Accelerating Resilience: From Regulation to Emergency Response

Attendees will explore how organizations are transforming both regulatory operations and emergency preparedness through AI-driven innovation and strategic collaboration.

DRIFT transforms the way highly regulated industries navigate regulatory compliance by:

• Enabling teams to quickly extract insights from vast document libraries
• Evaluating draft documents from configurable, 3rd party perspectives
• Freeing experts to focus on strategic decisions rather than manual research

Natural Disaster Preparedness delivers a centralized, always-on hub for emergency readiness that:

• Provides timely, accurate, and actionable information to protect lives and property.
• Offers situational awareness with hazard alerts and weather forecasts.
• Highlights impacts on underserved communities to guide equitable resource allocation.
• Supports consistent communication across teams and public channels during crises.

Agentic AI: Accelerated Software Development Lifecycle

Join us for an executive briefing on Accelerated Products—where AI-driven innovation and engineering excellence converge to transform the software development lifecycle (SDLC). Explore how intelligent agents are eliminating development bottlenecks, enabling faster, more efficient product delivery at scale. Discover how this approach accelerates the entire SDLC—enhancing speed, maintaining quality, and maximizing ROI. See how the fusion of human insight and AI capability is driving innovation, empowering teams to focus on strategic outcomes, and positioning enterprises for sustained growth and competitive advantage.

Agentic AI: Accelerated Data/Design Modernization

Join us for an exclusive demonstration of Slalom’s AI-accelerated approach to database migration, powered by our Agentic AI framework. See how our advanced, LLM-driven automation transforms every phase of the migration journey—from on-prem to cloud, or across database platforms—by significantly reducing manual effort, enhancing quality, and minimizing risk. With Slalom’s intelligent agents, what once took weeks of analysis and coding can now be completed in a fraction of the time—regardless of your database or cloud environment. Experience how we're redefining data migration with scalable, efficient, and cloud-agnostic innovation.

AI/BI Genie by Databricks

What if you had 3-wishes (prompts!) to ask of your data? Join us to learn about Databricks AI/BI Genie, your intelligent assistant for instant, natural language insights. Genie answers business questions not covered by traditional BI tools by using a compound AI system that combines multiple intelligent components for high performance and flexibility. Tuned to your data, it adapts as your business evolves, delivering accurate answers within your organization’s context.

Brainstorm

Slalom’s proprietary and secure Brainstorm software combines Slalom’s best-in-class facilitation techniques with the power of GenAI to unlock human innovative potential. We do this by providing relevant prompts and ideas for users to react to, while also allowing users to securely share, save, synthesize, and export their ideas. By combining facilitation techniques with GenAI as a prompting mechanism for human creativity, we equip everyone to unlock their innovative potential.

Enhance IQ: AI-Powered Workforce Accelerator

EnhanceIQ is Slalom's AI-powered accelerator that shows how AI solutions can enhance work. By uncovering AI's potential across your teams’ roles and tasks, it empowers you to make data-driven decisions on tech investments, training, and workforce readiness, helping you build a more adaptable workforce.

Price-a-Tray by Google Distributed Cloud

Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) allows you to run applications locally, close to where data is created, to achieve low latency and network resiliency. The "Price a Tray" demo showcases an AI-enabled application that identifies items on a fast-food tray in real-time. This demo highlights how edge computing and AI can improve real-time visual inspection applications' accuracy and efficiency without relying on the cloud.

Ransomware Response: An Interactive Crisis Simulation

Step into the war room of a cyber crisis. This immersive tabletop exhibit will challenge you and your team to navigate a series of escalating ransomware scenarios drawn from real-world attacks. Participants will take on roles across IT, legal, communications, and executive leadership to make critical decisions under pressure to balance containment, recovery, and reputation management. Through collaborative problem-solving and guided injects, attendees will gain insights into best practices for ransomware preparedness, response coordination, and resilience-building across the enterprise.

Slalom Hackathon: Bore Sense, Inkless, Well Sight

BORE SENSE

Geologists and engineers spend hours manually analyzing borehole logs, causing delays and errors. BoreSense speeds subsurface assessments, enabling faster, data-driven decisions. The demo shows AI-powered search and visualization with interactive maps and log plots.

