AM12:15 PM

Fireside Chat with Steve Preston, Goodwill

As AI transforms industries, organizations, and jobs, what can individuals do to stay relevant, and what role should companies play in ensuring employees are AI literate? A recent report from Goodwill Industries…

Adam Mendler (Thirty Minute Mentors), Steve Preston (Goodwill Industries International)
Titian Ballroom 2302
  • Workforce Upskilling For The AI Era
11:55 AM12:45 PM

From Ideation to Enterprise Scale: How Corporates Invest, Partner, & Position for Long-Term Success [RSVP REQUIRED]

As AI adoption accelerates, no company can build the future alone. This roundtable will examine how corporations are leveraging investments, startup partnerships, and ecosystem collaboration to create adaptable…

Ashlyn Lackey (Prudential)
Room 310
  • Roundtable
11:55 AM12:15 PM

From Reality to Scale: Agentic AI Operations & Platforms for Industrial Outcomes

What if AI in manufacturing moved beyond insights to continuously driving decisions and actions at scale?This session explores how agentic AI and data orchestration platforms are enabling operations that sense, decide…

Bryan Albrecht (Siemens Digital Industries), Caleb Eastman (Siemens Digital Industries)
Bellini Ballroom 2104
  • Agentic Ops & Platforms (technical)
11:55 AM12:15 PM

The 90% Problem: How Universities Are Missing the Real AI Innovation Opportunity

AI education is typically aimed at the 1% building models and the 9% designing strategy. The real entrepreneurial opportunity — and the real student workforce gap — is in the 90%. This session shares how USC is building…

Mike Lee (University of Southern California)
Palazzo Ballroom E
  • Education
11:55 AM12:15 PM

The AI Factory: How Frictionless AI Governance Powers Faster, Safer AI Delivery

Enterprises feel stuck between two AI extremes: Wild West innovation that overruns budgets, or rigid processes that strangle innovation. What if a new path turned AI into a scalable "factory" that delivers use cases to…

Shone Mousseiri (Manulife), Dave Trier (ModelOp)
Palazzo Ballroom D
  • Oversight: AI ROI
11:55 AM12:35 PM

The AI-Native SDLC: How AI Is Rewriting Software Engineering

The software development lifecycle is being transformed faster than at any point in its history—and AI is at the center of that change. This talk explores how AI is reshaping every phase of the SDLC, from requirements…

Charles Hudson (Johnson Control Fire Solutions)
Lando Ballroom 4204
  • Software Engineering
11:55 AM12:15 PM

The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble

What if everybody was wrong about AI?Ed Zitron walks you through how the entire tech industry got diverted by generative AI, burning over a trillion dollars on a dead-end technology, the broken economics of LLMs, the…

Ed Zitron (EZPR)
Palazzo Ballroom B
  • Social Impact Of AI
11:55 AM12:15 PM

The Missing Ingredient in Agentic AI Strategy: Understanding How Work Actually Happens

Organizations are under immense pressure to move quickly on AI. Leaders are told to invest aggressively, experiment broadly, and deploy agents across the enterprise. But without a clear understanding of their business…

Tuhin Chakraborty (Mimica)
Venetian Ballroom F
  • AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
11:55 AM12:15 PM

Token Efficiency Frontier and Diffusion LLMs

As frontier models permeate organizations, the economics of these models beg the question: should enterprises pay for the smartest model for every workflow? In practice, AI-native enterprises make thousands of invisible…

Aditya Grover (Inception)
Delfino Ballroom 4104
  • Infrastructure: AI Agents
11:55 AM12:15 PM

Voice AI Insights: Benchmarks & Customer Successes

Regal has driven over 500 million calls for hundreds of customers, across both inbound and outbound use cases. In this session, Lex Sivakumar, VP of Growth at Regal, will share what that data actually reveals about…

Lex Sivakumar (Regal AI)
Venetian Ballroom D
  • AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
11:55 AM12:05 PM

We Passed the Audit. We Failed the Agent Red Team. The Gap Killing AI Programs in Regulated Industries

A financial services customer had every checkbox: SOC 2, model cards, an AI governance committee, the works. Their agent failed our red team in eleven minutes. The talk will unpack the widening gap between AI compliance…

Sahil Agarwal (Enkrypt AI)
Venetian Ballroom G
  • AI Startups & VCs
12:20 PM
12:20 PM12:40 PM

Agentic Governance Framework As the Operating System of the AI-Native Economy

What if autonomy itself became a measurable, revenue-generating asset rather than an experimental capability? The talk will illustrate how agentic capital emerges when enterprises shift to AI-native operating models and…

Wade Moss (Sentiex Labs)
Venetian Ballroom F
  • AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
12:20 PM12:40 PM

AI in Pharma Market Access & Pricing: Status Quo and Outlook

Pharmaceutical drug pricing has become a critical global issue, with significant implications for healthcare access, affordability, and equity. Despite its importance, AI applications in pharmaceutical drug pricing are…

Marco Rauland (Merck KGaA)
Titian Ballroom 2304
  • Healthcare: Life Sciences & Biotech
12:20 PM12:40 PM

Artificial Hivemind: The Open-Ended Homogeneity of Language Models (and Beyond)

Language models (LMs) often struggle to generate diverse, human-like creative content, raising concerns about the long-term homogenization of human thought through repeated exposure to similar outputs. Yet scalable…

Liwei Jiang (University of Washington)
Venetian Ballroom A
  • AI Research Summit (technical)
12:20 PM12:40 PM

Beyond the Platitude, Operationalizing Responsible AI Through Governance Infrastructure

Every organization claims a commitment to Responsible AI but in a regulatory vacuum, that commitment rarely gets tested. This session moves past principles into practice: a five-pillar governance framework and…

Mae-Beth Magno (Boeing)
Lando Ballroom 4203
  • Oversight: AI Explainability Governance & Model Risk
12:20 PM12:30 PM

Fluence GPU Cluster Auctions: Solving the Pricing Problem

Reserved GPU capacity has become one of the biggest bottlenecks for AI teams, yet accessing it still relies on slow, opaque negotiations. This session examines why the market needs a better pricing mechanism and how…

Justin Jose (Fluence)
Venetian Ballroom G
  • AI Startups & VCs
12:20 PM12:40 PM

From Demo to Millions: The Observability Loop Behind Lenskart's Voice, Video & AR Agents

Building a compelling AI demo is easy; making it reliable for millions of customers is the real challenge. I will share how we built an observability loop at Lenskart to capture real-world interactions, uncover…

Tusheet Shrivastava (GeoIQ - A Lenskart Company)
Bellini Ballroom 2104
  • Agentic Ops & Platforms (technical)
12:20 PM12:40 PM

How AI Empowers a 4-Person Nonprofit to Perform Like a Team of 40

How can a team of four use AI to scale nationwide impact like an organization ten times its size?For 17 years, I have led AmpleHarvest.org, an award-winning nonprofit fighting hunger and food waste by connecting…

Gary Oppenheimer (AmpleHarvest.org, Inc.)
Venetian Ballroom D
  • AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
12:20 PM12:40 PM

How to Address Security and Governance Challenges for Coding Agents

The widespread adoption of coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex has raised significant security and governance concerns for enterprise IT organizations. These concerns are becoming more urgent as coding agents…

Sheng Liang (Obot AI)
Palazzo Ballroom M
  • Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
12:20 PM12:40 PM

Insurance Industry's AI Value Problem: The Reality of Unit Economics, Reliability and Auditability

What happens when 'Agentic Hype' meets 'Insurance Reality'? I will explain why the “Agentic Everything” mindset breaks down in insurance where reliability, cost effectiveness and compliance matter. Attendees will leave…

Sai Maddineni (FM Global)
Delfino Ballroom 4103
  • Insurance
12:20 PM12:40 PM

Powering Agents with Search: Creating Interactive Vector Pipelines with SQL

How do you keep search indexes and vector databases fresh enough for an agent to act on?Search has become the predominant way agents see the world. But keeping vectors and attributes up to date is complex, forcing teams…

Seth Wiesman (Materialize)
Venetian Ballroom E
  • AI Agents (technical)
12:20 PM12:40 PM

Presentation by John Thompson, University of Michigan

GenAI technology is not showing any signs of slowing down, in fact, the entire area seems to be accelerating. Innovations are being developed and delivered at impressive speeds. Enterprises and developers alike are…

John Thompson (University of Michigan)
Palazzo Ballroom L
  • Beginner Start Here
12:20 PM12:40 PM

Presentation by Sysdig: Headless Security: Cloud Defense for an AI-Speed World

What if the biggest obstacle to modern cloud defense isn't your tooling or your team, it's the screen in between?As adversaries automate reconnaissance and exploitation with AI, defenders are still context-switching…

Eric Carter (Sysdig, Inc.)
Marcello Ballroom 4404
  • Cybersecurity
12:20 PM12:40 PM

Solving Product Matching with AI: Query Understanding, Hybrid Retrieval, and Multi-Stage Ranking

How can you achieve exact product matches when generic semantic search falls short? I will explain why enterprise needs, like brand-aware substitutions and precise unit handling, require AI that goes beyond simple…

Sidharth Thapar (Staples Inc.)
Bellini Ballroom 2102
  • Recommendation & Ranking Systems (technical)
12:20 PM12:40 PM

Stop Wasting GPUs: Building a Global Compute Cache for AI Inference

With the explosion of AI models, keeping every model constantly loaded across every global region is no longer viable: it leaves expensive GPUs sitting idle, plummets utilization, and skyrockets costs. Conversely…

Lena Hall (Akamai), Sheilah Kirui (Akamai)
Delfino Ballroom 4104
  • Infrastructure: AI Agents
12:20 PM12:40 PM

The Innovative Intersection of the Human Brain, Body, and Technology: Biometric Data Research

What happens when the human brain, body, and AI collide in educational settings? This talk explores how emerging technologies from biometric dashboards to socially assistive robots can support student learning and…

Lisa Dieker (University of Kansas)
Palazzo Ballroom E
  • Education
12:20 PM12:40 PM

The Semantic ID Layer : Rebuilding RecSys

Item embeddings are hitting real limits: embedding tables that dominate the parameter budget, brittle cold start, and representations that force models to memorize instead of generalize. This talk traces the shift to…

Aditya Gautam (Meta)
Veronese Ballroom 2504
  • Generative AI (technical)
12:20 PM12:40 PM

The Software Decision Beyond Build vs. Buy

What if the most consequential AI decision is not which model, tool, or vendor you select, but which software path you commit your organization to for years to come? In my work with enterprise technology leaders, I see…

Olav Laudy (Tavant)
Palazzo Ballroom G
  • CAIO CIO & It Leaders
12:20 PM12:40 PM

The Training Fallacy: “How To” Sessions Won’t Solve Your AI Adoption Problem

If you think the solution to lagging AI adoption is more training sessions, you're unlikely to move the needle. The real shift of the AI era isn't teaching people to use the tools — it's about rethinking what enablement…

Markus Mckay-Fleisch (Smartsheet)
Titian Ballroom 2302
  • Workforce Upskilling For The AI Era
12:20 PM12:40 PM

Tokens, Tools, and Trust: How Agent Gateways Keep Your AI ROI from Going Rogue

As organizations scale agentic AI applications, many struggle to move past the pilot phase due to unpredictable token costs and governance concerns. This session explores the critical role of token management in…

Tuhina Goel (Nutanix)
Palazzo Ballroom D
  • Oversight: AI ROI
12:20 PM12:40 PM

When Intelligence Becomes Cheap: The Economic Consequences of Transformative AI

What happens to the economy when intelligence itself becomes cheap and abundant? The compute powering frontier AI is growing more than fourfold per year, and a distinct "AI economy" is already emerging and expanding at…

Anton Korinek (Anthropic | University of Virginia)
Palazzo Ballroom B
  • Social Impact Of AI
12:20 PM12:40 PM

Where AI Belongs in Marketing: Human Judgment, Real Oversight

Most conversations about AI in marketing start with capability: what it can do, how it can scale the work, and how it can expand capacity. This conversation starts with judgment: where AI sharpens the work, where it…

Taryn Crouthers (Big Spaceship), Andrea Gilman (Early Warning)
Marcello Ballroom 4403
  • Marketing & Growth
12:20 PM12:40 PM

Your Data Isn’t a Moat. Yet.: The Vertical AI Architecture for Decision-grade Production

Every enterprise has proprietary data. Far fewer have an AI system they’d trust to make a decision that carries real consequence. RAG can retrieve the right context, but production takes more than retrieval: governed…

Akash Sharma (Enverus)
Titian Ballroom 2306
  • Enterprise Unlocks: RAG & Proprietary Data
2:10 PM
2:10 PM2:30 PM

[>_] Agents in the Basement

Anyone with a computer can put AI agents to work. This talk shares real experience building supervised agentic workflows for sensitive research and forecasting using open-source tools, local models, and public sources…

Sergio Coronado (NATO Support and Procurement Agency)
Delfino Ballroom 4104
  • Infrastructure: AI Agents
2:10 PM2:50 PM

Agents in the Wild: What It Takes to Build Reliable Agentic AI

In this talk, Michael Giannangeli shares lessons from developing agentic capabilities for Amazon’s Nova foundation models. Drawing on real-world deployments and conversations with customers building complex agent…

Michael Giannangeli (Amazon)
Veronese Ballroom 2504
  • Generative AI (technical)
2:10 PM2:30 PM

Architecting Intelligence: How Voltava is Redesigning the Global Manufacturing Blueprint

How does a Tier 1 manufacturing giant scale its global footprint when the old rules of productivity no longer apply? This fireside chat features the CEO and CTO of Voltava as they discuss their transition from a legacy…

Greggory Garrett (CGS Advisors, LLC), Bruce Smith (Voltava), Tom Swartz (Voltava)
Titian Ballroom 2304
  • Manufacturing
2:10 PM2:20 PM

Beneath the Surface: AI Powered Robotics for Sustainable Deep-Sea Operations

The deep ocean is vital to a sustainable future, yet it remains a technical abyss: no GPS, choked communications, and zero visibility. To operate in this extreme, high-pressure frontier, MOBY Robotics is developing…

Arjun Ramachandran (MOBY Robotics)
Venetian Ballroom G
  • AI Startups & VCs
2:10 PM2:30 PM

Building Self-Evaluating OpenAI Agents for Profiles & Documents

The talk will demonstrate how an OpenAI-powered AI agent can read PDFs and enterprise documents and answer user questions with verifiable, source-grounded accuracy. As organizations struggle to extract insights from…

Vijay Panwar (Panasonic Avionics Corporation)
Lando Ballroom 4204
  • Software Engineering
2:10 PM2:50 PM

Fast, Safe, and Cheap: Making Good AI Design Decisions

The model landscape has exploded — LLMs, SLMs, fine-tuned models, edge inference, classical ML — and the pressure to ship means most teams default to whatever they are familiar with. But fit-for-purpose AI isn't just…

Udit Luthur (Cox Automotive), Jodi Blomberg (Cox Automotive)
Bellini Ballroom 2102
  • Evaluation Observability & Interpretability (technical)
2:10 PM2:30 PM

Fireside Chat with Subra Kumaraswamy, Visa - Cyber Resilience in the Frontier AI Era

As AI transforms business at unprecedented speed, it is also reshaping the cyber threat landscape. Join Visa’s Chief Information Security Officer, Subra Kumaraswamy, for an engaging conversation on how organizations can…

Jason Abbruzzese (NBC News), Subra Kumaraswamy (Visa)
Palazzo Ballroom D
  • Cybersecurity
2:10 PM2:30 PM

From Scattered Signals to Qualified Pipeline

Every company is sitting on pipeline it can't see. The signals that would surface it — a renewal at risk in a finance record, a redline in a legal contract — are scattered across systems that rarely talk to each other…

Sirish Davuluri (Cognizant), Sushant Warikoo (Cognizant)
Marcello Ballroom 4403
  • Marketing & Growth
2:10 PM2:30 PM

Governing AI in Healthcare

The opportunities to improve healthcare with advance AI are immense. Leading healthcare companies have found that they are able to accelerate their adoption of AI by ensuring these systems are safe and well managed…

Ashley Casovan (IAPP), Lara Liss (GE HealthCare)
Lando Ballroom 4203
  • Oversight: AI Explainability Governance & Model Risk
2:10 PM2:55 PM

High-Value Use Cases You Can Deploy Quickly

For many organizations, the fastest way to build momentum with AI is to start with clear, proven use cases that drive measurable value. This panel will take a deep dive into the most common entry points enterprises are…

Youssef Idelcaid (Gilead), Aman Tripathi (Hyatt Hotels Corporation), Fawzi Benmessaoud (Indiana University Timeless Agora Institute), Jessica Davis (USA TODAY Co., Inc.), Keith Gutfreund (Kirk Tech Solutions)
Palazzo Ballroom L
  • Beginner Start Here
2:10 PM2:30 PM

How We Moved 700 Employees from AI Experimentation to Measurable Value

Most organizations struggle to move AI from pilot projects to production. At NBIM, we transitioned 700+ employees across four global offices from experimentation to measurable impact—achieving 20%+ efficiency gains and…

Stian Kirkeberg (Norges Bank Investment Management)
Venetian Ballroom H
  • AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
2:10 PM2:30 PM

Inside Houston Methodist Hospital: Deploying AI in Practice

Many health systems have moved past experimentation. The challenge now is operationalizing AI responsibly at scale. This fireside chat presents a real case study of how Houston Methodist Hospital evaluates, prioritizes…

Joshua Robert (Journal for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (JAIM)), Roberta Schwartz (Houston Methodist Hospital)
Palazzo Ballroom G
  • CAIO CIO & It Leaders
2:10 PM2:30 PM

Latchkey AI Agents: Tales of Unsupervised Decisions and the Case for a New Security Control Plane Strategy

We’ve entered an era where autonomous agents make decisions, execute transactions, and write code—often with limited oversight. Like latchkey kids of a prior generation, they’re resourceful but prone to poor judgment…

Troy Leach (Cloud Security Alliance)
Venetian Ballroom F
  • AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
2:10 PM2:50 PM

Leading the AI University: A Presidents Panel

David Wilson (Morgan State University), Karen Ivy (University of Arizona Global Campus), Melva Wallace (Huston-Tillotson University), Karrie Dixon (North Carolina Central University)
Palazzo Ballroom E
  • Education
2:10 PM2:30 PM

Medical Imaging AI for rare cancer with minimal data

How can we build AI that will help identify cancers so rare that most pathologists cannot diagnose with confidence? 25% of all cancer instances are of a 'rare' type by the National Cancer Institute of NIH. For many of…

Todd Minnigh (Chief of Medical Imaging Innovation - Leidos. University of Pittsburgh, Steering Committee - Computational Pathology and Ai Center of Excellence (CPACE) MediConsult Capital, Advisory board)
Marcello Ballroom 4404
  • Healthcare Care Providers
2:10 PM2:30 PM

Networked Intelligence: Scaling Human-AI Networks with Active Context Graphs

The current paradigm of AI scaling relying on massive context windows and long-horizon agentic execution is rapidly approaching a plateau. Challenging scientific problems are rarely solved by one isolated reasoner; they…

Sutanay Choudhury (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
Venetian Ballroom A
  • AI Research Summit (technical)
2:10 PM3:00 PM

Roundtable: The Second Phase of AI Adoption: AI Cybersecurity Roadmap [RSVP REQUIRED]

This event requires an RSVP; to attend, submit form hereWith most organizations still in the early stages of AI and GenAI adoption, efforts are often centered on learning and low-risk experimentation. This roundtable…

Tolgay Kizilelma (Dominican University of California)
Room 305
  • Roundtable
2:10 PM2:30 PM

Simplifying Robotics with AI Agents

What if the most complex robotic systems in the world could tell you exactly what's wrong, and how to fix it, before you even ask? Amazon Robotics operates one of the largest fleets of mobile robots on the planet, and…

Julie Mitchell (Amazon Robotics)
Venetian Ballroom D
  • AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
2:10 PM2:55 PM

Smarter, Safer Finance — Embedding AI in Fintech & Payments

Fraud, compliance, and user expectations are converging to make AI a core enabler of modern financial software. This panel brings together fintech leaders who’ve deployed AI to improve fraud detection, risk scoring, and…

Sheela Ursal (Fintech Next), Satya Panda (BillGO), Jason Hiner (The Deep View), Giovanni Everduin (Commercial Bank International), Arjun Wadwalkar (Global Payments Inc.)
Titian Ballroom 2306
  • Software: Fintech & Payments
2:10 PM2:50 PM

The AI Operating Model: From Intent to Execution

As AI evolves beyond chatbots and copilots, organizations need more than powerful models.. they need a repeatable operating model that consistently turns business intent into measurable outcomes.This session explores…

Ryan Wolbeck (Kraft Heinz)
Bellini Ballroom 2104
  • Agentic Ops & Platforms (technical)
2:10 PM2:55 PM

The Economic Impact of AI: Jobs, Productivity, and Future Economies

This session will examine the far-reaching economic impact of AI on individuals, companies, and global economies. Panelists will discuss how AI is reshaping productivity, changing job markets, and influencing the future…

Foaad Khosmood (Cal Poly / CalMatters), Anton Korinek (Anthropic | University of Virginia), Yun-Hee Kim (The Washington Post), Elizabeth Rhodes (OpenResearch), Bob Wollheim (CI&T)
Palazzo Ballroom B
  • Social Impact Of AI
2:10 PM2:55 PM

The Generative AI Playbook: Setting Your Enterprise Up for Success

Generative AI presents a transformative opportunity, but only if executed with clarity and discipline. This panel will present a practical playbook for enterprise leaders looking to scale generative AI initiatives…

Rob Pegoraro (PCMag / Fast Company), Pankaj Jain (General Motors Financial), Murad Dikeidek (UI Health), Max Gokhman (Franklin Templeton), Kathryn Harrison (Concentrix)
Venetian Ballroom E
  • Generative AI: Foundation & Strategy
2:10 PM2:50 PM

The Hardest Part of AI is Not the AI - Sustaining Responsible AI across the Platform Lifecycle.

AI platforms are moving from experimentation tools to full scale deployment in enterprise infrastructure. That means organizations must shift from asking, “Can we use this tool?” to “Can we govern, evidence, monitor…

Nat Rubio-Licht (The Deep View), Jessica Grega (Bunge), Robert Jett (Bunge Global SA)
Titian Ballroom 2302
  • Infrastructure: Data Platforms & Strategy
2:10 PM2:55 PM

Underwritten by AI: Smarter, Faster, Fairer Insurance

Insurers are balancing speed and accuracy with regulatory scrutiny. In this panel, carriers, insurtechs and AI leaders share how AI is transforming underwriting, claims, and risk evaluation—while building safeguards…

Andrew Zarkowsky (The Hartford), Patrick Gallic (Tokio Marine Group), Alexander Niehenke (Scale Venture Partners), Leo Sei (TomTom)
Delfino Ballroom 4103
  • Insurance
2:35 PM
2:35 PM2:55 PM

Cyber Security in the Age of AI

Hear about the key insights and themes from 1 year of AI cyber security roundtables held in Atlanta. AI has dramatically changed the cyber security landscape. Automated attacks, novel attacks, and a landslide of new…

Stoddard Manikin (Children's Healthcare of Atlanta)
Palazzo Ballroom D
  • Cybersecurity
2:35 PM2:55 PM

Fireside Chat with Chi Ogbuehi, National Football League (NFL)

Not applicable. Its a fireside chat.

Celeny Da Silva (MAKERS AI), Chi Ogbuehi (National Football League (NFL))
Marcello Ballroom 4403
  • Marketing & Growth
2:35 PM2:55 PM

Governance, Not Models: The Real ROI Bottleneck

Why isn't your AI investment showing up in your ROI numbers yet, even as the models keep getting smarter? I've found that once AI moves from generating content to taking real action inside production systems…

Bruno Costa (Retool)
Palazzo Ballroom G
  • CAIO CIO & It Leaders
2:35 PM2:55 PM

Humanoids Will End Manufacturing's Most Dangerous Jobs—And That’s a Good Thing

Humanoids will end certain dull, dangerous manufacturing jobs—and that’s a good thing. Lifting 50-pound totes for eight hours a day is a taxing, injury-prone task that’s very hard to fill, so let’s end it and give it to…

Elaine Reyes (CGTN), Pras Velagapudi (Agility Robotics)
Titian Ballroom 2304
  • Manufacturing
2:35 PM2:55 PM

Introducing Redpanda's Agentic Data Plane (ADP)

AI agents are increasingly deployed as digital employees—accessing enterprise data, making decisions, and acting autonomously. But agents are both less predictable than humans (prone to hallucination, misinterpretation…

Garrett Raska (Redpanda Data)
Palazzo Ballroom M
  • Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
2:35 PM2:55 PM

Presentation by Samio Systems

What if clinical documentation and workflow intelligence happened automatically, without any reliance on provider behavior? In today’s healthcare environment, healthcare personnel are overwhelmed by administrative…

Mohamad Elzaim (Samio Systems)
Marcello Ballroom 4404
  • Healthcare Care Providers
2:35 PM2:55 PM

Setting Boundaries for Agentic AI: Preventing Data Exposure at Enterprise Scale

Agentic AI systems retrieve data directly or via MCP tools, yet most lack built-in controls. Without clear security boundaries, they can expose sensitive data and disrupt operations within seconds. As a result…

Gal Helemski (PlainID)
Venetian Ballroom H
  • AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
2:35 PM2:55 PM

Silent Infrastructure: How Privacy-First SDKs Quietly Shape the Future of Global-Scale Mobile Apps

What if the most critical layer of your mobile infrastructure is also the most invisible?Mobile Software Developer Kits (SDKs) silently power billions of experiences every day—from AI-driven recommendations to real-time…

Ramanpreet Singh Khinda (LinkedIn)
Lando Ballroom 4204
  • Software Engineering
2:35 PM2:55 PM

Strategic Foundations: Aligning Agentic AI with Enterprise Growth and Resilience

The era of AI experimentation is over. In 2026, enterprise competitive advantage belongs to leaders who move beyond isolated deployments to architect autonomous, goal-driven AI systems that directly advance core…

Kalvin Brite (Siteimprove), Nayaki Nayyar (Siteimprove)
Venetian Ballroom F
  • AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
2:35 PM2:55 PM

The Agent Harness: Shipping Autonomous AI Without Losing Control

As AI agents gain the ability to reason, plan, and take action, autonomy becomes both their greatest strength and their greatest risk. This talk explores the control infrastructure that sits between an agent's decisions…

Rachit Mehta (AWS), Sandhya Subramani (Amazon Web Services)
Delfino Ballroom 4104
  • Infrastructure: AI Agents
2:35 PM2:55 PM

The New AI Risk Equation: Generated Threats, Exposed Data & Autonomous Agents

AI is creating new security challenges across multiple fronts—from AI-generated threats and dataexposure to the risks introduced by autonomous agents. Yet many organizations continue to address theseissues separately…

Marty Weiss (Proofpoint)
Venetian Ballroom D
  • AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
2:35 PM2:55 PM

The SQL Layer for Physical and Visual AI

The SQL layer for Physical and Visual AI is a unified interface that lets developers query, filter, and retrieve structured insights from large-scale multimodal data such as images, video, and sensor streams. It…

Mohamed Elhoseiny (KAUST & CreativAI)
Venetian Ballroom A
  • AI Research Summit (technical)
2:35 PM2:45 PM

VeeL - Digitizing the Human Experience

What if your most valuable asset wasn't your resume, your network, or your time but your digital self? Every major AI company is racing to build bigger models, but nobody is solving the deepest problem ,AI that actually…

