Sunday, August 2
Registration
Registration Open
2:00 PM · Venetian Expo Lobby
Monday, August 3
Registration
Registration Open
9:00 AM · Venetian Expo Lobby
Research Summit
Applied AI Research Conference (AAIRC) [RSVP REQUIRED]
9:00 AM · Palazzo B & D
Press Event
Speaker Ready Room/Lounge Open [Access Restricted]
9:00 AM · Veronese Ballroom 2501
Press Event
The AI House Presented by KPMG
9:00 AM · Bellini Ballroom 2104
Applied AI Research Conference
Panel 2 - 1: Jesse AI: Community-Centered Pilot Evaluation of an AI Chatbot for Substance Use Disorder Recovery
9:20 AM · Palazzo Ballroom D · Nicholas Swope (Dr.PH Student, East Tennessee State University)
Applied AI Research Conference
Panel 1 - 1: Tomorrow’s Cyber Risks Today
9:20 AM · Palazzo Ballroom B · Kitty Chan (Professor of Practice, Columbia University)
Applied AI Research Conference
Panel 2 - 2: Non-Language Is Language: Designing Communicative AI for Populations Whose Language Is Failing
9:43 AM · Palazzo Ballroom D · Juliana Marchand (Founder, Marchand AI LLC)
Applied AI Research Conference
Panel 1 - 2: AI Washing and Accounting Litigation Support
9:43 AM · Palazzo Ballroom B · Larry Crumbley (Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi)
Applied AI Research Conference
Panel 1 - 3: Evaluating Hallucination in Retrieval-Augmented Generation for High-Stakes Healthcare Analytics
10:06 AM · Palazzo Ballroom B · Pranjal Nawarkar (Business Intelligence Engineer 2, Humana)
Applied AI Research Conference
Panel 2 - 3: Multi-Agent Debate with Reinforcement Learning for Faithful Hallucination Detection in Clinical Question Answering over Electronic Health Records
10:06 AM · Palazzo Ballroom D · Shashin Bhaskar (San Jose State University)
Applied AI Research Conference
Panel 1 - 4: Validation Methodologies of Generative AI Responses
10:29 AM · Palazzo Ballroom B · Robert Bierman (Lecturer, San Francisco State University)
Applied AI Research Conference
Panel 2 - 4: What is possible for AI going forward - opportunities for including the next generation in research
10:29 AM · Palazzo Ballroom D · Foaad Khosmood (Professor and Chief Architect of Digital Democracy, Cal Poly / CalMatters)
Applied AI Research Conference
Panel 4 - 1: Algorithmic Campaigning: Lessons from California's 2026 Gubernatorial Race for Governance and Democratic Deliberation
11:00 AM · Palazzo Ballroom D · Anna Ni (California State University San Bernardino)
Applied AI Research Conference
Panel 3 - 1: From Educational Malpractice to Hirable by Graduation: Kasparov's Law and an OODA Loop
11:00 AM · Palazzo Ballroom B · Vincent Nestler (Professor, Director, California State University, San Bernardino)
Applied AI Research Conference
Panel 4 - 2: Discourse Analysis of Legislative Bill Discussions
11:23 AM · Palazzo Ballroom D · Isaac Rudnick (Alumnus, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)
Applied AI Research Conference
Panel 3 - 2: AI-Driven Person Detection for Maritime Search and Rescue: The Value of Product-Based Research
11:23 AM · Palazzo Ballroom B · Thomas Wilson (Founder, Coal Face AI)
Applied AI Research Conference
Panel 4 - 3: Detection of Self-Introductions in Legislative Testimony
11:46 AM · Palazzo Ballroom D · Sofija Dimitrijevic (Student, California Polytechnic State University)
Applied AI Research Conference
Panel 3 - 3: Experimental Evaluation of Infrastructure-Assisted AI for Occluded Driving Scenarios in 1/10-Scale AV
11:46 AM · Palazzo Ballroom B · Maneesha Vanga (Graduate Research Assistant, The University Of Tennessee at Chattanooga)
Applied AI Research Conference
Panel 4 - 4: From AI-Generated Environmental Intelligence to Human-Centered Spatial Storytelling
12:09 PM · Palazzo Ballroom D · Nanhee Kim (Associate Professor, California State University, Chico)
Applied AI Research Conference
Panel 3 - 4: When Everyone Has AI: Turning Embedded AI into Competitive Advantage
12:09 PM · Palazzo Ballroom B · Dane Seelen (Faculty/Consulting, Central Lakes College, MN)
Workshop
Why Most AI Agents Never Make It to Production (And What You're Doing Wrong) [RSVP REQUIRED]
1:00 PM · Titian Ballroom 2302 · Ken Judy (Stride)
Workshop
Build a Customer Service AI Agent Live - Voice, Digital, and Governed [RSVP REQUIRED]
1:00 PM · Titian Ballroom 2304 · Gary Fingerhut (EVP, Kore.ai)
Workshop
AI Trainings, Powered by General Assembly [ADDITIONAL FEE REQUIRED]
1:00 PM · Hall H
Workshop
Non-Technical Course: Gen AI & AI Agents for Business & Product Leaders
1:00 PM · Venetian Ballroom F & H (Level 2)
Workshop
Technical Course: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) in Practice
1:00 PM · Venetian Ballroom E (Level 2)
Workshop
Attribute It. Govern It. Monetize It. Experience it in Action. [RSVP REQUIRED]
1:00 PM · Titian Ballroom 2306 · Dan Temkin (Senior Technical Product Marketing Manager, Kong Inc.)
Workshop
Designing Memory Systems for AI Agents [RSVP REQUIRED]
1:00 PM · Bellini Ballroom 2102 · Nina Lopatina (Staff Developer Advocate, MongoDB)
Workshop
From Idea to Production: Governing Agentic AI with Adaptive Orchestration [RSVP REQUIRED]
1:00 PM · Venetian Ballroom G · Ankur Trivedi (Global Practice Lead DevOps, Digital.ai)
Workshop
Energy-Efficient, Annealing Quantum Computers for Machine Learning [RSVP REQUIRED]
1:00 PM · Veronese Ballroom 2504 · Kevin Chern (Senior Benchmarking Researcher, D-Wave)
Applied AI Research Conference
Panel 5 - 1: From AI Adoption to AI Readiness: A Framework for Governance, Ethics, and Workforce Preparedness.
1:30 PM · Palazzo Ballroom B · George Antoniou (Full Professor Cybersecurity, Lynn University)
Applied AI Research Conference
Panel 6 - 1: Personalized, Powerful, and Equitable: The Role of AI in Workforce Retraining and Inclusion
1:30 PM · Palazzo Ballroom D · Suzanne O'Keeffe (Professor, Sonoma State University)
Applied AI Research Conference
Panel 5-2 AI Policy Implementation Higher Education: A Case Study Organizational Change Tennessee State University
1:53 PM · Palazzo Ballroom B · Robbie Melton (Vice President of SMART AI for ALL Applied Research & Innovations, Tennessee State University-SMART AI for ALL Applied Research Center)
Applied AI Research Conference
Panel 6 - 2: Green-Curious Investing and GenAI: A Field Experiment
1:53 PM · Palazzo Ballroom D · Mary Ann Majadillas (Professor of Finance, California State University, Monterey Bay)
Executive Summit
Executive Summit [RSVP REQUIRED]
2:00 PM · Delfino Ballroom 4103
Business Summit
Why You Need an Intelligence Strategy, Not an AI Strategy
2:00 PM · Marcello Ballroom 4403 · Greggory Garrett (CEO & Managing Director, CGS Advisors, LLC), Lindsey Rem (SVP of Project Delivery & Innovation, Barton Malow Holdings)
Technical Summit
Beyond Scoring: Rethinking Ranking in the LLM Era
2:00 PM · Lando Ballroom 4203 · Rhea Goel (Senior Applied Science Manager, Amazon)
Technical Summit
Leadership Summit – Technical Summit [RSVP REQUIRED]
2:00 PM · Lando Ballroom 4203
Business Summit
Leadership Summit – Business Summit [RSVP REQUIRED]
2:00 PM · Marcello Ballroom 4403
Executive Summit
5 Principles To Transform Yourself and Your Organization with AI
2:00 PM · Delfino Ballroom 4103 · Rebecca Hinds (Head of the Work AI Institute, Glean)
Applied AI Research Conference
Panel 6 - 3: Educating for Agency and Embodied Understanding in the Age of AI
2:16 PM · Palazzo Ballroom D · Emma Prendergast (Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Humanities Center, Utah Tech University)
Applied AI Research Conference
Panel 5 - 3: Leading Human-Centered AI Adoption: From Awareness to the Human Edge
2:16 PM · Palazzo Ballroom B · Belinda Biscoe (Senior Associate Vice President for Outreach/College of Continuing Education, The University of Oklahoma)
Workshop
Hands-On AI Security and Governance with Obot AI [RSVP REQUIRED]
2:30 PM · Titian Ballroom 2302 · Craig Jellick (VP of Engineering, Obot AI)
Workshop
Deploy AI Agents in Secure Development Environments [RSVP REQUIRED]
2:30 PM · Titian Ballroom 2304 · Dave Ahr (Technical Product Marketing Manager, Coder Technologies)
Workshop
Building Enterprise Agents That Don’t Go Rogue [RSVP REQUIRED]
2:30 PM · Titian Ballroom 2306 · Rohit Nichani (President, Emergence AI)
Secret Content
SuperFutures: Why the AI Futures We Expect Aren't the Ones Most Likely to Arrive
2:30 PM · Venetian Ballroom D · Aleksandar Stojanovic (Director General, DARI Foundation)
Workshop
Agent Speedrun: Idea → Code → Deploy → Observe → Ship
2:30 PM · Venetian Ballroom G · Sandhya Subramani (Sr. Developer Advocate, GenAI, AWS Strands)
Workshop
Building the AI Value Case: Securing Investment Beyond the Pilot [RSVP REQUIRED]
2:30 PM · Bellini Ballroom 2102 · Robin Copland (Head of AI Business Transformation, Avanade), Spencer Hitchner (AI Strategy Lead, US Industries, Avanade)
Applied AI Research Conference
Panel 5 - 4: From Fear to Fluency: AI Literacy Interventions as Workforce Readiness
2:39 PM · Palazzo Ballroom B · Kari McCoy (Doctoral Candidate/ Career Counselor, CSU Northridge)
Applied AI Research Conference
Panel 6 - 4: Brain Health in the Age of AI: Reclaiming Your Agency
2:39 PM · Palazzo Ballroom D · Aaron Tate (Director, Center for BrainHealth, The University of Texas at Dallas)
Secret Content
Something From Nothing: The Hidden Origin of Every New Idea
3:00 PM · Venetian Ballroom D · Dan Mackey (Managing Partner & Chief AI Officer, Vector Pulse)
Applied AI Research Conference
Panel 7 - 1: Where AI Belongs: Protecting Craft and Discovery While Teaching Generative AI in Design
3:10 PM · Palazzo Ballroom B · Leila Ensaniat (Assistant Professor, San José State University, Department of Design)
Applied AI Research Conference
Panel 8 - 1: Customer Love in the Age of AI: Frontline Service Relationships and Brand Equity*
3:10 PM · Palazzo Ballroom D · Carolina Rodriguez (PhD Candidate | Founder, Custamor, Claremont Graduate University)
Executive Summit
Embracing Opensource Communities to Avoid Exponential Redundancy of Your AI Coded Apps
3:30 PM · Delfino Ballroom 4103 · Matthew Davis (Senior Partner, Head of Pioneering Intelligence, Flagship Pioneering)
Secret Content
The Replacement Trap: What Hollywood and Big Tech Learned About AI the Hard Way
3:30 PM · Venetian Ballroom D · Chris Morrow (Product Manager, Meta), Pouya Shahbazian (CEO & Founder, Staircase Studios AI)
Technical Summit
Beyond Prompt-Heavy LLMs: How Small Language Models and Statistical Models Enable Reliable Decision-Making
3:30 PM · Lando Ballroom 4203 · Priyambada Jain (Senior Data Scientist, BlackRock)
Business Summit
Making AI Serve the Business: Lessons in Strategy, Adoption, and ROI
3:30 PM · Marcello Ballroom 4403 · Adam Gunnett (VP of Business Intelligence & Strategy, Busy Beaver)
Applied AI Research Conference
Panel 8 - 2: Exploring AI Technologies in Unmanned Stores: Consumer Psychological Responses and Experiences
3:33 PM · Palazzo Ballroom D · Yi-Ting Chu (Ph.D. Candidate in Marketing, National Chengchi University, Taiwan)
Applied AI Research Conference
Panel 7 - 2: Explaining is Harder Than Predicting: Evaluating Multimodal LLMs in ICL
3:33 PM · Palazzo Ballroom B · Leticia Lorena Rodriguez (Independent Researcher / Founder, Universidad de Buenos Aires / TEG AI Consulting, Argentina)
Applied AI Research Conference
Panel 8 - 3: Governance Before Automation: A Practice-Based Framework for AI Adoption in Mission-Driven Organizations
3:56 PM · Palazzo Ballroom D · Jason Makarow (Chief of Staff to University President/Chief AI Officer, Sacred Heart University)
Applied AI Research Conference
Panel 7 - 3: When AI Tutors Get Engineering Wrong: Student Verification of Chatbot Solutions in RL and RLC Circuits
3:56 PM · Palazzo Ballroom B · Christopher Horne (Teaching Associate Professor, North Carolina A&T State University)
Workshop
Every Agent is Rogue by Default [RSVP REQUIRED]
4:00 PM · Titian Ballroom 2302 · Mallory Sword Glenn (Director, Okta for AI Agents Product Strategy and GTM, Okta)
Workshop
Agent Development with LangChain and LangSmith - Workshop [RSVP REQUIRED]
4:00 PM · Titian Ballroom 2306 · Rahul Verma (Deployed Engineer, LangChain), Daniel Shea (Deployed Engineer, LangChain)
Secret Content
The Architecture of Motion in Motion: How to Harness Physical AI for Next-Era Human-Aware Bio-Robotics
4:00 PM · Venetian Ballroom D · Yishay Falick (Co-Founder & CEO, Bility)
Workshop
Agentic AI: Build a Customer Service Agent with NVIDIA Computing and HPE Private Cloud AI [RSVP REQUIRED]
4:00 PM · Bellini Ballroom 2102 · Akhila Aiyer (Principal Solutions Architect, Hewlett Packard Enterprise), Mark Seither (Solution Architect - APS Solution Sales, HPE)
Workshop
Build Agents Your Security Team Will Approve: Skills, Loop Engineering, & Governance with Arcade.dev [RSVP REQ'D]
4:00 PM · Venetian Ballroom G · Thierry Damiba (Member of GTM Staff, Arcade.dev)
Applied AI Research Conference
Panel 8 - 4: Discover: A Retrieval-Augmented AI Chatbot for Trusted Mental Health Resource Navigation
4:19 PM · Palazzo Ballroom D · Runa Bhaumik (Research Associate Professor, University of Illinois Chicago)
Applied AI Research Conference
Panel 7 - 4: Design for an Interactive Software Artificial Intelligence Lab for Test Driven Design and Development
4:19 PM · Palazzo Ballroom B · Sam Siewert (Professor, California State University Chico)
Secret Content
Unleashing Canine Superpowers - Cancer Screening That Doesn't Feel Like a Chore
4:30 PM · Venetian Ballroom D · Amir Alpert (Head of US Business Development, Dognosis)
Meetups & Receptions
Industry Meetups [RSVP Required]
5:00 PM · Hall D
Meetups & Receptions
Kickoff Reception
5:00 PM · Hall D
Meetups & Receptions
Meetup: Data & Analytics [RSVP REQUIRED]
5:00 PM · 301/302
Meetups & Receptions
Meetup: Retail, CPG, e-Commerce [RSVP REQUIRED]
5:00 PM · 305
Meetups & Receptions
Meetup: CAIO, CIO, IT [RSVP REQUIRED]
5:00 PM · 303/304
Meetups & Receptions
Meetup: Risk & Compliance [RSVP REQUIRED]
5:00 PM · 103
Meetups & Receptions
Meetup: Software Eng - Infra & DevOps [RSVP REQUIRED]
5:00 PM · 101/102
Meetups & Receptions
Meetup: Software Eng - Applications [RSVP REQUIRED]
5:00 PM · 101/102
Meetups & Receptions
Meetup: Product Managers [RSVP REQUIRED]
5:00 PM · 401/402
Meetups & Receptions
Meetup – Sponsored – Speakers & VIPs
5:00 PM · 403/404
Tuesday, August 4
Meetups & Receptions
Morning Run Club [RSVP REQUIRED]
6:00 AM · Meet at waterfall near escalators in the Venetian
Meetups & Receptions
Morning Yoga [RSVP REQUIRED]
6:30 AM · 202-203
Registration
Registration Open
7:00 AM · Venetian Expo Lobby
Breaks & Meals
Breakfast Available
7:00 AM · Hall D
Press Event
Speaker Ready Room/Lounge Open [Access Restricted]
7:00 AM · Veronese Ballroom 2501
Keynote
Opening Keynote Sessions
8:20 AM · Hall A
Keynote
AI’s Race to Reinvent Medicine
8:30 AM · Hall A · Gevorg Grigoryan (Co-Founder and CTO, Generate Biomedicines), Alice Park (Senior Health Correspondent, TIME), Alex Zhavoronkov (Founder and CEO, Insilico Medicine), Eric Nguyen (CEO, Radical Numerics)
Keynote
Stop Governing Your AI. Start Hiring It.
8:59 AM · Hall A · Mark Abramowitz (Chief Marketing Officer, Dataiku), Jed Dougherty (SVP of AI & Platform, Dataiku)
Keynote
The AI Reckoning: Chips, Constraints and the Next Generation of Compute
9:18 AM · Hall A · Pat Gelsinger (General Partner; Former CEO of Intel, Playground Global), Sachin Katti (Head of Compute, OpenAI), Gideon Lewis-Kraus (Technology Writer, The New Yorker)
Keynote
Mistral: Pioneering Transparent and Transformative Frontier AI
9:37 AM · Hall A · Pavan Kumar Reddy (AI Scientist, Mistral)
Oversight: AI ROI
Deriving Real ROI from AI: How to Pick the Right Use Cases and Win
10:15 AM · Palazzo Ballroom D · Bill Dwoinen (Mural), Jim Jacob (Executive Director - Digitalization, Advanced Analytics and Artificial Intelligence, Cummins Inc), Vineet Kumar (Vice President, Data Science, Fanatics), Momei Qu (Managing Director, PSP Growth), Preeti Vaidya (Executive Director, Data & AI, Morgan Health, JPMC)
AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
Leveraging AI Agents to Drive Value: Success Stories from Leading Organizations
10:15 AM · Venetian Ballroom D · Kevin Lee (Field CTO & Key Pursuits Leader, NiCE), Michelle Hawley (Editorial Director, VKTR), Nitesh Soni (Global Head of Data Science (Digital Commercial), Sanofi), Anuj Maheshwari (Vice President, CVS Health), Chris Han (Co-Founder & President, ThinkingAI)
Enterprise Unlocks: RAG & Proprietary Data
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Use Cases: Unlocking Business Value with Smarter AI
10:15 AM · Titian Ballroom 2306 · Ameen Kazerouni (CTO, Purpose Brands), Chirag Shah (Professor, University of Washington), Nicholas Ginsberg (Executive Director, Morgan Stanley), Joe Gaska (Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer, GRAX)
Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
Building the Enterprise AI Stack: Strategies for Tools, Platforms, and ROI
10:15 AM · Palazzo Ballroom M · Ali Abedini (Chief AI Officer, Metropolitan Commercial Bank), Oscar Anaya (Co-founder, CTO, Lucien), Ilyse Liffreing (Editorial Lead/ Head of Growth, The Trade Desk), Drew Schlussel (Vice President, Product & Solutions Marketing, Wasabi Technologies), Rahul Rajendra Prasad (Senior Vice President of Technology, Citizens Bank)
AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
Scaling Strategies: From Initial Pilots to Enterprise-Wide Adoption
10:15 AM · Venetian Ballroom H · Raghu Vatte (Field CTO, AISquared), Reena Solomon (Head of AI Partnerships, Airbus), Seth Siegler (Chief Innovation Officer, eXp Realty), Alina Rivilis (Director, Data Science & AI, Fairstone Bank of Canada), Tracy St.Dic (Global Head of Talent, Zapier)
Marketing & Growth
Scaling Smart: How AI Is Driving Marketing Efficiency and Precision
10:15 AM · Marcello Ballroom 4403 · Marjorie McCarthy (Chief Marketing Officer, ISS North America), Onney Crawley (Chief Marketing Officer, Goodwill Industries International), Kathleen Booth (VP Marketing, Sequel.io), Christy Borrowman (VP of Marketing & Transformation, Colgate-Palmolive), Monica Ho (Chief Marketing Officer, SOCi)
Aerospace & Defense
Command, Control & Compute: AI at the Defense Frontier
10:15 AM · Palazzo Ballroom B · Deepak Sachdeva (Chief Information Officer, United States Air Force), Eytan Eshel (Executive VP Chief Technology and R&D Officer, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI)), Paul Lasserre (General Manager, AI for Space, Loft Orbital), Christine Keung (General Partner, J2 Ventures), Brian Lampert (Vice President of Sales and Business Development, Legion Intelligence)
CAIO CIO & It Leaders
Leading the AI Transformation
10:15 AM · Palazzo Ballroom G · Alan Hester (President, Nividous), Tim Martin (CTO, Audible), Amy Ritualo (Chief Data and AI Officer, U.S. Department of State), Grace DeGraaf (Writer & Researcher, Harvard Business School), Josh Noble (Field CTO, Tray.ai)
Education
Redesigning the Classroom: What AI Means for Learning
10:15 AM · Palazzo Ballroom E · Anjelina Belakovskaia (Associate Teaching Professor, Chair of the AI & Emerging Technologies Committee, Arizona State University, Thunderbird School of Global Management), Lin Zhou (Vice President, Chief Information Officer, and Executive Director of AI and Quantum Computing, Texas Tech University), Jason Baker (Associate Provost & Senior Technology Strategist, Regent University), Gregory Triplett, Jr. (Dean of the School of Science and Engineering, Saint Louis University)
Cybersecurity
AI vs AI: Cybersecurity in the Age of Generative Threats
10:15 AM · Marcello Ballroom 4404 · Krista Arndt (ACISO, St. Luke's University Health Network), Parthasarathi Chakraborty (VP - Global Head of Security Engineering, Broadridge Financials), Torrell Funderburk (Founder & CEO, Overspace), Stephen Franklin (CEO / Co-Founder, NetWatch.AI), Alaa Abdulridha (Engineering Director and Cybersecurity Researcher, SerpApi, LLC)
Healthcare: Life Sciences & Biotech
From Molecule to Market: How AI Is Reshaping Drug Discovery
10:15 AM · Titian Ballroom 2304 · Patrick Loerch (Senior Vice President, Clinical Data Science, Gilead Sciences), Aman Thukral (Director and Global Head, Clinical Systems and Digital Operations, AbbVie), Tala Fakhouri (Vice President Consulting, AI & Digital Policy, Real-World Research, Parexel), Bryson Tombridge (Co-Founder & CEO, Tono Health), Laura Boykin Okalebo (Life Sciences Solutions Partner, Nebius)
Legal
The AI-Enabled Lawyer: From Research to Risk Management
10:15 AM · Delfino Ballroom 4103 · Lasherelle Morgan (SVP, Legal, AI Innovation & Acceleration, NBCUniversal), Blake Rooney (AI Business Executive - Managing Director, Wells Fargo), Eric Tan (Chief Digital & Technology Officer, Goodwin), Hamid Kohan (Founder / CEO, Practice AI), Emily Drazan Chapman (Legal AI Architect, DragonGC)
Generative AI (technical)
How Generative Models Are Built and Deployed
10:15 AM · Veronese Ballroom 2504 · Zainab Aziz Zaveri (Product Engineering Manager, Johnson & Johnson), Hima Ganga Yarlagadda (Principal AI Scientist, CVS Health), Shane Snider (Senior Writer, DCK), Philip Kiely (Developer Advocate, Baseten)
Agentic Ops & Platforms (technical)
Scaling AI Systems with Modern MLOps Platforms
10:15 AM · Bellini Ballroom 2104 · Sudhindra Desai (Senior Engineering Manager, Engineering Leander, Visa Inc.), Keyao An (Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI), Nicolas Bievre (Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Meta), Ankita Chaudhari (Senior Technical Product Manager, Bloomberg)
Software Engineering
AI as Your Pair Programmer: How Developers Are Collaborating with Code Models
10:15 AM · Lando Ballroom 4204 · Nick Patterson (Head of Solutions Engineering, Moderne), Justin Johnson (VP of AI & Engineering, Renaissance Benefits), Ron Schmelzer (AI Columnist / Host, Forbes / Scalebrate), Byron Ellis (Principal Staff Software Engineer, Big Data Pipelines & Platform Infrastructure, LinkedIn Corporation), Ankit Goyal (Principal Staff Software Engineer, AI Platform, LinkedIn)
Roundtable
The AI Education-Industry Pact: Ethics, Impact & What's Next [RSVP REQUIRED]
10:15 AM · 305 · Miguel Kanto (Professor, University of Arizona Global Campus), Karen Ivy (Department Head, Technology Professions, University of Arizona Global Campus), Tahereh Daneshi (Program Chair, Professor, University of Arizona Global Campus), Michael Hayden (Program Chair, Master of Information Systems Management, University of Arizona Global Campus), Pete Limon (Program Chair/BSCDST-Bachelors of Science in Cyber & Data Security Technology, University of Arizona Global Campus), Carl Marquez (Associate Professor, University of Arizona Global Campus)
AI Startups & VCs
Where AI Is Headed
10:15 AM · Venetian Ballroom G · Ashlyn Lackey (Director, Innovation Strategy, Prudential), Elizabeth Stockton (Director of Government Solutions, Overlap Holdings), Lior Mallul (Principal, Battery Ventures), Ray Wu (Managing Partner, Alumni Ventures), Claire Xie (Founder & CEO, Women in AI)
Beginner Start Here
AI for Beginners: 0-1
10:15 AM · Palazzo Ballroom L · Emily Acosta Lewis (Professor of Communication & Media Studies, Sonoma State University), Paul Farnsworth (President, Dice), Allison Murphy (Chief Operating Officer, Axios), Andy Dingler (Head of AI Strategy, Daimler Truck North America)
AI Research Summit (technical)
The State of AI Research — Breakthroughs, Gaps, and the Road Ahead
10:15 AM · Venetian Ballroom A · Alan Brown (Senior Research Scientist, Boeing Research and Technology), Michael Caiola (Senior AI Research Scientist, Credence), James OKane (Director, Human AI Services, Arcova), Pedro Alves (CTO, Thoth AI), Ravi Ummadisetti (Head of Agentic AI & Product Research, Toyota North America)
Recommendation & Ranking Systems (technical)
Recommendation Systems: A Practical Framework for Building at Scale
10:15 AM · Bellini Ballroom 2102 · Prashanth Vinod (Head of Product, Recommendations, JPMorgan Chase & Co)
Exhibit Hall
Exhibit Hall Open
10:15 AM · Halls B&C
Workforce Upskilling For The AI Era
The Talent Blueprint: Architecting the Future Workforce
10:15 AM · Titian Ballroom 2302 · Kristin Stoller (Editorial Director, Fortune), Kathleen Walch (Director, AI Engagement & Community, Project Management Institute), Paul LaForge (Vice President & Dean, School of Technology, Western Governors University), Lilian Ajayi Ore (AI Lead Faculty, Columbia University SPS Bestselling Author, The Power of Learning Mindset, Columbia University)
Oversight: AI Explainability Governance & Model Risk
Governing the Autonomous: Risk Management for Agentic AI
10:15 AM · Lando Ballroom 4203 · Nereida Parks (AI, Regional Privacy and HIPAA Officer, OCA, Olympus Corporation), Navrina Singh (CEO/Founder, Credo AI), Harry McCracken (Global Technology Editor, Fast Company), Gabriel Tinoco (CEO and Co-Founder, Openlayer), Darren Cambridge (Managing Director, Institute for Trustworthy AI in Law and Society, University of Maryland)
AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
Strategic Foundations: Aligning AI Agents with Enterprise Goals
10:15 AM · Venetian Ballroom F · Rob DiNuzzo (VP of Marketing, Nimble), Tarun Sood (Chief Data Officer, American Century Investments), Amit Patel (Partner, Plug and Play Ventures), Mark Bloom (Global Chief Information Officer, Gallagher), Geetesh Iyer (Founding Product Manager, WisdomAI)
AI Agents (technical)
Scalable Agent Alignment with GRPO: Methods, Reward Design and Training Dynamics
10:15 AM · Venetian Ballroom E · Ashish Bansal (Principal Machine Learning Engineer, The Vanguard Group)
Roundtable
Stop the Fraud, Not the Business, with AI
10:15 AM · 301 · Megan Gainer (Solution Advisor Expert, SAP)
Roundtable
AI Speed → Artefacts/Workflows × Humans + Agents: The New Shape of Software Delivery
10:15 AM · 302 · Gregory Hodgkinson (CTO, R&D and Innovation, Prolifics)
Infrastructure: AI Agents
Agentic Model Risk Management: Industrializing Risk Ranking, Validation, and Monitoring
10:15 AM · Delfino Ballroom 4104 · Freddy Lecue (Head of Frontier AI Models, Wells Fargo)
Podcast Pavilion
Podcast Pavilion - Table Reserved
10:15 AM · Halls B&C
Exhibit Hall
Experience Tesla at Ai4 2026
10:15 AM · Halls B&C
AI Agents (technical)
Multi-Agent Orchestration with Elastic Workflows and Agent Builder
10:40 AM · Venetian Ballroom E · Tristan Ma (Manager, Solutions Architecture, Elasticsearch)
Roundtable
Roundtable: Rockets, Robots, and Returns: Inside the New Space-AI Economy [RSVP REQUIRED]
10:40 AM · 310 · Dimple Malkani (Partner, Beyond Earth Ventures)
Infrastructure: AI Agents
The Agentic Enterprise: Unlocking AI Value Without Breaking the Token Budget or the Trust Boundary
10:40 AM · Delfino Ballroom 4104 · Steve Stein (NVIDIA)
Roundtable
Democratizing AI Transformation Through Agentic-Driven Development
10:40 AM · 304 · Abhishek Agarwal (Chief Revenue Officer and Executive Vice President, Kagen.ai)
Match Meetings
Meeting Scheduled – Ai4 Match [Mandatory]
11:00 AM · 2nd Floor, Hall C
Recommendation & Ranking Systems (technical)
Adaptive Recommendations at Scale Using AI
11:05 AM · Bellini Ballroom 2102 · Mallika Rao (Senior Engineering Manager, Zocdoc (ex-Netflix, Walmart, Twitter))
AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
How to Eliminate Revenue Blindspots with Agentforce Sales, Powered By Momentum
11:05 AM · Venetian Ballroom D · Jordan Nettles (Account Solution Engineer, Salesforce), Ashley Blackwell-Guerra (Product Marketing Director, Salesforce)
AI Startups & VCs
Dark Factories Ship Slop: Scale Human + AI Craft with Lights On
11:05 AM · Venetian Ballroom G · Zak Mandhro (CEO, Lit Factory)
Enterprise Unlocks: RAG & Proprietary Data
The Future of RAG: Real-Time, Multimodal, and Personalized
11:05 AM · Titian Ballroom 2306 · Bonnie Chase (Director of Product Marketing, Vespa.ai), Harini Gopalakrishnan (General Manager, Industry, Vespa.ai)
CAIO CIO & It Leaders
The Hidden Tax on AI: How Connectivity and Identity Unlock Real AI ROI
11:05 AM · Palazzo Ballroom G · Remy Guercio (Strategic Projects, Tailscale)
AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
Presentation by UnifyApps: Join the 5%: What Gets Enterprise AI to Production in Weeks
11:05 AM · Venetian Ballroom H · Waseem Bhatti (Principal Solution Architect, UnifyApps)
Cybersecurity
The Hidden Risks of AI Coding Tools
11:05 AM · Marcello Ballroom 4404 · Jacob Rideout (Chief Technical Officer, HiddenLayer)
Marketing & Growth
Your Martech Stack Doesn't Need Another Dashboard. It Needs a Nervous System.