INKLESS

Paper forms are slow, error-prone, and hard to digitize. Inkless Forms converts them into configurable digital formats that reduce inefficiencies and improve accuracy. The demo shows AI-driven form generation and editing for quick creation and management.

WELL SIGHT

Production declines often go unnoticed until revenue is lost and costly workovers are required. WellSight uses AI to track decline curves, detect anomalies, and flag likely causes. The demo shows proactive alerts that protect well performance and asset value.

SPOT On Site: Exploring Smart Operations with a Robotic Sensing Platform 

Meet Spot, Slalom’s agile robot dog, equipped with dynamic sensors and powered by Google Gemini. In this interactive exhibit, guide Spot through a custom-built obstacle course simulating real-world environments, from energy facilities to manufacturing floors. Whether it’s a refinery, a factory, or a smart city block, Spot demonstrates how AI-driven robotics can transform operational awareness and decision-making.

Discover how Spot can support:

• Energy operations by monitoring infrastructure health, detecting anomalies, and enhancing worker safety in hazardous zones.
• Manufacturing environments through routine inspections, predictive maintenance, and real-time alerts on equipment performance.

Tariff Forecasting & Planning with Anaplan & Salesforce AI

Slalom’s Tariff Forecasting and Planning Model, built in Anaplan and Salesforce, lets sales, finance and supply-chain leaders react to shifting trade policies in hours, not weeks, by uniting sales forecasts, BOM, duty, and cost data in one real-time workspace. 

Teams can model “what-if” scenarios across country, SKU, customer, supplier, rate, and timeframe to find the lowest-cost sourcing and inventory strategies, trimming landed costs by ~10 % and slashing decision cycles.

VR Safety Training

Grab a VR headset and dive into a variety of immersive experiences such as realistic workplace training simulations. This innovative approach offers a more efficient way to deliver practical training, enabling partipants to engage in a hands-on interactive environments.

Worlds

Worlds is revolutionizing how companies leverage cameras and sensors to improve their daily operations. The Worlds AI Platform enables rapid development of organization-specific AI models to empower intelligent applications that meld with enterprise systems—bringing the promise of AI to your physical operations. By combining these custom AI models with spatial data and Agentic AI, users can now chat with LLMs about their specific real-world operations and build automation directly into physical processes to improve efficiency, mitigate risk, and enhance profitability.

XPLORATE: Transform Linear Asset Management

Traditional asset monitoring is too slow, manual, and costly to keep pace with today’s infrastructure risks.

Take off with Xplorate — a platform that combines BVLOS drone technology, AI-powered threat detection, and a real-time decision engine built on AWS to help asset operators spot and resolve threats before they escalate. See how our customer-facing portal:

• Identifies threats like vegetation encroachment, corrosion, and leaks—within hours, not weeks
• Prioritizes risk using machine learning, AI models, and a configurable rules engine
• Closes the loop with built-in remediation workflows, compliance reporting, and validation tracking

Whether you’re managing 500 or 5,000 miles of critical energy infrastructure, Xplorate gives you the speed, clarity, and control to reduce downtime, lower O&M costs, and modernize your integrity management strategy.

Pete DiSanto | Executive Vice President, Data Centers, Enchanted Rock

Pete DiSanto joined Enchanted Rock in 2020, bringing 20 years of experience in managing and developing field service operations within the nuclear and fossil power generation industries. In his role as Executive Vice President, DiSanto ensures Enchanted Rock technology offerings meet the specific power needs for data center operations, which include flexible onsite generation and bridge power solutions.

With core competencies in transforming technical challenges into actionable solutions, DiSanto aligns our company’s mission within the energy landscape, fostering a culture of efficiency and resilience and leveraging diverse perspectives to strengthen our team’s capabilities.

DiSanto holds a Master’s in Facility Management and a Bachelor of Science in Marine Engineering, both from Massachusetts Maritime Academy.

Sarah Siewood | Head of Exploration Portfolio & Innovation, Woodside Energy

Sarah Siewood is Head of Exploration Portfolio & Innovation at Woodside, where she combines 15+ years of upstream oil and gas expertise with a passion for data-driven problem-solving. Trained as a geoscientist, she has worked across all subsurface disciplines with a focus on exploration.