Venetian Ballroom G
  • AI Startups & VCs
2:35 PM2:55 PM

When Agents Write the Code: Governing AI Systems Built by Humans and Agents Together

AI agents now contribute to more than 40% of committed code, and that share is rising. The governance frameworks most enterprises have in place were not built for that reality. In this session, VP of Engineering/AI Greg…

Greg Jennings (Anaconda, Inc.)
Lando Ballroom 4203
  • Oversight: AI Explainability Governance & Model Risk
2:35 PM3:25 PM

Your Agent Is Failing Right Now: Building ADLC Lifecycle Maturity for Production Trust [RSVP REQUIRED]

This event requires an RSVP; to attend, submit form here The most dangerous AI-agent failures share one unsettling trait: every dashboard stayed green. Agents routinely pass demos and benchmarks yet exceed their…

Samleo Joseph (JP Morgan Chase)
Room 310
  • Roundtable
3:00 PM
3:00 PM3:20 PM

Agentic Ops for the Secure Agentic Enterprise: Safe, Observable Agents with HPE and NVIDIA

Enterprise agents are becoming operators: executing commands, calling tools, spawning sub-agents, and running across hybrid environments. In this technical session, HPE and NVIDIA will share an emerging architecture for…

Steve Stein (NVIDIA), Mark Seither (HPE)
Bellini Ballroom 2104
  • Agentic Ops & Platforms (technical)
3:00 PM3:45 PM

AI Powered Care Providers for a Better Tomorrow

AI can augment the clinical workforce—if deployed responsibly. In this holistic panel, provider organizations share how they’re using AI to enhance diagnostic accuracy, streamline documentation, and reduce…

Caleb Poore (Boone County Health Center), Morgan Jeffries (Geisinger), Aalpen Patel (Former MedQuest Imaging), Anik Bose (Benhamou Global Ventures (BGV)), Caroline Chung (The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center)
Marcello Ballroom 4404
  • Healthcare Care Providers
3:00 PM3:45 PM

Alpha to Automation: How AI Is Reshaping Asset Management

What does it take to stay ahead in a world of real-time markets and AI-powered competition? In this panel, leaders from asset managers and fintechs share how AI is unlocking new insights, cutting costs, and scaling…

Sai Krishna Rallabandi (Fidelity Investments), Ashish Bansal (The Vanguard Group), Vrinda Menon (JP Morgan Chase, Private Bank), John Divine (U.S. News & World Report), Sheema Usmani (State Street)
Delfino Ballroom 4103
  • Financial Services Asset Management
3:00 PM3:45 PM

Build vs. Buy — Making the Right AI Infrastructure Decisions

Every enterprise is grappling with the same question: should we build AI capabilities ourselves, or partner with vendors? This panel will unpack the strategic trade-offs CIOs and CAIOs face when making AI infrastructure…

David Chun (Columbia University), Mike Burgio (OutSystems), Ryan Horjus (Hydra Host), Devang Modi (Bausch & Lomb), Andrea Spielvogel (Nürtingen-Geislingen University (NGU))
Palazzo Ballroom G
  • CAIO CIO & It Leaders
3:00 PM3:20 PM

Building AI for Regulated Industries: From “Certified Code” to “Governed Systems”

AI agents change how software behaves, shifting from deterministic, one-time-certified builds to live systems that plan, decide, and act on their own. For regulated industries, that breaks the certification model: you…

Bob Serr (Aristocrat)
Delfino Ballroom 4104
  • Infrastructure: AI Agents
3:00 PM3:45 PM

Building Trust in AI: Interpretability, Explainability, and Governance at Scale

Enterprise AI success increasingly depends on trust among regulators, stakeholders, and customers. This panel explores how organizations are embedding interpretability and explainability into their AI systems and…

Ron Whitworth (Truist), Shashank Kadetotad (Mars), Tiffany Benitez (Compass Group USA), Blake Brannon (OneTrust), Josh Coffey (Apryse)
Lando Ballroom 4203
  • Oversight: AI Explainability Governance & Model Risk
3:00 PM3:45 PM

Code Quality, Security, and Culture in the AI Coding Era

AI coding assistants promise speed and efficiency—but they also raise new questions about quality, security, and the developer experience. This panel will explore how engineering leaders are adapting processes to ensure…

Madhavi Najana (Federal Home Loan Bank of Cincinnati), Chris Johnson (Phase2), Patrick Akil (Xebia), Ravi Teja Prabhala Venkata (Capital One), Vikul Gupta (QualityAI)
Lando Ballroom 4204
  • Software Engineering
3:00 PM3:45 PM

Customizing Intelligence: Fine-Tuning and Prompt Engineering for Real-World Impact

Enterprises are moving beyond generic foundation models and focusing on how to customize AI for specific workflows, data, and business contexts. This panel dives deep into two core techniques—fine-tuning and prompt…

Siobahn Grady (North Carolina Central University), Malhar Deshpande (Clean Harbors), Jalashri Raval (Amgen), Srikanth Maru (Cricut), Ankit Goyal (LinkedIn)
Veronese Ballroom 2504
  • Generative AI (technical)
3:00 PM3:45 PM

Data Strategy to Enable Effective AI: Turning Data into a Competitive Advantage

Effective AI starts with a strong data foundation. This panel will explore how organizations are building enterprise data strategies that support scalable, high-impact AI initiatives. Experts will discuss how to align…

Kirby Forlin (The Cigna Group), Jose Martinez (Coca Cola FEMSA), Tor Constantino (Forbes), Adit Abraham (Reducto), Andy Pernsteiner (VAST Data)
Titian Ballroom 2302
  • Infrastructure: Data Platforms & Strategy
3:00 PM3:20 PM

Fireside Chat with Andrew Yang

Jacob Bogage (Reuters), Andrew Yang (Noble Mobile)
Palazzo Ballroom B
  • Social Impact Of AI
3:00 PM3:20 PM

Fireside Chat with Erik Reppel, Coinbase

What happens when AI agents become economic actors capable of holding wallets, making payments, and accessing services on their own? This fireside chat will explore the convergence of AI, crypto, and internet-native…

Erik Reppel (Coinbase Developer Platform), Aaron Stanley (Promenade Advisory)
Titian Ballroom 2306
  • Software: Fintech & Payments
3:00 PM3:20 PM

From Shadow to Spotlight: Building an AI Governance Strategy

AI is everywhere in the workplace, and so is Shadow AI. Unsanctioned tools and autonomous agents are quietly opening new paths for data exposure. This session covers moving from blind spots to visibility: understanding…

Giulian Garruba (Mimecast North America)
Palazzo Ballroom D
  • Cybersecurity
3:00 PM3:20 PM

Governing Agentic AI - A Practical Framework for Retail, Hospitality and QSR

Governing Agentic AI - a Practical Framework for Retail, Hospitality and QSR.

May Sethaphanich (McDonald's Corporation)
Venetian Ballroom H
  • AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
3:00 PM3:45 PM

How AI is Transforming Telecom

This panel highlights how telecoms are applying AI from core infrastructure to customer experience and backend processes. Learn how AI enables real-time diagnostics, predictive maintenance, and smarter CX—while reducing…

Anne Lee (Consultant), Cathy White (CEW Communications), Sundar Krishnan (Optimum), Sahil Yadav (Applied Optoelectonics Inc (AOI))
Palazzo Ballroom E
  • Telecom & Connectivity Infrastructure
3:00 PM3:20 PM

I Hired 150 AI Agents to Run My Life

What if you could hire 150 employees who never sleep, never quit, and cost almost nothing?Most people are still using AI one prompt at a time, while the real shift is happening for those who put it to work as an…

Tristen O'Brien (Complete Workflow)
Palazzo Ballroom L
  • Beginner Start Here
3:00 PM3:45 PM

Keeping Models Honest: AI Observability for Scalable, Reliable Systems

As AI systems grow more complex—spanning multimodal models, pipelines, and autonomous agents—the need for observability has never been greater. This panel brings together ML engineers, data scientists, and…

Brooke Hopkins (Coval), Tristan Arbus (Devon Energy Corporation), Tammy Dugan (Cummins Inc.), Shahid Quraishi (7-Eleven)
Bellini Ballroom 2102
  • Evaluation Observability & Interpretability (technical)
3:00 PM3:45 PM

Memory, State, and Knowledge Management: Powering Long-Running AI Systems

Stateless models are powerful but limited. True enterprise AI requires systems that can remember, adapt, and reason across time. This panel will explore how organizations are building memory and state management layers…

Johannes Plambeck (Pfizer Inc.), Alain Biem (Columbia University), Chitra Bhagat (Cummins Inc), Brian Ray (Atos), Mike King (UTMB Health)
Palazzo Ballroom M
  • Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
3:00 PM3:40 PM

Presentation by Paul Marsolan, Battle Motors

What does it take to ship production AI on an 80,000-pound refuse truck — a vehicle that fights vibration, heat, dust, and intermittent LTE on every shift, and where a single missed detection can mean a hopper fire from…

Paul Marsolan (Battle Motors)
Titian Ballroom 2304
  • Manufacturing
3:00 PM3:40 PM

Scaling AI at Nationwide

As enterprises move from AI experimentation to enterprise-scale adoption, the challenge is no longer building more AI. It is building an operating model that can deliver value safely, repeatedly, and with the right…

Mimi Chizever (Nationwide Insurance), Kristen Biddulph (Nationwide Insurance)
Venetian Ballroom E
  • Generative AI Deployment At Scale
3:00 PM3:20 PM

The Agentic AI Playbook for Enterprise AI Transformation: Lessons Learned from Starbucks

Most enterprises are investing heavily in AI, yet the vast majority remain stuck at the copilots and experimentation stage without achieving meaningful business transformation. In this talk, I will explain why the real…

Bin Yu (Starbucks)
Venetian Ballroom F
  • AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
3:00 PM3:40 PM

The Billion-Dollar Blueprint: Stress-Test Your AI Startup Idea with Professor Doug Villhard [RSVP REQUIRED]

This event requires an RSVP; to attend, submit form hereJump back into the classroom with Professor Doug Villhard, an expert in stress-testing AI business ideas and crafting high-impact VC decks. This 40-minute…

Doug Villhard (WashU Olin Business School)
Room 404
  • Workshop
3:00 PM3:40 PM

The Greatest Astronomy and Astrophysics Discovery Machine Ever Built: The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory

Recently equipped with the world’s biggest digital camera, built at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, the Simonyi Survey Telescope at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is built for high speed astronomical surveying…

Phil Marshall (NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory)
Venetian Ballroom A
  • AI Research Summit (technical)
3:00 PM3:10 PM

TraceRoot - open-source observability and self-improving layer for AI agents.

What happens after your AI agent ships — when it silently hallucinates, misfires a tool call, or drifts, and you only hear about it from an angry user? In this talk I'll show how to turn observability into a…

Xinwei He (TraceRoot.AI)
Venetian Ballroom G
  • AI Startups & VCs
3:00 PM3:20 PM

When Intelligence Becomes Cheap: Why the Future of AI Belongs to Systems, Not Agents

Every major technology shift makes something expensive cheap—and when that happens, competitive advantage moves. AI is making intelligence abundant, but most organizations are still treating AI as a feature instead of…

Brian Peterson (Dialpad)
Marcello Ballroom 4403
  • CX & Customer Service
3:00 PM3:15 PM

Your Agents Don't Deserve Your Trust. Here's How They Earn It.

The AI industry has decided agents are valuable. It hasn't decided to prove it. Your organization is running agents across frameworks, teams, and workflows — each one isolated, unobserved, and largely taken on faith. No…

Halls B&C
  • Agentic Live Demos
3:00 PM3:20 PM

Your AI isn't Global. It Just Thinks It Is.

Your AI Isn’t Global. It Just Thinks It Is.Why multilingual context—not bigger models—is a real bottleneck to enterprise AI ROIAs enterprises race to deploy AI globally, most assume that success in English equals…

Spence Green (LILT)
Venetian Ballroom D
  • AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
3:25 PM
3:25 PM3:45 PM

Accelerating AI Adoption: The CISO’s Blueprint from Strategy to Delivery

AI initiatives often fail not because of technology, but because organizations lack a clear path from vision to value. This session provides a practical blueprint for accelerating AI adoption while maintaining security…

Tolgay Kizilelma (Dominican University of California)
Palazzo Ballroom D
  • Cybersecurity
3:25 PM3:45 PM

From Code to Agent — Transforming the Developer Experience

Building AI agents requires more than great models. It demands a developer experience designed for speed. In this session, Dell and NVIDIA show how bringing accelerated compute closer to developers, combined with…

Sama Bali (NVIDIA), Logan Lawler (Dell Technologies)
Marcello Ballroom 4403
  • CX & Customer Service
3:25 PM4:15 PM

Human Judgment in an AI-Assisted Workflow: Deciding What to Trust, Verify, or Override [RSVP REQUIRED]

This event requires an RSVP; to attend, submit form hereAI can generate answers instantly, but it can't tell you when to avoid using them. This interactive roundtable explores how AI shapes professional judgment in…

Christopher Trudeau (University of Detroit Mercy Law School)
Room 305
  • Roundtable
3:25 PM4:05 PM

Navigating Scaling and Long Tail: VLAs, Data Generation, and Mapping Approaches in Autonomy

Deploying autonomous vehicles on public roads at scale demands high robustness of perception and mapping stacks. This includes handling rare, unpredictable "long-tail" scenarios - the ultimate stretch of perception…

Doron Portnoy (Zoox)
Bellini Ballroom 2104
  • Vision Spatial & World Models (technical)
3:25 PM3:45 PM

Not Every Molecule, Not Every Cross, Not Every AI Pilot Makes It to the Field...

Not Every Molecule, Not Every Cross, Not Every AI Pilot Makes It to the FieldAgriculture R&D runs on a hard truth: most of what you start doesn't make it — and that's the point. In crop protection, we screen tens of…

Jeremy Groeteke (Syngenta Group)
Venetian Ballroom D
  • AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
3:25 PM3:45 PM

Rearchitecting Upwork for the AI Era

Companies are investing billions of dollars in autonomous AI agents with the promise that software will soon complete professional work independently. But what actually happens when you test these systems on real jobs…

Andrew Rabinovich (Upwork), Thomas Germain (The BBC)
Titian Ballroom 2306
  • Software: HRTech
3:25 PM3:45 PM

The Analytics Factory: Building the Machine That Understands Your Business

AI can build software faster. But that does not mean it builds better software.The software industry’s answer is not better prompts. It's the software factory: a system built around better blueprints. Define what good…

Benjamin Shi (TextQL)
Venetian Ballroom F
  • AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
3:25 PM3:35 PM

The Augmentation Revolution: Why the Future of AI Is Human

What if AI's biggest mistake isn't the technology — it's using it as a replacement? The AI replacement model is failing: trust collapses and customers always know. The talk will demonstrate live what Human/AI hybrid…

Rob Scott (HOLOVOX)
Venetian Ballroom G
  • AI Startups & VCs
3:25 PM3:45 PM

We Saved an Enterprise $100M in Token and Model Costs. Steal Our Playbook

Your engineering teams are shipping agents faster than anyone can track them. Token bills climb with no clear attribution, and when an agent loops or breaks, there's no way to audit the spend or shut it down. Most…

Nikunj Bajaj (TrueFoundry)
Delfino Ballroom 4104
  • Infrastructure: AI Agents
3:25 PM3:45 PM

When AI Agents Go Live: Who Controls Their Access and Credentials?

AI agents are rapidly scaling from pilot environments into full enterprise production, operating autonomously across core workflows. However, this shift introduces a massive, hidden security gap: an explosion of…

Matt Fangman (SailPoint)
Venetian Ballroom H
  • AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
3:25 PM3:45 PM

Why More Miles Aren’t the Answer: The Case for Reasoning-First AV Architecture

Humans don’t need millions of miles of experience to drive safely, so why do we keep building AVs that do? As autonomous vehicles expand into more cities and edge cases multiply, chasing data is not enough to make our…

Jacob Crossman (May Mobility)
Palazzo Ballroom B
  • Automotive
3:50 PM
3:50 PM4:00 PM

Agents Need White-Box Instruments, Not Judges

Enterprises are deploying AI agents that finish tasks and report success — and a measurable fraction of those reports outrun the evidence: claims contradicted by the agent's own trace, "verified" work where verification…

Shadab Nazar (Faberlens Inc)
Venetian Ballroom G
  • AI Startups & VCs
3:50 PM4:10 PM

AI at Scale: Lessons from the Front Lines, a Fireside Chat with Ningyu Chen, The Home Depot

Most AI pilots don't fail because of the technology. They stall somewhere between proof of concept and enterprise adoption.Join me for an honest conversation about what it really takes to move AI from promising pilots…

Jennifer Conrad (Inc. Magazine), Ningyu Chen (The Home Depot)
Delfino Ballroom 4104
  • Infrastructure: AI Agents
3:50 PM4:10 PM

AI Has a Brain. Who Owns the Nervous System?

Everyone talks about AI models as the brain. But brains don’t matter without a nervous system. The real question is: who builds and controls the infrastructure that lets AI sense, decide, and act in real time. That’s…

Jim Fowler (Lumen)
Palazzo Ballroom E
  • Telecom & Connectivity Infrastructure
3:50 PM4:10 PM

Beyond the Prompt: Building AI Agents to Automate Enterprise Workflows

AI agents have the potential to transform how enterprises automate complex workflows that span multiple systems, tools, and teams. But moving from a simple AI interaction to an agent that can reliably complete…

Dikshit Khandelwal (OpenAI)
Palazzo Ballroom D
  • Cybersecurity
3:50 PM4:10 PM

Building a Responsible AI Playbook at NYPL.

Most AI strategy advice tells you to start with use cases. We did the opposite. We started with governance, policy, and principles — before we let anyone touch a tool. It sounds backwards. I'll make the case for why it…

Garvita Kapur (New York Public Library)
Venetian Ballroom H
  • AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
3:50 PM4:10 PM

Can We Trust Agents?

AI agents are increasingly bypassing structured toolchains to make raw API calls, expanding the potential blast radius in enterprise environments. This session presents a zero-trust approach to govern agentic systems…

Sundari Parekh (TrendAI™)
Lando Ballroom 4203
  • Oversight: AI Explainability Governance & Model Risk
3:50 PM4:10 PM

Context Is All You Need. Audit-Proof AI for Finance

Autonomous finance is the promise of the decade, but here's what nobody pitching it will tell you: an AI agent that guesses, even brilliantly, will never survive your audit. Boards have stopped asking whether finance…

Binny Gill (Kognitos), Amit Gupta (Kognitos)
Venetian Ballroom D
  • AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
3:50 PM4:10 PM

Generative AI in Finance for Evaluating Geographical Bias & Exposures

Generative AI is now quite popular in quantitative finance for information extraction, signal discovery and time-series analysis. In this work, we detail our methodology of Estimation of Granular Geographical Risk…

Arun Verma (Bloomberg)
Delfino Ballroom 4103
  • Financial Services Asset Management
3:50 PM4:35 PM

Hiring, Retention, and Beyond — AI’s Role in Next-Gen HRTech

HR software is moving past manual workflows to intelligent platforms that anticipate both employer and employee needs. This panel will highlight how HRTech providers are embedding AI into recruiting, onboarding, and…

Marshall Bush (Baleen Research), Bryan Hong (Astranis), Alberto Silveira (HireVue), Kristie Rowley (BambooHR)
Titian Ballroom 2306
  • Software: HRTech
3:50 PM4:10 PM

Inference at Scale: Deploying Open-Source LLMs in Production with vLLM and llm-d

Training gets the headlines, but inference is where generative AI meets production — and where the costs, latency, and scaling challenges actually live. This session demystifies LLM inference from the ground up: how…

Rob Greenberg (Red Hat)
Venetian Ballroom E
  • Generative AI Deployment At Scale
3:50 PM4:40 PM

It's no longer about the tech. It's about the people. [RSVP REQUIRED]

This event requires an RSVP; to attend, submit form hereWhat if the hardest problem in enterprise AI isn't the technology? After 18 months deploying AI inside a public company, I can tell you the models are ready, the…

Marcus Spillane (Howard Hughes)
Room 303
  • Roundtable
3:50 PM4:10 PM

Neural Scaling Universality: Emergent Power Laws Obey Robust Exponents

The success of today's large language models (LLMs) depends on the observation that larger models and longer training lead to better performance. However, the origin of this observation, called the neural scaling laws…

Yizhou Liu (MIT)
Venetian Ballroom A
  • AI Research Summit (technical)
3:50 PM4:10 PM

Physical AI for Delivering Superhuman Performance in Factories

Human demonstrations can only take robotics so far in manufacturing applications. To truly transform high-mix manufacturing, robots must leverage their unique strengths—unmatched speed, precision, and force—beyond human…

Satyandra Gupta (GrayMatter Robotics)
Titian Ballroom 2304
  • Manufacturing
3:50 PM4:10 PM

Prompt, Plan, Pwn: The Agentic Kill Chain

Autonomous agents don't just answer — they plan and act, carrying your authority as they call tools and invoke other agents. That loop is what attackers exploit: a single poisoned prompt becomes a multi-step plan, and…

Subba Bachina (Lenovo)
Venetian Ballroom F
  • AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
3:50 PM4:10 PM

Reaching Users on Every Screen: How Flutter's Multi-platform Capabilities Can Scale Your AI Investments

"The hardest part of launching an experience shouldn't be deciding where to launch it. Yet, many organizations' initiatives and product roadmaps are stalled by platform constraints.By building your client architecture…

Khanh Nguyen (Google Cloud)
Palazzo Ballroom G
  • CAIO CIO & It Leaders
3:50 PM4:40 PM

Roundtable: Securing AI Against Adversarial Attacks [RSVP REQUIRED]

This event requires an RSVP; to attend, submit form hereAI systems are being attacked in ways that traditional security controls weren't designed to catch. Prompt injection rewrites model behavior at runtime. Data…

Rob Lee (SANS Institute)
Room 310
  • Roundtable (technical)
3:50 PM4:10 PM

Solve the AI Trust Gap with Agent Observability

Enterprise agents stall when their guardrails can't be trusted — 1 in 3 LLM-as-judge eval scores are wrong without proper tuning. Splunk Agent Observability helps teams create and deploy high-accuracy evals as live…

Paul Lacey (Cisco)
Bellini Ballroom 2102
  • Evaluation Observability & Interpretability (technical)
3:50 PM4:10 PM

Taming AI Chaos: The Rise of the Enterprise Superagent - Presentation by KPMG

Discover how to stop building disconnected bots and start orchestrating real business outcomes with Superagents built by KPMG and Google Cloud.

Mark Shank (KPMG)
Palazzo Ballroom M
  • Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
3:50 PM4:10 PM

The Data Layer Is the New Control Plane: Winning AI Across Hyperscalers, Neo-Clouds, Sovereign Edge

As AI scales across clouds, sovereign environments, and the edge, organizations face mounting challenges around data access, security, governance, and compliance. These challenges are becoming the primary reason AI…

Dejay Noy (NetApp)
Titian Ballroom 2302
  • Infrastructure: Data Platforms & Strategy
3:50 PM4:10 PM

The HHS Clinical AI Adoption Framework of Regulation, Reimbursement, and Research and Development

How can we accelerate the adoption of clinical AI while ensuring it improves patient care, reduces provider burden, and earns public trust? We will discuss how HHS is approaching this challenge through a coordinated…

Mark Atalla (US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC)), Arman Sharma (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)), Ruth Reader (Second Opinion Media)
Marcello Ballroom 4404
  • Healthcare Care Providers
3:50 PM4:10 PM

The Rise of Agentic CX: How AI Voice Agents Are Rewriting Customer Service

Customer service is entering a new era where Voice agents are moving towards becoming context aware systems. This session explores how Agentic AI, can personalize conversations, resolve issues faster, improve customer…

Venkata Harikishan Koppuravuri (Manulife Johnhancock)
Marcello Ballroom 4403
  • CX & Customer Service
4:15 PM
4:15 PM4:35 PM

Agents Are Not Tasks: The Economics of Learned Infrastructure

Most enterprises treat AI agents as tasks: fire one off, take the answer, discard everything it learned. That's why cost explodes and quality slips: every session starts cold, rebuilding context it already had and…

Radhika Ravirala (Granica.ai), Tarang Vaish (Granica.ai)
Venetian Ballroom F
  • AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
4:15 PM4:25 PM

AI Disruption in IT Service Management, the Future of IT Ops in an AI Agent World

Every AI service desk closes tickets faster, resets passwords, provisions apps. That is not a differentiator anymore, it is the current expectation. The real question is who is running your operation when no one opened…

Scott McIsaac (Helios Core AI)
Venetian Ballroom G
  • AI Startups & VCs
4:15 PM4:35 PM

BLINDSPOT - How Princess Cruises unlocked $120M of Incremental Revenue using Contact Center signal

Every vendor in this building will tell you to automate your easy contacts, and they are right, but almost nobody is talking about what happens next: when AI absorbs the simple calls, every conversation left in the…

Camille Bailey (Princess Cruises), Gregg Hough (harpin AI)
Marcello Ballroom 4403
  • CX & Customer Service
4:15 PM4:55 PM

Deploying GenAI Safely at Scale

How do you know if GenAI answer is actually right, not just confident sounding? This talk covers how we evaluate and monitor GenAI in production. It gives a practical way to think about scoring and monitoring your own…

Marina Printz (New York Life)
Veronese Ballroom 2504
  • Generative AI (technical)
4:15 PM4:35 PM

From Autocomplete to Agents: The Evolution of AI in Fundamental Investing

As investment software evolves from chatbots to autonomous agents, how do fundamental managers protect their competitive edge? We discuss how new workflows impact stock selection and whether widespread tech commoditizes…

Garence Staraci (Wellington Management), John Divine (U.S. News & World Report)
Delfino Ballroom 4103
  • Financial Services Asset Management
4:15 PM4:35 PM

From Zero to AI Hero: How GB Corp Rebuilt its Enterprise DNA

This session will focus on how organizations can leverage AI to enhance decision-making by working alongside human judgment instead of replacing it. Using real-world examples from GB Corp, I'll discuss practical…

Bishoy Sawiris (GB Corp)
Titian Ballroom 2302
  • Infrastructure: Data Platforms & Strategy
4:15 PM4:55 PM

Govern the System, Not the Technology: Programmatic AI Oversight for Speed and Compliance

AI is not just a technology transformation. It is a management transformation, and it demands a fundamental change in how organizations govern. Yet most organizations are responding with the wrong model: forming…

Brian Allen (Center for AI Oversight)
Lando Ballroom 4203
  • Oversight: AI Explainability Governance & Model Risk
4:15 PM4:35 PM

Learning the Regulatory Code of Alzheimer's Genomes, Towfique Raj, Icahn School of Medicine

Most genetic changes linked to Alzheimer’s disease do not alter proteins directly, but instead affect how genes are turned on and off. In this talk, I will explain how we decode these hidden regulatory signals by…

Towfique Raj (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)
Venetian Ballroom A
  • AI Research Summit (technical)
4:15 PM4:35 PM

Nurturing AI: Teaching Machines to Understand What They Can't Feel

In January 2026, tech companies settled the first major lawsuits over teen suicides linked to AI chatbots. The problem isn't malice. It's that AI can't feel. It doesn't experience pleasure or pain, so it can't recognize…

Megs Shah (Parasol Cooperative)
Palazzo Ballroom M
  • Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
4:15 PM4:35 PM