11:05 AM · Marcello Ballroom 4403 · Vivek Vaidya (Chief Technology Officer, Kana)
Software Engineering
The Missing Half of AI Coding
11:05 AM · Lando Ballroom 4204 · Gal Vered (Co-Founder and CEO, Checksum)
Oversight: AI ROI
The ROI Illusion: Why Most Enterprise AI Isn’t Paying Off
11:05 AM · Palazzo Ballroom D · Guru Bhat (EVP & Head of Data & AI Business, Evalueserve)
Oversight: AI Explainability Governance & Model Risk
The AI Decisions Gap: Why Model Explainability is Only Half the Battle
11:05 AM · Lando Ballroom 4203 · Todd Barr (CEO, Axonis)
AI Agents (technical)
Winning the AI Agents Edge Race
11:05 AM · Venetian Ballroom E · David Chun (Researcher, Columbia University)
Agentic Ops & Platforms (technical)
A New System of Trust: The Control Plane for Agentic Systems
11:05 AM · Bellini Ballroom 2104 · Krishna Gade (Founder & CEO, Fiddler AI)
AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
Foundation-first Approach with Agentic AI
11:05 AM · Venetian Ballroom F · Harry Murphy (VP for Presales Americas - Applications, Data & AI, Siemens - Intelligence Center X)
Healthcare: Life Sciences & Biotech
Patients are Waiting: The AI Productivity Paradox
11:05 AM · Titian Ballroom 2304 · Kris Kaneta (Chief Product Officer, Norstella)
Workforce Upskilling For The AI Era
Beyond Adoption: Building AI Judgment in the Flow of Work
11:05 AM · Titian Ballroom 2302 · Sharahn McClung (Learning Engineer, Nebius Academy)
Generative AI (technical)
The Dumbest Questions People Still Ask About Securing AI
11:05 AM · Veronese Ballroom 2504 · Liv Porter (Director of Strategic Accounts, Gray Swan)
Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
TCO of going Open Weight: A Framework
11:05 AM · Palazzo Ballroom M
Aerospace & Defense
ONTEX: Ontology for Tactical Execution — Autonomous Decision-Making Through Agent-Based C.A.R.E. Loop
11:05 AM · Palazzo Ballroom B · Sada Narayanappa (Lockheed Martin Fellow/Chief Data Scientist, Lockheed Martin)
Infrastructure: AI Agents
From Readiness to Agentic Execution
11:05 AM · Delfino Ballroom 4104 · Hadis Bergman (AI & Automation Lead, Burns & McDonnell)
AI Research Summit (technical)
Presentation by Nataliya Kosmyna, MIT
11:05 AM · Venetian Ballroom A · Nataliya Kosmyna (Research Scientist, MIT Media Lab)
Beginner Start Here
From Pilot to Profit: A Chief Commercial Officer's Take On What AI Looks Like When It Works
11:05 AM · Palazzo Ballroom L · Santhi Ramesh (Chief Commercial Officer and Head of AI Transformation, Pampered Chef)
Education
Building Your AI Co-Creator: Helping Educators Stress Less & Reach Every Student, Every Day
11:05 AM · Palazzo Ballroom E · Maggie Mosher (Chief AI Consultant & AstR Professor, University of Kansas)
Legal
From Prompts to Playbooks: Turning Your Best Lawyers' Judgment into AI Workflows
11:05 AM · Delfino Ballroom 4103 · Greg Lambert (Chief Innovation Officer, Jackson Walker LLP)
AI Startups & VCs
AI Agents That Operate Infrastructure - Lessons from a Tier 1 bank deployment
11:15 AM · Venetian Ballroom G · Scott Rowlandson (Founder, NetOrca)
Match Meetings
Meeting Scheduled – Ai4 Match [Mandatory]
11:17 AM · 2nd Floor, Hall C
Roundtable
From AI Curiosity to Readiness: Building AI Solutions That Matter for Nonprofits & Small Businesses [RSVP REQUIRED]
11:30 AM · 305 · Thomasina Anane (Associate Vice President, Enterprise Analytics, Alliance of Community Health Plans (ACHP))
Roundtable
Aligning AI Initiatives with Enterprise Outcomes
11:30 AM · 301 · Young Pham (Chief Strategy Officer, CI&T)
Legal
Measuring ROI and AI Innovation Impact: Success Stories
11:30 AM · Delfino Ballroom 4103 · Stephen Henn (Managing Director, AI Technology Services, DLA Piper LLP)
Education
Rewriting Student Records Through Blockchain Innovation
11:30 AM · Palazzo Ballroom E · Pamela Luckett (Chief Digital Engagement Officer, Dallas College)
Generative AI (technical)
Generative AI for Grocery E-Commerce
11:30 AM · Veronese Ballroom 2504 · Pradeep Karuturi (Machine Learning Engineer, Instacart)
Healthcare: Life Sciences & Biotech
Presentation by Jorge Reis-Filho, AstraZeneca
11:30 AM · Titian Ballroom 2304 · Jorge Reis-Filho (Chief of AI for Science Innovation, AstraZeneca)
Oversight: AI ROI
AI as an Operating System, Not a Tool: How Operators Drive ROI
11:30 AM · Palazzo Ballroom D · Sriram Ganapathy (CFO, tarte cosmetics)
Enterprise Unlocks: RAG & Proprietary Data
RAG Tools and Solutions: Building Effective Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems
11:30 AM · Titian Ballroom 2306 · Sam Newnam (CMO, Secuvy), Shubham Shukla (Data Scientist II, Nordstrom), Selim Mimaroglu (Author, Director of GenAI and Data Science, Fannie Mae), Luis Romero-Sevilla (VP of AI, Orbis Operations), Mark Menger (Solutions Architect, F5)
AI Research Summit (technical)
Shortcutting Time and Depth in Diffusion Models for Faster Agentic Applications
11:30 AM · Venetian Ballroom A · Denis Gudovskiy (Distinguished AI Engineer, Panasonic North America)
Agentic Ops & Platforms (technical)
Under the Hood: A Unified ML Framework Driving AI Experiences in Mercedes-Benz Vehicles
11:30 AM · Bellini Ballroom 2104 · Frankie Cancino (Senior Data Scientist, Mercedes-Benz Research & Development)
Aerospace & Defense
The Art of the Possible, AI Enabled Unmanned Systems
11:30 AM · Palazzo Ballroom B · Michael Buscher (President, Heven AeroTech)
AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
Inside the Olympic AI Agenda: Blueprint for Transformation
11:30 AM · Venetian Ballroom D · Alejandro Merino-Madrid (Head of AI, International Olympic Committee (IOC))
AI Startups & VCs
Everyone Is Building AI. Who Is Rebuilding Their Business? The Three Waves of AI Transformation; Why Strategy Matters
11:30 AM · Venetian Ballroom G · Brandon Barnett (Founder, Trigate Coaching)
Cybersecurity
Leveraging Agentic AI for Vulnerability Remediation
11:30 AM · Marcello Ballroom 4404 · Rick Doten (AI Researcher and Author, AiSuNe)
Beginner Start Here
Where Do Most Organizations and People Go Wrong With AI, What Are the Most Common Mistakes, and How to Get Ahead
11:30 AM · Palazzo Ballroom L · Miguel Paredes (Partner / Fellow, Kearney / AI Fund)
Recommendation & Ranking Systems (technical)
Joint LLM-Infused Embeddings for Explainable Financial Recommendations at Scale
11:30 AM · Bellini Ballroom 2102 · Alejandro Correa Bahnsen (VP of Data & AI, Grupo Bursátil Mexicano)
AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
What Happens to the Enterprise When Intelligence Becomes Abundant?
11:30 AM · Venetian Ballroom H · Erin Boyd (Chief Digital Strategy & AI Officer, The AES Corporation)
Roundtable
AI That Builds AI: Is the Agentic Development Lifecycle Ready for the Enterprise?
11:30 AM · 302 · Anthony Chang (Chief Intelligence and Innovation Officer, Rady Children's Health Orange County), Gary Fingerhut (EVP, Kore.ai)
AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
Scaling Enterprise AI in Asset Management
11:30 AM · Venetian Ballroom F · Lily Li (Head of AI Adoption and Solutions, Franklin Templeton)
Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
How Journalists Used AI to Cover the Epstein Files
11:30 AM · Palazzo Ballroom M · Marshall Cohen (Senior Reporter, CNN), Matt Stiles (Senior Data Editor, CNN), Ryan Struyk (Director, AI Innovation, CNN)
Marketing & Growth
Applying AI in Performance Marketing: Practical Lessons from Operating at Scale
11:30 AM · Marcello Ballroom 4403 · Kristin Stoller (Editorial Director, Fortune), Wesley Haar (Co-founder & Chief AI Officer, Monks), James Croom (Senior Director Marketing - Chrome, Google)
Oversight: AI Explainability Governance & Model Risk
Human-Centric Engineering: Moving From What's Possible to What's Beneficial
11:30 AM · Lando Ballroom 4203 · Pam Snively (Chief Data & Trust Officer, TELUS)
CAIO CIO & It Leaders
The Death of the App: Zero-App Interfaces & the Rise of AI-Orchestrated Mobility Experiences
11:30 AM · Palazzo Ballroom G · Armin Prommersberger (Chief Technology Officer, HARMAN International)
Workforce Upskilling For The AI Era
Human Advantage: Building an AI-Ready Workforce Together
11:30 AM · Titian Ballroom 2302 · Edmund Clark (Chief Information Officer, The California State University)
AI Agents (technical)
Do your AI Agents dream of vibe coded sheep? Managing durable agent memories
11:30 AM · Venetian Ballroom E · Jason Davenport (Area Technical Lead, Google)
Infrastructure: AI Agents
Right-Sized to Production-Scale: Strategies for Demanding Agentic AI Workloads
11:30 AM · Delfino Ballroom 4104 · Sama Bali (Sr Manager, AI Solutions Product Marketing, NVIDIA), Robert Hartman (Product Marketing Manager, AI Factory with NVIDIA, Dell Technologies)
Marketing & Growth
From Agencies to Agents
11:30 AM ·
Software Engineering
Beyond the IDE: Agent-Based Engineering 101
11:30 AM · Lando Ballroom 4204 · Justin Johnson (VP of AI & Engineering, Renaissance Benefits)
Match Meetings
Meeting Scheduled – Ai4 Match [Mandatory]
11:34 AM · 2nd Floor, Hall C
AI Startups & VCs
TekFlix: How AI Turns Data Into Cinematic Stories
11:40 AM · Venetian Ballroom G · Pinaki Saha (Founder & CEO, Anshar Labs)
CAIO CIO & It Leaders
From 8 Years to 18 Months: Designing Enterprise AI That Delivers Measurable Healthcare Outcomes
11:45 AM · Palazzo Ballroom G · Siva Balu (Chief Information & Digital Officer, Senior Vice President, Quartz Health Solutions)
Match Meetings
Meeting Scheduled – Ai4 Match [Mandatory]
11:51 AM · 2nd Floor, Hall C
Social Impact Of AI
The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble
11:55 AM · Palazzo Ballroom B · Ed Zitron (Writer, EZPR)
CAIO CIO & It Leaders
AI for the Physical World: How Intelligent Systems Create Value Where Work Happens
11:55 AM · Palazzo Ballroom G · Danny Rodriguez (Chief Information Officer, CoolSys)
AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
Voice AI Insights: Benchmarks & Customer Successes
11:55 AM · Venetian Ballroom D · Lex Sivakumar (VP, Growth, Regal AI)
Marketing & Growth
AI Is Winning the Race. Losing the Room.
11:55 AM · Marcello Ballroom 4403 · Laura Nespoli (Executive Strategy Director, Article Group)
Roundtable
From Ideation to Enterprise Scale: How Corporates Invest, Partner, & Position for Long-Term Success [RSVP REQUIRED]
11:55 AM · 310 · Ashlyn Lackey (Director, Innovation Strategy, Prudential)
AI Startups & VCs
We Passed the Audit. We Failed the Agent Red Team. The Gap Killing AI Programs in Regulated Industries
11:55 AM · Venetian Ballroom G · Sahil Agarwal (CEO and Co-Founder, Enkrypt AI)
Software Engineering
Presentation by Charles Hudson, Johnson Control Fire Solutions
11:55 AM · Lando Ballroom 4204 · Charles Hudson (Senior Director Software Engineering, Johnson Control Fire Solutions)
AI Agents (technical)
Presentation by Rahul Chaudhary, Pinterest
11:55 AM · Venetian Ballroom E · Rahul Chaudhary (Lead Data Scientist, Pinterest)
AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
The Missing Ingredient in Agentic AI Strategy: Understanding How Work Actually Happens
11:55 AM · Venetian Ballroom F · Tuhin Chakraborty (Co-Founder & CEO, Mimica)
Workforce Upskilling For The AI Era
Fireside Chat with Steve Preston, Goodwill
11:55 AM · Titian Ballroom 2302 · Adam Mendler (Creator & Host, Thirty Minute Mentors), Steve Preston (CEO, Goodwill Industries International)
Oversight: AI ROI
The AI Factory: How Frictionless AI Governance Powers Faster, Safer AI Delivery
11:55 AM · Palazzo Ballroom D · Shone Mousseiri (Head of Global AI Model Validation and Governance, Manulife), Dave Trier (CEO, ModelOp)
Agentic Ops & Platforms (technical)
From Reality to Scale: Agentic AI Operations & Platforms for Industrial Outcomes
11:55 AM · Bellini Ballroom 2104 · Bryan Albrecht (Director, Smart Manufacturing Digital Thread & Incubation and Validation Deployment (SMDT & IVD), Siemens Digital Industries), Caleb Eastman (Field CTO - Americas, Siemens Digital Industries)
Oversight: AI Explainability Governance & Model Risk
AI Blind Spots: Why Ungoverned AI is Your Biggest Enterprise Risk - How to Mitigate it?
11:55 AM · Lando Ballroom 4203 · Nitin Gupta (Head of AI & Digital, YASH Technologies)
Infrastructure: AI Agents
Presentation by Aditya Grover, Inception
11:55 AM · Delfino Ballroom 4104 · Aditya Grover (CTO and Co-Founder, Inception)
AI Research Summit (technical)
Autonomous Driving Humanoid Robot
11:55 AM · Venetian Ballroom A · Sungho Kim (CEO, Hyundai Global Software Center)
Insurance
Driving ROI and Operational Excellence in Insurance using AI
11:55 AM · Delfino Ballroom 4103 · Douglas Benalan (CIO & Head of Digital Transformation, CURE Insurance), Khyati Sharma (Associate Director of Technology, CURE Insurance)
Education
The 90% Problem: How Universities Are Missing the Real AI Innovation Opportunity
11:55 AM · Palazzo Ballroom E · Mike Lee (Senior Lecturer of Technology & Applied Computing, University of Southern California)
AI Startups & VCs
Democratising AI for the Enterprise
12:05 PM · Venetian Ballroom G · Kunal Bhasin (Co-founder, CTO, CPO, Fabrion)
Match Meetings
Meeting Scheduled – Ai4 Match [Mandatory]
12:08 PM · 2nd Floor, Hall C
Healthcare: Life Sciences & Biotech
AI in Pharma Market Access & Pricing: Status Quo and Outlook
12:20 PM · Titian Ballroom 2304 · Marco Rauland (VP, Market Access & Pricing, Strategy, Pricing & Analytics, Merck KGaA)
Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
How to Address Security and Governance Challenges for Coding Agents
12:20 PM · Palazzo Ballroom M · Sheng Liang (Cofounder and CEO, Obot AI)
Education
The Innovative Intersection of the Human Brain, Body, and Technology: Biometric Data Research
12:20 PM · Palazzo Ballroom E · Lisa Dieker (Williamson Family Distinguished Professor, University of Kansas)
Generative AI (technical)
The Semantic ID Layer : Rebuilding RecSys
12:20 PM · Veronese Ballroom 2504 · Aditya Gautam (Machine Learning Technical Lead, Meta)
AI Research Summit (technical)
Artificial Hivemind: The Open-Ended Homogeneity of Language Models (and Beyond)
12:20 PM · Venetian Ballroom A · Liwei Jiang (Ph.D. candidate, Researcher, University of Washington)
Recommendation & Ranking Systems (technical)
Solving Product Matching with AI: Query Understanding, Hybrid Retrieval, and Multi-Stage Ranking
12:20 PM · Bellini Ballroom 2102 · Sidharth Thapar (Manager AI/ Senior Applied Scientist, Staples Inc.)
CAIO CIO & It Leaders
The Software Decision Beyond Build vs. Buy
12:20 PM · Palazzo Ballroom G · Olav Laudy (Head of AI Consulting, Tavant)
Insurance
Presentation by Otakar Hubschmann, TransRe
12:20 PM ·
AI Startups & VCs
Fluence GPU Cluster Auctions: Solving the Pricing Problem
12:20 PM · Venetian Ballroom G · Justin Jose (Head of Business Development, Fluence)
AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
Agentic Governance Framework As the Operating System of the AI-Native Economy
12:20 PM · Venetian Ballroom F · Wade Moss (Founder, Sentiex Labs)
Beginner Start Here
Presentation by John Thompson, University of Michigan
12:20 PM · Palazzo Ballroom L · John Thompson (Author, Professor, AI Innovator, University of Michigan)
Social Impact Of AI
When Intelligence Becomes Cheap: The Economic Consequences of Transformative AI
12:20 PM · Palazzo Ballroom B · Anton Korinek (Head, Transformative AI Economic Studies, Anthropic; Professor of Economics, University of Virginia, Anthropic | University of Virginia)
Marketing & Growth
Where AI Belongs in Marketing: Human Judgment, Real Oversight
12:20 PM · Marcello Ballroom 4403 · Taryn Crouthers (CEO, Big Spaceship), Andrea Gilman (Chief Marketing Officer, Early Warning)
Workforce Upskilling For The AI Era
The Training Fallacy: “How To” Sessions Won’t Solve Your AI Adoption Problem
12:20 PM · Titian Ballroom 2302 · Markus Mckay-Fleisch (Professional Services AI Enablement Director, Smartsheet)
Oversight: AI Explainability Governance & Model Risk
Presentation by Mae-Beth Magon, Boeing
12:20 PM · Lando Ballroom 4203 · Mae-Beth Magno (Head of AI Governance Center of Excellence, Boeing)
Cybersecurity
Presentation by Sysdig: Headless Security: Cloud Defense for an AI-Speed World
12:20 PM · Marcello Ballroom 4404 · Eric Carter (Product Marketing Director, Sysdig, Inc.)
Insurance
Insurance Industry's AI Value Problem: The Reality of Unit Economics, Reliability and Auditability
12:20 PM · Delfino Ballroom 4103 · Sai Maddineni (Staff Vice President, Product, FM Global)
Infrastructure: AI Agents
Stop Wasting GPUs: Building a Global Compute Cache for AI Inference
12:20 PM · Delfino Ballroom 4104 · Lena Hall (Akamai), Sheilah Kirui (Senior Developer Advocate, Akamai)
AI Agents (technical)
Powering Agents with Search: Creating Interactive Vector Pipelines with SQL
12:20 PM · Venetian Ballroom E · Seth Wiesman (Field CTO, Materialize)
Enterprise Unlocks: RAG & Proprietary Data
Your Data Isn’t a Moat. Yet.: The Vertical AI Architecture for Decision-grade Production
12:20 PM · Titian Ballroom 2306 · Akash Sharma (VP Product Management, Enverus)
Oversight: AI ROI
Tokens, Tools, and Trust: How Agent Gateways Keep Your AI ROI from Going Rogue
12:20 PM · Palazzo Ballroom D · Tuhina Goel (Director, AI Product Marketing, Nutanix)
Agentic Ops & Platforms (technical)
Implementing AI Agents in Public Health Systems in UAE: Guardrails and Governance
12:20 PM · Bellini Ballroom 2104
AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
Presentation by Gary Oppenheimer, AmpleHarvest.org, Inc.