In her current role, Sarah leads projects that apply AI and advanced analytics to help energy teams work smarter, integrate diverse data, uncover deeper insights, and make better decisions. She believes AI’s biggest role in subsurface evaluation is still to come — revealing overlooked models and novel connections — and that realizing this potential depends on organizations fostering the right culture and systems to sustain innovation.

Dominique Bourda | Vice President of Operations, ENGIE North America

Dominique Bourda is the Vice President of Operations at ENGIE North America, overseeing back-office functions such as contract and transaction management, customer care, billing, collections, and data analytics. With over 23 years in the retail energy industry, she has held leadership roles in Sales, Marketing, Strategy, Project Management, and Operations.

Prior to joining ENGIE, she was the Managing Principal and Retail Energy Lead at Capco. Ms. Bourda is an active member of the industry, serving on the advisory board for the Energy Marketing Conferences. She has also published articles and spoken at numerous conferences on the retail energy industry. She holds a BBA in Accounting from Texas A&M University and an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business and is a mother of three.

Dr. Craig Rusin | Chief Research Information Officer, Baylor College of Medicine

Dr. Craig G. Rusin is a pioneering leader in clinical technology innovation, serving as Chief Research Information Officer at Baylor College of Medicine and co-founder of Medical Informatics Corp. With a unique interdisciplinary background spanning engineering, medicine, and data science, he develops AI-driven solutions to predict critical health events and transform patient care. His work bridges academia and industry to empower clinicians and advance healthcare delivery nationwide.

Dr. Debalina Sengupta | Assistant Vice President of the Energy Transition Institute, University of Houston

Dr. Debalina Sengupta’s research has focused on sustainability in the context of process systems engineering. She has worked on process design, integration, intensification, optimization, life cycle assessment and other related concepts for sustainable supply chain design of biofuels, natural gas, consumer products, waste valorization, and decision-making in sustainability using metrics and indicators. In recent times, she has expanded these concepts in application for energy transition, sustainable and integrated design of process systems, advanced manufacturing, and disaster resilient design. She has also been actively involved in the development of educational modules for sustainable manufacturing. Dr. Sengupta is currently appointed as the Assistant Vice President - Energy Transition Institute at the University of Houston.

Dr. Sengupta is passionate about quantifying sustainability into action and implementation, and strives to work with diverse underrepresented people across the world. She is a critical thinker and likes to blog, read, and write in her spare time. Her interests also are in cooking, traveling, and photography. She enjoys spending time with family and friends. Her favorite places are New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, and Kolkata, West Bengal, India, her hometown.

Glen Austin | Director of Public Policy, Greater Houston Partnership

Glen Thomas Austin Jr. is an attorney and legislative professional and currently serves as Director of Public Policy for the Greater Houston Partnership. Prior to joining GHP, Glen served as Executive Director of Government Relations for Texas Southern University, has been legislative staff for multiple members in both the Texas House of Representatives and the Texas Senate, and has practiced property tax and school finance law.

Originally from Texarkana, Texas, Glen earned his undergraduate degree in Psychology from the University of Central Arkansas, and went on to earn his law degree and certification in Government Law from Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University. Glen also earned two Mediation certifications from the University of Houston Law Center.

As Director of Public Policy for the Partnership, Glen oversees all matters relating to education and energy policy, and also handles workforce development matters. Glen works with business leaders, educational institutions, state agencies, and elected officials to shape public policy and represent the voice of industry. 

John Tomik | Managing Director, Element Lab, Slalom

John is the creator of Element Laboratories and a Managing Director in Slalom’s global strategy group. A futurist at heart, he helps organizations imagine and apply emerging technologies—especially robotics, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, and digital humans—to tackle complex human challenges and unlock new value. He’s known for turning bold ideas into pilots and scaled programs across smart cities, public safety, operations, and customer experience.

John launched Lab212 at One World Trade Center as Slalom’s East Coast innovation hub and is launching Lab213 in Los Angeles — a hands-on arena where leaders from business and the public sector explore what’s next, rapidly prototype solutions, and pressure-test them in real-world scenarios. The lab showcases autonomy, spatial computing, and digital-human interactions, giving executives a pragmatic path from concept to impact.

Committed to inspiring the next generation, John also launched a New York City immersion program in partnership with the First Responders Children’s Foundation, local schools, and civic organizations. The initiative encourages students to “Dream Bigger,” connecting them with mentors, real-world technologies, and community challenges so they can design solutions that matter.