Operational AI Is The New Competitive Advantage

The organizations that realize the greatest value from AI will not necessarily be the ones with the best AI. They will be the ones that can deploy AI with confidence at scale.”. AI is advancing at an unprecedented pace…

Andrew Duncan (QualityAI)
Lando Ballroom 4204
  • Software Engineering
4:15 PM5:00 PM

Product Managing AI Products

How do you build AI products most effectively? In this session, top PMs and technology leaders share how they navigate the unique challenges of AI product development—from the planning phase to managing hallucinations…

Cobus Kok (Priceline), Rachel Maness (Align Technology), Devendra Parmar (Citizens Bank), Anil Mathew Roy (Zillow Group Inc.), Pierce Healy (Pendo)
Palazzo Ballroom L
  • Product Management
4:15 PM5:00 PM

Reducing Burnout and Transforming the Clinician Experience with AI

One of the most immediate impacts of AI in healthcare isn’t flashy diagnostics—it’s in reducing the crushing administrative burden on providers. This panel will examine how AI is being used for ambient scribing…

Reid Blackman (Virtue Consultants), Eric Cruzen (Northwell Health), Krishnaj Gourab (University of Maryland Rehabilitation and Orthopaedic Institute), Luiz Cieslak (CI&T)
Marcello Ballroom 4404
  • Healthcare Care Providers
4:15 PM5:00 PM

Smarter, Faster, Leaner: AI in Modern Manufacturing

This panel showcases how leading manufacturers are using AI to supercharge productivity and resilience. Learn how predictive analytics reduces unplanned downtime, how computer vision catches defects in real time, and…

David Hallac (Viaduct), Joe Olsen (Olsen Capital), Peter Robinson (Kaspar Companies), Royal Sequiera (FGF Brands)
Titian Ballroom 2304
  • Manufacturing
4:15 PM4:55 PM

TAMING STOCHASTICITY: Evaluations & Observability at Scale

Your AI Shipped. Now What?Your AI passed the tests. The demo impressed stakeholders. The pilot delivered promising results. But what happens when real users arrive and your model behaves differently than expected? How…

Ritesh Shah (Vanguard), Piyush Saxena (Vanguard)
Bellini Ballroom 2102
  • Evaluation Observability & Interpretability (technical)
4:15 PM5:00 PM

The AI-Powered Vehicle: Smarter, Safer, and Fully Connected

Vehicles are rapidly becoming intelligent edge devices. In this panel, experts from top automotive OEMs and suppliers discuss how AI is redefining everything from driver experience to fleet safety. We'll look at how…

Avinash Balachandran (Toyota Research Institute), Amy Luca (Tensor Auto), Jacob Crossman (May Mobility), Steve Greenfield (Automotive Ventures)
Palazzo Ballroom B
  • Automotive
4:15 PM4:35 PM

The Future of Hollywood: AI That Empowers Creators

AI has shown the power to transform film and television, but its rapid rollout has been marred by many companies ignoring the rights of the creatives whose work underpins the industry. In this fireside chat, Scott Mann…

Corbin Bolies (Variety), Scott Mann (Flawless)
Palazzo Ballroom D
  • Social Impact Of AI
4:15 PM5:00 PM

The Role of World Models: Teaching AI to See, Move, and Plan

This session highlights how spatial intelligence and world modeling are unlocking the next generation of intelligent systems. Panelists will share applications across robotics, AR, and autonomous vehicles, and explore…

Brian McClendon (Niantic Spatial), Jared Perlo (NBC News), Oliver Cameron (Odyssey), Tim Bucher (Agtonomy), Sce Pike (TELUS Digital)
Bellini Ballroom 2104
  • Vision Spatial & World Models (technical)
4:15 PM4:55 PM

Truth, Lies & AI

AI isn’t just another tech rollout—it’s a mindset shift. In this honest and practical session, Rennu Varghese, VP & CIO at The Friedkin Group, shares what it really takes to bring AI to life across a diverse portfolio…

Rennu Varghese (The Friedkin Group)
Palazzo Ballroom G
  • CAIO CIO & It Leaders
4:15 PM4:35 PM

Why and How You Should Build Enterprise Agents In-House

How should you deploy agents that can deeply understand your company’s fragmented data sources? The answer isn’t renting another vertical SaaS bot. It should be an agent architecture you own and control.This session…

Matt Henderson (Coral)
Delfino Ballroom 4104
  • Infrastructure: AI Agents
4:15 PM4:35 PM

Your AI Problem Isn't the AI

Seventy-nine percent of organizations have adopted AI agents in some form. Eleven percent have them running in production, actually capturing value. That gap isn't a model problem. The models are good. It's a workflow…

Nicky Pike (Coder)
Venetian Ballroom H
  • AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
4:40 PM
4:40 PM5:00 PM

AGI and the NYT Crosswords

Artificial Intelligence has achieved remarkable progress in language modeling, reasoning, and problem-solving—yet the New York Times Crossword remains one of the most enduring challenges for even the most capable AI…

Shafik Quoraishee (The New York Times)
Venetian Ballroom A
  • AI Research Summit (technical)
4:40 PM5:00 PM

AI Eats the Web That Feeds It

Every AI answer is assembled from someone else's work. The traffic that paid for that work is fading. Small publishers lost roughly 60% of search referrals in two years. AI referrals are nowhere close to replacing them…

Peter Sloterdyk (Gist)
Marcello Ballroom 4403
  • Marketing & Growth
4:40 PM5:00 PM

AI-Driven Productivity, Collaboration, and Product Development

Artificial intelligence is fundamentally reshaping how knowledge workers collaborate, create, and build software. Productivity applications are evolving into AI-native workspaces where intelligent assistants can…

Ali Dasdan (Dropbox)
Titian Ballroom 2306
  • Software: Productivity & Collaboration
4:40 PM5:00 PM

Autonomous Infrastructure: Building AI Agents for Global-Scale Capacity Efficiency

Tommy Tran (Meta)
Lando Ballroom 4204
  • Software Engineering
4:40 PM5:00 PM

How Your Data Architecture Determines Token Economics and Agent Trust

Most enterprises are running two separate conversations about AIagents. One is what will this cost us. One is can we trust it. Both comedown to the same question: how to serve an agent the right context forthe task, and…

Rahul Pahuja (CData Software)
Titian Ballroom 2302
  • Infrastructure: Data Platforms & Strategy
4:40 PM5:00 PM

Infrastructure for User Trust

User Trust *is* a product. Building and keeping user trust, in the context of AI product development, unlocks new types of user engagement and opens up new opportunities to connect with and create value for customers…

Tomer Sabo (Etsy), Beth Sebian (Etsy)
Palazzo Ballroom M
  • Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
4:40 PM5:00 PM

Pipelines, Provenance, and Storage for GenAI Media at Scale

Generative video, image, and audio are becoming core to a new generation of media products, and a clear architectural blueprint is emerging. The teams that turn this into a durable product capability will own the next…

Jeronimo De Leon (Backblaze)
Venetian Ballroom E
  • Generative AI Deployment At Scale
4:40 PM5:00 PM

RAG, from Theory to Implementation

Are you curious to see a full deployment, from nuts and bolts (open source) to delivery? This presentation details the design and deployment of a locally hosted, open-source LLM within a government organization, from…

Alaa Moussawi (New York City Council)
Delfino Ballroom 4104
  • Infrastructure: AI Agents
4:40 PM5:00 PM

Rewriting the Infrastructure Playbook: Applying AI Across the Construction Lifecycle

The infrastructure industry is at a turning point, as AI begins to reshape how projects are planned, delivered, and maintained–and how next-generation mobility systems are designed.This session will explore how AI is…

Jason Abbruzzese (NBC News), Dimitris Bountolos (Ferrovial)
Venetian Ballroom H
  • AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
4:40 PM5:00 PM

The Agentic Supply Chain: Orchestrating Data, Decisions, and Dialogue

Accessing supply chain data is no longer the challenge; turning that access into decisive, optimized action is. In this session, I will be joined by NVIDIA to demonstrate how AI is evolving from a passive reporting tool…

Russell Halper (Insight Kitchen LLC), Anthony Noguera (NVIDIA)
Venetian Ballroom D
  • AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
4:40 PM5:00 PM

The Attribution Revolution: Artists, AI, and the Future of Getting Paid

Generative AI is rewriting the economics of music faster than the industry can agree on the rules - and the real question isn't whether it reshapes the business, but who gets paid when it does. 411 Music Group sits at…

Kristen Agee (411 Music Group), Xena Plat (411 Music Group), Matt Adell (Musical AI)
Palazzo Ballroom D
  • Social Impact Of AI
4:40 PM4:50 PM

The History of Insurance and the Coming Age of Humanoid Robots

Who pays when the machine is wrong? It's a question insurance has answered five times in 160 years — for the steam boiler, the automobile, the aircraft, the power grid, and the networked computer — and each time, the…

Darien Acosta (Clanker Labs)
Venetian Ballroom G
  • AI Startups & VCs

Wednesday, August 5

10:30 AM
10:30 AM11:20 AM

"Who's Accountable When AI Decides and When It Fails?" Roundtable Moderated by Ron Whitworth, Truist [RSVP REQUIRED]

As AI is increasingly leveraged to make high stakes decisions, who is accountable when it gets it wrong-and are we ready to respond when it does? Automated decision-making now carries obligations around transparency…

Ron Whitworth (Truist)
Room 305
  • Roundtable
10:30 AM10:50 AM

A2UI: Build Dynamic Apps with Generative UI

Build UI that’s as dynamic, expressive, and personal as the agents that power your experiences using Flutter’s GenUI.

Khanh Nguyen (Google Cloud), Terrence Ryan (Google Cloud), Christina Zhu (Google Cloud)
Bellini Ballroom 2104
  • Google Cloud Programming
10:30 AM11:15 AM

AI for the Public Good: AI Use in the Public Sector

Public sector leaders are under pressure to do more with less—and AI is quickly becoming part of the toolkit. This panel features leaders who are piloting and scaling AI to serve communities more effectively. We'll…

Roman Jankowski (Department of Homeland Security), Robert Fulk (State of Indiana), Jacob Bogage (Reuters), Christian Napier (Utah Division of Technology Services), Roman Jankowski (US Department of Homeland Security)
Palazzo Ballroom B
  • Government & Public Sector
10:30 AM11:15 AM

AI Powered Product Management

AI is quickly becoming an indispensable tool in the product manager’s toolkit—not for replacing strategic vision, but for amplifying it. This panel will explore how PMs can use AI as end users to accelerate market…

Rohan Suri (Nooks), Natalie Barnes (Zumba), Amir Emadzadeh (Meta), Chika Anajemba (Citi), Saurav Gupta (Eli Lilly & Company)
Palazzo Ballroom L
  • Product Management
10:30 AM11:10 AM

Beneficial AGI: The Path the Frontier Labs Are Missing

The dominant AGI narrative centers on a handful of frontier labs racing to scale ever-larger models. But as compute-to-capability gains flatten, a different path is emerging, one built on hybrid…

Ben Goertzel (Singularity NET and BGI Labs)
Venetian Ballroom A
  • AI Research Summit (technical)
10:30 AM11:15 AM

Deploying AI Agents for the Real World

This panel explores the technical foundations and deployment challenges of AI agents capable of navigating real-world environments. Hear from engineers and researchers who have developed agents for enterprise workflows…

Waqas Makhdum (Nebius), Serg Masis (Syngenta), Rahul Zende (Navy Federal Credit Union), Ram Kumar Nimmakayala (Western Governors University), Simba Khadder (Redis)
Veronese Ballroom 2504
  • AI Agents (technical)
10:30 AM11:15 AM

Designing with Intelligence — How AI is Rewriting the Product Design Process

AI is no longer just a tool for efficiency—it’s reshaping the creative process itself. This panel brings together design leaders who are using AI to generate concepts, accelerate prototyping, and deliver highly…

Jordan Cooke (PepsiCo), Federico Casalegno (Samsung Electronics), Jeff Erno (Dassault Systèmes), Grace Engels (Ameriprise Financial)
Marcello Ballroom 4403
  • Product Design
10:30 AM11:15 AM

Engineering the Infrastructure Stack for Enterprise-Scale Agents

AI agents bring new levels of autonomy, but also new infrastructure complexity. This panel unpacks how leading organizations are designing and adopting robust infrastructure stacks specifically for agentic workloads…

Lu Zhang (Fusion Fund), David Casem (Telnyx), Ilya Kirnos (SignalFire), Mark McNeill (OneSource Cloud), Hok Hei Tam (Montai Therapeutics)
Delfino Ballroom 4104
  • Infrastructure: AI Agents
10:30 AM10:50 AM

Everyone's a Builder Now. Is Anyone Watching?

The commoditization of building via AI-assisted platforms or AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, etc.) is solving problems across the business faster than ever before. One team's productivity gain is another team's…

Rosie Halpin (Tines)
Titian Ballroom 2306
  • Oversight: AI Explainability Governance & Model Risk
10:30 AM11:15 AM

Farming Smarter: AI’s Role in Feeding the Future

From drones to data models, AI is changing how food is grown and moved. In this panel, leaders from agriculture, CPG, and logistics explore how AI is enabling sustainable, profitable operations across the food value…

Evan Harrison (Kiss The Ground), Ryan Rapp (Terrana Biosciences), Hoda Helmi (Corteva Agriscience)
Palazzo Ballroom E
  • Food & Agriculture
10:30 AM11:15 AM

From Blueprint to Build: AI in the Construction Lifecycle

What happens when AI takes the wheel from planning to post-construction? This panel brings together leaders in AEC who are deploying AI across design, logistics, site operations, and building performance. Learn how…

Shane Snider (DCK), Amit Sinha (TRC Companies), Patrick Murphy (Coastal Construction), Jeff Miller (Clayco)
Titian Ballroom 2302
  • Architecture Engineering & Construction (AEC)
10:30 AM11:15 AM

How AI Startups and VCs are Building the Future of Industry

The AI era is reshaping every industry, and the most ambitious startups—backed by forward-looking investors—are at the center of that transformation. This session brings together pairs of founders and their VCs for a…

Grace Gong (Smart Venture Media), Mike Montano (True Ventures), Shan Reddy (Aristotle)
Venetian Ballroom G
  • AI Startups & VCs
10:30 AM11:15 AM

Identifying High-ROI AI Agent Use Cases and Taking Action

Successfully deploying AI agents begins with identifying the highest impact opportunities within your organization. This panel will explore proven methodologies for pinpointing use cases with maximum return on…

Lin Yuan (Newfront Insurance (now part of WTW)), Bhaskar Borah (Dow Jones), Devin Stevens (Scrunch), Jonathan Shieber (Resilience Media), Muthu Sabarethinam (MiniMed)
Venetian Ballroom D
  • AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
10:30 AM11:15 AM

Overhauling Traditional IT Systems for the AI Era

Legacy IT systems were not designed with AI in mind—yet they still power critical enterprise functions. This panel will explore how IT leaders are modernizing legacy infrastructure to support AI workloads, from…

Sani Ronen (DriveNets), Billy Boozer (Dualboot Partners), Lilian Ajayi Ore (Columbia University), Jesse Sanders (Clayco), Josh Olson (Michigan Technology University)
Palazzo Ballroom G
  • CAIO CIO & It Leaders
10:30 AM11:15 AM

Predictive Maintenance & Equipment Health — Keeping Manufacturing Running with AI

Unplanned downtime is one of the costliest problems in manufacturing, and AI is rapidly transforming how plants manage equipment health. This panel will explore how leading manufacturers are using machine learning, IoT…

Prashant Kumar Bothra (Woven Capital), Amish Chadha (Kimberly-Clark), Dmitry Belov (BlueScope), Amir Pasdar (Henny Penny Corp)
Titian Ballroom 2304
  • Manufacturing
10:30 AM11:15 AM

Redefining Risk & Compliance in the Age of AI

AI is reshaping both the tools risk and compliance teams use and the very nature of the risks they face. This panel will explore how compliance leaders are adopting AI to monitor transactions, automate reporting, and…

Rajan Koo (DTEX), Irene Levintov (University of California, Office of the President), Alex Chan (Prudential Financial), Sanchita Chanda (JPMorganChase), Alex Bovee (C1)
Bellini Ballroom 2102
  • Risk & Compliance
10:30 AM11:15 AM

Redesigning Workflows and Driving Change Management for Agentic AI

Agentic AI reshapes how work gets done. This panel explores how enterprises are re-architecting workflows to integrate autonomous agents, from front-office operations to back-office processes. Panelists will highlight…

Jill Hosmer-Jolley (California State University Monterey Bay), Ralph Valdes (Zumba), Carlin Power (JLL), Max Ushchenko (NIX), Mahe Bayireddi (Phenom)
Venetian Ballroom H
  • AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
10:30 AM11:15 AM

ROI in Action: Case Studies of Profitable AI Deployments

What does real AI ROI look like in practice? This panel brings together executives who have successfully delivered profitable AI deployments across diverse business problems and industries. From cost reduction in…

Nithin Ramachandran (Cargill), Songyee Yoon (Principal Venture Partners), Steven Birgfeld (Blue Diamond Growers), Reza Forghani (AdventHealth), Jason Cumberland (Revenium)
Palazzo Ballroom D
  • Oversight: AI ROI
10:30 AM11:15 AM

Smarter Banking: Real-World AI Driving Value

Banks are no longer asking if they should use AI, but where it brings the most value. This panel dives into front-to-back use cases across the banking stack. Learn how leading institutions are deploying AI to catch…

Mo Jamous (Former U.S. Bank), Young Pham (CI&T), Nathan Bomey (Axios), Olga Ceja (Grupo Financiero Banorte)
Lando Ballroom 4204
  • Financial Services Banks
10:30 AM11:15 AM

Strategic Approaches to Scaling Generative AI Across the Enterprise

Scaling generative AI such as LLMs and multimodal AI from POC to enterprise-wide deployment requires not just technical readiness, but strategic vision. This session will focus on the broader organizational challenges…

Quinn Favret (Tavus), David Wang (Tetrate.io), Peter McCaffrey (The University of Texas Medical Branch), Kate Park (TechCrunch), Brian Carlson (Sodexo)
Venetian Ballroom E
  • Generative AI Deployment At Scale
10:30 AM11:15 AM

The Agentic Defense System: AI-Powered Detection and Response

Cybersecurity teams and their defense infrastructure, whether fully in-house or managed by outsourced partners, are under constant pressure to handle a flood of alerts, sprawling attack surfaces, and limited staff…

Richard Stiennon (IT-HARVEST), Guman Chauhan (State of California), Sreenath Kurupati (Straiker), Ed Cartagena (Menlo Security)
Marcello Ballroom 4404
  • Cybersecurity
10:30 AM10:50 AM

The Cloud Playbook Was Written Before AI: Building Infrastructure That Delivers AI at Scale

Most enterprise cloud strategies were designed for predictable applications—not probabilistic AI systems that consume dynamic data, take autonomous actions, and create difficult to forecast costs. This talk will explain…

Jayakumar Ramalingam (SiriusXM)
Lando Ballroom 4203
  • Infrastructure: Cloud Data Centers & Compute
10:30 AM11:15 AM

The Orchestration Layer: Coordinating Models, Tools, and Workflows

As enterprises scale their AI programs, orchestration has become the critical control plane for managing complexity. This panel will cover how orchestration frameworks handle task routing, state management, workflow…

Rafi Khardalian (Actualyze AI), Nirmal Jingar (Wayfair), Vijay Narasimhan (M Ventures), Ajay Swamy (JPMorganChase | FundLens.ai), Allen Badeau (DigitalNet.ai)
Palazzo Ballroom M
  • Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
10:30 AM11:15 AM

The State of Computer Vision: Tracking, Detection, and Understanding in 2026

Computer vision continues to evolve at remarkable speed, with breakthroughs in detection, tracking, and spatial understanding powering everything from industrial automation to robotics and AR. This session brings…

Vasu Sharma (PocketFM), Roy Lim (Robotemi Global Ltd.), Kunal Sonalkar (Nordstrom), Brian Merchant (Blood in the Machine), Aura Yavary (UC Davis)
Delfino Ballroom 4103
  • Vision Spatial & World Models (technical)
10:30 AM10:50 AM

Why Agentic AI Dies in Pilot: A GTM Leader's Framework for Real ROI

Most go-to-market teams buy agentic AI before they have defined what it is supposed to fix. Industry research puts the failure rate of AI initiatives as high as 70 to 85 percent, and the reasons are almost never…

Jonathan Kvarfordt (1mind)
Venetian Ballroom F
  • AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
10:55 AM
10:55 AM11:15 AM

Agent Building on Google Cloud

Learn the "how" of scaling: building AI agents that can handle millions of interactions while maintaining peak performance. We will explore how organizations are accelerating the journey from prototype to global…

Terrence Ryan (Google Cloud)
Bellini Ballroom 2104
  • Google Cloud Programming
10:55 AM11:15 AM

Cradle to Capital: Sustainable GPU Financing Through Lifecycle Management

AI hardware and GPUs are driving up spending and changing the way the IT hardware market works. Neoclouds and others who need large build-outs face some difficult realities when looking for financing. This presentation…

Ben Cartwright (Cirkadis)
Lando Ballroom 4203
  • Infrastructure: Cloud Data Centers & Compute
10:55 AM11:15 AM

Enterprise AI Transformation: Turning Strategy into Business Value

AI is no longer just a technology initiative; it is becoming a strategic transformation agenda for the enterprise. This talk will explore how organizations can move from AI ambition and experimentation to scaled…

Ashit Talukder (S&P Global)
Venetian Ballroom F
  • AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
10:55 AM11:15 AM

From Principles to Proof: Measuring Trust in GenAI and Agentic AI

What if you could measure the trustworthiness of an AI system the same way you audit financial controls? As GenAI and autonomous agents move from pilots into production, "responsible AI" too often stops at principles —…

Shub Agarwal (University of Southern California & GoodRx)
Titian Ballroom 2306
  • Oversight: AI Explainability Governance & Model Risk
10:55 AM11:45 AM

Women in AI Roundtable Moderated by Tiffany Benitez [RSVP REQUIRED]

This event requires an RSVP; to attend, submit form hereI am going to facilitate the Women in AI Roundtable that will cover how AI is reshaping how organizations make decisions, innovate, create value, and women have a…

Tiffany Benitez (Compass Group USA)
Room 310
  • Roundtable
11:20 AM
11:20 AM11:40 AM

AI Agents You Can Actually Trust: Platform Best Practices for Safe AI

Your AI agent works in testing. In production, it makes unpredictable calls and breaks things. Four platform practices make agents safe: isolation, Identity, Observability, and Governance. This talk shows how to add…

Sawyer Bowerman (Red Hat)
Veronese Ballroom 2504
  • AI Agents (technical)
11:20 AM11:40 AM

AI Leadership: The New Journey

With AI adoption at an all-time high, why does transformative business value remain so elusive at scale? While it is tempting to focus solely on the technology, I will explain why the true challenge of AI integration in…

Ilai Soloducho (Strauss Group)
Palazzo Ballroom E
  • Food & Agriculture
11:20 AM11:40 AM

Can AI Finally Break Construction’s Safety Plateau?

Construction safety performance has plateaued over the past several decades and, in some areas, has even worsened despite continuous investments in regulations, training, technology, and prevention programs. Many…

Mostafa Namian (East Carolina University)
Titian Ballroom 2302
  • Architecture Engineering & Construction (AEC)
11:20 AM11:40 AM

Closing the Sim2Real Gap with Living Drone Imagery

One of the next major bottlenecks in Physical AI isn’t model architecture, it’s access to a living and geometrically accurate representation of the real world. This session explores why closing the sim-to-real gap…

Bill Lakeland (Spexi)
Delfino Ballroom 4103
  • Vision Spatial & World Models (technical)
11:20 AM11:30 AM

Decision Intelligence - Analytics to Action

What if your AI could answer a business question as well as your best analyst—and show you how it got there? Organizations have more data than ever, yet decisions still get held up by stale dashboards, conflicting…

Hershey Khan (Ignite AI LLC)
Venetian Ballroom G
  • AI Startups & VCs
11:20 AM11:40 AM

Fireside Chat with Jahanvi Sardana, Index

Jahanvi Sardana (Index), Ben Bergman (Business Insider)
Lando Ballroom 4203
  • Infrastructure: Cloud Data Centers & Compute
11:20 AM11:40 AM

How Not to Blow Up: Training a 400B MoE to 17T Tokens Without Loss Spikes - Presentation by Lucas Atkins, Arcee

LLM progress now depends heavily on one practical issue: training stability at scale. Sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models are especially sensitive, since routing drift can overload experts, collapse utilization, and…

Lucas Atkins (Arcee)
Venetian Ballroom A
  • AI Research Summit (technical)
11:20 AM11:40 AM

Modernizing the SDLC with Agentic AI

Enterprises have spent the past two years experimenting with AI coding tools. Now the mandate has shifted from speeding up snippets to realizing governed, enterprise-scale transformation. In this session, we explore how…

Liam Allan (IBM), Venkat Venkatesan (EY)
Palazzo Ballroom D
  • Oversight: AI ROI
11:20 AM11:40 AM

Move Fast and Don’t Break Things

Every enterprise wants to move faster with AI, but most governance programs slow that down because they were built for humans, not machines. AI agents act in milliseconds, often with more access than any single task…

Art Gilliland (Delinea)
Titian Ballroom 2306
  • Oversight: AI Explainability Governance & Model Risk
11:20 AM11:40 AM

Policy as Product: Building Compliance at AI Speed

What if your policy had an adoption rate? Keeping pace with AI demands a shift from a reactive way of working to an entirely different operating system. This talk will trace a phased roadmap for policy to meet the AI…

Alexandria de Aranzeta (Boeing)
Bellini Ballroom 2102
  • Risk & Compliance
11:20 AM11:40 AM

Presentation by Shamindra Peiris, Visa

This talk will discuss how to leverage generative AI techniques to enhance fraud detection models. Main challenge faced by Fraud Detection models is the class imbalance where legitimate transactions vastly outnumber…

Shamindra Peiris (Visa Inc.)
Palazzo Ballroom L
  • Product Management
11:20 AM11:40 AM

Scaling AI on Main Street: From Demos to Bottom Line

Most companies think they're scaling AI. What they're actually scaling is experiments. In this session, I will argue that Main Street industries, from banking and insurance to healthcare, manufacturing, logistics…

Shadman Zafar (Vibrant Capital)
Lando Ballroom 4204
  • Financial Services Banks
11:20 AM11:40 AM

Scaling AI with Context, Control and Confidence

Putting AI into production exposes a different class of problems than most teams expect. Changing data, evolving workflows, and expanding use cases introduce failure modes that don’t appear in demos. This talk explores…

Kevin McGrath (Meibel)
Venetian Ballroom H
  • AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
11:20 AM11:40 AM

Sovereign and Efficient AI: The Case for Optimized AI Models in the Age of the Inference Crunch

The biggest threat to enterprise AI ROI isn't model quality it's infrastructure economics. With GPU capacity sold out, hyperscalers rationing access, and agentic workflows multiplying compute consumption 10–100x…

Chris Zaharias (Multiverse Computing)
Venetian Ballroom E
  • Generative AI Deployment At Scale
11:20 AM11:40 AM

The AI Dependency Trap: Own Your Edge

As AI evolves faster than governments can regulate it, enterprise leaders face growing uncertainty around access, cost, and control. Building AI on a single provider creates operational and strategic risk. Catalina…

Catalina Herrera (Dataiku)
Palazzo Ballroom G
  • CAIO CIO & It Leaders
11:20 AM11:40 AM

The Automation Advantage: Creating the Foundation for AI-Driven Manufacturing

Manufacturing is facing a convergence of challenges: workforce shortages, rapidly changing skills, rising energy demands, and an explosion of data. AI is often positioned as the answer. However, AI is inherently…

Chris Stevens (Siemens Digital Industries)
Titian Ballroom 2304
  • Manufacturing
11:20 AM11:40 AM

The Enterprise AI Imperative – Scaling Agents for Transformational Value

While AI technology is advancing rapidly, many organizations still struggle to translate innovation into measurable business results. This keynote bridges the gap between technical execution and strategic value…

Ben Yevin (Google Cloud)
Bellini Ballroom 2104
  • Google Cloud Programming
11:20 AM11:40 AM

The Frontier AI Inference Cloud for Agents

Agents have changed the economics of AI inference. A chatbot's cost scales roughly linearly with the number of requests; an agent's scales multiplicatively. A single task can fan out into hundreds of model calls, each…

Brian Yoo (FriendliAI)
Delfino Ballroom 4104
  • Infrastructure: AI Agents
11:20 AM11:40 AM

The Million-Dollar Pilot Trap: Why 89% of AI Agents Never Scale

AI experimentation is everywhere. Enterprise-scale AI deployment is not. While organizations race to adopt AI agents, many remain trapped in pilots that never deliver meaningful business value. The challenge isn't…

Kevin Lee (NiCE)
Venetian Ballroom F
  • AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
11:20 AM11:40 AM

The Next Era of Enterprise AI: The Shift Underway

Most organizations began their AI journey by renting generic intelligence through frontier models. It was the fastest way to get started, but they quickly discovered three fundamental limitations: generic models rarely…

Manos Koukoumidis (Oumi)
Palazzo Ballroom M
  • Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
11:20 AM11:40 AM

Using Agentic AI to Drive Customer Acquisition & Retention

It has always been critical to acquire the right customers, optimize customer-related spend, and personalize engagement at every stage of the customer lifecycle. Agentic AI creates a huge opportunity for companies to…

David Truty (CreditAssociates)
Venetian Ballroom D
  • AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
11:20 AM11:40 AM

When AI "Judges"

How can artificial intelligence bridge the gap between complex legislation and the public while simultaneously empowering the judiciary to handle immense workloads? To modernize our legal infrastructure, I will share…

Ulfan Aliyev (National Artificial Intelligence Center of Republic of Azerbaijan)
Palazzo Ballroom B
  • Government & Public Sector
11:20 AM11:40 AM

Why LLM will not scale for CyberSecurity?