12:20 PM · Venetian Ballroom D · Gary Oppenheimer (Founder/Executive Director, AmpleHarvest.org, Inc.)
AI Startups & VCs
Building Autonomous Growth Agents: Lessons from an ex-DeepMind GenAI Lead
12:30 PM · Venetian Ballroom G · Praneet Dutta (Founder, usepomo.ai), Paige Liao (Software Engineer, MachFlow AI (POMO))
Breaks & Meals
Lunch
12:30 PM · Halls B&C
Breaks & Meals
VIP Benefits – Tuesday Lunch – Speakers & VIPs
12:30 PM · Hall D
Breaks & Meals
Lunch Presented by NiCE Cognigy
12:30 PM · 4804
Breaks & Meals
Lunch Presented by SAP
12:30 PM · 4803
Breaks & Meals
Lunch Presented by Avanade
12:30 PM · 4704
Agentic Live Demos
We Made AI Easy to Build, We Didn’t Make it Safe to Run. New Threats, New Attacks, Unprotected Agents.
2:00 PM · Hall B
Agentic Live Demos
Agentic Live Demos
2:00 PM · Hall B
Generative AI: Foundation & Strategy
The Generative AI Playbook: Setting Your Enterprise Up for Success
2:10 PM · Venetian Ballroom E · Rob Pegoraro (Contributor, PCMag / Fast Company), Pankaj Jain (CIO - International Operations, General Motors Financial), Murad Dikeidek (Head of Cybersecurity, UI Health), Max Gokhman (Head of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Asset Solutions, Franklin Templeton), Kathryn Harrison (Global Vice President, Strategy & Business Operations, Concentrix)
Software: Fintech & Payments
Smarter, Safer Finance — Embedding AI in Fintech & Payments
2:10 PM · Titian Ballroom 2306 · Giovanni Everduin (Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer, Commercial Bank International), Arjun Wadwalkar (Director, Product Management, Global Payments Inc.), Roger Huang (Author, Bitcoin Magazine)
Evaluation Observability & Interpretability (technical)
Fast, Safe, and Cheap: Making Good AI Design Decisions
2:10 PM · Bellini Ballroom 2102 · Jodi Blomberg (VP AI & ML, Cox Automotive)
Beginner Start Here
High-Value Use Cases You Can Deploy Quickly
2:10 PM · Palazzo Ballroom L · Youssef Idelcaid (Head of AI Research Center (ARC), Gilead), Aman Tripathi (Data Science Manager, Experimentation, Hyatt Hotels Corporation), Fawzi Benmessaoud (Professor of AI and Informatics & CTO, Indiana University
Timeless Agora Institute), Jessica Davis (Vice President, AI Product, USA TODAY Co., Inc.), Keith Gutfreund (Head of Engineering & Systems Architecture, Kirk Tech Solutions)
Social Impact Of AI
The Economic Impact of AI: Jobs, Productivity, and Future Economies
2:10 PM · Palazzo Ballroom B · Foaad Khosmood (Professor and Chief Architect of Digital Democracy, Cal Poly / CalMatters), Anton Korinek (Head, Transformative AI Economic Studies, Anthropic; Professor of Economics, University of Virginia, Anthropic | University of Virginia), Yun-Hee Kim (Deputy Editor, Washington Post Intelligence, The Washington Post), Elizabeth Rhodes (Research Director, OpenResearch), Bob Wollheim (Partner, EVP, CI&T)
Insurance
Underwritten by AI: Smarter, Faster, Fairer Insurance
2:10 PM · Delfino Ballroom 4103 · Andrew Zarkowsky (Head of AI Underwriting, The Hartford), Patrick Gallic (Head of International AI Hub, Tokio Marine Group), Alexander Niehenke (Partner, Scale Venture Partners), Leo Sei (Chief Product Officer, TomTom)
Roundtable
Roundtable: The Second Phase of AI Adoption: AI Cybersecurity Roadmap [RSVP REQUIRED]
2:10 PM · 305 · Tolgay Kizilelma (Director of MS in Cybersecurity Program, Dominican University of California)
AI Startups & VCs
Beneath the Surface: AI Powered Robotics for Sustainable Deep-Sea Operations
2:10 PM · Venetian Ballroom G · Arjun Ramachandran (Founding Robotics Engineer, MOBY Robotics)
AI Research Summit (technical)
Networked Intelligence: Scaling Human-AI Networks with Active Context Graphs
2:10 PM · Venetian Ballroom A · Sutanay Choudhury (Chief Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
How We Moved 700 Employees from AI Experimentation to Measurable Value
2:10 PM · Venetian Ballroom H · Stian Kirkeberg (Head of AI & ML, Norges Bank Investment Management)
Software Engineering
Building Self-Evaluating OpenAI Agents for Profiles & Documents
2:10 PM · Lando Ballroom 4204 · Vijay Panwar (Member of Technical Staff IV (Staff Engineer), Panasonic Avionics Corporation)
Agentic Ops & Platforms (technical)
The AI Operating Model: From Intent to Execution
2:10 PM · Bellini Ballroom 2104 · Ryan Wolbeck (Head of AI and MLOps Platform, Kraft Heinz)
Generative AI (technical)
Agents in the Wild: What It Takes to Build Reliable Agentic AI
2:10 PM · Veronese Ballroom 2504 · Michael Giannangeli (Head of Product, Agentic AI, Amazon Nova, Amazon)
CAIO CIO & It Leaders
Inside Houston Methodist Hospital: Deploying AI in Practice
2:10 PM · Palazzo Ballroom G · Joshua Robert (Founding Editor-in-Chief, Journal for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (JAIM)), Roberta Schwartz (EVP and Chief Innovation Officer, Houston Methodist Hospital)
Education
Leading the AI University: A Presidents Panel
2:10 PM · Palazzo Ballroom E · David Wilson (President, Morgan State University), Karen Ivy (Department Head, Technology Professions, University of Arizona Global Campus), Melva Wallace (President & CEO, Huston-Tillotson University), Karrie Dixon (Chancellor, North Carolina Central University)
Infrastructure: Data Platforms & Strategy
The Hardest Part of AI is Not the AI - Sustaining Responsible AI across the Platform Lifecycle.
2:10 PM · Titian Ballroom 2302 · Nat Rubio-Licht (Senior Reporter, The Deep View), Jessica Grega (Manager, Global Ethics and Compliance, Bunge), Robert Jett (Global Chief Privacy and Data Protection Officer, Bunge Global SA)
Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
Behind the Binge: Scaling AI Infrastructure at Paramount+
2:10 PM · Palazzo Ballroom M · Jason Hiner (Editor-in-Chief, The Deep View), Jay Kachhadia (Manager, Data Science, Paramount+)
Manufacturing
Architecting Intelligence: How Voltava is Redesigning the Global Manufacturing Blueprint
2:10 PM · Titian Ballroom 2304 · Greggory Garrett (CEO & Managing Director, CGS Advisors, LLC), Bruce Smith (CEO, Voltava), Tom Swartz (CTO, Voltava)
AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
Latchkey AI Agents: Tales of Unsupervised Decisions and the Case for a New Security Control Plane Strategy
2:10 PM · Venetian Ballroom F · Troy Leach (Chief Strategy Officer, Cloud Security Alliance)
Oversight: AI Explainability Governance & Model Risk
Governing AI in Healthcare
2:10 PM · Lando Ballroom 4203 · Ashley Casovan (Managing Director, IAPP), Lara Liss (Chief Privacy and Data Trust Officer, GE HealthCare)
Marketing & Growth
From Scattered Signals to Qualified Pipeline
2:10 PM · Marcello Ballroom 4403 · Sirish Davuluri (Vice President, AI Strategy & Business Design, Cognizant), Sushant Warikoo (Chief Business Officer AI, Cognizant)
AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
Simplifying Robotics with AI Agents
2:10 PM · Venetian Ballroom D · Julie Mitchell (Director, Robotic Sortation, Amazon Robotics)
Infrastructure: AI Agents
[>_] Agents in the Basement
2:10 PM · Delfino Ballroom 4104 · Sergio Coronado (CIO, NATO Support and Procurement Agency)
Cybersecurity
Fireside Chat with Subra Kumaraswamy, Visa - Cyber Resilience in the Frontier AI Era
2:10 PM · Palazzo Ballroom D · Jason Abbruzzese (Assistant Managing Editor, NBC News), Subra Kumaraswamy (CISO, Visa)
Healthcare Care Providers
Medical Imaging AI for rare cancer with minimal data
2:10 PM · Marcello Ballroom 4404 · Todd Minnigh (Chief of Medical Imaging Innovation, Chief of Medical Imaging Innovation - Leidos.
University of Pittsburgh, Steering Committee - Computational Pathology and Ai Center of Excellence (CPACE)
MediConsult Capital, Advisory board)
Roundtable
AI Agents in Production [RSVP REQUIRED]
2:10 PM · 301 · Tanvi Motwani (Director of Machine Learning, Core AI, LinkedIn)
Podcast Pavilion
Podcast Pavilion - Table Reserved
2:15 PM · Halls B&C
Agentic Live Demos
Safe Actions with Agent Transactions: CockroachDB for Production AI Agents
2:20 PM · Hall B
AI Startups & VCs
Real World AI for Field Sales Teams
2:20 PM · Venetian Ballroom G · Trevor Lee (Cofounder and CEO, Myko AI)
AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
The New AI Risk Equation: Generated Threats, Exposed Data & Autonomous Agents
2:35 PM · Venetian Ballroom D · Marty Weiss (Enterprise Security Advisor, Proofpoint)
Software Engineering
Silent Infrastructure: How Privacy-First SDKs Quietly Shape the Future of Global-Scale Mobile Apps
2:35 PM · Lando Ballroom 4204 · Ramanpreet Singh Khinda (Staff Software Engineer, LinkedIn)
CAIO CIO & It Leaders
Why Governance, Not Models, Is the Real Bottleneck to AI ROI
2:35 PM · Palazzo Ballroom G · Bruno Costa (Strategic Sr. Sales Engineer, Retool)
Oversight: AI Explainability Governance & Model Risk
When Agents Write the Code: Governing AI Systems Built by Humans and Agents Together
2:35 PM · Lando Ballroom 4203 · Greg Jennings (Vice President of Engineering, AI, Anaconda, Inc.)
AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
Setting Boundaries for Agentic AI: Preventing Data Exposure at Enterprise Scale
2:35 PM · Venetian Ballroom H · Gal Helemski (Cofounder & Chief Product (CPO), PlainID)
AI Research Summit (technical)
The SQL Layer for Physical and Visual AI
2:35 PM · Venetian Ballroom A · Mohamed Elhoseiny (Founder, CreativAI)
AI Startups & VCs
VeeL - Digitizing the Human Experience
2:35 PM · Venetian Ballroom G
Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
Introducing Redpanda's Agentic Data Plane (ADP)
2:35 PM · Palazzo Ballroom M · Garrett Raska (Senior Solutions Engineer, Redpanda Data)
Roundtable
Your Agent Is Failing Right Now: Building ADLC Lifecycle Maturity for Production Trust [RSVP REQUIRED]
2:35 PM · 310 · Samleo Joseph (VP, Research Development & Innovation (RDI), JP Morgan Chase)
AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
Strategic Foundations: Aligning Agentic AI with Enterprise Growth and Resilience
2:35 PM · Venetian Ballroom F · Kalvin Brite (Chief Product Officer, Siteimprove), Nayaki Nayyar (CEO, Siteimprove)
Healthcare Care Providers
Presentation by Samio Systems
2:35 PM · Marcello Ballroom 4404 · Mohamad Elzaim (Co-Founder, Samio Systems)
Marketing & Growth
Fireside Chat with Chi Ogbuehi, National Football League (NFL)
2:35 PM · Marcello Ballroom 4403 · Celeny Da Silva (Founder & Chief Executive, MAKERS AI), Chi Ogbuehi (Vice President, Marketing Technology and Consumer Products, National Football League (NFL))
Roundtable
Premium Inference for AI Agents: The Right Chip for the Right Workload
2:35 PM · 304 · Kwasi Ankomah (Director, AI Solutions Engineering, SambaNova Systems)
Roundtable
xFalcon - Business Intelligence for the AI Era
2:35 PM · 303 · Chandan Pandey (Founder & CEO, Iseyon Analytics)
Infrastructure: AI Agents
The Agent Harness: Shipping Autonomous AI Without Losing Control
2:35 PM · Delfino Ballroom 4104 · Rachit Mehta (Software Dev Engineer II, AWS), Sandhya Subramani (Sr. Developer Advocate, GenAI, AWS Strands)
Cybersecurity
Presentation by Stoddard Manikin, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
2:35 PM · Palazzo Ballroom D · Stoddard Manikin (CISO, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta)
Manufacturing
Humanoids Will End Manufacturing's Most Dangerous Jobs—And That’s a Good Thing
2:35 PM · Titian Ballroom 2304 · Elaine Reyes (News Anchor, CGTN), Pras Velagapudi (Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Agility Robotics)
Agentic Live Demos
Federated Agents: Acting on Unmovable Data
2:40 PM · Hall B
AI Startups & VCs
Using Your Existing Agents to Train Custom Models for a Fraction of a Cost of Frontier Models
2:45 PM · Venetian Ballroom G · Shanea Leven (CEO & Co-Founder, Empromptu AI)
Healthcare Care Providers
AI Powered Care Providers for a Better Tomorrow
3:00 PM · Marcello Ballroom 4404 · Morgan Jeffries (Medical Director for AI, Geisinger), Aalpen Patel (Former Chief Clinical and Innovation Officer, Former MedQuest Imaging), Anik Bose (Managing Partner, Benhamou Global Ventures (BGV)), Caroline Chung (Professor and Co-Director of the Institute for Data Science in Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center)
Telecom & Connectivity Infrastructure
How AI is Transforming Telecom
3:00 PM · Palazzo Ballroom E · Cathy White (Founder & CEO, CEW Communications), Sundar Krishnan (Director AI/ML, Optimum), Sahil Yadav (Head of Software and AI, Applied Optoelectonics Inc (AOI))
Infrastructure: Data Platforms & Strategy
Data Strategy to Enable Effective AI: Turning Data into a Competitive Advantage
3:00 PM · Titian Ballroom 2302 · Kirby Forlin (VP Digital & Analytics Performance, The Cigna Group), Jose Martinez (Chief Data Officer, Coca Cola FEMSA), Tor Constantino (Writer / AI, Quantum Computing, Blockchain Consultant, Forbes), Adit Abraham (Reducto), Andy Pernsteiner (Field CTO, VAST Data)
CAIO CIO & It Leaders
Build vs. Buy — Making the Right AI Infrastructure Decisions
3:00 PM · Palazzo Ballroom G · David Chun (Researcher, Columbia University), Mike Burgio (Sr. Manager, Solution Architecture, OutSystems), Ryan Horjus (Vp of Deployments, Hydra Host), Devang Modi (Chief AI Officer, Bausch & Lomb), Andrea Spielvogel (Professor, Nürtingen-Geislingen University (NGU))
Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
Memory, State, and Knowledge Management: Powering Long-Running AI Systems
3:00 PM · Palazzo Ballroom M · Johannes Plambeck (Senior Managing Data Scientist, AI Engineer, Pfizer Inc.), Alain Biem (Co-founder ; Former Chief AI Officer, New York Life, S&P Global Market Intelligence, Columbia University), Chitra Bhagat (Sr. Director, Analytics & AI - Business Solution Design, Cummins Inc), Brian Ray (Head of Data & AI NA, Atos), Mike King (Deputy CIO, UTMB Health)
Financial Services Asset Management
Alpha to Automation: How AI Is Reshaping Asset Management
3:00 PM · Delfino Ballroom 4103 · Sai Krishna Rallabandi (Director, Data Science, Fidelity Investments), Vrinda Menon (CTO Transformative AI, JP Morgan Chase, Private Bank), Bimal Mehta (Chief Research Scientist - Emerging Technologies, Vanguard), John Divine (Assistant Managing Editor, Investing, U.S. News & World Report), Sheema Usmani (Vice President, Wealth Services R&D, State Street)
Software Engineering
Code Quality, Security, and Culture in the AI Coding Era
3:00 PM · Lando Ballroom 4204 · Madhavi Najana (AI Trailblazer | Women in AI Ohio State Ambassador| Forbes Technology Council Member | Fellow BCS | Software Engineering Manager |, Federal Home Loan Bank of Cincinnati), Chris Johnson (Principal AI Technologist, Phase2), Patrick Akil (Podcaster & Software Engineer, Xebia), Ravi Teja Prabhala Venkata (Senior Manager, Software Engineering, Capital One), Vikul Gupta (CTO, QualityAI)
Oversight: AI Explainability Governance & Model Risk
Building Trust in AI: Interpretability, Explainability, and Governance at Scale
3:00 PM · Lando Ballroom 4203 · Ron Whitworth (Chief Privacy Officer, Truist), Shashank Kadetotad (Global Sr. Director Enterprise Data Science and AI, Mars), Tiffany Benitez (Head of Data & AI Governance, Compass Group USA), Blake Brannon (Co-Founder, Chief Innovation Officer, OneTrust), Josh Coffey (Chief Technology Officer, Apryse)
Generative AI (technical)
Customizing Intelligence: Fine-Tuning and Prompt Engineering for Real-World Impact
3:00 PM · Veronese Ballroom 2504 · Siobahn Grady (Associate Professor & Founding Director, IAIER, North Carolina Central University), Malhar Deshpande (Sr. Director, Product Engineering - AI, Clean Harbors), Jalashri Raval (Sr Manager, Information Systems, Amgen), Srikanth Maru (Director, Data, Cricut), Ankit Goyal (Principal Staff Software Engineer, AI Platform, LinkedIn)
Evaluation Observability & Interpretability (technical)
Keeping Models Honest: AI Observability for Scalable, Reliable Systems
3:00 PM · Bellini Ballroom 2102 · Brooke Hopkins (CEO / Founder, Coval), Tristan Arbus (Senior Data Scientist, Devon Energy Corporation), Tammy Dugan (Chief Data Scientist, Cummins Inc.), Shahid Quraishi (Engineering Manager, R&D, 7-Eleven), Soumyajit Paul (Sr. Business Intelligence Engineer - Data Science, Ford Motor Company)
Manufacturing
Presentation by Paul Marsolan, Battle Motors
3:00 PM · Titian Ballroom 2304 · Paul Marsolan (Chief Software Officer, Battle Motors)
AI Research Summit (technical)
The Greatest Astronomy and Astrophysics Discovery Machine Ever Built: The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory
3:00 PM · Venetian Ballroom A · Phil Marshall (Deputy Director of Operations, NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory)
AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
Governing Agentic AI - A Practical Framework for Retail, Hospitality and QSR
3:00 PM · Venetian Ballroom H · May Sethaphanich (Global Senior Counsel, AI Legal Lead, McDonald's Corporation)
Workshop
The Billion-Dollar Blueprint: Stress-Test Your AI Startup Idea with Professor Doug Villhard [RSVP REQUIRED]
3:00 PM · 404 · Doug Villhard (Academic Director and Entrepreneurship Professor, WashU Olin Business School)
Generative AI Deployment At Scale
Scaling AI at Nationwide
3:00 PM · Venetian Ballroom E · Mimi Chizever (Vice President, Emerging Technology, Nationwide Insurance), Kristen Biddulph (Technical Director, Staff Operations for Security & Infrastructure, Nationwide Insurance)
AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
Presentation by Intercom (AI Agents: Applications & Use Cases Track)
3:00 PM ·
Software: Fintech & Payments
Fireside Chat with Erik Reppel, Coinbase
3:00 PM · Titian Ballroom 2306 · Erik Reppel (Head of Engineering, Coinbase Developer Platform), Aaron Stanley (Managing Director, Promenade Advisory)
AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
Your AI isn't Global. It Just Thinks It Is.
3:00 PM · Venetian Ballroom D · Spence Green (CEO, LILT)
AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
The Agentic AI Playbook for Enterprise AI Transformation: Lessons Learned from Starbucks
3:00 PM · Venetian Ballroom F · Bin Yu (AI Expert-in-Residence, Starbucks)
AI Startups & VCs
TraceRoot - open-source observability and self-improving layer for AI agents.
3:00 PM · Venetian Ballroom G · Xinwei He (Founder and CEO, TraceRoot.AI)
Agentic Ops & Platforms (technical)
Agentic Ops for the Secure Agentic Enterprise: Safe, Observable Agents with HPE and NVIDIA
3:00 PM · Bellini Ballroom 2104 · Steve Stein (NVIDIA), Mark Seither (Solution Architect - APS Solution Sales, HPE)
Cybersecurity
From Shadow to Spotlight: Building an AI Governance Strategy
3:00 PM · Palazzo Ballroom D · Giulian Garruba (Senior Director, Product Marketing, Mimecast North America)
CX & Customer Service
When Intelligence Becomes Cheap: Why the Future of AI Belongs to Systems, Not Agents
3:00 PM · Marcello Ballroom 4403 · Brian Peterson (CTO, Founder, Dialpad)
Beginner Start Here
I Hired 150 AI Agents to Run My Life
3:00 PM · Palazzo Ballroom L · Tristen O'Brien (AI Educator & YouTube Creator, Complete Workflow)
Infrastructure: AI Agents
Building AI for Regulated Industries: From “Certified Code” to “Governed Systems”
3:00 PM · Delfino Ballroom 4104 · Bob Serr (Chief Technology Officer, Aristocrat)
Match Meetings
Meeting Scheduled – Ai4 Match [Mandatory]
3:00 PM · 2nd Floor, Hall C
Social Impact Of AI
Fireside Chat with Andrew Yang
3:00 PM · Palazzo Ballroom B · Jacob Bogage (White House Correspondent, Reuters), Andrew Yang (CEO, Noble Mobile)
Agentic Live Demos
Your Agents Don't Deserve Your Trust. Here's How They Earn It.
3:00 PM · Hall B
AI Startups & VCs
Presentation by AIAR
3:10 PM · Venetian Ballroom G · Rajiv Menon (CEO, AIAR)
Match Meetings
Meeting Scheduled – Ai4 Match [Mandatory]
3:17 PM · 2nd Floor, Hall C
Agentic Live Demos
The Trust Equation: Turning AI Risk into Enterprise Revenue
3:20 PM · Hall B
Product Management
Workshop on Evals for PMs
3:25 PM · Palazzo Ballroom L · Chris Morrow (Product Manager, Meta)
Roundtable
Human Judgment in an AI-Assisted Workflow: Deciding What to Trust, Verify, or Override [RSVP REQUIRED]
3:25 PM · 305 · Christopher Trudeau (Associate Professor of Law, University of Detroit Mercy Law School)
AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
When AI Agents Go Live: Who Controls Their Access and Credentials?
3:25 PM · Venetian Ballroom H · Matt Fangman (Field CTO, SailPoint)
Roundtable
Deliver Real-Time Context for Smarter Agents
3:25 PM · 301 · Marcela Vairo (IBM)
Software: HRTech
Rearchitecting Upwork for the AI Era
3:25 PM · Titian Ballroom 2306 · Andrew Rabinovich (Chief Technology Officer, Head of AI & ML, Upwork), Thomas Germain (Senior Technology Journalist, The BBC)
AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
The Analytics Factory: Building the Machine That Understands Your Business
3:25 PM · Venetian Ballroom F · Benjamin Shi (VP, Growth & Strategy, TextQL)
AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
Not Every Molecule, Not Every Cross, Not Every AI Pilot Makes It to the Field...
3:25 PM · Venetian Ballroom D · Jeremy Groeteke (Global Head of IT and Digital Strategy, Syngenta Group)
Automotive
Why More Miles Aren’t the Answer: The Case for Reasoning-First AV Architecture
3:25 PM · Palazzo Ballroom B · Jacob Crossman (Sr. VP of Autonomy, May Mobility)
Vision Spatial & World Models (technical)
Navigating Scaling and Long Tail: VLAs, Data Generation, and Mapping Approaches in Autonomy
3:25 PM · Bellini Ballroom 2104 · Doron Portnoy (Senior Staff ML Engineer, Zoox)
CX & Customer Service
From Code to Agent — Transforming the Developer Experience
3:25 PM · Marcello Ballroom 4403 · Sama Bali (Sr Manager, AI Solutions Product Marketing, NVIDIA), Logan Lawler (Dell Pro Precision AI Strategy, Dell Technologies)
Infrastructure: AI Agents
We Saved an Enterprise $100M in Token and Model Costs. Steal Our Playbook
3:25 PM · Delfino Ballroom 4104 · Nikunj Bajaj (Co-founder & CEO, TrueFoundry)
AI Startups & VCs
The Augmentation Revolution: Why the Future of AI Is Human
3:25 PM · Venetian Ballroom G · Rob Scott (Founder & CEO, HOLOVOX)
Cybersecurity
Accelerating AI Adoption: The CISO’s Blueprint from Strategy to Delivery
3:25 PM · Palazzo Ballroom D · Tolgay Kizilelma (Director of MS in Cybersecurity Program, Dominican University of California)
Roundtable
Models Aren't Your Differentiator. Your Document Data Is
3:25 PM · 302 · Adam Field (Chief AI Officer, Tungsten Automation)
Match Meetings
Meeting Scheduled – Ai4 Match [Mandatory]
3:34 PM · 2nd Floor, Hall C
AI Startups & VCs
Harden: The End-to-End Security Platform for AI Agents in an Era of AI-Powered Attacks
3:35 PM · Venetian Ballroom G · Pushpak Pujari (Harden)
Agentic Live Demos
Build Better Agents: Evaluate and Improve Agent Performance with Opik
3:40 PM · Hall B
Software: HRTech
Hiring, Retention, and Beyond — AI’s Role in Next-Gen HRTech
3:50 PM · Titian Ballroom 2306 · Marshall Bush (Founder, Baleen Research), Alberto Silveira (Chief Technology Officer (CTO), HireVue), Kristie Rowley (Sr. Manager of AI/ML Engineering, BambooHR)
Generative AI Deployment At Scale
Inference at Scale: Deploying Open-Source LLMs in Production with vLLM and llm-d
3:50 PM · Venetian Ballroom E · Rob Greenberg (Principal Product Manager, Red Hat)
Generative AI (technical)
Presentation by Nitin Kumar, Marriott International
3:50 PM · Veronese Ballroom 2504 · Nitin Kumar (Director Data Science, Marriott International)
Software Engineering
Building Agent-Ready APIs: From Legacy Monolith to AI-Native Architecture
3:50 PM · Lando Ballroom 4204 · Sachin Telalwar (Senior Software Engineer, Zocdoc)
Evaluation Observability & Interpretability (technical)
Solve the AI Trust Gap with Agent Observability
3:50 PM · Bellini Ballroom 2102 · Paul Lacey (Cisco)
AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
Building a Responsible AI Playbook at NYPL.
