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