We will discuss the limitations of LLM for Cybersecurity and what possible ways to overcome them are.

Guy Flechter (Sola Security)
Marcello Ballroom 4404
  • Cybersecurity
11:45 AM
11:45 AM12:05 PM

AI and the Automated Abundance Economy

AI is already changing the world, and soon it will transform the workplace. Zoltan Istvan, a leading AI and transhumanist thinker, discusses his Automated Abundance Economy. Comprised of three parts, it offers a unique…

Zoltan Istvan (Zoltan Istvan)
Titian Ballroom 2302
  • Social Impact Of AI
11:45 AM12:05 PM

AI and the United States Midterm Elections

How will the 2026 midterms reshape the future of AI policy in Washington? As lawmakers wrestle with how to regulate a fast-moving industry, the election's outcome could redraw the balance of power and reset the agenda…

Justin Hendrix (Tech Policy Press)
Palazzo Ballroom B
  • Government & Public Sector
11:45 AM12:30 PM

AI for Energy Resilience: Balancing Reliability and Decarbonization

As the energy sector decarbonizes, AI plays a growing role in keeping the grid reliable and systems efficient. This panel features leaders from traditional and renewable sectors exploring how AI helps navigate volatile…

Paul Browning (Argon Power Group), Claudia Cosoreanu (GE Vernova Grid Automation), Jonathan Herman (Strong Interactive)
Titian Ballroom 2304
  • Energy
11:45 AM12:05 PM

AMD Instinct Coder: Local-First Inference for Agentic Coding

AI coding agents are moving from experimental tools into core developer workflows, and the infrastructure assumptions underneath them — centralized APIs, pay-per-token pricing, data leaving the enterprise — are…

Kumaran Siva (AMD)
Lando Ballroom 4203
  • Infrastructure: Cloud Data Centers & Compute
11:45 AM12:05 PM

Be the Frontier Firm - Talking Machines

Frontier firms create value by becoming AI-native organizations by deploying AI in three work-streams: Strategy Acceleration (New Product Introductions, etc.) Continuous Improvement—sharpening what already exists…

Viren Shah (Cacti Industries)
Palazzo Ballroom E
  • Food & Agriculture
11:45 AM12:25 PM

Beyond the Chatbot: Designing the Age of Physical AI

For decades, technology has asked people to adapt to machines. AI creates an opportunity to reverse that relationship. Having helped bring multiple waves of technology to market—from personal computing and mobile…

Robert Brunner (Ammunition)
Marcello Ballroom 4403
  • Product Design
11:45 AM12:05 PM

Beyond the Screen: Engineering AI Models for the Real World

In this session, Niantic CTO Brian McClendon skips the vision statements and dives straight into the challenges of building spatial intelligence and a Large Geospatial Model (LGM), drawing on his experience of building…

Brian McClendon (Niantic Spatial), Thomas Germain (The BBC)
Delfino Ballroom 4103
  • Vision Spatial & World Models (technical)
11:45 AM12:05 PM

Build Intelligent Agents with Telemetry and Sessions

Learn how to build agents that share relevant informaiton with you. You'll see how to enable telemetry in frameworks like Google ADK that can give you the ability to create powerful insights from your agent using tools…

Jason Davenport (Google)
Bellini Ballroom 2104
  • Google Cloud Programming
11:45 AM12:35 PM

Cognition in Code: Building AI from Biological Models [RSVP REQUIRED]

This event requires an RSVP; to attend, submit form hereWhat if the key to better AI lies in biological models of cognition? This roundtable explores how insights from cognitive neuroscience and brain-inspired systems…

Naga Harivadana Kalapatapu (DePaul University)
Room 305
  • Roundtable (technical)
11:45 AM12:05 PM

Context as Infrastructure: How SIXT Wired Its Enterprise for AI Productivity at Scale

The bottleneck for AI productivity in the enterprise isn't the models - it's context. Who has access to what data, when, and in what form determines whether AI becomes a genuine productivity multiplier or stays a…

Boyan Dimitrov (SIXT SE)
Delfino Ballroom 4104
  • Infrastructure: AI Agents
11:45 AM12:05 PM

Conversation with Anuj Mehndiratta, Thrive Capital & Jim Siders, Shield

How can businesses drive enterprise AI adoption from the inside out? Join Anuj Mehndiratta, part of the founding team at Thrive Holdings, and Jim Siders, CEO of Shield Technology Partners, to discuss how Holdings is…

Anuj Mehndiratta (Thrive Capital), Jim Siders (Shield Technology Partners), Yun-Hee Kim (The Washington Post)
Palazzo Ballroom M
  • Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
11:45 AM12:05 PM

Defining Success Metrics across Generative and Agentic Experiences

When an AI agent completes a multi-step task, how do you actually know it succeeded? As generative and agentic experiences move from demos into production, most teams are still applying metrics built for deterministic…

Yash Chaturvedi (Amazon)
Palazzo Ballroom L
  • Product Management
11:45 AM12:05 PM

Edge-First AI: Mission Critical Intelligence Without Mega Scale Compute

I will challenge the assumption that mission-critical AI demands planet-melting data centres and show how intelligent agents can operate securely and reliably at the edge. In a world of constrained bandwidth, contested…

Ajay Chakravarthy (Thales UK)
Venetian Ballroom H
  • AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
11:45 AM12:05 PM

Enabling Acceleration with AI You Can Trust

Companies raced to pilot AI in the past few years. Now they must prove they can run it safely at scale. Saima Shafiq, Head of Enterprise AI Enablement at U.S. Bank, shares how governance becomes the accelerator—not the…

Saima Shafiq (US Bank)
Venetian Ballroom E
  • Generative AI: Applications & Use Cases
11:45 AM12:05 PM

Flying High with AI Agents in Operation at United: Kushal Pasari, United Airlines

Ever wondered how one of the biggest airlines enables messages to our customers? We will raise the curtain and take you through our journey in enabling Agents running 24x7 to make it happen.

Kushal Pasari (United Airlines)
Veronese Ballroom 2504
  • AI Agents (technical)
11:45 AM12:05 PM

From 8 Years to 18 Months: Designing Enterprise AI That Delivers Measurable Healthcare Outcomes

Did you know it takes nearly 8 years, on average, for many patients to receive a diagnosis for an autoimmune disease? Enterprise AI creates lasting value when it solves a real business problem - not when it simply…

Siva Balu (Quartz Health Solutions)
Palazzo Ballroom G
  • CAIO CIO & It Leaders
11:45 AM12:05 PM

New Chapter of Productivity by Deployments of Embodied AI

As artificial intelligence evolves beyond screen-based models, embodied AI and general-purpose humanoid robotics are entering physical operations at commercial scale. In this 20-minute fireside chat, Patrick Gao (North…

Ryan Wang (Solaris Venture Partners & Outpost Capital), Patrick Gao (AGIBOT)
Palazzo Ballroom D
  • Oversight: AI ROI
11:45 AM12:05 PM

Rewiring a Global Enterprise for the AI Economy

With a legacy that spans industries and decades, Panasonic is undertaking a bold journey to reinvent how it operates, builds and competes in an AI-powered world. In this session, Elise will share how the company is…

Elise Neel (Panasonic)
Venetian Ballroom F
  • AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
11:45 AM12:05 PM

Securing World Models & Digital Twins: The Next Critical Attack Surface for Operations

Digital twins are quickly turning from “visual dashboards” into decision engines that can recommend—or automate—real operational actions. In this talk, I will explain how that shift creates a new attack surface: instead…

Samuel Addington (California State University Long Beach)
Venetian Ballroom A
  • AI Research Summit (technical)
11:45 AM12:30 PM

The Agentic Bank: Moving Towards Autonomous AI in Banking

Financial institutions are transitioning from passive AI assistants to autonomous systems capable of executing complex workflows. This panel will focus on the rise of agentic AI and how it is transforming core…

Davidson Charles (Citi), Ash Kaduskar (First Citizens Bank), Darrell Etherington (The Angle), Alexander Guerra Perales (Banco Azteca / Elektra), Robert Thacker (ARIS)
Lando Ballroom 4204
  • Financial Services Banks
11:45 AM11:55 AM

The Control Tower for AI at Work: Seeing the Work Nobody Can Currently See

What if the single fastest-growing line in your budget is also the one you can see the least?AI at work no longer lives inside one approved tool. It's scattered across ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Cursor, personal…

Naman Ambavi (Oximy)
Venetian Ballroom G
  • AI Startups & VCs
11:45 AM12:05 PM

When Rules Break Down: Designing AI for the Real World

I’ve worked on misinformation at Facebook, youth safety at Instagram, and high-stakes reliability with most foundation model labs. That experience has made clear that more capable AI will not automatically become more…

Robbie Goldfarb (Forum AI)
Titian Ballroom 2306
  • Oversight: AI Explainability Governance & Model Risk
11:45 AM12:05 PM

Why CyberSecurity Needs a Human-Centric Approach

While AI redefines the digital landscape, human talent remains the core of cyber resilience. This session explores a human-centric approach, leveraging research from WiCyS and FourOne Insights to transform cybersecurity…

Lynn Dohm (Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS)), Will Markow (FourOne Insights)
Marcello Ballroom 4404
  • Cybersecurity
11:45 AM12:05 PM

Why Your Agent Died in the Pilot: Pinaki Saha - Anshar Labs/Anshar Ai

Why do 79% of enterprises adopt AI agents while only 11% actually run them in production? I built and shipped four agents that crossed that gap, in security surveillance, finance, live content moderation, and training…

Pinaki Saha (Anshar Labs)
Venetian Ballroom D
  • AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
12:10 PM
12:10 PM12:30 PM

AI Sprawl Is Exploding: Get Ahead of Governance and Orchestration Challenges Before It's Too Late

The rapid explosion of AI and autonomous agents introduces risks that traditional security measures weren't built to address, placing newdemands on CIOs to govern the AI sprawl across the organization. In this session…

Kevin Kiley (Airia)
Palazzo Ballroom G
  • CAIO CIO & It Leaders
12:10 PM12:30 PM

AI-Native Engineering at Scale: Infrastructure, Workflows, and the AI Hub Pattern

Most engineering orgs are AI-enabled, with tools bolted onto old workflows. Few are AI-native, with the infrastructure and workflows built for AI from the ground up. During this session, we'll share the AI Hub, a…

Andy Vays (Equal Experts)
Palazzo Ballroom M
  • Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
12:10 PM12:30 PM

Building an AI-Based Hospital: From Vision to Clinical Reality

The hospital of the future is not a building — it is an intelligent system. This talk presents the roadmap for embedding artificial intelligence across the full continuum of hospital operations. Drawing on real-world…

Ayelet Akselrod-Ballin (ARC Innovation, Sheba Tel Hashomer City of Health)
Venetian Ballroom E
  • Generative AI: Applications & Use Cases
12:10 PM12:30 PM

Compounding ROI with AI: From SaaS Disruption to the Fully Agentic Enterprise

Doing AI is table stakes now. Everyone has multiple programs in production and many more in flight. The edge isn't whether you build; it's whether the returns compound. So we flip it: realize ROI now, and let each win…

Srikanth Chitipotu (Sage IT)
Palazzo Ballroom D
  • Oversight: AI ROI
12:10 PM12:30 PM

Fender Benders, Near Misses, Flat Tires and Checkered Flags – When Everyone Drives AI on the Road to Better Government.

I'll share our unconventional approach to giving our entire team access to GenAI —why humor and a sense of play helped, what the “fails” taught us, how we are overcoming “shadow” Ai usage when traditional IT governance…

Chuck Wemple (Houston-Galveston Area Council)
Palazzo Ballroom B
  • Government & Public Sector
12:10 PM12:30 PM

Fireside Chat with Amir Alpert, Dognosis

Amir Alpert (Dognosis)
Bellini Ballroom 2102
  • The Ai4 Lens
12:10 PM12:30 PM

From Prototype to Production: Production Ready Agents on Google Cloud

Building a single AI agent is easy; scaling it reliably across an enterprise is hard. This session explores the practicalities of agent development using our comprehensive toolset. We'll cover the benefits of low-code…

Terrence Ryan (Google Cloud)
Bellini Ballroom 2104
  • Google Cloud Programming
12:10 PM12:30 PM

How a Conference Room Broke Our Computer Vision Assumptions

Event recording sounds like a solved problem. It isn't. I'll walk through how we evolved NATE, SlidesLive's autonomous recording system, from basic face detection to a multimodal system that fuses video and audio to do…

Vojta Ciml (SlidesLive)
Delfino Ballroom 4103
  • Vision Spatial & World Models (technical)
12:10 PM12:30 PM

Is Orchestration the Future?

This session introduces multi-agent systems (MAS) and traces their evolution - from standalone LLMs handling single tasks, through orchestrated agentic workflows, to fully autonomous distributed networks where agents…

Arick Goomanovsky (BAND)
Delfino Ballroom 4104
  • Infrastructure: AI Agents
12:10 PM12:30 PM

Is Your Enterprise Ready for AI? Developing a Safe Adoption Strategy for AI

Most organizations are currently stuck between two worlds: the urgent need to adopt AI to remain competitive, and the critical mandate to protect corporate data and reputation. AI is evolving faster than any tool in IT…

Shawn Surber (Island)
Marcello Ballroom 4404
  • Cybersecurity
12:10 PM12:30 PM

LOV Where You Work AI Tool

Prospective employees are often asked to sign contracts they do not fully understand. Even when they read the fine print, they may not have the legal expertise to recognize what rights they are giving up, what…

James Gaskin (Brigham Young University), Julie Roginsky (Lift Our Voices), Ron Schmelzer (Forbes / Scalebrate), Gretchen Carlson (Lift Our Voices)
Titian Ballroom 2302
  • Social Impact Of AI
12:10 PM12:30 PM

MarcoPolo: The Data Gateway for Governing How AI Agents Access Enterprise Data

AI agents no longer just produce insights for people to act on. Instead, they reach into CRMs, ERPs, ticketing systems, databases, and warehouses in real time and act on the data themselves. That collapses the…

Aseem Chandra (MarcoPolo.dev)
Titian Ballroom 2306
  • Oversight: AI Explainability Governance & Model Risk
12:10 PM12:30 PM

Palm Reading and Other Skills: Agent Architectures in 2027

Most enterprise AI agents being built right now won't make it to durable production. Not because the models aren't good enough, but because the architectural choices made in the first 90 days quietly seal the project's…

Alan Nichol (Rasa)
Venetian Ballroom D
  • AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
12:10 PM12:30 PM

Presentation By Bright Data

For decades, the web was Google's domain, organizing the chaos for humans. Now AI agents are taking over - but they're only as good as what they can see, and they often get blocked or work off stale data. They then make…

Ariel Shulman (Bright Data)
Venetian Ballroom H
  • AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
12:10 PM12:30 PM

Presentation by Che Guan, Alliance Bernstein

We use Large Language Models (LLMs) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) to extract Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) insights from real-time news, creating an expert-annotated dataset to evaluate ESG…

Che Guan (AllianceBernstein)
Venetian Ballroom A
  • AI Research Summit (technical)
12:10 PM12:20 PM

Stop Hiring: Build an AI Workforce Instead

After training 300+ companies on deploying their first AI Agents, I'll show you how AI is moving beyond chatbots into fully autonomous systems that can run real parts of your business. Most companies are still…

Joel Yi (Deploy AI Bots)
Venetian Ballroom G
  • AI Startups & VCs
12:10 PM12:30 PM

The End to Token Anxiety: Aible, NVIDIA & Dell

Companies are stuck between two choices: use frontier models spending unpredictable amounts on tokens or cobble together open source projects to create your own agentic AI solution. Aible worked closely with NVIDIA and…

Arijit Sengupta (Aible), Sama Bali (NVIDIA), Logan Lawler (Dell Technologies)
Venetian Ballroom F
  • AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
12:10 PM12:30 PM

The Loop, Not the Launch: Building Agents That Get Better With You

Agent building is a constant process of iteration, which raises two questions most teams don't have good answers to: how do you know when to stop, and how do you know what to improve next? In this talk, we'll share…

Amanda Milberg (ElevenLabs)
Veronese Ballroom 2504
  • AI Agents (technical)
12:10 PM12:30 PM

You Can't Automate What You Can't See

Finance teams deployed AI at scale: 63% now use it, and only about 1 in 5 can prove it paid off. The gap is almost never the model; it is the machine the model is bolted onto, which means the data, the process, and who…

Thomas DeFabrizio (Impellam Group)
Palazzo Ballroom E
  • CFO & Finance
2:00 PM
2:00 PM4:10 PM

Agentic Live Demos

Agentic AI has everybody talking—come see what's next.Experience AI in action at the Agentic Live Demo Stage, where innovators showcase real-world agentic AI through live demonstrations. Discover how AI agents are…

Halls B&C
  • Agentic Live Demos
2:00 PM2:20 PM

AI Agents Beyond the Hype: Lessons from Enterprise Deployments

AI agent demos can be compelling and inexpensive to build, but deploying agents reliably at enterprise scale is far more difficult. I will share practical lessons from implementing agent-based AI systems in highly…

Koosha Golmohammadi (JP Morgan & Chase)
Venetian Ballroom D
  • AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
2:00 PM2:45 PM

AI Cloud Economics: Controlling Infrastructure Costs and Maximizing ROI

As enterprise AI deployments mature from experimental pilots to mission-critical applications, managing the associated cloud infrastructure costs has become a top priority for the C-suite. This panel explores how…

Ankur Saxena (TDK Ventures), Raghavendra Bagalkoti (Barclays), Abhinav Mahajan (Clayton Homes), Erik Peterson (CloudZero)
Lando Ballroom 4203
  • Infrastructure: Cloud Data Centers & Compute
2:00 PM2:20 PM

Architecting the Agentic Enterprise: How Non-Tech Organizations Can Prepare for AI at Scale

As AI moves from prompts to agents, the real challenge to enterprise adoption is no longer experimentation but architecture. In this session, Tom Flanagan, CIO at REMAX, will share how senior IT leaders can prepare…

Tom Flanagan (RE/MAX)
Palazzo Ballroom G
  • CAIO CIO & It Leaders
2:00 PM2:20 PM

Beyond AI Hype: How Global Enterprises Build Sustainable AI Capabilities that Deliver Measurable Business Value

Why do so many promising AI pilots fail to create lasting enterprise value? The challenge is rarely the technology alone—it is the organization’s ability to align strategy, data, governance, operating models, talent…

Kader Sakkaria (Marsh)
Palazzo Ballroom D
  • Oversight: AI ROI
2:00 PM2:20 PM

Beyond Human - Elevating the Caller Experience with AI

What if your company could handle customer calls not just efficiently, but with an intelligence that goes beyond human capabilities? For years, our caller experience was fragmented, relying on a mix of legacy systems…

Jason Rice (The Home Depot)
Delfino Ballroom 4103
  • CX & Customer Service
2:00 PM2:20 PM

Capital, Code, or Contracts: A Data and AI Executive's Build vs Buy Playbook

The traditional "Build vs. Buy" dilemma is an outdated binary that limits how enterprise leaders actually drive value. As a Data and AI executive at a mid-market enterprise, I know firsthand that we must carefully…

Rachel Ibarra (Cardinal Group Management)
Palazzo Ballroom L
  • Data Analytics & BI
2:00 PM2:45 PM

Closing Smarter: AI’s Role in Modern Sales Operations

Today’s high-performing sales teams are powered by AI. This panel explores how leading companies are using AI to identify top opportunities, automate admin tasks, and coach reps in real time. From forecasting accuracy…

Eric Seiberling (MXD Process), Olcay Bulgun Gardner (Sodexo), Chris Yeh (Blitzscaling Ventures), Charlie Wiebe (Nooks)
Bellini Ballroom 2102
  • Sales & Revenue Operations
2:00 PM2:20 PM

COCO: An Agentic AI Assistant for Marketing Analytics

Marketing teams generate massive amounts of performance data — but extracting timely insights still requires SQL expertise, analyst queues, and days of turnaround. COCO is an agentic AI assistant that lets marketers ask…

Shanshan Bi (Pfizer)
Veronese Ballroom 2504
  • AI Agents (technical)
2:00 PM2:20 PM

Fireside Chat with John Whyte, American Medical Association

I will discuss w/Whyte the changing landscape of health-related policies in the US and the impact that has on the health of Americans, from cuts in biomedical research budgets to changes in vaccine policies.

John Whyte (American Medical Association), Alice Park (TIME)
Marcello Ballroom 4404
  • Healthcare Care Providers
2:00 PM2:40 PM

From AI Investment to Margin Impact: How Banks Are Turning Intelligence Into Value

AI is no longer a technology cycle — it is a margin and execution cycle. Competitive advantage will not come from access to models, but from the ability to operationalize intelligence at scale with discipline, trust…

Sebastian Pellejero (Reuters Breakingviews), Kristin Milchanowski (BMO)
Lando Ballroom 4204
  • Financial Services Banks
2:00 PM2:45 PM

From Automation to Advantage: AI’s Impact on the Office of the CFO

Corporate finance leaders are shifting from reactive reporting to proactive insight—and AI is the engine. In this session, finance executives will unpack how they're deploying AI to modernize core functions and generate…

Joe Dormani (Thomson Reuters Ventures), Mayank Sharma (EnergyX), Yoav Naveh (Reindeer), Jonas Melton (RSM US LLP)
Palazzo Ballroom E
  • CFO & Finance
2:00 PM2:20 PM

From Autonomy to Accountability: Designing Governance for the Agentic Era

For Agentic AI the question is no longer what can AI do, but who holds the authority when it does it. Executives and leaders need a roadmap to understand the challenge of operating systems that act, decide and…

JoAnn Stonier (Cantellus Group)
Venetian Ballroom F
  • AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
2:00 PM2:20 PM

How to Build a Virtual Human for Drug Discovery

Can we predict how a patient will respond to a therapy - including novel ones not yet in the clinic? Doing so would improve personalized treatment and accelerate the discovery of new medicines but requires overcoming…

Gregory Koytiger (Synthesize Bio)
Venetian Ballroom A
  • AI Research Summit (technical)
2:00 PM2:20 PM

Human + AI: How Indeed is Transforming a Global Workforce

How does the world’s #1 job site in the world move at the speed of AI without breaking the foundation of human trust?As both CIO and CSO at Indeed, Anthony Moisant operates at the critical intersection of speed and…

Anthony Moisant (Indeed), Kristin Stoller (Fortune)
Delfino Ballroom 4104
  • Infrastructure: AI Agents
2:00 PM2:50 PM

Human-Tech Adaptation: Operationalizing Responsible AI Across the Enterprise [RSVP REQUIRED]

This event requires an RSVP; to attend, submit form hereMost organizations have AI policy-but no real operational playbook to make it work. In this roundtable, I will challenge participants to identify the human…

Hemachandran Kannan (Woxsen University)
Room 305
  • Roundtable
2:00 PM2:20 PM

Living Platform: How AI is Transforming the Information Technology Model

Do you want to experience the future of information? Every generation of computing has asked the same thing of us. Adapt yourself to the tool, and someone else will decide what the tool can do. Agentic AI is already…

Christine Palmer (Peraton)
Palazzo Ballroom M
  • Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
2:00 PM2:10 PM

OneNine | Building the AI Data Infrastructure for Low Resource Languages

Here is a challenge that most AI builders still overlook: today’s AI understands only about 100 languages, yet the world speaks nearly 7,000. This gap leaves more than four billion people unheard and unserved by systems…

Robert Bob Okello (OneNine)
Venetian Ballroom G
  • AI Startups & VCs
2:00 PM2:20 PM

Power Is the New Moat

The AI revolution has an energy problem. Every model trained, every inference run, every data center scaled demands massive, reliable power. I'll make the case that the companies who solve the energy problem will be the…

Tim Latimer (Fervo Energy)
Titian Ballroom 2304
  • Energy
2:00 PM2:40 PM

The AI Rush Is Making Contract Intelligence Cost More - Not Less: Why AI Fails Without Governed Contract Data

AI is making it easier than ever to build & deploy contract intelligence solutions, yet many organizations are experiencing rising complexity, governance overhead, and inconsistent AI outcomes. As AI expands across…

Naresh Kommula (McKesson)
Palazzo Ballroom B
  • Enterprise Architecture
2:00 PM2:20 PM

The Architecture Behind Business Transformation: How WEX Built an AI-Native Data Platform

Session Description: What does it take to move from experimenting with AI to building an enterprise that is truly AI-native? This talk presents a practical architecture for connecting trusted data, semantic objects…

Mohamed Battisha (Wex Inc)
Titian Ballroom 2302
  • Infrastructure: Data Platforms & Strategy
2:00 PM2:20 PM

The Future of Hollywood--Why AI and Major Movie Studio Filmmaking are on a Collision Course

Hollywood doesn’t get to opt out of AI. With billions of people worldwide already using the latest tools and studios like Disney embracing them in real time and making deals with the hyperscalers, the question isn’t if…

Pouya Shahbazian (Staircase Studios AI), Maxwell Millington (Freelance)
Venetian Ballroom E
  • Generative AI: Applications & Use Cases
2:00 PM2:20 PM

The Governance Imperative for Artificial Intelligence

Nearly everyone in the AI ecosystem has come to the realization that we cannot proceed along the ungoverned path that has characterized AI development. In the past month alone, we have witnessed rogue agents breaking…

Nathan Persily (Stanford Law School)
Titian Ballroom 2306
  • AI Policy Summit
2:00 PM2:20 PM

The Token Maxing Myth: Optimize Agents for Max Value

Khalid Turk (Santa Clara Valley Healthcare)
Venetian Ballroom H
  • AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
2:00 PM2:15 PM

Trusted AI Starts with AI-Ready Data

AI agents are only as reliable as the data they consume. This talk explains how AI-native observability, automated quality validation, and business context prevent hallucinations, detect data drift, and build trust in…

Halls B&C
  • Agentic Live Demos
2:00 PM2:20 PM

User-Centered Design Powers Better AI

Effective AI-enabled edtech starts with users. Join us to explore how our team combines iterative user experience research, user co-design, and evidence-based learning science to create AI products that are intuitive…

Amber Rowland (University of Kansas)
Marcello Ballroom 4403
  • Product Design
2:00 PM2:45 PM

Vibe-Code an App on Multimodal Analytics [HANDS ON; LAPTOP REQUIRED]

**Important Note**: This hands-on, interactive workshop is led by Google Cloud and is open to all Ai4 attendees at no additional cost. No RSVP or separate registration is required. To participate and get the most out of…

Lucia Subatin (Google Cloud)
Bellini Ballroom 2104
  • Google Cloud Programming
2:25 PM
2:25 PM2:45 PM

Agentic Planning in Supply Chains: Hype or the Next Operating Reality?

