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Join us for Houston Innovation Day 2026, an immersive, hands-on experience for senior business and technology leaders across Houston’s major industries - focused on how AI is being funded, governed, and scaled to deliver measurable business impact today. 

 

This year’s event features an entirely new set of interactive exhibits that move beyond concepts and pilots, giving leaders a clear view into what it takes to operationalize AI across the enterprise. 

 

This is your opportunity to...

 

  • Build fundable AI business cases by connecting strategy, readiness, and ROI, before you invest 
  • See how organizations are running AI workforces at scale, with human oversight, governance, and outcomebased accountability 
  • Apply computer vision and GenAI to asset- and fleet-heavy operations for safer, more efficient outcomes 
  • Accelerate legacy modernization by replacing slow, manual discovery with AIdriven clarity and confidence 
  • Engage with peers and bring your team to align on what to act on next, not just what’s possible 

 

Event Details

 

  • Location: Slalom Houston Office | 825 Town & Country Ln #1300, Houston, TX 77024
  • Date: Wednesday, May 13, 2026
  • Schedule:
    • Registration + Check-In: 9:00 AM
    • Exhibits: 9:30-11:30 AM
    • Panel Discussion: 11:30 AM-12:30 PM
    • Lunch: 12:30 PM
    • Continued Exhibits & Breakout Sessions: 12:30-2:00 PM

 

Learn more about our exhibits and panel below.

Registration is now closed. Walk-ins are welcome! Please reach out to hellohouston@slalom.com for questions. 

Houston Innovation Day Exhibits

Explore our exhibits below to map out your visit. Which of these innovations will you experience up-close first? 

 

 

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Agentic Managed Services (AMS)

 

Agentic Managed Services transforms how organizations run business processes using AI-driven digital workers (AI agents) that carry out work, at scale, with human oversight. Unlike traditional managed service models that deliver headcount, AMS is an outcome-based service that contracts for measurable business results, actively monitored and optimized over time. 

 

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Agents at Work: Beyond the Chatbox - Software that Drives Your Software

 

This exhibit will demonstrate the two ecosystems shaping enterprise agentic AI in 2026: Claude Cowork, Anthropic's governed commercial agent for desktop knowledge work, and the OpenClaw + Hermes open-source stack — self-hosted, model-agnostic agents that run on your hardware and reach you through WhatsApp, Slack, or Telegram. Live demos will include a scheduled "Monday morning analyst" briefing, a WhatsApp-driven agent that reconciles spreadsheets by text, and a side-by-side governed-vs-sovereign comparison on the same task. The conversation we're really hosting is about the dual-track strategy most enterprises will need — commercial agents where governance is ready today, self-hosted patterns where the data can't leave the estate, and the consulting scaffolding that makes either one safe to deploy at scale.

 

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AI Value Platform: Powered by Slalom

 

The AI Value Platform powered by Slalom empowers organizations to assess and enhance their AI maturity, transforming processes for optimal performance. By evaluating discrete units of work and generating actionable AI use cases, the platform delivers tailored solutions that maximize potential ROI and drive innovation. With a comprehensive analysis of benefits, costs, and risks, businesses can strategically invest in AI initiatives that align with their goals and capabilities. Discover how Slalom's platform can guide your journey to AI excellence.

 

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CodeScan

 

CodeScan turns “mystery legacy code” into a modernization-ready plan—fast. Built for teams trying to retire “Big Old Backend Systems” (BOBS) and move toward a Zero Legacy future, CodeScan uses agentic scanning across one or more repositories to extract what the application does today and translates it into a specification for modernization or redevelopment.

 

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Digital AI CXO: Reimagining Executive Leadership in the AI Era

 

Meet Yukti, your new Executive AI Assistant. Yukti transforms executive work by orchestrating the operational complexity that fragments leadership attention. Named for the Sanskrit concept of "strategic intelligence," it deploys specialized AI agents — scheduling strategist, communications director, meeting analyst, knowledge navigator — that work in harmony through one conversational interface. Leaders reclaim time, retain complete context, and shift from reactive firefighting to strategic vision. This is executive intelligence, reimagined.

 

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Fieldcraft: Intelligent Learning Platform

 

Most training platforms deliver content. Fieldcraft builds judgment. Field-based operators don't learn in classrooms — they learn by doing. Fieldcraft is the only AI-coached platform purpose-built for dispersed, shift-based teams, replacing static e-learning with realistic decision simulations and a coach that mentors, not just tests.

 

The result: operators who think faster, decide better, and perform at scale — backed by analytics that give supervisors real visibility for the first time.

