Agenda
Monday
10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

From demos to panels and group solutioning sessions, you'll gain knowledge, inspiration, and connections to help your organization realize the value of AI through data. 

 

The opportunity of AI
Featuring Guido Appenzeller, Partner, a16z

An inspirational and forward-thinking kick-off addressing the still untapped opportunity of AI + data's role in each organization's success. Learn what's coming next in AI, how it will change our ways of working, and the importance of readying your data for AI.

 

Data platform for the future: AI driving data modernization across enterprise
Featuring Nicholas Kaposhilin, Head of Data and Intelligence, Slalom Northern California

As AI objectives and solutions become clearer to enterprise leaders, the questions: "is our data ready" and "can it be trusted?" are emerging regularly. Slalom will kick-off the day by introducing our vision for the complete modern data platform of the future. We'll discuss cross-industry trends and layout an end-to-end vision of how modern cloud technologies, tools and processes need to come together in service of creating an AI ready enterprise data ontology of the future.

 

Beyond LLMs: There is no AI strategy without a data strategy
Featuring Thanikai Sokka, Global Head of AI/ML Platform, Snowflake

Even though Large Language Models (LLMs) have become table stakes, having a trusted and secure strategy for integrating structured and unstructured enterprise data is essential to realizing the true business value of AI. This discussion will focus on trends and challenges in establishing an AI-ready data platform, in order to enable the utilization of all your enterprise data by future AI products for both internal and external use cases.

 

Building a strong data foundation for AI innovation

Featuring Anjan Kundavaram, Chief Product Officer, Fivetran

Successful AI innovation relies on high-quality, integrated data from diverse sources. This discussion will explore how building a strong data foundation powers AI, enabling organizations to unlock insights, drive smarter decision-making, and transform data into a strategic asset.

 

Re-imagining data-as-a-product processes and teams to accelerate delivery

Featuring Ryan Segar, Chief Customer Officer, dbt Labs

The discussion will focus on the challenges and innovative methods for advancing data literacy and leveraging AI enabled processes across both technical and business teams to accelerate data-as-a-product delivery that breaks down silos and empowers efficient partnership between business and engineering stakeholders.

 

Driving enterprise AI through automation and integration

Featuring AJ Cook, VP AI & Transformation, & Avi Deshpande, Field CTO, Workato

Businesses today face an orchestration crisis — disconnected systems, fragmented data, and rigid processes are in the way of AI and Agentic experiments making real progress. This session will share how AI-powered orchestration and intelligent data foundations shorten the path to AI applications that get into production and deliver business value. Learn how leading organizations are turning complexity into opportunity by orchestrating their systems, data, and AI agents to drive real-time decision-making, operational agility, and scalable success.

 

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Cocktail hour

 

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Dinner & roundtable conversation with industry peers

 

Tuesday

Informal breakfast & departure