What happens when forecasts, inventory positions, market signals, and business plans are continuously connected rather than reviewed once a month? This session will explore how Agentic AI is reshaping the planning…

Aanish Singla (Nagarro)
Venetian Ballroom E
  • Generative AI: Applications & Use Cases
2:25 PM3:15 PM

Building AI-Ready Platforms: Architectures That Outlive Technology [RSVP REQUIRED]

This event requires an RSVP; to attend, submit form hereAI is changing how we build software, but is it changing what great platforms should be built upon? This roundtable will explore how enterprise platforms can…

Sharon Gorla (Starbucks)
Room 310
  • Roundtable (technical)
2:25 PM2:45 PM

Building the Document Context Layer for AI Agents

~90% of enterprise data is unstructured, and a lot of that lives in the form of documents - PDFs, pptx, docx, etc. - powering a majority of enterprise knowledge work.AI agents have the potential to simultaneously better…

Jerry Liu (LlamaIndex)
Palazzo Ballroom M
  • Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
2:25 PM3:05 PM

Cheap to Write, Expensive to Trust: Architecting Production Systems with LLMs

LLMs made code cheap to write, but they did nothing to make it cheap to trust: the most dangerous output is plausible-but-wrong code that compiles, passes review, and sails through green CI while being quietly wrong…

Kshitij Gupta (Meta)
Venetian Ballroom A
  • Coding Assistants & Vibe Coding (technical)
2:25 PM2:35 PM

Computer Vision Is a Lifecycle Problem, Not a Model Problem

Computer vision no longer fails because usable models are missing. It fails because the deployment loop around those models is fragmented: data curation, validation, architecture selection, edge deployment, and safe…

Chandler Provence (IRIS)
Venetian Ballroom G
  • AI Startups & VCs
2:25 PM2:45 PM

Confident machines: Why AI's trust problem starts before the model ever runs

Knowledge is compounding faster than anyone can keep up with — in medicine, research output is doubling every 73 days; in almost every other field, the story is the same: more papers, more reports, more data than any…

Sue Weng-Cross (Wiley)
Palazzo Ballroom L
  • Data Analytics & BI
2:25 PM2:45 PM

Enterprise Transformation Takes More Than Tools: A Practical Path From AI Spend to AI Capability

Every enterprise bought AI tools this year. Almost none got enterprise results. The pressure to show real value from AI has never been higher, and buying more software is not the answer. This talk will explore why AI…

Chris Weidemann (Advisor Labs)
Venetian Ballroom F
  • AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
2:25 PM2:45 PM

Federal vs. State: AGs, Governors & Congress on Who Should Govern AI

A multi-level debate bringing together sitting Attorney Generals, Governors, and Members of Congress to examine the most explosive fault line in U.S. AI governance: federal preemption of state AI laws. Connecticut just…

Dan Donovan (RegulatingAI), Soumitra Dutta (Cornell University), Shreya Amin (Minsphere)
Titian Ballroom 2306
  • AI Policy Summit
2:25 PM2:45 PM

Finance Doesn't Need More Automation. It Needs Autonomous Execution.

What if your next finance transformation didn't require replacing your ERP?Finance has spent decades investing in ERP, automation, and analytics, yet many of its most critical processes remain manual, fragmented, and…

Deepak Anchala (Adopt AI)
Venetian Ballroom D
  • AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
2:25 PM2:45 PM

From Data Overload to Grid Intelligence: How AI-Powered Visualization Is Transforming Utility Operations

Utilities don't have a data problem—they have a decision problem. This talk will illustrate how artificial intelligence can transform disconnected operational and enterprise data into trusted Decision Intelligence by…

Edward Tavares (Hawaiian Electric Company)
Titian Ballroom 2304
  • Energy
2:25 PM2:45 PM

How Agentic Voice AI is Reshaping CX Outcomes

Most enterprises have automated customer interactions, yet few have orchestrated them. Agentic Voice AI goes beyond automation, reasoning across conversations, enterprise data, workflows, and human expertise to achieve…

Amir Hameed (RingCentral), Frank Pettinato (Avantive Solutions)
Delfino Ballroom 4103
  • CX & Customer Service
2:25 PM3:05 PM

I Couldn't Buy It So I Built It: Citizen Developers Building AI Applications - Nina Eisenberg and Robert Greisemer

What happens when the tool your enterprise team needs does not exist — and the person closest to the problem is not an engineer?This talk will illustrate how a non-technical lawyer used AI coding tools to build an…

Robert Greisemer (Coinbase), Nina Eisenberg (Coinbase)
Veronese Ballroom 2504
  • AI Agents (technical)
2:25 PM2:45 PM

Kiteworks: Controlling Data Access and Use by AI Agents for Compliant AI

I've watched organizations rush AI adoption straight into a compliance crisis — and the gap is always the same. Regulated data doesn't stay put when agents are in the loop. AI agents autonomously push private data…

Craig Pfister (Kiteworks)
Delfino Ballroom 4104
  • Infrastructure: AI Agents
2:25 PM2:45 PM

Moving from Agent Sprawl to Governed Scale

As companies build AI agents across teams, tools, models, and clouds, the biggest challenge is not creating agents - it is how to scale agentic AI without losing visibility, control and accountability. Traditional GRC…

Sunil Murthy (IBM)
Venetian Ballroom H
  • AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
2:25 PM2:45 PM

Realtime Operational Instrumentation in Healthcare: AI Analytics in Action

What if the problem with healthcare analytics isn't the models, but the fact that someone has to go somewhere to look at them? Most organizations deliver intelligence as dashboards, reports you visit after the work is…

Akbar Esfahani (Central California Alliance for Health)
Marcello Ballroom 4404
  • Healthcare Care Providers
2:25 PM2:45 PM

Reinventing Legacy Brands - Breaking the Rules Without Breaking the Brand

What does it take for an iconic brand to reinvent itself in the age of AI?For more than 25 years, I've had the privilege of helping reinvent some of the world's most iconic brands, including Hasbro, Foot Locker, and…

Samantha Lomow (Tupperware)
Marcello Ballroom 4403
  • Retail CPG & Ecommerce
2:25 PM2:45 PM

Taming Token Town: Staying Flexible as Models Get Pricier

The token market is the Wild West, and if you’re building on frontier models, your pricing and margins can change overnight without warning.As frontier labs raise prices, deprecate “good enough” models, and move up the…

Sarah Sachs (Notion)
Palazzo Ballroom G
  • CAIO CIO & It Leaders
2:25 PM2:45 PM

Your Data Is Already Ready for AI: Exploring the Missing Knowledge Layer Between Raw Information & Trustworthy Agents

AI may dramatically accelerate how data work gets done, but speed alone does not create accuracy, repeatability, or confidence.Data by itself is not enough. Enterprise knowledge is what makes data usable in a real…

Rohan Kodialam (Sphinx AI)
Titian Ballroom 2302
  • Infrastructure: Data Platforms & Strategy
2:50 PM
2:50 PM3:10 PM

AI Communications and Interactions Governance: Manage AI Risks In the Enterprise

99% of organizations are expanding their use of AI this year. Yet, 88% cite challenges with governance and security. Join Theta Lake as they provide real-world risk examples in AI usage in the enterprise. Across AI…

Devin Redmond (Theta Lake)
Lando Ballroom 4204
  • Financial Services Banks
2:50 PM3:10 PM

AI on the Ballot

As the United States heads toward critical midterm elections, artificial intelligence is no longer a future tech issue—it is actively shaping the democratic process. From AI-generated political campaigns and deepfake…

Kevin Frazier (The University of Texas School of Law), Jon Porter (Porter Group LLC), Bob Lucey (Porter Group)
Titian Ballroom 2306
  • AI Policy Summit
2:50 PM3:10 PM

Beyond the Scribe: What Happens When AI Runs the Medical Visit

A fireside chat with Prashant Samant (CEO), Akido, moderated by Mark BordenAI note-taking is table stakes. What happens when AI runs the actual clinical encounter? Akido's CEO Prashant Samant joins veteran reporter Mark…

Mark Borden (Egospeed), Prashant Samant (Akido)
Marcello Ballroom 4404
  • AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
2:50 PM3:10 PM

Building Governed Agentic AI at Scale

Building Governed Agentic AI at ScaleThe next evolution of enterprise AI is not simply generating responses, it is orchestrating intelligent AI agents that can reason, plan, collaborate, and execute business processes…

Srinivasa Manapragada (Wells Fargo)
Venetian Ballroom H
  • AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
2:50 PM3:35 PM

Building the Right Data Platform and Tech Stack for AI Success

What does a modern, AI-ready data platform actually look like? This panel will cover the full set of architectural choices executives need to understand, spanning cloud vs. hybrid approaches, data lakehouses, metadata…

Rohit Garewal (Object Edge Inc.), Kartik Pillai (Yum! Brands), Yi Guo (University of Florida), Amy Peterson (Fivetran), Shyam Veerasankar (Pacers Sports & Entertainment)
Titian Ballroom 2302
  • Infrastructure: Data Platforms & Strategy
2:50 PM3:10 PM

Constitution, Not Blueprint: Enterprise Architecture for the Age of Agents

If agents were angels, no governance would be necessary. A chatbot sold a $76,000 SUV for $1; an airline told a court its bot was "a separate legal entity"; an agent deleted a production database — then confessed…

Ajit Singh (The Friedkin Group)
Palazzo Ballroom B
  • Enterprise Architecture
2:50 PM3:10 PM

Cracking the Code of Life with AI: Using Frontier AI to Develop Therapies Addressing Diseases and Aging at the Same Time

How will generative AI and automation transform the pharmaceutical industry? In this presentation, Dr. Alex Zhavoronkov, CEO of Insilico Medicine, will detail how generative AI, automated platforms, and AI agents will…

Alex Zhavoronkov (Insilico Medicine)
Palazzo Ballroom M
  • Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
2:50 PM3:10 PM

Dataflix Jo — An Enterprise AI Platform to Design, Build, and Run AI Systems at Scale

Dataflix Jo is an enterprise AI platform built to accelerate AI execution at scale, transforming how organizations move from idea to production. At the heart of Jo is the AI Factory Framework, a practical blueprint…

Srinivas Jayanthi (Dataflix)
Venetian Ballroom E
  • Generative AI: Applications & Use Cases
2:50 PM3:10 PM

Empowering the Sales Teams of Tomorrow with Org Approved AI Agents

The Sales Software stack as we know it is being replaced. The next generation of sales teams won't toggle between a dozen SaaS tools, they'll operate through a single AI-native system where autonomous agents handle…

Steve Ancheta (Zig AI)
Bellini Ballroom 2102
  • Sales & Revenue Operations
2:50 PM3:10 PM

Finance Reimagined: How AI is Automating Every Finance Function

Finance organizations are confronting escalating pressures driven by regulatory complexity, economic volatility, talent constraints, and growing expectations for AI-enabled transformation. Traditional operating models…

Mary Sibley (SAP)
Palazzo Ballroom E
  • CFO & Finance
2:50 PM3:00 PM

FInOps for AI & AI for FinOps

AI spending is projected to reach $2.59 trillion in 2026, yet most organizations still can't answer what a given token, seat, or GPU actually costs them. In this talk, I will show where AI has outrun the governance and…

Ronak Bhavsar (Finomics)
Venetian Ballroom G
  • AI Startups & VCs
2:50 PM3:10 PM

Fireside Chat with Russell Westbrook

Most people know one part of Russell Westbrook’s story. In conversation with NBC News’s Jason Abbruzzese at Ai4, he reveals the over a decade of business leadership behind Westbrook Enterprises, the operating and…

Jason Abbruzzese (NBC News), Russell Westbrook (Russell Westbrook Enterprises)
Venetian Ballroom F
  • AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
2:50 PM3:35 PM

Humans + Agents: Use Cases of Collaborative Workflows That Deliver

The real power of agentic AI emerges when humans and machines collaborate effectively. This panel explores use cases where AI agents work side-by-side with employees, handling repetitive tasks, surfacing insights, and…

Bryan Smith (Expedient), Glenn Fung (Exact Sciences Corp), Mark Green (Holy Family University), Narayanan Nair (Farm Credit Services of America), Gregory Hodgkinson (Prolifics)
Venetian Ballroom D
  • AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
2:50 PM3:10 PM

SAP: Advancing the Autonomous Enterprise: Less Chat. More Act. Guided by Fact.

Are you under pressure to turn AI into real, visible ROI — without adding more sprawl, risk, or complexity? SAP’s Autonomous Enterprise vision points to a new operating model: people set direction, Joule coordinates…

Bob Sakalas (SAP)
Palazzo Ballroom D
  • Oversight: AI ROI
2:50 PM3:35 PM

Scaling Agents through Agent Engineering [HANDS ON; LAPTOP REQUIRED]

**Important Note**: This hands-on, interactive workshop is led by Google Cloud and is open to all Ai4 attendees at no additional cost. No RSVP or separate registration is required. To participate and get the most out of…

Alan Blount (Google Cloud), Christina Zhu (Google Cloud)
Bellini Ballroom 2104
  • Google Cloud Programming
2:50 PM3:10 PM

The Last Mile of Data How AI Turns Enterprise Data Into Decisions

Organizations have invested heavily in collecting data, building dashboards, and deploying AI, yet many still struggle with the final step: turning information into confident operational decisions.This session explores…

Joshua Bernal (Grupo Traxion)
Titian Ballroom 2304
  • Transportation & Logistics
2:50 PM3:10 PM

The New Shape of Software

AI will change almost everything we do in some way, and some things we do in every way. Product design is one of the latter. Product designers have spent entire careers perfecting the art of interfaces and controls…

Thom Rimmer (Fin)
Delfino Ballroom 4103
  • CX & Customer Service
2:50 PM3:10 PM

The Ungoverned Agent: Deploying Autonomous AI Without Losing Control

Enterprises are racing to deploy AI agents that reason across systems, call APIs, and act on sensitive data, often faster than anyone can govern them. The result is a quiet crisis: thousands of autonomous agents…

Matt Cashatt (Polyrific)
Delfino Ballroom 4104
  • Infrastructure: AI Agents
2:50 PM3:10 PM

Why Enterprise AI Stalls: Data, Contracts, and the Path to Production

Ninety-five percent of enterprise AI pilots never reach production, and the reason usually isn't the model. Drawing on my work architecting the data and AI stack behind a $1.13B enterprise software company, I'll argue…

Kanishk Mittal (InterSystems), Adam Nahari (Apollo Global Management Inc.)
Palazzo Ballroom G
  • CAIO CIO & It Leaders
2:50 PM3:10 PM

Will AI Destroy or Save the Power Grid? The Race to Design the Grid of the Future

Electric power is the basis of the American economy and our way of life. The US power grid is the largest machine ever built and delivers these capabilities real-time. But the power grid is under stress from a myriad of…

Josh Wepman (Leidos)
Lando Ballroom 4203
  • Infrastructure: Cloud Data Centers & Compute
2:50 PM3:10 PM

Your AI Is Only as Smart as Your Team

AI has gotten remarkably good at software. But most knowledge work runs on something AI still doesn't have: business context. It lives in people's heads, it's scattered across teams, and it changes constantly. So every…

Suku Krishnaraj (PromptQL)
Palazzo Ballroom L
  • Data Analytics & BI
3:15 PM
3:15 PM3:55 PM

A New House Edge? The State of AI in Gambling

The gambling industry is at an inflectxion point. In just a few years, AI has shifted from an emerging novelty to operational necessity - powering everything from personalization and game development to compliance and…

Kasra Ghaharian (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, International Gaming Institute), Kiran Brahmandam (Aristocrat), Earle Hall (AXES.ai)
Palazzo Ballroom M
  • Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
3:15 PM3:25 PM

AI and Managed Services: Future Models of Symbiosis with AI

AI is transforming managed services from a labor-driven model to an intelligence-driven one. As organizations embed AI into service delivery, the focus is shifting toward defining clear roles for human expertise…

Kanav Kahol (Kagen.ai)
Venetian Ballroom G
  • AI Startups & VCs
3:15 PM4:00 PM

AI in Clinical Decision Support — Enhancing Accuracy Without Replacing Judgment

AI is becoming a powerful second set of eyes for clinicians, helping flag anomalies, predict patient deterioration, and surface evidence-based recommendations at the point of care. This panel will explore how leading…

Alexander Fedotov (AstraZeneca), Peter McCaffrey (The University of Texas Medical Branch), Arturo LoAIza-Bonilla (Massive Bio), Senthil Kumaran (MNGI Digestive Health), Zachary Taylor (Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center)
Marcello Ballroom 4404
  • Healthcare Care Providers
3:15 PM4:00 PM

AI Policy to Drive Progress

This panel will gather heads of policy at world’s leading AI companies and investors to discuss AI policy. The conversation will center around what enables AI progress, what stalls AI progress, and what regulation is…

Brendan Schulman (Boston Dynamics), Nancy Scola (—), Sean Perryman (Uber), Sanjay Puri (RegulatingAI)
Titian Ballroom 2306
  • AI Policy Summit
3:15 PM3:35 PM

AI that delivers ROI from Infrastructure to Intelligence

Enterprise AI ambition is at an all-time high, yet less than half of AI experiments make it to production and 43% of major AI initiatives are expected to fail, according to HCLTech’s AI Impact Imperatives, 2026, an…

Rampal Singh (HCLTech)
Lando Ballroom 4203
  • Infrastructure: Cloud Data Centers & Compute
3:15 PM4:00 PM

Beyond Dashboards: How AI Is Transforming Data Storytelling and Decision-Making

BI is moving from static dashboards to real-time insights powered by generative and predictive AI. In this session, leaders will share how they’re enhancing business intelligence with AI—from building tools that…

Goutham Budati (The Farmer's Dog), Mark Ritzmann (Columbia University), Mona Hassanzadeh (Meridian), Lovedeep Saini (Conner Strong & Buckelew), Ayman Elhalwagy (RootCause.ai)
Palazzo Ballroom L
  • Data Analytics & BI
3:15 PM4:00 PM

Building Smarter Retail Experiences in the AI World

Retailers are using AI to deliver more personalized, responsive, and profitable experiences. This panel features leaders from retail and CPG companies discussing how they’re using AI to enhance marketing, streamline…

Nathalie Criou (Vapi), Mark Stutzman (AREA15), Melanie Hill (Ace Hardware Corporation), Caio Camargo ([varejocast]), Santiago Ontanon Alvarez (Coppel)
Marcello Ballroom 4403
  • Retail CPG & Ecommerce
3:15 PM4:00 PM

Cutting-Edge Applications of Generative AI in the Enterprise

Generative AI is no longer just a research breakthrough. It's powering some of the most innovative business transformations in the world. In this high-energy panel, enterprise leaders and technologists will showcase…

Franziska Bell (The Home Depot), Sameer Sethi (Hackensack Meridian Health), Raffaele Pascale (Argos Multilingual), Elaine Reyes (CGTN), Semih Altinay (Phrase)
Venetian Ballroom E
  • Generative AI: Applications & Use Cases
3:15 PM4:05 PM

Engineering Control into Agentic AI That Controls Itself [RSVP REQUIRED]

This event requires an RSVP; to attend, submit form hereAgentic AI changes the problem of trust from a policy question into an engineering one, and it changes the ambition from automating tasks to reinventing how work…

Hailong (Harry) Wang (Fifth Third Bank)
Room 305
  • Roundtable (technical)
3:15 PM4:00 PM

Enterprise Architecture for AI-First Enterprises

Enterprises can’t bolt on AI—they must build for it. This session explores how forward-thinking organizations are re-architecting systems to support modular, scalable AI capabilities. Panelists will share how they’ve…

Jason Kehl (Redwood Software), Ajit Singh (The Friedkin Group), Jennifer Conrad (Inc. Magazine), Christopher Lundy (Oura), Michael Maher (Pave Powered by Quickbase)
Palazzo Ballroom B
  • Enterprise Architecture
3:15 PM3:35 PM

From Pilot to Production: The CIO's Playbook for Deploying AI Agents at Scale

Every CIO has seen the demos. Far fewer have live AI Agents handling real customer calls at scale. In this session, Phil Kolterman, Chief Innovation Officer at Brinks Home, joins Cresta's Deepank Sharma to pull back the…

Philip Kolterman (Brinks Home), Deepank Sharma (Cresta Intelligence)
Palazzo Ballroom G
  • CAIO CIO & It Leaders
3:15 PM4:00 PM

Governing AI Models in Banking — Reducing Risk and Deploying with Trust

In financial services, AI adoption must balance innovation with strict oversight. This panel will focus on how banks are building model governance frameworks to reduce risk, ensure compliance, and support trustworthy…

William Ho (Morgan Stanley), Moataz Mahmoud (First Citizens Bank), Maik Taro Wehmeyer (Taktile), Frederic Siboulet (Major US Bank), Brandon Reed (Regions Bank)
Lando Ballroom 4204
  • Financial Services Banks
3:15 PM4:00 PM

Human + Machine: Rethinking Workforce Strategy in the Age of AI

As AI automates tasks and augments decision-making, HR leaders must rethink everything from hiring to career development. This panel will explore how organizations are using AI to identify skills gaps, personalize…

Rosy Bhullar (JPMorgan Chase), Esin Cooper (Pearson), Shameem Farouk (Maybank), Jana Brown (eHealth), Giovanni Luperti (Humaans)
Palazzo Ballroom E
  • Hr & Recruiting
3:15 PM4:00 PM

Intelligent Logistics: AI That Moves the World

From freight to fulfillment, logistics players are turning to AI to navigate complexity. This panel features operators and innovators discussing how AI is improving route planning, automating warehouses, and predicting…

Brendan Baker (Rackhouse Venture Capital), Karthikeyan Ilangovan (MODE Global), Pouya Dianat (Quantum Computing Inc.), Arjun Srinivasan (ShipStation Global)
Titian Ballroom 2304
  • Transportation & Logistics
3:15 PM4:00 PM

Measuring What Matters: KPIs and Metrics for AI’s Financial Impact

Not all AI metrics are created equal. This panel will explore effective AI use cases through the lens of specific KPIs that were relevant to the project. Panelists will dive into how they select the right KPIs for the…

Adam Gunnett (Busy Beaver), Jill Hosmer-Jolley (California State University Monterey Bay), Tali Rosenblum (New York Life Insurance Company), Nate Campbell (WalkMe)
Palazzo Ballroom D
  • Oversight: AI ROI
3:15 PM4:00 PM

Platforms and Tools for AI Agents: Navigating the Ecosystem

Selecting the right platforms and tools is critical for deploying and managing effective AI agents. In this session, panelists will explore the current AI agent ecosystem, discussing key platforms, tools, and…

Abhinav Asthana (Redwood Trust, Inc.), Jeremiah Owyang (Blitzscaling Ventures), Ericson Brickers (The Brickers Foundation), Sama Bali (NVIDIA), Logan Lawler (Dell Technologies)
Venetian Ballroom F
  • AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
3:15 PM3:55 PM

Presentation by Divya Choudhary, X, The Moonshot Factory

Divya Choudhary (X, The Moonshot Factory)
Bellini Ballroom 2102
  • Multimodal AI (technical)
3:15 PM3:35 PM

Realizing Value on the Agentic Journey

Organizations everywhere are investing in AI, yet many struggle to move beyond pilots and deliver measurable business value at scale. In this fireside chat, EY's Audi Rowe and Duke Energy's Cindy Lee will explore how…

Audi Rowe (EY), Cindy Lee (Duke Energy)
Venetian Ballroom H
  • AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
3:15 PM3:55 PM

The AI Agent Operating Model: What Enterprise Leaders Are Building

AI agents are rapidly moving from experimentation to enterprise deployment, but every organization is taking a different path. What operating models are actually working? How are leading companies deciding where agents…

Adam Mendler (Thirty Minute Mentors), Sagnik Nandy (Docusign), Kartik Sakthivel (John Hancock), Tom Flanagan (RE/MAX)
Delfino Ballroom 4104
  • Infrastructure: AI Agents
3:15 PM4:00 PM

The Brain of the Agent — Architectures and Training for Intelligent AI Systems

Beneath every capable AI agent lies a stack of model architectures and training strategies that determine how it reasons, plans, and adapts. This panel will dive into the core “thinking layers” of agents—from large…

Dhivya Nagasubramanian (U.S. Bank), Seetaram Rao Rayarao (JP Morgan Chase), João Moura (CrewAI), Darrell Etherington (The Angle), Jason Bonvie (CrewAI), Ashok Prakash (Apple)
Veronese Ballroom 2504
  • AI Agents (technical)
3:15 PM4:00 PM

Transforming Customer Experience with AI

This session will explore how AI is revolutionizing customer experience (CX) and customer service by automating interactions, personalizing support, and improving response times. Panelists will discuss how AI-powered…

Lily Li (Franklin Templeton), Erin Fusaro (PadSplit), Kiley Williams (Deepgram), Amir Hameed (RingCentral), Heather Gillbanks (CXPA Book of Knowledge)
Delfino Ballroom 4103
  • CX & Customer Service
3:40 PM
3:40 PM4:30 PM

Bringing AI to Market in Regulated Industries: Challenges and Opportunities [RSVP REQUIRED]

This event requires an RSVP; to attend, submit form hereWe will explore the challenges of bringing AI products and services to market in regulated industries, where innovation often collides with compliance, rules and…

Aidan Nevin (Fidelity Labs)
Room 310
  • Roundtable
3:40 PM4:00 PM

Fireside Chat with Dr. Tanvi Jayaraman, Oura

As health AI moves beyond one-size-fits-all systems, the opportunity is to build experiences that are more personalized, context-aware, and clinically grounded.In this session, Dr. Tanvi Jayaraman will share how Oura is…

Alice Park (TIME), Tanvi Jayaraman (Oura)
Venetian Ballroom H
  • AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
3:40 PM4:00 PM

Five Ways AI Gets You Fired (And How to Avoid All of Them)

The biggest AI risk in your organization right now isn't a sophisticated attack. It's an employee who has no idea they're doing anything wrong---pasting proprietary data into a public LLM, running an unauthorized agent…

Rob Lee (SANS Institute)
Lando Ballroom 4203
  • Oversight: AI Explainability Governance & Model Risk
3:40 PM4:25 PM

Spec-Driven Development with Antigravity CLI — Structured Agent Workflows with Skills and MCP [HANDS ON; LAPTOP REQUIRED]

**Important Note**: This hands-on, interactive workshop is led by Google Cloud and is open to all Ai4 attendees at no additional cost. No RSVP or separate registration is required. To participate and get the most out of…

David Cardozo (Google Cloud)
Bellini Ballroom 2104
  • Google Cloud Programming
3:40 PM4:00 PM

The Agentic Enterprise: Building a Digital Workforce on Top of Legacy Systems

Most enterprise AI initiatives still rely on copilots and chat interfaces while critical operational work remains trapped inside legacy systems. This session explores how Veritiv is using agentic AI and computer-use…

Chris Bradley (Veritiv)
Palazzo Ballroom G
  • CAIO CIO & It Leaders
3:40 PM4:00 PM

The Alpha in the Crowd: AI, Prediction Markets, and a Live Trading Demo

Prediction markets have exploded in popularity, but how are institutional players actually finding an edge? In this session, we will explore the intersection of systematic trading and prediction platforms like Kalshi…

Daniel Sonner (Tauroi Technologies), Avi Thaker (Tauroi Technologies)
Titian Ballroom 2302
  • Infrastructure: Data Platforms & Strategy
3:40 PM3:50 PM

What Comes After the Copilot?