3:50 PM · Venetian Ballroom H · Garvita Kapur (Senior Director of Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering, New York Public Library)
AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
Context Is All You Need. Audit-Proof AI for Finance
3:50 PM · Venetian Ballroom D · Binny Gill (CEO, Kognitos), Amit Gupta (VP of Sales, Agentic Transformation, Kognitos)
Financial Services Asset Management
Generative AI in Finance for Estimating Geographical Exposures
3:50 PM · Delfino Ballroom 4103 · Arun Verma (Head of Quantitative Research Solutions, Bloomberg)
AI Research Summit (technical)
Neural Scaling Universality: Emergent Power Laws Obey Robust Exponents
3:50 PM · Venetian Ballroom A · Yizhou Liu (Researcher, MIT)
Oversight: AI Explainability Governance & Model Risk
Can We Trust Agents?
3:50 PM · Lando Ballroom 4203 · Sundari Parekh (VP, AI Security and Cyber Security Advisory, TrendAI™)
Telecom & Connectivity Infrastructure
AI Has a Brain. Who Owns the Nervous System?
3:50 PM · Palazzo Ballroom E · Jim Fowler (Chief Technology and Product Officer, Lumen)
CAIO CIO & It Leaders
Reaching Users on Every Screen: How Flutter's Multi-platform Capabilities Can Scale Your AI Investments
3:50 PM · Palazzo Ballroom G · Khanh Nguyen (Developer Relations Engineer, Google Cloud)
Roundtable (technical)
Roundtable: Securing AI Against Adversarial Attacks [RSVP REQUIRED]
3:50 PM · 310 · Rob Lee (Chief of Research, AI & Emerging Threats & Chief AI Office (CAIO), SANS Institute)
CX & Customer Service
The Rise of Agentic CX: How AI Voice Agents Are Rewriting Customer Service
3:50 PM · Marcello Ballroom 4403 · Venkata Harikishan Koppuravuri (Author, Director of Cloud Engineering, Manulife Johnhancock)
Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
Taming AI Chaos: The Rise of the Enterprise Superagent - Presentation by KPMG
3:50 PM · Palazzo Ballroom M · Mark Shank (KPMG)
AI Startups & VCs
Agents Need White-Box Instruments, Not Judges
3:50 PM · Venetian Ballroom G · Shadab Nazar (Founder & CEO, Faberlens Inc)
Infrastructure: Data Platforms & Strategy
The Data Layer Is the New Control Plane: Winning AI Across Hyperscalers, Neo-Clouds, Sovereign Edge
3:50 PM · Titian Ballroom 2302 · Dejay Noy (Principal AI Architect, NetApp)
Automotive
Presentation by Kelleigh Shankel, Blue Bird Corporation
3:50 PM · Palazzo Ballroom B · Kelleigh Shankel (VP, Chassis Engineering, Blue Bird Corporation)
Infrastructure: AI Agents
AI at Scale: Lessons from the Front Lines, a Fireside Chat with Ningyu Chen, The Home Depot
3:50 PM · Delfino Ballroom 4104 · Jennifer Conrad (Senior Writer, Inc. Magazine), Ningyu Chen (SVP Technology, The Home Depot)
Healthcare Care Providers
The HHS Clinical AI Adoption Framework of Regulation, Reimbursement, and Research and Development
3:50 PM · Marcello Ballroom 4404 · Mark Atalla (Deputy National Coordinator for Health IT, Policy Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC)), Arman Sharma (Deputy Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)), Ruth Reader (Journalist, Second Opinion Media)
AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
Prompt, Plan, Pwn: The Agentic Kill Chain
3:50 PM · Venetian Ballroom F · Subba Bachina (AI Product Security Leader, Lenovo)
Cybersecurity
Beyond the Prompt: Building AI Agents to Automate Enterprise Workflows
3:50 PM · Palazzo Ballroom D · Dikshit Khandelwal (Member of Technical Staff, Platform and Security, OpenAI)
Roundtable
It's no longer about the tech. It's about the people.
3:50 PM · 303 · Marcus Spillane (SVP Innovation, Howard Hughes)
Manufacturing
Presentation To Be Announced - Manufacturing
3:50 PM · Titian Ballroom 2304
Match Meetings
Meeting Scheduled – Ai4 Match [Mandatory]
3:51 PM · 2nd Floor, Hall C
Meetups & Receptions
Women In AI Reception [RSVP REQUIRED]
4:00 PM · 401-403
AI Startups & VCs
Startups & VCs Reception [RSVP REQUIRED]
4:00 PM · 101-103
Match Meetings
Meeting Scheduled – Ai4 Match [Mandatory]
4:08 PM · 2nd Floor, Hall C
Infrastructure: Data Platforms & Strategy
From Zero to AI Hero: How GB Corp Rebuilt its Enterprise DNA
4:15 PM · Titian Ballroom 2302 · Bishoy Sawiris (Chief Data Officer, GB Corp)
Manufacturing
Smarter, Faster, Leaner: AI in Modern Manufacturing
4:15 PM · Titian Ballroom 2304 · David Hallac (CEO, Viaduct), Joe Olsen (Managing Partner, Olsen Capital), Peter Robinson (COO and Executive Lead of KAI Labs, Kaspar Companies), Royal Sequiera (VP, AI & Digital Transformation, FGF Brands)
CAIO CIO & It Leaders
Truth, Lies & AI
4:15 PM · Palazzo Ballroom G · Rennu Varghese (Global Chief Information Officer, The Friedkin Group)
Healthcare Care Providers
Reducing Burnout and Transforming the Clinician Experience with AI
4:15 PM · Marcello Ballroom 4404 · Eric Cruzen (SVP, Chief Data & Informatics Officer, Northwell Health), Krishnaj Gourab (Chief Medical Officer, University of Maryland Rehabilitation and Orthopaedic Institute), Rahul Kashyap (Medical Director/Associate Professor of Medicine, WellSpan Health/Drexel University), Luiz Cieslak (SVP of Healthcare & Life Sciences, CI&T)
Vision Spatial & World Models (technical)
The Role of World Models: Teaching AI to See, Move, and Plan
4:15 PM · Bellini Ballroom 2104 · Brian McClendon (CTO, Niantic Spatial), Jared Perlo (AI Reporter, NBC News), Oliver Cameron (CEO, Odyssey), Tim Bucher (CEO, Agtonomy), Sce Pike (Vice President, AI Growth & Solutions, TELUS Digital)
Automotive
The AI-Powered Vehicle: Smarter, Safer, and Fully Connected
4:15 PM · Palazzo Ballroom B · Avinash Balachandran (Vice President, Toyota Research Institute), Steve Greenfield (General Partner, Automotive Ventures), Jewel Li (COO, Tensor Auto)
Product Management
Product Managing AI Products
4:15 PM · Palazzo Ballroom L · Cobus Kok (Vice President, Product Management, Priceline), Rachel Maness (Sr. Program Manager, AI Enablement, Align Technology), Devendra Parmar (SVP, Head of Fraud Products, Citizens Bank), Anil Mathew Roy (Senior Product Manager, Agentic AI, Zillow Group Inc.), Pierce Healy (VP, AI Products, Pendo)
Generative AI Deployment At Scale
AI in Action: Breakthroughs from Real Business Cases, Leadership shift & Lessons learned
4:15 PM · Venetian Ballroom E · Garima Singh (Chief Technology Officer, Pandora)
AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
Presentation by Ganesh Sivakumar, Mead Nutrition
4:15 PM · Venetian Ballroom D · Ganesh Sivakumar (Chief Data, Insights Analytics and AI Executive, Mead Johnson Nutrition)
Evaluation Observability & Interpretability (technical)
TAMING STOCHASTICITY: Evaluations & Observability at Scale
4:15 PM · Bellini Ballroom 2102 · Ritesh Shah (Chief Architect - AI/ML/GenAI, Vanguard), Piyush Saxena (Director AIML, Advice, Wealth Management & AI CoE, Vanguard)
Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
Nurturing AI: Teaching Machines to Understand What They Can't Feel
4:15 PM · Palazzo Ballroom M · Megs Shah (CEO, Parasol Cooperative)
AI Research Summit (technical)
Presentation by Towfique Raj, Icahn School of Medicine
4:15 PM · Venetian Ballroom A · Towfique Raj (Professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)
Oversight: AI Explainability Governance & Model Risk
Govern the System, Not the Technology: Programmatic AI Oversight for Speed and Compliance
4:15 PM · Lando Ballroom 4203 · Brian Allen (Executive Director, Center for AI Oversight)
AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
Your AI Problem Isn't the AI
4:15 PM · Venetian Ballroom H · Nicky Pike (Field CTO, Coder)
Software Engineering
The First Era of AI Was About Intelligence. The Next Era Will Be About Trust
4:15 PM · Lando Ballroom 4204 · Andrew Duncan (Chief Executive Officer, QualityAI)
AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
Agents Are Not Tasks: The Economics of Learned Infrastructure
4:15 PM · Venetian Ballroom F · Radhika Ravirala (Senior Product Manager, Granica.ai), Tarang Vaish (Co-Founder & CTO, Granica.ai)
Financial Services Asset Management
From Autocomplete to Agents: The Evolution of AI in Fundamental Investing
4:15 PM · Delfino Ballroom 4103 · Garence Staraci (Managing Director, Wellington Management), John Divine (Assistant Managing Editor, Investing, U.S. News & World Report)
Infrastructure: AI Agents
Why and How You Should Build Enterprise Agents In-House
4:15 PM · Delfino Ballroom 4104 · Matt Henderson (CEO, Coral)
AI Startups & VCs
AI Disruption in IT Service Management, the Future of IT Ops in an AI Agent World
4:15 PM · Venetian Ballroom G · Scott McIsaac (CEO, Helios Core AI)
CX & Customer Service
The Deflection Trap: The Calls Everyone Else Automates Away Earned Princess Cruises $120M
4:15 PM · Marcello Ballroom 4403 · Camille Bailey (Associate Vice President, Consumer Sales, Princess Cruises), Gregg Hough (Sponsor POC, Harpin AI)
Social Impact Of AI
The Future of Hollywood: AI That Empowers Creators
4:15 PM · Palazzo Ballroom D · Corbin Bolies (AI Reporter, Variety), Scott Mann (Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Flawless)
Telecom & Connectivity Infrastructure
The Next Breach Won't Log In Like a Human: Securing AI Agents and Non-Human Identities
4:15 PM · Palazzo Ballroom E · Krishna Mohan Raju Yenugudati (Associate Director, Verizon)
Generative AI (technical)
Presentation by Marina Printz, New York Life
4:15 PM · Veronese Ballroom 2504 · Marina Printz (VP, AI and Data Science, New York Life)
AI Startups & VCs
Why Your AI Keeps Hallucinating: The Architecture Problem Nobody's Solving
4:25 PM · Venetian Ballroom G · Brian Frerichs (Chief AI Officer, ICDU.ai)
AI Research Summit (technical)
AGI and the NYT Crosswords
4:40 PM · Venetian Ballroom A · Shafik Quoraishee (Senior Games/ML Engineer, The New York Times)
Software Engineering
Autonomous Infrastructure: Building AI Agents for Global-Scale Capacity Efficiency
4:40 PM · Lando Ballroom 4204 · Tommy Tran (Software Engineer, Meta)
AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
The Agentic Supply Chain: Orchestrating Data, Decisions, and Dialogue
4:40 PM · Venetian Ballroom D · Russell Halper (Founder & Managing Director, Insight Kitchen LLC), Anthony Noguera (Director - AI for Business Applications, NVIDIA)
Infrastructure: AI Agents
RAG, from Theory to Implementation
4:40 PM · Delfino Ballroom 4104 · Alaa Moussawi (Chief Data Scientist, New York City Council)
AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
Rewriting the Infrastructure Playbook: Applying AI Across the Construction Lifecycle
4:40 PM · Venetian Ballroom H · Jason Abbruzzese (Assistant Managing Editor, NBC News), Dimitris Bountolos (CIIO, Chief Information and Innovation Officer, Ferrovial)
AI Startups & VCs
The History of Insurance and the Coming Age of Humanoid Robots
4:40 PM · Venetian Ballroom G · Darien Acosta (CEO and cofounder, Clanker Labs)
Software: Productivity & Collaboration
AI-Driven Productivity, Collaboration, and Product Development
4:40 PM · Titian Ballroom 2306 · Ali Dasdan (CTO, Dropbox)
Generative AI Deployment At Scale
Pipelines, Provenance, and Storage for GenAI Media at Scale
4:40 PM · Venetian Ballroom E · Jeronimo De Leon (Director, Applied AI, Backblaze)
Infrastructure: Data Platforms & Strategy
How Your Data Architecture Determines Token Economics and Agent Trust
4:40 PM · Titian Ballroom 2302 · Rahul Pahuja (Field CTO, CData Software)
Social Impact Of AI
The Attribution Revolution: Artists, AI, and the Future of Getting Paid
4:40 PM · Palazzo Ballroom D · Kristen Agee (Founder/CEO, 411 Music Group), Xena Plat (COO, 411 Music Group), Matt Adell (Co-Founder and COO, Musical AI)
Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
Infrastructure for User Trust
4:40 PM · Palazzo Ballroom M · Tomer Sabo (AI Staff Product Manager, Etsy), Beth Sebian (Engineering Manager, Etsy)
Marketing & Growth
AI Eats the Web That Feeds It
4:40 PM · Marcello Ballroom 4403 · Peter Sloterdyk (Chief Marketing Officer, Gist)
Meetups & Receptions
Exhibit Hall Reception
5:00 PM · Halls B&C
Breaks & Meals
Dinner Presented by Emergence AI
6:30 PM · Mott 32
Breaks & Meals
Dinner Presented by HPE
6:30 PM · Milos
Breaks & Meals
Dinner Presented by ZKCS
6:30 PM · Mott 32
Breaks & Meals
Dinner Presented by IBM
6:30 PM · Gjelina
Wednesday, August 5
Registration
Registration Open
7:00 AM · Venetian Expo Lobby
Breaks & Meals
Breakfast Available
7:00 AM · Hall D
Press Event
Speaker Ready Room/Lounge Open [Access Restricted]
7:00 AM · Veronese Ballroom 2501
Keynote
Keynote Sessions
8:20 AM · Hall A
Keynote
Building with Purpose: A Conversation with Russell Westbrook
8:26 AM · Hall A · Russell Westbrook (Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Russell Westbrook Enterprises)
Keynote
The Architects of Intelligence: A Historic Convergence
8:31 AM · Hall A · Geoffrey Hinton (Godfather of AI; 2024 Nobel Prize Winner; Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto), Fei-Fei Li (Godmother of AI; Co-Founder & CEO, World Labs), Andrew Ng (Founder; Former Head of Google Brain, DeepLearning.AI), Yun-Hee Kim (Deputy Editor, Washington Post Intelligence, The Washington Post)
Keynote
Agents, AI, and the Future of Trusted Payments
9:33 AM · Hall A · Ryan Donovan (Host, Stack Overflow), Srini Venkatesan (EVP and Chief Technology Officer, PayPal)
Keynote
Agents, Infrastructure, and the Future of AI-native Applications
9:52 AM · Hall A · Kevin Cochrane (CMO, Vultr)
Exhibit Hall
Exhibit Hall Open
10:15 AM · Halls B&C
Exhibit Hall
Experience Tesla at Ai4 2026
10:15 AM · Halls B&C
Risk & Compliance
Redefining Risk & Compliance in the Age of AI
10:30 AM · Bellini Ballroom 2102 · Rajan Koo (Chief Technology Officer, DTEX), Irene Levintov (Chief of Staff and Systemwide Director of Compliance, University of California, Office of the President), Alex Chan (Vice President and Actuary, Internal Audit, Prudential Financial), Sanchita Chanda (AWM RegTech Data & Analytics Program Head, JPMorganChase), Alex Bovee (CEO and Co-Founder, C1)
Government & Public Sector
AI for the Public Good: AI Use in the Public Sector
10:30 AM · Palazzo Ballroom B · Robert Fulk (Chief Innovation and Information Officer, State of Indiana), Jacob Bogage (White House Correspondent, Reuters), Roman Jankowski (Chief Privacy Officer and Chief Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Officer, US Department of Homeland Security), Christian Napier (Director of AI, Utah Division of Technology Services)
Manufacturing
Predictive Maintenance & Equipment Health — Keeping Manufacturing Running with AI
10:30 AM · Titian Ballroom 2304 · Kelleigh Shankel (VP, Chassis Engineering, Blue Bird Corporation), Prashant Kumar Bothra (Principal, Woven Capital), Amish Chadha (Global Technology Strategy Lead - Office of the CDTO, Kimberly-Clark), Shuvdeep Bhattacharya (IT-Director, Lear Corporation)
Product Management
AI Powered Product Management
10:30 AM · Palazzo Ballroom L · Rohan Suri (Chief Product Officer, Nooks), Natalie Barnes (VP of Product Management & Product Design, Zumba), Amir Emadzadeh (Software Engineering Manager ML, Meta), Chika Anajemba (Former Senior Vice President, IT Project Group Manager, Citi), Saurav Gupta (Senior Director, AI Transformation, Eli Lilly & Company)
Generative AI Deployment At Scale
Strategic Approaches to Scaling Generative AI Across the Enterprise
10:30 AM · Venetian Ballroom E · Quinn Favret (Co-Founder and COO, Tavus), David Wang (Head of Product, Tetrate.io), Peter McCaffrey (Chief Digital and AI Officer, The University of Texas Medical Branch), Kate Park (Editorial Contributor, TechCrunch), Brian Carlson (NorAm Chief Tech, Data, Digital & Innovation Officer, Sodexo)
Food & Agriculture
Farming Smarter: AI’s Role in Feeding the Future
10:30 AM · Palazzo Ballroom E · Evan Harrison (CEO, Kiss The Ground), Ryan Rapp (CEO, Terrana Biosciences), Hoda Helmi (Director of AI and Decision Science, Corteva Agriscience)
Product Design
Designing with Intelligence — How AI is Rewriting the Product Design Process
10:30 AM · Marcello Ballroom 4403 · Jordan Cooke (Global Head of UX, Service Design & Research, PepsiCo), Federico Casalegno (Executive Vice President of Design, Samsung Electronics), Jeff Erno (Technical Fellow, Dassault Systèmes), Grace Engels (Chief Strategy Officer, PWA Practice, Ameriprise Financial)
Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
The Orchestration Layer: Coordinating Models, Tools, and Workflows
10:30 AM · Palazzo Ballroom M · Rafi Khardalian (CEO, Actualyze AI), Nirmal Jingar (Sr. Engineering Manager, Wayfair), Vijay Narasimhan (Director, Technology Investments and Partnerships, M Ventures), Ajay Swamy (Senior Executive Director - GenAI and Governance | Founder of FundLens.AI, JPMorganChase | FundLens.ai), Allen Badeau (CAIO, DigitalNet.ai)
CAIO CIO & It Leaders
Overhauling Traditional IT Systems for the AI Era
10:30 AM · Palazzo Ballroom G · Billy Boozer (CTO, Dualboot Partners), Sani Ronen (Director of AI Networking, DriveNets), Lilian Ajayi Ore (AI Lead Faculty, Columbia University SPS Bestselling Author, The Power of Learning Mindset, Columbia University), Jesse Sanders (Director of IT Operational Excellence, Clayco), Josh Olson (Chief Information Officer, Michigan Technology University)
Infrastructure: AI Agents
Engineering the Infrastructure Stack for Enterprise-Scale Agents
10:30 AM · Delfino Ballroom 4104 · Lu Zhang (Founder & Managing Partner, Fusion Fund), David Casem (CEO & Cofounder, Telnyx), Ilya Kirnos (Co-Founder & CTO, SignalFire), Mark McNeill (Vice President of Global Sales, OneSource Cloud), Hok Hei Tam (CTO, Montai Therapeutics)
Cybersecurity
The Agentic Defense System: AI-Powered Detection and Response
10:30 AM · Marcello Ballroom 4404 · Jeff Moore (Chief Information Security Officer, H&M), Richard Stiennon (Chief Research Analyst, IT-HARVEST), Guman Chauhan (Technical Solutions & Security Lead, State of California), Sreenath Kurupati (CTO, Straiker), Ed Cartagena (Senior Director, Product Management, Menlo Security)
AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
Identifying High-ROI AI Agent Use Cases and Taking Action
10:30 AM · Venetian Ballroom D · Lin Yuan (Chief AI Officer and EVP of Engineering, Newfront Insurance), Bhaskar Borah (SVP, Head of Marketing Data Science & Technology, Dow Jones), Devin Stevens (Head of Solutions Engineering & Implementation, Scrunch), Jonathan Shieber (Journalist, Resilience Media), Muthu Sabarethinam (VP Data Science & Business Transformation, Medtronic)
Financial Services Banks
Smarter Banking: Real-World AI Driving Value
10:30 AM · Lando Ballroom 4204 · Mo Jamous (CIO, Former U.S. Bank), Young Pham (Chief Strategy Officer, CI&T), Nathan Bomey (Reporter, Axios), Olga Ceja (Executive Director, Artificial Intelligence and Innovation, Grupo Financiero Banorte)
AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
Redesigning Workflows and Driving Change Management for Agentic AI
10:30 AM · Venetian Ballroom H · Ralph Valdes (Chief Technology Officer, Zumba), Anish Sharan (AI and Digital Operating Partner, Formerly Pritzker Private Capital), Carlin Power (Global Head of AI and Enterprise Product Engagement, JLL), Max Ushchenko (Director of AI and Data, NIX), Mahe Bayireddi (CEO & Co Founder, Phenom)
Roundtable
"Who's Accountable When AI Decides and When It Fails?" Roundtable Moderated by Ron Whitworth, Truist [RSVP REQUIRED]
10:30 AM · 305 · Ron Whitworth (Chief Privacy Officer, Truist)
Vision Spatial & World Models (technical)
The State of Computer Vision: Tracking, Detection, and Understanding in 2026
10:30 AM · Delfino Ballroom 4103 · Vasu Sharma (Head of AI, PocketFM), Roy Lim (CEO, Robotemi Global Ltd.), Kunal Sonalkar (Data Scientist, Nordstrom), Brian Merchant (Tech Columnist, Author, Blood in the Machine), Aura Yavary (AI ML Engineer/Researcher in Multimodal AI & Autonomous Systems, UC Davis)
AI Agents (technical)
Deploying AI Agents for the Real World
10:30 AM · Veronese Ballroom 2504 · Waqas Makhdum (VP of Developer Relations & Community, Nebius), Serg Masis (Principal AI Scientist, Syngenta), Rahul Zende (Sr Principal Data Scientist, Navy Federal Credit Union), Ram Kumar Nimmakayala (Principal Product Manager, AI, Western Governors University), Simba Khadder (Director, Software Engineering, Redis Inc.)
AI Startups & VCs
How AI Startups and VCs are Building the Future of Industry
10:30 AM · Venetian Ballroom G · Grace Gong (VC & Podcaster, Smart Venture Media), Mike Montano (Partner, True Ventures), Shan Reddy (Co-Founder and CEO, Aristotle)
Oversight: AI ROI
ROI in Action: Case Studies of Profitable AI Deployments
10:30 AM · Palazzo Ballroom D · Nithin Ramachandran (Senior Vice President, AI and Data, Cargill), Songyee Yoon (Founder and Managing Partner, Principal Venture Partners), Steven Birgfeld (VP, Information Technology and Services, Blue Diamond Growers), Reza Forghani (Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO), AdventHealth), Jason Cumberland (CPO & Co-founder, Revenium)
Architecture Engineering & Construction (AEC)
From Blueprint to Build: AI in the Construction Lifecycle
10:30 AM · Titian Ballroom 2302 · Shane Snider (Senior Writer, DCK), Amit Sinha (Head of Artificial Intelligence, TRC Companies), Patrick Murphy (CIO, Coastal Construction), Jeff Miller (CIO, Clayco)
AI Research Summit (technical)
Beneficial AGI: The Path the Frontier Labs Are Missing
10:30 AM · Venetian Ballroom A · Ben Goertzel (Founder & CEO, Singularity NET and BGI Labs)
AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
Why Agentic AI Dies in Pilot: A GTM Leader's Framework for Real ROI
10:30 AM · Venetian Ballroom F · Jonathan Kvarfordt (VP, Marketing, 1mind)
Press Event
Geoffrey Hinton Press Conference
10:30 AM · 2401A
Oversight: AI Explainability Governance & Model Risk
Everyone's a Builder Now. Is Anyone Watching?