 

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LineBoss: From Inspection to Action

 

LineBoss eliminates the handoff gap between inspection, decision, and field execution—turning findings into prioritized work and pushing it straight to the crew. As teams repair assets, evidence and asset data are captured, keeping records current and compliance handled without extra steps. Built for any industry that operates and maintains linear assets—oil & gas, electric/gas utilities, telecom, and more—where reliability depends on fast, closed-loop action. AI stays in the background so operators can stay focused on getting work done.

 

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State Robotics Champions

 

A few future Slalomers recently competed in the VEX IQ Robotics Competition: Level Up, earning the title of Texas Middle School State Champions. They’ll go on to represent Texas at the national competition in Washington, D.C. this June. Don’t miss the chance to see their award-winning robot in action!

 

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Sales Analytics & Knowledge Base System

 

Sales teams waste hours hunting for answers scattered across CRMs, documents, and spreadsheets — and still walk away without clarity on critical questions like "What's my pipeline value?" or "Why are we losing deals?" This RAG-powered platform unifies live sales data and knowledge base documents into a single interface where reps simply ask questions and get instant, cited answers — scoped to their role, without manual digging or access workarounds. What used to take hours now takes seconds.

 

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ServiceNow AI Ops

 

Operational AI, brought to life on ServiceNow. See how AI moves beyond concepts and pilots to drive real outcomes across IT, customer, and employee services. Through live demonstrations of AIOps, agentic AI, and core workflows, we show how intelligence is embedded directly into the flow of work.

 

 

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Slalom Allshore: Global Delivery Model

 

Slalom Allshore is a modern global delivery model and a practical alternative to traditional nearshore and offshore approaches, designed to help clients move faster and deliver with consistency. By integrating onshore, nearshore, and offshore teams, it connects organizations with the right expertise at the right time—combining close, real-time collaboration with the scale of a global network. Grounded in deep expertise and supported by AI-enabled tools, Allshore delivers high-quality outcomes and sustained value.

 

 

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Secure AI Agents Everywhere: Presented by Zenity

 

AI agents are transforming how work gets done, but most security teams cannot see what is running, who built it, or what permissions it holds. Zenity discovers every agent across your environment, flags risks before they cause harm, and keeps your team ahead without slowing innovation down. Stop by to see how Zenity can help security say yes to your AI journey.

 

 

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The Operational AI Hub: Presented by Slalom & Worlds

 

Across every industry, organizations struggle with blind spots throughout their physical environments, forming hidden gaps in intelligence that leak revenue, stall efficiency, and conceal risk.

 

Step into the Operational AI Hub to see how Slalom and Worlds transform these blind spots into competitive advantage by layering AI Agents across existing cameras and sensors. The result is intelligent environments that enable organizations to detect and understand physical operations in real time, turning real-world activity into rich data to help guide decisions and automate responses.

 

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Tread Smart 

 

This demo highlights how GenAI‑enabled computer vision can inspect a wide range of physical assets—equipment, structures, and components—to identify potential failures, defects, or safety risks. We're demonstrating the technology using something relatable; commercial tires, detecting low tread depth, uneven wear, and early blowout indicators. The same approach can be applied across industries wherever visual inspection is critical to safety, reliability, and operational efficiency.

 

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Workato

 

Workato sits at the intersection of integration, automation, and AI, helping organizations streamline operations, reduce manual work, and connect their tech stack into a more cohesive system.

 

Houston Innovation Day Panel Discussion

From Proof to Payoff: Why 2026 Is The Year AI Has To Perform

 

Time: 11:30 AM-12:30 PM CT (In-person only)

About: AI experimentation is over. In 2026, the organizations pulling ahead are no longer asking what’s possible, they’re focused on what performs. Leading enterprises are scaling AI where it drives measurable business value, fundamentally reshaping how work gets done, decisions are made, and productivity compounds across the organization.

 

Please note: Lunch will be provided.

 

Meet a few of our panelists below.

 

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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.

 

Houston Innovation Day Breakout Sessions

Title: Demystifying Agentic Computer Use 

Time: 1:00-1:30 PM CT (In-person only)

About: Agentic Computer Use is coming to the enterprise, but letting tools like OpenClaw, Hermes, and Claude Cowork loose in the wild is a genuinely daunting leap. Let's demystify the art of the possible. Join us for an open roundtable discussion to talk strategy, share what you’ve been building or experimenting with, and get your questions answered.

 

Sponsors

A special thanks to our event sponsors. We're proud to be innovating with you!

 

 

Coffee Cart Sponsor: Workato

Workato helps you automate business workflows across cloud and on-premises apps. For example, you can automate quote-to-cash business processes, which may involve transferring data between apps such as Salesforce, Netsuite, BILL, and Apttus. Workato combines an enterprise-grade workflow automation platform with the ease of use expected from consumer apps, enabling both business and IT users to quickly build workflow automations.