What if most enterprise AI investments are silently failing on the balance sheet , not because the technology doesn't work, but because they're deployed at the wrong layer? In this talk, I'll argue that the intelligence…

Rohit Anabheri (Lotus Petal)
Venetian Ballroom G
  • AI Startups & VCs
3:40 PM4:00 PM

Who's Watching the Agents? A Practical Framework for Multi-Agent Governance

Who's actually watching your agents and what happens when one of them goes rogue?As enterprises move from single-agent experiments to full agent fleets spanning operations, finance, and compliance, the governance gap…

Angelik Laboy Torres (Retool, Inc.)
Venetian Ballroom D
  • AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
4:05 PM
4:05 PM4:25 PM

AI Under Trump: Deregulation, Preemption & the New Federal AI

This is the most contested AI policy conversation in Washington right now. The administration's executive orders rescinding Biden's AI EO, the push to preempt state AI laws through the reconciliation bill, the…

Jordan Crenshaw (U.S. Chamber of Commerce), Trooper Sanders (State AI Safety Roundtable)
Titian Ballroom 2306
  • AI Policy Summit
4:05 PM4:25 PM

Building Unified AI Systems at Enterprise Scale

Most enterprise AI projects stall because of a fragmented stack: agents, evaluation, human review, and observability all managed separately. That complexity slows teams down and introduces risk before anything reaches…

Vinu Krishnaswamy (Turing)
Delfino Ballroom 4104
  • Infrastructure: AI Agents
4:05 PM4:25 PM

ChatGPT Search

Past, Present, and Future of Search at OpenAI

Will Ellsworth (OpenAI)
Bellini Ballroom 2102
  • Multimodal AI (technical)
4:05 PM4:25 PM

Controlling AI with AI: What it Takes to Secure the Agentic Enterprise

AI agents operate at 100x human speed, completely outpacing traditional frameworks for enterprise oversight and control. This unprecedented speed brings unpredictable risk. Whether an agent accidentally goes rogue or is…

Devvret Rishi (Rubrik), Paul St Vil (Rubrik)
Palazzo Ballroom G
  • CAIO CIO & It Leaders
4:05 PM4:25 PM

Cost per Token Is the New KPI: How HPE and NVIDIA Are Architecting Agentic AI at Enterprise Scale

Agentic AI changes enterprise architecture from a model-access problem into a systems-design challenge: autonomous agents chain model calls, retrieve context, invoke tools, and coordinate with other agents, multiplying…

Steve Stein (NVIDIA)
Palazzo Ballroom B
  • Enterprise Architecture
4:05 PM4:25 PM

Credo AI + Autodesk: Building Trust in Enterprise AI

As AI moves from experimentation to enterprise-wide adoption, trust cannot be treated as an afterthought. This fireside conversation between Navrina Singh, Founder and CEO of Credo AI, and Kate Adams, Director of…

Kate Adam (Autodesk), Navrina Singh (Credo AI)
Lando Ballroom 4203
  • Oversight: AI Explainability Governance & Model Risk
4:05 PM4:50 PM

From Click to Conversion: How AI is Reshaping the eCommerce Funnel

In the competitive world of eCommerce, every click counts—and AI is quickly becoming the difference-maker at every stage of the funnel. This panel brings together leaders from top digital-native brands and marketplaces…

Kunal Sonalkar (Nordstrom), Sidharth Thapar (Staples Inc.), Casey Golden (CI&T), Paula Macaggi (OFFBounds), James Williams (Mirakl)
Marcello Ballroom 4403
  • Retail CPG & Ecommerce
4:05 PM4:25 PM

From Pilot to Production: A Case Study with Maersk

Most enterprise AI pilots never make it to production. So what actually gets them there? Join Dify and Maersk to hear how to close the gap and turn ideas into governed, reliable agentic workflows the whole business can…

Andy Wang (Dify), Mark Sear (A.P. Moller - Maersk)
Palazzo Ballroom M
  • Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
4:05 PM4:45 PM

Frozen Yogurt Syndrome: Designing AI-Ready Strategy

Most organizations are suffering from what I call Frozen Yogurt Syndrome: too many tools, too many options, and no clear sequencing. In this session, I will explain why AI initiatives stall when data maturity…

Nirmayee (Nemo) Dighe (Delaware Life Marketing, A Group 1001 Company)
Palazzo Ballroom L
  • Data Analytics & BI
4:05 PM4:25 PM

Humanistic AI with Tom Gruber, Co-creator of Siri, on How AI Can Augment Human Intelligence

Almost overnight, the world has come to see that the new technology of large language models and generative AI could change the nature of knowledge work. Trained on the cultural legacy of humanity, these systems can now…

Thomas Germain (The BBC), Tom Gruber (Siri)
Venetian Ballroom D
  • AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
4:05 PM4:15 PM

Mind the Slop: Scaling Performance Creative Without Losing Your Brand

Can you run a fast ad creative machine that drives revenue without producing slop that affects your brand identity? Balancing rapid content scaling with brand integrity is the ultimate marketing quest. I will share the…

Julia Taconet (Tactimetry)
Venetian Ballroom G
  • AI Startups & VCs
4:05 PM4:25 PM

Moving Beyond Completion to Capability: Proving AI Upskilling Actually Works

Your company already pays for Copilot, maybe Claude too, and most of your people use them like expensive autocomplete. Meanwhile the LMS swears everyone's trained. This talk is about the gap between those two facts and…

JPS Kohli (SkillUp Group), Ratan Deep Singh (SkillUp Online), Benjamin George (SkillUp Group)
Titian Ballroom 2302
  • Workforce Upskilling For The AI Era
4:05 PM4:45 PM

Reimagining Our Business with AI

AI isn't replacing the human touch in patient care - it is making room for more of it.Sharing our approach to deliver remarkable patient experience while reducing clinician burden with AI.How we are moving from AI…

Vijay Sankararaman (Novant Health)
Marcello Ballroom 4404
  • Healthcare Care Providers
4:05 PM4:55 PM

Risk Rewritten: Who Is Accountable When AI Decides? [RSVP REQUIRED]

This event requires an RSVP; to attend, submit form hereAs Al agents evolve from tools into autonomous decision-makers, the greatest risk is no longer technical failure - it is the silent erosion of accountability…

Devon Euring (iHeartMedia.)
Room 303
  • Roundtable
4:05 PM4:25 PM

Self-Healing Connectors: AI Agents That Fix Production Breakages Autonomously

We gave AI agents the authority to fix our production connectors on their own, while thousands of customer pipelines depended on them not getting it wrong. Upstream APIs change constantly, so we built a system that…

Pedro Lopez (Airbyte)
Venetian Ballroom H
  • AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
4:05 PM4:25 PM

Smarter Maritime: How AI Is Redefining the Backbone of Global Trade

What happens when AI meets the world’s oldest yet still essential supply chain: global maritime trade? Ships move the goods and energy that power modern life, yet they operate with limited visibility, aging systems…

Sandipan Bhattacharya (US Ocean)
Titian Ballroom 2304
  • Transportation & Logistics
4:05 PM4:25 PM

Talk to Your Data, Expose Nothing: Zero Model Exposure Analytics

Talk to your data in any language and get accurate analytics back, while the model never writes a line of SQL or sees a single sensitive value. Natural language is now the front door to enterprise data, but the default…

Diego Loureda (Protegrity USA, Inc.)
Venetian Ballroom E
  • Generative AI: Applications & Use Cases
4:05 PM4:50 PM

The Augmented Contact Center

AI isn’t just transforming customer-facing chatbots—it’s also empowering human agents behind the scenes. This panel will explore how AI-powered copilots are providing real-time recommendations, automatic call…

Kirby Forlin (The Cigna Group), Jonathan Corbin (Maven AGI), Alejandro Villacis (FCP Euro), Andy Tang (Draper Associates), Isaiah Granet (Bland)
Delfino Ballroom 4103
  • CX & Customer Service
4:05 PM4:25 PM

The Enterprise Context Graph of Work: A Foundation Model Is Only as Good as the Context Behind It

Frontier models are brilliant but blind. They know everything except your company: how work actually runs, where it breaks, and the institutional knowledge that lives in no training set. This layer, enterprise context…

Avinash Misra (Skan AI), Amit Patel (Plug and Play Ventures)
Venetian Ballroom F
  • AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
4:05 PM4:25 PM

Voice Agent Supervision: Finding the Hidden Cost of Conversational Blind Spots

What if the biggest ROI drain on your voice agent deployment isn't a bug in the system — it's a tone the agent never learned to hear?Voice agents are scaling fast, but most enterprises have no way to measure where…

Carter Huffman (Modulate)
Palazzo Ballroom D
  • Oversight: AI ROI
4:05 PM4:25 PM

When the Rubber Meets the Road: How the Consumer Bank is Realizing Value

When you think about effective management strategy for operational success, you think of People, Process and Technology. The latter (Technology) is not the problem in generating value in the AI field - it's mostly…

Keenan Moukarzel (KeyBank)
Lando Ballroom 4204
  • Financial Services Banks
4:05 PM4:25 PM

Why AI Agents Act on the Wrong Context

Why do AI agents fail even when the model, prompts, and infrastructure seem correct? I will show how most agent architectures assemble context from fragmented systems—streams, databases, vector stores, and…

Xiaowei Jiang (Tacnode)
Veronese Ballroom 2504
  • AI Agents (technical)
4:05 PM4:25 PM

Why Your Next Enterprise App Won't Come From a Vendor

For twenty years, buying enterprise software meant filing requirements, waiting on a vendor's roadmap, and living with a workflow no one on the team actually chose. That era is ending: the barriers to building custom…

Ashutosh Garg (Eightfold AI)
Palazzo Ballroom E
  • Hr & Recruiting
4:30 PM
4:30 PM4:50 PM

AI Fatigue Is Real - Your Governance Model Needs a Makeover

AI fatigue is real and your governance model may be making it worse. As AI scales, manual review creates bottlenecks, not quality. I'll share how USA TODAY Co. is modernizing governance with automated AI evaluations…

Jessica Davis (USA TODAY Co., Inc.)
Lando Ballroom 4203
  • Oversight: AI Explainability Governance & Model Risk
4:30 PM4:50 PM

AI-Driven Software Lifecycle Evolution at FanDuel

What if the highest-leverage AI investment is a rebuilt software development lifecycle? I’ll show how we used agent-centric dev lifecycle patterns to compress the path from concept to prototype to production, redefining…

Bryce Macher (Fan Duel)
Venetian Ballroom D
  • AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
4:30 PM4:50 PM

AI, National Security & Geopolitical Competition

National security is the fastest-growing dimension of AI policy, with bipartisan urgency around export controls, autonomous weapons, and the intelligence community's AI adoption. This panel ensures the Summit addresses…

Daniel Dobos (AI For Good Impact Initiative), Lee Tiedrich (Tiedrich Global Strategies (former NIST, OECD consultant, AmLaw 50 partner, and International Safety Report Senior Advisor))
Titian Ballroom 2306
  • AI Policy Summit
4:30 PM4:50 PM

AI, Talent, and Opportunity: Building the Workforce of the Future

As AI reshapes jobs and hiring, employers face a critical challenge: ensuring technology expands opportunity rather than narrows it. In this fireside chat, Kiersten Barnet, Executive Director of the New York Jobs CEO…

Ron Schmelzer (Forbes / Scalebrate), Kiersten Barnet (New York Jobs CEO Council)
Palazzo Ballroom E
  • Hr & Recruiting
4:30 PM5:15 PM

Architecting the Future: The AI Tech Stack for Modern Banking

Scaling artificial intelligence in financial services requires a highly specialized, secure, and compliant infrastructure. This panel dives into the foundational architecture necessary to power enterprise AI across the…

Murali Boddu (Deutsche Bank), Stephen Frein (Fulton Bank), Bhairav Mehta (JPMorganChase), Naomi Nix (Freelance)
Lando Ballroom 4204
  • Financial Services Banks
4:30 PM4:50 PM

Beyond the Copilot: Building the Agentic AI Platform for Sports

Sports organizations are moving beyond AI as a personal productivity tool and toward agentic systems that operate across real enterprise workflows. Grounded in Major League Soccer’s experience, this session will explore…

Alireza Aliamiri (Major League Soccer)
Venetian Ballroom H
  • AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
4:30 PM4:50 PM

From 20 to 2,000: How Cox Built an AI-Capable Workforce

Three years ago, fewer than a dozen people at Cox knew how to build with AI. Today, that number is 2,000 and climbing. Every company is now racing to turn AI hype into real capability, but the bottleneck isn't models or…

David Lee (Cox Communications)
Titian Ballroom 2302
  • Workforce Upskilling For The AI Era
4:30 PM4:50 PM

From Automation to Autonomy: Architecting the Agentic Enterprise

AI is advancing rapidly—from automation to autonomy. Agentic AI systems can plan, decide, and execute across entire business processes, fundamentally changing how companies operate, how processes are designed, and how…

Lutz Beck (Daimler Truck North America)
Venetian Ballroom F
  • AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
4:30 PM4:50 PM

From Hype to ROI: The Human-Tech Adaptation Index

Most AI projects fail—not because of technology, but because humans aren’t ready to adapt. In this talk, I will introduce the Human-Tech Adaptation Index (HTAI), a field-tested framework that measures readiness and…

Hemachandran Kannan (Woxsen University)
Palazzo Ballroom D
  • Oversight: AI ROI
4:30 PM5:10 PM

HIve: A Governed Agentic Workflow Platform for Healthcare

As AI adoption accelerates across Exact Sciences, the real impact comes from embedding AI directly into business workflows—not from isolated model use. Our enterprise AI platform is being built to make AI integrations…

Glenn Fung (Exact Sciences Corp)
Veronese Ballroom 2504
  • AI Agents (technical)
4:30 PM5:15 PM

Multimodal data analytics and agents with BigQuery AI & Gemini

**Important Note**: This interactive workshop is led by Google Cloud and is open to all Ai4 attendees at no additional cost. No RSVP or separate registration is required. ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP:A bulk of enterprise data is…

Vaibhav Sethi (Google Cloud)
Bellini Ballroom 2104
  • Google Cloud Programming
4:30 PM5:20 PM

Neurodivergent Intelligence [RSVP REQUIRED]

This event requires an RSVP; to attend, submit form hereWhat if neurodivergence is not a limitation to accommodate, but an intelligence system to design around? This roundtable will explore how neurodivergent minds…

Johan Zamora (The Art of the Possible)
Room 305
  • Roundtable
4:30 PM4:50 PM

Pit Stops, Not Rebuilds: Modular AI Infrastructure Under Performance Pressure & Regulatory Scrutiny

In motorsport, no team rebuilds the car mid-race — they engineer it so key parts can be swapped or adjusted in seconds without compromising safety or speed. Enterprises in regulated industries like investment management…

Max Gokhman (Franklin Templeton)
Palazzo Ballroom M
  • Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
4:30 PM5:10 PM

Scaling Holistic Predictive Intelligence Pipelines with the Split-Brain Spiderweb Architecture

Inspired by neuroscience, the 360-Degree Split-Brain Spiderweb Architecture introduces a novel way to scale holistic predictive intelligence pipelines by decoupling forecasting, influence modeling, and interpretation…

Rcrysta Shaneih (Ryder Systems Inc.)
Bellini Ballroom 2102
  • Multimodal AI (technical)
4:30 PM4:50 PM

Smarter Jobsites: Coordinating People, Tools, and Machines

AI is moving from digital tools into the physical world, where machines, data and people work together to make jobsites safer, more productive and more efficient. In this fireside chat, Jaime Mineart will share how…

Kate Park (TechCrunch), Jaime Mineart (Caterpillar)
Venetian Ballroom E
  • Generative AI Deployment At Scale
4:30 PM4:50 PM

The Agentic AI Problem: Why Autonomous IT Requires a Different Trust Architecture

Most AI agent conversations focus on what agents can do. In IT, the more important question is what they should be allowed to do. When an agent can modify configurations and access or delete data, capability without…

Oshri Moyal (Atera)
Palazzo Ballroom G
  • CAIO CIO & It Leaders
4:30 PM4:50 PM

The Missing Layer: AI Orchestration Director

Most AI systems fail not because the models are weak but because the coordination layer is missing. This talk will explain why multi agent systems need an orchestration director that manages planning, validation…

Nirmal Jingar (Wayfair)
Delfino Ballroom 4104
  • Infrastructure: AI Agents
4:30 PM4:50 PM

Using AI to Accelerate Enterprise Architecture as Code

How we used AI workflows to create versioned Enterprise Architecture assets in hours instead of weeks.Enterprise Architecture projects involve lots of discovery and analysis followed by manually creating sequence…

Kevin Kohut (First Horizon Bank)
Palazzo Ballroom B
  • Enterprise Architecture
4:55 PM
4:55 PM5:15 PM

AI Governance in the Tech Stack - Making AI Safe to Scale – AI Governance as Code

AI Governance in the Tech StackWhat if your governance policies could execute themselves—directly enforcing control at every layer of your technology stack? As organizations scale AI and automation, traditional…

Marc Cagulangan (CSX)
Delfino Ballroom 4104
  • Infrastructure: AI Agents
4:55 PM5:15 PM

AI's Hidden Cost: What Boards Need to Budget for Before It's Too Late

Most organizations invest in AI focusing clearly on gains but have little visibility into the associated financial exposure. In this practitioner-led session, a public sector CISO and a globally recognized cloud and AI…

Joe Vadakkan (CSA Arizona), Sandeep Desai (Arizona Department of Eduction)
Palazzo Ballroom D
  • Oversight: AI ROI
4:55 PM5:15 PM

Applied Innovation and Agentic AI

The next wave of AI is not about chatbots—it is about autonomous agents that can analyze information, make recommendations, coordinate workflows, and execute work across the enterprise. Financial institutions are…

Sarah Hammer (AI)
Venetian Ballroom D
  • AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
4:55 PM5:15 PM

Beyond Usage: A Leader's Playbook for an AI-Fluent Workforce

Nearly every company has AI tools; far fewer have an AI-fluent workforce — and that gap, not access, is where adoption stalls. In a 20-minute fireside chat, Nurit Revah and Ilai Soloducho share a practical framework for…

Ilai Soloducho (Strauss Group), Nurit Revah (EmbraceAI Global)
Titian Ballroom 2302
  • Workforce Upskilling For The AI Era
4:55 PM5:15 PM

Building the Thinking Enterprise: From Enterprise Architecture to Enterprise Intelligence

Enterprise AI is only as intelligent as the enterprise knowledge, context, and relationships it can access, but most organizations have not architected this foundation for AI. In this talk, I will explain how Enterprise…

Chalamayya Batchu Veera (Florida Power & Light)
Palazzo Ballroom B
  • Enterprise Architecture
4:55 PM5:15 PM

From Policy to Practice: A Blueprint for Responsible AI Leadership

The closing keynote shifts from debate to action — translating the day's policy conversations into a concrete framework for responsible AI leadership. Against a backdrop of federal deregulation and international…

Ravi Pendse (University of Michigan)
Titian Ballroom 2306
  • AI Policy Summit
4:55 PM5:15 PM

From Vibe Coding to Production: What It Takes to Scale AI Coding Assistants Across the Enterprise

AI coding assistants can generate code in seconds. Turning that speed into secure, scalable software delivery across an enterprise is a very different challenge—and one many organizations are still learning to…

Albert Milton (Hitachi Energy)
Venetian Ballroom A
  • Coding Assistants & Vibe Coding (technical)
4:55 PM5:15 PM

Garbage In, Trusted Out: Fixing the Knowledge Layer That Instructs CX AI

The rush to deploy AI in customer experience has surfaced an uncomfortable truth: most organizations are pointing powerful models at organizational knowledge that is fragmented, inconsistent, and ungoverned. But direct…

John Copeland (eGain)
Delfino Ballroom 4103
  • CX & Customer Service
4:55 PM5:15 PM

Lessons Learned in Deploying AI Agents in Industrial Workflows by Somya Kapoor, CEO, IFS Loops

95% of gen AI pilots fail to produce measurable financial impact. The reason is rarely the model.80% of deployment effort goes to data, governance, and workflow integration, not AI. Yet most teams spend their time…

Somya Kapoor (IFS Loops)
Venetian Ballroom H
  • AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
4:55 PM5:15 PM

Mission Control - Giving AI Agency (Without Losing Control)

The AI conversation has become uncomfortably binary: either hand everything to AI and hope for the best, or resist automation entirely and fall behind. But the organizations achieving real results are doing something…

Payal Patel (Freshworks)
Venetian Ballroom F
  • AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
4:55 PM5:15 PM

Nothing Is Undruggable: Frontier Medicines' AI Discovery Engine

What if the proteins we call "undruggable" simply haven't met the right drug discovery platform and infrastructure? Most disease-relevant proteins are considered undruggable, putting potential therapies for cancer and…

Johannes Hermann (Frontier Medicines)
Palazzo Ballroom M
  • Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
4:55 PM5:15 PM

Practical and Principled Approaches to AI Alignment

Artificial superintelligence may be here within a few years. To prevent catastrophic outcomes, this ASI will need to be aligned to human values. Achieving this will require principled approaches that can scale through…

Jon Kutasov (Anthropic)
Lando Ballroom 4203
  • Oversight: AI Explainability Governance & Model Risk
4:55 PM5:15 PM

Presentation by Emmett Shear, Softmax

Emmett Shear (Softmax)
Venetian Ballroom E
  • AI Safety & Alignment
4:55 PM5:15 PM

The Rise of Autonomous Shopper Intelligence, Presentation by Lizbeth James, Mars

For decades, brands have relied on syndicated panels and historical reporting to understand consumers, but today's connected commerce ecosystem provides a much richer view of actual shopper behavior. In this session, I…

Lizbeth James (Mars)
Marcello Ballroom 4403
  • Retail CPG & Ecommerce
4:55 PM5:15 PM

Turning AI Research into AI Action

AI holds enormous promise to improve patient care, but only if it moves beyond research and into everyday clinical practice. Today, the biggest challenge is not developing AI, but ensuring it is safely implemented…

Micky Tripathi (Mayo Clinic)
Marcello Ballroom 4404
  • Healthcare Care Providers

Thursday, August 6

10:15 AM
10:15 AM10:35 AM

AI in Power Systems: From Insight to Deployment

This presentation explores the dual transformation shaping the future of the energy sector: the growing demand for reliable, scalable power to support the rapid expansion of AI, and the opportunity to apply AI to…

Rémi Raphael (Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI))
Lando Ballroom 4203
  • Infrastructure: Cloud Data Centers & Compute
10:15 AM10:35 AM

Behavioral Defense for the AI-Era Attack Chain

AI has given attackers the speed, scale, and sophistication to move through an enterprise before defenders even know they're in. At the same time, the rapid adoption of AI agents, OAuth-connected integrations, and…

Ryan Schwartz (Abnormal AI)
Marcello Ballroom 4403
  • Cybersecurity
10:15 AM10:35 AM

Buy the Hands, Own the Conscience: Governing AI Agents That Ship Enterprise Software

What happens when AI agents can write enterprise software faster than your team can trust it? That gap between speed and accountability is exactly where most coding-agent demos collapse on contact with regulated…

Vishak Mallya (Synthetix Labs)
Palazzo Ballroom L
  • Software Engineering
10:15 AM11:00 AM

Exploring Fine-Tuning and Customization Strategy Through Effective Use Cases

Generative AI is powerful out of the box, but its true enterprise value comes from tailoring models to specific organizational needs. This panel will explore the spectrum of customization strategies, from lightweight…

Edmund Clark (The California State University), James Belasco (Vanguard), Shruti Kamath (Mozilla), Karan Kothari (Lightning AI)
Venetian Ballroom E
  • Generative AI: Applications & Use Cases
10:15 AM10:55 AM

From Hype to Hypotheses: Why AI-for-Science Is Hard—and What It Takes to Make It Work

Will AI actually accelerate discovery—or are we still stuck at the “hype” stage? AI-for-Science matters because scientific environments impose real-world constraints and “TRADE”-offs across testing, resources…

Tegan Emerson (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
Venetian Ballroom A
  • AI Research Summit (technical)
10:15 AM11:00 AM

Guardrails, Observability, and Trust in AI Infrastructure

Building reliable AI isn’t just about raw performance, but rather about making systems transparent, controllable, and trustworthy at scale. This panel will explore how enterprises are embedding guardrails, policy…

Emily McReynolds (Future of Privacy Forum), Fanny Sie (Roche), Allen Badeau (DigitalNet.ai), Mrinal Anand (Sofi), Chad Wise (F5)
Palazzo Ballroom M
  • Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
10:15 AM11:00 AM

Guardrails, Risk Management, and Observability for Agentic AI

As enterprises scale agentic AI, the challenge becomes ensuring agents remain reliable, predictable, and effective under real-world conditions. This panel will focus on guardrails, risk management frameworks, and…

Sohaib Shaikh (Virtue AI), Jill Hosmer-Jolley (California State University Monterey Bay), Nell Meshcheryakov (Dominion Energy), Sagi Rodin (Agen.co), Monisha Somji (Enterprise AI & Digital Transformation)
Venetian Ballroom H
  • AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
10:15 AM10:35 AM

How Artificial Intelligence Can Help Eliminate Discrimination in Financial Services

How Artificial Intelligence Can Help Eliminate Discrimination in Financial ServicesCan artificial intelligence make financial decisions fairer, or will it simply reinforce the biases already embedded in the system?…

Tor Constantino (Forbes), Pavan Agarwal (CEO of Celligence and Sun West Mortgage)
Palazzo Ballroom E
  • CX & Customer Service
10:15 AM11:05 AM

Leveraging AI in complex loan application processes - a focus on Commercial Real Estate [RSVP REQUIRED]

AI is transforming the way that banks service their customers - in lending, financing, investment banking, raising capital, etc. Historically, banks have had to rely on complex processing systems to process large…

Jonas Ng (Valley Bank / entrepreneur / (formerly) KeyBank)
Room 301
  • Roundtable
10:15 AM11:00 AM

Making AI Alignment A Reality

This panel brings together leaders in AI safety from industry and academia to examine how alignment theory is translating into real-world safeguards. How are companies operationalizing red-teaming, interpretability, and…