10:30 AM · Titian Ballroom 2306 · Rosie Halpin (Product at Tines, Tines)
Google Cloud Programming
A2UI: Build Dynamic Apps with Generative UI
10:30 AM · Bellini Ballroom 2104 · Khanh Nguyen (Developer Relations Engineer, Google Cloud), Terrence Ryan (Developer Relations Engineer, Google Cloud), Christina Zhu (Developer Advocate, Google Cloud)
Podcast Pavilion
Podcast Pavilion - Table Reserved
10:30 AM · Halls B&C
Infrastructure: Cloud Data Centers & Compute
The Cloud Playbook Was Written Before AI: Building Infrastructure That Delivers AI at Scale
10:30 AM · Lando Ballroom 4203 · Jayakumar Ramalingam (Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Architect, SiriusXM)
Roundtable
Beyond Mythos: The Future of Threat Defense
10:55 AM · 301 · Marty Weiss (Enterprise Security Advisor, Proofpoint)
Roundtable
Women in AI Roundtable Moderated by Tiffany Benitez [RSVP REQUIRED]
10:55 AM · 310 · Tiffany Benitez (Head of Data & AI Governance, Compass Group USA)
Roundtable
From Pilot to Production: Bulletproofing Your AI System
10:55 AM · 302 · Rehgan Bleile (Co-Founder & CEO, AlignAI)
Infrastructure: Cloud Data Centers & Compute
Cradle to Capital: Sustainable GPU Financing Through Lifecycle Management
10:55 AM · Lando Ballroom 4203 · Ben Cartwright (CEO, Cirkadis)
AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
Enterprise AI Transformation: Turning Strategy into Business Value
10:55 AM · Venetian Ballroom F · Ashit Talukder (Global Head of AI and Automation, S&P Global)
Oversight: AI Explainability Governance & Model Risk
From Principles to Proof: Measuring Trust in GenAI and Agentic AI
10:55 AM · Titian Ballroom 2306 · Shub Agarwal (Author, Professor of AI & Founder of AI Trust Lab, University of Southern California)
Google Cloud Programming
Agent Building on Google Cloud
10:55 AM · Bellini Ballroom 2104 · Terrence Ryan (Developer Relations Engineer, Google Cloud)
Match Meetings
Meeting Scheduled – Ai4 Match [Mandatory]
11:00 AM · 2nd Floor, Hall C
Match Meetings
Meeting Scheduled – Ai4 Match [Mandatory]
11:17 AM · 2nd Floor, Hall C
CAIO CIO & It Leaders
The AI Dependency Trap: Own Your Edge
11:20 AM · Palazzo Ballroom G · Catalina Herrera (Field CDO, Dataiku)
AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
Using Agentic AI to Drive Customer Acquisition & Retention
11:20 AM · Venetian Ballroom D · David Truty (VP, Corporate Reporting and Analytics, CreditAssociates)
Infrastructure: AI Agents
The Frontier AI Inference Cloud for Agents
11:20 AM · Delfino Ballroom 4104 · Brian Yoo (Chief Business Officer, FriendliAI)
AI Agents (technical)
AI Agents You Can Actually Trust: Platform Best Practices for Safe AI
11:20 AM · Veronese Ballroom 2504 · Sawyer Bowerman (AI Developer Advocate, Red Hat)
Financial Services Banks
Scaling AI on Main Street: From Demos to Bottom Line
11:20 AM · Lando Ballroom 4204 · Shadman Zafar (CEO, Vibrant Capital)
AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
Scaling AI with Context, Control and Confidence
11:20 AM · Venetian Ballroom H · Kevin McGrath (CEO, Meibel)
Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
The Next Era of Enterprise AI: The Shift Underway
11:20 AM · Palazzo Ballroom M · Manos Koukoumidis (CEO and Co-Founder, Oumi)
AI Research Summit (technical)
How Not to Blow Up: Training a 400B MoE to 17T Tokens Without Loss Spikes - Presentation by Lucas Atkins, Arcee
11:20 AM · Venetian Ballroom A · Lucas Atkins (CTO, Arcee)
Generative AI Deployment At Scale
Sovereign and Efficient AI: The Case for Optimized AI Models in the Age of the Inference Crunch
11:20 AM · Venetian Ballroom E · Chris Zaharias (VP U.S. Operations, Multiverse Computing)
Oversight: AI ROI
Modernizing the SDLC with Agentic AI
11:20 AM · Palazzo Ballroom D · Liam Allan (Software Architect, Speaker & Advocate, IBM), Venkat Venkatesan (EY)
Roundtable
Building the Agent Control Plane: Scaling AI Without Scaling Risk
11:20 AM · 303 · Blake Brannon (Co-Founder, Chief Innovation Officer, OneTrust)
Vision Spatial & World Models (technical)
Presentation by Spexi Geospatial
11:20 AM · Delfino Ballroom 4103 · Bill Lakeland (CEO, Spexi)
AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
The Million-Dollar Pilot Trap: Why 89% of AI Agents Never Scale
11:20 AM · Venetian Ballroom F · Kevin Lee (Field CTO & Key Pursuits Leader, NiCE)
AI Startups & VCs
Presentation by Ignite AI
11:20 AM · Venetian Ballroom G · Hershey Khan (Founder & CEO, Ignite AI LLC)
Cybersecurity
Why LLM will not scale for CyberSecurity?
11:20 AM · Marcello Ballroom 4404 · Guy Flechter (Co-Founder and CEO, Sola Security)
Infrastructure: Cloud Data Centers & Compute
Fireside Chat with Jahanvi Sardana, Index
11:20 AM · Lando Ballroom 4203 · Jahanvi Sardana (Partner, Index), Ben Bergman (Senior Correspondent, Business Insider)
Roundtable
The Missing Context Layer in Enterprise AI
11:20 AM · 304 · Andrei Manolache (Chief Executive Officer, DesignVerse)
Manufacturing
The Automation Advantage: Creating the Foundation for AI-Driven Manufacturing
11:20 AM · Titian Ballroom 2304 · Chris Stevens (President, US Automation, Siemens Digital Industries)
Risk & Compliance
Policy as Product: Building Compliance at AI Speed
11:20 AM · Bellini Ballroom 2102 · Alexandria de Aranzeta (Data and AI Governance Policy Lead, Boeing)
Oversight: AI Explainability Governance & Model Risk
Move Fast and Don’t Break Things
11:20 AM · Titian Ballroom 2306 · Art Gilliland (CEO, Delinea)
Product Management
Presentation by Shamindra Peiris, Visa
11:20 AM · Palazzo Ballroom L · Shamindra Peiris (Senior AI Product Manager, Visa Inc.)
Product Design
Presentation by Joey Primiani, AI Designer & Author
11:20 AM · Marcello Ballroom 4403 · Joey Primiani (Author, Think. Prompt. Create.)
Architecture Engineering & Construction (AEC)
Can AI Finally Break Construction’s Safety Plateau?
11:20 AM · Titian Ballroom 2302 · Mostafa Namian (Associate Professor, East Carolina University)
Google Cloud Programming
The Enterprise AI Imperative – Scaling Agents for Transformational Value
11:20 AM · Bellini Ballroom 2104 · Ben Yevin (AI Solutions Specialist, Google Cloud)
Government & Public Sector
When AI "Judges"
11:20 AM · Palazzo Ballroom B · Ulfan Aliyev (Chief Commercial Officer, National Artificial Intelligence Center of Republic of Azerbaijan)
Food & Agriculture
AI Leadership: The New Journey
11:20 AM · Palazzo Ballroom E · Ilai Soloducho (CAIO, Strauss Group)
AI Startups & VCs
How to Build & Ship Self-Healing Integrations Without the iPaaS Overhead
11:30 AM · Venetian Ballroom G · Jugal Anchalia (CEO & Co-Founder, Refold)
Match Meetings
Meeting Scheduled – Ai4 Match [Mandatory]
11:34 AM · 2nd Floor, Hall C
Generative AI: Applications & Use Cases
Presentation by Saima Shafiq, U.S. Bank
11:45 AM · Venetian Ballroom E · Saima Shafiq (SVP, Head of Enterprise AI Enablement, US Bank)
AI Agents (technical)
Presentation by Kushal Pasari, United Airlines
11:45 AM · Veronese Ballroom 2504 · Kushal Pasari (Director - AI Engineering, United Airlines)
AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
Rewiring a Global Enterprise for the AI Economy
11:45 AM · Venetian Ballroom F · Elise Neel (SVP, Global Strategy & Strategic Partnerships, Panasonic)
Energy
AI for Energy Resilience: Balancing Reliability and Decarbonization
11:45 AM · Titian Ballroom 2304 · Paul Browning (Executive Chairman, Argon Power Group), Claudia Cosoreanu (Chief Technology Officer, GE Vernova Grid Automation), Jonathan Herman (CEO and Chief AI Strategist, Strong Interactive)
AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
Edge-First AI: Mission Critical Intelligence Without Mega Scale Compute
11:45 AM · Venetian Ballroom H · Ajay Chakravarthy (Chief AI Officer, Thales UK)
Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
Conversation with Anuj Mehndiratta, Thrive Capital & Jim Siders, Shield
11:45 AM · Palazzo Ballroom M · Anuj Mehndiratta (Partner, Thrive Capital), Jim Siders (CEO, Shield Technology Partners), Yun-Hee Kim (Deputy Editor, Washington Post Intelligence, The Washington Post)
AI Research Summit (technical)
Securing World Models & Digital Twins: The Next Critical Attack Surface for Operations
11:45 AM · Venetian Ballroom A · Samuel Addington (Professor & AI Researcher, California State University Long Beach)
Food & Agriculture
Be the Frontier Firm - Talking Machines
11:45 AM · Palazzo Ballroom E · Viren Shah (Strategic Advisor and Ex-CDIO(AGCO), Cacti Industries)
Vision Spatial & World Models (technical)
Beyond the Screen: Engineering AI Models for the Real World
11:45 AM · Delfino Ballroom 4103 · Brian McClendon (CTO, Niantic Spatial), Thomas Germain (Senior Technology Journalist, The BBC)
AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
Why Your Agent Died in the Pilot: Pinaki Saha - Anshar Labs/Anshar Ai
11:45 AM · Venetian Ballroom D · Pinaki Saha (Founder & CEO, Anshar Labs)
Product Management
Defining Success Metrics across Generative and Agentic Experiences
11:45 AM · Palazzo Ballroom L · Yash Chaturvedi (Head of Product, Amazon)
Product Design
Beyond the Chatbot: Designing the Age of Physical AI
11:45 AM · Marcello Ballroom 4403 · Robert Brunner (Founder and Creative Director, Ammunition)
Cybersecurity
Why CyberSecurity Needs a Human-Centric Approach
11:45 AM · Marcello Ballroom 4404 · Lynn Dohm (Executive Director, Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS)), Will Markow (Founder and CEO, FourOne Insights)
Financial Services Banks
The Agentic Bank: Moving Towards Autonomous AI in Banking
11:45 AM · Lando Ballroom 4204 · Ash Kaduskar (Head of Artificial Intelligence, First Citizens Bank), Darrell Etherington (Editor, The Angle), Alexander Guerra Perales (Chief Strategy Officer, Banco Azteca / Elektra), Robert Thacker (Head of Americas Solution Architects, ARIS)
Roundtable (technical)
Cognition in Code: Building AI from Biological Models [RSVP REQUIRED]
11:45 AM · 305 · Naga Harivadana Kalapatapu (AI Researcher, DePaul University)
AI Startups & VCs
The Control Tower for AI at Work: Seeing the Work Nobody Can Currently See
11:45 AM · Venetian Ballroom G · Naman Ambavi (CEO, Oximy)
Infrastructure: AI Agents
Context as Infrastructure: How SIXT Wired Its Enterprise for AI Productivity at Scale
11:45 AM · Delfino Ballroom 4104 · Boyan Dimitrov (CTO, SIXT SE)
Sales & Revenue Operations
Meet Walter: The Sales Rep Who Never Sleeps, Never Sulks — and Listens to 10,000 Calls a Month
11:45 AM · Bellini Ballroom 2102 · Jens Paul Berndt (Group Head of Tech, Data & AI, Ringier AG)
Government & Public Sector
AI and the United States Midterm Elections
11:45 AM · Palazzo Ballroom B · Justin Hendrix (CEO and Editor, Tech Policy Press)
Oversight: AI Explainability Governance & Model Risk
When Rules Break Down: Designing AI for the Real World
11:45 AM · Titian Ballroom 2306 · Robbie Goldfarb (Co-Founder & CTO, Forum AI)
Infrastructure: Cloud Data Centers & Compute
AMD Instinct Coder: Local-First Inference for Agentic Coding
11:45 AM · Lando Ballroom 4203 · Kumaran Siva (Corporate Vice President, Enterprise AI, AMD)
Social Impact Of AI
AI and the Automated Abundance Economy
11:45 AM · Titian Ballroom 2302 · Zoltan Istvan (Transhumanist, futurist, UBI advocate, Zoltan Istvan)
Oversight: AI ROI
New Chapter of Productivity by Deployments of Embodied AI
11:45 AM · Palazzo Ballroom D · Ryan Wang (GP, Solaris Venture Partners & Outpost Capital), Patrick Gao (Northern American VP, AGIBOT)
Google Cloud Programming
Build Intelligent Agents with Telemetry and Sessions
11:45 AM · Bellini Ballroom 2104 · Jason Davenport (Area Technical Lead, Google)
Match Meetings
Meeting Scheduled – Ai4 Match [Mandatory]
11:51 AM · 2nd Floor, Hall C
AI Startups & VCs
Beyond the Black Box: Interpretability as AI Security's Missing Layer
11:55 AM · Venetian Ballroom G · Tim Schulz (CEO, Starseer)
Match Meetings
Meeting Scheduled – Ai4 Match [Mandatory]
12:08 PM · 2nd Floor, Hall C
AI Agents (technical)
The Loop, Not the Launch: Building Agents That Get Better With You
12:10 PM · Veronese Ballroom 2504 · Amanda Milberg (Enterprise Solution Engineer, ElevenLabs)
AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
Palm Reading and Other Skills: Agent Architectures in 2027
12:10 PM · Venetian Ballroom D · Alan Nichol (CTO & Co-founder, Rasa)
AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
The End to Token Anxiety: Aible, NVIDIA & Dell
12:10 PM · Venetian Ballroom F · Arijit Sengupta (Founder and CEO, Aible), Sama Bali (Sr Manager, AI Solutions Product Marketing, NVIDIA), Logan Lawler (Dell Pro Precision AI Strategy, Dell Technologies)
CAIO CIO & It Leaders
AI Sprawl Is Exploding: Get Ahead of Governance and Orchestration Challenges Before It's Too Late
12:10 PM · Palazzo Ballroom G · Kevin Kiley (CEO, Airia)
AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
Presentation By Bright Data
12:10 PM · Venetian Ballroom H · Ariel Shulman (Chief Product Officer, Bright Data)
Infrastructure: AI Agents
Is Orchestration the Future?
12:10 PM · Delfino Ballroom 4104 · Arick Goomanovsky (CEO, BAND)
Vision Spatial & World Models (technical)
How a Conference Room Broke Our Computer Vision Assumptions
12:10 PM · Delfino Ballroom 4103 · Vojta Ciml (Founder & CEO, SlidesLive)
AI Research Summit (technical)
Presentation by Che Guan, Alliance Bernstein
12:10 PM · Venetian Ballroom A · Che Guan (Principal Data Scientist, AllianceBernstein)
Generative AI: Applications & Use Cases
Building an AI-Based Hospital: From Vision to Clinical Reality
12:10 PM · Venetian Ballroom E · Ayelet Akselrod-Ballin (Head and CTO of AI Center, ARC Innovation, Sheba Tel Hashomer City of Health)
Product Management
Presentation To Be Announced - Product Management
12:10 PM · Palazzo Ballroom L
Oversight: AI ROI
Compounding ROI with AI: From SaaS Disruption to the Fully Agentic Enterprise
12:10 PM · Palazzo Ballroom D · Srikanth Chitipotu (VP Engineering, Sage IT)
AI Startups & VCs
Stop Hiring: Build an AI Workforce Instead
12:10 PM · Venetian Ballroom G · Joel Yi (Founder & CEO, Deploy AI Bots)
Cybersecurity
Is Your Enterprise Ready for AI? Developing a Safe Adoption Strategy for AI
12:10 PM · Marcello Ballroom 4404 · Shawn Surber (Director, Solutions Engineering, Island)
Infrastructure: Cloud Data Centers & Compute
The Evolution of a Data Platform Product Manager in the Age of AI
12:10 PM · Lando Ballroom 4203 · Neetu Uthaman (Sr. Technical Product Manager, T-Mobile Inc)
CFO & Finance
You Can't Automate What You Can't See
12:10 PM · Palazzo Ballroom E · Thomas DeFabrizio (CFO, Impellam Group)
Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
AI-Native Engineering at Scale: Infrastructure, Workflows, and the AI Hub Pattern
12:10 PM · Palazzo Ballroom M · Andy Vays (Technical Principal, Equal Experts)
Social Impact Of AI
LOV Where You Work AI Tool
12:10 PM · Titian Ballroom 2302 · James Gaskin (Professor of Information Systems, Brigham Young University), Julie Roginsky (Co-Founder, Lift Our Voices), Ron Schmelzer (AI Columnist / Host, Forbes / Scalebrate), Gretchen Carlson (Co-Founder, Lift Our Voices)
Government & Public Sector
Fender Benders, Near Misses, Flat Tires and Checkered Flags – When Everyone Drives AI on the Road to Better Government.
12:10 PM · Palazzo Ballroom B · Chuck Wemple (CEO, Houston-Galveston Area Council)
Oversight: AI Explainability Governance & Model Risk
MarcoPolo: The Data Gateway for Governing How AI Agents Access Enterprise Data
12:10 PM · Titian Ballroom 2306 · Aseem Chandra (Co-Founder, MarcoPolo.dev)
Google Cloud Programming
From Prototype to Production: Production Ready Agents on Google Cloud
12:10 PM · Bellini Ballroom 2104 · Terrence Ryan (Developer Relations Engineer, Google Cloud)
The Ai4 Lens
Presentation To Be Announced - The Ai4 Lens
12:10 PM · Bellini Ballroom 2102
AI Startups & VCs
Autonomous Commerce Has Arrived
12:20 PM · Venetian Ballroom G · Ben Seidl (CEO, Autolane)
Breaks & Meals
Lunch
12:30 PM · Halls B&C
Breaks & Meals
VIP Benefits – Wednesday Lunch – Speakers & VIPs
12:30 PM · Hall D
Breaks & Meals
Lunch Presented by ARIS
12:30 PM · 4804
Breaks & Meals
Lunch Presented by Nebius
12:30 PM · 4803
Breaks & Meals
Lunch Presented by You.com
12:30 PM · 4704
Press Event
Focus Group – Paid Attendees: End-Users
1:15 PM · 406
CFO & Finance
From Automation to Advantage: AI’s Impact on the Office of the CFO
2:00 PM · Palazzo Ballroom E · Joe Dormani (Partner, Thomson Reuters Ventures), Mayank Sharma (CFO, EnergyX), Jing Nealis (CFO, SES AI), Yoav Naveh (CEO, Reindeer), Jonas Melton (Principal, RSM US LLP)
Sales & Revenue Operations
Closing Smarter: AI’s Role in Modern Sales Operations
2:00 PM · Bellini Ballroom 2102 · Eric Seiberling (VP of Sales and Marketing, MXD Process), Olcay Bulgun Gardner (SVP, Revenue Operations, Sodexo), Chris Yeh (Founding Partner, Blitzscaling Ventures), Charlie Wiebe (Nooks)
AI Agents (technical)
COCO: An Agentic AI Assistant for Marketing Analytics
2:00 PM · Veronese Ballroom 2504 · Shanshan Bi (Director of Commercial AI Acceleration - AIML, Pfizer)
Data Analytics & BI
Capital, Code, or Contracts: A Data and AI Executive's Build vs Buy Playbook
2:00 PM · Palazzo Ballroom L · Rachel Ibarra (VP of Data & Innovation, Cardinal Group Management)
Roundtable
Human-Tech Adaptation: Operationalizing Responsible AI Across the Enterprise [RSVP REQUIRED]
2:00 PM · 305 · Hemachandran Kannan (Director - AI Research Centre, Woxsen University)
AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
AI Agents Beyond the Hype: Lessons from Enterprise Deployments
2:00 PM · Venetian Ballroom D · Koosha Golmohammadi (Global Head of Applied AI/ML - Corporate Tech (Compliance and Risk), JP Morgan & Chase)
AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
From Autonomy to Accountability: Designing Governance for the Agentic Era
2:00 PM · Venetian Ballroom F · JoAnn Stonier (President, Cantellus Group)
Generative AI: Applications & Use Cases
The Future of Hollywood--Why AI and Major Movie Studio Filmmaking are on a Collision Course
2:00 PM · Venetian Ballroom E · Pouya Shahbazian (CEO & Founder, Staircase Studios AI), Maxwell Millington (Reporter/Host/Creator, Freelance)
AI Startups & VCs
OneNine | Building the AI Data Infrastructure for Low Resource Languages
2:00 PM · Venetian Ballroom G · Robert Bob Okello (Co-Founder, OneNine)
Infrastructure: Data Platforms & Strategy
The Architecture Behind Business Transformation: How WEX Built an AI-Native Data Platform
2:00 PM · Titian Ballroom 2302 · Mohamed Battisha (VP of Engineering, Wex Inc)
Healthcare Care Providers
Fireside Chat with John Whyte, American Medical Association
2:00 PM · Marcello Ballroom 4404 · John Whyte (EVP & Chief Executive Officer, American Medical Association), Alice Park (Senior Health Correspondent, TIME)
AI Research Summit (technical)
How to Build a Virtual Human for Drug Discovery
2:00 PM · Venetian Ballroom A · Gregory Koytiger (Vice President, Head of Artificial Intelligence, Synthesize Bio)
Product Design
User-Centered Design Powers Better AI
2:00 PM · Marcello Ballroom 4403 · Amber Rowland (Associate Research Professor, University of Kansas)
Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
Living Platform: How AI is Transforming the Information Technology Model
2:00 PM · Palazzo Ballroom M · Christine Palmer (Chief Technology Officer, Citizen Security & Public Services, Peraton)
Infrastructure: Cloud Data Centers & Compute
AI Cloud Economics: Controlling Infrastructure Costs and Maximizing ROI
2:00 PM · Lando Ballroom 4203 · Ankur Saxena (Investment Director, TDK Ventures), Raghavendra Bagalkoti (Vice President - Capital Markets Data Platform, Barclays), Abhinav Mahajan (Technical Delivery Leader - AI, Clayton Homes), Erik Peterson (Founder & CTO, CloudZero)
Infrastructure: AI Agents
Human + AI: How Indeed is Transforming a Global Workforce
2:00 PM · Delfino Ballroom 4104 · Anthony Moisant (CIO, CISO, Indeed), Kristin Stoller (Editorial Director, Fortune)
CAIO CIO & It Leaders
Architecting the Agentic Enterprise: How Non-Tech Organizations Can Prepare for AI at Scale
2:00 PM · Palazzo Ballroom G · Tom Flanagan (Chief Digital Information Officer, RE/MAX)
Energy
Power Is the New Moat
2:00 PM · Titian Ballroom 2304 · Tim Latimer (Co-Founder & CEO, Fervo Energy)
CX & Customer Service
Beyond Human - Elevating the Caller Experience with AI
2:00 PM · Delfino Ballroom 4103 · Jason Rice (Sr Director - Customer Experience (CX) Technology, The Home Depot)
Enterprise Architecture
The AI Rush Is Making Contract Intelligence Cost More - Not Less: Why AI Fails Without Governed Contract Data
2:00 PM · Palazzo Ballroom B · Naresh Kommula (Lead IT Architect, McKesson)
Financial Services Banks
From AI Investment to Margin Impact: How Banks Are Turning Intelligence Into Value
2:00 PM · Lando Ballroom 4204 · Sebastian Pellejero (U.S. Columnist, Reuters Breakingviews), Kristin Milchanowski (Chief AI and Quantum Officer, BMO)
AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
The Token Maxing Myth: Optimize Agents for Max Value
2:00 PM · Venetian Ballroom H · Khalid Turk (Chief Healthcare Information Officer, Santa Clara Valley Healthcare)
Agentic Live Demos
Trusted AI Starts with AI-Ready Data
2:00 PM · Hall B
AI Policy Summit
America First, AI Ready: The Vision for U.S. AI Leadership
2:00 PM · Titian Ballroom 2306
Google Cloud Programming
Vibe-Code an App on Multimodal Analytics [HANDS ON; LAPTOP REQUIRED]
2:00 PM · Bellini Ballroom 2104 · Lucia Subatin (Developer Advocate, Google Cloud)
Agentic Live Demos
Agentic Live Demos
2:00 PM · Hall B
Oversight: AI ROI
Beyond AI Hype: How Global Enterprises Build Sustainable AI Capabilities that Deliver Measurable Business Value
2:00 PM · Palazzo Ballroom D · Kader Sakkaria (Global Head of Data Strategy, Marsh)
AI Startups & VCs
When Your AI Talks to Your Customers: Making Agent Answers Trustworthy Enough to Ship
2:10 PM · Venetian Ballroom G · Luke Pendergrass (Product Lead, Xorq Labs, Inc.)
Agentic Live Demos
IX Agentic AI Accelerator: Building Enterprise Agentic AI the Right Way
2:20 PM · Hall B
Retail CPG & Ecommerce
Reinventing Legacy Brands - Breaking the Rules Without Breaking the Brand
2:25 PM · Marcello Ballroom 4403 · Samantha Lomow (Former EVP, Chief Commercial Officer, Tupperware)
AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
Enterprise Transformation Takes More Than Tools: A Practical Path From AI Spend to AI Capability
2:25 PM · Venetian Ballroom F · Chris Weidemann (CAIO & Co-Founder, Advisor Labs)
AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
Finance Doesn't Need More Automation. It Needs Autonomous Execution.