David Scott Krueger (Evitable | University of Montreal, Mila), John Buyers (CMS LLP), Jon Kutasov (Anthropic), Rick Balzano (TaskUs Holdings Inc.), Spencer Whitman (Gray Swan)
Marcello Ballroom 4404
  • AI Safety & Alignment
10:15 AM11:05 AM

Minimal Data, Maximum Output: Scaling AI and Quantum Technologies for Industry 5.0 [RSVP REQUIRED]

This event requires an RSVP; to attend, submit form hereHow can industries achieve exponential operational efficiency without drowning in massive datasets and unsustainable compute costs?As we transition into Industry…

Satyam Priyadarshy (Reignite Future, LLC)
Room 303
  • Roundtable
10:15 AM11:05 AM

Optimizing Small Language Models for Low-Power Devices [RSVP REQUIRED]

This event requires an RSVP; to attend, submit form hereHow can we make small language models efficient enough for low-power devices without sacrificing reliability and task performance? This roundtable will explore why…

Priyambada Jain (BlackRock)
Room 302
  • Roundtable (technical)
10:15 AM10:35 AM

Orchestrate, Don’t Automate: How CIO's Build AI Systems That Scale, Decide, and Execute

Most organizations are automating tasks. The leaders are orchestrating intelligence.In this session, I will share how we designed and delivered a production grade AI orchestration platform that moves beyond single model…

Tyler Howard (RSM US LLP)
Palazzo Ballroom G
  • CAIO CIO & It Leaders
10:15 AM11:00 AM

Orchestrating AI Agents: How to Unlock Enterprise-Ready Use Cases

Deploying a single AI model is one thing, but coordinating agents to deliver business value at scale is another. This panel brings together practitioners and platform builders to discuss how orchestration layers enable…

Rohit Nichani (Emergence AI), Manthan Shah (WestBridge Capital), Michelle Bonat (Golden Pear Funding), Paul Farnsworth (Dice), Joel Hron (Thomson Reuters)
Venetian Ballroom D
  • AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
10:15 AM11:00 AM

Orchestration Layers and Software for Agentic AI Infrastructure

Agentic AI won’t scale in the enterprise without a robust orchestration layer, the connective tissue that manages tasks, memory, tool usage, and multi-agent coordination. This panel will take a closer look at how…

George Miranda (InsightFinder AI), Bradley Criqui (CBRE Investment Management), Nitay Joffe (Team8 VC), Henna Davar (American Airlines), Vira Tkachenko (MacPaw)
Delfino Ballroom 4104
  • Infrastructure: AI Agents
10:15 AM10:55 AM

RAG is a Flashlight. Your AI Agent Needs a Map. -> Graph Theory as an AI Agent's Superpower

The default answer in enterprise AI is RAG: chunk it, embed it, retrieve it. But you can have all the information in the world and still be lost. An encyclopedia contains every fact about every city on Earth — it can't…

Keith Soura (Arch)
Titian Ballroom 2306
  • AI Agents (technical)
10:15 AM11:00 AM

Simulating Reality: The Business Value of World Models

World models allow AI to do more than just generate text, they allow it to understand cause and effect in the physical world. This panel features industry leaders discussing how they are leveraging world models to…

Emil Protalinski (Techmeme and EPro Strategies), Sreekanth Annapureddy (Netradyne), Inhi Cho Suh (Niantic Spatial), Hardik Kabaria (Vinci)
Lando Ballroom 4204
  • World Models
10:15 AM11:00 AM

Small Company, Smart Tools: How SMBs Are Winning with AI

Join a group of nimble SMB operators and tech enablers as they share how small companies are using AI to punch above their weight. From virtual assistants and automated quoting to AI-driven marketing campaigns, we’ll…

Manoj Mathew (LendingUSA), Brian Docili (Conectiv Supply Chain Solutions), Jennifer Conrad (Inc. Magazine), Nicholas Muy (Scrut Automation)
Titian Ballroom 2304
  • AI For SMBs
10:15 AM10:55 AM

Teaching Models to Imagine: Trustworthy Simulation for Sequential Data

When real-world sequential data is sparse, biased, delayed, or impossible to access, how do we train models to reason well instead of hallucinating patterns? This talk will explain how to generate synthetic and…

Abhimanyu Mukerji (Amazon)
Veronese Ballroom 2504
  • Synthetic Data & Data Generation (technical)
10:15 AM11:00 AM

The AI Agent Playbook: A Strategic Roadmap for Implementation

Successfully integrating AI agents requires a clear strategic roadmap. This panel provides a comprehensive guide to creating your organization's AI agent playbook. Experts will discuss essential elements of strategy…

Marcus Spillane (Howard Hughes), Aaron Stanley (Promenade Advisory), Agam Upadhyay (Vertex Pharmaceuticals), Jeff Mills (Toptal), Jim Schiel (Artisan Agility)
Venetian Ballroom F
  • AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
10:15 AM10:35 AM

Walden Robotics: Putting General-Purpose Robots to Work

Physical AI is opening a path to robots that behave like versatile agents in the physical world rather than fixed, single-purpose automation. In this session we'll look at what it takes to carry a capable model from the…

Rares Ambrus (Walden Robotics), Benjamin Burchfiel (Placeholder)
Delfino Ballroom 4103
  • Multimodal AI (technical)
10:15 AM10:35 AM

What's the ROI on Your AI? How to Get the Right Answer to This Wrong Question

You've asked it. Your board has asked it. Your CFO wants to know: "What's our ROI on AI?"The answer should drive confident decisions—but consistently fails. Not because AI doesn't work or you can't measure it, but…

John Capriotti (EPAM Systems), Ira Livshits (EPAM Systems)
Palazzo Ballroom D
  • Oversight: AI ROI
10:40 AM
10:40 AM11:00 AM

AI as Infrastructure: Rewiring the Enterprise for Intelligent Operations

This is not about adopting AI — it is about redefining how organizations operate. Winners will be those who turn intelligence into durable economic value.• Execution, not experimentation, defines success• Intelligence…

Nancy Scola (—), Kristin Milchanowski (BMO)
Palazzo Ballroom G
  • CAIO CIO & It Leaders
10:40 AM11:00 AM

AI for Hardware Development

Hardware development across every industry — robotics, automotive, silicon, datacenters, and aerospace — remains constrained by multi-week supplier cycles required to obtain manufacturability feedback and cost…

Satvik Sabarad (Amazon Robotics)
Delfino Ballroom 4103
  • Multimodal AI (technical)
10:40 AM11:30 AM

AI Oversight in Banking: Why Evaluation Frameworks Fail in Production [RSVP REQUIRED]

This event requires an RSVP; to attend, submit form hereTraditional AI assurance approaches-benchmarks, offline testing, over-reliance on human-in-the-loop (HITL), and generic LLM-as-a-judge-fail to capture how systems…

Sabrina Palme (Palqee)
Room 305
  • Roundtable
10:40 AM11:30 AM

Building Your AI Talent Pipeline: Cultivating Agentic & Generative Leaders from High School to Ph.D. [RSVP REQUIRED]

This event requires an RSVP; to attend, submit form hereWhat if instead of engaging in costly bidding wars for scarce AI talent, your organization could shape the next generation of generative leaders before they even…

Rick Ginsberg (The University of Kansas), Maggie Mosher (University of Kansas)
Room 310
  • Roundtable
10:40 AM11:30 AM

From Perception to Decision: Deploying AI Inside a Live Claims Workflow [RSVP REQUIRED]

This event requires an RSVP; to attend, submit form hereEvery day, adjusters open tire and brake photos and make a call: approve or deny. At 300,000+ claims a year, the problem isn't whether any single adjuster gets it…

Nicole Crozier (SilverRock), Kayla Graves (SilverRock)
Room 304
  • Roundtable (technical)
10:40 AM10:50 AM

Investigative AI: Building Agents That Show Their Work

RAG can answer a question. But can it defend that answer to a regulator? Most enterprise AI stalls in production because it retrieves — yet it can't reason across systems, take action, or be audited. In this talk I'll…

Dhrumil Joshi (Clustral AI)
Venetian Ballroom G
  • AI Startups & VCs
10:40 AM11:00 AM

Reliability Before Autonomy: Building an AI Reliability Control Plane for Multi-Cloud LLM and Agentic AI Systems

Production AI systems can appear healthy at the infrastructure layer while model quality degrades, agents loop, tool failures cascade, latency fluctuates, and token costs surge. Across multiple clouds and model…

Arun Pandiyan Perumal (Adobe)
Lando Ballroom 4203
  • Infrastructure: Cloud Data Centers & Compute
10:40 AM11:00 AM

Securing the AI Layer: When Your Agent Becomes the Threat!

As AI agents become integrated into SOC and Incident Response workflows, they introduce new attack surfaces that adversaries actively exploit. This session examines how AI‑powered security agents are compromised through…

Arsh Arora (McKesson)
Marcello Ballroom 4403
  • Cybersecurity
10:40 AM11:00 AM

The AI Productivity Paradox: Phantom Value on the Ledger

Over the past two years, enterprises have invested billions of dollars in AI-powered developer tools, coding assistants, engineering intelligence platforms, and intelligent agents with the expectation of transforming…

Prashant Kumar (TechBlocks)
Palazzo Ballroom L
  • Software: Productivity & Collaboration
10:40 AM11:00 AM

The Trust Stack: How to Design an AI Agent That Earns Its Autonomy

Everyone says their AI agent improves itself, and most of those claims fall apart the moment you ask how the agent knows it actually got better. In customer service, where one wrong answer can cost a brand its…

Kibeom Lee (delight.ai)
Palazzo Ballroom E
  • CX & Customer Service
10:40 AM11:00 AM

There Is No ROI of AI: What Boards Really Ask Before They Fund It

In my job, the only thing AI can't do is go to jail. Accountability, judgment, the human on the hook for the call: that's what boards are really weighing when they decide whether to fund AI, and it's one of the biggest…

Leah Fricke (Various Companies (Australia))
Palazzo Ballroom D
  • Oversight: AI ROI
11:05 AM
11:05 AM11:25 AM

Actions Speak Louder Than Prompts: Governing What AI Agents Actually Do

Everyone is watching what goes into AI agents. Almost no one is watching what they actually do.The industry obsesses over the inbound boundary — prompt injection, guardrails, model alignment — while the real risk lands…

Nathan Wallace (Turbot)
Marcello Ballroom 4403
  • Cybersecurity
11:05 AM11:25 AM

AI Adoption Solved. ROI Is Not.

AI adoption is no longer the hard part; proving what it changed is. Engineering teams are now running AI-native software factories where tokens, agents, prompts, pull requests, incidents, reviews, and rework all move…

Chase Norton (Faros)
Palazzo Ballroom D
  • Oversight: AI ROI
11:05 AM11:25 AM

Building an AI Factory to Escape Pilot Purgatory and Runaway AI Costs

Why is enterprise AI spend so high while ROI stays so low? Most companies are stuck in pilots, paying for AI projects that never reach production. The gap isn't better models, it's the absence of an Operating Model…

Bhaskar Roy (Workato)
Venetian Ballroom F
  • AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
11:05 AM11:25 AM

Confidently Wrong: Building Validation and Trust for Your AI Agents

Confidently wrong AI has a price tag and in 2026, it's a line item. Your AI agent will never tell you it's wrong. It doesn't know it's wrong. It ships code with total confidence, answers customers with total confidence…

Mudit Singh (TestMu AI)
Titian Ballroom 2306
  • AI Agents (technical)
11:05 AM11:25 AM

Failure-Driven Data Engines: Model Errors and Synthetic Generation

Most teams improve their models by generating more data broadly and hoping it covers the failure regions. I will present a system that does the opposite — it observes exactly where a model fails, characterizes those…

Cole DeVingo (Toyota Research Institute)
Veronese Ballroom 2504
  • Synthetic Data & Data Generation (technical)
11:05 AM11:25 AM

Fireside Chat with Anastasis Germanidis, Runway: Building Models That Understand and Simulate the World

AI video models are evolving into systems that can understand, represent and simulate the physical world. Runway's GWM-1 brings real-time understanding of physics, geometry and human behavior — already powering the…

Anastasis Germanidis (Runway), Jared Perlo (NBC News)
Lando Ballroom 4204
  • World Models
11:05 AM11:25 AM

Friends Don’t Let AI Code in the Dark: Fixing the Token Burning Chaos of Agentic UI

When AI coding agents generate UI on the fly, they introduce highly dynamic, unpredictable accessibility bugs—from broken keyboard traps to unreadable, low-contrast color palettes. If your testing pipeline relies solely…

Dylan Barrell (Deque Systems)
Palazzo Ballroom L
  • Software Engineering
11:05 AM11:25 AM

From Specialized Capabilities to Composable Intelligence: Architecting Scalable, Multimodal AI for Drug Development

Multimodal AI systems often try to scale by adding ever more data sources, agents, and tools. But a larger bundle of components does not automatically produce more useful or reliable capability. The greater opportunity…

John Austin (Gilead)
Delfino Ballroom 4103
  • Multimodal AI (technical)
11:05 AM11:25 AM

From Stack to Symphony: Building Infrastructure That Performs as One System

At scale, one bad node can stall an entire training run. From Stack to Symphony takes you inside the journey every GPU node makes from rack to production: how we provision capacity, burn-in test every node, and prove…

Alex Akesson (Crusoe)
Lando Ballroom 4203
  • Infrastructure: Cloud Data Centers & Compute
11:05 AM11:25 AM

How AI Agents Think: The Architecture Behind Collective Intelligence

What does it take to build AI agents that can think, reason, and collaborate? This session breaks down the core architecture behind agent cognition—shared memory layers, semantic alignment, reasoning protocols, and the…

Julu Panat (Outshift by Cisco)
Delfino Ballroom 4104
  • Infrastructure: AI Agents
11:05 AM11:25 AM

How Europe’s Air Traffic Network Is Modernizing Legacy Systems with AI

How do you modernize mission-critical aviation infrastructure without disrupting live operations?EUROCONTROL — the organization coordinating air traffic operations across Europe — shares how it is transforming legacy…

Razvan Margauan (EUROCONTROL), Nancy Scola (—), Andrei Manolache (DesignVerse)
Venetian Ballroom E
  • Generative AI: Applications & Use Cases
11:05 AM11:25 AM

Know and Grow the ROI of AI: From Enterprise Transformation to Business Value

AI is advancing rapidly, but the central question for enterprise leaders is no longer whether it works—it is how to convert capability into measurable business value. This talk will show why AI transformation requires…

Erik Brynjolfsson (Co-Founder at Workhelix)
Marcello Ballroom 4404
  • Social Impact Of AI
11:05 AM11:25 AM

Presentation by Tray.ai: How Zuora Is Deploying Agentic AI Across Its Enterprise

How do you get AI past the pilot and into daily use — without losing control of governance, risk, or cost? Join me, Mark Gill, Head of Infrastructure and Services at Zuora, on stage with Josh Noble, Field CTO, Tray.ai…

Josh Noble (Tray.ai), Mark Gill (Zuora)
Palazzo Ballroom G
  • CAIO CIO & It Leaders
11:05 AM11:25 AM

Robust AI Security and Alignment: A Sisyphean Endeavor?

The industry is rapidly transitioning from static AI chatbots to Agentic AI. Unlike their predecessors, these agents do not merely offer advice; they execute actions via APIs across your core IT infrastructure to…

Apostol Vassilev (National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST))
Venetian Ballroom A
  • AI Research Summit (technical)
11:05 AM11:15 AM

The $17.7M Hiring Filter: What Enterprise AI Misses Without Outcome Data

Most enterprise AI can see the data behind a decision, but not the downstream outcome that reveals whether that decision actually worked. Without that feedback loop, AI risks scaling yesterday’s assumptions faster…

Saad Bin Shafiq (Nodes Inc.)
Venetian Ballroom G
  • AI Startups & VCs
11:05 AM11:25 AM

The Agentic ROI Blueprint for Enterprise CX: Lessons Learned from 100+ Enterprise Deployments (so you don't have to)

Every AI session at this conference will talk about cost savings. This one won't. After hundreds of enterprise AI deployments, we've seen the same pattern: the biggest wins don't come from replacing people; they come…

Natalie Telson (Parloa)
Venetian Ballroom H
  • AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
11:05 AM11:25 AM

The Enterprise Solutions Engine: When Your Business Builds Its Own AI

The next wave of enterprise AI will not be built by engineering alone. As agentic AI matures, business teams can increasingly build their own problem-solving applications, but most platforms force a choice between speed…

Matt Cashatt (Polyrific)
Palazzo Ballroom M
  • Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
11:05 AM11:25 AM

The Unfair Advantage: Why a 2 Person Team Can Now Outmarket a 2,000 Person Brand

Google, Meta, and TikTok have spent a decade building AI that decides what your customers see, and until now that intelligence worked for the platforms, not for you. I spent years building AI at Google DeepMind, and now…

Praneet Dutta (usepomo.ai)
Titian Ballroom 2304
  • AI For SMBs
11:05 AM11:25 AM

Why AI Agent Pilots Stall — and What Actually Fixes Them

Most AI agent projects don't fail because the AI isn't good enough. They stall between proof of concept and production.Drawing on lessons from thousands of companies building AI-powered workflows and AI agents, this…

Darin Patterson (Make)
Venetian Ballroom D
  • AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
11:30 AM
11:30 AM11:50 AM

AI Trust on Borrowed Cryptography: A Post-Quantum Operating Model for Technology Executives

Enterprise AI is being built on a trust layer already marked for replacement. Model signing, attestation, agent communication, machine identity, key management, API security, and software supply chain provenance all…

Jake Hammock (City of Seattle)
Marcello Ballroom 4403
  • Cybersecurity
11:30 AM11:50 AM

AI-Driven Platform Engineering with MCP

Platform Engineering teams are increasingly using AI to reduce operational toil, speed up incident response, and enable self-service infrastructure. This talk explores using AI as a natural-language interface to…

Nitish Mane (Philo)
Titian Ballroom 2306
  • AI Agents (technical)
11:30 AM11:50 AM

AI-Driven Software Development: Practical Lessons for Builder Teams

What does it take to move an engineering team from AI experimentation to AI-native development? In this session, Ian Moraes, Head of Consumer Domains at Audible, will share practical lessons from leading his team's AI…

Ian Moraes (Audible)
Palazzo Ballroom E
  • Enterprise Unlocks: AI Coding Strategy
11:30 AM11:40 AM

Breaking AI Agents: What Offensive Security Revealed About the Future of Enterprise Defense

AI agents are moving from experimentation into enterprise production, but traditional security controls were never designed for systems that can reason, plan, and autonomously pursue objectives.At ZioSec, we took an…

Aaron Walls (ZioSec, Inc.)
Venetian Ballroom G
  • AI Startups & VCs
11:30 AM11:50 AM

Deploying Datacenters in Space - Fireside Chat with Ezra Feilden, CTO of Starcloud

The next generation of hyperscale datacenters won't be built on land, but in orbit. In this fireside chat, Ezra Feilden makes the technical and economic case for deploying datacenter infrastructure in space, and why the…

Ezra Feilden (Starcloud), Eoin Higgins (Morning Brew)
Lando Ballroom 4203
  • Infrastructure: Cloud Data Centers & Compute
11:30 AM11:50 AM

Dignity by Design: AI and the Duty of Care

Dignity is a central legal premise in over 158 national constitutions and 52 multinational instruments. It is the central principle on which all other AI ethics rest. Commitments such as privacy, security, and safety…

Nathan Walker (AI Ethics Lab, Rutgers University)
Marcello Ballroom 4404
  • AI Safety & Alignment
11:30 AM11:50 AM

From Documents to Discovery: How Ancestry’s Enterprise AI Drives Customer Value at Scale

What if enterprise AI's greatest competitive advantage isn't speed or efficiency—but the ability to unlock meaning and deepen customer value? This fireside chat will explore how Ancestry transformed 71 billion…

Sriram Thiagarajan (Ancestry), Gideon Lewis-Kraus (The New Yorker)
Palazzo Ballroom G
  • CAIO CIO & It Leaders
11:30 AM11:50 AM

From Quantum Picturalism to Quantum NLP: Interpretable, Scalable, and Exponential Advantage

Quantum and natural language share the same structure! Here's the story. Over some 20 years we have developed a diagrammatic quantum formalism, referred to as quantum picturalism [1, 2]. We showed that this formalism…

Bob Coecke (Relational Intelligence)
Delfino Ballroom 4103
  • Quantum AI (technical)
11:30 AM11:50 AM

Hard-Fought Lessons from a Year of Scaling AI in an SMB

Last year, I showed how we started using AI at a small industrial company—with no IT team and no fluff. Since then, we’ve scaled those early wins in sales, marketing, support across the company and two acquisitions —…

Eric Seiberling (MXD Process)
Titian Ballroom 2304
  • AI For SMBs
11:30 AM12:20 PM

How Far Have We Moved from Don't Be Evil? [RSVP REQUIRED]

This event requires an RSVP; to attend, submit form hereFrom the late 90s to 2015, Google's motto was "don't be evil." In the age of AI, how far have we moved from this framing? Tech is a tool and a weapon. AI is an…

Mark Ritzmann (Columbia University)
Room 301
  • Roundtable
11:30 AM11:50 AM

Inside the AI Transformation at Cushman & Wakefield

Everyone has an AI strategy. Far fewer have results. In this candid fireside chat, Cushman & Wakefield CIO Colin Campbell and Unframe Field CTO Chris Slovak get into the realities of enterprise AI adoption across three…

Collin Campbell (Cushman & Wakefield), Chris Slovak (Unframe)
Venetian Ballroom F
  • AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
11:30 AM11:50 AM

Intelligent Model Routing: Frontier Performance Without Frontier Bills

Enterprises are burning through AI coding agent budgets in months. In this talk, Not Diamond CEO Tomás Hernando Kofman explains how intelligent model routing cuts coding agent costs by 20%+ while maintaining frontier…

Palazzo Ballroom M
  • Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
11:30 AM11:50 AM

Latency Is a Budget. Humanlike Is the Goal.

With hundreds of models to choose from, how do you pick a stack that holds up in a live conversation? Most agents work in the background, but the moment one has to hear, see, and speak with a human in real time…

Jesse Hall (LiveKit)
Delfino Ballroom 4104
  • Infrastructure: AI Agents
11:30 AM12:10 PM

Olympic Gold Winning Expertise and Motivation Supported by Personalized AI by Olympic Athlete and Co-Creator of Siri

Witness the world premier launch of GOLD — the app that turns medal-winning innovation into simple, real-time guidance for your health and fitness goals. Always by your side with AI and supported by real coaches. All…

Tom Gruber (Siri), Sky Christopherson (GOLD AI)
Venetian Ballroom E
  • Generative AI: Applications & Use Cases
11:30 AM11:50 AM

Physics-Based Reasoning and Imagination at Inference

What if humanoid robots could imagine possible futures before acting—just like humans do? The talk will include a deep dive into why today’s dominant approaches, from imitation learning to model-free reinforcement…

Sankaet Pathak (Foundation Robotics), Matt Egan (CNN)
Lando Ballroom 4204
  • World Models
11:30 AM12:20 PM

Roundtable Discussion-Delivering Value with AI [RSVP REQUIRED]

This event requires an RSVP; to attend, submit form hereArtificial Intelligence is evolving fast, and expectations are evolving even faster. With the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs), organizations now have powerful…

Mark Kanner (UnitedHealthcare)
Room 303
  • Roundtable (technical)
11:30 AM11:50 AM

Scaling AI: The AI Value Playbook for the Enterprise

Your AI token spend keeps climbing — but can you actually prove what it's buying you?Enterprises are caught in an impossible bind: pressured to deploy AI aggressively, yet held accountable for results they often can't…

Nithin Ramachandran (Cargill)
Palazzo Ballroom D
  • Oversight: AI ROI
11:30 AM11:50 AM

Synthetic by Design: Privacy-First Data Engineering for Scalable, High-Fidelity AI Training

What if the biggest bottleneck in your AI pipeline isn't your model — it's your data? As AI systems grow more ambitious, real-world data is increasingly scarce, sensitive, or simply too expensive to collect at scale…

Sanchit Srivastava (General Mills)
Veronese Ballroom 2504
  • Synthetic Data & Data Generation (technical)
11:30 AM11:50 AM

The AI Credit Operating System: Why the Next Era of Underwriting Is One Platform, Not Ten Tools

What happens when a credit team replaces ten disconnected tools with one agentic platform? We will explore that question through real production data from institutions processing hundreds of thousands of financial…

Pranjal Daga (Accend)
Venetian Ballroom D
  • AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
11:30 AM11:50 AM

The Enterprise AI Operating Model: An Executive Playbook for Agentic AI Transformation

The Enterprise AI Operating Model: An Executive Playbook for Agentic AI Transformation: AI is no longer just augmenting work, it is redefining how enterprises operate, compete, and create value through autonomous…

Madhavi Najana (Federal Home Loan Bank of Cincinnati)
Palazzo Ballroom L
  • Software Engineering
11:30 AM11:50 AM

Transforming Banking Inside and Out: How AI Drives Better Experiences and ROI

If 2025 was a time of exploring how to use AI, in 2026 it’s time to examine AI’s return on investment. Prashant Mehrotra, Chief AI Officer at U.S. Bank, shares not only how AI is transforming the way people bank and how…

Prashant Mehrotra (U.S. Bank)
Venetian Ballroom H
  • AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
11:30 AM11:50 AM

Who Watches the Agents? Building Gen AI Evaluation Suites for Complex Architectures

While the industry spent the last year racing to build autonomous multi-agent systems, a critical question remains: how do we actually trust them in production? As enterprise adoption scales, the bottleneck has…

Jasleen Singh (Google)
Venetian Ballroom A
  • AI Research Summit (technical)
11:55 AM
11:55 AM12:15 PM

100 Superhumans Live: The Operating Model for Agentic AI at Full-Funnel Scale

Standing up one agent is easy. Running a coordinated workforce of them across your entire buyer journey, on guardrails, in production, is the part almost nobody has solved. This session takes GTM and AI leaders inside a…

Jonathan Kvarfordt (1mind)
Venetian Ballroom H
  • AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
11:55 AM12:15 PM

AI Companions: Helpful or Harmful? End of Social Skills or Motivating Sidekick? Strategic Ethical AI Choices

AI companions are moving from novelty to daily presence. But are we building systems that strengthen human capability or quietly erode it?This talk will explore the strategic design decisions that shape AI native…

Dor Skuler (Intuition Robotics)
Venetian Ballroom F
  • AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
11:55 AM12:15 PM

AI on Your Terms: Firefox, AI and Future of Trustworthy Browsing

As AI becomes the primary way people discover information, make decisions, and get work done, the browser is uniquely positioned to be the trusted gateway between users, AI, and the open web.. How it's designed will…

Shruti Kamath (Mozilla)
Palazzo Ballroom L
  • Software: Productivity & Collaboration
11:55 AM12:05 PM

Beyond the LLM: AI That Understands Before It Speaks.

Most AI applications follow the same pattern: collect data, send it to an LLM, and generate an answer. I believe that approach breaks down when decisions have real-world consequences, especially in healthcare. In this…

Yaya Ali (DrunR)
Venetian Ballroom G
  • AI Startups & VCs
11:55 AM12:45 PM

Beyond Vision Models: Designing Native Multimodal AI Systems [RSVP REQUIRED]

This event requires an RSVP; to attend, submit form hereAre we limiting AI's true potential by treating vision, audio, and language as completely separate pipelines? The industry is rapidly shifting away from simply…

Amrith Coumaran (Privateer Space)
Room 304
  • Roundtable (technical)
11:55 AM12:30 PM

Can Synthetic Data Replace Real Data?