2:25 PM · Venetian Ballroom D · Deepak Anchala (Co-founder & CEO, Adopt AI)
AI Agents (technical)
I Couldn't Buy It So I Built It: Citizen Developers Building AI Applications - Nina Eisenberg and Robert Greisemer
2:25 PM · Veronese Ballroom 2504 · Robert Greisemer (Sr. SRE, Core AI Infrastructure, Coinbase), Nina Eisenberg (AGC, Workplace Ethics & Investigations, Coinbase)
AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
Moving from Agent Sprawl to Governed Scale
2:25 PM · Venetian Ballroom H · Sunil Murthy (watsonx Technical Lead - IBM Gen AI Field CTO, IBM)
Roundtable
Agents in Production: What Actually Works When You Deploy AI in a Regulated Industry
2:25 PM · 302
Roundtable
"The Yardstick Is Broken: What We Get Wrong When We Measure Models in Other Languages" Roundtable Moderated by LILT
2:25 PM · 301 · Spence Green (CEO, LILT)
CAIO CIO & It Leaders
Taming Token Town: Staying Flexible as Models Get Pricier
2:25 PM · Palazzo Ballroom G · Sarah Sachs (AI Lead, Notion)
CX & Customer Service
How Agentic Voice AI is Reshaping CX Outcomes
2:25 PM · Delfino Ballroom 4103 · Amir Hameed (Senior Vice President - Global Technical Solutions, RingCentral), Frank Pettinato (CEO, Avantive Solutions)
Coding Assistants & Vibe Coding (technical)
Cheap to Write, Expensive to Trust: Architecting Production Systems with LLMs
2:25 PM · Venetian Ballroom A · Kshitij Gupta (Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Meta)
AI Startups & VCs
Computer Vision Is a Lifecycle Problem, Not a Model Problem
2:25 PM · Venetian Ballroom G · Chandler Provence (CEO/Founder, IRIS)
Infrastructure: Data Platforms & Strategy
Your Data Is Already Ready for AI: Exploring the Missing Knowledge Layer Between Raw Information & Trustworthy Agents
2:25 PM · Titian Ballroom 2302 · Rohan Kodialam (Co-founder & CEO, Sphinx AI)
Infrastructure: AI Agents
Kiteworks: Controlling Data Access and Use by AI Agents for Compliant AI
2:25 PM · Delfino Ballroom 4104 · Craig Pfister (Vice President, Solutions Architecture, Kiteworks)
Generative AI: Applications & Use Cases
Agentic Planning in Supply Chains: Hype or the Next Operating Reality?
2:25 PM · Venetian Ballroom E · Aanish Singla (Partner & Director - AI and Data Science, Nagarro)
AI Policy Summit
Federal vs. State: AGs, Governors & Congress on Who Should Govern AI
2:25 PM · Titian Ballroom 2306 · Dan Donovan (Congressman, RegulatingAI)
Data Analytics & BI
Confident machines: Why AI's trust problem starts before the model ever runs
2:25 PM · Palazzo Ballroom L · Sue Weng-Cross (Strategic AI Partnerships, Wiley)
Roundtable (technical)
Building AI-Ready Platforms: Architectures That Outlive Technology [RSVP REQUIRED]
2:25 PM · 310 · Sharon Gorla (Lead Engineer, Starbucks)
Healthcare Care Providers
Realtime Operational Instrumentation in Healthcare: AI Analytics in Action
2:25 PM · Marcello Ballroom 4404 · Akbar Esfahani (Enterprise AI & Systems Architect, Central California Alliance for Health)
Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
Presentation by LlamaIndex
2:25 PM · Palazzo Ballroom M
Oversight: AI ROI
Building Momentum: Unlocking Compounding AI Returns with Agile Development
2:25 PM · Palazzo Ballroom D · Shawn McKay (Director of AI, Honeywell)
Energy
From Data Overload to Grid Intelligence: How AI-Powered Visualization Is Transforming Utility Operations
2:25 PM · Titian Ballroom 2304 · Edward Tavares (CIO and CISO, Hawaiian Electric Company)
Podcast Pavilion
Podcast Pavilion - Table Reserved
2:30 PM · Halls B&C
AI Startups & VCs
Presentation by eSEOspace
2:35 PM · Venetian Ballroom G
Agentic Live Demos
How H Company Agents Do Real Enterprise Work, Live
2:40 PM · Hall B
Generative AI: Applications & Use Cases
Dataflix Jo — An Enterprise AI Platform to Design, Build, and Run AI Systems at Scale
2:50 PM · Venetian Ballroom E · Srinivas Jayanthi (Chief Technology Officer, Dataflix)
AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
Humans + Agents: Use Cases of Collaborative Workflows That Deliver
2:50 PM · Venetian Ballroom D · Bryan Smith (CEO, Expedient), Anish Sharan (AI and Digital Operating Partner, Formerly Pritzker Private Capital), Mark Green (VP for Institutional Effectiveness, Technology and Innovation, Holy Family University), Narayanan Nair (SVP & Chief Data Officer, Farm Credit Services of America), Gregory Hodgkinson (CTO, R&D and Innovation, Prolifics)
Infrastructure: Data Platforms & Strategy
Building the Right Data Platform and Tech Stack for AI Success
2:50 PM · Titian Ballroom 2302 · Rohit Garewal (CEO, Object Edge Inc.), Kartik Pillai (Director - Data Strategy, Master Data Management, AI & Data Governance, Yum! Brands), Yi Guo (Professor & Associate Chair for Data Science, University of Florida), Amy Peterson (Senior Director of Product Management, Fivetran), Shyam Veerasankar (Director, AI Strategy & Execution, Pacers Sports & Entertainment)
CX & Customer Service
The New Shape of Software
2:50 PM · Delfino Ballroom 4103 · Thom Rimmer (VP, Product Design, Fin)
AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
Fireside Chat with Prashant Samant, Akido
2:50 PM · Venetian Ballroom F · Mark Borden (Founder, Egospeed), Prashant Samant (CEO, Akido Labs)
Data Analytics & BI
Your AI Is Only as Smart as Your Team
2:50 PM · Palazzo Ballroom L · Suku Krishnaraj (COO and President, PromptQL)
Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
Cracking the Code of Life with AI: Using Frontier AI to Develop Therapies Addressing Diseases and Aging at the Same Time
2:50 PM · Palazzo Ballroom M · Alex Zhavoronkov (Founder and CEO, Insilico Medicine)
Sales & Revenue Operations
Empowering the Sales Teams of Tomorrow with Org Approved AI Agents
2:50 PM · Bellini Ballroom 2102 · Steve Ancheta (Founder and CEO, Zig AI)
Infrastructure: Cloud Data Centers & Compute
Will AI Destroy or Save the Power Grid? The Race to Design the Grid of the Future
2:50 PM · Lando Ballroom 4203 · Josh Wepman (VP & CTO Energy and Infrastructure, Leidos)
Infrastructure: AI Agents
The Ungoverned Agent: Deploying Autonomous AI Without Losing Control
2:50 PM · Delfino Ballroom 4104 · Matt Cashatt (CEO, Polyrific)
Oversight: AI ROI
SAP: Advancing the Autonomous Enterprise: Less Chat. More Act. Guided by Fact.
2:50 PM · Palazzo Ballroom D · Bob Sakalas (Innovation Strategist, SAP)
CFO & Finance
Finance Reimagined: How AI is Automating Every Finance Function
2:50 PM · Palazzo Ballroom E · Mary Sibley (RVP, SAP Cloud ERP Customer Advisory, SAP)
AI Startups & VCs
FInOps for AI & AI for FinOps
2:50 PM · Venetian Ballroom G · Ronak Bhavsar (Co-Founder/ COO, Finomics)
Coding Assistants & Vibe Coding (technical)
AI Agents In Production Infrastructure: What The Industry Learned The Hard Way
2:50 PM · Venetian Ballroom A · Rahul Tanniru (Senior Vice President of Software Engineering, JP Morgan Chase)
Roundtable
AI Doesn’t Become Strategic Just Because You Bought GPU's
2:50 PM · 303 · Andrew Taylor (WW Director Nvidia Alliance, HPE)
CAIO CIO & It Leaders
Why Enterprise AI Stalls: Data, Contracts, and the Path to Production
2:50 PM · Palazzo Ballroom G · Kanishk Mittal (Principal Technology Architect, InterSystems), Adam Nahari (Operating Partner, Head of Data, Digital, & AI, Apollo Global Management Inc.)
Roundtable
The AI Production Wall: Scaling Inference Without Breaking Latency, Cost, or ROI
2:50 PM · 304 · Joseph Glover (Director, Field CTO, Akamai)
Financial Services Banks
AI Communications and Interactions Governance: Manage AI Risks In the Enterprise
2:50 PM · Lando Ballroom 4204 · Devin Redmond (Co-founder & CEO, Theta Lake)
AI Policy Summit
AI on the Ballot
2:50 PM · Titian Ballroom 2306 · Kevin Frazier (Professor, The University of Texas School of Law)
AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
Fireside Chat with Alex Mashrabov, Higgsfield
2:50 PM · Venetian Ballroom H · Alex Mashrabov (CEO, Higgsfield.ai), Ray Wu (Managing Partner, Alumni Ventures)
Google Cloud Programming
Scaling Agents through Agent Engineering [HANDS ON; LAPTOP REQUIRED]
2:50 PM · Bellini Ballroom 2104 · Abhishek Bhagwat (Software Engineer, Google Cloud), Ivan Nardini (Developer Relations Engineer, Google Cloud)
AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
Fireside Chat with Russell Westbrook
2:50 PM · Venetian Ballroom F · Jason Abbruzzese (Assistant Managing Editor, NBC News), Russell Westbrook (Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Russell Westbrook Enterprises)
Retail CPG & Ecommerce
Presentation To Be Announced - Retail, CPG, & eCommerce
2:50 PM · Marcello Ballroom 4403
Enterprise Architecture
Presentation To Be Announced - Enterprise Architecture
2:50 PM · Palazzo Ballroom B
Transportation & Logistics
Presentation To Be Announced - Transportation & Logistics
2:50 PM · Titian Ballroom 2304
AI Startups & VCs
Beyond the Model: Building the Conditions for Enterprise Intelligence
3:00 PM · Venetian Ballroom G · John De Oliveira (AI Architect, Hapax)
Agentic Live Demos
Grounding AI Agents in Real-Time Web Data — Live
3:00 PM · Hall B
Oversight: AI ROI
Measuring What Matters: KPIs and Metrics for AI’s Financial Impact
3:15 PM · Palazzo Ballroom D · Jill Hosmer-Jolley (Faculty, California State University Monterey Bay), Tali Rosenblum (Vice President, Executive Officer | Enterprise AI-Led Analytics & Intelligence Solutions, New York Life Insurance Company), Dhananjay Bhadlikar (AI & Modernization Architecture Leader, American Airlines), Nate Campbell (VP, Customer Success Americas, WalkMe)
AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
Platforms and Tools for AI Agents: Navigating the Ecosystem
3:15 PM · Venetian Ballroom F · Jeremiah Owyang (VC, Blitzscaling Ventures), Ericson Brickers (Executive Director, The Brickers Foundation), Sama Bali (Sr Manager, AI Solutions Product Marketing, NVIDIA), Logan Lawler (Dell Pro Precision AI Strategy, Dell Technologies)
Enterprise Architecture
Enterprise Architecture for AI-First Enterprises
3:15 PM · Palazzo Ballroom B · Jason Kehl (Senior Vice President, Engineering, Redwood Software), Christopher Lundy (Principal Enterprise Architect, Oura), Priyanka Kapoor (CDO, CoAction Specialty), Michael Maher (Director of Strategy & Business Analytics, Pave Powered by Quickbase)
Data Analytics & BI
Beyond Dashboards: How AI Is Transforming Data Storytelling and Decision-Making
3:15 PM · Palazzo Ballroom L · Goutham Budati (VP, Data Strategy and Insights, The Farmer's Dog), Mark Ritzmann (Faculty in AI & ML, Co-Director SPS Artificial Intelligence Lab, Associate Dean - AI, Analytics, and Strategic Communications, Columbia University), Mona Hassanzadeh (Head/Director of Data Science & AI, Meridian), Lovedeep Saini (Chief Analytics Officer, Conner Strong & Buckelew), Ayman Elhalwagy (Co-Founder and CEO, RootCause.ai)
Hr & Recruiting
Human + Machine: Rethinking Workforce Strategy in the Age of AI
3:15 PM · Palazzo Ballroom E · Rosy Bhullar (Vice President, Recruiting, JPMorgan Chase), Esin Cooper (VP, Organization Design & Talent Supply Chain, Pearson), Shameem Farouk (Human Capital Director, Group Technology, Digital Banking, and Data, Maybank), Jana Brown (Chief Human Resources Officer, eHealth), Giovanni Luperti (CEO, Humaans)
Financial Services Banks
Governing AI Models in Banking — Reducing Risk and Deploying with Trust
3:15 PM · Lando Ballroom 4204 · Maik Taro Wehmeyer (Co-Founder & CEO, Taktile), Frederic Siboulet (Financial Services Strategy, Major US Bank), Brandon Reed (Head of Compliance Model and AI Oversight, Regions Bank), Moataz Mahmoud (SVP, Enterprise Data Management, First Citizens Bank)
CX & Customer Service
Transforming Customer Experience with AI
3:15 PM · Delfino Ballroom 4103 · Erin Fusaro (Chief Technology Officer, PadSplit), Kiley Williams (Senior Engineering Manager, Field Engineering, Deepgram), Amir Hameed (Senior Vice President - Global Technical Solutions, RingCentral), Heather Gillbanks (Executive Editor, CXPA Book of Knowledge)
Generative AI: Applications & Use Cases
Cutting-Edge Applications of Generative AI in the Enterprise
3:15 PM · Venetian Ballroom E · Franziska Bell (CTO, The Home Depot), Sameer Sethi (SVP, Chief AI & Insights Officer, Hackensack Meridian Health), Raffaele Pascale (Director of Innovations, Solutions & Engineering, Argos Multilingual), Elaine Reyes (News Anchor, CGTN), Semih Altinay (VP AI Solutions, Phrase)
Retail CPG & Ecommerce
Building Smarter Retail Experiences in the AI World
3:15 PM · Marcello Ballroom 4403 · Nathalie Criou (VP, Product, Vapi), Mark Stutzman (Chief Operating & Technology, AREA15), Melanie Hill (Head of Advanced Concepts (Innovation & Strategy), Ace Hardware Corporation), Caio Camargo (Host, [varejocast]), Santiago Ontanon Alvarez (CIO, Coppel)
Transportation & Logistics
Intelligent Logistics: AI That Moves the World
3:15 PM · Titian Ballroom 2304 · Brendan Baker (Partner, Rackhouse Venture Capital), Karthikeyan Ilangovan (Vice President - Data Analytics and AI/ML, MODE Global), Pouya Dianat (Chief Revenue Officer, Quantum Computing Inc.), Arjun Srinivasan (SVP AI & Data Science, ShipStation Global)
Roundtable (technical)
Engineering Control into Agentic AI That Controls Itself [RSVP REQUIRED]
3:15 PM · 305 · Hailong (Harry) Wang (Director Analytics, Fifth Third Bank)
Healthcare Care Providers
AI in Clinical Decision Support — Enhancing Accuracy Without Replacing Judgment
3:15 PM · Marcello Ballroom 4404 · Alexander Fedotov (Director, AI to Transform Care, Enterprise AI, AstraZeneca), Peter McCaffrey (Chief Digital and AI Officer, The University of Texas Medical Branch), Arturo LoAIza-Bonilla (Co-Founder & Chief Medical AI Officer (CMAIO), Massive Bio), Senthil Kumaran (CIO, MNGI Digestive Health), Zachary Taylor (Imaging AI Core Researcher, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center)
AI Agents (technical)
The Brain of the Agent — Architectures and Training for Intelligent AI Systems
3:15 PM · Veronese Ballroom 2504 · Dhivya Nagasubramanian (VP, AI Transformation and Innovation, U.S. Bank), Seetaram Rao Rayarao (VP, Senior Lead Software Engineer, JP Morgan Chase), João Moura (Founder & CEO, CrewAI), Darrell Etherington (Editor, The Angle), Ashok Prakash (Staff ML Engineer, Apple)
Coding Assistants & Vibe Coding (technical)
The Rise of AI Coding Assistants
3:15 PM · Venetian Ballroom A · Nishant Gupta (Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead, Meta Superintelligence Lab), Justin Johnson (VP of AI & Engineering, Renaissance Benefits), David Savage (Technology Evangelist, Nash Squared), Daniel Fernandez Coviella (Senior Application Security Engineer, Visa), Aartee Simran Dhomeja (Senior Data Scientist, FedEx Express Corporation)
Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
A New House Edge? The State of AI in Gambling
3:15 PM · Palazzo Ballroom M · Kasra Ghaharian (Director of Research, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, International Gaming Institute), Kiran Brahmandam (Managing Director, Gaming Analytics, Aristocrat), Earle Hall (President & CEO, AXES.ai)
CAIO CIO & It Leaders
From Pilot to Production: The CIO's Playbook for Deploying AI Agents at Scale
3:15 PM · Palazzo Ballroom G · Philip Kolterman (CIO & SVP of Digital Transformation, Brinks Home), Deepank Sharma (Field CTO, Cresta Intelligence)
AI Policy Summit
AI Policy to Drive Progress
3:15 PM · Titian Ballroom 2306 · Brendan Schulman (VP of Policy & Government Relations, Boston Dynamics), Nancy Scola (Veteran Technology Reporter, —), Sean Perryman (Global Head of AI & Fairness Policy, Uber), Sanjay Puri (Chairman/Founder, RegulatingAI)
AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
Realizing Value on the Agentic Journey
3:15 PM · Venetian Ballroom H · Audi Rowe (Americas AI Experience, Strategy, and Transformation Consulting Leader, EY), Cindy Lee (Senior Vice President of Finance Transformation, Duke Energy)
Infrastructure: AI Agents
The AI Agent Operating Model: What Enterprise Leaders Are Building
3:15 PM · Delfino Ballroom 4104 · Adam Mendler (Creator & Host, Thirty Minute Mentors), Sagnik Nandy (CTO, Docusign), Kartik Sakthivel (CIO, John Hancock), Tom Flanagan (Chief Digital Information Officer, RE/MAX)
Multimodal AI (technical)
Presentation by Divya Choudhary, X, The Moonshot Factory
3:15 PM · Bellini Ballroom 2102 · Divya Choudhary (Lead AI Research Scientist, X, The Moonshot Factory)
AI Startups & VCs
AI and Managed Services: Future Models of Symbiosis with AI
3:15 PM · Venetian Ballroom G · Kanav Kahol (Chief AI Officer, Kagen.ai)
Infrastructure: Cloud Data Centers & Compute
AI that delivers ROI from Infrastructure to Intelligence
3:15 PM · Lando Ballroom 4203 · Rampal Singh (SVP & Global Business Head, Hybrid Cloud Services and AI Factory, HCLTech)
Agentic Live Demos
Agentic Live Demo by Graviteesource
3:20 PM · Hall B
AI Startups & VCs
Presentation by Veilion
3:25 PM · Venetian Ballroom G · Adam Winer (Founder / CEO, Veilion)
Roundtable
Bringing AI to Market in Regulated Industries: Challenges and Opportunities [RSVP REQUIRED]
3:40 PM · 310 · Aidan Nevin (VP Commercialization and Business Operations, Fidelity Labs)
Infrastructure: Data Platforms & Strategy
The Alpha in the Crowd: AI, Prediction Markets, and a Live Trading Demo
3:40 PM · Titian Ballroom 2302 · Daniel Sonner (Co-Founder, Tauroi Technologies), Avi Thaker (Co-Founder, Tauroi Technologies)
AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
Who's Watching the Agents? A Practical Framework for Multi-Agent Governance
3:40 PM · Venetian Ballroom D · Angelik Laboy Torres (Sr. Developer Advocate, Retool, Inc.)
Roundtable
From Exploits to Armor: Red Teaming, Guardrails, and the New Playbook for AI Security - Roundtable Moderated by F5
3:40 PM · 301 · James Thomson (Sr. NA Solution Architect - AI Lead, F5)
AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
Fireside Chat with Dr. Tanvi Jayaraman, Oura
3:40 PM · Venetian Ballroom H · Alice Park (Senior Health Correspondent, TIME), Tanvi Jayaraman (Clinical Lead, Health AI, Oura)
Roundtable
AI Transformation in Practice: From Strategy to Scale
3:40 PM · 302 · Sarah Sachs (AI Lead, Notion)
Oversight: AI Explainability Governance & Model Risk
Five Ways AI Gets You Fired (And How to Avoid All of Them)
3:40 PM · Lando Ballroom 4203 · Rob Lee (Chief of Research, AI & Emerging Threats & Chief AI Office (CAIO), SANS Institute)
CAIO CIO & It Leaders
The Agentic Enterprise: Building a Digital Workforce on Top of Legacy Systems
3:40 PM · Palazzo Ballroom G · Chris Bradley (Chief AI Officer, Veritiv)
AI Startups & VCs
What Comes After the Copilot?
3:40 PM · Venetian Ballroom G · Rohit Anabheri (CEO, Lotus Petal)
Google Cloud Programming
Spec-Driven Development with Antigravity CLI — Structured Agent Workflows with Skills and MCP [HANDS ON; LAPTOP REQUIRED]
3:40 PM · Bellini Ballroom 2104 · David Cardozo (Google Developer Expert, Google Cloud)
AI Startups & VCs
Presentation by Pynecone
3:50 PM · Venetian Ballroom G
Retail CPG & Ecommerce
From Click to Conversion: How AI is Reshaping the eCommerce Funnel
4:05 PM · Marcello Ballroom 4403 · Dmitriy Anderson (CIO & Head of E-commerce and Marketplace Strategy, Leroy Merlin), Casey Golden (North American Leader, Retail & Consumer Goods, CI&T), Paula Macaggi (Founder and Host, OFFBounds), John Jimenez (VP of eCommerce and Revenue, Noble Investment), James Williams (Head of Agentic Commerce, Mirakl)
CX & Customer Service
The Augmented Contact Center
4:05 PM · Delfino Ballroom 4103 · Jonathan Corbin (CEO/Co-Founder, Maven AGI), Alejandro Villacis (Vice President Customer Experience, FCP Euro), Andy Tang (Partner, Draper Associates), Isaiah Granet (Co-Founder, CEO, Bland)
AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
The Enterprise Context Graph of Work: A Foundation Model Is Only as Good as the Context Behind It
4:05 PM · Venetian Ballroom F · Avinash Misra (CEO & Co-Founder, Skan AI)
Transportation & Logistics
Smarter Maritime: How AI Is Redefining the Backbone of Global Trade
4:05 PM · Titian Ballroom 2304 · Sandipan Bhattacharya (SVP & Head of IT, US Ocean)
AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
Humanistic AI with Tom Gruber, Co-creator of Siri, on How AI Can Augment Human Intelligence
4:05 PM · Venetian Ballroom D · Thomas Germain (Senior Technology Journalist, The BBC), Tom Gruber (Co-Founder, Siri)
Roundtable
Risk Rewritten: Who Is Accountable When AI Decides? [RSVP REQUIRED]
4:05 PM · 302 · Devon Euring (AI Risk Executive, iHeartMedia.)
Healthcare Care Providers
Reimagining Our Business with AI
4:05 PM · Marcello Ballroom 4404 · Vijay Sankararaman (Chief AI Officer | Board Advisor | Product & Technology, Novant Health)
AI Agents (technical)
Why AI Agents Act on the Wrong Context
4:05 PM · Veronese Ballroom 2504 · Xiaowei Jiang (CEO & Chief Architect, Tacnode)
Financial Services Banks
When the Rubber Meets the Road: How the Consumer Bank is Realizing Value
4:05 PM · Lando Ballroom 4204 · Keenan Moukarzel (Head of Consumer AI & Data, KeyBank)
Data Analytics & BI
Frozen Yogurt Syndrome: Designing AI-Ready Strategy
4:05 PM · Palazzo Ballroom L · Nirmayee (Nemo) Dighe (Associate Director, Business Intelligence, Delaware Life Marketing, A Group 1001 Company)
AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
Self-Healing Connectors: AI Agents That Fix Production Breakages Autonomously
4:05 PM · Venetian Ballroom H · Pedro Lopez (Senior Software Engineer, Airbyte)
CAIO CIO & It Leaders
Controlling AI with AI: What it Takes to Secure the Agentic Enterprise
4:05 PM · Palazzo Ballroom G · Devvret Rishi (GM of AI, Rubrik), Paul St Vil (Field CTO for AI, Rubrik)
Generative AI: Applications & Use Cases
Talk to Your Data, Expose Nothing: Zero Model Exposure Analytics
4:05 PM · Venetian Ballroom E · Diego Loureda (VP Customer Solutions and Success, Protegrity USA, Inc.)
Oversight: AI Explainability Governance & Model Risk
Credo AI + Autodesk: Building Trust in Enterprise AI
4:05 PM · Lando Ballroom 4203 · Kate Adam (Director, Customer Trust & Employee Awareness, Autodesk), Navrina Singh (CEO/Founder, Credo AI)
Infrastructure: AI Agents
Building Unified AI Systems at Enterprise Scale
4:05 PM · Delfino Ballroom 4104 · Marawan Youssef (Head of Engineering and Applied AI Research, Turing)
Enterprise Architecture
Cost per Token Is the New KPI: How HPE and NVIDIA Are Architecting Agentic AI at Enterprise Scale
4:05 PM · Palazzo Ballroom B · Steve Stein (NVIDIA)
Oversight: AI ROI
Voice Agent Supervision: Finding the Hidden Cost of Conversational Blind Spots
4:05 PM · Palazzo Ballroom D · Carter Huffman (CTO, Modulate)
Hr & Recruiting
Why Your Next Enterprise App Won't Come From a Vendor
4:05 PM · Palazzo Ballroom E · Ashutosh Garg (Eightfold AI)
Workforce Upskilling For The AI Era
Moving Beyond Completion to Capability: Proving AI Upskilling Actually Works
4:05 PM · Titian Ballroom 2302 · JPS Kohli (Founder and Group CEO, SkillUp Group), Ratan Deep Singh (CEO, SkillUp Online), Benjamin George (Global AI Leader, SkillUp Group)
Multimodal AI (technical)
ChatGPT Search
4:05 PM · Bellini Ballroom 2102 · Will Ellsworth (Researcher, OpenAI)
AI Startups & VCs
Mind the Slop: Scaling Performance Creative Without Losing Your Brand
4:05 PM · Venetian Ballroom G · Julia Taconet (Co-Founder, Tactimetry)
AI Policy Summit
AI Under Trump: Deregulation, Preemption & the New Federal AI
4:05 PM · Titian Ballroom 2306 · Trooper Sanders (President, State AI Safety Roundtable)
Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
From Pilot to Production: A Case Study with Maersk
4:05 PM · Palazzo Ballroom M · Andy Wang (General Manager of North America, Dify), Mark Sear (Director of AI Forward Engineering, A.P. Moller - Maersk)
AI Startups & VCs
CIG: Complete, Instant, Governed Context for Enterprise AI
4:15 PM · Venetian Ballroom G · Evan Fleisch (Head of Sales, Euno)
Oversight: AI ROI
From Hype to ROI: The Human-Tech Adaptation Index
4:30 PM · Palazzo Ballroom D · Hemachandran Kannan (Director - AI Research Centre, Woxsen University)
AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
From Automation to Autonomy: Architecting the Agentic Enterprise
4:30 PM · Venetian Ballroom F · Lutz Beck (CIO, Daimler Truck North America)
AI Agents (technical)
Hive: Turning Agent Frameworks into a Cooperative Swarm
4:30 PM · Veronese Ballroom 2504 · Glenn Fung (VP of AI Development and Strategy, Exact Sciences Corp)
AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
AI-Driven Software Lifecycle Evolution at FanDuel
4:30 PM · Venetian Ballroom D · Bryce Macher (Head of AI, Fan Duel)
Multimodal AI (technical)
Scaling Holistic Predictive Intelligence Pipelines with the Split-Brain Spiderweb Architecture
4:30 PM · Bellini Ballroom 2102 · Rcrysta Shaneih (Sr. AI/ML Engineer, Ryder Systems Inc.)
Generative AI Deployment At Scale
Fireside Chat with Jaime Mineart, Caterpillar
4:30 PM · Venetian Ballroom E · Kate Park (Editorial Contributor, TechCrunch), Jaime Mineart (CTO, Caterpillar)
Financial Services Banks
Architecting the Future: The AI Tech Stack for Modern Banking
4:30 PM · Lando Ballroom 4204 · Murali Boddu (VP, Deutsche Bank), Stephen Frein (SVP of Software Development, Fulton Bank), Bhairav Mehta (Head of AI & ML, JPMorganChase), Naomi Nix (Tech Reporter, Freelance)
Roundtable
Neurodivergent Intelligence [RSVP REQUIRED]
4:30 PM · 305 · Johan Zamora (Founder Big Data & AI Systems Architect — The Art of the Possible, The Art of the Possible)
CAIO CIO & It Leaders
The Agentic AI Problem: Why Autonomous IT Requires a Different Trust Architecture
4:30 PM · Palazzo Ballroom G · Oshri Moyal (CTO & Co-founder, Atera)
Enterprise Architecture
Using AI to Accelerate Enterprise Architecture as Code
4:30 PM · Palazzo Ballroom B · Kevin Kohut (VP, Enterprise Architecture, First Horizon Bank)
Oversight: AI Explainability Governance & Model Risk
AI Fatigue Is Real - Your Governance Model Needs a Makeover
4:30 PM · Lando Ballroom 4203 · Jessica Davis (Vice President, AI Product, USA TODAY Co., Inc.)
Infrastructure: AI Agents
The Missing Layer: AI Orchestration Director
4:30 PM · Delfino Ballroom 4104 · Nirmal Jingar (Sr. Engineering Manager, Wayfair)
Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
Pit Stops, Not Rebuilds: Modular AI Infrastructure Under Performance Pressure & Regulatory Scrutiny
4:30 PM · Palazzo Ballroom M · Max Gokhman (Head of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Asset Solutions, Franklin Templeton)
Workforce Upskilling For The AI Era
From 20 to 2,000: How Cox Built an AI-Capable Workforce
4:30 PM · Titian Ballroom 2302 · David Lee (AVP, Applied AI Research & Development, Cox Communications)
AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
Beyond the Copilot: Building the Agentic AI Platform for Sports
4:30 PM · Venetian Ballroom H · Alireza Aliamiri (Head of Engineering, Data and A.I., Major League Soccer)
Hr & Recruiting
AI, Talent, and Opportunity: Building the Workforce of the Future
4:30 PM · Palazzo Ballroom E · Ron Schmelzer (AI Columnist / Host, Forbes / Scalebrate), Kiersten Barnet (Executive Director, New York Jobs CEO Council)
AI Policy Summit
AI, National Security & Geopolitical Competition
4:30 PM · Titian Ballroom 2306 · Daniel Dobos (Co-Chair, AI For Good Impact Initiative)
Google Cloud Programming
Transforming Multimodal Data into Enterprise AI Agents with BigQuery and Gemini [HANDS ON; LAPTOP REQUIRED]
4:30 PM · Bellini Ballroom 2104 · Vaibhav Sethi (Product Manager, Google Cloud)
Healthcare Care Providers
Turning AI Research into AI Action
4:55 PM · Marcello Ballroom 4404 · Micky Tripathi (Chief Artificial Intelligence Implementation Officer, Mayo Clinic)
AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
Mission Control - Giving AI Agency (Without Losing Control)
4:55 PM · Venetian Ballroom F · Payal Patel (Head of North America Solution Engineering, Freshworks)
CX & Customer Service
Garbage In, Trusted Out: Fixing the Knowledge Layer That Instructs CX AI
4:55 PM · Delfino Ballroom 4103 · John Copeland (VP of Marketing, eGain)
AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
Lessons Learned in Deploying AI Agents in Industrial Workflows by Somya Kapoor, CEO, IFS Loops
4:55 PM · Venetian Ballroom H · Somya Kapoor (CEO, IFS Loops)
AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
Applied Innovation and Agentic AI
4:55 PM · Venetian Ballroom D · Sarah Hammer (Managing Director, AI)
Oversight: AI Explainability Governance & Model Risk
Practical and Principled Approaches to AI Alignment
4:55 PM · Lando Ballroom 4203 · Jon Kutasov (Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic)
Infrastructure: AI Agents
AI Governance in the Tech Stack
4:55 PM · Delfino Ballroom 4104 · Marc Cagulangan (Technical Director, CSX)
Oversight: AI ROI
AI's Hidden Cost: What Boards Need to Budget for Before It's Too Late
4:55 PM · Palazzo Ballroom D · Joe Vadakkan (President, CSA Arizona), Sandeep Desai (CISO, Arizona Department of Eduction)
AI Policy Summit
From Policy to Practice: A Blueprint for Responsible AI Leadership
4:55 PM · Titian Ballroom 2306 · Ravi Pendse (Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer, University of Michigan)
Coding Assistants & Vibe Coding (technical)
From Vibe Coding to Production: What It Takes to Scale AI Coding Assistants Across the Enterprise
4:55 PM · Venetian Ballroom A · Albert Milton (AI Enablement Lead, Hitachi Energy)
Enterprise Architecture
Building the Thinking Enterprise: From Enterprise Architecture to Enterprise Intelligence
4:55 PM · Palazzo Ballroom B · Chalamayya Batchu Veera (Principal Enterprise Architect - AI & Data, Florida Power & Light)
Retail CPG & Ecommerce
The Rise of Autonomous Shopper Intelligence, Presentation by Lizbeth James, Mars
4:55 PM · Marcello Ballroom 4403 · Lizbeth James (NA Head - Data & AI Enbalement, Mars)
AI Safety & Alignment
Presentation by Emmett Shear, Softmax
4:55 PM · Venetian Ballroom E · Emmett Shear (Founder, Softmax)
Workforce Upskilling For The AI Era
Beyond Usage: A Leader's Playbook for an AI-Fluent Workforce
4:55 PM · Titian Ballroom 2302 · Ilai Soloducho (CAIO, Strauss Group), Nurit Revah (Founder, EmbraceAI Global)
Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
Presentation To Be Announced - Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
4:55 PM · Palazzo Ballroom M
Meetups & Receptions
Exhibit Hall Reception
5:00 PM · Halls B&C
Meetups & Receptions
AI Research Summit Reception [RSVP REQUIRED]
5:00 PM · Back of Session Room AB
Breaks & Meals
Dinner Presented by Nebius
6:30 PM · Mott 32
Breaks & Meals
Dinner Presented by Smartsheet
6:30 PM · LAVO
Breaks & Meals
Dinner Presented by Thomson Reuters
6:30 PM · Gjelina
Breaks & Meals
Dinner Presented by Turing
6:30 PM · Milos
Meetups & Receptions
Ai4 Insiders Reception
9:00 PM · Mercato Della Pescheria
Thursday, August 6
Breaks & Meals
Breakfast Available
7:00 AM · Hall D
Press Event
Speaker Ready Room/Lounge Open [Access Restricted]
7:00 AM · Veronese Ballroom 2501
Registration
Registration Open
7:15 AM · Venetian Expo Lobby
Keynote
Keynote Sessions
8:00 AM · Hall A
Keynote
AI That Understands The Real World
8:11 AM · Hall A · Anastasis Germanidis (Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Runway), Inhi Cho Suh (CEO, Niantic Spatial), Oliver Cameron (CEO, Odyssey), Jared Perlo (AI Reporter, NBC News)
Keynote
From Renting AI to Owning Intelligence: The Case for Purpose-Built AI
8:40 AM · Hall A · Kalyan Kumar (KK) (President, HCLSoftware), Kaushik Shirhatti (VP, AI Factory, Nvidia), Harry McCracken (Global Technology Editor, Fast Company)
Keynote
Intelligence, Cost and Control: Infrastructure for Agentic AI
8:59 AM · Hall A · Jeetu Patel (President and Chief Product Officer, Cisco), Matt Egan (Senior Reporter, CNN)
Keynote
The Waymo Journey: From Moonshot to Global Deployment
9:18 AM · Hall A · Dmitri Dolgov (Co-CEO, Waymo), Sebastian Thrun (Founder, Waymo, Udacity), Tim O'Reilly (Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media)
Keynote
From Probabilistic to Provable: Deploying AI Agents You Can Trust presented by Erin Kraemer, AWS
9:37 AM · Hall A · Erin Kraemer (Sr. Principal Technical Product Manager, AWS)
AI Safety & Alignment
Making AI Alignment A Reality
10:15 AM · Marcello Ballroom 4404 · David Scott Krueger (CEO | Assistant Professor, Evitable | University of Montreal, Mila), John Buyers (Partner, CMS LLP), Jon Kutasov (Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic), Rick Balzano (VP, GTM - AI Services, Safety, and Robotics, TaskUs Holdings Inc.), Spencer Whitman (Chief Product Officer, Gray Swan)
Roundtable
Leveraging AI in complex loan application processes - a focus on Commercial Real Estate
10:15 AM · 301 · Jonas Ng (Head of Small Business Banking & Former Sr Dir-Business & Tech Optimization for Real Estate Capital/Institutional Banking, Valley Bank / entrepreneur / (formerly) KeyBank)
Infrastructure: AI Agents
Orchestration Layers and Software for Agentic AI Infrastructure
10:15 AM · Delfino Ballroom 4104 · George Miranda (VP of Marketing, InsightFinder AI), Bradley Criqui (Global Head of Engineering, CBRE Investment Management), Nitay Joffe (Operating Partner, Team8 VC), Henna Davar (AI Engineering Leader, American Airlines), Vira Tkachenko (Chief Technology & Innovation Officer (CTIO), MacPaw)
AI For SMBs
Small Company, Smart Tools: How SMBs Are Winning with AI
10:15 AM · Titian Ballroom 2304 · Manoj Mathew (CTO, LendingUSA), Brian Docili (Vice President, IT Infrastructure & Operations, Conectiv Supply Chain Solutions), Jennifer Conrad (Senior Writer, Inc. Magazine), Nicholas Muy (CISO / VP of Engineering, Scrut Automation)
AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
Guardrails, Risk Management, and Observability for Agentic AI
10:15 AM · Venetian Ballroom H · Marcia Cole (Fellow & James Renier Chair in Security Technologies, University of Minnesota), Sohaib Shaikh (CEO, Virtue AI), Nell Meshcheryakov (Strategic Advisor for Responsible AI, Dominion Energy), Sagi Rodin (CEO, Agen.co), Monisha Somji (Digital & AI transformation Executive, Enterprise AI & Digital Transformation)
Generative AI: Applications & Use Cases
Exploring Fine-Tuning and Customization Strategy Through Effective Use Cases
10:15 AM · Venetian Ballroom E · Priyanka Kapoor (CDO, CoAction Specialty), Edmund Clark (Chief Information Officer, The California State University), James Belasco (Head of Data Science for Advice and Wealth Management, Vanguard), Shruti Kamath (Sr Director, AI and Machine Learning, Mozilla), Karan Kothari (Principal Engineer, Lightning AI)
Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
Guardrails, Observability, and Trust in AI Infrastructure
10:15 AM · Palazzo Ballroom M · Emily McReynolds (Senior Fellow, Future of Privacy Forum), Fanny Sie (Digital Health Businesss Architect - AI Enablement/Trusted Environments, Roche), Allen Badeau (CAIO, DigitalNet.ai), Mrinal Anand (Head of AI Security, Sofi), Chad Wise (Sr Principal Solution Engineer, F5)
AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
The AI Agent Playbook: A Strategic Roadmap for Implementation
10:15 AM · Venetian Ballroom F · Marcus Spillane (SVP Innovation, Howard Hughes), Kolawole Samuel Adebayo (Tech Analyst, Machine Dreams Podcast), Agam Upadhyay (SVP, Chief Digital and Information Officer, Vertex Pharmaceuticals), Jeff Mills (Chief Customer Officer, AI, Toptal), Jim Schiel (CEO/Founder, Artisan Agility)
AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
Orchestrating AI Agents: How to Unlock Enterprise-Ready Use Cases
10:15 AM · Venetian Ballroom D · Rohit Nichani (President, Emergence AI), Manthan Shah (Head of US Investments, WestBridge Capital), Michelle Bonat (Chief Technology, Product and AI Officer, Golden Pear Funding), Paul Farnsworth (President, Dice), Joel Hron (Chief Technology Officer, Thomson Reuters)
Multimodal AI (technical)
From Tools to Teammates: Physical AI and Shared Autonomy for Flexible Generalist Robots
10:15 AM · Delfino Ballroom 4103 · Rares Ambrus (Co-Founder & Head of AI, Walden Robotics), Benjamin Burchfiel (Placeholder, Placeholder)
AI Agents (technical)
RAG is a Flashlight. Your AI Agent Needs a Map. -> Graph Theory as an AI Agent's Superpower in Mortgage Origination
10:15 AM · Titian Ballroom 2306 · Keith Soura (CTO, Arch)
World Models
Simulating Reality: The Business Value of World Models
10:15 AM · Lando Ballroom 4204 · Emil Protalinski (Editor and Consultant, Techmeme and EPro Strategies), Sreekanth Annapureddy (CTO, Netradyne), Inhi Cho Suh (CEO, Niantic Spatial), Hardik Kabaria (Co-founder and CEO, Vinci)
AI Research Summit (technical)
From Hype to Hypotheses: Why AI-for-Science Is Hard—and What It Takes to Make It Work
10:15 AM · Venetian Ballroom A · Tegan Emerson (Chief Data Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
CAIO CIO & It Leaders
Orchestrate, Don’t Automate: How CIO's Build AI Systems That Scale, Decide, and Execute
10:15 AM · Palazzo Ballroom G · Tyler Howard (Director, RSM US LLP)
Synthetic Data & Data Generation (technical)
Teaching Models to Imagine: Trustworthy Simulation for Sequential Data
10:15 AM · Veronese Ballroom 2504 · Abhimanyu Mukerji (Science Manager and Research Lead, Amazon)
Roundtable
Minimal Data, Maximum Output: Scaling AI and Quantum Technologies for Industry 5.0 [RSVP REQUIRED]
10:15 AM · 303 · Satyam Priyadarshy (Founder, Reignite Future, LLC)
Roundtable (technical)
Optimizing Small Language Models for Low-Power Devices [RSVP REQUIRED]
10:15 AM · 302 · Priyambada Jain (Senior Data Scientist, BlackRock)
Cybersecurity
Behavioral Defense for the AI-Era Attack Chain
10:15 AM · Marcello Ballroom 4403 · Ryan Schwartz (Senior Manager, Product Marketing, Abnormal AI)
Software Engineering
Buy the Hands, Own the Conscience: Governing AI Agents That Ship Enterprise Software
10:15 AM · Palazzo Ballroom L · Vishak Mallya (Founder, Synthetix Labs)
CX & Customer Service
How Artificial Intelligence Can Help Eliminate Discrimination in Financial Services
10:15 AM · Palazzo Ballroom E · Tor Constantino (Writer / AI, Quantum Computing, Blockchain Consultant, Forbes), Pavan Agarwal (Creator of AngelAi, CEO of Celligence and Sun West Mortgage)
Infrastructure: Cloud Data Centers & Compute
AI in Power Systems: From Insight to Deployment
10:15 AM · Lando Ballroom 4203 · Rémi Raphael (Chief AI Officer, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI))
Oversight: AI ROI
What's the ROI on Your AI? How to Get the Right Answer to This Wrong Question
10:15 AM · Palazzo Ballroom D · John Capriotti (VP, AI-First Business Design, EPAM Systems), Ira Livshits (Principal Data Scientist, EPAM Systems)
AI Startups & VCs
ON.AI - Faster Jobs. Same GPUs. More Revenue
10:25 AM · Venetian Ballroom G · Lior Friedman (CEO, OptimalNets)
Exhibit Hall
Exhibit Hall Open
10:30 AM · Halls B&C
Press Event
Focus Group – Sponsors
10:30 AM · 406
Podcast Pavilion
Podcast Pavilion - Table Reserved
10:30 AM · Halls B&C
Exhibit Hall
Experience Tesla at Ai4 2026
10:30 AM · Halls B&C
Oversight: AI ROI
There Is No ROI of AI: What Boards Really Ask Before They Fund It
10:40 AM · Palazzo Ballroom D · Leah Fricke (Board Director/Chair Audit Committee, Various Companies (Australia))
Roundtable
Building Your AI Talent Pipeline: Cultivating Agentic & Generative Leaders from High School to Ph.D. [RSVP REQUIRED]
10:40 AM · 310 · Rick Ginsberg (Dean of the School of Education and Human Sciences, The University of Kansas), Maggie Mosher (Chief AI Consultant & AstR Professor, University of Kansas)
Roundtable
AI Oversight in Banking: Why Evaluation Frameworks Fail in Production [RSVP REQUIRED]
10:40 AM · 305 · Sabrina Palme (Founder & CEO, Palqee)
Roundtable (technical)
From Perception to Decision: Deploying AI Inside a Live Claims Workflow [RSVP REQUIRED]
10:40 AM · 304 · Nicole Crozier (Managing Director, Engineering, SilverRock), Kayla Graves (Software Engineer, SilverRock)
Cybersecurity
Securing the AI Layer: When Your Agent Becomes the Threat!
10:40 AM · Marcello Ballroom 4403 · Arsh Arora (Cyber Incident Response & AI Integration, Lead, McKesson)
CX & Customer Service
The Trust Stack: How to Design an AI Agent That Earns Its Autonomy
10:40 AM · Palazzo Ballroom E · Kibeom Lee (Head of AI/ML, delight.ai)
CAIO CIO & It Leaders
AI as Infrastructure: Rewiring the Enterprise for Intelligent Operations
10:40 AM · Palazzo Ballroom G · Nancy Scola (Veteran Technology Reporter, —), Kristin Milchanowski (Chief AI and Quantum Officer, BMO)
AI Startups & VCs
Investigative AI: Building Agents That Show Their Work
10:40 AM · Venetian Ballroom G · Dhrumil Joshi (Founder and Director, Clustral AI)
Software: Productivity & Collaboration
The AI Productivity Paradox: Phantom Value on the Ledger
10:40 AM · Palazzo Ballroom L · Prashant Kumar (CEO, TechBlocks)
Multimodal AI (technical)
AI for Hardware Development
10:40 AM · Delfino Ballroom 4103 · Satvik Sabarad (Advanced Manufacturing Engineer, Amazon Robotics)
Infrastructure: Cloud Data Centers & Compute
Reliability Before Autonomy: Building an AI Reliability Control Plane for Multi-Cloud LLM and Agentic AI Systems
10:40 AM · Lando Ballroom 4203 · Arun Pandiyan Perumal (Site Reliability Engineer, Adobe)
AI Startups & VCs
Presentation by GNTC Inc.
10:50 AM · Venetian Ballroom G · Kytu Lin (Founder & CEO, GNTC)
Multimodal AI (technical)
From Specialized Capabilities to Composable Intelligence: Architecting Scalable, Multimodal AI for Drug Development
11:05 AM · Delfino Ballroom 4103 · John Austin (Director of Translational AI, Gilead)
AI Research Summit (technical)
Robust AI Security and Alignment: A Sisyphean Endeavor?
11:05 AM · Venetian Ballroom A · Apostol Vassilev (Research Team Supervisor, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST))
Infrastructure: Cloud Data Centers & Compute
From Stack to Symphony: Building Infrastructure That Performs as One System
11:05 AM · Lando Ballroom 4203 · Alex Akesson (Director, Product Management, Crusoe)
AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
Building an AI Factory to Escape Pilot Purgatory and Runaway AI Costs
11:05 AM · Venetian Ballroom F · Bhaskar Roy (Chief of AI, Workato)
AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
Why AI Agent Pilots Stall — and What Actually Fixes Them
11:05 AM · Venetian Ballroom D · Darin Patterson (VP, Market Strategy, Make)
CAIO CIO & It Leaders
Presentation by Tray.ai: How Zuora Is Deploying Agentic AI Across Its Enterprise
11:05 AM · Palazzo Ballroom G · Josh Noble (Field CTO, Tray.ai), Mark Gill (Head of Infrastructure and Services, Zuora)
AI Agents (technical)
Confidently Wrong: Building Validation and Trust for Your AI Agents
11:05 AM · Titian Ballroom 2306 · Mudit Singh (Co-Founder and Head of Growth, TestMu AI)
AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
The Agentic ROI Blueprint for Enterprise CX: Lessons Learned from 100+ Enterprise Deployments (so you don't have to)
11:05 AM · Venetian Ballroom H · Natalie Telson (Head of US, Forward Deployed Product Management, Parloa)
Synthetic Data & Data Generation (technical)
Failure-Driven Data Engines: Model Errors and Synthetic Generation
11:05 AM · Veronese Ballroom 2504 · Cole DeVingo (Synthetic Data Specialist, Toyota Research Institute)
Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
The Enterprise Solutions Engine: When Your Business Builds Its Own AI
11:05 AM · Palazzo Ballroom M · Matt Cashatt (CEO, Polyrific)
Generative AI: Applications & Use Cases
How Europe’s Air Traffic Network Is Modernizing Legacy Systems with AI
11:05 AM · Venetian Ballroom E · Andrei Manolache (Chief Executive Officer, DesignVerse)
Oversight: AI ROI
AI Adoption Solved. ROI Is Not.
11:05 AM · Palazzo Ballroom D · Chase Norton (Head of Artificial Intelligence, Faros)
Cybersecurity
Actions Speak Louder Than Prompts: Governing What AI Agents Actually Do
11:05 AM · Marcello Ballroom 4403 · Nathan Wallace (Founder & CEO, Turbot)
Social Impact Of AI
Know and Grow the ROI of AI: From Enterprise Transformation to Business Value
11:05 AM · Marcello Ballroom 4404 · Erik Brynjolfsson (Director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, a Professor at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, Co-Founder at Workhelix)
CX & Customer Service
The Organizational AI Imperative
11:05 AM · Palazzo Ballroom E · Jacob Schofield (Enterprise AI GTM, Google Cloud)
Infrastructure: AI Agents
How AI Agents Think: The Architecture Behind Collective Intelligence
11:05 AM · Delfino Ballroom 4104 · Julu Panat (Director of Product Management, Outshift by Cisco)
AI Startups & VCs
The $17.7M Hiring Filter: What Enterprise AI Misses Without Outcome Data
11:05 AM · Venetian Ballroom G · Saad Bin Shafiq (Founder/CEO, Nodes Inc.)
World Models
Fireside Chat with Anastasis Germanidis, Runway: Building Models That Understand and Simulate the World
11:05 AM · Lando Ballroom 4204 · Anastasis Germanidis (Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Runway), Jared Perlo (AI Reporter, NBC News)
Software Engineering
Friends Don’t Let AI Code in the Dark: Fixing the Token Burning Chaos of Agentic UI
11:05 AM · Palazzo Ballroom L · Dylan Barrell (Chief Technology Officer, Deque Systems)
AI For SMBs
The Unfair Advantage: Why a 2 Person Team Can Now Outmarket a 2,000 Person Brand
11:05 AM · Titian Ballroom 2304 · Praneet Dutta (Founder, usepomo.ai)
AI Startups & VCs
Zero Hallucination Stack: Architecture for AI You Can Trust, by PitCrew
11:15 AM · Venetian Ballroom G · Sameer Goel (Co-founder, PitCrew Agents)
AI Safety & Alignment
Dignity by Design: AI and the Duty of Care
11:30 AM · Marcello Ballroom 4404 · Nathan Walker (Founder, AI Ethics Lab, Rutgers University)
AI For SMBs
Hard-Fought Lessons from a Year of Scaling AI in an SMB
11:30 AM · Titian Ballroom 2304 · Eric Seiberling (VP of Sales and Marketing, MXD Process)
Roundtable
How Far Have We Moved from Don't Be Evil? [RSVP REQUIRED]
11:30 AM · 301 · Mark Ritzmann (Faculty in AI & ML, Co-Director SPS Artificial Intelligence Lab, Associate Dean - AI, Analytics, and Strategic Communications, Columbia University)
Generative AI: Applications & Use Cases
Olympic Gold Winning Expertise and Motivation Supported by Personalized AI by Olympic Athlete and Co-Creator of Siri
11:30 AM · Venetian Ballroom E · Tom Gruber (Co-Founder, Siri), Sky Christopherson (CEO, Gold, Inc.)