This panel examines where and how synthetic data can outperform or augment real-world datasets. Panelists will share case studies from industries like finance, healthcare, and autonomous systems where synthetic…

Mikayel Khachatryan (Wirestock), Jonathan Shieber (Resilience Media), Aniket Tushar Ajagaonkar (Airbnb Inc), Prashanth Srinivasan (DoorDash), Karl Hanson (Tonic.ai)
Veronese Ballroom 2504
  • Synthetic Data & Data Generation (technical)
11:55 AM12:30 PM

Coding Automation Is Here: How Leaders Are Rethinking Software Strategy

The rapid rise of coding automation is forcing business and technology leaders to reimagine their software strategies. In this panel, senior executives from top enterprises will share how they are navigating this…

Joe Olsen (Olsen Capital), Seth Siegler (eXp Realty), Kenny Vargas (Piper Sandler), Derek Holt (Digital.ai Software, Inc.), Debojyoti Dutta (Nutanix)
Palazzo Ballroom E
  • Enterprise Unlocks: AI Coding Strategy
11:55 AM12:15 PM

From First Call to Appointment: How ClearChoice Is Using AI Agents to Transform the Patient Journey

Getting a patient to show up for a dental consultation isn't just a scheduling problem, it's an engagement problem. In this fireside chat, Craig Kierst, SVP of Sales Strategy & Growth at The Aspen Group, joins Cresta…

Craig Kierst (ClearChoice at The Aspen Group), Parthh Pathak (Cresta)
Venetian Ballroom D
  • AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
11:55 AM12:15 PM

Human First, AI Enabled – Startup Speed on a Global Scale

For years, disruption in the tech industry meant trading stability for speed. AI lets us rewrite that tradeoff, enabling small teams to pressure test ideas while building and launching new products and features in days…

Nat Rubio-Licht (The Deep View), Saral Jain (Snap)
Palazzo Ballroom M
  • Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
11:55 AM12:35 PM

Main Street Meets Machine: How AI Is Scaling Across America's SMB Sector

Real estate is not often the first industry that comes to mind when AI leaders think about scaled deployment, but it should be. With more than two million licensed agents and brokers in the United States, nearly all…

Dan Weisman (National Association of REALTORS®), Scott Richard (Richard Realty), Rebecca Thomson (Coldwell Banker Realty), Greg Burns (Hawai'i Life)
Titian Ballroom 2304
  • AI For SMBs
11:55 AM12:15 PM

Most AI Pilots Fail. Yours Won’t

90% of AI pilots never make it past proof-of-concept. EY and Winland Foods broke that pattern, and they'll tell you exactly how. In this candid fireside chat, the business and technology leaders behind a real AI Factory…

Joe Hutchings (Winland Foods), Oscar Marin (EY)
Palazzo Ballroom G
  • CAIO CIO & It Leaders
11:55 AM12:15 PM

Presentation by Atena Sadeghi, Fedcap Group

Everyone is asking what AI can do. I believe the better question is: What business value should AI create? In this session, I will introduce the Enterprise AI Value Realization Framework, a practical executive approach…

Atena Sadeghi (Fedcap group)
Palazzo Ballroom D
  • Oversight: AI ROI
11:55 AM12:35 PM

Protecting Enterprise AI Data in the Post-Quantum Era

As enterprises accelerate AI adoption, they are collecting, combining, and moving greater volumes of sensitive data across increasingly complex environments. This talk will examine post-quantum cryptography through a…

Camille Nwaefulu (Visa Inc.)
Delfino Ballroom 4103
  • Quantum AI (technical)
11:55 AM12:15 PM

ROI Maxxing Case Study: The Alchemy of Shipping Faster, Proving AI Value, and Controlling Token Cost

Every AI initiative now has to answer one question: what did we get for the spend? That question is harder than it sounds: ROI is part measurement problem, part organizational problem, and many teams struggle with both…

David Wang (Tetrate.io)
Delfino Ballroom 4104
  • Infrastructure: AI Agents
11:55 AM12:30 PM

Scaling Compute for the AI Enterprise: Strategies for Power, Performance, and Flexibility

As AI workloads grow more complex and compute-hungry, infrastructure leaders must rethink how they scale resources across cloud, on-prem, and edge environments. This panel brings together executives and infrastructure…

Greg Wester (Runpod), Ryan Wang (Solaris Venture Partners & Outpost Capital), David Wacker (KONST), Frank Kartmann (Deutsche Bank), Pratik Jain (Auvern.ai)
Lando Ballroom 4203
  • Infrastructure: Cloud Data Centers & Compute
11:55 AM12:45 PM

Sovereign Language Models (SLMs & LLMs) in Production

Frontier AI models have made it easier than ever to build intelligent applications, but when does it make sense for an enterprise to build and govern its own language models instead of relying solely on external APIs?…

Jithin Pradeep (Vanguard), Sagarika Suresh (The Vanguard Group)
Venetian Ballroom A
  • AI Research Summit (technical)
11:55 AM12:15 PM

The Agentic Stack: Why Enterprise Software Needs a New Foundation, Not a New Feature

For 25 years, enterprise software ran on a simple bargain: learn our menus, our dashboards, our keyboard shortcuts, and we'll let you do your job. Agentic AI breaks that bargain. Ravi Bulusu, CTO of IFS Loops, argues…

Ravi Bulusu (IFS)
Titian Ballroom 2306
  • AI Agents (technical)
11:55 AM12:15 PM

Will AI Empower or Disempower Humanity?

Technology is traditionally thought of as a tool that empowers its users. But AI is increasingly capable of acting autonomously, and superintelligent AI agents could arrive any year now. Many experts are concerned such…

David Scott Krueger (Evitable | University of Montreal, Mila)
Marcello Ballroom 4404
  • AI Safety & Alignment
12:20 PM
12:20 PM12:40 PM

1,100 Attorneys, One Million+ Prompts: Building a 50+ Tool AI Stack at a Global Law Firm

In under 2 years, I helped take Ogletree Deakins from no AI tools to a stack of more than 50 licensed and homegrown tools, crossing well over one million prompts along the way and still climbing. We did it all while…

Tim Fox (Ogletree Deakins)
Palazzo Ballroom M
  • Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
12:20 PM12:40 PM

AI, Mental Health, and Human Connection: Adam Mendler and Dr. Joseph Lee, Hazelden Betty Ford

AI is moving into the most private parts of human life, reshaping how we connect, how we cope, and how we understand ourselves. Its impact on mental health is neither simple nor settled. AI can deepen isolation, distort…

Adam Mendler (Thirty Minute Mentors), Joseph Lee (Hazelden Betty Ford)
Marcello Ballroom 4404
  • AI Safety & Alignment
12:20 PM12:40 PM

Beyond Chatbots: The Next AI Frontier is Physical

Generative AI transformed how machines understand and generate information. The next challenge is enabling AI to understand, reason and act in the physical world. In conversation with Financial Times San Francisco…

Vijay Badrinarayanan (Wayve.ai), Rafe Uddin (Financial Times)
Delfino Ballroom 4104
  • Infrastructure: AI Agents
12:20 PM12:40 PM

Building the Next-Generation Humanoid Robot and Ecosystem

I will introduce about Unitree's Product and future roadmap.

Nick Xu (Unitree Robotics)
Lando Ballroom 4204
  • World Models
12:20 PM12:40 PM

Complex SOPs, Brittle Agents: Evaluating AI Agents in Real-World Automations

Real world standard operating procedures are complex, involving branching logic, long sequential steps, ordering constraints, rollback paths and ambiguous tool definitions. Current AI agents are surprisingly brittle…

Udita Patel (Amazon)
Titian Ballroom 2306
  • AI Agents (technical)
12:20 PM12:40 PM

Exploring AI Energy Efficiency and Model Performance with Quantum Computing

Quantum computing could be a viable path to improving AI energy efficiency and model performance.Attend this talk to learn how quantum computers could enable you to continue advancing AI capabilities while managing…

Murray Thom (D-Wave Quantum)
Venetian Ballroom E
  • Generative AI: Applications & Use Cases
12:20 PM12:40 PM

From Product Signals to Venture Capital Investments

What if your best Associate never slept, never missed a signal, and had listened to every conversation your industry's top experts ever had?Venture capital has always rewarded pattern recognition but the patterns have…

SC Moatti (Mighty Capital)
Venetian Ballroom H
  • AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
12:20 PM12:40 PM

Is Your Insights Team Capturing the Phantom ROI of AI?

What if the most valuable returns from AI are the ones your ROI model cannot see? Across analytics, data science, and data management, AI is creating new operating dynamics—changing how teams collaborate, how decisions…

Xufeng Wang (Ipsos)
Palazzo Ballroom D
  • Oversight: AI ROI
12:20 PM12:40 PM

Production-Grade Agents: Merging Mass Data into Real-Time Decisions

What if your business could make every decision the moment the data arrived, instead of waiting on a report? In high-volume operations like Amazon retail, the gap between data and decision is where margin quietly…

Eric Hankinson (Outdoor Equipped)
Palazzo Ballroom G
  • CAIO CIO & It Leaders
12:20 PM12:40 PM

Reimagining the Healthcare Experience: How Health100 Is Putting Consumers First

A strategic vision for how Health100, an AI-native open consumer engagement platform, is reshaping the consumer's relationship with healthcare.

Tony Ambrozie (CVS Health | Health100), Ruth Reader (Second Opinion Media)
Venetian Ballroom D
  • AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
12:20 PM12:40 PM

Scaling Voice AI Agents at CVS: Lessons from Pharmacy to the Enterprise

CVS operates voice at national scale—across pharmacy, payer, provider, and retail—where every channel decision is an access and operations decision. In this fireside chat, CVS shares how it moved beyond rigid…

Yogesh Bhagat (CSV Health & Health100), Kris Efland (Deepgram)
Venetian Ballroom F
  • AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
12:20 PM12:40 PM

What It Takes to Build an Agent Platform for Customers

Most AI agent talks focus on building tools for employees—but what changes when your users are your customers? In this talk, I will explore the unique challenges of building an externally facing agent platform at…

Rob Pegoraro (PCMag / Fast Company), Tabrez Mohammed (Docusign)
Palazzo Ballroom L
  • Software: Productivity & Collaboration
12:20 PM12:40 PM

When Everyone Can Build: Securing Healthcare in the Age of AI

Artificial intelligence has dramatically lowered the barriers to building useful software, empowering clinicians and other domain experts to solve problems that once required specialized technical expertise and…

Joseph Izzo (San Joaquin General Hospital)
Marcello Ballroom 4403
  • Cybersecurity
2:10 PM
2:10 PM2:50 PM

A Whole New World: How AI Collapses the Distance from Idea to Shipped Product

For years the PM job ended at the edge of imagination: you’d spec the product, pitch it, and wait quarters for it to be built. Now you can carry an idea from intent to working prototype, collapsing the timeline into…

Alexandra Foote (The Walt Disney Company)
Palazzo Ballroom E
  • Enterprise Unlocks: AI Coding Strategy
2:10 PM2:30 PM

Breaking the Dead-End Loop: Designing Autonomous Agents Consumers Actually Trust

Are we about to repeat the mistakes of early digital transformations by forcing customers down dead-end AI paths? As enterprises race to deploy autonomous agents, many early rollouts are actually causing customer…

Michael Vermillion (JD Power)
Venetian Ballroom F
  • AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
2:10 PM2:30 PM

Building Reliable AI Agents in Production

Building an AI agent is easier than building one people trust in production. In this talk, I'll share lessons from building and operating production AI copilots and autopilot systems for high-volume financial operations…

Charishma Bhavani Koneru (Block Inc)
Titian Ballroom 2306
  • AI Agents (technical)
2:10 PM2:55 PM

Building the Modern Data Stack for AI: What’s Working and What’s Not

Data engineering is under pressure to support increasingly complex AI workflows—and fast. This panel dives into how leading teams are building robust, scalable infrastructure to power real-time AI applications. Experts…

Bhanu Prakash Reddy Rella (Meta), Emanuel Bettelheim (Bloomberg), Jordan Tigani (MotherDuck), Emil Protalinski (Techmeme and EPro Strategies)
Lando Ballroom 4204
  • Data Engineering
2:10 PM2:30 PM

Dawn of a New Era: What Happens When Your Mind Connects to a Computer?

The talk will challenge how we think about disability, technology, and human potential. It will show how brain-computer interfaces are already reshaping independence, communication, and daily life. I will explain what…

Noland Arbaugh (Noland Arbaugh LLC)
Marcello Ballroom 4404
  • Emerging Parallel Technologies
2:10 PM3:00 PM

Evaluating Agentic Systems | Roundtable by Rakesh Maram, AT&T [RSVP REQUIRED]

This event requires an RSVP; to attend, submit form hereHow do we know if an autonomous system is truly capable, rather than optimized for a benchmark? This roundtable will explore why static evaluations are no longer…

Rakesh Maram (AT&T)
Room 301
  • Roundtable (technical)
2:10 PM2:30 PM

Fireside Chat with Biswa Sengupta — How Finance Decides Where AI Belongs

AI is easy in demos. It's much harder when trillions of dollars and regulators are involved.Every bank claims to be "AI-powered," but very few are talking candidly about what actually makes it into production. Join…

Biswa Sengupta (JPMorgan Chase & Co.), Nathan Bomey (Axios)
Venetian Ballroom E
  • Generative AI: Applications & Use Cases
2:10 PM2:30 PM

From Computation to Expression: How AI Reshapes What and How We Design

From Computation to Expression: How AI Reshapes What and How We Design

Federico Casalegno (Samsung Electronics)
Venetian Ballroom H
  • AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
2:10 PM2:30 PM

From Search to Synthesis: AI that Supports the Open Web

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Kat Downs Mulder (Yahoo), Eric Feng (Yahoo), Harry McCracken (Fast Company)
Palazzo Ballroom M
  • Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
2:10 PM2:50 PM

Generative AI for Federated Learning: Improving Privacy & Performance

Enterprises want what generative AI can offer, but often their most valuable data can't leave the building, whether it be patient records in healthcare, transactions in finance, or proprietary design plans in…

Fiona Victoria (Oregon State University)
Delfino Ballroom 4103
  • Edge AI & Tiny ML (technical)
2:10 PM2:50 PM

Learning Fast from AI Missteps: What Actually Worked in the Real World

AI projects rarely fail because of the models themselves. Instead, they fail because of messy data, flawed assumptions, and the unpredictable ways people use the technology. In this session, you'll hear how Cushman &…

Collin Campbell (Cushman & Wakefield)
Marcello Ballroom 4403
  • Aifails
2:10 PM3:00 PM

Leveraging AI for Incident Response with Dr. Arsh [RSVP REQUIRED]

This event requires an RSVP; to attend, submit form hereJoin me for an interactive roundtable on Leverage AI for Incident Response, designed for security leaders who need clarity, precision, and operational value. This…

Arsh Arora (McKesson)
Room 302
  • Roundtable
2:10 PM2:55 PM

Representation Matters: Building Inclusive Teams and Ethical Systems

This powerful conversation features technologists, experts, and researchers discussing what it really takes to diversify the AI ecosystem. From talent pipelines and organizational change to dataset curation and product…

Nathan Walker (AI Ethics Lab, Rutgers University), Jana Brown (eHealth), Janeen Uzzell (National Society of Black Engineers)
Titian Ballroom 2304
  • Inclusive AI
2:10 PM2:30 PM

The Four Horsemen of AI

AI’s greatest threats may not come from rogue models, but from the systems required to build, power, govern, and trust them. Regulation is fragmenting across borders, advanced compute is concentrating in fewer hands…

Greg Osuri (Akash)
Lando Ballroom 4203
  • Infrastructure: Cloud Data Centers & Compute
2:10 PM2:30 PM

The Organizational AI Imperative

While AI technology is advancing rapidly, many organizations still struggle to translate these innovations into meaningful, transformational business value. This session explores the common roadblocks stalling…

Jacob Schofield (Google Cloud)
Palazzo Ballroom G
  • CAIO CIO & It Leaders
2:10 PM2:30 PM

Turning Your Value Proposition Into Coordinated AI Agents

Most companies do not need generic AI. They need AI that quickly and scalably delivers their unique value proposition to their customers. In this session, I will share a practical blueprint for leaders, product owners…

Steve Toy (Just a Bite Better (JaBB))
Venetian Ballroom D
  • AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
2:35 PM
2:35 PM3:25 PM

Beyond RAG - Next-Gen Knowledge Integration Roundtable Moderated by Selim Mimaroglu [RSVP REQUIRED]

This event requires an RSVP; to attend, submit form here

Selim Mimaroglu (Fannie Mae)
Room 303
  • Roundtable (technical)
2:35 PM2:55 PM

Everyone Has AI. Why Are Some Companies Winning?

Every company now has access to powerful AI models. Yet only a handful are creating lasting competitive advantage. Join Kevin, an MIT computer scientist and CEO of Soren, to explore how leading organizations are…

Kevin Xie (Soren AI)
Venetian Ballroom E
  • Generative AI: Applications & Use Cases
2:35 PM2:55 PM

Fraud Detection Agents at Scale, Built on MongoDB + Mastra

Fraud detection in an agentic world is hard: evidence for a decision is scattered, only some calls should reach a human, and all must stay auditable. This talk builds Marshal, a fraud investigation console. It assembles…

Brandon Barros (Masta), Mohammad Daoud Farooqi (MongoDB)
Venetian Ballroom H
  • AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
2:35 PM2:55 PM

From Hype to Real Utility : Making Quantum Useful for AI Today

Quantum computing is often positioned as a future breakthrough, but meaningful value is already being realized today. In this talk, I will highlight how quantum-inspired and photonic computing approaches are delivering…

Yong Meng Sua (Quantum Computing Inc.)
Marcello Ballroom 4404
  • Emerging Parallel Technologies
2:35 PM3:25 PM

God, AI and Our Meaning Crisis: Architecting Moral Structures in an Age of AI [RSVP REQUIRED]

This event requires an RSVP; to attend, submit form hereAs AI becomes increasingly embedded in decision-making, creativity, leadership, and moral reasoning, this talk will confront a deeper question: what happens when…

R. York Moore (Coalition for Christian Outreach)
Room 305
  • Roundtable
2:35 PM2:55 PM

How Networks Shape the New AI Economy

Enterprise AI has moved past experimentation and into production, and the cost structure has fundamentally changed. Tokens are now the primary unit of AI value, and the network sits at the center of every decision…

Faisal Hanif (Upscale)
Lando Ballroom 4203
  • Infrastructure: Cloud Data Centers & Compute
2:35 PM2:55 PM

Managing Through the AI Cost Crisis

Recent technology news has been dominated by the growing concern of organizations losing control of AI spend, with companies reporting budget blowouts in months, runaway token usage, and nine-figure bills tied to…

Scott Bulloch (Flexera)
Palazzo Ballroom D
  • Oversight: AI ROI
2:35 PM2:55 PM

PRAXIST: The World's First Autonomous Research System Delivering Validated, Enterprise-Ready Results

Tired of repetitive model tuning or running out of new ideas to explore? Free yourself from the tedious side of research. PRAXIST is the world's first production-ready, open-source autonomous research system. It handles…

William Chen (Sapient Intelligence Pte. Ltd.)
Titian Ballroom 2306
  • AI Agents (technical)
2:35 PM2:55 PM

Self-Optimization: The reinforcement loop and the future of agent trust

Self-Optimization: The reinforcement loop and the future of agent trustThe idea that AI agents could improve on their own — detect their own failures, fix them, and get better without a human operator — sounds like…

Barr Moses (Monte Carlo AI)
Venetian Ballroom F
  • AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
2:35 PM3:25 PM

The Call to Responsible AI Leadership [RSVP REQUIRED]

This event requires an RSVP; to attend, submit form hereThis talk addresses how leaders set conditions for AI initiatives to succeed and foster deep organizational transformation. It will explore how responsible AI…

Clark Cully (DeVoe School of Business)
Room 304
  • Roundtable
2:35 PM2:55 PM

The Next Invisible Asymptote: Collaboration at the Speed of AI

Every company eventually runs into an invisible asymptote, a term coined by Eugene Wei describing a hidden ceiling where growth quietly flattens no matter how hard you push. In the AI era, a new one is emerging: the…

Brendan McCook (Miro), Kendra Wilkins (Miro)
Venetian Ballroom D
  • AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
2:35 PM2:55 PM

Why AI Isn’t the Hardest Part of Language Operations

AI can translate content at a scale no team could ever manually review, but how do you know when it is safe to automate? As organizations adopt AI across their operations, the challenge is no longer generating content…

Ari Karampour (Indeed)
Palazzo Ballroom M
  • Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
3:00 PM
3:00 PM3:20 PM

5 Reasons Why AI Governance Fails

You can't successfully deploy AI agents if you can't govern them. But the standard way of governing AI *does not work* when it comes to agents. . I'll explain 5 causes of AI governance failure, each of which comes with…

Reid Blackman (Virtue Consultants)
Venetian Ballroom E
  • AI Safety & Alignment
3:00 PM3:15 PM

Agentic Live Demo by Cognition AI

Halls B&C
  • Agentic Live Demos
3:00 PM3:20 PM

AI Water Stewardship: Farms & Data Centers in Shared Basins

Water is becoming the defining constraint for both food production and digital infrastructure—so how do we manage it smarter, together? In this talk, I will explain how precision irrigation, powered by AI, turns water…

Max Moldavsky (Netafim)
Lando Ballroom 4203
  • Infrastructure: Cloud Data Centers & Compute
3:00 PM3:20 PM

Building an AI-Native Product Workflow

See firsthand what it takes to extend AI-powered productivity from engineering to the rest of the organization. In this session, we follow a complete workflow end to end: a feature goes from a raw stakeholder…

Josh Guice (Liatrio)
Palazzo Ballroom E
  • Enterprise Unlocks: AI Coding Strategy
3:00 PM3:40 PM

Grappling with the Bitter Lesson: A Roadmap to Corporate AI Adoption and Strategic Advantage

One of the hardest things in getting enterprise AI strategy to work is letting go of what you do today. "The bitter lesson" is Richard Sutton's name for the realization that the progress of AI makes many highly valued…

Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media)
Palazzo Ballroom D
  • Oversight: AI ROI
3:00 PM3:20 PM

Great (or Otherwise Memorable) Vendor Partnerships in 2026

In 2026, clients are comparing every vendor's offerings to the capabilities of now-commonplace frontier LLMs and general-purpose AI assistants. What are some hallmarks of software companies and technology consultants…

John Polito (Airbnb, Inc.)
Marcello Ballroom 4403
  • Aifails
3:00 PM3:20 PM

Human‑Centered Design for Responsible AI

What happens when an AI system makes a decision about you that you don’t understand? If AI is shaping our workplaces, how do we make sure it actually works for the people in them? When technology makes choices at scale…

Cinnamon Clark (Government Agency)
Titian Ballroom 2304
  • Inclusive AI
3:00 PM3:20 PM

Presentation by Impart Security

Brian Joe (Impart Security)
Titian Ballroom 2306
  • AI Agents (technical)
3:00 PM3:20 PM

The AI Paradox: Using Public AI Without Exposing Enterprise Data

Public AI is powerful, but many enterprises hesitate to use it because of the risk of exposing private or sensitive data. This talk will explore how organizations can benefit from tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and…

Amjad Almonzer (Saudi Aramco)
Lando Ballroom 4204
  • Data Engineering
3:00 PM3:20 PM

The Co-Intelligent Enterprise

This 30-minute solo session gives technology leaders a practical playbook for moving from experimentation to execution. The session reframes AI as enterprise infrastructure: embedded in the flow of work, connected to…

Rohit Jain (Harvard Business School Alumni Association)
Venetian Ballroom F
  • AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
3:00 PM3:20 PM

The Rise of AI in Film Production: How Machine Learning is Changing Storytelling

Explore how AI tools are utilized in scriptwriting, editing and visual effects to enhance the filmmaking process.

Jack McCauley (UC Berkeley)
Marcello Ballroom 4404
  • Emerging Parallel Technologies
3:00 PM3:20 PM

This is Your Enterprise on Agents: Learnings from the Field

Agentic AI has dramatically expanded the scope of who can meaningfully influence the success and performance of AI systems within your organization, which presents both challenge and opportunity. In this session, Joel…

Joel Johnson (LangChain)
Venetian Ballroom H
  • AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
3:00 PM3:20 PM

Your Agent's Output Is a Hypothesis

Getting AI agents to act is mostly solved but trusting what they did isn't. Agents fail in a way software doesn't: confidently, returning a wrong answer that looks right. I build AI agents inside an experimentation…

Josh Holt (Optimizely)
Venetian Ballroom D
  • AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
3:00 PM3:40 PM

Your AI Is on the Street Now: Adversarial Threats to Edge AI Systems in Physical Environments

AI assistants are rapidly moving from controlled cloud environments into your personal life — embedded in phones, laptops, and AI PCs, reading your screen, files, inbox, camera, and microphone. Once deployed on a…

Subba Bachina (Lenovo), Igor Stolbikov (Lenovo)
Delfino Ballroom 4103
  • Edge AI & Tiny ML (technical)
3:25 PM
3:25 PM3:45 PM

Agentic Growth: From Analytics That Report to Agents That Act

Every enterprise has spent a decade buying analytics that tell them what already happened. The winners in the nextdecade will be the ones that close the gap between insight and action, automatically. Join ThinkingAl…

Chris Han (ThinkingAI)
Venetian Ballroom F
  • AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
3:25 PM3:45 PM

AI Harm Is Everyone's Business: Why Every Industry Needs to Understand Where Its Responsibility Begins

Every product has a supply chain, and it turns out harm has one too. When AI is used to cause harm, it moves through a chain of companies: one builds the tool, one hosts it, one sells it, one processes the payment…

Stephanie Hall (Zero Abuse Project)
Venetian Ballroom E
  • Manufacturing
3:25 PM3:45 PM

Building the Enterprise AI Operating System: Turning AI into an Organizational Capability

Most AI initiatives don't fail because of the technology—they fail because organizations aren't designed to scale them. In this session, I'll introduce the Enterprise AI Operating System: a practical framework for…

Valeh Nabiyev (Bir Ecosystem)
Lando Ballroom 4204
  • Data Engineering
3:25 PM3:45 PM

Presentation by ASUS

Brian Ngo (ASUS)
Lando Ballroom 4203
  • Infrastructure: Cloud Data Centers & Compute
3:25 PM3:45 PM

Space & AI - The Giant Leap Transformation / Fireside Chat with Heather Pringle, Space Foundation

Data has always been part of space activities. It is the ultimate ingredient by which planners and participants can take the next giant leaps for exploration, enhanced Earth and universe understanding, increased…

Heather Pringle (Space Foundation), Rafe Uddin (Financial Times)
Venetian Ballroom D
  • AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
3:25 PM3:45 PM

The Intersection of Blockchain and AI

AI has a trust problem. Research shows that most Americans are more concerned than excited about AI in daily life, and that concern is well-founded: without proper governance, AI models can introduce bias, produce…

Scott Zoldi (FICO)
Marcello Ballroom 4404
  • Emerging Parallel Technologies
3:25 PM3:45 PM

The Room Was Built Without Us. Here's How We Change That

Women are building AI. They're deploying it, scaling it, and governing it — and they're still underrepresented in the rooms where the biggest decisions get made. This isn't a pipeline problem. The pipeline is full. In…

Wendy Forsythe (eXp Realty)
Titian Ballroom 2304
  • Inclusive AI