Oversight: AI ROI
Scaling AI: The AI Value Playbook for the Enterprise
11:30 AM · Palazzo Ballroom D · Nithin Ramachandran (Senior Vice President, AI and Data, Cargill)
AI Agents (technical)
AI-Driven Platform Engineering with MCP
11:30 AM · Titian Ballroom 2306 · Nitish Mane (Infrastructure Engineer, Philo)
AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
Inside the AI Transformation at Cushman & Wakefield
11:30 AM · Venetian Ballroom F · Collin Campbell (Business Information Officer / Chief Information Officer - Recurring Revenue, Cushman & Wakefield), Chris Slovak (Unframe)
World Models
Physics-Based Reasoning and Imagination at Inference
11:30 AM · Lando Ballroom 4204 · Sankaet Pathak (CEO, Foundation Robotics), Matt Egan (Senior Reporter, CNN)
AI Research Summit (technical)
Who Watches the Agents? Building Gen AI Evaluation Suites for Complex Architectures
11:30 AM · Venetian Ballroom A · Jasleen Singh (Lead Forward Deployed Engineer, Google)
Infrastructure: Cloud Data Centers & Compute
Deploying Datacenters in Space - Fireside Chat with Ezra Feilden, CTO of Starcloud
11:30 AM · Lando Ballroom 4203 · Ezra Feilden (CTO, Starcloud), Eoin Higgins (Senior IT Reporter, Morning Brew)
AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
Transforming Banking Inside and Out: How AI Drives Better Experiences and ROI
11:30 AM · Venetian Ballroom H · Prashant Mehrotra (Chief AI Officer, U.S. Bank)
Synthetic Data & Data Generation (technical)
Synthetic by Design: Privacy-First Data Engineering for Scalable, High-Fidelity AI Training
11:30 AM · Veronese Ballroom 2504 · Sanchit Srivastava (Sr. Manager Data Analytics & Architecture / Principal Architect, General Mills)
Enterprise Unlocks: AI Coding Strategy
AI-Driven Software Development: Practical Lessons for Builder Teams
11:30 AM · Palazzo Ballroom E · Ian Moraes (Head of Consumer Domains Tech, Audible)
Roundtable (technical)
Roundtable Discussion-Delivering Value with AI [RSVP REQUIRED]
11:30 AM · 303 · Mark Kanner (Senior Director of Data Science, UnitedHealthcare)
Cybersecurity
AI Trust on Borrowed Cryptography: A Post-Quantum Operating Model for Technology Executives
11:30 AM · Marcello Ballroom 4403 · Jake Hammock (Chief Information Security Officer, Assistant CTO and Director of Security & Infrastructure, City of Seattle)
Quantum AI (technical)
From Quantum Picturalism to Quantum NLP: Interpretable, Scalable, and Exponential Advantage
11:30 AM · Delfino Ballroom 4103 · Bob Coecke (Founder, CEO, Relational Intelligence)
CAIO CIO & It Leaders
From Documents to Discovery: How Ancestry’s Enterprise AI Drives Customer Value at Scale
11:30 AM · Palazzo Ballroom G · Sriram Thiagarajan (Chief Technology Officer & EVP, Product and Technology, Ancestry), Gideon Lewis-Kraus (Technology Writer, The New Yorker)
Infrastructure: AI Agents
Latency Is a Budget. Humanlike Is the Goal.
11:30 AM · Delfino Ballroom 4104 · Jesse Hall (Staff Developer Advocate, LiveKit)
AI Startups & VCs
Breaking AI Agents: What Offensive Security Revealed About the Future of Enterprise Defense
11:30 AM · Venetian Ballroom G · Aaron Walls (CEO, ZioSec, Inc.)
Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
Intelligent Model Routing: Frontier Performance Without Frontier Bills
11:30 AM · Palazzo Ballroom M
AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
The AI Credit Operating System: Why the Next Era of Underwriting Is One Platform, Not Ten Tools
11:30 AM · Venetian Ballroom D · Pranjal Daga (Co-Founder & CEO, Accend)
Software Engineering
The Enterprise AI Operating Model: An Executive Playbook for Agentic AI Transformation
11:30 AM · Palazzo Ballroom L · Madhavi Najana (AI Trailblazer | Women in AI Ohio State Ambassador| Forbes Technology Council Member | Fellow BCS | Software Engineering Manager |, Federal Home Loan Bank of Cincinnati)
AI Startups & VCs
Closing the "Reverse Information Paradox” with AI Trust Score™
11:40 AM · Venetian Ballroom G · Rohit Valia (CEO & Co-founder, Tumeryk)
Synthetic Data & Data Generation (technical)
Can Synthetic Data Replace Real Data?
11:55 AM · Veronese Ballroom 2504 · Mikayel Khachatryan (Co-Founder & CEO, Wirestock), Aniket Tushar Ajagaonkar (Staff Software Engineer - Trust, Airbnb Inc), Prashanth Srinivasan (Senior ML Engineer, DoorDash), Kolawole Samuel Adebayo (Tech Analyst, Machine Dreams Podcast), Karl Hanson (Co-founder and CPO, Tonic.ai)
Infrastructure: Cloud Data Centers & Compute
Scaling Compute for the AI Enterprise: Strategies for Power, Performance, and Flexibility
11:55 AM · Lando Ballroom 4203 · Greg Wester (Product Manager, Runpod), Ryan Wang (GP, Solaris Venture Partners & Outpost Capital), David Wacker (Systems Architect, KONST), Frank Kartmann (Vice President of Big Data & Cloud Architecture, Deutsche Bank), Pratik Jain (Founder/CEO, Auvern.ai)
Enterprise Unlocks: AI Coding Strategy
Coding Automation Is Here: How Leaders Are Rethinking Software Strategy
11:55 AM · Palazzo Ballroom E · Joe Olsen (Managing Partner, Olsen Capital), Seth Siegler (Chief Innovation Officer, eXp Realty), Kenny Vargas (Managing Director, Head of Software and Data Engineering, Piper Sandler), Derek Holt (CEO, Digital.ai Software, Inc.), Debojyoti Dutta (Chief AI Officer, Nutanix)
AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
AI Companions: Helpful or Harmful? End of Social Skills or Motivating Sidekick? Strategic Ethical AI Choices
11:55 AM · Venetian Ballroom F · Dor Skuler (Founder and CEO, Intuition Robotics)
AI Safety & Alignment
Will AI Empower or Disempower Humanity?
11:55 AM · Marcello Ballroom 4404 · David Scott Krueger (CEO | Assistant Professor, Evitable | University of Montreal, Mila)
AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
From First Call to Appointment: How ClearChoice Is Using AI Agents to Transform the Patient Journey
11:55 AM · Venetian Ballroom D · Craig Kierst (SVP Sales Strategy and Growth, ClearChoice at The Aspen Group), Parthh Pathak (Field CTO, Regulated Industries, Cresta)
CAIO CIO & It Leaders
Most AI Pilots Fail. Yours Won’t
11:55 AM · Palazzo Ballroom G · Joe Hutchings (Senior Director - IT Business Applications, Winland Foods), Oscar Marin (Executive Director, EY)
AI For SMBs
Main Street Meets Machine: How AI Is Scaling Across America's SMB Sector
11:55 AM · Titian Ballroom 2304 · Dan Weisman (Director, Innovation Strategy, National Association of REALTORS®), Scott Richard (Broker/Owner, Richard Realty), Rebecca Thomson (National Vice President, Professional Development, Coldwell Banker Realty), Greg Burns (Realtor Salesperson, Hawai'i Life)
Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
Human First, AI Enabled – Startup Speed on a Global Scale
11:55 AM · Palazzo Ballroom M · Nat Rubio-Licht (Senior Reporter, The Deep View), Saral Jain (CIO and SVP of Engineering, Snap)
Roundtable
Escaping Pilot Purgatory: Scaling AI and Driving ROI [RSVP REQUIRED]
11:55 AM · 305 · Darshan Honale (Founder & AI Operator-Investor, Rivargo & i2VC)
Roundtable (technical)
Application of Agentic AI in Analytics Dashboard Development - Roundtable by Soumyajit Paul [RSVP REQUIRED]
11:55 AM · 310 · Soumyajit Paul (Sr. Business Intelligence Engineer - Data Science, Ford Motor Company)
AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
100 Superhumans Live: The Operating Model for Agentic AI at Full-Funnel Scale
11:55 AM · Venetian Ballroom H · Jonathan Kvarfordt (VP, Marketing, 1mind)
Roundtable (technical)
Beyond Vision Models: Designing Native Multimodal AI Systems [RSVP REQUIRED]
11:55 AM · 304 · Amrith Coumaran (Computer Vision Scientist, Privateer Space)
World Models
Getting Robots Out of the Lab: How Web-Scale Video Is Rewriting the Rules of Generalist Robotics
11:55 AM · Lando Ballroom 4204 · Jagdeep Singh (CEO, Rhoda AI)
Software: Productivity & Collaboration
AI on Your Terms: Firefox AI and Future of Trustworthy Browsing
11:55 AM · Palazzo Ballroom L · Shruti Kamath (Sr Director, AI and Machine Learning, Mozilla)
AI Agents (technical)
The Agentic Stack: Why Enterprise Software Needs a New Foundation, Not a New Feature
11:55 AM · Titian Ballroom 2306 · Ravi Bulusu (CTO, IFS Loops, IFS)
AI Startups & VCs
Beyond the LLM: AI That Understands Before It Speaks.
11:55 AM · Venetian Ballroom G · Yaya Ali (Founder & CEO, DrunR)
Infrastructure: AI Agents
ROI Maxxing Case Study: The Alchemy of Shipping Faster, Proving AI Value, and Controlling Token Cost
11:55 AM · Delfino Ballroom 4104 · David Wang (Head of Product, Tetrate.io)
AI Research Summit (technical)
Sovereign Language Models (SLMs & LLMs) in Production
11:55 AM · Venetian Ballroom A · Jithin Pradeep (Head of Enterprise AI & Research, Vanguard), Sagarika Suresh (Manager, Applied AI R&D, The Vanguard Group)
Quantum AI (technical)
Protecting Enterprise AI Data in the Post-Quantum Era
11:55 AM · Delfino Ballroom 4103 · Camille Nwaefulu (Senior Engineer, Applied and Post-Quantum Cryptography, Visa Inc.)
Oversight: AI ROI
Presentation by Atena Sadeghi, Fedcap Group
11:55 AM · Palazzo Ballroom D · Atena Sadeghi (Global Head of Data and AI, Fedcap group)
Cybersecurity
Presentation To Be Announced - Cybersecurity
11:55 AM · Marcello Ballroom 4403
AI Startups & VCs
The Intelligent Operating Room: How AI Is Transforming Surgery
12:05 PM · Venetian Ballroom G · Prakash Gatta (VP of Clinical Affairs, Uncovr.ai)
World Models
Building the Next-Generation Humanoid Robot and Ecosystem
12:20 PM · Lando Ballroom 4204 · Nick Xu (Key Account Lead, Unitree Robotics)
Oversight: AI ROI
Is Your Insights Team Capturing the Phantom ROI of AI?
12:20 PM · Palazzo Ballroom D · Xufeng Wang (Partner & Chief Data Scientist, Ipsos)
AI Agents (technical)
Complex SOPs, Brittle Agents: Evaluating AI Agents in Real-World Automations
12:20 PM · Titian Ballroom 2306 · Udita Patel (Senior Applied Scientist, Amazon)
AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
Reimagining the Healthcare Experience: How Health100 Is Putting Consumers First
12:20 PM · Venetian Ballroom D · Tony Ambrozie (SVP, Chief Digital & Technology Officer, CVS Health | Health100), Ruth Reader (Journalist, Second Opinion Media)
AI Safety & Alignment
AI, Mental Health, and Human Connection: Adam Mendler and Dr. Joseph Lee, Hazelden Betty Ford
12:20 PM · Marcello Ballroom 4404 · Adam Mendler (Creator & Host, Thirty Minute Mentors), Joseph Lee (CEO, Hazelden Betty Ford)
CAIO CIO & It Leaders
Production-Grade Agents: Merging Mass Data into Real-Time Decisions
12:20 PM · Palazzo Ballroom G · Eric Hankinson (VP of Technology, Outdoor Equipped)
AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
Scaling Voice AI Agents at CVS: Lessons from Pharmacy to the Enterprise
12:20 PM · Venetian Ballroom F · Yogesh Bhagat (Vice President, Pharmacy Technology Ecosystem, CSV Health & Health100), Kris Efland (VP of Engineering, Deepgram)
Generative AI: Applications & Use Cases
Exploring AI Energy Efficiency and Model Performance with Quantum Computing
12:20 PM · Venetian Ballroom E · Murray Thom (VP Quantum Technology Evangelism, D-Wave Quantum)
Cybersecurity
When Everyone Can Build: Securing Healthcare in the Age of AI
12:20 PM · Marcello Ballroom 4403 · Joseph Izzo (Chief Medical Information Officer, San Joaquin General Hospital)
Infrastructure: AI Agents
Beyond Chatbots: The Next AI Frontier is Physical
12:20 PM · Delfino Ballroom 4104 · Vijay Badrinarayanan (VP of AI, Wayve.ai), Rafe Uddin (San Francisco Correspondent, Financial Times)
Software: Productivity & Collaboration
What It Takes to Build an Agent Platform for Customers
12:20 PM · Palazzo Ballroom L · Rob Pegoraro (Contributor, PCMag / Fast Company), Tabrez Mohammed (VP of AI, Docusign)
AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
From Product Signals to Venture Capital Investments
12:20 PM · Venetian Ballroom H · SC Moatti (Managing Partner, Mighty Capital)
Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
1,100 Attorneys, One Million+ Prompts: Building a 50+ Tool AI Stack at a Global Law Firm
12:20 PM · Palazzo Ballroom M · Tim Fox (Chief Data and AI Officer, Ogletree Deakins)
Breaks & Meals
Lunch
12:30 PM · Halls B&C
Breaks & Meals
VIP Benefits – Thursday Lunch – Speakers & VIPs
12:30 PM · Hall D
Press Event
Focus Group – Paid Attendees: Vendors
1:15 PM · 406
Podcast Pavilion
Podcast Pavilion - Table Reserved
1:15 PM · Halls B&C
Agentic Live Demos
InMotus Connect: Healthcare Intelligence in Action
2:00 PM · Hall B
Agentic Live Demos
Agentic Live Demos
2:00 PM · Hall B
Roundtable
Leveraging AI for Incident Response with Dr. Arsh [RSVP REQUIRED]
2:10 PM · 302 · Arsh Arora (Cyber Incident Response & AI Integration, Lead, McKesson)
RAG (technical)
Presentation by Arjun Bali, Rocket Mortgage
2:10 PM · Venetian Ballroom A · Arjun Bali (Staff Data Scientist, Rocket Mortgage)
Data Engineering
Building the Modern Data Stack for AI: What’s Working and What’s Not
2:10 PM · Lando Ballroom 4204 · Bhanu Prakash Reddy Rella (Senior Data Engineer, Meta), Emanuel Bettelheim (Head of Data & Analytics, Bloomberg), Jordan Tigani (CEO, MotherDuck), Emil Protalinski (Editor and Consultant, Techmeme and EPro Strategies)
Inclusive AI
Representation Matters: Building Inclusive Teams and Ethical Systems
2:10 PM · Titian Ballroom 2304 · Nathan Walker (Founder, AI Ethics Lab, Rutgers University), Jana Brown (Chief Human Resources Officer, eHealth), Janeen Uzzell (Chief Executive Officer, National Society of Black Engineers)
Aifails
Learning Fast from AI Missteps: What Actually Worked in the Real World
2:10 PM · Marcello Ballroom 4403 · Collin Campbell (Business Information Officer / Chief Information Officer - Recurring Revenue, Cushman & Wakefield)
Oversight: AI ROI
AI as a Business Advantage in Private Credit: From Insight to Impact
2:10 PM · Palazzo Ballroom D · Abhinav Asthana (Chief Technology Officer, Redwood Trust, Inc.)
AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
Turning Your Value Proposition Into Coordinated AI Agents
2:10 PM · Venetian Ballroom D · Steve Toy (Founder, Just a Bite Better (JaBB))
Generative AI: Applications & Use Cases
Fireside Chat with Biswa Sengupta — How Finance Decides Where AI Belongs
2:10 PM · Venetian Ballroom E · Biswa Sengupta (Chief AI Technologist: LLM Suite, JPMorgan Chase & Co.), Nathan Bomey (Reporter, Axios)
Emerging Parallel Technologies
Dawn of a New Era: What Happens When Your Mind Connects to a Computer?
2:10 PM · Marcello Ballroom 4404 · Noland Arbaugh (World's First Neuralink Cyborg, Noland Arbaugh LLC)
Roundtable (technical)
Evaluating Agentic Systems | Roundtable by Rakesh Maram, AT&T [RSVP REQUIRED]
2:10 PM · 301 · Rakesh Maram (Lead Software Engineer, AT&T)
Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
From Search to Synthesis: AI that Supports the Open Web
2:10 PM · Palazzo Ballroom M · Kat Downs Mulder (GM of Yahoo News, Yahoo), Eric Feng (SVP & GM, Yahoo Research, Yahoo), Harry McCracken (Global Technology Editor, Fast Company)
AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
Presentation by Federico Casalegno, Samsung Electronics
2:10 PM · Venetian Ballroom H · Federico Casalegno (Executive Vice President of Design, Samsung Electronics)
Edge AI & Tiny ML (technical)
Generative AI for Federated Learning: Improving Privacy & Performance
2:10 PM · Delfino Ballroom 4103 · Fiona Victoria (Researcher, Oregon State University)
AI Agents (technical)
Building Reliable AI Agents in Production
2:10 PM · Titian Ballroom 2306 · Charishma Bhavani Koneru (Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Block Inc)
Enterprise Unlocks: AI Coding Strategy
A Whole New World: How AI Collapses the Distance from Idea to Shipped Product
2:10 PM · Palazzo Ballroom E · Alexandra Foote (Lead Product Manager, The Walt Disney Company)
Infrastructure: Cloud Data Centers & Compute
The Four Horsemen of AI
2:10 PM · Lando Ballroom 4203 · Greg Osuri (Founder, Akash)
AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
Breaking the Dead-End Loop: Designing Autonomous Agents Consumers Actually Trust
2:10 PM · Venetian Ballroom F · Michael Vermillion (Head of Customer Solutions, FSAAS Division, JD Power)
Agentic Live Demos
Agentic Live Demo by Coval
2:20 PM · Hall B
Emerging Parallel Technologies
From Hype to Real Utility : Making Quantum Useful for AI Today
2:35 PM · Marcello Ballroom 4404 · Yong Meng Sua (Chief Technology Officer, Quantum Computing Inc.)
Infrastructure: Cloud Data Centers & Compute
How Networks Shape the New AI Economy
2:35 PM · Lando Ballroom 4203 · Faisal Hanif (Product Management, Upscale)
AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
The Next Invisible Asymptote
2:35 PM · Venetian Ballroom D · Brendan McCook (Head of Product Marketing, Miro), Kendra Wilkins (Product Director, Miro)
Roundtable (technical)
Beyond RAG - Next-Gen Knowledge Integration Roundtable Moderated by Selim Mimaroglu [RSVP REQUIRED]
2:35 PM · 303 · Selim Mimaroglu (Author, Director of GenAI and Data Science, Fannie Mae)
Roundtable
The Call to Responsible AI Leadership [RSVP REQUIRED]
2:35 PM · 304 · Clark Cully (Technology Division Chair, DeVoe School of Business)
AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
Fraud Detection Agents at Scale, Built on MongoDB + Mastra
2:35 PM · Venetian Ballroom H · Brandon Barros (Founding Technical GTM, Masta), Mohammad Daoud Farooqi (Partner Solutions Architect, A.I., MongoDB)
Roundtable
God, AI and Our Meaning Crisis: Architecting Moral Structures in an Age of AI [RSVP REQUIRED]
2:35 PM · 305 · R. York Moore (President/CEO, Coalition for Christian Outreach)
AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
Self-Optimization: The reinforcement loop and the future of agent trust
2:35 PM · Venetian Ballroom F · Barr Moses (CEO & Co-founder, Monte Carlo AI, Monte Carlo AI)
Generative AI: Applications & Use Cases
Presentation by Soren AI
2:35 PM · Venetian Ballroom E
Oversight: AI ROI
Managing Through the AI Cost Crisis
2:35 PM · Palazzo Ballroom D · Jay Litkey (SVP Tokenomics & FinOps, Flexera)
AI Agents (technical)
PRAXIST: The World's First Autonomous Research System Delivering Validated, Enterprise-Ready Results
2:35 PM · Titian Ballroom 2306 · William Chen (Co-founder, Sapient Intelligence Pte. Ltd.)
Infrastructure: AI Platforms & Tools
Why AI Isn’t the Hardest Part of Language Operations
2:35 PM · Palazzo Ballroom M · Ari Karampour (AI Strategist | Localization Technology & Automation, Indeed)
Agentic Live Demos
Turn the Live Web into Business Intel: Three Agents, One Pattern
2:40 PM · Hall B
RAG (technical)
When Safety Speaks: Conversational RAG for Environment Health Safety Compliance and Manufacturing Intelligence
3:00 PM · Venetian Ballroom A · Nilovna Chatterjee (Senior Data Scientist - AI Strategy EHS, AbbVie)
Aifails
Great (or Otherwise Memorable) Vendor Partnerships in 2026
3:00 PM · Marcello Ballroom 4403 · John Polito (Deputy General Counsel, Commercial & Technology, Airbnb, Inc.)
Edge AI & Tiny ML (technical)
Your AI Is on the Street Now: Adversarial Threats to Edge AI Systems in Physical Environments
3:00 PM · Delfino Ballroom 4103 · Subba Bachina (AI Product Security Leader, Lenovo)
Infrastructure: Cloud Data Centers & Compute
AI Water Stewardship: Farms & Data Centers in Shared Basins
3:00 PM · Lando Ballroom 4203 · Max Moldavsky (Director of Innovation and Climate Solutions, Netafim)
Enterprise Unlocks: AI Coding Strategy
Building an AI-Native Product Workflow
3:00 PM · Palazzo Ballroom E · Josh Guice (Principal Architect, Liatrio)
Oversight: AI ROI
Grappling with the Bitter Lesson: A Roadmap to Corporate AI Adoption and Strategic Advantage
3:00 PM · Palazzo Ballroom D · Tim O'Reilly (Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media)
AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
The Co-Intelligent Enterprise
3:00 PM · Venetian Ballroom F · Rohit Jain (CIO, Harvard Business School Alumni Association)
Emerging Parallel Technologies
The Rise of AI in Film Production: How Machine Learning is Changing Storytelling
3:00 PM · Marcello Ballroom 4404 · Jack McCauley (Co-founder Oculus, Board of Trustee at UC Berkeley, UC Berkeley)
AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
Your Agent's Output Is a Hypothesis
3:00 PM · Venetian Ballroom D · Josh Holt (Principal Product Leader, Optimizely)
AI Agents: Deployment At Scale
This is Your Enterprise on Agents: Learnings from the Field
3:00 PM · Venetian Ballroom H · Joel Johnson (Deployed Engineer, LangChain)
Data Engineering
The AI Paradox: Using Public AI Without Exposing Enterprise Data
3:00 PM · Lando Ballroom 4204 · Amjad Almonzer (Knowledge Management Specialist, Saudi Aramco)
AI Agents (technical)
Presentation by Impart Security
3:00 PM · Titian Ballroom 2306
Inclusive AI
Human‑Centered Design for Responsible AI
3:00 PM · Titian Ballroom 2304 · Cinnamon Clark (Chief Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging Officer, Government Agency)
Agentic Live Demos
Agentic Live Demo by Cognition AI
3:00 PM · Hall B
AI Safety & Alignment
Presentation by Reid Blackman, Virtue
3:00 PM · Venetian Ballroom E · Reid Blackman (CEO, Virtue Consultants)
Agentic Live Demos
Inside the Incident: How Agents Are Rewriting the SRE Playbook
3:20 PM · Hall B
Inclusive AI
The Room Was Built Without Us. Here's How We Change That
3:25 PM · Titian Ballroom 2304 · Wendy Forsythe (Chief Operating Officer, eXp Realty)
Infrastructure: Cloud Data Centers & Compute
Presentation by ASUS
3:25 PM · Lando Ballroom 4203
AI Agents Applications & Use Cases
Space & AI - The Giant Leap Transformation / Fireside Chat with Heather Pringle, Space Foundation
3:25 PM · Venetian Ballroom D · Heather Pringle (CEO, Space Foundation), Rafe Uddin (San Francisco Correspondent, Financial Times)
Emerging Parallel Technologies
The Intersection of Blockchain and AI
3:25 PM · Marcello Ballroom 4404 · Scott Zoldi (Chief Analytics Officer, FICO)
AI Agents: Foundation & Strategy
Agentic Growth: From Analytics That Report to Agents That Act
3:25 PM · Venetian Ballroom F · Chris Han (Co-Founder & President, ThinkingAI)
Data Engineering
Presentation by Valeh Nabiyev, Pasha Holdings
3:25 PM · Lando Ballroom 4204 · Valeh Nabiyev (Chief Data & AI Officer, Bir Ecosystem)
Social Impact Of AI
Presentation by Chris Kudla, Mind Children
3:25 PM · Marcello Ballroom 4403 · Chris Kudla (CEO, Mind Children), Aaron Stanley (Managing Director, Promenade Advisory)
AI Safety & Alignment
AI Harm Is Everyone's Business: Why Every Industry Needs to Understand Where Its Responsibility Begins
3:25 PM · Venetian Ballroom E · Stephanie Hall (Technology & Innovation Lead, Zero Abuse Project)
Keynote
Closing Keynote Sessions
4:00 PM · Hall A
Keynote
Building an AI-Native Company at Global Scale
4:10 PM · Hall A · Nathan Bomey (Reporter, Axios), Praveen Neppalli Naga (CTO, Uber)
Keynote
The Future of AI Depends on Perfect Search
4:31 PM · Hall A · Will Bryk (CEO & Co-founder, Exa)
Keynote
AI Is Not Value-Neutral. Now What?
4:52 PM · Hall A · Chloé Bakalar (AI Ethics Lead, OpenAI)
Meetups & Receptions
Ai4 Official Afterparty
9:00 PM · TAO Nightclub